http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ Web Fiction Guide Forums » Recent Posts en Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:00:50 +0000 http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/scribd-download-fees#post-5841 Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:53:23 +0000 Letitia Coyne 5841@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Anyone using scribd might not yet know they are introducing a fee to download from their archives. No payment is made to the copyright owner.</p> <p><a href="http://www.teleread.com/2010/09/02/scribd-charging-for-ebooks-and-not-paying-anything-to-authors/" rel="nofollow">http://www.teleread.com/2010/09/02/scribd-charging-for-ebooks-and-not-paying-anything-to-authors/</a></p> <p>Scribd response.</p> <p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tammy-h-nam/shedding-light-on-scribd-_1_b_702788.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tammy-h-nam/shedding-light-on-scribd-_1_b_702788.html</a></p> <p>A user fee of $9/month or $5/day allows unlimited archive downloads. Online reads remain free.</p> <p>How to opt out of archive.</p> <p><a href="http://support.scribd.com/forums/189164-faq-the-scribd-archive" rel="nofollow">http://support.scribd.com/forums/189164-faq-the-scribd-archive</a> </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/the-noble-pirates#post-5840 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:37:56 +0000 Fiction Chick 5840@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Hello all!</p> <p>I am inviting everyone to visit my serial fiction blog, The Noble Pirates (<a href="http://thenoblepirates.com)" rel="nofollow">http://thenoblepirates.com)</a>. Book One is finally finished, and while the story isn't over yet, it's a somewhat satisfying conclusion. ;) Let me know what you think, and if you like it, rate it!</p> <p>Thanks,<br /> Fiction Chick </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/ebook-v-print-more-predictions#post-5839 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:18:30 +0000 Letitia Coyne 5839@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>And when JA Konrath jumped ship, industry was saying, 'Big deal. Publishers have been dumping their midlisters since the 80's. Bah humbug.'</p> <p>But he is not doing so bad after the split.</p> <p><a href="http://www.publetariat.com/write/beyond-ebooks" rel="nofollow">http://www.publetariat.com/write/beyond-ebooks</a></p> <p>The men and the boys are starting to go their separate ways, it seems. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/everything-you-need-to-know-about-web-fiction-in-one-post#post-5838 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:52:03 +0000 ellenmillion 5838@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Great tips, thank you! </p> <p>~Ellen</p> <p><a href="http://tornworld.net/">Torn World</a> </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/ebook-v-print-more-predictions#post-5837 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:42:58 +0000 Eli James 5837@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I think what struck me the most was how Godin's move has got everyone all worried. What a time to be a publisher! </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/ebook-v-print-more-predictions#post-5836 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:20:08 +0000 Letitia Coyne 5836@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p><a href="http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/08/23/seth-godin-and-print-publishing/" rel="nofollow">http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/08/23/seth-godin-and-print-publishing/</a></p> <p>Another interesting pointer. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/street-clairvoyance-released#post-5835 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:12:06 +0000 Ryan Span 5835@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>As promised, the Smashwords promo code for [URL="http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1024"]FREE copies of Empathy[/URL] is here:</p> <p>LU64N</p> <p>This promo will last to the end of September, so be sure to get it while it's hot!</p> <p>Regards,<br /> Ryan </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/drupal-advice/page/2#post-5834 Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:05:57 +0000 amber simmons 5834@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>If you run into any more problems with Wordpress, let me know. ME and Wordpress? We're like *this*. :)</p> <p>I'm soooooooo glad you decided against Drupal. I've used both and I can think of very, very few scenarios where the average person needs anything more than Wordpress. Drupal is great for the right circumstances, but my guess is that your website wold not be the ideal candidate.</p> <p>So, yay for you! And hit me up if you need help. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/street-clairvoyance-released#post-5833 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:26:48 +0000 Ryan Span 5833@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I still sometimes take out the first copy of Empathy ever printed, and sniff it. And stroke it. And call it George.</p> <p>Regards,<br /> Ryan </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/street-clairvoyance-released#post-5832 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:26:09 +0000 Letitia Coyne 5832@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Yay!! Congratulations. Now you can hold your words in your hands and sniff them any time you like. :)) </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/street-clairvoyance-released#post-5831 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:58:23 +0000 Ryan Span 5831@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Cheers, Eli! I hope you'll consider reviewing this one at some point, the one you wrote for Empathy was excellent.</p> <p>Regards,<br /> Ryan </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/street-clairvoyance-released#post-5830 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:50:17 +0000 Eli James 5830@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Woot! Congratulations, Ryan! :) </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/street-clairvoyance-released#post-5829 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 07:30:58 +0000 Ryan Span 5829@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I've got something to shout about today, so allow me to commence:</p> <p>STREET: Clairvoyance is out! The print paperback edition has been released and is ready to buy at fine stores everywhere!