Cunable by the Numbers
Much has been made of a new service called Cunable. Here’s their description, in their own words: Calling it self-retailing, Cunable allows all authors, those with or without an existing publishing...
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Why Traditional Publishing Will Fail
With the merger of Penguin and Random House, we now have Random Penguin, a mega-corp that represents about half of the traditional publishing industry. The question now is where do they go from here?...
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Major change to Raynfall.com
Raynfall has been pretty quiet over the last few months. Due to some major changes last year, I wasn’t able to devote myself fulltime to the business. It’s not fair to just let it go, though, so I’ve...
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The Great Erotica Ebook Purge
So here’s the deal, for all of you authors who are wondering what’s going on. Yes, all two of you. The Kernel wrote an editorial about how – SHOCK, HORROR – there is porn on the internet. More...
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Top Free WordPress Themes for Writers
Look, you’ve got to have a blog. That much goes without saying at least. But it also has to look cool, because the author is the brand and you have to get used to selling yourself. WordPress is as...
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Is Outskirts Press really Top Ranked?
So, many of you already know about the laughably silly press release running around from Outskirts Press, in which they claim that: Outskirts Press, the leading self-publishing and book marketing...
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Kobo Release Another Statement about the Purge
Guess what just landed in my inbox? Seems that Michael Tamblyn, the CCO of Kobo, is still feeling the heat from that pesky purge where they decided to rip every self-published book out of their ebook...
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Essential Free WordPress Plugins for Authors
So, I’d like to follow up my post on WP Themes for authors with something on the best free WordPress plugins. So let’s take a look, shall we? Unfortunately, these are limited to self-hosted WordPress...
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Let’s Talk to Sonya Solomonovich, Author of Dryad
I had a chance to catch up with another Vancouverite lately – Sonya Solomonovich, who’s just released her latest book called Dryad, a time-travelling eco-thriller with some fantasy thrown in for good...
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HarperCollins UK Boss Outs Self As Being Hilariously, Wilfully Blind
The Passive Voice brought this story to my attention today - HarperCollins UK boss tells publishers: take storytelling back from digital rivals. There are some choice quotes from this particular...
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Affiliate Alert: PublishingAddict.com – Spam Site
Hey, all you authors and other writers in the publishing world! Have you gotten an email like this one? Hi, My name is Taylor you can find me on facebook www.fb.com/taylorreesdotcom (I’ll get straight...
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Organic Book Discovery
Well, this has been some time in the making. I’ve spent quite a while thinking about book discovery, and now it’s time to show my work. That work has been in progress for a few months now. It’s called...
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Let’s Talk to Patrick Kelly, author of Hill Country Greed
I’ve talked about the problems of online advertising before, both here on Raynfall and in The Author’s Marketing Handbook. Although I don’t recommend it in general for authors because of the danger of...
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ABookFor.Me Amazon Listings
Whew. Lots of work has gone into ABookForMe over the last few weeks. I’ve got some great feedback from everyone, which I’m very happy about, and I’ve made a number of improvements. Top of the list,...
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Let’s talk about sword weight!
This is my longsword. It’s 51 inches long, 38-inch blade. Leather wrapped hilt, scent-stopper pommel, unusual triple fuller. It’s loosely based on the 15th century Oakeshott Type XVIIIb longsword, so...
View ArticleVideo Games Swordfighting Fun
You know, I spend a lot of time talking about movie swordplay, but do you know what’s really awesome? Video game swordfighting. For pure silliness, you just can’t beat the balls-out crazy that usually...
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Archery Level: Godlike
Okay, we’ve all seen Legolas do some pretty crazy shit, alright? Well, trust me, you ain’t seen nothing yet. Meet Lars Anderson, a Danish archer who apparently went back through a lot of old...
View ArticleThe Swordmaster Trope
So here’s the common trope: there is a master swordsman. This swordsman has a single Sword of Power(TM) and has never been defeated in battle. There can be only one, etc etc. The swordsman will face...
View ArticleWhy Swords of Power(TM) Don’t Work
Here’s a thought – what do you think of as the ultimate sword? This is another trope that shows up quite often in all kinds of media: the concept of the ultimate blade, the Sword of Power, the mystical...
View ArticleLars Anderson – not a revolutionary in archery
Okay, remember how I posted about Lars Anderson? He’s the archer whose video has been blowing up the interwebs for the last few days. I would be remiss if I didn’t now post an update, after hearing...
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