Grand Opening Sale!

Did you know you can buy books directly from WMG? Well, you can! And we have a brand-new online store for you to shop.

In addition to our main WMG online bookstore, we now have a dedicated store for Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. And we’re having a grand-opening sale this week to celebrate!

You can save 30% on books, 10% (plus free shipping) on merchandise, and 50% on everything we offer on WMG’s Teachable site.

That 30% off on books goes for every ebook we have for sale at pulphousemagazine.com and wmgbooks.com. (Right now, we only have ebooks available direct, but later this year we plan to add paper books and some audiobooks, as well.)

Every previously published issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine since our launch in 2018 is available on our Pulphouse store site, as well as all of our Pulphouse books, and, of course, subscriptions (but please note that subscriptions are not included in the grand opening sale).

Plus, not only do we have the Pulphouse merchandise we included in the 2023 Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Subscription Drive on Kickstarter—which ended on Thursday…thank you so much to all who supported it!—but we also have lots of new merchandise available for sale (at a 10% discount!).

Click here to go directly to the Pulphouse store.

Meanwhile, the majority of our ebook inventory is now available on our WMG bookstore. And all of it is 30% off.

Click here to go directly to the WMG Books store.

Last but certainly not least is the 50% off on our WMG Teachable site. That discount also applies to the recently launched Indie Writer’s Products Classes (where you can learn how to turn your series into merchandise) and the just announced Down in the Details classes.

To learn more about the new class and to read more about the Teachable part of the grand-opening sale, click here. (https://deanwesleysmith.com/grand-opening-sale/)

As you can see from our grand-opening sale, we are very excited about our new stores! Having the capability to do storewide sales on all of our available inventory is something we could never do with our retail partners. And while we’ll continue to offer our books through those venues, we will be focusing more and more on our own stores so that we can offer our readers the best deals possible.

And as my husband can attest, I sure do love a good sale!

Allyson Longueira is publisher of WMG Publishing. She is an award-winning writer, editor and designer, working mother, and brain tumor survivor.

Last Call for Some Fun Stuff

Our 2023 Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Subscription Drive on Kickstarter ends on Thursday, so you only have a few more days to get some really cool stuff.

We’ve hit our third stretch goal, which means that every backer at the $25 reward level and up gets three bonus ebooks: Fiction River Presents: The Unexpected, Fiction River: Universe Between, and a brand-new Pulphouse book that will be created because of this Kickstarter: The Alien Who Ate My Homework and Burped.

That’s on top of six new monthly issues of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine coming your way. And that’s not all!

Now that we’ve hit that third stretch goal, we’ve unlocked that rare opportunity I mentioned last week. One we’ve never offered before in a Kickstarter.

Any writer backing this Kickstarter will now have a chance to submit a story to Pulphouse Fiction Magazine. The magazine is never open for submissions, but for only the month of August, backers of this campaign who would like to try to have a story in the pages of Pulphouse may submit one story. (We pay 6 cents per word if accepted, and guidelines will be sent in an update after the campaign closes.)

And the more stretch goals we hit, the more opportunities writers will have to submit stories. Plus, the more new Pulphouse books readers will get to enjoy.

And don’t forget to check out the new Pulphouse mugs, calendar and pillow we have available as rewards (bundled with a Pulphouse subscription, of course). Our office at WMG headquarters is now decked out with all sorts of Pulphouse merchandise. That wacky little Thumper makes a great mascot not just on the pages of Pulphouse but also on my reading chair in pillow form and on my new coffee mug!

Click here to check out the Kickstarter so you can read Pulphouse, try your hand at writing for Pulphouse, and spread Pulphouse cheer all over your own house.

Immerse yourself in this innovative magazine. You won’t regret it!

Allyson Longueira is publisher of WMG Publishing. She is an award-winning writer, editor and designer, working mother, and brain tumor survivor.

This Kickstarter is Heating Up!

Now that the Craft Workshop has wrapped up, I’ve escaped the heat of Vegas. Whew!

But the Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Subscription Drive 2023 Kickstarter is still heating up! And that’s a kind of heat I always welcome.

We’ve hit two stretch goals so far, and the third stretch goal introduces something we’ve never offered before: a chance for writers who support the Kickstarter to submit a story to Pulphouse Fiction Magazine!

You can find more details in the Kickstarter under Stretch Goals, starting at the $10,000 stretch goal.

We also have two very special craft workshops for writers, exclusive to this campaign.

There’s the “Known and Strange Things” Special Workshop, which describes what many Pulphouse stories are at their core: A known thing turned strange (think a lot of Twilight Zone stories) or a strange thing written as if it is known.

