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crosspost questionBurkion posted:So, I'm working on my first prose novel. I've written a few graphic novel scripts, and loads of comic scripts at this point, but this is my first full on novel, novel.
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Do you use Createspace for the paperbacks? What genre do you write also, if you don't mind me asking
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Sep 30, 2017 22:47
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freebooter posted:Most of you are Americans so you wouldn't be dumb enough to do this in the first place, but here's some advice: don't do a book launch/free promo combination on Thanksgiving weekend... Oh I am so sorry
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Nov 27, 2017 23:04
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The wider shot looks better, yeah. The blue fits better with flood, too
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Oct 1, 2019 08:11
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Feed, that looks amazing man. I'd be all over that book. I'm presently working on a book I hope to get traditionally published and one for Self Publishing, later in January. Marketing is just not something I'm looking forward to considering
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Oct 10, 2019 01:17
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They wouldn't care either way. it's why you can have a McDonald or whatever
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Oct 17, 2019 01:25
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Boy am I going to be paying attention to this while I figure out how marketing with very little money is going to work
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Oct 29, 2019 20:49
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My sci-fi novel Charred is nearly complete. I'd say I'm maybe 95% away from my final, publishable draft. Just one last editing pass and phrase usage to work through. So now focus is starting to shift to the more cosmetic stuff. If we end up self publishing, which is always an option, this is the rough draft of the cover we're thinking about using.  Thoughts?
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Dec 20, 2019 01:59
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ketchup vs catsup posted:is it...supposed to look like an MS Paint? Rough draft, remember. We're just getting the general idea across before going into it.
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Dec 20, 2019 02:42
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ketchup vs catsup posted:What critique are you looking for? This could work, if the foreground + dude is a lot clearer, and....everything else is a lot clearer too. This is already helpful as is, but the general intent is to evoke the poster of a 1950s sci-fi/monster movie. Dude in a burning forest, staring up at a menacing titan. quote:incidentally, you mention the cover as cosmetic stuff, which it is, but I won't be the only person who'll tell you that unless people know your name/penname on sight, your cover is more important to selling your book than the words you've written. Yeah though I can't sell something I haven't written. Don't misunderstand, I'm not saying a cover is less important, just that priority wise, I needed the story to be finished first. Actual work on getting this published is going to take almost as long as writing it did
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Dec 20, 2019 03:22
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I really am going to have to get better at explaining myself some day. Honestly part of it is I hold back too much because I can go overboard talking about poo poo and I don't want to bog you guys down. But yeah- Charred is straight up a 1950s sci-fi/giant monster novel. I'll just post the blurb that's, probably, going to be on the back of the book Paul Wainwright is dying. Nearing thirty, he’s got nothing to his name except a lung-cancer diagnosis, PTSD from the Korean War, and a one-way ticket to Point Hope, Alaska. Piloting for an oil-baron in middle of nowhere isn’t the most exciting work, but there’s not much else for a war vet to do in 1956. At this point, good pay and companionship are about all he can ask for. Point Hope is supposed to have both. Instead, it has a sky full of foreign bombers, invaders from another world, and a dome that cuts the town off from the rest of the world. The town he escaped to, seeking a new lease on life, instead offers only misery and certain death. The alien power that has ensnared them begins to unleash monsters and abominations, and Paul must choose what to do with his dwindling time and health. The end looms, and Paul alone will decide how he faces it.
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Dec 20, 2019 17:53
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Cover update Some details still need to be finessed and we're currently going back and forth on if one, both or neither arms should glow but 
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Jan 14, 2020 19:48
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So, a friend of mine recently put his first book out https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08C32KJL3/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+magpie+wizard&qid=1593566965&sr=8-1 I'm not the one who wrote it, but I was his sounding board for it enough that he put me first on the dedications page. This started out as a very bitter deconstruction of light novel romance bullshit that slowly evolved into something more sincere- partly because he didn't have the heart to be that mean the entire book. It's the first novel he's ever finished and seen through multiple stages though, and if you want a weird fantasy romance kind of thing with a severe anime bullshit edge to it, eh. I could find worse.
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Jul 16, 2020 09:14
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Finished what I hope is my final draft on Charred. This last draft was just the most rote line editing you could do with very little fun things like additions or twisting stuff. Hopefully that means that I'm done with it though. It's as done as I can get it, if nothing else. Passed it off to the editor and others
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Jul 22, 2020 23:21
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