• Challenge,  workshops

    Last Day Finally Of the Sale

    Extended to Sunday Evening Late… Then done. To get any thing on WMG Teachable at half price, go to WMG Teachable and hit see all. Then find the class or workshop or whatever you want, hit purchase and on the next page put in the code: SpringSale to get the class or workshop at half price. Any questions, feel free to write me. ———– Now for a picture of my trip to Writers of the Future. It is me at the podium thanking Galaxy Press and Writers of the Future for trusting me with the editing job and promising to do the best job I can do, right before I…

  • Challenge,  publishing

    Front List and Back List

    Talked About This Before… But yesterday I got this newsletter that comes out monthly focused about 95% on traditional publishing. And let me tell you, folks, from the sounds of things in traditional publishing, everything is just doing great. (Note I said from the sounds of things.) They are using all kinds of hinky percentage increases that are statistically bogus and mean nothing. And, of course, the real reasons the balance sheets are standing strong under observation of public traded corporations are the IP valuations and depreciation of those IP assets. Book sales are not holding these companies up, let alone the companies vast expenses in New York property, or…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    4 New Classic Workshops

    Finally Got Them All Up… And extended the half price sale until Sunday night so anyone interested in these new four can grab them in the sale. The four new classic workshops are: Attitude in Writing Secrets of Craft in Writing Publishing 101 Kickstarter Step By Step All four of these were originally regular workshops, so all have about 42-45 videos in them in a six week structure. But they are classic workshops, so you do not turn in the assignments, but do them for yourself. So until Sunday you can get these four and everything else on Teachable for half price by simply hitting purchase on what you want…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    WORKSHOP SALE EXTENDED!!!

    Workshops Half Price Until Sunday Evening… This is my fault and I hope it helps some of you. I have three workshops I had intended to move to Classic status before the sale ended, but since it was going to end today, and I wasn’t going to get to moving the workshops to classic until late today, three or four people asked and I just moved the end of the sale back until Sunday evening. The three formally regular workshops that will be classic workshops are Attitude, Secrets, and Publishing 101. So watch for those tomorrow afternoon or evening and grab them for half off. To get anything on WMG…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Two Days Left On the Workshop Sale

    Clock Ticking Down!! Everything on WMG Teachable is half price at this moment and will be for two more days. To see all of the over 200 classes, pop-ups, challenges, workshops, study-alongs, collection classes, lectures, and lifetime subscriptions we have available at half price, go to: WMG Teachable and hit see all. Then anything you want, hit purchase and put in the code on the next page SPRINGSALE And hit apply and you will get it for half price. To see suggested CURRICULUM go to Workshop Curriculum on the right of this page and hit the link. Here is a sample of what Kris and I consider the order for…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Special Workshops

    Two Special Workshop Codes Are Out… Might be the fastest turn of special workshops since the Kickstarter just ended a little over a week ago. But they are all out. So those of you who signed up through the Kickstarter campaign (the only way), you should have the links and codes to get into them. They start today (Tuesday) or May 3rd. Check your spam filters since there are links in the email and that will often drive an email to a spam filter. If you still did not get it, write me and Josh and I will figure out what went wrong. POP-UP free World Building classes from the…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    May Workshops Now Up…

    And Available on the Sale… The nine different May regular workshops are now on Teachable. And yes, you can get them on the half-price sale. Just hit purchase and then on the next page put in the code: SpringSale And you will get the workshop for half price. April Regular workshops are still there, but you would have to catch up. Only a week behind, so not a problem. A couple things I want to point out tonight on Teachable that are available for the sale. — The Lifetime Pop-Up subscription is a fantastic deal, especially at half price. And that will just keep growing and growing. — The Study…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff,  workshops

    Yes, I Am Now the Editor of Writers of the Future…

    You Heard That Right… Jody Lynn Nye is the coordinating judge, so she and Kary English will work together to get the top manuscripts to all the judges each quarter. After all the judging is done, the manuscripts will go into Writers of the Future and the names will be put back on them and I will get to work with the authors and put the book together and so on. The folks at Galaxy Press and Author Services are maybe the nicest, friendliest, and most hard-working people I have ever had the pleasure to know. And working with them will be a fantastic pleasure. As I said, I was…

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    GREAT AWARD CEREMONY

    Writers of the Future was once again amazing. Jody Lynn Nye was announced as the new corordinating judge of the contest and I was announced as the new editor of Writers of the Future. Yes, you heard that right, I am the new editor and considering I was the first person to ever walk across the stage 38 years ago, I am stunned and honored. I will still be a judge as well. Jody and the rest of the judges (including me) will find the great stories out of all those sent in. Then it will be my job to put the volume together and work with the writers. So…

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    At Writers of the Future

    Tomorrow I Put On a Tux… That will be a stunner. And I will have some news when I get home on Saturday. If you follow the live stream of the awards show, you will hear the news. But it will be fun. The group of writers this year is amazing and hungry and actually staying up late to listen and talk and learn. Had a great dinner tonight with Larry Elmore, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and others. Way too much great food. Year #38 tomorrow ends. I was the very first winner across the stage 38 years ago. Just amazing how time flies. So tomorrow a Tux once again. Pictures…