• Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch Starter Kit

    New Kickstarter Campaign Now Live!!! What I have been mentioning the last four or five days has now gone live. Kristine Kathryn Rusch Starter Kit is a Kickstarter Campaign to get readers the first ten stories in ten of her series. Now, she has more than ten series, but this ten are what she and Allyson thought were the major ones. And in the Rewards you can get all the books in all ten of the series for a discount, plus the Starter Kit. In the stretch goals there are books from other Kris series. If you love Kris’s writing, this is the Kickstarter for you. Kristine Kathryn Rusch STARTER…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Why All The Stretch Rewards?

    Why Give So Much Away? Got that question a lot this time, more than any other campaign we have done, although I must admit, that question is pretty normal for our campaigns. If a person does a $5 pledge to get an early copy of RESCUE TWO in electronic form, as I write this they get ten more books and nine workshops worth $1,350.00. But that is about to jump one more goal to eleven books and ten workshops. Why do this? Why give so much away? Two major reasons, actually. First, this is a campaign for my new Seeders novel RESCUE TWO. It stands alone, but gives a good…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    LESS THAN 40 HOURS LEFT!!

    Ends on Thursday at 7 pm West Coast Time. RESCUE TWO Kickstarter Campaign Only forty hours to get the two special workshops, or deals on other workshops, or great deals on a bunch of my books. Just not much time left. Yesterday we hit the 9th Stretch Goal. And there is time to get to one more I think. But right now hitting 9 Stretch Goals means any backer of any reward gets the following extra books and Pop-Up writing classes on top of whatever award they took. Ebooks A Billion Earths: A Seeders Universe Collection Life of a Dream: An Earth Protection League Novel Ball of Confusion: An Earth…

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    Only Two Days Left!! RESCUE TWO Kickstarter Campaign

    Clock Is Ticking… This ends on Thursday at 7 pm West Coast Time. RESCUE TWO Kickstarter Campaign Last night I talked about the really nifty special workshops available only in this campaign. Earlier I detailed out the two Lifetime Subscriptions, including the new one for Pop-Ups, available in this campaign. Today we hit the 9th Stretch Goal. So that means any backer of any reward gets the following extra books and Pop-Up writing classes. Ebooks A Billion Earths: A Seeders Universe Collection Life of a Dream: An Earth Protection League Novel Ball of Confusion: An Earth Protection League Novel The End Might Be Interesting After All (short story collection) Time…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign

    Kickstarter News

    Brandon Backed All Publishing Kickstarters Or at least all the viable ones. How cool is that? And he helped a number of them fund and watching the video is also great fun. He, or one of his people, backed the RESCUE TWO campaign as well. Thanks, Brandon! Over the years I have backed a lot of campaigns, but never as many as he did today. Number totaled over 300. Wow! And he said at the end that readers now will start thinking of Kickstarter as a way to find books. Basically we are all creating a new market to help readers find new books, new authors, and innovative publishing products.…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    RESCUE TWO Kickstarter Doing Fantastic!!

    Seeders Kickstarter Campaign… Doing Great! Actually, we funded in about 40 minutes and hit the first stretch goal very quickly after that. Then we hit the next one the first evening and are about to hit the fourth stretch reward, which means all backers get more books and so far three Pop-Up writing classes on different types of World Building in science fiction. Each Pop-Up is worth $150.00. So in case you want to take a look and help us pass the word to get as many of these Pop-Up Classes as we can, go to RESCUE TWO SEEDERS UNIVERSE KICKSTARTER. Plus we have all kinds of great books and…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  On Writing,  publishing,  workshops

    Another Friday Night

    Over The Years… I think it is a total miracle that I have not missed on this blog on a Friday night. Some of you know I tended bar for 17 years, and just about always on a Friday night. So back in 1987, when I went freelance with writing and editing and publishing, I swore I would never spend another Friday night or another New Year’s Eve in a bar. But for some reason, after 35 years of not going anywhere on Friday night, the itch to go out and do something on Friday night is still there. I never want to do anything in reality, but it is…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    Twelve Hours And Doing Great!!

    Seeders Kickstarter Campaign… Already Into Stretch Goals… Actually, we funded in about 40 minutes and hit the first stretch goal very quickly after that. Then we hit the next one this evening. The second one has not only a book as part of the reward for hitting the goal, but the first of ten possible Pop-Up classes on World Building in Science Fiction. Each Pop-Up is worth $150.00. So in case you want to take a look and help us pass the word to get as many of these Pop-Up Classes as we can, go to RESCUE TWO SEEDERS UNIVERSE KICKSTARTER. Here are the ten World Building Pop-Ups that if…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  publishing

    Brandon Helps Us All Once Again

    Brandon Sanderson’s Second Kickstarter… Brandon’s campaign is about to break the record for the largest campaign in Kickstarter history. It is over twenty million as I start to write this and still climbing. And he is doing this in the FICTION category with four books. Three years ago Loren Coleman and I got it in our heads that Kickstarter could be another sales-of-books source, like a bookstore for preorders. We started a free Kickstarter for Fiction Writers place on Teachable, and Loren wrote an entire book on Crowdfunding for Fiction Writers, which is basically the bible. Our intent was to make Kickstarter pay attention more to the Fiction category like…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  On Writing

    Another Bryant Street Story Tonight

    Both Upbeat… Sort of… Kris read the Bryant Street story from last night and said, “Wow, an upbeat Bryant Street story. I actually hadn’t noticed that it was. It was just twisted like all Bryant Street stories are. And in fact, last night’s story you could just see Rod Serling standing off to one side of the garage saying… For your consideration, a man in a house he hates, a marriage that broke years ago, trying desperately to find a way out. Blocking his exit, an old car, left abandoned for years in a field, now full of  the twisted hopes and dreams that can only be found on Bryant…