• Challenge,  workshops

    Updates!!

    Space Opera… From January 13th through noon on the 16th, Kris is teaching an in-person craft workshop on the topic of Space Opera. (She has won dozens of awards and even more nominations for awards for her space opera writing over the decades, not counting the millions of copies of space opera books and stories she has sold.) So those of you signed up for the in-person space opera craft class here in Vegas, the reading list will be headed out to you later tonight with more information. We are at a fantastic new place for this that we toured today. The Circa. It is just four years old and…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    Workshops Started

    Lost In the Insanity of Tuesday… 5 Regular and 2 Advanced workshops just started. Advanced Emotion Craft Workshop and also Advanced Unputdownable both started on Tuesday and go for 9 weeks on Teachable. Advanced Emotion is a critical craft workshop for bringing more readers to your work. Also all five core six-week Regular Workshops started on Tuesday and Wednesday.  Depth, Advanced Depth, Writing into the Dark, Teams in Fiction, and Killing the Critical Voice. All of these are on Teachable It is the Advanced Emotion Class that is a major class to improve your writing and sales. Don’t miss it. It won’t be back around until next November. HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR…

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    Killing the Two Workshops… The Why…

    We Have A Way of Telling Interest… And figuring out the amount of actual commit-time interest in a topic. Here is what we look for. Realize we need at least 8 or 10 doing assignments the first time through for us to do the response videos. And we feel those are important. So here is what we look for to judge interest and number of people who will take the class first time through… First of all, did anyone actually buy the class? (These two no one. Not one.) Second, did someone use credits. (I didn’t see anyone, but one did I discovered this morning. Only one on one class.…

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    Two New Workshops Are Toast…

    Killing the Two New Regular Workshops… Not one person signed up for either one, so clearly not much interest and wrong time of the year. No one even mentioned them. We have learned that is a bad sign. (grin) So BRUSHSTROKE CHARACTERS and FAKING IT regular workshops are not going to happen. At least not at the moment. I liked the idea of both of them, so maybe they will come back at a later time. We shall see. But still have the new class ADVANCED GENRE starting up and that is going to be a blast, and difficult, and a learning process all at the same time. (And for…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  workshops

    Determined to Get Some Sleep

    So This Will Be Short… I will get eight hours somehow tonight, so got to just do little here but repeat some information. As I said, I did manage to start all of the new September Regular workshops, which includes the classic Heinlein’s Rules and two brand new workshops, Brushstroke Characters and Faking It. Both of those should be fun and great learning and they are available now on Teachable. Today is the last day on jumping into Kris’s Fall Challenge that runs to September 30th. Watch her daily writing and challenge her to match or beat her word count. That’s on Teachable. And this is the last day to…

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    New In-Person Classes

    TWO GREAT NEW IN-PERSON CRAFT CLASSES… Both taught by Kristine Kathryn Rusch. I wanted to repost this to make sure everyone saw it with the Anthology Workshop in one week. The fact that we announced the next Anthology Workshop in August of 2026, we got a bunch of questions about the next in-person craft workshops taught by Kris. So Kris and I felt it was time to announce those as well so people can make travel plans and such. We already have one scheduled in January for Space Opera, taught by Kris and held at the Resorts World here in Las Vegas. That has one spot remaining. (Write me for…

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    Workshop Sale Ends Friday Late…

    REALLY, IT’S GOING TO END!! And afraid it will be a very long time until the next one. New classes available now.  — Kris has decided to do one more writing challenge. We are calling it the Fall Writing Challenge and it will go from August 15th (day after the current one ends) until September 30th. — All five of the August Regular Workshop classes are now up and available as well. They are available in the sale until Friday late. Wow, it sure seems this sale has been going on forever, with first me taking my time creating the new bundles and then I got so busy with the…

  • Challenge,  Kickstarter Campaign,  Pulphouse Fiction Magazine,  workshops

    One Day Left in Pulphouse Subscription Drive Kickstarter!!!

    That’s Right! Ending Thursday Evening at 7PM The Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Subscription Drive 2024 Kickstarter campaign is going great. We have hit enough stretch rewards now that all backers will get ALL FIVE crazy Pulphouse anthologies , two issues of Fiction River, a six issue subscription, and also a chance to submit a story to Pulphouse in August, September, October, November, and December . (I will send out guidelines for the stories at the start of each month to backers through the updates.) Understand, Pulphouse Fiction Magazine is never open to submissions. But sometimes, in these subscription drives, if we get high enough, we open submissions of one per month…

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    FOR TWO DAYS ONLY!!!

    Great Bundle Sale Extended to Any Class on Teachable… Not just bundles, but any class. BUT ONLY FOR TWO DAYS… Ends Monday night late. To get any class or bundle at half price, simply go to WMG Teachable, find the class or bundles you want, and hit purchase. Then put in the code… GREATBUNDLE And hit apply and you will have it for 50% off. Extended for two days only to everything on Teachable. Ends Monday night late West Coast Time…

  • Challenge,  workshops

    Workshops Starting!!!

    Some Fantastic Writing Classes Starting Up Here is a list of some of them. Two more Prepare Ahead classes on www.wmgwriterstore.com One per week.  Science Fiction Mystery and Halloween Hearts are the classes and the anthologies left. One per week. Fantasy Novella Class Starts on July 2 on www.wmgwriterstore.com Nine weeks of lessons and assignments and then one month to write a fantasy novella that Kris will read. 5 July Regular Workshops are available and they start July 2nd. Creative Survival and Motivational Monday are divided by four quarters and cover the entire year. 13 weeks per quarter. And the third quarters are starting in both now and you can…