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I'm going to have a sale that I'm only posting on my personal account, now that I've completed all of the in depth descriptions of each of my collections, as I hope they've got some people here interested in reading more about them. Obviously I have stories at my website and I should be making a start on the first ebooks in the next few days, so they'll be available to purchase, but what I want to try to do now is build up my buffer a little more than I already have. Even though I'm normally very good at being the optimist in my relationship that doesn't mean I don't think about what might happen in the future. I'm just not the sort of person to let those worries get to me too much - I live more in the present than I do in the future and yet... well, I'm not sure who heard, but Peaches Geldof died yesterday at 25 (she was about seven months younger than me) and when those sorts of things are in the news it makes me think more about the future than I normally would. It happens whoever it is, it doesn't matter to me if they're famous or not, but as I was stupid enough to watch the BBC News channel after I found out, first thinking it must be some sort of hoax, it was something I went to sleep thinking about.

James and I haven't had easy lives. This is something I've talked about before. We had a couple of good days on Saturday and Sunday, but James had a bad day yesterday that affected him more than I thought it would. It knocked him right down again, so I'm more worried about him than I was before. Sadly, after everything he's been through, it's much easier than it was before for him to hit rock bottom and when that happens there's very little I can do to help, even though I try my best to, because he is much more of a pessimist than me. He keeps saying that his life has always been crap so it's always going to be crap, which really irritates me, as I feel that if he keeps thinking like that he will be right. The way you think can affect your life. Unfortunately he doesn't agree with me. Like when I tried to tell him that I thought it was possible his medical problems might have started in his mind, due to the stress he was under when he was younger, and now that he's not quite as stressed it's manifested itself as a physical issue. Instead of listening to what I was saying he just got angry with me, because he's been told before that other medical issues were psychosomatic and seemed to think that's what I believe, even though I believe that living with stress for an extended period of time might, in the future, affect you in physical ways. Of course it was just a theory, but it's not as though it doesn't happen to me - I've had more panic attacks in the last couple of years than I ever had in the past and if I get particularly stressed out I suffer with the most annoying side pains, although they normally fade pretty quickly.

I might just have picked a bad time. It was about 2am and he was really down, but whenever he gets like that he doesn't listen to me or accept that I'm listening to him, because I disagree with him. Something I've been trying to get through to him is that me disagreeing with him doesn't mean I'm not listening - it means I have listened and I disagree. There are times when I don't listen, that I accept, but that's normally when I'm in the middle of something and he doesn't bother to get my attention before he starts talking. Obviously I'm not going to be listening then because I don't realise he's talking to me until part way through what he's saying. There are other times when I have to get him to repeat things, because my brain doesn't translate it correctly, and normally, when he's not stressed, he's fine with that, because he sometimes has the same problem. Unfortunately it's mainly a problem when I disagree with whatever he's said or if I interrupt him. He really doesn't like being interrupted. I try not to, but sometimes I do, as I'm not great at knowing if he's finished something he's saying or not, in the same way that he sometimes thinks I'm finished when I'm not. It's not something to argue over and yet we often end up arguing anyway, when he's at his worst, and when that happens the ways he's acting makes me wish that I didn't have to deal with him.

Originally this post was going to purely be about the sale, but obviously I'm good at rambling. :D

Available for £90 ($150) I have 5 six 10,000 word story bundles. These stories will be written and sent to you via email in the format of your choice and then, after them being exclusively yours for a month, I'll post them at my website for everyone to see. I'll also be putting them into the collection ebooks and the end of year ebooks. Obviously this also includes donor perks and can be paid for in three installments of £30, which means you will get three months of perks and will add this amount to the site perks as well, so 5,000 extra words will be posted to the site for those three months.

Available for £180 ($300) I have 5 twelve 10,000 word story bundles. These stories will be written and sent to you via email in the format of your choice and then, after them being exclusively yours for a month, I'll post them at my website for everyone to see. I'll also be putting them into the collection ebooks and the end of year ebooks. Obviously this also includes donor perks and can be paid for in three installments of £60, which means you will get three months of perks and will add this amount to the site perks as well, so 15,000 extra words will be posted to the site for those three months or six installments of £30 which means you will get six months of perks and will add this amount to the site perks as well, so 5,000 extra words will be posted to the site for those six months.

