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Showing posts with label novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label novels. Show all posts

Monday, 30 October 2017

All of a sudden...

All of a sudden, there's a positive surge in downloads /readership of my novels.
I'm not complaining, however my newest addition to, Obsession of the Damned, is not getting any!
Phobic Wars, Phantasms in the Infirmary Vol I and Mental Dental (Murder by Proxy) are doing really well though.
My hope with this is that some of these will convert to readers reviews, encouraging others to read my creations, including Obsession of the Damned.

Please pass this on, share and get these novelas reviewed, read and popularity increases...

Thanks folks

Wednesday, 25 October 2017

Word count classification

Word counts, count...

I was reading an article about the effect and balance of words in work...
Article
Interesting in its famous Nebula Awards series, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America classifies submissions into four categories:

Short story: under 7,500Novelette: between 7,500 and 17,500Novella: between 17,500 and 40,000Novel: over 40,000

Thoughts?

Thursday, 14 September 2017

Building a brand in books

As a fledgling author and independent of any help... It's hard work to build a brand.
RPG Books is my brand.
It's slowly becoming a brand, my work, my stories, my books, shared with the world.
They are personalised with the thoughts and streams of ideas at the time of putting pen to paper, or computer content!
There are more to add and enjoy but in the mean time, the work continues... Marketing, blogging, sharing on social media and on and on it goes...
The results? Well I'll never be a millionaire through my writing but my intention was never that.
Share the thoughts and giving the world a piece of me is all I want.

If you have a chance, have a look at my author page on Amazon and maybe even download or order a copy of one of RPG books...

Tuesday, 12 September 2017

Honest and fun

Creating a novel is an awsome understanding.
Especially when the author has had no training in the craft.
However, the drivers of said undertaking make the writing worthwhile and less laborious.

My day job, like many other people's, is stressful, serious and difficult. I need to vent my feelings and frustrations creatively.
In my case, writing was a way of relaxing, sharing experiences and ideas, enjoying the ride . To me, spinning a tall tale that was fun to write, sharing a story and flexing my artistic muscle were the drivers.

Promotion of them is something I chose to do with respect of getting them read.
Selling them is secondary, the profit margins are low and the time it takes would be counter productive to my primary aims of enjoying life.

So why the blog?
Connection to the world.
It's a way of saying 'I'm real, I'm here and I believe I have something to say'

Life is too big and hard to worry about success as an author when really, I'm just doing it for fun.

With this in mind, if you want to read something honest, different and entertaining and mine, then please have a look.
If not, may you choose someone else's work, either way, enjoy, share, learn and spend some time with your thoughts.