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Hey. My psycholical horror novel, The Omitted Place, is for free right now on Kindle, for the next few days. It didn't sell very much, but I'd still like people to read it.

It's very niche, so it's not gonna be everyone's cup of tea. But it's inspired by Silent Hill, so if you like that kind of surreal, nightmare-scape horror, you'll probably like this. It's pretty dark and gruesome, so if you're into that kind of stuff, hope you enjoy. Thanks

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EL8BCIG

>> No.12409859

>>12409841
Only if you become my gf

>> No.12409891
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this is now a terrible covers thread

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Let’s keep OPs book at the top for a while, not like it’ll be a bestseller off a Taiwanese hieroglyphs forum.

>> No.12409921

>>12409841
>girl
Haha no.

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>>12409930

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>>12409943
if I wasn't about to go to bed I would just all the wordsworth classics ones, they're legendary at this point

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>>12409965

>> No.12409983

>>12409976
>portrait of as a the artist young James man Joyce

>> No.12409991

>>12409983
>hasn't read Jamesman Joyce

>> No.12410014

>>12409841
Post part of it here I'm not reading 300 pages of some chick's book without an excerpt.

>> No.12410031

>>12409983
>Have you ever had a moocow that you had your moocow you and a very nice you could, you’ll do, you you wants, you, you could do so, you you’ll do, you could you, you want, you want them to do you so much you could do anything?

>> No.12410052

haha i wonder if some oe f the nightmarescape horror is a room where you make me smell yo ur unwashed feet and farts haha like a room the size of a closet and you come to the door and wiggle your stinky sausagg toes in my face and im tied up and blindfold and you eat lots of cheese and hold your farts in then come in and fart in my mouth that would be scary haha

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>>12410052

>> No.12410090

>>12409976
I own this version of Ulysses; is it a decent edition of the novel (besides the cover)?

>> No.12410093

>>12409841
>>12410068
OP post more pics and I’ll buy a paperback copy of your novel.

>> No.12410100

>>12410090
Yes, it's the 1961 text which fixes the typos from 1922 but doesn't add the Gabler fan-fiction.

Also I like the cover, but not the other two. Like at least it's related to the text.

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>>12409841
Which silent hills?

>> No.12410110

>She lives in upstate New York
hey that's where I live

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>>12410100
Thank you. I also like the color, it is a pleasing shade of greenish-blue. Reminds me of the snot green ocean view Stephen describes in the novel.

>> No.12410114

>>12410014
This. Tbh.

>> No.12410129

>>12410112
The cover material feels nice too.

>> No.12410140

>>12410110
fuck you i live in downstate new york. I can only hang out in china town because everywhere else is too expensive

>> No.12410152

>>12410140
>fuck you i live in downstate new york
wtf prompted such a rude response?

>> No.12410179

>>12410152
>downstate new york

>> No.12410180

>>12410152
He’s from New York City lol.

>> No.12410183

>>12410152
The fact that i live down state did.
you have fresh air and i have above average pizza, This is not a fair trade.

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>>12410014

I apologize for the shitty formatting

“As I’m sure you’ve observed, this world is crumbling. Soon, there will be nothing left here but a void and it will be difficult to move about. The decay is sequential, so the rest of the path should still be intact.” He walks towards me and I stiffen, but casually he passes me and turns his head. “Aren’t you coming?”
“But why is this happening? Is it because of me?” That’s what you told me, but is it true?
“If you don’t hurry, we’ll lose our way.”
“Damn it,” I murmur, falling into step behind him.
He leads me under broken bridges and through half-collapsed buildings, dismal streets and blackened alleys. Creatures hang in the air with blank expressions, frozen in frame and full of static. I try to learn from him but he speaks only vagueness; he says he’ll be killed if he does otherwise. I’m not sure if I believe him or not, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. The other liar, the one without scars, he spoke in a similar manner—though he was much gentler—and they’ve both called me “Devourer.”
Double doors dripping with filth, corroded metal with no handles to be seen. The sky is black, and the breakdown rises over us, closing in for the kill, the big finale; the moon has even eaten itself. Dead trees of bubbling flesh swell and shrink as they take breath, shining with perspiration and the rich blood of precipitation. All around seethes the stench of disease.
“What’s in there?” I turn my narrowed eyes to him.
“A few good things. A lot of bad things.” Gazing at the doors, he walks up the steps to the decrepit building. “Some things you’ve been trying to avoid. Things you’d rather forget.”
The words send ice through me, making my mind and body numb. But if it will take me to you, I will go through hell itself. Steadying myself, I move to join him at the top of the stairs.
CLANG.
A large, iron bird cage has encased him from above. Standing in shock he quickly recovers and goes for the bars. “What—what is this; let me out at once!” he screams, quaking with anger. “Do you hear me?! Show yourself!”
From a hole in the ceiling of the portico drops a thing in a straight jacket, with rolling eyes and bandaged skin. It howls with laughter, swinging itself back and forth with its own momentum. The liar gasps, going rigid. “You?” he whispers.
“It’s time to play hide and seek,” it screeches, having the gall to swing near me.
“I don’t have time for this,” I snap, moving to strike, but its trajectory changes and I run into the wall, and the fucking thing shrieks with joy.
“Little tumor, don’t you want to see your precious br-haaa-ther?” I spin to face the monster’s back as it turns to meet me, cheeks scrunched up and it’s cackling, cackling. “Three important things have been taken from you! All you have to do is find them before the wave comes, and the path will open. If you fail, they’ll be lost forever and so will you!”

