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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Kickstarter Hit Third Stretch Goal
Only Has Two Days Left… We are within $500 of hitting the fourth stretch goal and doing great so far. If we hit that 4th goal, everyone supporting the subscription drive will not only get the subscription and their chosen reward, but at least five extra books. Five. And with more if we can go farther. Those of you workshop people, there are deals on workshops on this subscription drive. For $250 you get a $300 workshop plus a $150 classic workshop. So $450 in value for $250. There is also a $750 level where you can get three credits for workshops (to take at any time you want going…
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New Fiction River Kickstarter Award for Writers
We Think This Is A Good One… It is at the $100 reward level for that only has four days left!!! Here is the Reward We Just Added… ——— Pledge $100 or more. WRITER’S SPECIAL Get books, a lecture, a subscription, and the chance to be in a volume of Fiction River. You will get two writing books in electronic format out of the list of writing books in the WMG Inventory. You will also get your choice of a lecture on writing, a $50 to $75 value. You will also get a full year (six issues) subscription to Fiction River. All of that has a value of about $100.…
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One Week of the Fiction River Subscription Drive
Doing Great!! We have, in less than one week, hit our goal and also hit the first stretch reward where everyone gets an extra copy of Fiction River on their subscription. Next stretch goals have everyone getting all sorts of cool books. In fact, there is all kinds of cool stuff this year in our third in six years. (We do one every two years.) You can get a ton of extra books (up to 25 books) if this goes as high as the past, and if it goes a little higher than the past drive, we will do an open call for one or two volumes of Fiction River, something…
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Great First Day of the Subscription Drive
Got Some Great Questions… And a bunch of people got in under the 24 hours to get a free book of Kris’s called Spree. Thank you everyone for the support on our It is wonderful how Fiction River is going strong and with some fantastic writers. And we hit twelve issues since our last subscription drive, right on target and pace. —- I got some questions about the webinar that Kris and I will do for a reward on Kickstarter. It will only be offered on this subscription drive and is general publishing and writing questions. In other words, those of you who sign up for it set the topic…