For fans of Combat Frame XSeed:

An unstoppable scourge lays siege to Earth 

Can humanity survive a world-destroying force that has never known defeat?

The Ynzu Siege nears its third bloody decade. Battered to the breaking point, the United Commonwealth-Protectorate recalls its combat frame carrier fleet for a last stand at Earth.

Lt. Dex Trapper must battle for his life when the Ynzu strike his remote extrasolar colony. Cut off from the UCP, Dex and his CF tech Thatch make a desperate break for help in a century-old XSeed.

Fans of J.N. Chaney’s Messenger series and Cole and Anspach’s Galaxy’s Edge will thrill to this new series in Dragon Award winner Brian Niemeier’s XSeed saga! Back it now and take the ride before anyone else!

See Combat Frame XSeed S on Indiegogo

Jagi, here

Our campaign for The Art and Craft of Writing is 214% funded!  We can now make at least 13 videos, making our Wordsmith Perk really a good value.

However, we still have four days yet and we are already 1/4 of the way to the final stretch goal.

If we make it, we will add The Trouble With Tropes.

We hear a lot about Tropes today, partially due to the popularity of TV Tropes. But what are Tropes? Are they the Legos of the literary world, building blocks you can combine any way you wish? Or is there something more to them? Did they develop randomly? Or is there a method to their story madness?

Is a Trope the ultimate application of The Trick?

Come tour the landscape of the human heart and soul with us and discover the truth about Tropes!

See The Art and Craft of Writing on Indiegogo.

A little over a week to go on The Art and Craft of Writing Indiegogo campaign, and we are 197% funded!

Now, however, a lovely and supportive fan has stepped forward with a generous offer. She is offering a $50 Zazzle certificate, hopefully to be used for The Wright Stuff or MysticalIris store, but usable anywhere on Zazzle. This certificate will go to the winner of a drawing of names of people who share the campaign.

So, if you want to participate, just share the Indiegogo link (this one) anywhere–blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc., and put the link to your post in the comments. Your name will be entered once for every share.

Thank you to our kind fan!

The Art and Craft of Writing on Indiegogo

A little more than a week to go, and we are already 189% funded! (195% if you count off platform contributions.)

However, if we could make one last stretch goal, we could do all of these — this is the backbone of the course, all the primary lessons:

The Word – Words on a Page – The inspiring opening
The Description – Descriptions That Grip – how to make readers feel they are there!
The Story — Engaging Openings – how to hook your reader
The Character – Breathing Life into Your Characters – writing characters as real as our friends.
The Trick — The Secret to all Storytelling
The Story – To Anticipate or Not to Anticipate! – where most plots fail
The Story – The Ultimate Secret – The simple trick that all the better writers know
The Story – Plot We’ve Got, Quite A Lot!
The Story – Two String – the difference between dull and fascinating.
The Story – Infodump Begone! – revelation not backstory
The Story – Payload Moments – what makes your story come alive
The Story – Wow, That Was Satisfying! – how to write an ending
In Conclusion – Building Your Own Writing Tips

The Art and Craft of Writing!

Which of these would you like to see made into videos?

Jagi, here.

Turns out, that if you put 6.00 into Indiegogo, it records $600. 

Several people let us know that the shipping for the 09 Wordmaster Perk was $600. That has been fixed. It is now $6.00.

In other news, we are 124% funded and just $11 short of being half way to our first stretch goal!

Thank you everyone!

Also, here’s last night’s Superversive Live Chat with Ben Wheeler and myself (Jagi).

See The Art and Craft of Writing campaign on Indiegogo

Thanks so much to everyone here who has made this possible!!!

Our Indiegogo campaign for The Art and Craft of Writing is nearly funded! This means that we will be bringing to you at least the first few videos of this class in how to understand the nature of storytelling and how to make certain your story is reaching your reader.
Please help keep the momentum up by sharing!  We have some cool Stretch Goal rewards, if we can reach them!

So many authors are in despair. Stories live in their hearts and minds, but they do not know what to do to make their dream become reality.

Jagi, here.

Sharing the opening intro to The Art and Craft of Writing, which is currently in an Indiegogo campaign.

Words on a Page

All writing is just words on a page.

What does this mean, and why does it matter to us? To answer that question, I must tell you a bit of a story.

When I was young, I was in awe of the ability of good authors to transport us to an entirely different life. Reading the greats was glorious but also occasionally intimidating. A good book can make us sympathize first with a frightened rabbit and then with a hungry fox. They call upon us to “burn with the bliss and suffer the sorrow of all mankind.”

I loved what I read but I despaired that I could ever accomplish anything half so wonderful. I feared I would never figure out the mystery of how my favorite authors conveyed so much.

Then one day, it struck me. Books were just words on a page. Read the remainder of this entry »

The Internet has made many things easy.

With a click of a button, we upload novels to Amazon for the whole world to read. No years waiting for a publisher to discover us.

But no distribution into bookstores either.

No one can stop writers from achieving their dreams of being published today, but will anyone buy it? And, if they do, will they want to read the next one?

The best way to ensure future sales is to offer your reader a really good book!

Superversive Press wants to help!

To this end, Superversive Press wants to provide courses on how to write—providing all the tools you need to bring your writing up to the next level!  Our first course is:\

The Art and Craft of Writing

What Our Students Are Saying:

Here are some responses from students who have taken the in-person version of The Art and Craft of Writing :

“The course is a treasure trove of practical, positive advice you can use immediately to improve your WIP or solidify your ideas for a new project.” author Marina Fontaine

“I  took L. Jagi Lamplighter Wright’s “Guinea Pig” writing class last November and it definitely upped my game. Since “graduating” her course, I’ve sold six short stories and am now working on my first novel. Thanks, Jagi.” James Pyles

“I especially liked how you simply laid out ideas about story and characters, which instantly made me go “Oh, yeah! I’ve seen that before!”. In particular:

• The conflicting traits and goals in of character adding depth.
• How you can use The Trick to evoke an emotional response.
• The power of the Two Strings.
• How you can use the Ultimate Secret to bring focus into the story.

I felt that these were techniques that would have taken me ages to work out on my own, and seeing them simply stated has seriously helped me as a writer.”  Billy Charlton

See The Art and Craft of Writing on Indiegogo

Starquest Indiegogo Campaign

Jagi, here!

We have reached our first goal–this means Starquest Episode (book) One is a reality!

Help us spread the word and unlock the first stretch goal: a forward from Galaxy’s Edge author, Nick Cole! We are already nearly halfway there!

Here is some information on what you can do to spread the word.

We will draw our first two gratitude gift winners tomorrow! Thank you all so much for helping to make this become a reality!

Have a lovely rest of your Thanksgiving holiday weekend!