Six books.
250 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WRITING.
500 WAYS TO BE A BETTER WRITER.
500 MORE WAYS TO BE A BETTER WRITER.
500 WAYS TO TELL A BETTER STORY.
CONFESSIONS OF A FREELANCE PENMONKEY.
REVENGE OF THE PENMONKEY.
All available in one bundle.
Usual cost: ~$18.00.
Available until the end of November as a NaNoWriMo special for: $10.00.
(All of these are PDF except for 500 Ways to Tell a Better Story, which is PDF, Kindle, and ePub, all wrapped up in a delicious zip file. If you want the books through Amazon or B&N, they are available at each, though not in “bundled” format.)
Buy now direct from this site (click the image above or the direct link below), and you’ll get a *.txt file with a download link within it. Note that Payhip is an e-book delivery service that uses Paypal to collect and distribute funds.
(If you have any issues with the download, please email me at terribleminds [at] gmail [dot] com in order to get it resolved. Thanks!)
Direct link to bundle: https://payhip.com/b/NsWQ
terribleminds says:
I’ve not used Payhip before, by the way, so please alert me to any issues — if it works, I’m going to sell all my books this way going forward (the author-pubbed ones, anyway). Hand-delivering (er, so to speak) through e-mail after every sale was fine, but Paypal became wonky with sending me notifications — I was often not getting them at all. So hopefully this automation will be the way forward!
October 22, 2013 — 3:15 PM
Mark Feenstra says:
Figured I’d throw down for the bundle to check out the full scope of your rage-advice. The Payhip experience was fast and smooth. I had the download link seconds after deciding to purchase.
October 22, 2013 — 3:49 PM
terribleminds says:
Mark:
Thanks for the confirmation! Glad it looks and works good!
— c.
October 22, 2013 — 8:37 PM
Amanda Hagarty says:
OK I have to go make room in my budget for this (aka asking my mom). Yes I am that broke. I assume since you asked about the Payhip in 2013 that it is still working for you. But I am gonna recommend you take a look at unboundwords.com anyway. It’s a cool service I discovered last year. They host the file and handle the download, but all the money transactions occur through your PayPal account. You get the purchaser email and there are no transaction fees. They have a flat monthly fee (10$ last I heard). But I got in last year when they were still beta and got a “free for life” deal. Which is good for me since 10$ a month doesn’t make sense until I am selling books. Anyway. I talk too much. But what else is new.
October 9, 2015 — 12:37 PM
terribleminds says:
Oh, and those waiting for THE KICK-ASS WRITER — that book, put out by Writer’s Digest, is a compilation of some of these lists, with a handful of new material thrown in, too. And all the lists are edited.
AND it’s in print, too, which these are not. (So that’s the only way at present to buy a print version of my writing bloggerel.)
KICK-ASS WRITER will be released presently!
October 22, 2013 — 3:17 PM
Kirstie says:
Sweet, totally going to take advantage of this. Thanks for the sale pricing 😀
October 22, 2013 — 4:48 PM
Kirstie says:
In case you were worried Chuck everything ran smoothly for me
October 22, 2013 — 4:54 PM
terribleminds says:
SWEET. Thanks!
October 23, 2013 — 10:09 AM
Mike Harpin says:
Tasty little bundle of goodies dude. Came through perfectly.
October 22, 2013 — 4:59 PM
terribleminds says:
Perfect. Danke, Mike!
October 23, 2013 — 10:10 AM
Lisa says:
For the love of all that’s…I just bought one this morning. My timing has always sucked. 🙂
October 22, 2013 — 5:34 PM
Natalie says:
Oo, I’ll get the one coming out in print. Print books smell better than my kobo.
October 22, 2013 — 9:58 PM
Remi Jones says:
When is the print edition coming out? I remember CW posting about a few months ago. I’ve got my highlighter pen all ready to go.
