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Writing Battle Scenes

A guest post by Rayne Hall. 

Here are some techniques for creating powerful, exciting, realistic battle scenes.

The biggest challenge in writing a battle scene is the point of view. To make the experience exciting and moving, it's best to stick to the perspective of a single fighter. However, the individual soldier can't see what goes on a few feet from him, let alone what's happening at the other end of the battlefield or how the sun dyes the horizon bloody red.

Here's a possible solutio...

Look Inside Alexia Purdy's Ever Shade

I'm excited to join five other amazing fantasy authors in a new collection, Faery Worlds. For the rest of the week I'll be featuring the other novels you can find in this ebook full of magic, love and fae.

Alexia Purdy's Ever Shade (A Dark Faerie Tale #1)
A dark twist on faeries. For Shade, a chance meeting with a powerful Teleen Faery warrior who wields electrical currents and blue fires along his skin, has her joining him on a treacherous mission for the good Seelie Faerie Court across the la...

Look Inside Jenna Elizabeth Johnson's Faelorehn

I'm excited to join five other amazing fantasy authors in a new collection, Faery Worlds. For the rest of the week I'll be featuring the other novels you can find in this ebook full of magic, love and fae.

Jenna Elizabeth Johnson's FaelorehnMeghan has been strange her entire life: her eyes change color and she sees and hears things no one else can. When the visions get worse, she is convinced she has finally gone crazy. That is, until the mysterious Cade shows up with an explanation of his own...

10 Things You Need To Know About Publishing FanFic on Amazon

Legolas Teg the Urban Elf and Snape Damon have an intense confrontation in this fan fic Kindle Worlds story


Amazon is rocking the publishing world once again with a brand new kind of publishing: legal fan fic. Okay, there have been licensed novels before... Star Trek novels, Star Wars novels, movie novelizations... but this is far more accessible.

It's called Kindle Worlds. Right now, there are only about twelve Worlds available to write in. Some biggies, like Harry Potter and Twilight, are no...

Look Inside Anthea Sharp's Feyland: The Dark Realm

I'm excited to join five other amazing fantasy authors in a new collection, Faery Worlds. For the rest of the week I'll be featuring the other novels you can find in this ebook full of magic, love and fae.


Anthea Sharp's Feyland: The Dark RealmFaeries. Computer games. When realms collide, a hero from the wrong side of the tracks and the rich girl he's afraid to love must risk everything to defeat the dangerous fey.

What if a high-tech computer game was a gateway to the perilous Realm of Faerie....

Look Inside JL Bryan's Fairy Metal Thunder

I'm excited to join five other amazing fantasy authors in a new collection, Faery Worlds. For the rest of the week I'll be featuring the other novels you can find in this ebook full of magic, love and fae.

JL Bryan's Fairy Metal ThunderA teenage garage band steals instruments from the fairy world and begins enchanting crowds, but their shortcut to success soon turns them into enemies of the treacherous Queen Mab.

"Fairy Metal Thunder has the same feel that the movie Labyrinth has, this wondrous...

Look Inside Elle Casey's War of the Fae: Book 1 (The Changelings)

I'm excited to join five other amazing fantasy authors in a new collection, Faery Worlds. For the rest of the week I'll be featuring the other novels you can find in this ebook full of magic, love and fae.


Elle Casey's War of the Fae: Book 1 (The Changelings)Jayne Sparks, a potty-mouthed, rebellious seventeen-year-old, and her best friend, shy and bookish Tony Green, have a typical high school existence – until, along with a group of runaway teens, they are hijacked and sent into a forest...

A New Collection of Faery Fantasies!

I'm honored to be a part of this new collection of novels about the fae! I hope you'll check it out and discover some new favorite series.

A stunning collection of the first books in six fan-favorite series by bestselling, award-winning fantasy authors! Discover the many worlds of Faerie in these novels filled with adventure, love, and – of course – Fae Magic.
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Ebook Formatter Uses My Book as Example

You've heard it before... the difference between an indie book which reads like a trad pubbed book and an indie book which reads like a vanity press heap of toad dung is all in how much effort you invest in doing the details.

The biggest priority is to have a good editor. I've found that having a team of Beta Readers as a follow-up is even better.

The next most important thing is to have a gorgeous cover which clearly communicates your book's genre and subgenre.

Finally, there is the issue of in...

What is Amazon Author Rank?

You may have noticed that Amazon is Beta Testing a new form of ranking, which ranks the author, rather than the individual book. The logic, I presume, is that individual books may be relatively unimpressive in ranking, but if the author has many of them, the author is still selling well overall. At least, I think that the reasoning.

Here's what Amazon has to say about it:
What is Amazon Author Rank?Amazon Author Rank is based on sales of all your books relative to the sales of other authors. Am...