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ADVANCED MAGIC BAKERY… Chapter Three
Chapter Three: Moral Rights This book is mostly how writers can use the magic of copyright to make money from licensing their stories. But copyright has a number of other uses. You own and control a copyright the moment you put your story in a form. You control the form. In our extended metaphor, the form is the pie. And you can control the slices of the pie you license, the terms of the license, and so on. Interestingly enough, while in that kitchen creating your most recent pie, you create some other advantages that are stunningly valuable that go along with that pie, but more than likely you won’t…
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Fun Day
Kris’s Birthday… After a fun dinner at Kris’s favorite restaurant last night, we watched the last half of the Mission Impossible first movie in this series (Came out a few years back.). Then this morning we headed out to watch the second half movie in the theater. First time we had been to a theater in a very long time, what with everything last year. Movie was good, as expected, sf premise. I had forgotten how much fun going to a movie was in a real theater. Especially a big action movie like Mission Impossible. Then we headed for a nice dinner, then got home just in time to head…
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Mary Jo Assassin Live!!
New Kickstarter Is Live!! Check it out at Mary Jo Assassin Kickstarter Campaign… Great books, great workshops, lots of fun.
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New Kickstarter Launches At Noon!!
MARY JO ASSASSIN books… I love writing Mary Jo stories. It is amazing how complex killing someone can get. At 1,000 years old and a member of the Assassin’s Guild, she is well trained and practiced. Oh, if you are looking for magic or swords or things like that, afraid none of that in these books. She is sexy and deadly and doesn’t age, but she does love her partner, another assassin, and a good Screwdriver after a job well done. (Vodka and Orange Juice.) She might be called a completely modern assassin. Leaves no trace and has a very powerful code of ethics. And she is one of those…
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How to Achieve Your Dreams…
New Workshop Up… Got a hunch that some writers are going to return from the land of The Time of Great Forgetting and wished they had started this. It starts on June 10th and goes for 9 weeks, so right into the first week or so of August, after the Time has cleared for most. Get it on Teachable. Here is the blurb about it… HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS A step-by-step guide to Writing More, Getting More Readers, and Making a Living with Your Writing. 9 week class given by New York Times bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith and planned by both Dean and New York Times bestselling author…
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Got Busy…
Almost Forgot To Do This Blog… Spent a lot of time today working on the coming Mary Jo Assassin Kickstarter (Kickstarter Link). Then a bunch of time recording some workshops. Then email and a bunch of time preparing to really fire back up the stories tomorrow. You know, June 1st great restart. Almost have my sleep scheduled back in place to help the writing. At this point in the story-per-day challenge, I had a horrid three months, but I am far from giving up. That’s why the refocus tomorrow. Seven months can make up for a lot of the bad three months. Now I know for those of you lost…
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New Workshops and Regular Workshops
HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS… That’s the name of the new class we are offering starting June 10th. How to Write More, Get More Readers, and Make a Living with Your Fiction. Cost is $500 and it is 9 weeks long with eight assignments. Again starts on the 10th. Everything Subscribers got a letter from me about it tonight with the code to get in. Wow am I excited about this one. We have been thinking about doing this for some time now and to help people stay focused through the time of great forgetting, we figured this would be a good one to offer. You can find this on…
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First Report On Licensing Expo…
First Report To start off with, the best way I can describe this year’s Licensing Expo is great! And bigger. And no chance I saw everything in three days, And even with walking down an aisle two or three times, I still wouldn’t see something until the third day. It has been over a week now and we are still just starting to make contacts with some of the people there we connected with for various reasons. Steph even did an hour of “Speed Licensing” on Sunday. She will explain it on Writer’s Direct zoom meeting on WMG Writer Store. I can hardly even imagine it. (grin) Kris had some…
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Bad May? Three Days to Reset…
I Actually Had a Great May… But very little writing. Lots and lots of great real-life stuff, great business stuff, and a fun Licensing Expo. I even changed my schedule a week or so back to get up at 9 am, which meant almost no time for writing in my normal writing time. Now I am still working on a short story per day challenge for this year, but I am a bunch of stories behind. Not tossing in the towel and won’t on this challenge. I still have seven months to go. And wouldn’t it be just horrid if I only got 300 short stories done. Oh, poor, poor…
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Brain Not Fully Returned…
Licensing Expo Was Amazing… Took all my focus for most of last week and then this last weekend I slept because I have messed my schedule around so that I was getting up at 9 am, three plus hours before normal. Still on the 9 am schedule until after tomorrow, then will ease it back so I can get back to writing. But still not enough brain to even begin to describe a part of the expo. And not enough brain to do another chapter on the Advanced Magic Bakery. Maybe in a few days on both. I actually managed to only take one nap today. So maybe tomorrow. Plus…