/lit/ - Literature

>>18751357
Yes! I purchased one of these machines and it works quite well. This weekend I'm spending some quality time with my kids and waifu, next week going to start manufacturing more books. It takes awhile to create the PDF to use to print the full book. Once you have the PDF setup properly so you can just print, chop, and bind a book in like 5 minutes. It's SUPER simple and even fun!

One thing I have to do is go to a lumbar yard and get a thin piece of scrap wood as a spacer, since I use an oddball width of paper I need to prop the unbound book up a half inch or so to enable the book binding machine's grinder to cut the spine up so that it can stick to the glue. I'll make a video of the process sometime soon, it's just so fucking hot and noisy in my neighbourhood lately, haha... t-t-two more weeks!

Was Gilgamesh just a self-published shitpost that ballooned into the Harry Potter of the time?

>>18683669
I appreciate you bumping all these threads that focus on topics that I like. I'll send you a free signed paperback if you hit me up on my website. Have a great day anon!

>>18547837
Hot glue perfect binder is coming in the mail!!!

Godspeed anon... don't give up.

>>18540426
Bro I spent every last time of the millions of dollars I made in porn on alcohol, fast cars, loft rentals, and drugs.
>After my mom killed herself when I was 19
Before that, my parents split when I was 11
>Parents had a huge fight over me quitting my paper route after the shack owner, a flip, molested me. I blamed myself for their split.
I went to 11+ schools, dropped out, worked shitty jobs, got in lots of fights. I stopped writing and got into selling porn.
>Sold porn for 15+ years where I was constantly battling my morality over just what the fuck I was doing in life and why. Going to trade shows and meeting some of the stars. Some of the women were such broken people and I developed so much sympathy for the whores. The exact caricature of the "evil semite" /pol/ has I met several times. The worst being the owner of meatholes affiliate program. He hired street hookers at AVN one year to suck the dicks of every man they could for like 4+ hours.
>I did NOT partake at all. Would never.
I heard from my dutch friend that one gal's jaw was in major pain and she was crying, and the owner said he wouldn't pay her if she didn't go the full 4 hours. So she started just letting random men have sex with her vagina and ass.
>I felt horrible being a part of that business, but the money and pleasure-seeking it enabled was too great at the time. Writing my book in 2013 was the thing that helped me escape that mindset, by putting it into a character and setting it adrift from the real me, like taking the bad elements of my life, putting it into a character, and letting it smoke away on the horizon like a mythical norse ship-burning burial.
>Pain, difficulty, isolation
>All of those emotions are relative, I guess, but I would say I've had very deep valleys of sorrow and high peaks of pleasure.
Currently, I'm in a state of dolor over the fact that more and more people are wearing masks, outdoors, and becoming even greater COVID-npcs than before. This country is so fucked.

Have a nice day!

>>18533314
Self-publishing is the future.

"The beauty of children is said to be in their innocence... innocence- Ken, do you really understand the meaning of that word? Innocence is in the belief of absolutes. You can be absolutely sure of your happiness when you see a purple dinosaur as a child- and absolutely sure of the horror of the skeleton lurking under one's bed. Remember Ken, the first time you swim in a ball pit? How about a zip line? A slide? The euphoria of a playground is something we forget."

>>18528456
Define "actual author"?
>Have you made money from selling a book you wrote?
Yes
>Are you able to cover all monthly expenses via book income only?
No

Once my perfect binder machine shows up, I'm going to be shilling and hustling the shit out of my book!

>>18508793
This is awesome!
Very similar to a book I've written 10% of, it's about a group of people who are "put under" in a permanent coma by the government, and "psychologists" are allowed inside their minds for treatement... like the matrix... but dirty psychologists who walk into the brains of the completely insane and find shocking memories to be able to be watched... they sell access to the rich to watch these horrible sick things and they can wear simsense-like devices to feel the rapes and murders those "put under" have committed... the rush... I called it Thrilluminati

Hey /lit/,

I ordered a binder machine for nearly $700...

Selling 28 books and it will pay for itself!
>Le reddit ads, instagram ads, twitter ads, facebook ads
Making some ads now, wish me luck!