And if you’re uncertain, at least watch the video I did. Enjoy! (Oh, and head to the Kickstarter here.)

Writers like Thomas K. Carpenter, Anthea Sharp, and Ann Gimpel have put entire series in this bundle. Other writers have given you three books or more as a taste of what they can do, writers like Lisa Silverthorne and T. Thorn Coyle. You’ll find marvelous books by Brigid Collins, DeAnna Knippling, and Robert Jeschonek. I curated this bundle and included four books in my Faerie Justice series. Dean included all four of his Bryant Street collections.

These are amazing, high quality fantasy novels that’ll keep you reading long into the spring.

But this opportunity disappears on Thursday evening Pacific time, so hurry over to Storybundle to get yours. And maybe toss in a bit of money to support our charity, World Central Kitchen, and feed a few people while you feed your soul.

The video designed by Lisa Silverthorne might entice you as well…

Click here to get your bundle.

Just a quick little post to let you all know that Dean’s Kickstarter for his marvelous Marble Grant stories has just gone live. There’s a lot of goodies here in addition to the books. You’ll find discounted workshops and a lot of short stories.

Take a look at the video I finished over the weekend, and see if Marble Grant is right for you.

Head to the Kickstarter by clicking here.

Well, I have the answer for you. It is the Big Time Bundle 2024, which I curated. It has great fiction from Lisa Silverthorne, Ron Collins with Jeff Collins, Kathryn Kaleigh, Robert Jeschonek, Douglas Smith, Dean Wesley Smith, Michael Stackpole, Kevin J. Anderson, with Doug Beason, and WMG Publishing, Inc.‘s Holiday Spectacular Time Travel anthology.

My own contribution is one of my most favorite. The Gallery of His Dreams was nominated (or won) every award that existed in sf at the time. I wrote the story during a rough time, and it was a great escape for me. I hope it will be for you.

The bundle will exist for two more weeks before fading away. So you’ll run out of…time! Yes, time! So get yours now.

Here’s the link. https://storybundle.com/time

So I’m letting you know now. We’ve hit four stretch goals so far, and we’re trying to hit another over the weekend. (120 backers by Sunday.) This means that if you back the Kickstarter, you’ll get your six issue subscription with really great fiction inside and four anthologies. Writers will get several opportunities to send stories to Pulphouse which is truly special because the magazine is closed to submissions most of the time.

I also put together the Kickstarter video, which is fun, but not as much fun as this one. Yep, I’m playing with iMovie only because I haven’t had the time (literally) to relearn a much more sophisticated program. I’m getting there. I’m hoping my time frees up soon.

In the meantime, I need two things from you. The second thing first: check out the Kickstarter. Lots of great rewards and even more wonderful fiction. First thing second: watch the video below. Enjoy!

Oh, my goodness, I’ve had fun with videos this spring. Once again, I’m the one doing the videos for WMG Publishing, Inc., a fact that makes me very happy. Our videos lacked voice for the past several years. (I’ll share an example of that later in the week.) I did the video for the Ghost of a Chance Kickstarter, which you can see if you click here. I also did this fun little rebranding video, which shows writers (and the rest of you) how important branding is to book buying.

The point of the Ghost of a Chance Kickstarter was to put the proper branding (covers etc) on the Ghost of a Chance books. We had gone through several branding attempts, and none of them worked. (Watch the video.) Now we’re all happy with the new look. These are Dean’s novels, and they’re fantasy romance or, as the new subgenre is called, romantasy. If you like romance with your fantasy or fantasy with your romance (or peanut butter with your chocolate…wait! Wrong ad!) click here.

One of the Kickstarter rewards is a class on finding your perfect reader, which is what the above video is about. That’s just one illustration on how to find a reader for your work. That online class will only be available in the Kickstarter. And… with every reward, you’ll get the five Ghost of a Chance novels, which are a lot of fun and well worth reading.

So…that’s one bit of learning. Here’s another.

