Basically, this is a test of a new sort of ‘business model’.

I will release a free to download, sponsored/ad-supported version of Resurgence in PDF, DRM free format with a Creative Commons license (free to share/attribution/non-commercial/no alteration/deriatives) if there are people willing to donate to make such a version available.

The donations will be my compensation as the author.

Resurgence is a short story/longer flash fiction piece of 2, 263 word count. It’s sci fi/fantasy.

Compensation amount is $ 113.15 ( five (5) cents per word).

Donate $5 or more, and you’ll be listed at the front of the sponsored version as one of the people who’ve made it available for free download. Your name and/or web site link, whichever you choose. The sponsored version will be available here, at my imprint site, and at Smashwords, and hopefully on other people’s web sites shortly thereafter.

The unsponsored version will remain available for purchase for those readers who’d rather not have ‘ads’ in their ebooks (it’s only 99 cents at full cover price).

If the response is good, I’ll do the same for more titles with different sponsorship options.

Do you want to set Resurgence free? Donate!

My big goal for this year was to end it having reached 500 ebooks sold.

There’s ten days left, and I’m still 131 short of that goal, so it doesn’t look like it’ll be reached.

Darn.

Hey, but there’s still time!

All of my ebooks can be purchased directly from my blog right here, in DRM free PDF format.

So if you’ve been thinking of buying one of them, now would be a wonderful time to decide to do so. =)

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I’ve spent the morning attempting to puzzle out the dos and don’ts of writing a web fic. The Night Has Fallen trilogy is my chosen victim to this effort, although its fate is uncertain at this time.

There are a few good reasons to consider writing a web fic, and they’re centered around giving a good, solid example of your writing in order to draw readers and build a readership.

While some people write web fic just for the love of it, there are several authors who do so in hopes that it’ll draw interest to their titles available for purchase, or earn them a bit of sideline cash via donations to fund extras they can’t afford on their monthly budgets.

Ideally, you write a web fic, draw readers in to build a solid readership for your work, and those readers spread word of mouth, resulting in more readers and sales of your other works. Bonus: feedback and interaction from those readers!

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I did hit over the 50k mark around 5pm yesterday. So, goal reached!

Arcane Solutions isn’t finished, but there was some timeline problems going on that were preventing getting parts of it written, so I began working on edits last night. It’s actually okay up to Chapter 10.

Now that I’ve taken care of some organizational stuff, I’ll be spending the rest of the day editing, writing missing scenes and chapters for it. I’m thinking another 10-20k before it’s actually finished.

Feral Intensity is just 23 sales away from hitting the 100 copies sold goal. Yay!

Another 149 sales is needed to reach my 500 copies sold by Dec. 31st goal. Realistically, that goal’s probably not going to be met, because I’d have to see almost 4 sales daily for the next 41 to do so. Still, it’s much closer than I thought it would be, and will hopefully be even closer by the end of the year. I’ll set a much higher overall sales goal for 2010!

I did approve my Story Tamer’s edits for The Silent One Wednesday evening, so that’s off the list. I want her to have another look over it, see if there’s any final edits to make, then I’ll format it, design the cover and release it sometime in December.

Kate’s three titles have been lanquishing due to the home improvement projects and all of us doing NaNoWriMo. All three will be released during December.

I’ll be concentrating on finishing Arcane Solutions and Hunter’s Edge, as far as writing projects go, for the rest of  the year. I’d like both ready for editing or already edited by the end of the year, so that they can be released in January and February.

Tomorrow, I’ll probably be busy with the dreaded culling of my WIPs list. The new lists will show under the 2010 page, which will appear under the About page. I’m also going to add a new subpage under ‘My Goals’ for 2010.

Trying to be all organized and focused is hard work, people.

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In the course of writing Arcane Solutions this month, I found myself facing a dilemma: the book’s characters have series potential.

The story arc for a series was so subtle that I didn’t realize just what it was that kept setting off the ’series potential’ klaxons in my brain.

Fortunately, two of the characters took pity on me, revealing it during a phone conversation they were having during yesterday’s writing on ‘fill in the blank’ scenes.

Oh, I thought. That’s it!

My next thoughts were ‘Nooooo! Not another frickin’ series!‘

This is my curse: some groups of characters that have taken up residence in the House of Craze fascinate me so much that I can’t bear the idea of not writing about them.

So I do, as quickly as possible, even when it means setting aside other stories and an end result of my WIP list not diminishing, but steadily growing.

I may write fast and have a brain full of stories being continually whispered to or even screamed at me, but it’s past time to admit that I have a problem.

I’m addicted to writing and spend as much time as possible doing it.

More hours go into it than I ever clocked working a job for someone else. The difference? I was fairly compensated for those jobs.

No, this isn’t a pity party with whine and cheese, or a rant.

What it is, is my realizing that I apparently missed that whole ‘work smarter, not harder’ bus. I’ve put enormous pressure on myself to write down and pursue every idea the Voices shove in my face.

Well, they’re going to have to shut the hell up and start raising their hands, waiting for Teacher to call on them from now on.

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