SURVEY, PLEASE HELP!!

Guys, A big favor here, I don't know whether any one you would have an opinion or any thoughts on this, but I'm trying to figure out price for the subscription potion for the yaoi/het erotica website. Would any of you be willing to be part of an informal marketing survey? If you are, drop me a line here or RaytheReign@gmail.com. Thanks so much either way!

UPCOMING WEBSITE OF ORIGINAL, PARANORMAL, SCIFI, HORROR AND MYSTERY YAOI AND HET NOVELS AND GRAPHIC WORKS:

I've been honored and humbled that so many of you have contacted me with interest in my site, www. RaytheReign.com. It makes all the hard work worth it.

I know there's been some confusion, however, when you go to the site and find a weird username/password requirement. That's because the site is still under construction and that is merely a portal for the web designer at this time.

SO WHEN WILL THE SITE BE UP:

Hopefully, by middle to the end of November 2009.

Why do I say 'hopefully' and not by a date certain? I'm sort of at the mercy of the web designer, but also I want the site to be as cool and user friendly as it can be so it'll take a bit to make sure the site's solid and as bug free as possible.

I will let you all know in this journal when it is open for business.

HOW MANY NOVELS WILL THERE BE:

I've been working hard on five novels (3 yaoi and 2 het) all in the paranormal, horror and/or scifi genres. In fact, I started a sixth novel after seeing some more incredible scifi artwork. So that novel will be coming online quicker than I anticipated. It will be a yaoi novel.

A new novel will be brought online ever 4 to 6 months. So you can see that the library is going to grow pretty quick.

HOW CAN I BUY YOUR STUFF:

The site's going to be set up to allow people to purchase works two ways: (1) monthly subscription and (2) individual purchase.

In the beginning, there will only be the monthly subscription option available for the novels. Several chapters will be posted for the general public to read and then for a small monthly fee you can see a ton more chapters. Each book should be updated twice a month like a soap opera.

Once the book is completed, subscribers will be able to download the book for free (and a ton of other stuff as well). Also, once the book is finished, it will then appear in the store and nonsubscribers can purchase it.

The graphic novels, however, will probably all be available for individual purchase as soon as they are completed.

WHY SHOULD I PURCHASE A SUBSCRIPTION INSTEAD OF JUST WAITING FOR THE BOOK TO BE SOLD INDIVIDUALLY:

The biggest reason:

If you like more than one book or graphic novel, it may, in fact, be cheaper to buy the subscription. Because with the subscription you get EVERYTHING FOR FREE at the site. Not just the novels will be available to you, but everything else as well. FOR NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE.

WHAT ELSE WILL BE ON THE SITE:

I admit, I've got big plans and I hope to make them all happen. But on the first day the site is open, definitely the five novels and hopefully some great graphic works will be available. But that's just the start.

Check out what else will be coming down the pike:

GRAPHIC NOVELS:

I already have some wonderful artists from our own DA working on short and full-length graphic novels. Some will literally be translations of the print novels into graphic form while others will explore side stories that aren't fleshed out in the printed works. And finally, there will be fully original works.

New ones will be added as fast as I can make the artists work. So this will be ongoing. Imagine as a subscriber, you'll not only be getting the novels, but new graphic novels as well for your library FOR FREE. It's all included in the small monthly fee you're paying.

MUSIC:

I'm working with someone to create music scores for the books. You know how a movie has a score, well, I want to have a similar thing made, but for the books.

As a subscriber, you'll be able to download this music for free. Again, its included.

VOICE ACTING:

Once the novels are completed, I'm going to be hiring voice actors to perform the books, which will be available as well. Imagine how cool it will be to hear voices of those characters you've only imagined? Yeah, I'm psyched, too, for this.

This will be free for the subscribers. It will also be made available for individual purchase, too.

ANIMATION/CARTOONS:

Yes, I'm going there. Eventually, I want to create animation/cartoons for the site. I already have located one animator to do some space scenes, which I'm really excited about. But I also want to do is to have actual full-length cartoons done.

Again, this, too, will be part of the subscription. It will also be made available for individual purchase, too.

STILL WANT TO DO THE INDIVIDUAL PURCHASE THING:

Not a problem. There will be a store and eventually everything will be available for individual purchase. But you'll have to wait a bit for this to fill up.

DESCRIPTIONS OF SOME OF HTE NOVELS:

Here is a brief description of the first 5 novels that will be available at the site:

The Artifact: A Powder Universe Novel (yaoi/slash, paranormal, sci-fi, mystery, horror):

"Think of reality as a Mastryoshka doll," Dr. Carenas said.

"A Mastryoshka doll?" Detective Sean Harding asked, one eyebrow rising.

"A Russian nesting doll," she explained. "Now imagine that the outermost doll is the world as we know it. And think of the drug, The Powder, as the ability to pull those dolls apart, the ability to see all the dolls ... all of reality, all at once. Just one layer down from here … just one … things get a whole lot more interesting, but if you take it down another layer then another and another, you find ..."

“What? You find what?” Sean asked.

“You find that we’re not alone,” she whispered. “But having seen who we’re sharing all of this with, you’ll wish we were.”

