Welcome to the New
Space Dock 13!
Helping Authors Write Weird, Bizarre, Absurd, Psychedelic Horror-Fantasy Since 1996!
(We've Moved & Changed URLs; Space Dock 13 is now EelKat.com)
(We are also novel-writing-tips.com, a-pink-unicorn.com, & of course are still SpaceDock13.com)

Want To Meet EelKat and
The Dazzling Razzberry (Autism Awareness Car)
in Person?

We'll Be At
PortConMaine 2018
June 21 - 24

See PortConMaine's Website
For Times, Location, Directions, & Ticket Prices:
http://portconmaine.com

If you are coming from out of state and plan to stay at the hotel, room info can be found here:
http://doubletree3.hilton.com
They give discounts to PortCon members, so be sure to mention you are attending PortCon when you reserve your room!

This Year's CosPlay: Avallac'h

I'm livestreaming making this costume. If you want to see it being made, check out my Avallac'h Costume Making Vlogs on YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/user/EelKat

See You There!

FAQs:
Yes, you can take pictures.
You don't have to ask to take pictures of the car,
but please ask first before taking pictures of me.
While I'm not doing an official book signing at PortCon, you are more then welcome to bring books for signing,
and if you catch me in the hall, I'll be more than happy to sign them for you.

Thank you!

PortCon takes place in 4 separate buildings: the 2 DoubleTree towers, at the Maine Mall across the street, and starting in 2018, now also in the new Hilton building next door to the two towers.

Almost ALL the events I attend are in the second tower, the shorter one at the back of the gardens, seen here --->>>

In between events, you can usually find me in the main hall of the second tower hanging out with other CosPlayers. We are the annual HallWay CosPlayers of PortCon and we'd love to have you join us!

I will be there at all days of the event.

I live around the corner from the DoubleTree Hilton where the convention is held, so you can usually expect to see me arrive between 7AM to 8AM. (Yes... 2 HOURS before the doors open, the lines to get in ARE that long! If you arrive at opening time, you won''t get in the building before noon time at BEST.)

I typically leave around 3PM to go eat, and return around 4PM (this time fluctuates depending on the daily event schedule.) Other then leaving this one hour for lunch, I stay at PortCon all day till midnight/1AM

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| Fantasy WorldBuilding | Character Creation |

| How To Build A Culture: How I Made My Moon Elf Society |

| Building A Magic System | Writing Absurdism? Start Here |

| Writing Dialogue | Short Story Beat Sheets |

| The Avallac'h CosPlay |

| The Writing Dares Generator |

| Web-Building & SEO For Authors | The Business of Writing |

| EelKat's Guide To Writing Monster Porn | Writing Prompts |

|The Sales Figures & Income Of One of Monster Porn's Top Selling Authors |

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2018 April/May/June Update:

As you know, most of the year I publish 2 to 3 articles a day.

However, every year during convention season, I take a break from that to go full swing CosPlay.

From early April 2018 to late June 2018, article posting schedule will be sporadic, while CosPlay Season and Convention events are going full swing.

During this time period, you can expect most, possible all new articles to be focused on costume making, CosPlay, and the characters I'm CosPlaying.

UPDATE: It's now divided into 7 pages. The primary page "Meet Avallach" is now over 20,000 words long. At this rate, it'll cross 60,000 long before the costume is finished, and that's not including the other 5 pages.

There will still be daily updates, but the BULK of the daily updates will be limited to the pages linked here:

Obsession: Meet Avallac'h
[NSFW] Avallac'h & His Nude Women | Witcher 3 Game Screenshots
Historical Accuracy vs Avallac'h
The Avallac'h CosPlay Costume Making Vlogs
How To Make The Avallac'h CosPlay
How Much Did It Cost? Budgeting The Avallac'h CosPlay
Why do children CosPlay rapists & rape victims? & WHY Avallac'h is a M18+ character.
PortConMaine 2018
On Being a Handicapped CosPlayer: A Look At Events of PortConMaine 2017 That Resulted In 3 Disabled CosPlayers Getting hurt at The Convention and How These Things Could Have Been Avoided

UPDATE April 17, 2018: I do not like being harassed online or offline, in any way, shape or form. Sorry, but what just happened this week is intolerable and I've blocked everyone involved and deleted all their posts. I will continue to block any one else who does the same as these people did. If you were one of the 200+ people blocked on my FaceBook account this week, here's a link to tell you why I blocked you: https://www.eelkat.com/cosplying-a-rapist.html

If you want a quicker explanation of what happened, I tell you in this video:

Copyrights and Other Things You Need To Know Before Publishing Your Book

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By EelKat Wendy C Allen

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Below are questions which have been sent to me from my readers via the Ask EelKat advice column. Each question is a link. Clicking that link will take you directly to the article which I wrote to answer said question. I have tried to arrange them by category in order to make it easier for you to find the answers you need.

As my long time readers will already know a server crash took down most of the old free-hosted site on June 4, 2013 (which was online since 1997 and had reached 6,000+ pages). Thankfully everything was saved on a separate hard-drive and the site is being rebuilt with a new host and for the first time on it's own domain. YAY!

I am currently moving all 6,000 questions&answer articles to this site one page at a time, at a rate of about 4 to 7 new pages being added each day, so be patient. Not all links are yet clickable. This process started on September 2, 2013 and will be ongoing at least through to January 2014. (And it may be well into 2017 before all 6,000 pages will be back online if I continue at this rate of 5 a day.)

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Copyrights and Other Things You Need To Know

Copyrights

What is a Copyright?

Where does the Copyright go?

How do I register my Copyright?

What to do when someone wants to use your work in their book.

ISBN

What is an ISBN and why do I need one?

How do I get an ISBN?

Wait a minute, these are expensive! Why you can't I buy just 1?

Once I have it, where does the ISBN go?

When should I order my ISBN block?

Do I Need to Buy an ISBN If Amazon Will Assign an ISBN to My Kindle Edition?

Do I Need to Assign ISBNs to All the E-Versions of the Book (Kindle, Sony, Apple, etc)?

Library of Congress

What is an LCCN?

How do I get an LCCN?

Once I have it, where does the LCCN go?

Should I get an LCCN or CIP, both or neither?

Bar Codes

Trademarks

May I Trademark-Protect My Book, Characters, and/or Title?

I Want One of My Characters to Drink Coke. Can I Mention Trademarked Items?

Public Domain

IRS

How do I handle taxes?

Plagiarism

Can I use songs, poems and articles I've found?

What is Fair Use, and why do I have to care?

Help! I sent my manuscript to another author for feedback and now they have published a new book that is JUST LIKE MINE! They copied my idea. The characters are differant and it's set in a different town, mine was Medieval and theirs is WWII but it's the same story I swear!

Your Questions Answered

Who can I contact if my questions are not answered here?

Is it true that publishers own the copyright to your books? What percentage do they get from your sales?

Welcome to the New Space Dock 13!Helping Authors Write Weird, Bizarre, Absurd, Psychedelic Horror-Fantasy Since 1996!(We've Moved & Changed URLs; Space Dock 13 is now EelKat.com)(We are also novel-writing-tips.com, a-pink-unicorn.com, & of course are still SpaceDock13.com)

Want To Meet EelKat and The Dazzling Razzberry (Autism Awareness Car) in Person?

This Year's CosPlay: Avallac'hI'm livestreaming making this costume. If you want to see it being made, check out my Avallac'h Costume Making Vlogs on YouTube!https://www.youtube.com/user/EelKatSee You There!