As many of you know, we’re doing Prepare Ahead classes to accompany our in-person Anthology workshop in August. We’re going for some major subgenres this year, which can be hard to write for if you don’t understand them. We just finished up Military SF, and now we’re moving to a favorite of mine, Fantasy Regency.

Anthea Sharp will be editing this volume and she has a lot of insights on how to write fantasy Regency. Yes, there are rules. But those rules aren’t as strict as they’d be if you were trying to write the Regency that fits into the romance genre.

We’ve opened up the Prepare Ahead classes to everyone. If you want to learn this subgenre, and actually write for Anthea, then join this workshop. If you join today, you get a full week to learn this material. If you join later in the week, well, then…you only have until next Sunday.

I’m writing a story for this one too. It’s not my usual writing genre, but it is one that I read a lot. So I’ll be learning alongside you. Click here to join the online class.

And finally, our next Art of the Novella class is about to start. This one is also fantasy. You will learn how to write a fantasy novella which is, believe me, a heck of a trick. You have to keep readers engaged at the longer length, but you can’t commit 100K novel or even a novel series. And if your novella is in a series, well then, there’s a trick to that too.

Join us to learn all the tricks and to have fun doing it. At the end of the class, you’ll be writing a novella which I will read and comment on.

Here’s the link for that.

So…lots of learning this week (plus a fun video and some good reading).

Oh, and PS, if you want some insight into the above video, head over to my Patreon page. I have a couple of posts on the differences between this video and the actual Kickstarter video…and why those differences exist.

Right now, though, I have a Kickstarter video to share with you. I did this for Dean Wesley Smith’s brand-new Kickstarter. The Kickstarter is for Dean’s Ghost of a Chance series, which we’ve rebranded. It needed the rebranding. The series was romantasy before anyone knew what that was. (Wait until you see my later video—the one that shows the rebranding. That’s coming soon.)

It’s been seven years since I’ve done videos, handing them off because of illness to someone else. That someone else had no voice whatsoever so our videos went from fun to bland. We’re back to fun. I still can’t do much of what I want on these videos, because I need to relearn the programs, so I simply did this inside of iMovie as practice.

I’m happy with the result.

Those of you who like fantasy and ghosts and romance will love these books. They’re a good quick read. You can get all five books in the series as ebooks with any reward in the Kickstarter. There are a lot of great other rewards as well, so scroll on through and see what appeals to you.

I suspect you’ll find something that you really really want.

Take a peek.

The writers I share the bundle with are Anthea L. Sharp, Mark Leslie Lefebvre, Douglas Smith, Dean Wesley Smith, J. Daniel Sawyer, B.A. Paul, Dayle A. Dermatis, and Tracey Cooper-Posey. Dean, Doug, and Mark all provided books that you can only get in the bundle.

So what are you waiting for? The bundle will continue for about one more week…and then it’s gone forever. Get yours now.

Try to draft a new variation on what I wrote for the Storybundle website, just let me reprint it here:

THE 2024 WRITE STUFF BUNDLE

The 2024 Write Stuff Bundle – Curated by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Every year, I put together a bundle on writing. Every year, I find new concerns and ways to help writers market their work. I also find inspiration books on craft and keeping the faith as writers struggle with the blank page.

This year’s bundle has four distinct elements.

First, the all-important craft. J. Daniel Sawyer teaches you how to put words on the page each and every day. Megabestselling fiction writer and long-time editor Dean Wesley Smith helps you make those words compelling and your stories page-turners, with his StoryBundle exclusive Make Me Read. Novelist and short story writer Dayle A. Dermatis shows you how to use history to inform your fantasy novels, and prolific short story writer Douglas Smith explores the craft of short fiction.

But Doug is our crossover book, because his brand-new edition of Playing The Short Game doesn’t just focus on craft. It has pages and pages of new material for marketing short fiction in 2024. And it’s exclusive to this bundle!

However, I could also say that Tracey Cooper-Posey provides our crossover book, because she also discusses craft and business with the all-important addition of living well while doing so.

Anthea L. Sharp shows us one of the newest ways to grow an audience online by using Kickstarter. Her Kickstarter For Authors is one of the best best-practices book in the business.

