Anarchistbanjo's World

My birthday is April 24 and I’m planning to celebrate with the Grand Opening of Anarchist World! Several years ago I struggled and experimented with various ways of trying to make it as a writer in today’s world of independent publishing.

I started publishing my stories on blogs and while I gained quite a few readers I never sold anything. I stumbled upon a way of publishing serialized material that seemed quite successful in terms of enthusiastic readers. The basic concept is simple, yet powerful. By using wordpress blogs to future post episodes of stories I could pre-post entire books ahead of time and then use rss feeds to project those episodes onto my own webpage. Imagine the chaos of a webpage that renews itself with new episodes every day or every other day and follows several books at the same time!

Then I began publishing translated material and gave that up as a curiousity, but not going anywhere.

Well, over the years I’ve learned a few interesting things about the various kinds of readers. There are readers that will buy limited editions of any work by Hanns Heinz Ewers that I can produce, or SideReal Press can produce. Many will buy well done hard cover books as a preference while other still want the physical book but will opt for the cheaper quality paperback. The new generation of readers buy ebooks, notably epub editions but pdf files as well. This is a growing readership and no one knows how it will affect the publishing industry long term. Almost half my book sales are ebook sales.

Then there is another even more interesting group, the one’s that read ezines. They prefer to get their reading over coffee breaks or on the run fifteen minutes at a time. This is why short stories have done so well on the internet. However, my past experience has shown that serialized novels do almost as well if they are in demand.

Then of course there are those readers that are morally opposed to ever buying anything that is on the internet. They are the ones I ran into at first. Now the most interesting thing is that none of these groups of readers mix or mingle. They are almost separate social classes of people with different values and drives.

To put things bluntly, offering my books online as serialized adventures will not significantly harm sales of hardcover books, quality paperback books or even ebooks. It may even help sales by greater exposure to a growing readership.

So it is that on April 24, 2013 the serialization of twenty books will begin on Anarchist World.com

In addition I will be creating a second page where supporting members can list their own blogs if they want to. So much is in preparation and time is running out. The main layout of Anarchist World is completed for those curious to check it out, but serials will not begin until April 24.

Titles include;

Anarchist Knight: Apprentice

Modern Survivalism

Magister Templi

Book of Shadows

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Alraune

Vampire

Hanns Heinz Ewers Volume I

Hanns Heinz Ewers Volume II

Hanns Heinz Ewers Illustrated Stories

Hanns Heinz Ewers Brevier

Moganni Nameh

A Book of Fables

India and I

Synagogue of Satan

Satan’s Children

Fire Lilly

Jugend- The First Year

Simplicissimus- The First Year

Lemuria

Obviously many of these are not completed but will be offered one episode at at time as they are completed. Still, many have been completed as well, or are quite far along. As books are completed new ones will begin.

-bright blessings

-joe