Congratulations!
You have reached Maine's largest and most trafficked website.
As of February 2021, we are now getting up to 7 MILLION visits per day!
This is the home page of
Maine author, artist, Voodoo Priestess, Gypsy Queen, and art car designer:
EelKat Wendy Christine Allen.
This website started in 1996 and is updated, edited, and added to daily.
As of 2021 it has more than 10,000 pages. However, only around 2,000 pages are indexed by search engines (robot blockers and/or passwords, prevent the rest from being findable by Google/Bing/Yahoo/etc.). Around 8,000 pages can only be accessed by clicking on direct links to them. The links are found on other pages on this site. Confusing? Perhaps. But whenever one of those difficult to find 8,000 pages gets traffic, I know that you are VERY dedicated in reading what I wrote or doing some stalker level digging to reach those search engine inaccessible pages and I'd rather not waste my time writing stuff for uninterested parties, plus it's fascinating to see how deep some people are willing dig to find every last word I wrote.
I published my first novel in 1978. Since than I have published 138 novels, 30 non-fiction books, 2,000+ short stories, a dozen plays, a few comic book scripts for Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck comics, a few dozen novellas, and 10,000+ non-fiction articles.
I am asexual and famous for 4 decades of writing 100% sexless stories, laced in extreme blood-gore-and-violence. But in spite of that, in recent years, most people classify me as an Erotica author. I don't know why, as I've never written Erotica or even any sex scenes, and as I am a nun, raised as such from the age of 3, I wouldn't even know how to write sex or Erotica. If you came here looking for sex, BDSM, Erotica, or Dominatrix's, please return to whomever sent you and tell them to burn in Hell where their immoral ass belongs. Also, do tell me their name so I can put a curse on them, so they will never enjoy sex ever again, to punish them for spreading lies about me and connecting my name to anything related to sex at all. I find sex vile and despicable and want no part of your perverse degradation near me.
All of my fiction works are about Alien Elf Wizards who live in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. All of my non-fiction works are about the history of Maine, it's Gypsy Clans, and most especially Old Orchard Beach the town which was settled and founded by my family.
Most of these pages answer reader questions on the worldbuilding, character creating, plotting, writing, editing, and publishing process of my work.
Others are on the history of my people, The Gypsies of Maine, our culture, our lifestyle, our cars, and our religion.
The rest of the pages are daily updates of the terrorist attacks by Maine's White Supremacists on my non-white family, including updates of the FBI investigation of the April 10, 2015 kidnapping and murder of my children.
The bulk of this website is a massive database of how-to articles for anyone looking to write and publish Dark Fantasy & Weird Horror.
Some stuff is indexed. Most stuff isn't. The links below take you to the most popular/most visited pages. Each of them contains more links to more pages. That should get you started.
Enjoy your stay!
Let's answer a reader question, right here in the header:
>>>Wait, I just realized that 2,000 short stories plus 138 novels times minimum 27,000 sales each volume equals to 57 million sales. Have you really sold over 57 million copies of the Quaraun books? Those are Harry Potter and Stephen King level sales figures. I didn't realize you were that big of a best seller!
Yes.
If Stephen King didn't live in Maine, I would be Maine's #1 top selling author.
And there are a lot of local people in Old Orchard Beach, Saco, and Biddeford, Maine kicking themselves right now, as they read this and realize they've been harassing my family, while literally MILLIONS of people around the world have been watching, and before they, these idiot locals, visited this my website, they had no idea, how famous I really was, or how famous they themselves now are for being bullies. You can read the rest here.
Let's answer another...
>>>I have an author web site. How do you get so much traffic? I barely get 200 visits a month.
Answer #1: I started this website in 1996. It's one of the oldest writing how-to web sites on the internet. This web existed BEFORE Google did. This website was online before Yahoo was around. It's that old. We've changed servers and url names several times, but the fact remains, I created/still own not only one of the first writing sites to ever exist, but one of the first websites to EVER be made PERIOD. And when it comes to search engines after 2010's Panda - age of the website trumps EVERYTHING else, keywords and most traditional SEO advice don't mean shit no more.
The fact remains, this website is older than a good 80% of people who use the internet today. It was around before most of today's internet users were even born.
Wait 10 or 12 years. Post daily that entire time, and by than, you'll have traffic like I do too.
Answer #2: I love Avallac'h. I've been a major fan of the Witcher franchise for a very long time, and there are several hundred pages on my website devoted to my screaming fan-girl love gushing for the Witcher franchise, particularly Avallac'h. Many of those pages are more than a decade old. In 2019, my site was getting around 100k views a month. Now in 2021, it's getting 7million views a day. What changed? The full details are on this page, but the quick summary this:
On December 21, 2019, Netflix released the Witcher TV show, and the next day, millions of people rushed to Google to type the search term "nude Netflix Ciri porn photos", because they're a bunch of pedophiles who wanted to search for nude photos of a 12 year old actress. Google sent them: HERE. (Obviously not photos of the actress as this page was created about 5 years before the Netflix series). And literally over night, my site got more traffic in a single hour, than it usually got each year. And within hours, the mass onslaught of hate emails started because you know, Ciri who never read the Witcher novels, didn't know Ciri and Avallac'h had sex in the novels and were horrified to see me use the game to create fan art of exactly that.
