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Post by Forresst on Jul 14, 2015 18:25:27 GMT -8
It's just what it says on the tin: I wrote a book! It's a small book, technically a novella, but I want to entertain you all so I put it on Amazon for kindle. You can have it for 3 dollars in the US, and whatever 3 dollars converts to anywhere else! So if you like cool stories with demons, monsters, fighting, kisses from mom on your forehead, action, laughs, and all sorts of weird gods, go buy my book!
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Post by lowkeyoh on Jul 14, 2015 18:36:07 GMT -8
Congrats!
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Post by Probie Tim on Jul 14, 2015 20:07:22 GMT -8
That's rad! I'll pick it up on my Kindle as soon as I finish my current read.
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Post by archmagezemoc on Jul 20, 2015 11:16:03 GMT -8
Awesome! I'm currently working on my own book as well! How easy is it to publish onto Amazon, I've heard it's really easy.
Also did you hire an editor, do it yourself, or have a friend/family help out?
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Post by sbloyd on Jul 20, 2015 11:47:02 GMT -8
Ah, but is there an audio version?
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Post by Forresst on Jul 20, 2015 13:15:24 GMT -8
I do not have an audio version available, sorry sbloyd. If I sell a certain amount, there's a program I could apply to for Audible, but I'm not sure on the details of it. I'm still about 996 copies away from even considering applying lol! archmagezemoc it's SUPER EASY to publish through Kindle Direct Publishing. All you do is you go to Amazon, there's a link at the very bottom that says "publish independently with us". You click that, it uses your regular Amazon customer account, and then you have to read and accept a bunch of contract stuff. Once you accepted their sales contracts, they take you to a "Tax interview" page, where they ask you where you're from, etc etc etc, and you just click yes or no for most of it, and then fill in your address and name and things. From there, you can set up your bank account, they will wire you your royalties monthly. If you make less than 10 dollars they'll just hold it for you until you get above the threshold. The last step is to upload your book! If you use a program that can handle it, they will accept a .mobi file. I use Scrivener, so I had to download a little API package and tadaaa! Instant formatting! But if you use something else, they have a converter you can use right on the page, or there's services that are really great. As for editing, I did a lot of it myself, and also roped my mom into a lot of editing, but when I finished the whole thing I sent it out to a bunch of fellow aspiring writer types I know and got myself an editing pool. Given the lessons from that, I think for the next one I will hire an editor, but I was pretty broke and had to get by with what I could afford. The problem I ran into was everyone who'd fought really hard to get on my alpha reader list just couldn't get it together and read the thing, much less provide much in the way of feedback. The two or three who volunteered AS EDITORS were less flaky, but they ended up sitting on it for weeks and weeks, which frustrated me mightily. Hope that helps!
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Post by archmagezemoc on Jul 20, 2015 16:36:31 GMT -8
That helps a lot!! I think I'm gunna take a short family loan from my parents to pay for an editor if I can't afford it myself. My sisters BFF lives directly next door to R.A.Salvatore (yes.) and I got to interview him for a highschool project so I'm gunna see if I can't miraculously get a suggestion from him for someone to send it to. ^.^ A man can dream!!
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Post by Forresst on Jul 20, 2015 16:41:46 GMT -8
Oh! There's a GREAT resource to find a freelance editor Let me just go find it, one minute it's in my bookmarks I think. (two minutes later) www.upwork.com/ these guys! They're kind of a freelance everything depot site, but they have a lot of really good editors that are pretty reasonably priced. If you'd like a first pass, I'll be happy to give you a high-level read when you're done And in return, of course, when I finish my next one, I'll send it at you for the same! What kind of book are you writing? My whole book and the two sequels I've got plotted out grew out of one stupid idea. It's been a GONZO good time. It makes me really happy to write!
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Post by archmagezemoc on Jul 20, 2015 16:57:00 GMT -8
It's the first in a series I may or may not continue called "Tales from EndWorld", it's a strange science fantasy story. Could even be called a superhero book I suppose as the "Chosens of EndWorld" are basically like the PCs or Superheroes equivalently. EndWorld is a catch-all game setting I came up with a long time ago in highschool, basically it's based on the idea of the Infinite Worlds Theory, and an episode of Cosmos. Because in the episode where Neil Tyson (I didn't have any good reasoning or explanation before this) explains it they show a visual of all the possible universes as bubbles floating together in some meta space. I thought to myself, if the universes are spheres, there would be space between them right?
EndWorld is the reality that sits at the bottom of the universe bucket. As universes collapse sometimes things are left behind, and they fall to the bottom of the bucket. When someone breaks the walls of reality but doesn't make it through to another one? Sucked into EndWorld. So as it's all just the the fragments of scattered reality and the foundations of creation. So when there's a being, entity, person or whatever, if they have a will strong enough they can distort the laws of physics. And when they are really strong they do it subconsciously, reshaping a section of world around them into something from their past or, if they do it purposefully, to whatever shape they'd like. This has caused a like a patchwork world where if you walk for long enough you may walk through a desert, into a dense rainforest, directly to the top of a mountain or to a random ocean. The setting is purposefully made chaotic and weird lol. The Chosen of EndWorld are any being, humans, orcs, robot, whatever who is then "chosen" by a spirit of pure energy who embodies a certain thing, granting their "host" a powerset or something.
The one I'm working on now is basically the introduction to the world and a rise+fall story. I hit 30k words a few weeks ago and then hit a writers block (I think i've cleared, I'll find out soon). Basically it follows the story of "The Dichotomous King", a Chosen who is host to 2 different spirits. I'm writing it in 1st person until 2/3 or 3/4 of the way through where I plan to switch to 3rd person. He starts out as an amnesiac who slowly learns about the world and realises he has powers, raises a town and tries to be a good and gentle leader, bad things happen, he retaliates, more bad things happen.
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Post by Forresst on Jul 20, 2015 17:16:32 GMT -8
Sounds really fun! I hit blocks a few times, and what I found was the Jerry Seinfeld method: don't try to write a certain amount, just aim to write a little bit each day. Sometimes a "little bit" is 2 words, sometimes it's a few hundred, sometimes it's even more. But the point is less to hit a target and more to keep the streak of days with writing going, and as you go forward in that, you'll naturally start writing more per day as you get in the habit
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Post by archmagezemoc on Jul 20, 2015 17:24:58 GMT -8
Thanks for the advice!
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Post by archmagezemoc on Jul 23, 2015 10:00:12 GMT -8
Good news is my writers block as broken down a bit, got back into the writing of it! Also, I'd love for you to take a read of it, once I finish the 1st Act of it I plan to send it to a few people for feedback before I go into the 2nd half of it.
And as is only fair I would also enjoy givin ya feedback on ur next one!
On my way to breaking into full "Novel" territory, planning to break 33,000 words today!
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