The Wal-Mart Book of Ethics: Abridged Edition is now exclusive on Amazon, available for free download on the Kindle Owner's Lending Library. And further more, from January 25th for five days, it will be available for free for everyone!
Endospore has also been placed on the Lending Library, and it too will have a 5 day free run, beginning on February 1st.
Purchase for free, read, and review! Thanks for everything and enjoy.
Happy Reading
--R.A. Wilson
Jan 21, 2013
Jan 9, 2013
Real Life Warp Drive
This is just too cool! NASA, mutha frickin NASA scientists are working on a real to life warp drive like in Star Trek. They are saying it is possible in our lifetimes for this technology to be usable, allowing speeds of 10c (that's ten times the speed of light if you're wondering).
I've always said, just because I was born on Earth does not mean I want to die here. Come on!
Check out the article here.
I've always said, just because I was born on Earth does not mean I want to die here. Come on!
Check out the article here.
Jan 6, 2013
Changes in Publishing
SO, some of you may be noticing two of my books are no longer posted anywhere other than Amazon. AND, my other two books will be disappearing during the next two weeks on everything but Amazon. So... why?
Here's the truth. I am an independent publisher and author. I do not have the ability to spread word of my writing around in magazines, newspapers, tv. All I have is word of mouth and the few places I can put it out there online for others to discover me. Then why would I want to remove my books from multiple listings and put them all down to one? The numbers support this decision.
These are not the final tallies for the whole of 2012 mind you. I moved about 1600 books from January to October 2012. Of those, less than 100 came from sources outside of Amazon.com and it's wonderful little Kindle. About 80 were from Smashwords during a free promotion, and the rest were from a handful of sales between iTunes and Barnes & Nobel. And as for revenue, the sources outside of Amazon brought in less than $.20 per book sold as the majority of sales were only because it's easy to give things away for free... usually.
But even then, why take the books off of these other networks? Isn't every book moved and every cent made progress? It is, but at what sacrifice? The truth of the matter is, being exclusive on Amazon brings many different perks. They support the independent author much more than these other networks (don't misunderstand me. Some of these other networks cater exclusively to indie's, but the internet presence is much less).
So while I hate to pull back out of these other networks, it just makes more sense in my strives to grow my brand to do so. I hope it will be a short term decision to be exclusive to Amazon as I do plan to test the waters again elsewhere. For the time being, nobody else can help me get my books out there as well as Amazon is currently. Thank you, Amazon, for making it possible for me to strive for my dreams by sharing my stories with the world. And thank you, all of my readers, of every country that has read one of my books on any network they have been read on. I cannot say that enough.
Here I am, looking forward to 2013 with great hope. 2 new books should be coming, along with 2 audio books (the first should be available in just a month or 2). Stick around, and we will build worlds together.
Happy Reading
R.A. Wilson
Here's the truth. I am an independent publisher and author. I do not have the ability to spread word of my writing around in magazines, newspapers, tv. All I have is word of mouth and the few places I can put it out there online for others to discover me. Then why would I want to remove my books from multiple listings and put them all down to one? The numbers support this decision.
These are not the final tallies for the whole of 2012 mind you. I moved about 1600 books from January to October 2012. Of those, less than 100 came from sources outside of Amazon.com and it's wonderful little Kindle. About 80 were from Smashwords during a free promotion, and the rest were from a handful of sales between iTunes and Barnes & Nobel. And as for revenue, the sources outside of Amazon brought in less than $.20 per book sold as the majority of sales were only because it's easy to give things away for free... usually.
But even then, why take the books off of these other networks? Isn't every book moved and every cent made progress? It is, but at what sacrifice? The truth of the matter is, being exclusive on Amazon brings many different perks. They support the independent author much more than these other networks (don't misunderstand me. Some of these other networks cater exclusively to indie's, but the internet presence is much less).
So while I hate to pull back out of these other networks, it just makes more sense in my strives to grow my brand to do so. I hope it will be a short term decision to be exclusive to Amazon as I do plan to test the waters again elsewhere. For the time being, nobody else can help me get my books out there as well as Amazon is currently. Thank you, Amazon, for making it possible for me to strive for my dreams by sharing my stories with the world. And thank you, all of my readers, of every country that has read one of my books on any network they have been read on. I cannot say that enough.
Here I am, looking forward to 2013 with great hope. 2 new books should be coming, along with 2 audio books (the first should be available in just a month or 2). Stick around, and we will build worlds together.
Happy Reading
R.A. Wilson
Dec 24, 2012
To my Parents,
Gene and Janice, you may be wondering why when you start up your web browser it goes directly to this website. Well, as your tech junkie son, I may have had something to do with it. No, there is not some weird Ravin Saga virus that has hijacked your computer. It could be just maybe I wished for you to take a gander at the new design of my website and see everything that I am ready to tell the world about. Or it could be because we don't get a lot of time to talk as we are all very busy adults, this is an easy way to get some steady information about what I am doing in my life outside of the day job.
But either way I just wanted to wish you a Merry Yule and remind you to mention my books on occasion. Remember, the more books I sell, the Merrier next year Yule may become. Can you imagine the day when I don't have to trek to that day job anymore and spend my time doing what I love to do? Why I am at it, I would also like to thank my current and future readers for empowering me to create this fiction I so love to write.
Love ya both mom and dad.