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|Giving Your Characters Flaws and Goals | Writing Taboos | Travel & World Size Fantasy Worldbuilding |
| Slice of Life Literary Fantasy - Soap Opera Drama of the Fantasy Genre |
| Question Everything Before Putting It In Your World |
| Americans Don't Want Diverse Books | Why Do Americans Hate Black People? (2016 ed.) |
| Writing Christian Characters Accurately To Real World Christians | Writing Prompt Syndrome |
| How long does it take to reach 1667 words? & 50k in one day - is it possible? | How Many Pages Per Day? |
| How to increase word count without making a story boring? | Your Population: World Building Writing Prompts |
| Overactive Reader Imaginations: Seeing Things I Did Not Write|
| Wait, why is Quaraun Rated M If It's Not Erotica and Contains No Sex Scenes? |
| Comparing The Wild Sex Crazed Rumors About Who I Am & What I Write, To Asexual I Actually Am & The Sexless Novels I Actually Write |
| BDSM? Dominatrix? Erotica? Boy Are You In The Wrong Place! |
| Wait, You DON'T Write Sex, But I Thought... | A Look At Twitch's Witch Hunting Culture |
| But Avallac'h... A Look At How Sex Crazed Fans Can Destroy Lives, When They See Sex In Places It Never Was |
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| Who Is Avallac'h? | Ciri or Lara? | | But Ciri is The Chosen One, She's Like Jesus! | | The Avallac'h Playthrough Challenge | |
| Mistakes People Make While Playing Witcher 3| | Why Americans Should NOT Read The Witcher Novels | | How can you like Avallac'h? He's a Polygamist! | |
| How Does a Destitute Homeless Man Get Accused of Being Wealthy?| Twitch Follower vs Viewer Counts |
| I Came Here Looking For Vampire Strippers, But Than I Found Out You Were An Asexual Catholic Nun |
| Can I Visit You? | The Most Bizarre Question I've Ever Been Asked & The Answer You Didn't Want To Hear |
| How Did The FBI Get Involved? | What Is The Mafia Connection? | What Religion Are You? |
| Meet The Scottish Travellers | Stephen King's Thinner Gypsies - The Complete Interviews |
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Building Pinterest Traffic: The "Take an Interest in Pinterest" Challenge
Building Pinterest Traffic: The "Take an Interest in Pinterest" Challenge
Building Pinterest Traffic: The "Take an Interest in Pinterest" Challenge
WOW... traffic from Pinterest just started flowing to my SBI site!
I must tell you guys what happened this week...
Back in November, I think it was, I had posted here to show you guys that I had started using Canva to make my pin graphics....
I got an update on that post...
So, I started my Pin account back several years ago, but used it just to repin other people's pins. My account was maybe 5 years old and had about 30 followers and me following 1,000+ people. And never once had I created a pin. It was all me "collecting" my fave pins other people had posted. In fact the fact that I could post my own pins, never even occurred to me before this SBI thread was started!
It wasn't until this thread started last summer, that I realized I could make my own pins. But, summer was busy for me, so I wasn't able to put into action, the things I had learned here, until October, the same month as the https change.
Now, my site is VERY text heavy and is focused on "how to write novels" articles and sample chapters of my novels. So, it doesn't lend well to pinterest, right? Which was something I had mentioned I was worried about... thinking Pinterest would never be a viable source of traffic for me, due to the lack of pictures.
Well, as a result of this thread, I ended up discovering various "quote pins" and "info graphic" pins, and one thing led to another, and I ending finding another author who had a site (hers was a Blogger blog) similar to mine. Like me she had "how to write novels" articles and sample chapters of her novels. She also had a blog post on how she used Pinterest to get traffic to her articles and showed samples of her pins.
What she did was, to make a simple pin image, that was nothing but colourful text on geometric colour blocks, made using Canva templates. They were simple, bold, and required no images. The text was simply, the title of the blog post, and the name of her blog. Nothing else.
I thought: "Hey, I can do that!" And so I did.
Since late October, Early November, I have been creating one of these images for each of my new pages, and also going back to my old pages and creating images for them as well. I now have 300 pages on my site, with pin images, slowly working towards all pages eventually having it's own image.
Here's a few so you can see what they look like:
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So, now for the first time (since Oct 2017) I am using Pinterest to promote my SBI site. Every time I create a new page (or update an old page) I now send it to pinterest, via pinning the images I made for the titles. I created a board specifically for that purpose "Writing Tips For Authors".
Well, other then that. I've not paid attention to my Pinterest account. I make a page, pin it, move on, never head to my pinterest account to see what the pins are doing.
3 days ago one of my articles (an old one that never gets traffic) suddenly gets 20 views in the space of about 5 minutes. At first I assume someone tweeted it and think nothing of it. It did not occur to me that the night before, I had made a pin image for that very aticle and pinned it to my pin board.
A few hours later I'm checking my site stats and this page now has 70 views. I'm still thinking twitter at this point since most of my traffic generally comes from twitter.
I notice at this point that 2 other articles, both several years old and barely getting 1 to 2 views a month, are also fast rising in views. They too had been updated with these new text images and pinned to my board within the past few days. I still have not made the connection.
This morning my phone starts sending me notifications from Pinterest: 5 new followers, 12 saves. Then ten minutes later: 6 new followers, 30 saves.... every 10 minutes another one... then suddenly, I get one that says: 301 new followers, 1800 saves...
I'm omg! What just happened?
I go to Pinterest... I've suddenly gone from 35 followers a few days ago, to 400+ followers this morning! And those 3 articles... each has400+ pins to other people's boards!
I head back to my SBI traffic stats... those same 3 articles each got 400+ views in the past 2 hours!
OMG!
I've heard people talk about how Pinterest traffic starts snowballing fast, when it starts, but, I've never seen it happen before!
I've got 3 pages of my site, all of then 3+ years old and almost never getting traffic, suddenly getting hundreds of hits in a matter of hour.... BECAUSE I added a text graphic to them, and pinned them!
I don't think I've ever seen such a big boost in traffic from seemingly so little effort.
I'm definitely going to start focusing more on Pinterest now that I've seen what it can do.
Thank you for starting this thread! I don't think I ever would have started using Pinterest at all, had I not started reading this thread last summer!
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