"New" editionA thread for readers to palaver with our local independent literati. Keep self-promotion to a minimum and in accordance with global rule 11 (no retailer links).Review and discuss the publications below; contribute, and you shall receive.If you have not polished your publication, do not expect to be treated kindly. Edit your work thoroughly before publishing.The traditionally published need not post ITT.Resourceshttps://selfpublishingwithdale.com/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQygKqJVFXgPlatformshttps://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/writinglifehttps://play.google.com/books/publish/https://press.barnesandnoble.comPrevious: n/a
So far, I've written at least three reviews for self-published books promoted on /lit/ and gotten zero (0) reviews from /lit/ users on my own book. What a shame.Anyway, which of /lit/'s books should I review next?
I wrote The Chemical Divorce but cut most of the exposition and began in medias res. Now readers say it's confusing. Anyone read it and want to say what was difficult to understand? I can gift you a copy if you want to share your thoughts. Will gladly share feedback for others, too.
>>25281269Have you read The Dark Triad? It’s a pretty lean and mean ~140 pages.
>>25281269What's your book?
>>25281331That's one of the three you fuck now do my book>>25281349pic
>>25281320I bought it back in March and I didn't understand a single thing that happened. Now I'm stuck with that version of the book forever. Are you still in the fucking editing phase?
>>25281320Here's your review
>>25281320>>25281366>Otto Thorne>ThorneNice to see the author doesn't have a brain.
>>25281320Sure, if you gift me a copy I'll give you my honest thoughts
>>25281550https://www.amazon.com/kindle/redeem/?t=GS2LQ87G5KY5TMH >>25281543There are people in real life with the surname Thorne, like Jack Thorne. What are you babbling about? Who would use a propaganda chatbot to name a fictional person? >>25281366The story is almost a word-for-word retelling of the Crata Repoa. If people tell me what they didn't understand, I can add lines where Otto narrates the plot to his octopus.
>>25281543Elara Vane
Is it common for self-published works to get picked up and published traditionally later? I'm writing a nonfiction work.
>>25281860Only if you're very successful, I hear. Then they'll gladly come in to take 90% of your revenue.
>>25281860It's been more popular to do it this way. Dungeon crawler carl is huge
>>25281813>Who would use a propaganda chatbot to name a fictional person?You have no fucking idea.
>>25281860Dont validate the publishing industry. We live in a times where you are enabled and empowered with a digital printing press
>>25281860No, not at all. In fact, publishers want first dibs and will very explicitly not take work that has been published before in any way whatsoever. Exceptions to this involve books that are massively successful (like hundreds of thousands of sales-tier successful) were a publisher might swoop in and try to skim a little bit off the top of an already independently successful project.
>>25281813Have you considered sending redemption codes for your short story to lodges?You can find websites for nearly every public lodge>from there, find the contact emailThen, and have no shame about it because that's just the modern hustle, compile them all into an email list and write an email with a code for each one saying that you are a young gentleman trying to get his start in life and that you wrote your story trying to bridge the gap between old styles of writing that aren't legible to a modern reader?
>>25282201Major Arcana?Its a small book that found only a few readers on substack after countless rejections (author being a respected college prof) and then a publisher picked it up
>>25281269>Anyway, which of /lit/'s books should I review next?Viktoria: The First Russy
>>25282206That's a good idea. I might shoot a copy to the OTO or Rose Cross or something. It does need minor adjustment to make the plot more accessible, but the dialogue and beats and characters, I think, are quite strong.
>>25282210I'm sure there's a dozen exceptions, but that's out of a million cases. The standard is that publishers demand "first rights", and they're very prickly about it. If you bank on self-publishing in the short-term while you shop around for a publisher in the long-term you have to be aware you're taking a risk that might prevent you from said publisher taking you on.
Is there any merit to self publish a novelette? I mean something around 14500 words. Or is it better to bundle it with other short stories and try with an anthology?
