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    How to Achieve Your Dreams…

    New Workshop Up… Got a hunch that some writers are going to return from the land of The Time of Great Forgetting and wished they had started this. It starts on June 10th and goes for 9 weeks, so right into the first week or so of August, after the Time has cleared for most. Get it on Teachable.  Here is the blurb about it… HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS A step-by-step guide to Writing More, Getting More Readers, and Making a Living with Your Writing. 9 week class given by New York Times bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith and planned by both Dean and New York Times bestselling author…

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    New Workshops and Regular Workshops

    HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR DREAMS… That’s the name of the new class we are offering starting June 10th. How to Write More, Get More Readers, and Make a Living with Your Fiction. Cost is $500 and it is 9 weeks long with eight assignments. Again starts on the 10th. Everything Subscribers got a letter from me about it tonight with the code to get in. Wow am I excited about this one. We have been thinking about doing this for some time now and to help people stay focused through the time of great forgetting, we figured this would be a good one to offer. You can find this on…

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    Missing Great Workshops

    They Just Started This Last Week!! Still time to jump in without missing anything I am giving one last reminder here because these classes are so good.. Three ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES. ADVANCED CLIFFHANGERS ADVANCED ENDINGS FLOATING VIEWPOINTS Maybe three of the most important classes we do. All are 9 weeks long with eight assignments. The Floating Viewpoints class will change what you think you know about fiction writing forever. And destroy some myths. Cliffhangers will make your books move faster and be unable to be put down. Endings will sell you a ton more of your next books. Three classes that will challenge you and teach you and keep you…

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    REALLY FUN WORKSHOPS IN KICKSTARTER

    100 MYSTERY PROMPTS IN TWO WORKSHOPS For the writers who love to write stories and learn the craft and business of writing, we are offering some very, very special treats through this FOUR MYSTERIES Kickstarter campaign. These two courses will only be offered through this campaign and nowhere else, so don’t miss them. — #1… 50 MURDER MYSTERY PROMPTS This is a special three-week workshop on 50 prompts for stories with murder in them. How to start each story from the prompt. How to present the murder. How to use depth in various sub-genres. How to create great murder mystery stories. How to make each story completely your own.  This is…

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    Workshops Started

    Started May 6th… Three ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES. ADVANCED CLIFFHANGERS ADVANCED ENDINGS FLOATING VIEWPOINTS Maybe three of the most important classes we do. All are 9 weeks long with eight assignments. The Floating Viewpoints class will change what you think you know about fiction writing forever. And destroy some myths. Cliffhangers will make your books move faster and be unable to be put down. Endings will sell you a ton more of your next books. Three classes that will challenge you and teach you and keep you focused on your writing until July. All are on WMG Teachable. How About Writing and Publishing a Book in Nine Weeks? These four Collection…

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    Lots of Great Things!!!

    Thank you, all… Kris and I both really appreciate the well-wishes on our anniversary. It means a lot to us. And, of course, we spent the entire day working. (grin) LAST DAY OF THE EARLY BIRD SALE For the DESIGN FOR INDIE AUTHORS classes on The WMG Writer store. Don’t delay, it drops off Monday evening and unlike how Teachable works, this sale just automatically vanishes on the store. (grin) Here is the information I posted a few days back about it… A brand new series of workshops DESIGN FOR INDIE AUTHORS on the WMG Writer Store. We just announced all three, even though we have been working on them…

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    3 Days Left On Early Bird Sale…

    Ends Late Monday… 50% off everything on WMG Teachable. Use the code EarlyBirdApril  to get 50% off. But only for the next three days until late Monday night. All are on WMG Teachable. Grab one of these classes to help yourself through the Time of Great Forgetting and challenge yourself and learn a lot at the same time. (And yes, you can stock up on classes for the summer on this sale.) Starting May 6th, three ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES. ADVANCED CLIFFHANGERS ADVANCED ENDINGS FLOATING VIEWPOINTS Maybe three of the most important classes we do. All are 9 weeks long with eight assignments. The Floating Viewpoints class will change what you…

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    Early Bird Sale Extended…

    It Had Expired… And a couple people had missed it, so I just extended it today for a few more days. And I extended it to not only the Advanced Craft and Collections classes, but everything. Again, just for a few days. Code is EarlyBirdApril Just find the class you want on WMG Teachable, hit purchase, then put in the code and hit apply and you will get it for 50% off. Yes, this includes the EVERYTHING LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTION Again, this is just for a few days. And May regular workshops will be up shortly.

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    Workshops to Help Your Get Through…

    … The Time of Great Forgetting. And challenge yourself and learn a lot at the same time. Starting May 6th, three ADVANCED CRAFT CLASSES. ADVANCED CLIFFHANGERS ADVANCED ENDINGS FLOATING VIEWPOINTS Maybe three of the most important classes we do. All are 9 weeks long with eight assignments. The Floating Viewpoints class will change what you think you know about fiction writing forever. Cliffhangers will make your books move faster and be unable to be put down. Endings will sell you a ton more of your next books. Three classes that will challenge you and teach you and keep you focused on your writing until July. All are on WMG Teachable.…

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    Gothic Craft Class…

    May 5-8th in Las Vegas… In the WMG office in downtown Las Vegas. Starts in three weeks. Craft class taught by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. We have two openings in the In-Person class if interested. Write me. $750 fee. And on WMG Teachable, we will be doing the Gothic Study Along class. $300 fee. Basically I use Kris’s notes from the class to record what she has done and I read your story assignments. Not as good as being here with Kris, but a ton cheaper. (grin) Four days of videos plus two assignments to write stories. Those who are attending in person will be hooked up on an email list…