Mark Leslie Lefebvre’s StoryBundle exclusive A Book in Hand teaches us that with the right techniques, the old-fashioned techniques of in-person book sales (with actual paper books!) still works well.

Of course, none of this works well if you don’t get to the actual writing or try the business suggestions. Often an inability to do what you really want to do comes from a fear of success. We have a pop-up online workshop that will help you figure out if you suffer from this sometimes paralyzing attitude.

Once you’ve finished the pop-up, take a gander at the Bundle on Maximizing Your Success, which includes three of my short books on making money, success secrets, and negotiation.

And after you’ve finished all of that, take a look at B.A. Paul’s inspiring creative nonfiction book on her journey from unpublished to publication.

Lots to read (and learn), lots to absorb here. This information will get you started or motivate you to return to the writing you love, as well as helping you figure out how to market what you’ve written.

In addition, we’ve chosen a charity that helps people with disabilities join the online gaming community. The key word here is community, since so many people have become homebound. They need an outlet, and Able Gamers tailors gaming consoles and other equipment to individuals so that they can participate, make friends, and spend time with others, without leaving their homes.

So as you get all of this wisdom from the bundle, toss a few dollars at Able Gamers on the way out. We appreciate it! – Kristine Kathryn Rusch

* * *

For StoryBundle, you decide what price you want to pay. For $5 (or more, if you’re feeling generous), you’ll get the basic bundle of four books in .epub format—WORLDWIDE.

• A Freelancer’s Survival Guide to Maximizing Your Success by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Becoming an Everyday Novelist by J. Daniel Sawyer
• Researching History for Fantasy Writers by Dayle A. Dermatis
• Life Along the Way by B.A. Paul

If you pay at least the bonus price of just $20, you get all four of the regular books, plus five more books and a video lecture, for a total of 10, including three StoryBundle exclusives!

• The Pop-Up Series Workshop: Fear of Success by Dean Wesley Smith
• The Productive Indie Fiction Writer by Tracy Cooper-Posey
• A Book in Hand by Mark Leslie Lefebvre (StoryBundle Exclusive)
• Playing the Short Game – Second Edition by Douglas Smith (StoryBundle Exclusive)
• Make Me Read! by Dean Wesley Smith (StoryBundle Exclusive)
• Kickstarter for Authors by Anthea L. Sharp

This bundle is available only for a limited time via http://www.storybundle.com. It allows easy reading on computers, smartphones, and tablets as well as Kindle and other ereaders via file transfer, email, and other methods. You get a DRM-free .epub for all books!

It’s also super easy to give the gift of reading with StoryBundle, thanks to our gift cards – which allow you to send someone a code that they can redeem for any future StoryBundle bundle – and timed delivery, which allows you to control exactly when your recipient will get the gift of StoryBundle.

Why StoryBundle? Here are just a few benefits StoryBundle provides.

• Get quality reads: We’ve chosen works from excellent authors to bundle together in one convenient package.
• Pay what you want (minimum $5): You decide how much these fantastic books are worth. If you can only spare a little, that’s fine! You’ll still get access to a batch of exceptional titles.
• Support authors who support DRM-free books: StoryBundle is a platform for authors to get exposure for their works, both for the titles featured in the bundle and for the rest of their catalog. Supporting authors who let you read their books on any device you want—restriction free—will show everyone there’s nothing wrong with ditching DRM.
• Give to worthy causes: Bundle buyers have a chance to donate a portion of their proceeds to AbleGamers!
• Receive extra books: If you beat the bonus price, you’ll get the bonus books!

StoryBundle was created to give a platform for independent authors to showcase their work, and a source of quality titles for thirsty readers. StoryBundle works with authors to create bundles of ebooks that can be purchased by readers at their desired price. Before starting StoryBundle, Founder Jason Chen covered technology and software as an editor for Gizmodo.com and Lifehacker.com.

For more information, visit our website at storybundle.com, tweet us at @storybundle and like us on Facebook. For press inquiries, please email press@storybundle.com.