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Apr 1, 2016 16:16
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Self-Publishing Goons: i can see his dick through his jumpsuit.
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Apr 1, 2016 17:07
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that slack is by far the most active place for self pubbers talkin' smut i've found so far. plus, glorious gifs! it's like IRC, but if IRC wasn't stuck in 2001.
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Apr 1, 2016 17:48
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Okay, I said awhile ago I wanted to join that slack... And then slacked (that pun had to happen). But I wanna join for sure! Who do I email to get in?
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Apr 1, 2016 19:42
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angel opportunity fucked around with this message at 15:01 on Apr 26, 2016 |
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Apr 1, 2016 19:50
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I emailed you too.
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Apr 1, 2016 20:49
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brotherly posted:that slack is by far the most active place for self pubbers talkin' smut i've found so far. plus, glorious gifs! it's like IRC, but if IRC wasn't stuck in 2001. Please. IRC is stuck in 1992.
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Apr 2, 2016 04:13
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I'd like in too, please. Emailed.
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Apr 2, 2016 13:36
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drat, I had an utterly massive amount of returns on the 1st. Someone returned close to 30 of my titles they had bought during the previous month, so now I have more "-1"s than I do stories with positive sales. (I'm guessing it was one person because they all showed up at the same time). Ate over half of my sales from yesterday. What a wonderful start to the month 
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Apr 2, 2016 17:39
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Got a god drat one star on my new book right out of the gate. I looked and the jerk gives almost everything a one or two star. Jerk.
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Apr 2, 2016 19:10
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That has happened to me once or twice. Unless I have tons of other promo lined up, I tend to kill the book immediately and re-list it.
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Apr 2, 2016 22:01
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Three already lined up for the 11th dang it.
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Apr 2, 2016 22:05
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Quick question / confirmation. Thinking about going for this competition with my current work in progress. My current quandry though is that if it doesn't win, I don't want to end up missing out on the free Amazon promo when it first comes out. Looking at the terms, it looks like inkshares offer a non-exclusive option. Can I put the stuff on there, and then if I'm not in the competition, just withdraw it and then publish exclusively on Amazon to take advantage of the KU promos?
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Apr 7, 2016 13:47
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Looking at the terms, it looks like inkshares offer a non-exclusive option. Can I put the stuff on there, and then if I'm not in the competition, just withdraw it and then publish exclusively on Amazon to take advantage of the KU promos? As long as it's not available anywhere else when you publish on Amazon, you can enroll it in KDP Select/KU and use the promos.
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Apr 7, 2016 16:54
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Do you write hard scifi regularly or is this going to be a one-off?
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Apr 7, 2016 17:49
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EngineerSean posted:Do you write hard scifi regularly or is this going to be a one-off? I've been writing hard scifi, because it's what I enjoy. I've been thinking of taking it into more scifi/fantasy though. My research into this genre (ie. all the books I've ever read) makes me think the market is flooded, but it's what I enjoy writing. Has anyone had any success with it?
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Apr 7, 2016 18:18
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I don't think that particular genre is flooded, I just don't think that particular contest or Avenue of promotion is worth writing hard scifi if you aren't already devoting time to a pen name already. It's one of my dreams to have a story in Analog or Asimov's someday but that would be a vanity project rather than something that I'd consider as a strategy.
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Apr 7, 2016 20:18
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The one I was already working on is futurism, mining on mars in 2050. They keep using the Martian as an example so it seems appropriate. The major sticking point is that i'm going for a dark comedy feel, and i'm not sure that's what they're looking for.
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Apr 7, 2016 21:13
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I might have my first real hit on my hands...over 200 sales on it so far today and it's 672 rank so far. I'm hoping I can break top 500 and just kind of hang out there for a while...
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Apr 9, 2016 04:03
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angel opportunity posted:I might have my first real hit on my hands...over 200 sales on it so far today and it's 672 rank so far. I'm hoping I can break top 500 and just kind of hang out there for a while... Confuckingrats! I finished my very first full length novel last night, for my new PNR pen name, so it will definitely not be a hit. But hey, I'm one novel closer to my first hit than I was yesterday. 
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Apr 9, 2016 17:15
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I just released an urban teacher memoir / inner city school turnaround book and have been trying to create a Twitter following to market it. Is there an app people use to manage Twitter followers? I've never had a personal account so I'm a rookie. I'm torn between marketing to urban teachers who actually want to fix things and conservative nutjobs who want to see how terrible schools are to justify not sending their kids to public school. I guess I could try both. Here's a link to my book. I've got it on Kindle now and a CreateSpace paperback will be coming out next week. http://www.amazon.com/In-Bottom-1-Challenge-Reforming-ebook/dp/B01DWHRWE4?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0 Any other feedback would be welcome also.
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Apr 12, 2016 02:30
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For anyone on the fence with Scrivener you can get it at Tested's website for $22.50. Hit the drop-down menu to select the PC version. It's well worth the money. https://store.tested.com/sales/scrivener-2-for-os-x
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Apr 13, 2016 19:59
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Trustworthy posted:Confuckingrats! Hey, first romance novel done last night buddy. 
