Category: Articles

The (Very) Long Form Part 1

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What if, instead of releasing my World of Ere books as ebooks and then posting serialized chapters for free on the site, I released each one of those chapters by themselves and expected you to pay me 99 cents for them?

No, I’m not going to do that. Unlike the last time, this question on strategy is strictly rhetorical because that idea sounds completely awful to me. I’d effectively be charging $13 for A Girl and Her Monster alone. Which is pretty good for a small press paperback, but we’re talking ebooks here.

And yet, that’s what a lot of my fellow authors are doing.

I’ll skip the gory details, but here’s the plot: A certain giant internet company released a new program several months ago that did ebooks by subscription service. From the consumer side, at the outset, it’s a pretty good deal: $10 a month for all the books you can eat… read… well maybe eat, I’m not here to judge. And you know, when you check the main page, it’s got Harry Potter and Hunger Games and such in there, so hey– those for $10 ain’t so bad, right?

If you’re … Continue reading

Meet My Character Blog Hop – Ru Brakar

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Greetings folks, this entry on the blog is actually part of a group promotion I’m doing with a bunch of other Speculative Fiction authors from Kboards.com. The gist is the introduce new and prospective readers to out characters and by extension our books. Each week, a new author is taking the wheel with a Sunday blog post.

Before me was William D. Richards and his character, Nem Aster, laying down some sweet old school hero’s journey action in a world of warring empires.

I’m going to do things a bit different for my turn because most of my readers already know quite a bit about Ru and the World of Ere from my perspective. For this post, I’m going to let Ru himself take over and answer.

Vaal: You ready Ru?

Ru: This is supreme foolishness, but if I must, I must. Be warned, I will not suffer foolishness lightly even form you, O Creator.

Vaal: Fair enough. Let’s start.

What is the name of your character? Is he fictional or a historic person?

Ru Brakar: Fictional? Fictional?! By my blood, how you you insinuate that my existence is a falsehood simply because I do not exist on … Continue reading

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