The Many Ramblings of K. A. Webb

As I said yesterday I thrive on comments. It makes writing so much more enjoyable for me, so, in an attempt to regain something I feel I've lost, I'm going to have a competition running for the rest of the month. The three people who leave the most comments will get a prize. What those prizes will be will depend on the number of comments I receive in total, which means the more comments I get the longer the prize. Starting here makes the most sense, because that will then lead you to the stories, and it will be easy enough to go from one part to the next - and the best thing you can do is assume whatever you're reading is unfinished. However commenting on unfinished stories will speed me up, because I'll know people want to read them.

The only two untidy collections are the World Walkers and the Donor House, so I'm going to get that sorted in the next week, to make it easier for anyone who might want to read those stories.

Enter for a chance to win a story bundle, character adoption, or setting rental.

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I need at least seven entries, as I'm giving away seven prizes, and the easiest way to enter is to simply like my Facebook page. You can get more entries for leaving comments at the website, because Comments are Love, and for getting involved, as I really would love to have more reader involvement. My aim, for the future, is for all of my worlds to be shared, due to my location - I'm based in the UK, so I write about the places I know for any of my Earth based work and I would really love to have writers all over the world, as well as having other writers for the fantasy worlds I've created, partly because I don't think I'll ever be able to fill all the worlds of the Web by myself.

Why do I keep doing giveaways? Well, it's a good way to get writing, and once these stories are written they'll go on the sponsorable stories list, they'll go in the collection ebooks, and they'll be sold by themselves as bundles, so they will, in time, make money. Having someone tell me what they want to see really does help, as do prompts (some of the time), so that's why I do these giveaways. I do need to update the sponsorable stories list, because there are a number of stories not on there and update the donor perks to include the ebook perk, although I might not do that until I have all of the ebooks available.

A couple of days ago I made my first ebook sale, which makes me very happy. I'd like to get a couple of sponsorships set up, just because that means I have definite money coming in every month, and I've been talking with someone who might become my first sponsor. The idea is still to earn enough by the end of May to be able to pay for James' registration fee, but, due to his uncertainty about which course he wants to do I should have a bit extra time. He's going to have a look at some of the free courses online, to see which he thinks will work best for him, and then we'll go from there. At the moment, though, he's pulled his back, again, so he's in more discomfort than usual and every time he moved wrong yesterday he felt worse, and, of course, there wasn't much I could do to help.

I've been running a giveaway at my writing site and as I added some new people at Dreamwidth I thought I'd post it here to see if I'd get some interest.

I'd like to offer free character adoptions and setting rentals to anyone who's interested, even if you've already had a freebie (although I'd prefer it if you could go for a different character or setting than you had before), and if you signal boost this offer publicly or to someone you think might be interested you can double the word count, add another character/setting, or get a second adoption/rental (to start at the end of the first) - just tell them to let me know who it was that sent them.

The basic freebie is either a 1 character adoption of 2000 words running for six months or a 1 setting rental of 2000 words running for six months. With the boosting bonus it is possible to go up to the top offer for both of the adoption (3 characters, 4000 words a month, for six months) or the rental (3 settings, 6000 words a month, for six months). Plus, taking part in any giveaway will mean you can get a purchased adoption or rental for half price.

If there's anyone who doesn't yet know I'm a crowdfunding writer and ever since I started I've tried to be a little different to the rest. The market I entered is competitive, so if I want to earn a living I know that I need to be. Fortunately I've been lucky enough to find myself helping out with the doggy day care that my landlords run, which means that I can take my time once more to get people interested in what I do, rather than being total focused on trying to make my website profitable right now. (James has his CT scan on the 29th and should get his results on the 6th of September, which might mean we find out more about what's causing his painful medical issue or it could be utterly pointless. With all these tests I feel very lucky that the NHS does exist, even though it isn't perfect, because I dread to think how much all the tests, appointments, and pills would have cost in the US.)

With my new aim in mind I'd like to offer free character adoptions and setting rentals to anyone who's interested, even if you've already had a freebie (although I'd prefer it if you could go for a different character or setting than you had before), and if you signal boost this offer publicly or to someone you think might be interested you can double the word count, add another character/setting, or get a second adoption/rental (to start at the end of the first) - just tell them to let me know who it was that sent them.

The basic freebie is either a 1 character adoption of 2000 words running for six months or a 1 setting rental of 2000 words running for six months. With the boosting bonus it is possible to go up to the top offer for both of the adoption (3 characters, 4000 words a month, for six months) or the rental (3 settings, 6000 words a month, for six months). Plus, taking part in any giveaway will mean you can get a purchased adoption or rental for half price.

With Easter coming up I’ve decided to have a giveaway. One of my favourite creations is both the character adoptions and setting rentals, so I’d love to make them a reader favourite too. This is for anyone who hasn’t either rented a setting or adopted a character, in an attempt to interest more people in it, but if you’ve previously rented or adopted and would like to help in this endeavour please recommend a friend.

I have three character adoptions and three setting rentals available. Both the rentals and adoptions will be for four months, will be for one character or setting, and the word count for each month will be 2000 words. For more information on the adoptions and rentals check the links out, although those of you who have rented before will see that I’ve changed the word counts for the rentals.

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.