Then there’s the “I Can’t Believe I’m Writing This” Special Workshop. It’s that secret sauce that makes a story truly great.

You can buy either workshop individually or you can buy them both together (and get a Pulphouse six-issue subscription as well).

Both workshops are three weeks long, are offered only twice, and the final week’s assignment for both workshops will be to write a short story that editor Dean Wesley Smith will consider for Pulphouse. (Not as submissions, just how Dean will look at the stories and tell you he is interested in seeing it sent back as a submission.)

You have your choice of taking either three-week workshop starting August 15th or starting September 12th.

Like I said, this Kickstarter is on fire!

Click here to read all about it.

Allyson Longueira is publisher of WMG Publishing. She is an award-winning writer, editor and designer, working mother, and brain tumor survivor

Calling All Pulphousers!

I’ve got a busy week ahead. First off, I’m in Las Vegas (in the record heat) managing logistics for the Fantasy/Thriller Craft Workshop that Kristine Kathryn Rusch is teaching. I love being on site for these workshops and seeing our writers in person. They’re so much fun! (I mean, hard work, too, but fun!) If you’re a writer, you should consider coming one of these days. You can learn more about them here.

Nola is here with me this time because she’s taking a theater summer camp at the Smith Center this week. So, that’s very cool, too! Las Vegas has a lot of resources that we, obviously, don’t have in little Lincoln City, Oregon, so the fact that this camp coincided with our workshop seemed like it was meant to be.

And while we’re here in Vegas, we are launching our next Pulphouse Fiction Magazine Subscription Drive on Kickstarter.

So much going on!

We have some very cool new stuff in this Kickstarter, including, for the first time, Pulphouse merchandise!

Reward options will include a mug and a pillow featuring the Pulphouse mascot Thumper as well as a calendar featuring some of our favorite cartoons from the pages of Pulphouse.

Here are pics by way of a preview:

Every reward comes with a six-month (six-issue) subscription to Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, as well (existing subscribers can have six issues added to their remaining subscription), so you can see what all the buzz is about. We’re also debuting our new 6×9 trade paperback format!

The Kickstarter launches at noon on Tuesday, but you can sign up here to be notified as soon as it does.

From Thumper to cartoons to tons of cutting-edge short stories, there’s so much to love with Pulphouse!

Allyson Longueira is publisher of WMG Publishing. She is an award-winning writer, editor and designer, working mother, and brain tumor survivor.

Epic Reading, Anyone?

This week is going to be epic! Because I have two fabulous new books to tell you about. One for readers and one to help writers.

First up is Wee Folk, a fantastic collection of stories that’s available right now exclusively as part of the Epic Elves StoryBundle.

Here’s the synopsis:

Wee folk populate fiction in a variety of forms, from elves to pixies to fairies to sprites. This collection of six stories from award-winning and bestselling master of short fiction Kristine Kathryn Rusch features all of them.

All centered on the magical, Wee Folk starts off with four stories with an edge. From a new twist on a theatrical legend in “Puckish Behavior” to a gunslinger for hire in “Renn and the Little Men” to funeral disruptors in “Flower Fairies” to battle-worn pixies in “Dispatches from the Front,” the wee folk in these stories prove anything but ordinary.

The final two stories feature elves at the holidays with a lot on their plates, with one Christmas elf serving time for his crimes in “By the Chimney with Care” and another with a big job in “Up on the Rooftop.”

In each magical story, the masterful Kristine Kathryn Rusch puts her trademark twist on the very nature of wee folk.

You can get Wee Folk and nine other epic elven tales for $20. Click here to learn more.

Speaking of epic, you’ve heard of epic fails? Well, writers can fail themselves and their writing in the most epic of ways. In the latest WMG Writer’s Guide, How Writers Fail, Kris discusses these pitfalls and offers hopeful solutions to the problems.

Here’s the synopsis:

Everyone fails at times. Writers fail in predictable ways—ways both foreseeable and preventable.

In this WMG Writer’s Guide, New York Timesbestselling and award-winning author Kristine Kathryn Rusch addresses the pitfalls writers face and offers solutions to help them overcome those obstacles.

Because the best writers push through their challenges to ultimately find success, as Rusch brilliantly illustrates in these real-world examples.

This one was also a StoryBundle exclusive in the recent Write Stuff StoryBundle, but if you missed it there, it will be available in ebook and trade paperback on Tuesday, July 11. Click here to learn more.

So many epic options.

Allyson Longueira is publisher of WMG Publishing. She is an award-winning writer, editor and designer, working mother, and brain tumor survivor.