Available for £270 ($451) I have 5 eighteen 10,000 word story bundles. These stories will be written and sent to you via email in the format of your choice and then, after them being exclusively yours for a month, I'll post them at my website for everyone to see. I'll also be putting them into the collection ebooks and the end of year ebooks. Obviously this also includes donor perks and can be paid for in three installments of £90, which means you will get three months of perks and will add this amount to the site perks as well, so 20,000 extra words will be posted to the site for those three months or six installments of £45 which means you will get six months of perks and will add this amount to the site perks as well, so 10,000 extra words will be posted to the site for those six months or nine installments of £30 which means you will get nine months of perks and will add this amount to the site perks as well, so 5,000 extra words will be posted to the site for those nine months.

I'd really like to sell at least three of these bundles, so if you know anyone who might be interested please let them know about this. Getting £30 a month means I'll have the majority of my half of the groceries (as I'm paying half the rent we now split groceries) and any extra means we'll be able to get some nice treats - I want to buy some fresh fish for James, because he loves fish, and I have no idea what I'd buy for myself, because I'm useless at buying myself food treats. I might use it for a couple of books instead, as I'm really behind on some of my series.
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Free ebooks.

Currently only one ebook is available – the 2011 Advent Story. I plan on making more, but first I want to make certain that people can download and read the epub and mobi versions, so if anyone who downloads them can let me know how they work I’d really appreciate it.

The next ebooks I’m going to work on are going to contain the freely posted stories for all the collections, but as some of the collections have less stories than others I’ve going to gather some of them together. I also think I’ll gather together the collections that are connected, like the Fae World, ‘Astral’ World, and the World Walkers, although I don’t have any definite plans yet.

Once that’s done I’m going to see how well the downloads are working and then go from there.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

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The more work I do with the World Walkers collection the more happy I am with it. I have the beginnings of a timeline, and I need to work on one for each of the worlds I have named once I've made some decisions about which characters live where, which is very useful. Twelve out of the thirty-four worlds are currently being worked on, but I do still need some help with the others. That's part of the reason I made some edits to the credits page, so people can get involved with this collection most of all, because I know that I'm not going to be able to world build for all of them, even though I wish I could. If you would like to get involved with this then let me know. What I would really love is maybe three or four worlds that are more steampunk (or any form of punk because I know there are a lot out there) than fantasy, so if anyone can help me there I'd be really grateful. Credits will be given to everyone who helps.

I'm still planning on doing a setting/collection rental service, which should hopefully be ready for use around mid January, which will be good for people who can't pick a favourite character but do have a favourite collection. Then I've also been thinking about the idea of sponsoring a collection, which will be different to both the adoption and rental service, because sponsoring will lead to words being posted. Or maybe I should include this as an option with the adoptions and rental. I shall have to think about that some more before I make any definite decisions.

By the end of December I also want to have some pre-created ebooks ready for purchase, so if anyone has any ideas about what I should bundle together then let me know. There are things I want to work on that I can put into the ebooks, including some crossovers, because I really want to write a few, so I might add them to the list while I'm working on them for people to see what they can get (maybe I'll make them available for pre-order and anyone who pre-orders gets a special bonus something).

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Today has been a good day for working out magics. There are still some parts that need to be worked out, but I have posted my third bit of bonus material for this month so all is good. I love different magics, which is why I write so much fantasy, and I have some other ideas for magics that I want to write up soon. Once I've done that I can post them up at random points as well as focus on my collections because that's why I wanted to have a writing account. I wanted to be able to make everything I write available to everyone. Even though I don't write for an audience, I write for myself, I still want people to be able to read what I've written and tell me if they liked what I wrote, give me ideas, and that sort of thing. It's never been about making money, although I would like to be able to earn something, but about the writing.

I've been thinking about ebooks recently. I know that reading stories on a journal isn't always easy so I do want to make what I write available in an ebook, but I don't know how I want to do it. There are a couple of possibilties that would work now, while my readership is small, but I doubt would work in the future. One idea was to set up a system where people could pick a selection of stories to have in their ebook and then I would email it to them once it was ready. Some would have been posted while others aren't. Or it could simply be buying the stories as they are, but lots of things are in parts and I don't know if that would work. The original idea was to release an ebook every time I made £75 which would be free to download, which may still work but I worry about undercharging and overcharging and things would be so much easier if I didn't live in the UK.

Exchange rates are a pain. I hate them. Creating a system of credits on the Internet, where 1 credit is equal to £1 if I bought it and a $1 if an American did, would make my life so much easier, even though I think it would probably be awful for the economy. Then I wouldn't have to worry about my £75 being about $95.91 because I could charge 75 credits which would be $75 for an American and £75 for a Brit. I understand why exchange rates exist and why they are a good thing, but most of my audience is in the US at the moment and I just wish things were simpler.

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