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Apr 13, 2016 22:48
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Really enjoying this sudden burst of productivity. Four days and I've logged 22k words. Not too shabby. The final part of this trilogy should be done by Friday? If I keep the pace going.
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Apr 17, 2016 04:20
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I have a silly stupid question for the thread, and I apologize if it was answered elsewhere. Is it possible to publish through Amazon, Apple, et. al, and in such away that you can be totally certain you won't make any money? I ask because I want to get back into writing but I'm living and working abroad and a condition of my visa is that I not make any money from anything else, even working for myself.
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Apr 17, 2016 18:44
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BuckarooBanzai posted:I have a silly stupid question for the thread, and I apologize if it was answered elsewhere. Is it possible to publish through Amazon, Apple, et. al, and in such away that you can be totally certain you won't make any money? I ask because I want to get back into writing but I'm living and working abroad and a condition of my visa is that I not make any money from anything else, even working for myself. Just write, stockpile your works and then publish when your visa situation changes.
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Apr 17, 2016 19:01
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Jalumibnkrayal posted:Just write, stockpile your works and then publish when your visa situation changes. I'm going to second this. AO can speak more authoritatively on visas than I can, but my last job included visa-holder labor compliance; if your visa says no self-employment, don't. Are you trying to avoid the 30 day cliff? Or are you just itching to pull the trigger on something?
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Apr 17, 2016 19:05
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BuckarooBanzai posted:I have a silly stupid question for the thread, and I apologize if it was answered elsewhere. Is it possible to publish through Amazon, Apple, et. al, and in such away that you can be totally certain you won't make any money? I ask because I want to get back into writing but I'm living and working abroad and a condition of my visa is that I not make any money from anything else, even working for myself. I'm curious, why do you want to publish, then?
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Apr 17, 2016 19:40
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You can price your work for $0 on most retailers. Except Amazon. They'll price match to $0, but you might make a few bucks before they do.
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Apr 17, 2016 19:45
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AbrahamLincolnLog posted:I'm curious, why do you want to publish, then? I used to write for a hobby but never got a chance to put stuff out there. This was years ago, mind you. I'm looking to get back into it and it'd just be nice to see my stuff get read by someone who isn't my wife.
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Apr 17, 2016 19:55
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Just publish it a word press site or whatever I say.
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Apr 17, 2016 21:07
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I just recently learned about Lulu and it seems like a really good service to use Anyone here with any experience with it? Even if I don't go full-blown self-published with the book I'm writing right now, it seems like a great way to get a physical copy of it to give to my niece when she's actually old enough to read it without immediately bending and standing on it
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Apr 19, 2016 04:10
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I used Lulu waaaaaayyyyy back when. You can get hardcover editions, which is nice if you don't want to publish but want to give something to your family.
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Apr 19, 2016 05:36
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For paperbacks, CreateSpace proof copies are probably better for affordability / quality. Hardcovers from Lulu are nice, though.
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Apr 19, 2016 14:39
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Has there been any discussion of this article? http://www.annchristy.com/ku-scammers-on-amazon-what-you-need-to-know/ quote:One thing we were all assured by Amazon…many times…in writing…was that Amazon knew how much a reader was reading in each book and they would pay us for those pages. quote:The profit? That seems like a huge problem.
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Apr 19, 2016 20:15
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Maybe if enough people gently caress the system enough they'll get rid of KU.
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Apr 19, 2016 21:25
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Amazon is currently ignoring this problem and hoping that all publishers forget about it. Based on past experiences I would say that that was a good strategy but this one has been picked up by a few pro-Amazon bloggers and self publishers.
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Apr 19, 2016 21:33
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That's a hell of a scam - and they're screwing over indie self-publishers! Bravo! If Amazon can't accurately track the number of pages a reader has read, then Amazon has no business paying authors by the page. Zero. None.
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Apr 19, 2016 21:45
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It's been going on for quite some time, but when it came to light last month and people started digging up numbers on just how much some of these scammers were making, the KU rate suddenly lurched upwards to coincide with Amazon's statement that they were dealing with it. The trouble is, unless Amazon actually start reviewing the content of the books they accept and not just the cover and blurb, it's pretty much impossible for them to keep on top of it. Unfortunately, when you outsource your 'content review' to low paid Indian workers who may not have the best grasp of English, and who are probably dealing with dozens if not hundreds of books per day each, that is just never going to happen. As the system is set up right now these scams will continue to happen, and millions of dollars will be siphoned off from the pot each month. Amazon will presumably plug the gap as best they can by pumping cash in to keep the rate where they want it to be, but until they fundamentally change how KU works, they can't stop it. Bardeh fucked around with this message at 17:00 on Apr 20, 2016 |
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Apr 20, 2016 16:57
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The rate lurched up ten percent because they shaved fifteen to twenty percent of the total pages of most books, which just kinda proves my point that for the most part, hoping that publishers forget these facts has been a winning strategy for Amazon.
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Apr 20, 2016 18:21
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