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Mirage posted:Actually, that makes me wonder: How is the Christmas season for self-pubbers? Does anyone see an upswing during Cyber It used to be called smutmas for a reason
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Bardeh posted:It looks like the boards got sold to some company, and the ToS got updated to include the following passage: Yeah. The boards get super critical of dumb poo poo (like mirroring and other things plenty of people did) but they were a good hub for info, and talking to some of the bigs about stuff. Everyone’s moving over to another board there, and it seems chill.
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Couple things, as someone who does this for a living. Romance is still king, but if you love writing something else, (sci fi, thrillers or mysteries) write what you love the most. Read ten books that are in the top 100 of those genres, and then start writing. A thousand words a day is nothing. It would take me less than a half hour to write that. Unless you focus on smut (and I would not) it’s just not enough.
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lexical fluidity posted:Blowing the dust off this thread. Super solid cover. I’ll buy it later today!
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Icon-Cat posted:On the note of covers, the stock photo models from my more recent efforts are beginning to follow me around. That’s true of most popular stock photo models. Same five dudes are on so many covers. I find it funny when I see cheap thrillers at Barnes and Nobel that use the same stock photos that I have too. What’s funnier is that a lot of indie thrillers put in more work making the covers these days than even the cheap trade paperbacks... this business really will hit maturity in about three years. We’re still at “you can’t make much money doing it” and “it used to be easy, now it’s too hard and there are so many scammers”, depending on who you talk to.
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ketchup vs catsup posted:I wish you nothing but success but I am not a fan of book 3’s cover at all. The visual motif you had going of the girl standing and looking with the titles in front and the cool background is completely replaced with a close up muddy shot. Agreed. But, using a red background for girl Standing would be a good contrast. Dudes glow in the lower part of the image is neat. I’d say keep glow, but change girl. (You’ll need new images, but I’m just giving you a reference point).
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Dream Weaver posted:Meanwhile I have an artist but he wants $1,000 for the cover. Unless we're talking like sci fi epic hand drawn poo poo, that's too much. Especially if you don't have a pen name with a ton of readers yet. A good pre made (there's plenty out there) for first or second or third books, and spend the extra money on editing. Don't pay for advertising till book three or so either, at this point, and depending on genre.
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