• Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    How I Will Do 100 Paperbacks?

    Figured I Would Lay It Out Here… …since the Smith’s Stories: Make 100 Paperbacks Kickstarter campaign is just a few days away from ending and getting close to its second stretch goal. At that end point I get to start the process of making 100 paperbacks and I have had a couple people ask me how I am going to do all that. So I figured right here, right now, I would lay it all out. Maybe help a few of you on the process. Of course, to do 100 paperbacks of short stories, I need 100 short stories. Actually, that is not a problem. I have about 60 unpublished…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Six Days Left

    And Major Workshop Discounts… On the Smith’s Stories: Make 100 Paperbacks Kickstarter project. Right now you can get any lecture for $40.00.  Any Regular Workshop for $250.00. Or get as many Regular Workshop Credits as you want. Or Lifetime Subscription to workshops or lectures. Or a bunch of the Pop-Up series. When WMG Publishing does a Kickstarter, we sometimes add in these discounts for workshops, and since this is a project I really wanted to do, I wanted to add these workshops in to kick it over the top. And it worked. Cleared the goal in a day, which is wonderful. Thank you, everyone, who has supported this so far.…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Just Over $600 Left…

    Before Every Supporter Gets a Workshop and a Book… That’s right. Smith’s Stories: Make 100 Paperback Short Stories Kickstarter campaign is almost to its stretch goal. Just over $600 left. If this campaign hits $9,000, I will give everyone who pledged at any level an electronic copy of my large collection Stories from July. It contains 32 short stories plus all the blogs I wrote about writing them. And also, on top of that, each person pledging to this campaign will get a credit for a Classic Workshop of their choice worth $150. (If you are a lifetime workshop subscriber, you can take the equivalent in lectures or Pop-Ups we…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Fun Stretch Goal

    Since The Original Goal Got Hit… I figured it was time to get a really cool stretch goal posted. This stretch goal has something for the readers and something for the writers. So if this campaign hits $9,000, I will give everyone who pledged at any level an electronic copy of my large collection Stories from July. It contains 32 short stories plus all the blogs I wrote about writing them. And also, on top of that, each person pledging to this campaign will get a credit for a Classic Workshop of their choice worth $150. (If you are a lifetime workshop subscriber, you can take the equivalent in lectures…

  • On Writing,  publishing

    Kickstarter Funded!

    Thanks to a writer wanting to jump into the Mentor Program… And that is wonderfully cool! Now I get to not only help someone for a year with their writing and publishing, but I get to make the 100 paperback books I wanted to do. And still 19 days left in the Kickstarter campaign.  So now anyone who does back the project either for the books or for a lecture or workshop gets the three collections of my 100 stories. That will be a lot of reading since my stories all range from 3,000 to 7,000 words. They have to be at least that long to fill out the 24…

  • On Writing,  publishing

    Slow Start As Expected… Mentor Program Award Added

    When You Offer a Project Only You Are Excited About… You have to expect it to not fund, and to start very, very slowly. That is something I will talk about in the Kickstarter Pop-Up. Here is the Link to the Make 100 Kickstarter Project I started yesterday so you can take a look at it. But I had no illusions that I would be the only person excited about doing 100 Short Story Paperbacks and three major collections from those short stories. Basically I want to do this to rebrand my short stories and get them ready to put in the restart of Smith’s Monthly this spring. Kris and…

  • On Writing,  publishing

    Make 100 Short Story Paperbacks Launched

    A Kickstarter For Me To Make 100 Short Story Paperbacks… I just launched it. Going to be great fun. 100 short stories in paperback form, as well as electronic form, as well as in a set of collections. Most, if not all of these short stories will be original, never published anywhere. And I am doing all the work, including the covers, the layout, everything but the large collection books. Here is what one of the short stories will look like. And here is what a cover of a Smith’s Monthly looks like, which will be starting back up this spring. Notice the branding? (grin) YES, WORKSHOPS TOO… Yes, like…

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Two New Pop-Up Workshops

    #7 Second-Hand Sales and #8 Kickstarter for Writers… The Second-Hand Sales Pop-Up covers what are second-hand sales, why they are great for writers in so many ways, and how to successfully use second-hand sales to help grow your sales and your fan base. There are tricks, lots of trick to it. It is on Teachable now with an introduction video and also in the bundles. It will actually launch on Sunday evening the 20th. A second Pop-Up is also available and will launch on Sunday January 27th. This one is called Kickstarter for Writers. Basically all the details about how to set up a Kickstarter campaign for one of your…

  • Fiction River,  On Writing,  publishing

    Four Hours Left!

    Don’t Miss This One… Just four hours left and so far everyone supporting the will not only get their subscription and award, like workshops and such, but will get nine (9) extra books. And I will stop posting about this here when this is done. (grin) But if you want discounts in workshops and lectures, this is the last few hours to get them.  

  • Challenge,  On Writing,  publishing

    Kickstarter Also Hit Fourth Stretch Goal

    And Is Almost to the Fifth… Lots of extra books to every supporter. This subscription drive has until 4 p.m. Monday, in essence, as I write this, 36 hours to go. Give it a look if you haven’t so far. It has some pretty nifty awards and other things. Click Here. We have the new award where you get two writing books, a lecture, a subscription, and a chance to submit a story if you want to a volume of Fiction River in February. Here are the details. Pledge $100 or more. WRITER’S SPECIAL Get books, a lecture, a subscription, and the chance to be in a volume of Fiction…