• Challenge,  Fun Stuff

    7:30 AM… Mountain Time

    Had Breakfast with Todd McCaffery… Realize that is 6:30 my time and I normally go to bed at 3 am or after, so it was brutal. Tomorrow breakfast at 7:30 am again, this time with Allyson, then I am on a estate planning panel and then in the afternoon I do an hour-plus talk on licensing your IP. That should be fun. I think I hurt a few writer’s heads today in my editing talk for the modern world. But I had fun. (Grin) This evening a mind-bending dinner with Joanna Penn, Mark Leslie, and Kevin J. Anderson. Really fun learning with really wonderful people. After a book signing, it…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff

    At Superstars

    Today Almost All Travel… And I managed it just fine with help from Kris and Allyson and Kevin Anderson and then Mark Lesley helping me not trip on anything on the way back from dinner once I arrived. Kris got me to the Vegas airport and I flew first class to Denver, which helped with getting on the plane at my own pace. Then when I got off the plane in Denver, Allyson on the phone helped me find my next gate and get me to it in plenty of time. Signs are still tough to read. In Colorado Springs Kevin J, Anderson and Rebecca Modesto picked me up and…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    February Workshops All Started…

    A Couple A Day Early… All six regular workshops for February have started. Plus each month we will bring back to Regular Status one or two Classic Workshops. We have no schedule on when any of them will come forward. We will just decide each month. Here is the list of February Regular workshops plus the two resurrected classics, now available on Teachable. Note: Covers101 and Power Words are the RESURRECTED CLASSIC WORKSHOPS. They will only be available as a regular workshop for this one month, so don’t miss them if you want responses to assignments. Otherwise they will just remain as Classic Workshops. Class #11… Feb 7th … Covers101…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff,  running

    Another Fun Running Post…

    Got Some Fantastic Pictures The professional photographer with Calico Racing, the great folks that put on this last weekend’s 5K took these pictures. The first one is Kris zooming past me… Yes Kris can zoom. Notice the enjoyment she is getting out of leaving me in the dust. Second picture me running… Third picture is of Kris running. I think this might be one of the best pictures of Kris ever taken. Can’t tell we really love staying in shape, can you?  

  • Challenge,  running,  workshops

    Workshops Sent and Running Pictures

    Fun Day… First off, business…. All the Special Workshops from the Fantasies Collide Kickstarter have been sent out. They are sent to your Kickstarter address and they have links, so check your spam filters and such if you signed up one of the two special workshops in that campaign. If you can’t find them, email me. This afternoon I did the last 5K race before I do the half marathon toward the end of the month. I did not manage to drop the weight I wanted to since last summer, but I am still going to do the half. Running and walking. Today the goal was to do the first…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff,  publishing

    Another Note on Copyright Valuation

    Head-Shaking But True… I talk copyright on this blog in any way and the letters and comments just dry up like they were hit by a bad desert wind on a hot summer day. Fun to watch, and I know these posts are just skipped by most. Makes them uncomfortable. But on the last valuation posts, I got a couple of private comments that went something like this… “How can my copyright be worth anything if I only sell a couple copies a month?” Or… “I am a new writer, my work has no value.” Well, in some ways, past performance and sales do help set value at that moment…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    February Regular Workshops Starting Tuesday

    Plus Others… Each month we will bring back to Regular Status one or two Classic Workshops. We have no schedule on when any of them will come forward. We will just decide each month. (Sometimes it will depend if I can find my old notes or not.) Here is the list of February Regular workshops plus the two resurrected classics, now available on Teachable. Note: Covers101 and Power Words are the RESURRECTED CLASSIC WORKSHOPS. They will only be available as a regular workshop for this one month, so don’t miss them if you want responses to assignments. Otherwise they will just remain as Classic Workshops. Class #11… Feb 7th ……

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Offer For Lifetime Subscriptions Only Two More Days…

    Ends Friday Evening… Once again I am tired tonight, both physical and eyes. Really, really long day at this computer.  So I’m going to remind the lifetime subscribers at WMG Workshops about the half-off sale only for them. So if you buy any of the four lifetime subscriptions on WMG Teachable, we will give you half off on anything on Teachable for the next two days, including other lifetime subscriptions. We no longer do regular sales and haven’t now for months. Just won’t do them anymore I’m afraid, but we do like to give our lifetime subscribers a little something extra at times. This is one of those things. So…

  • Cave Creek,  Challenge,  Recommended Reading

    Fantasy Steampunk Bundle

    On Storybundle.com This is a great bundle folks. Kris put this one together and it just launched and it has ten amazing books in it. (Yes, I am calling my novel CARD SHARP SILVER amazing. It is in my opinion.(grin)) Three of the books are original to the bundle. Here is what Kris said about the bundle after she put it together… The Fantasy Steampunk Bundle – curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch: The best steampunk gives us fantasy with an attitude and weird mechanical somethings or other. When we expect magic, we get machines. When we expect machines, we get magic. Sometimes we get both at the same time. We called…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Fun Offer

    Lifetime Subscriptions… Tired tonight, both physical and eyes, so I’m going to make a short offer because we really love lifetime subscribers at WMG Workshops. So if you buy any of the four lifetime subscriptions on WMG Teachable, we will give you half off on anything on Teachable for the next three days, including other lifetime subscriptions. We no longer do regular sales and haven’t now for months. Just won’t do them anymore I’m afraid, but we do like to give our lifetime subscribers a little something extra at times. So jump into any of the four lifetime subscriptions on Teachable and then write me directly and I will give…