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Saturday Night…
Aces’ Second Playoff Game at Noon… So to get there, I have to be up early, and since I am tired tonight from doing a 5K and working on Pulphouse stories, I think I’m going to go to try to get a full night’s sleep since I have to be up early to make the game. One reminder… Special Stretch Goal for 350 backers by tomorrow night late on the IVORY TREES: A Diving Universe Novel Kickstarter. Everyone passes the word I think we can make it or get close (and in this case close will count. (grin)) Besides, we have some great special workshops with this one, plus great…
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In Person Workshop…
Science Fiction/Mystery Workshop… The dates for the last scheduled in-person workshop that Kristine Kathryn Rusch is teaching is January 15th-18th. That is Monday through Thursday morning. (Fly in Sunday, fly out late Thursday or Friday.) The location is Resorts World here in Las Vegas and yes, we will have a group rate that will get you a better price. It is very quiet and very nice with about 40 restaurants on site and another 100 restaurants within a block or so walking distance. And the weather will be great in January. We have three openings. Just three. The fee is $750 for the workshop and you pay for your own…
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Special Stretch Goal…
On IVORY TREES Kickstarter… Since we just hit the second stretch goal this morning, we decided to add in a special stretch goal on the IVORY TREES: A Diving Universe Novel Kickstarter. Here is is… SPECIAL STRETCH GOAL…350 Backers by Midnight Sunday… If this campaign reaches 350 Backers by Midnight Sunday, September 17th, every backer of any reward will get a free ebook copy of RICK THE ROBBER BARRON by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Also, for writers, the really fun writing class titled Writing About Relativity in Science Fiction. It is part of a new Down in the Details writing series. Each class will have a prompt to write a fun…
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Aces Game Tonight…
First Game of the Playoffs… Kris and I and Lisa Collins went to the Ace’s game tonight after some great pizza. The Aces are defending world champions and also seeded #1 in the playoffs after a record-breaking season. They are fantastically fun to watch. They were playing tonight, for one night only, at the T-Mobile Area, the home of the Stanley Cup winning Golden Knights. (Yeah, fun sports in this town.) The Aces were playing the Chicago Sky and Chicago never stood a chance. At one point the Aces were ahead by over 30 points. And not because the Sky were not playing well, the Aces are just a machine.…
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Paperback Writer…
I Loved the Beatles Song “Paperback Writer”… When I came into publishing almost fifty years ago, what dominated as far as fiction distribution was the mass market paperback. In 1977 I opened a bookstore called “The Paperback Exchange” and did really well, changing the name to “Twice Sold Tales” after I bought a comic store and the towns only album store and moved them all in together. It was a fun place. As a writer, all I ever wanted to be was a paperback writer. And then as the world changed in the early part of this century, trade paperbacks started taking the place of mass market paperbacks and now…
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Down in the Details Classes
I Fell Behind On My Hoped-For Recording Dates… But I will catch up over the next week or so on all three of the Down in the Details classes. I will send a message over the Teachable group on every class when I finish another one. And yes, I know the collections on these sound like fun, but the story you write for each one needs to be out in the mail to major markets first. The collections will never close and if you sell a story to a major magazine, you can write another for me. (I will never know.) Remember, those collections will never close, meaning that if…
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Reporting Writing Challenge…
Started April 1st… Over five months ago. Started off slow and still slow for me, but I have now been pretty consistent over 20,000 words per week as of late. Slow for me. But firing up on a new personal writing challenge on September 15th that I hope to hold until December 15th. I would like to write a story per day during that time. 91 stories. If I hit that I got a hunch I will go on and make it an even hundred by the end of the year. (I did over that number for the first four months of 2022.) That and working on other projects of…
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Great New Novel
Diving Kickstarter Is Going Great! IVORY TREES: A Diving Kickstarter Campaign by Kristine Kathryn Rusch is in the middle. IVORY TREES: A Diving Universe Novel is a stunning new novel in the Diving Universe. It is a heist novel at its heart. Only twisted as only Kris can do. And we have some really fun rewards and some great stretch goals and some really cool Diving products. And a couple of special three-week workshops that are really going to be fun. And some great writing classes as stretch goals. And like we always do, anyone backing any reward will get an electronic copy of the book, Ivory Trees. So don’t…
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Interesting Math
A Focus I Didn’t Mention Yesterday… I hinted at it. That $20,000 plus I have made for the short story “In the Shade of the Slowboat Man” was for licenses (to magazines, anthologies, collections, audio play, and Hollywood options) before indie publishing. Those licenses were over the space of 30 years. So the average is about $55 per month. Considering that a full decade went by and the story made nothing, just sat in a file drawer, not bad at all. So Looking at Indie Sales… I calculated my licensing fee yesterday in that total. Now, because I own the company publishing the story, I can calculate the sales income.…
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The Life and Times of a Copyright…
How One Short Story Made A Lot of Money… So many writers do not understand the value of a single piece of copyright. In this case, let me tell you the story of the life (so far) of a short story titled, “In the Shade of the Slowboat Man.” Back in the early 1990s, about thirty years ago, I was invited to write a story for a vampire anthology and like a fool I said yes. I hate vampires. So I put it off until a writing retreat on the Oregon Coast with eight other writers in one house for the weekend. I sat down at my then-massive computer sitting…