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moana posted:I think my first two novels took longer than that, actually. It really gets easier to more you go. My first novel flopped hard. Fifteenish novels later, I'm starting to get the hang of it. The only secret is to keep improving with every book and don't give up. Do you mean this in terms of the quality of work that you turn out, or in terms of marketing them / doing the "business" side of self-publishing? If it's the former, how do you contend with people associating your name with the bad works and letting that negatively impact their view of the good ones? Or do you publish under different pseudonyms?
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Is there a convenient, comparative list anywhere of how well different genres sell, both in unit volume and $ sales? I know romance is far and away the largest, but what's second/third/fourth/fifth? I want to get into self-publishing as a hobby/possibly a supplementary income but have a hard time grasping the idea of writing romance long-term. And an unrelated question: how exactly does tax work on Amazon? I imagine you're legally a freelancer and get taxed as such. In my case it's probably even more complicated, as I am a US citizen but have my residence abroad (in Germany), and haven't set foot in the US in over two years. I'll be writing in English, but will my location mean my English books will pop up on the German-language store and not be visible in the Anglosphere? Edit: and a third unrelated question. Is there any weird logic you guys follow when coming up with pen names? I once heard somewhere that there are specific syllable combinations that seem to be more memorable and "marketable" in English (three-syllable first name, two-syllable last name), but that's probably bullshit? Drone fucked around with this message at 10:33 on May 26, 2015 |
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May 26, 2015 10:27
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So romance is huge... how "big" are gay-themed romances on the self-publishing medium? I know that traditionally, gay romance/erotica on the internet have a pretty high straight female readership (which is how slash fiction got its start and why it's so massive), but does that carry over onto Kindle Store stuff as well? I'm interested more in the romance side of it than the erotica side.
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May 26, 2015 18:46
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ArchangeI posted:Pretty much. Some genres are compatible, though, like Sci-Fi and fantasy. You don't even have to vary them that much between those two genres, if at all. Iain M. Banks for sci-fi, Iain Banks for fantasy, etc.
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Jun 11, 2015 10:34
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I can't be the only one who saw the title and was immediately reminded of the Patton Oswalt "Death Bed: The Bed That Eats People" bit.
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Jul 13, 2016 08:18
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That's also really bad.
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Jul 17, 2016 16:54
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Are you married to that pen name? It's fine and all but like 95% of your audience is not going to have a clue how it's pronounced. Edit: not trying to be a dick here at all, I'm speaking as a consumer. If I were Joe Schmoe recommending this book to a friend, I would default to saying Cletus Capple because I have no idea how it's actually supposed to be pronounced.
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Jul 17, 2016 17:07
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MussoliniB posted:I just wanted to say thank you to every single person that had something to say about my book and I took every piece of advice to heart. You still misspelled "millennials."
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Jul 24, 2016 18:31
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Your audience is almost certainly not going to understand Classical Greek, maybe just... write the sentences in English?
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Jul 28, 2016 15:11
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