November 28, 2017

The Art of Selling Art

My dear friend and writer Lily Gearhart has nominated me for a TED talk by the name of The Art of Selling Art, and I fell in love with the name. It’s what she said I do, teach artists how to sell their art, and there is an art to it (not to twist your brain...or maybe just a little). Plus I promised you this post one post ago, so here goes.

How do you sell your art?

What I’m about to tell you will require you to leave your old life and step into a new one, and in the process learn to step outside of yourself to sell, then return to yourself to create.

I’ll explain.

March 10, 2015

For YOU, my Patreon patrons

by Ksenia Anske

I have reached my $100 monthly goal on Patreon!

It's actually $139 now. As a perk I promised you, my patrons, to write a blog post about anything you wanted. The next perk, by the way, will be at the $500 goal's completion—a short story about anything you want. (Won't that be fun?)

So here we go. Below are your questions and my answers. If you have more questions, go ahead and ask in the comments here or on Patreon. I will answer them with all the truth I can muster.

May 18, 2014

Why my books have ShareAlike license and more questions answered

by Ksenia Anske

I got this email from Christopher Garry, a fellow writer: "I am an editor and a writer. I have two quick questions for you...you use "Share Alike" license inside your books. Does that mean that people can modify your writing and then re-distribute it? Do you see any of your fans doing this? What is your favorite way to interact with your reader community? Clearly you are highly visible on Twitter but do you have maybe a newsgroup forum or any other way for readers to discuss your work? A wiki? A guide to the worlds you have built? That sort of thing?"

Well, it's 7 questions total, but hey, I'll answer them all! So here you go. (Also, if you read this whole post, you will convalesce from your all your illnesses. That, or I owe you a cookie.)

1. What using ShareAlike license means.

Let me begin with the official name for the beast. The license I self-publish my books under is called "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported". The full text about it, including the lengthy legalese, can be found here. What does this mean? It means that you can do these things to my books: