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Special Limited Time Workshop Offer
SPECIAL OFFER… Since we have announced all of the 2019 workshops in the post below, and since we are now comfortable with the workshops going forward into the future, we decided to offer a special deal with this announcement. If you sign up and pay for FOUR (4) workshops, you will either get two online workshops for free ($600 value) or the Kris and Dean Show free ($500 value). Your choice. You can take the workshops over a four year period, and no need to tell us which ones. You can decide later. So you can take one workshop a year if you want. Money is fully refundable for any…
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2019 Vegas Workshop Schedule
Plus the Kris and Dean show is back… And a special sign-up deal. We are doing four craft workshops in Vegas, limited to 15 writers each. Writing workshops. — Creating Memorable Characters (Dean and Kris teaching) — Humor (Dean teaching) — Mystery (Kris Teaching) — Romance (Kris Teaching) Plus in the summer of 2019 we are doing the Kris and Dean show. (dates and prices below) All workshops in 2019 are now announced and confirmed dates including the 2019 Master Business Class. All workshops are now held in the beautiful convention center of the Golden Nugget in downtown Las Vegas. And it is non-smoking and you don’t have to go…
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Thanks for the Workshop Comments!
Got Great Comments About My Question Last Night… Plus a bunch of people wrote privately as well. Thank you everyone. Very much appreciated. I got one question that came up in the online comments and that was the suggestion we do this on video online. Answer: Simply, nope. Never will happen I’m afraid. There is a reason people call this a “show” and that would not come across at all in video. This is two very long-term, very experienced, professional writers and editors, in front of you talking and making publishing entertaining and fun while you learn. Not at all sure where, in this modern world, you would get a…
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Floating A Trial Balloon
The Kris and Dean Show… A long time ago, in a land far, far away, (meaning the middle 1990s to about the year 2,000), Kris and I used to do a teaching form that people called the Kris and Dean Show. We would do these usually in conjunction with a writing conference. Or if a writer’s group paid our way to come and give the show for them. Basically, what we did was talk about the truths of publishing and how to deal with the world of publishing. How to get started, how to survive, that sort of thing. Back then that was traditional publishing. And we talked a great…
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Talking About Lifetime Subscriptions
Since We Have Offered This For Almost Two Months… I figured I would update how it has worked. And give information on one change in signing up. From this side, it has worked wonderfully, actually. A number of the lifetime subscribers took the Insider’s Guide first two workshops (all new and old workshops are included) and it was great to have them in the mix in the live discussions every Sunday. I hope a few will also join in on the live sessions of the Serial and Detective workshops starting up. And a number of the lifetime subscribers are working through workshops at their own pace, sending me the assignments…
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Answering a Question or Two
Cold Poker Gang Novels… Since the Insider’s Guide Writing Detective Fiction workshop started up today, and I had two questions today, one in the comments, one privately about which of my Cold Poker Gang novels should someone start with, I thought I would answer that question right here. The Cold Poker Gang novels are detective novels. Retired Las Vegas Detectives solving cold cases. There are eight so far in the series, all stand alone, but more fun if you read them from the first book, Kill Game. Here is a nifty short video about the series. I love this video. Really catches the series. And you can get the reading…
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Workshops Starting!!
MAY INSIDER’S GUIDE Workshops Sunday the two May Insider’s Guide workshops will be starting. The first live webinars for each will be one week from Sunday and they run for four weeks, with recorded videos and assignments every week and a webinar at the end of every week. The webinars are basically me talking for an hour with you folks asking questions that I answer. It is live, but I am the only one on video. Everyone else is asking questions through a chat function. These two are going to be great fun. And I am still laughing about the first assignment Kris came up with for the Writing Detective…
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Thirty-Two Great Years
Thirty-Two Years Ago I Met Kris in Albuquerque Algis Budrys had asked me to stop there and give two writers a ride to Taos, New Mexico where we were all attending a conference. Kris was one of those writers. We have been together ever since. I consider that the luckiest day of my life. We celebrate this day (May 4th) ever since. Kris (on Facebook) put up this picture of us taken at Taos that first week. I was thirty-five, Kris was twenty-five. So I thought I would show you a few more pictures in celebration of the thirty-two years. This picture is about a year or so later. Kris…
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A Day of Stuff
Regular Day… A few people wrote me and asked if I was going to continue to do daily reports. The answer is sometimes. Why sometimes? Because my days are pretty much like everyone’s day unless I am pushing on some writing project or another. But I can detail out some of the fun stuff I did today to show you that without the writing, there is no context to the day. Started off the day around 11 a.m and headed out to our south stores. Delivered about ten boxes of books and a couple boxes of glass stuff to our bookstore there. Stuff I had packed here from our living…
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Writing Books Bundle and Lecture
This Is A Good One… Kris put together a fantastic bundle of writing books, plus one free $75 lecture. And you get it all on Storybundle.com for $15 or so. Amazing. Let me give you what Kris says about the bundle. 2018 Writing Story Bundle by Kristine Kathryn Rusch I am so excited about this year’s spring writing bundle. Out of all of the nonfiction bundles I’ve compiled, this one has the largest number of books that appeal to me. I’ve been writing and publishing for a long, long, long time. Sometimes I feel like no one can teach me anything about writing. So, in the past, when I’ve compiled…