I Started a Blog on the Danger of Not Trusting Creative Voice… And I will finish it on Sunday for Sunday night. But it got late and I have some webinars to do tomorrow morning and I think the fine writers who will be listening in would like me to be awake. One detail of workshop business. We offered a “limited time” offer of buying four cost workshops (to take any time over four years) and getting the Kris and Dean Show or two online workshops free. Well, we got around to finalizing some costs on these workshops in Vegas and realized we couldn’t do many of these and keep…

I Wrote Ten Short Stories in Four Days… Right here, talking about the process every day. And not a soul made a comment about how long it was going to take me to rewrite them, or polish them, or some snide comment about how they must not be any good. Not a one. It seems those types of writers stay away from here. Don’t blame them, honestly. It has to be painful to come here where people are having fun with their writing, doing one clean draft, and making money and and finding readers. Gad-zooks! It must be evil. Nope, not evil and not even a secret. It is called…

The Kris and Dean Show… A long time ago, in a land far, far away, (meaning the middle 1990s to about the year 2,000), Kris and I used to do a teaching form that people called the Kris and Dean Show. We would do these usually in conjunction with a writing conference. Or if a writer’s group paid our way to come and give the show for them. Basically, what we did was talk about the truths of publishing and how to deal with the world of publishing. How to get started, how to survive, that sort of thing. Back then that was traditional publishing. And we talked a great…

Cold Poker Gang Novels… Since the Insider’s Guide Writing Detective Fiction workshop started up today, and I had two questions today, one in the comments, one privately about which of my Cold Poker Gang novels should someone start with, I thought I would answer that question right here. The Cold Poker Gang novels are detective novels. Retired Las Vegas Detectives solving cold cases. There are eight so far in the series, all stand alone, but more fun if you read them from the first book, Kill Game. Here is a nifty short video about the series. I love this video. Really catches the series. And you can get the reading…

Regular Day… A few people wrote me and asked if I was going to continue to do daily reports. The answer is sometimes. Why sometimes? Because my days are pretty much like everyone’s day unless I am pushing on some writing project or another. But I can detail out some of the fun stuff I did today to show you that without the writing, there is no context to the day. Started off the day around 11 a.m and headed out to our south stores. Delivered about ten boxes of books and a couple boxes of glass stuff to our bookstore there. Stuff I had packed here from our living…