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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. I need to read that again.
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RedTonic posted:- didn't realize my Scrivener saves were not going to the google drive anymore. FYI - Scrivener does not play well with Google Drive. Literature and Latte, the folks who make it, used to have a warning post about it. I had a similar issue where a weeks worth of writing just disappeared from Google Drive. I've had no issues with Dropbox.
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RedTonic posted:I never saw that post. Nope! I'm on a writing hiatus right now while I wrap up some health issues. I assume it's for the new mobile version of Scrivener? I despise writing on mobile devices so I probably won't try it.
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Probably would have saved me some stress. Have you used the mobile sync option on Scrivener?
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simplefish posted:A friend of mine has written a series of children's books. He just got scammed by a New York-based 'publisher' Childrens books as in picture books, or picture books with text, or just text? Amazon has a specialty program for doing picture books / comics but I have zero experience with it. Anytime I try to add photos everything looks like poo poo. I'd have him browse Amazon for similar books and see where his niche is at for average sales rank. The one category I drilled down is filled with trad-pub books and the recently published self-pub is all in the 600k plus range.
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Ahh nope, was responding to the childrens book query. I'm sure there is a 600k word mil scifi book out there. But, even in that niche, no one would buy it.
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Mirage posted:I've never self-published before, and I think it may be the way to go for the fantasy book I'm writing now, but I have a situation. It's actually a fairly long book, probably clocking in at 120,000 words in edited form, which (a) is divided into three approximately equal parts and (b) ties up its own story but doesn't actually resolve the overarching plot, i.e. is the first book of a potentially long-running series. While I haven't published fantasy, just scifi, I do know that people have a higher page count expectation in fantasy. Judging from the top lists I'm not seeing serials. This is a good judge, if your niche isn't doing it already, you probably don't want to pioneer it.
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Aug 29, 2016 18:54
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These are the same people who see Tupperware/partylite/pyramid scheme sales as a viable way to make money at home. Why try and sell a product in a store when you can guilt your friends and neighbors into buying it? Also whatever algorithm change Amazon made is working quite well for me. Though I'm sure that'll change with the next algo...
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jazzyjay posted:
That's a good post and a good way to start the new year. You've got another sale from me. Bravo! Rock on boat goon. I sold mine a few years ago, still miss it and the dream.
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angel opportunity posted:What would need to happen for a really good OP to this thread would be someone like Yooper posting a detailed write-up of how he sells/markets his military scifi stuff. Then if we have an actual successful "guy in fedora fighting ctuhlhu" author, that author would need to do a writeup as well. Every few months we'd have to get those write-ups updated, as what works changes pretty quickly over short periods of time. I doubt that Yooper or anyone other than me would want to do this. I doubt that I'd even want to do it really. I'm fine typing up huge loving walls of text (because I can do it insanely fast without any real effort) to help people one-on-one, or typing up walls of more generic advice ITT, but I don't want to just throw up a free "This is how I make a poo poo load of money every month writing" post on SA for people to just gently caress it up anyway. I'm guessing others who are making this work for themselves feel about the same. I could, but realistically I'd just be restating the theme of the thread. 1. Research your niche. 2. Does it make money? No? Are you Ok with that? No? Find a new niche. 3. Find out what works in said profitable niche. 4. Write your book. 5. Pay someone else with some artistic ability to do the cover. Don't make your own cover 6. Hire someone else to give it a basic edit. Don't do your own edit. 7. Look at the top 100 books in your niche and model your blurb after them. 8. Drop like $75 on lovely ad campaigns before launch. I doubt it matters much. 9. Enroll in KU. Price your poo poo near everyone elses poo poo. Maybe a bit less, but not dumpster low. 10. Publish. 11. This is the most important loving step you goddamned mouthbreathers. Go back to step 1 and do it all over again. To answer a few basic questions. No. Short story collections don't sell. No. If you can't define a niche it won't sell. Amazon isn't a loving store it's a search engine. If you can't define it, no one can find it to buy it. No. Your cover looks like poo poo. No. Bookbub doesn't like you. No. There is not an alternative to a mailing list and you should already have one. If all else fails, sit down and loving write. This is a job, not a vocation. Work at it.
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Sundae posted:I'm just going to recommend Bookside Manner over and over again. Not empty quoting.
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Trustworthy posted:Don't get me wrong, she sounds amazing. I've gone both sides of the board. The cheaper one was OK but not quite what I wanted. The more expensive ones were very much more expensive and didn't offer anything more than I got Bookside. Bookside has been a pleasure to work with and will definitely do my next book once I finally get done with the draft review.
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Bardeh posted:
This could literally be the op. That and have a newsletter.
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divabot posted:Here's a couple of questions! 1. They pay on time. Within a couple of days of when they should if not right on the date. 2. That's awesome man. Timely advice, I had someone pitching me on Etherium the other day. I've ordered my own paperbacks but not to sell, just shelf queens. But I've been to many seminars/conferences where people are selling the book and I never saw people buying the gently caress out of them. I'd bring a dozen, make a pretty stack on the table, but spend your time networking and consulting rather than trying to peddle paper.
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Breath Ray posted:military eh? what about stories of second world wartime derring-do? my grandfather wrote an account of his time in the air force and ive sometimes thought about revising it. Was he in the Luftwaffe? If so you'll do very well. If he was just Joe bomb loader in England that'll be much less of a big seller. Combat memoirs will do well, there was a glut of them after WW2 and are still quite popular.
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