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It's all about the fan mail!
When I was a musician, it was all about the reaction of the crowd. With writing, it's the fan mail. It's what made me take writing seriously, it's why I decided to publish, it's what keeps me going as a writer when setbacks occur. In an abstract way, I really love my fans. So I've decided to share some of the fan letters I receive. A lot of them come anonymously, and most don't want their info released, but I promise that all of them are genuine fan mail.
Hi Wayne
I have just finished reading “People of the Tiger” and “Hunters in The Sky” end to end and you have joined my most favoured authors list.
This is a fantastic story set in a wonderfully crafted world of social science fiction/fantasy. Once I started I found your books almost impossible to resist and to me that has to be one of the highest accolades a writers can receive.
I am awaiting the next instalment of ‘The Rational Future Series” with excited and selfish impatience, so don’t just sit there reading this “hurry up and get it written”
Awesome sci-fi!!!
Very well thought out! I love the complex plot that keeps you reading and reading and reading. I finished it in 3 days and am eager to read the next book.
Ratings systems.
I've noticed that I have tens of thousands of fans on free sites that allow the readers to easily rate stories books from one to ten. Almost everyone that reads my books them gives them a nine or a ten, with an average score of around 9.35.
On sites that don't have ratings, readers are just hoping to stumble on something good among the thousands of books available. On those sites, people don't know whether a book is good until they read it, and my books don't do as well. I think I'll write to those sites and suggest they implement a rating mechanism.
Posted to Scribd!
I've posted People Of the Tiger to Scribd.com, one of the biggest reading sites, with over 50 million visits a month. I discovered it using Alexa.com, which is a great site that ranks all the websites by category and by how many visitors they get. I'd have like to have listed my other books for sale on the Scribd Store, but while it's in beta only Americans can use it. Hopefully it'll be out of beta soon.
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