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Musings – feedback wanted
You may not have noticed but The Dragon Wars Saga is getting rather long. I don’t have an exact count but it must be pushing 120k words. That’s a lot of words for a newcomer to the serial to read. … Continue reading
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Guest Post: G. L. Drummond on World Building
G. L. Drummond is a sword-toting alien with a fetish for fur and four-legged creatures who writes fiction and tweets. Her latest release is Code Walker, which you can find on Amazon and Smashwords for 99 cents for a limited … Continue reading
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Do We Need a Read a Weblit Week?
Also posted at weblit.us. So it’s Read an E-Book Week again, which is kind of cool. And who would have thought ebooks were 40 years old? But while I was buying ebooks and sending them to Aldiko and Kindle for … Continue reading
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Readers Are Customers. Don’t Insult Your Potential Customers
Back in 1991 there was a guy named Gerald Ratner who was in charge of Ratners jewellery. He was invited to make a speech at “the Institute of Directors”. During the speech he made a joke: We also do cut-glass … Continue reading
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More about applying webcomic promotion techniques to weblit
So I’ve been looking into webcomic promotion some more and I came across a wonderful post. Webcomic Promotion: Reach Beyond Comics Reading it I had one of those ‘not just yes, but hell yes’ moments of agreement. The writer put … Continue reading
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So I’ve been wondering about webcomics
Apart from paid ads how do new webcomics promote themselves? It seems like an idle question, but it isn’t. Webcomics are Weblit’s close cousin and advertising on webcomics, via Project Wonderful generally, is one of the few things that really … Continue reading
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Doing Something… Part Three
Wow! The response to this has been more than I expected. Thank you everyone for the comments. I’m sorry for the delay in posting but I was sick and then I was on holiday, but I’m back now and moving … Continue reading
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Doing Something… Part Two
Yesterday I promised I’d blog about why I think “The Weblit Review” is a good idea and set some deadlines for myself to do things for it. Why do I think this is a good idea? As I said in … Continue reading
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Doing something… Part One
Over at Novelr Eli James has made an interesting post on “The State of The Web Fiction Community“. In it he asks an important question: what have we done in the past couple of months, in the past two years? … Continue reading
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Weblit Review: Sam Swift: Occult investigator
Told in the style of classic pulp fiction and film noir, each week you can catch up on the latest in the adventures of none other than Samuel Swift, a private eye with a penchant for cases that are dark, … Continue reading
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