Your son,
Roger
p.s. TO EVERYONE, as a present for whatever holiday it is you celebrate this time of year, the TRAGEDY OF MACBETH: A NOVEL will be free for download on Amazon.com from December 25th through December 29th. Please download it for your own enjoyment, and tell everyone else about it. And yes, it will remain yours even after the 29th. Once you download it, it is yours!
But either way I just wanted to wish you a Merry Yule and remind you to mention my books on occasion. Remember, the more books I sell, the Merrier next year Yule may become. Can you imagine the day when I don't have to trek to that day job anymore and spend my time doing what I love to do? Why I am at it, I would also like to thank my current and future readers for empowering me to create this fiction I so love to write.
Love ya both mom and dad.
Your son,
Roger
p.s. TO EVERYONE, as a present for whatever holiday it is you celebrate this time of year, the TRAGEDY OF MACBETH: A NOVEL will be free for download on Amazon.com from December 25th through December 29th. Please download it for your own enjoyment, and tell everyone else about it. And yes, it will remain yours even after the 29th. Once you download it, it is yours!
Dec 16, 2012
It's Hobbitting Time!
So, many of you probably didn't hear about it as it's such a small movie, but this little production known as The Hobbit was released on this last Friday. I had the good fortune that this little known movie happened to come my way to the big city of Yankton SD. My impression of the movie is this: Perfectly what it should be. I've heard critics complain that it does not have the epic scope of the Lord of the Rings, but lets be honest here. The Hobbit is NOT the Lord of the Rings, nor should it be made so. It is a lighthearted book full that carries its sense of humor well. And the movie followed that admirably. I would recommend this movie to anyone who did enjoy the Lord of the Rings, just like I would recommend it to anyone who likes movies... or anyone who breaths, really.
Welcome Back RavinSaga.com
And here we are! Ravinsaga.com is back up and running as of today. It has been redesigned with more information posted about different projects that are being worked on right now. The current novel being written is called Ouroboros. For information about that, look under the Library tab for The World of Parquis.
So what happened to make the website go down? We have been needing to redesign the website and clean up old information that was no longer accurate, to refocus on what we are working on while showing a little of what will be coming in the years ahead. So please check it out and let me know what you think. I am always looking forward to hear comments from my readers.
Happy Reading
--R.A. Wilson
So what happened to make the website go down? We have been needing to redesign the website and clean up old information that was no longer accurate, to refocus on what we are working on while showing a little of what will be coming in the years ahead. So please check it out and let me know what you think. I am always looking forward to hear comments from my readers.
Happy Reading
--R.A. Wilson
Oct 9, 2012
A quick update for you. Yes you! Not the other people reading this. Just you.
Sorry the updates have slowed down a lot. Most of my time has been stolen greedily by the acoursed day job! Dun, dun, dun. I'm working so much that I must be insane on a technical level, especially considering I'm salery and get no extra pay for the hours upon hours of extra work. That's the way it goes though.
HOWEVER, this does not mean I am not writing (it does mean it is going slower than I like). I am working on two different projects right now. One is a collaboration effort between me and a dozen other people. It will be a sort of prelude to ENDOSPORE. It will not be a novel though, so by definition it will be something else. More on that later as the project develops.
The other project I'm working on is my next novel. It will not be a children's book, and it will not be the next Shakespeare adaptation (but give me any suggestions of which one you want done next). It is actually my flagship fantasy series. I know what you are saying out there, you yearning and eager masses! "I thought ENDOSPORE was the flagship series!"
Well, not really.
That would be RAVIN WORLD, the namesake of Ravin Saga itself. But how can it be the flagship without any books written in it? There are book. Three and a half to be exact. But those were the first books I ever wrote and are not worthy to see the light of the Kindle (you know, depending on your model). I have completely replotted this story (yes I am penning the word "replotted" right now. Go ahead an use it. You have my permission). And by story, I mean 10-20 book epic. I'm still working it out, the details of the individual stories, but it is coming along, and it will be glorious!
That's right: glorious. You can take my word for it. I'm a writer. It's okay. It will be a little bit of time before these two projects will be see. Until then, the audiobook for ENDOSPORE is in post production right now and will begin releasing in November or December. Howard has said so, and so it shall be!
Until next time,
Happy Reading
--R. A. Wilson
HOWEVER, this does not mean I am not writing (it does mean it is going slower than I like). I am working on two different projects right now. One is a collaboration effort between me and a dozen other people. It will be a sort of prelude to ENDOSPORE. It will not be a novel though, so by definition it will be something else. More on that later as the project develops.
The other project I'm working on is my next novel. It will not be a children's book, and it will not be the next Shakespeare adaptation (but give me any suggestions of which one you want done next). It is actually my flagship fantasy series. I know what you are saying out there, you yearning and eager masses! "I thought ENDOSPORE was the flagship series!"
Well, not really.
That would be RAVIN WORLD, the namesake of Ravin Saga itself. But how can it be the flagship without any books written in it? There are book. Three and a half to be exact. But those were the first books I ever wrote and are not worthy to see the light of the Kindle (you know, depending on your model). I have completely replotted this story (yes I am penning the word "replotted" right now. Go ahead an use it. You have my permission). And by story, I mean 10-20 book epic. I'm still working it out, the details of the individual stories, but it is coming along, and it will be glorious!
That's right: glorious. You can take my word for it. I'm a writer. It's okay. It will be a little bit of time before these two projects will be see. Until then, the audiobook for ENDOSPORE is in post production right now and will begin releasing in November or December. Howard has said so, and so it shall be!
Until next time,
Happy Reading
--R. A. Wilson
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)