October 23, 2013 — 10:03 AM
terribleminds says:
Print is… sorta almost out? B&N has it for sale, but no e-book. Amazon has the e-book but not the print yet? And the Writer’s Digest store has it out and on sale — http://www.writersdigestshop.com/the-kick-ass-writer-group
— c.
October 23, 2013 — 10:09 AM
Carolyne says:
I just sorta quietly read the books and don’t comment much (at all?) but I have a question… Are the PDFs formatted so they’ll all be the shape and type size for, say, a phone, and can’t be increased (or decreased if they’re larger) for a different size device? That usually keeps me from getting PDF-only downloads (no fun to read). If I slip a tenner under your door can I just press my ear to the keyhole and listen for random wisdoms?
October 23, 2013 — 9:13 AM
terribleminds says:
PDFs are formatted for whatever screen they’re on — computer monitor, iPad, phone, etc. — I can send you one as a sample to see if you dig it. Just lemme know!
October 23, 2013 — 10:08 AM
carolynec says:
That would be both helpful and exceedingly spiffy. 250 Things You Should Know About Writing is the one I already have (in kindleform) if you’d like to test with that. Groovy. Thank you.
I may actually have a chance at surviving NaNoWriMo this year with a little extra guidance/advice/expletives from the book bundle.
October 23, 2013 — 8:42 PM
terribleminds says:
Sure, bounce me a msg at terribleminds at gmail? — c.
October 23, 2013 — 8:46 PM
Oz says:
The new system worked brilliantly. (Dropbox. Who knew?) Thanks for the deal!
October 23, 2013 — 12:08 PM
Yvette says:
Cool – I’ll repost this on my NaNoWriMo NH Regional Homepage (I’m an ML)
October 23, 2013 — 3:13 PM
someguyinawaistcoat says:
Did the same! –Initiates supersecretMLhighfive–
Sadly, as much as I’d like to buy all the books again, I just don’t have the spare cash. Hopefully, us having control of word-generating minions for a month will make up the difference though 😀
October 23, 2013 — 5:34 PM
Echoe Jones says:
The service seems nice, but you’re not afraid that people will find the dropbox link and download directly without paying?
October 23, 2013 — 6:03 PM
ardenrr says:
Bought! Thanks for the deal 🙂
October 24, 2013 — 1:24 PM
Kat says:
Thank you so much! Just tweeted about it!
October 26, 2013 — 9:50 AM
Alex says:
Sounds awesome – but how long is the sale running for? My parents won’t let me buy anything around my birthday because I’m apparently impossible to shop for. I’m good in like, a week though.
October 26, 2013 — 5:53 PM
Nonny Blackthorne says:
Welp. I’m afraid the fact that most of them are PDF is a turn-off for me as a Nook user for the bundle… Nooks, unfortunately, handle PDFs extremely poorly. However! While I’ve seen you mention your writing books before, I hadn’t realized they were so cheap. So I’m off to buy the lot of them from B&N (I’d been mulling over this the past couple days but seeing your recent post about your family situation decided me. It might only be $8 more, but I’d rather you and your family get that $8, dammit). Cheers! 🙂
October 27, 2013 — 4:04 AM
rmkalinich says:
Chuck, I’m going to give this bundle as a prize at the end of our NaNoWriMo kick-off meeting today. How do I do that? I didn’t see a gift option. Thanks! – Robin
October 27, 2013 — 10:06 AM
terribleminds says:
There’s no real official way to give it as a gift — if you buy it, it’ll send you a link to download the files, and just send this link (or the .txt file in which it lies embedded) to the winner!
October 27, 2013 — 12:34 PM
rmkalinich says:
Got it, Chuck. Thanks!
October 27, 2013 — 8:02 PM
Slayed says:
Bought! For those wondering about the PDFs, Calibre did a decent enough job of converting them to epub (it doesn’t like the funky chapter heading fonts of 500 More & Revenge though).
Now to wallow in writerly profanity…
November 13, 2013 — 4:40 PM