>> No.12410193

>>12410110
Upstate /lit/ meetup when

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>>12410108

it was inspired by the first three games, but three was my favorite.

also i forgot to mention, it's very stream-of-consciousness and experimental

>> No.12410219

>>12410183
oh I hate cities so I get what you're saying. There are some good pizza places near me too though.
also I live near a farm so the air smells like cow shit. But if you live here long enough you grow to enjoy the smell of cow shit, at least from a distance.

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>>12410191
>CLANG

>> No.12410264

>>12410191
>uppercase onomatopoeia with no exclamation point
Hey but post those pics for real OP

>> No.12410305

>>12410253
kek

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I turn my narrowed eyes to him.

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>>12410264

Here is an awful picture of some statues I made of a few of the characters. I would have taken a better one, but they broke

>> No.12410326

>>12410310
Cute.

>> No.12410360
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I'm not a very good artist, but these are some sketches I did a few years back of scenes in the story

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>> No.12410383

>>12410360
>>12410373
Why don’t you make a web comic instead. I’m sure you will get much more attention then a self published novel.

>> No.12410402

>>12410383

Thank you, I've been thinking about adapting it to one, honestly. I've been working on my art the past few years, but I still have a bit farther to go before I'd be comfortable about trying to do it, but I've improved a bit since drawing these pictures, at least

>> No.12410412

>>12410383
This is a good point
also drawn porn would get you some spending cash i'm just saying

>> No.12410414

I'd honestly read this but I don't have a kindle.

>> No.12410429

>>12410414

Sorry, I know it's a pain, but if you click the button to get it while it's free, you should still be able to read it in your browser on the Kindle cloud on Amazon, or on an app in a smartphone

>> No.12410468

>>12410100
I haven't read Ulysses but I'm curious: how does it relate to the text?

>> No.12410474

Downloading it now

>> No.12410476

>>12410402
There’s a dedicated general on /co/ for webcomic creation.
>>12410412
Or you could go to /aco/ for this lol

>> No.12410515

>>12410468
Last word of the novel while being sprinkled all throughout Molly's final monologue. I like the cover, something about the last words being within the title makes the whole thing feel way more complete and satisfying imo

>> No.12410548

>>12410476
Nta but it's a legit viable gig if you pick a specific enough fetish. My friend (who cant even draw) has a reliable cash flow doing commissions of gay furry statuefication fetish porn.

Or theres always tips from footanon

>> No.12410559

>>12410515
Thanks

>> No.12410568

>>12410468
I just typed all of this thinking you meant "how does the edition relate to the text" but then I saw >>12410515
Oh well maybe you'll find it interesting anyway.

In 1922 Ulysses was banned from the UK so Joyce had to publish from Paris. The people who set the text weren't native English speakers and that didn't help them when setting the text of a highly experimental English novel. I'm not familiar with the methodology of the 1961 edition but it corrected errors that were still present in previous editions. In the 80s a team led by a guy named Gabler created a version that was supposed to be "ultimate" version. They used Joyce's manuscripts as a guide but as a result many of their "corrections" were just reverting to previous drafts that Joyce himself changed later on before publishing.

>> No.12410606

>>12410476
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind once I've gotten started!

>> No.12410610

>>12410548
God I wish I could draw

>> No.12410674

>>12409943
This CANNOT be real!!!?

>> No.12410699

>>12409965
that one isn't that bad
a friend of mine get it from his girlfriend

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>>12410699
got it*

>> No.12410949

>>12410310
Yellow guy is cute
I think you have nice descriptive imagery but the excerpt you posted seemed a bit clumsy, the order of words and word choice and all that. "the moon has even eaten itself" vs "even the moon has eaten itself"

>> No.12410956

>>12410307
BALONEY

>> No.12410964

>>12410310
so you are a weeb that wanted to be a manga artist but quikly discovered you had neither the talent nor the will to put the time to become good at drawing?
if anything I've said offends you just take solace by remembering Im probablt lazier than you and havent publushed jack shit.

>> No.12410970

>>12410610
You can if you practice, /ic/'s sticky has good resources.

>> No.12410982

>>12410093
>>12410068
>>12409841
i will also do this for more pics. you cant be worse than mira

>> No.12411020

>>12410219
desu I've enjoyed the distant smell of cow shit since the moment I first smelled it when I was 4. Am I not alone in this particular taste?

>> No.12411045

>>12411020
>when I was 4
might have something to do with it but I don't know, it just smells like summer to me

>> No.12412346

>>12410949

Thanks. I know that the prose is far from technically correct. It's a very experimental novel from the perspective of a mentally ill person, it's full of run on sentences and synesthia. It's intentionally the way it is. I normally write quite differently

>> No.12412349

>>12410964

Partially correct. I have been working on my art the past few years, I just don't have much time due to the need to work to live etc

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>>12409991

>> No.12412384

>>12410310
This is nice

>> No.12412397

>>12410360
She reminds me of Chara, especially in the top right

>> No.12412439

>noelle blanche

you're a troon, right?

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>>12409891
>terrible covers thread
Cover on my book came out pretty good. I got "762" in my ASID too!

https://www.amazon.com/Weather-Vane-Gedalia-Gershon/dp/1723762806

>> No.12412468

>>12412439

the world may never know

>> No.12412477

>>12412397

I wrote this before undertale even came out, but that's a pretty good comparison. also, deltarune was rad and I hope Toby makes it into a longer game

>> No.12412638

>>12410548
> gay furry statuefication
The fuck

>> No.12413662

>>12410191
>and the fucking thing shrieks with joy
Love your prose

>> No.12413870

>>12409841
Alright, OP; just got myself a copy. I'm busy right now with other books but I'll try to get around to it soon. I had been looking for something on the same vein as Silent Hill so this book might have been the blessing I was waiting for. Thanks.