What an exciting day. Today marked the end of the Fiction River Kickstarter project. We initially set a fundraising goal of $6,000. We figured we’d need that to pay for part of the first issue of Fiction River. For those of you who don’t know what that is, Dean and I are starting an anthology series […]
Continue ReadingIn the beginning of a Kickstarter project, Kickstarter.com counts down the time left in days. The number seems large–30 days, 28 days. But starting sometime today, Kickstarter started counting down our project in hours. First, let me tell those of you who have had a long and lovely August vacation about Fiction River. Dean and […]
Continue ReadingOn July 24, 2012, Canada’s The Globe and Mail published an article titled, “There Will Be No More Professional Writers in The Future.” The article cites a number of writers, from the ubiquitous Scott Turow to Ewan Morrison who, The Globe and Mail thoughtfully tells me, is “an established British writer.” Morrison says that the advances […]
Continue ReadingDean Wesley Smith and I have announced our new workshops for the latter half of this year and most of next year. For the first time, these include online workshops as well. These workshops, like our blogs, are geared toward professional writers. The workshops also help you with skills you’ll need in indie publishing, like […]
Continue Reading[youtube]http://youtu.be/fIPH5nYnpws[/youtube] I know a lot of you won’t go to the Fiction River Kickstarter site, and many of you who do won’t watch the video. I’ve watched a ton of Kickstarter videos and they’re usually…well, not worth watching. Ours is. But it almost wasn’t because of me & Dean. The problem? Well, I got trained in broadcasting, […]
Continue ReadingWhat an amazing 24 hours. Dean Wesley Smith and I posted our Kickstarter project, Fiction River, on Sunday night, and we received 80+ percent of the funding we initially asked for by Monday night. As I write this, we’re at 90 percent. Kickstarter’s staff has also helped with the project by making Fiction River one of […]
Continue ReadingDean Wesley Smith and I have spent a good part of this summer teaching, as well as talking to other professional writers. One thing we discuss is the history of the business because it helps us understand how we got to where we are. In the beginning, publishing was a handshake operation. Writers and publishers […]
Continue ReadingLast week, I mentioned the blog post I had started, but decided not to publish in the midst of a busy workshop. Here it is: At every craft workshop I teach, I make at least one writer cry. This week, I’m teaching a short story workshop for professional writers. These are workshop-hardened folk, people who […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the differences between traditional publishing and indie publishing this week. Almost every day, some writer writes to me and asks if they should go traditional or indie on some new project. Sometimes the writer has just finished his first novel, and wants to know what to do […]
Continue ReadingThe Business Rusch: Time and the Writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch Recently, I got an e-mail from a writer whose name you would recognize. She has written dozens of novels, maybe a hundred or more. Her career stretches back more than thirty years. She has jumped into indie publishing whole-heartedly and cannot imagine going back to […]
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