While Dean and I have dealt with our personal emergency, the staff at WMG Publishing have worked hard on the projects we planned for the end of October and the beginning of November. First, let me thank everyone who backed our Kickstarter for the Holiday Spectacular. We’re so pleased that you all have joined us […]
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It doesn’t seem like I’ve been all that silent here, but I have been. We experienced one of those life events that knocked us out of our routine and put us into a whole new world. A week ago Sunday, Dean tripped during a 5K run. He was going very fast, passing people and enjoying […]
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One of my favorite parts of this year’s Holiday Spectacular is the merchandise. In the winter, I always cuddle up under a blanket, a cat on top, a mug of tea on the side table, and a book in hand. It’s my idea of heaven. When we designed the merchandise for this year’s Spectacular, we […]
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A number of you have asked if we were doing a Holiday Spectacular Kickstarter this year. I told you that yes, indeed, we were. And it has gone live just now! This Kickstarter is gorgeous. I’ve always loved the Holiday Spectacular for its Calendar of Stories. For those of you who don’t know, the Calendar […]
Continue ReadingWe are having a heck of a good first day on the Kickstarter for the brand new Diving novel, The Ivory Trees, and it’s all because of you. You folks are grand! We hit our goal in an hour and we are well on our way to the first stretch goal. Then we got a […]
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The next Diving novel takes us back a little bit in time, because I needed to learn a bit about the various cultures I was writing about. So Ivory Trees looks at some shenanigans in the Empire as well as explains some things that were deliberately left blank in the regular Diving novels. Before you […]
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As some of you know, we’re running a subscription drive Kickstarter for Pulphouse magazine. We’ve got all kinds of rewards, starting at $25 for a six-issue subscription. In fact, the six-issue subscription comes with every reward. As I mentioned in some of my posts, we also have merchandise in the Kickstarter. The merch is priced […]
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For a free audio version of this post, click here. My plan all along for this series was to take a few projects of mine and use them as examples of ways to apply niche marketing thinking to books. It took me a while to get here. If you want to see some real world […]
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To get a free audio version of this post, click here. This little niche marketing series continues, and what we need are examples. Fortunately, I have them. Note: if you’re new to this series, please go back and start with the first post. In the second part of this series, I listed the various books […]
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I’m going to start with the thing that’s not as much fun as everything else. That’d be the little bit of advice. I have a new book out, which is called How Writers Fail: Analysis and Solutions. The topic is dark, but the book is uplifting, especially if you have some of the issues I’m […]
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