This conversation begins Detective Sean Harding's obsession to find the source of the mysterious, deadly drug known only as The Powder. This obsession leads to the death of his squad and the loss of his job, but then it takes him into the orbit of Dane Gareis, the handsome, damaged twenty-two year old scion of a wealthy Winter Haven family. Dane hires Sean as his bodyguard after the unexplained death of Dane's overbearing father, Julius Gareis. And for both of them the attraction is immediate and overwhelming.

When it becomes clear to Sean that Julius Gareis’ death has some connection to a recent purchase of an ancient artifact, a crazed cult, and more frighteningly, The Powder, Sean realizes that Dane, too, is in grave danger.

Sean is determined to get to the bottom of the connection between the artifact and The Powder and save Dane both from a terrible end and the terminal loneliness that surrounds the beautiful rich boy.

Check out The Artifact at www.RaytheReign.com.

The Dark Earth (yaoi/slash, paranormal, mystery, horror):

Aidan Walsh, his little sister, Sarah, and their mother, Anna, are forced to move back into Anna's family home in Devil's Ridge with her father, Patrick, due to money troubles after a messy divorce. Only things are much more uncomfortable than one would expect from merely moving into a relative's home.

Aidan discovers that Grandfather Patrick is the leader of a strange religious group known only as the Clan. The Clan has a long-going feud with another group of locals known as the Sidhe. Problem is that Aidan's real parents were Sidhe. Aidan soon finds himself the brunt of Patrick's hatred and, more disturbingly, his hideous lust.

During the first hour of being on the Ridge, Aidan comes into contact with a Sidhe named Asher Vane. Vane saves Aidan from being taken by something terrible in a well on the Walsh property. Vane immediately recognizes Aidan as a fellow Sidhe and determines to bring him back home. Aidan resists Vane's attempts to make him leave his adopted mother and sister to their fate at the hands of the brutal Patrick, even as Aidan finds himself falling deeply in love with Vane.

Aidan begins to suspect that there is much more to both the Clan and the Sidhe then two groups of people opposed to one another. He discovers to his horror that the Clan worships a dark force that resides deep within the Earth, but even more disturbing, he finds that the Sidhe are not the benevolent beings he had thought they were. When it becomes clear that the Clan is determined to raise their dark god to the surface to take over the world, Aidan valiantly seeks to enlist the Sidhe to stop it and save the human race. But will the Sidhe respond to an orphan's call?

Check out The Dark Earth at www.RaytheReign.com.

The Erl-King: A Powder Universe Novel (yaoi/slash, incest, paranormal, mystery, horror):

The story begins with Ethan Koenig and his best friend, Scott Westmore, finding the dead body of a local party boy/drug dealer stuffed into the center of his own mattress with a look of frozen horror on his face. The dead boy was investigating a new drug on the streets known only as The Powder. The death of their friend starts Ethan and Scott on a journey that neither can forget and perhaps neither will survive.

Ethan, who is suffering from a strange genetic illness, is the center of his father's universe. The handsome and beguiling, Alric Koenig uses his immense wealth and his pharmaceutical company to search for a cure for Ethan's illness.

As Ethan and Scott's investigation into The Powder continues and their friendship ripens into something more, Ethan comes to fear that his father would do anything to keep him alive and Alric's alone. Even going so far as to murder.

Is there a connection between The Powder and the drug Alric has developed to cure the genetic disease that is slowly killing his son? What is the true nature of Ethan’s illness? And could the ancient tale of the dread Erl-King be more than just a simple story?

Check out The Erl-King at www.RaytheReign.com.

The Deep Within (het, paranormal, mystery, horror):

Conner Ramsey is haunted by dreams of being dragged down by a nameless thing into the black abyss of the ocean; unable to breath, but unable to die either. Do his dreams of drowning have something to do with his long-dead mother's delusions that she and Conner were meant to live on the ocean's floor?

After Conner’s father also dies in a freak accident and his researches into his dead wife’s family come to light, Conner and his beautiful stepmother, Lily, decide to seek the answers to Conner’s maternal past; a past that hints at a terrible future for Conner if he cannot unlock the mysteries his father uncovered.

On this journey, Conner and Lily are forced to acknowledge their forbidden desire for one another. A desire that has been simmering for years even when Lily was his father's wife.

Check out The Deep Within at www.RaytheReign.com.

The site should be open in a few months. I anticipate that there will be five novels to start. They will be updated twice a month (so 10 chapters a month). A new novel will be added every four to six months so there will always be a ton to read. If you want to see some of the artwork for these books, please go to my Facebook page, my LiveJournal page or my DeviantArt page.

NEW FACEBOOK PAGE:

I'm also on Facebook under Raythe Reign as well. Please feel free to friend me if you want to talk yaoi, het, games, whatever.

NEW DEVIANTART PAGE:

I'm on DeviantArt under the name Raythe Reign. Here's the link: http://raythereign.deviantart.com.

LIVE JOURNAL ACCOUNT:

http://raythereign.livejournal.com

I have opened up a Live Journal account so that those of you who would like to are welcome to check it out. I have wanted to respond more personally to my readers so please feel free to stop by and drop me a note.