• Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    Crimes Collide Kickstarter Ends Today!

    Ends At 7 PM West Coast Time… You don’t want to miss this one, folks. It has done so well, we are giving a ton of books and writer’s classes away, plus you get five books full of 100 Mystery Stories written by me and Kris. 50 of mine, 50 of hers in five volumes called CRIMES COLLIDE. The two special workshops in this one will help any writer learn how to write and sell more mystery. And the Pop-Up Classes we are giving away that are focused on mystery have a value right now of $1,050.00 and could go higher this last day. (Here is a deal I should…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    Less Than 40 Hours Left in Crimes Collide

    I Am Very Proud of These Books… Last year we did Colliding Worlds, where Kris and I each put ten science fiction short stories into a book and did six books for a total of 120 stories. This year in CRIMES COLLIDE we put ten mystery stories from me and ten from Kris into a book. Five books for a total of 100 stories. 50 from me, 50 from Kris. Crimes Collide Kickstarter Campaign No matter what reward you take, you will get all five volumes of CRIMES COLLIDE. Plus we have some amazing stretch rewards as we hit certain goals along the way. Right now we have gone by…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff,  Kickstarter Campaign

    A Fun Ad

    For the Crimes Collide Kickstarter Campaign… Gwyneth at WMG Publishing took the video that Kris and I recorded for the Crimes Collide Kickstarter and added all the nifty music and books and such. Then today for an ad promoting the campaign, she did a nifty video that is even more fun than the original video, all from the original video and dealing with mystery and crime, the focus of the campaign. This is the kind of thing that can be done when you are not afraid to try things and have fun and play. Think of this as an example of the billions of ways to promote a book or…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    Crimes Collide

    Basic Information On Crimes Collide Below I spent all day (except for a very short time watching football) working on CRIMES COLLIDE. Thank heavens I have all my stories that have been in Smith’s Monthly in a spread sheet. I would look at a story title, then grab the issue of Smith’s Monthly it was in to try to remember it and then see which one of the five books it went in and in what order. Kris already had her stories done and in order and had set some of the basic subjects for the five books, so I was putting my often very between-genre stories into a certain…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    Update On Challenge

    Haven’t Missed A Story Yet… But one was almost four thousand words of a really fun novel that I couldn’t even wrap into a short story. But since I am writing novels as well in this challenge, it counts and I will have the rough on Patreon soon for some of you who are interested to see a novel start that not even I could wrap into a short story. The last week has been bumpy, beyond words, but I still managed to go 14 for 14. Not a clue how. I have not had the time to do the other stuff with the challenge, like do covers, for them,…