</p> <p>It's the full second volume in an explosive trilogy of intrigue, action and insanity, so if you haven't started reading STREET yet, now would be a great time and the paperbacks are a great way of catching up to the (still free!) web serial.</p> <p>Check out <a href="http://streetofeyes.com/?p=ordering">our Ordering page</a> for more info on where to get it.</p> <p>If you're interested in buying both volumes, I can tell you that the Empathy paperback will soon be lowering in price to match Clairvoyance. We're also going to be giving out vouchers for free Smashwords copies of Empathy, so if you'd like one, be sure to post here and I'll get those to you as soon as they're ready!</p> <p>I'm very excited. Can you tell?</p> <p>Regards,<br /> Ryan </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/everything-you-need-to-know-about-web-fiction-in-one-post#post-5828 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:17:27 +0000 Eli James 5828@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>@Tahjir: Glad this is of some help.</p> <p>@MedleyMisty: I didn't respond earlier because I didn't understand what you were talking about (updated 10?) ... but err, mind explaining? </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/problem-with-rss-feed#post-5827 Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:36:38 +0000 eikasia 5827@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Yep. This feed only displays story posts. I have a separate blog with a separate feed for news. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/problem-with-rss-feed#post-5826 Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:14:02 +0000 Chris Poirier 5826@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I notice none of the new posts have the chapter marker. All your old ones did, and it is how we picked out which posts were story posts (as opposed to news and such). As all posts on that feed story posts? </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/problem-with-rss-feed#post-5825 Sun, 29 Aug 2010 03:09:41 +0000 eikasia 5825@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>It seems the problem has returned. Three updates and nada...I think other users were having a similar problem not long ago? </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/everything-you-need-to-know-about-web-fiction-in-one-post#post-5824 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:29:21 +0000 Tahjir 5824@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>It's nice to have all of this in one place! I think I've only come across about a third of it on my own, and it all looks quite helpful. =D </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/everything-you-need-to-know-about-web-fiction-in-one-post#post-5823 Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:44:16 +0000 Eli James 5823@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>You're welcomed, Letitia. :) </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-request-shadows-light#post-5822 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:38:03 +0000 Jacquelyn Waters 5822@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Thanks Letitia, I checked the guestbook and everything but bravenet seems to have swallowed it up. Which is quite worrisome, so I apologize for not being able to read your comment. On the homepage where the copyright is, my name is a hyperlink to my e-mail, but I will make sure to change it so that it is a lot easier to find ways to get a hold of me.</p> <p>I'll be sure to e-mail you in case you don't happen to read across this again, and I really appreciate you taking the time to comment! :) </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/everything-you-need-to-know-about-web-fiction-in-one-post#post-5821 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:30:36 +0000 MedleyMisty 5821@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Going to check it out right now.</p> <p>I updated 10 today. Got a tenth of the traffic I would get on Valley update days. Obviously I've got a lot to learn about full text. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-request-shadows-light#post-5820 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:12:46 +0000 Letitia Coyne 5820@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Hi Jacquelyn. I just left a comment in your guest book - which disappeared... I hope it is waiting to be moderated? The guest book seems to be the only contact you have, so if the comment has not reached you, please email me at <a href="mailto:letitia.coyne@gmail.com">letitia.coyne@gmail.com</a> and I'll write it all out again. ;) </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/everything-you-need-to-know-about-web-fiction-in-one-post#post-5819 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:25:56 +0000 Letitia Coyne 5819@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Great work, as always, Eli. Thank you. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/everything-you-need-to-know-about-web-fiction-in-one-post#post-5818 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:00:56 +0000 Eli James 5818@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Hi guys,</p> <p>I've posted a summary of everything we've learned, collectively, about web fiction in a <a href="http://www.novelr.com/2010/08/25/all-we-know-about-web-fiction">post on Novelr</a>. I hope this helps, especially if you're new to web fiction. And if you're not new, well, I hope it provides some insight about this thing that we're doing. </p> <p>It's been some time since I've looked at the older ideas, by the way. If you see something odd, or a post that's just wrong - let me know in the comments and I'll respond as soon as I can.</p> <p><a href="http://www.novelr.com/2010/08/25/all-we-know-about-web-fiction" rel="nofollow">http://www.novelr.com/2010/08/25/all-we-know-about-web-fiction</a></p> <p>Godspeed,<br /> Eli </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-request-shadows-light#post-5817 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:13:58 +0000 Jacquelyn Waters 5817@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I know there are a lot of chapters to read, but I don't expect anyone to read them all and then pass a review(unless you really wanted too, and had the time). If you would like to just read a couple of chapters and give me your thoughts on them, that would work perfectly fine for me. So please, don't be fearful of giving it a shot! </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-request-last-mage-1#post-5816 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:47:24 +0000 Andrew Eckhart 5816@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Just realized I posted this in the wrong section of the forum. Please see below:</p> <p>Hey, folks. Just checking in here to request a review or two of my work: "Last Mage". Chapter 6 ends the first act of the story. I really would like to have a few more people peek their peepers at the work.