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Relevant to the topic if you feel like reading my book for free a month before release! Embeds are dumb here but link works

 

I’m super busy right now but if you make a post when it goes live I’ll snag a copy!

 

@OotyPa

Finally started your novella last night. Seriously a wonderful look at what it feels like to be that age again. All the self-doubt and the existential dread. Nailed it. I’ll finish tonight!

 

wow, that means a lot! thank you so much! hope you enjoy the second half- it gets pretty weird!

 

You weren’t kidding. It managed to feel like a half-remembered fever dream for 80 or so pages. Good shit

 

Thank you so damn much for reading and supporting. I hope you were able to find some meaning in it. Please rate / review on GoodReads if you have an account and you have some time! Every bit helps.

 

Already did!

 

work in progress: insert something sappy here

 

Feels like a good place to ask this question, hopefully someone has an idea!

In 2022 my wife and I self-published a physical book here in the UK through her business Of The Wild (she’s a florist). The aim of the book was always physical as it’s got lots of gorgeous photos alongside my writings. However, shipping overseas has always been huge and a lot of people keep asking me for an ebook version so they can access it.

Has anyone self-created an ebook? What platform is most simple? Are photos / images easy to include or do we need to do something different? I’ve had a bit of look over the last few years but feels like a good time to put some effort in. I would value any input as our two year old daughter takes up most of my headspace, haha!

 

Amazon’s KDP has a tool for creating an ebook. Some popular software is Atticus and Vellum, though I’ve used neither of those. Scrivener will also do this but isn’t as good with images sometimes (this is the program I’ve used for my fiction novels, for example).

There are other ways, but these seem to be some more common ones, and doing an ebook has never been easier, so it should be a pretty simple task to translate what you have already into the right format.

 

Might be shameless, but this review from our very own @GBlades has me grinning like a fool

REVIEW: Mourn not the Mortals (The Shattered Sphere Saga #1) by Jordan Smith | FanFiAddict

 

This is awesome, thanks for sharing!!

 

Dropping in here to say I fucking hate self-promotion and I feel like an absolute tool any time I have to do it

 

Preaching to the choir. My one suggestion would be to make it so there are things that “do the promotion for you.” For example, attend readings—post photos and videos of your performance; sign up for blog tours—then share the reviews on social media; ask friends to post pics of your book—then reshare their posts; seek out interview opportunities, author spotlights, attend local events for indie authors, network with other writers, etc.

 

Starting to get the ball rolling on that now! Already had a nice front page article. had to sneak in the Cedric bixler Zavala boards haha

 

That is so dope! How’d you manage that??

 

Just wrote up some press releases and shopped em to all the local papers!

one editor reached out and said he loved the synopsis and it went from there lol

 

it is, the worst. My book is adjacent to an absurdly popular genre at the moment, and I see all the fads and trends all day every day and think about how I could never find the time or energy to take part lol

 

Isn’t your book fantasy? I bet that’s real tough

 

yes and many times I have to clarify that it isn't that type of fantasy lol

 

I’m assuming by that you mean the horny shit? Lmao

 

yep smutty fae and dragons and stabby female FMCs and shadow daddy MMCs

I regret to know all these things

 

hot

 

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Funny you all are talking about this as I’m proofreading/editing my friend’s novel currently and it’s fantasy and it did just get to a horny shit bit. Weird reading that but actually proofreading at the same time, haha.