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RuneWright Gets Some Linkage

Building a buisness takes time and lots and lots of hard work.  Believe me, I know.  Twelve and fourteen hour days, working multiple gigs, keeping up with email, wearing all the different hats… it takes its toll.  Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining.  I’ve never worked this hard in my life, but I’ve also never been this happy.  What’s always a nice surprise is when your efforts bear fruit when you didn’t even know the tree existed.  Ted Morrissey, Ph.D. in English studies, over at his Pathfinding blog mentioned RuneWright in a very positive light recently, remarking upon how there are growing venues for “cross-genre” fiction.  You can read his article HERE and I recommend you take a look at his other posts.

If you didn’t know, one of the key facets of increasing website traffic is cross-linking, and there’s nothing better than to have a complete stranger provide an unsolicited link back to your site.  Frankly, it’s HUGE.  The more links out in the real world there are that point to your site, the better off your site is going to be.

Thanks, Ted!  And keep up the great blogging!

An interesting question….

One of the folks who saw the Duotrope listing for my up-coming anthologies posed an interesting question.  The question was “What is urban fantasy?”  I thought I’d share with you my response:

I guess I’d have to say that “urban fantasy,” is a splice of what the member of a first-world culture accepts as real and grafts it onto what he or she would like to think of as being possible.  This is undertaken usually to elicit an emotional response, be that wonder, fear, delight, horror or whatever.  It’s an exploration of what we frequently wish were real.

Thanks, Nicole!