>>25282325Depends. Short form stuff is tolerated in genres like horror and romance. I once knew a guy that exclusively wrote zombie apocalypse novellas in the 100-120 page range with the occasional 20-30 page short story thrown in and he was getting okay sales. Basically the schlockier the genre, the more leeway. Except for fantasy where people are very anal about wordcounts. Anything less than 400 pages and they don't feel like they're getting enough bang for their buck.
>>25282261https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1232&context=theteanAll their orgs share in some kind of initiation where a new candidate approaches modesty and are taken down to their bare necessities so their moral values ought to mean they are considerate of us would be authorsI think /spg/ will work out.
>>25282325>14500 words>novelettedo /wg/fags really
>>25282344What would you call it? Everybody says it's too long for a short story.
>>25282357awkward
I am starting to suspect that the concept of a "hidden gem" is mostly fake. If you wrote something appealing to readers the algorithm will always get the ball rolling eventually.
>>25282357>>25282449Don't listen to him. Nightfall by Asimov is 15k words.
>>25282456And as Small Penis Publishers we should be appreciative while exploiting that algorithms will funnel our work to readers if we write to their tropey vices and comforting cliches.>I'll take it
How are you guys actually getting people to find and discover your book online?
>>25282553tiktok
>>25283110You post about your book?You do skits and shill your book?You participate in booktok while keeping personal shill links in bio?You make the quartering videos?
is it unreasonable to expect free copies or excerpted pages in this thread?
>>25283178Yes. You're sounding entitled.
>>25282553Either pick one or two communities and ingratiate yourself with them, or go all around and spray-and-pray. Either way, you're not getting very many readers.
Looks like I am going to have to self-publish my 1,000 page tour de force novel. Has anyone used IngramSpark?
I thought of it in the spirit of "the reader does not steal, and the thief does not read".handing out your book, which lacks an audience, for free will only gain you.
>>25283287I can't disagree with a weird cat art poster, so here's the free version of my ebook. https://litter.catbox.moe/o9h7p6t0adn74w53.epubIt's this one >>25281350"Rosie, a bookworm, hates her life. She goes to an elite and nightmarish unified education institution where she lives with a beastly roommate. Her only escape is the establishment’s underground with its bizarre creatures and surreal experiences.Then, Thomasin enrolls. Rosie observes Thomasin from afar. Obsession blooms. She changes her behavior to match Thomasin’s—her ferocity, her indulgences, her lewdness. When Thomasin rises into a pop star, Rosie becomes a fanatic. But to be like Thomasin is not enough. Rosie must become Thomasin.*Contains explicit sexual content and graphic violence.*"Picrel is the sample from Amazon.
>>25283296>her foul feminine odorDid you want to say the reek of her sweat?
>>25283178https://www.amazon.com/kindle/redeem/?t=GS78FUHA8VK9U5R
>>25283302No, I wanted to say "her foul feminine odor."
>>25283564I read the rest. This weird fucking shit, man. Not sure who this appeals to.
>>25283570I think it's just smut.
>>25283574I mean, that's just a weird character. Unless I'm mistaken, the MC is a girl and she's working very hard there to tell us she... hates women, I suppose. She is so absolutely disgusted by them, she has to make a point of it, multiple times. It's anon story, so whatever, but that caught my attention and not in a good way.
>>25283575Your supposition merely exposes your narrow-mindedness. The character hates the overwhelming majority of God's creatures, not just women.
>>25283578Whatever you say, anon. I have a feeling other readers won't have a much different opinion from mine.
I, for one, love my cover art.
>>25283584Appeal to population is a logical fallacy. And a thing is a thing, not what is said of that thing.
>>25283588The weirdest part of this weird cover is how the arm of the background nebula directly behind the censored baseball makes it look like it's wearing some kind of hat.
>>25282553Spamming it in /lit/ threads
>>25282553Run Amazon ads.
>>25283296the beginning felt like a women's erotica fanfiction but then it starts to feel like perfect blue. anon this has potential. but my attention span is completely cooked, and there are two audiobooks available, which one do I get for the most recent version?
>>25283858Ignore that, there's only one audiobook, I fucked up when I was distributing it