</p> <p>Cheers,<br /> Andrew </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-request-demons-and-deadlines#post-5815 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:20:23 +0000 Rebekah_Hakeber 5815@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Thank you two for reading my work!:) I really appreciate the feedback and reviews. </p> <p>-Rebekah </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-request-demons-and-deadlines#post-5814 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:17:41 +0000 MedleyMisty 5814@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I've been reading the Car Johnson one, and omg I love it! :) I'll see if I can try my hand at reviewing it when I'm done. Definitely going to check out Demons and Deadlines too. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/review-request-demons-and-deadlines#post-5813 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:40:11 +0000 noodles 5813@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Done and done. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/in-which-the-author-sings-for-money-literally#post-5812 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:46:56 +0000 M.C.A. Hogarth 5812@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I'm serious!</p> <p>Today I put up the 118th episode of "Spots the Space Marine," a military SF novel which is now about 75% complete and available online. Today's upload included a special incentive: I did a bit of voice acting and sang the Cuban lullaby the main character sings in the episode and put it up for download as an MP3. Right now only people who pass me a tip can get to the download page, but we are... really, really close to a donation goal I set. When the tips meet that goal, the song will be free for everyone to hear (releasing, incidentally, a bit of a lost culture, music from the Cuba before Castro and Communism changed everything).</p> <p>So, a good day to start reading Spots, if you've been thinking of doing so and haven't. You can start here at <a href="http://www.stardancer.org/spots/episodes" rel="nofollow">http://www.stardancer.org/spots/episodes</a></p> <p>Today's incentive post is being hosted on livejournal: <a href="http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/832001.html" rel="nofollow">http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/832001.html</a></p> <p>When the donations hit that goal, the MP3 will show up on the archive site, too.</p> <p>So if you like action stories... and character-driven stories... and stories with lots of guns, lots of alien cultural interaction and kick-tail moms who don't have to be snarky and have intimacy issues to shoot thirty aliens in a dark corridor without breaking a sweat (much)... come by and see what readers are paying me weekly to write for them!</p> <p>--M. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/website-makeover-necessary-or-not#post-5811 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:20:15 +0000 eikasia 5811@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Thanks! :D </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/how-do-you-find-readers#post-5810 Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:15:23 +0000 eikasia 5810@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>When I was just starting Eikasia, I didn't get a steady stream of clicks from any one thing. I got them from a bunch of sources, some of which I had to pay for. </p> <p>Project Wonderful can be good if you advertise on related webcomics with moderate to high-traffic. I also participated in banner exchange programs like nuts. I submitted to every relevant link directory I could find. I also updated every profile I ever had online to include a link to my story. I also put the link in my email and forum signatures. For the latter, I heard that naming your link something like "My online story" (like I did below) makes it easier for it to turn up in searches involving those terms. </p> <p>Networking with those who make their writing available in a similar way is an obviously good thing, too. These past few months have made it harder for me, but when I first started writing Eikasia, I was getting involved with weblit/webfic community affairs whenever I could. You form relationships with others who sympathize with your struggles, and help you when they can--provided that you're kind enough to return the favor. Direct link trades from people outside the community are nice too, if you can find willing affiliates with decent traffic. (I have two or three affiliates and I get clicks from them every month)</p> <p>Underestimated ways of getting readers, and thereby getting comments, is pimping your work to your friends and family. I earned a number of my readers through their word-of-mouth.</p> <p>Get involved with another online writing community. One place in particular is Writersbeat.com--I used to post there all the time and it has alot of great people who not only will show interest in your work, but help you too.</p> <p>Now that I have two complete stories finished in my series, I was able to add to free-online-novels.com and online-novels.blogspot.com which give me tons of visitors every week now.</p> <p>And...those are all the things I can rattle off the top of my head. Does that help? </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/how-do-you-find-readers#post-5809 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:44:12 +0000 vjchambers 5809@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Were I you, I'd put a link right at the end of your other Sims stories. Something like, "More stories by me? Click here."</p> <p>I got most of my readers through myspace, which is currently a graveyard. Facebook is similar, but doesn't seem to work as well at marketing for me. </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/website-makeover-necessary-or-not#post-5808 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:38:26 +0000 vjchambers 5808@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>I like it!! </p> http://forums.webfictionguide.com/topic/need-to-change-info-on-my-listing#post-5807 Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:48:10 +0000 Chris Poirier 5807@http://forums.webfictionguide.com/ <p>Hi all -- it was a caching issue. Should have thought to check it months ago. It should be fixed now -- let me know if you notice any other weirdness about the status not showing up right. And sorry for the confusion.</p> <p>Chris. </p>