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Sally Forth posted:Are you self publishing (uploading to Amazon, Kobo etc.) or submitting to publishers? If it's the former, I'll demure to the rest of the thread on what's normal. Ah, thank you so much. That's an invaluable link and excellent way to cut between the bullshit. I've spent a solid part of the day dissecting different "publishers" and discovering plenty are bullshit. I've yet to post in the other thread, but I'm on the fence about how to publish. My goal on the first novel is expanding readership, not profit. I'm absolutely fine with breaking even, or even losing some. I'm disabled in America, so the possible income is a headache that will involve lawyers at some point. What I don't want to do is slop something together that isn't professional, sell ten copies, then have it just puff into the ether. Also, it's going to be cut into two novels if not three. It was written in one go and tells one story, so I've yet to commit to precisely how I'm cutting it apart. But naw, it isn't a 175k word single novel.
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SimonChris posted:https://www.amazon.com/s?k=%22simon+christiansen%22 You need to contact Amazon. Here is what I get when I click on your link. I tried turning off my VPN, too. This is using Safari on a MacBook Pro that is completely up to date. 
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Just going to ask a quick survey question - For all you fine self-published folks, do you use chapters?
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I appreciate the input on the chapters. Which means I'm going to be using them from here on out. I always preferred simple page breaks when the story is linear and from a simple viewpoint, like only two characters. But I don't want to give myself a disadvantage on the first thing I publish. I'm purposely using chapters in a short story/novella I'm working on the side, and it's an adjustment.
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Reading this makes me want to bump up my silly plans to cold-read some bad romance novels on Youtube. It sounds like the world could use some affordable narrators who aren't ChatGPT.
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Sundae posted:Just to give you a heads-up on this: I did this with erotica as a goofball YT podcast with friends, where we'd read bad erotica and joke about it while getting increasingly drunk. The result was 4-5 episodes that almost nobody watched but which somehow still got the channel suspended by Google. Don't use ones that are too explicit, if you do that. This is what's going to get read -  It would just be to entertain about ten people in TFR and some other friends. I randomly got this sent with a piece of Moroccan currency I ordered for my collection, and I still have zero idea why. This looks like a hidden Christianity romance novel -  Did you get suspended for your reading being racy? Or something else?
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