Self published author shows

[Anonymous No.12891070]

Is there anything more depressing?

[Anonymous No.12891078]

i'm happy for him. he looks happy, if a tad aspy.

[Anonymous No.12891079]

All these people woke up early today hoping they would make a single sale of their book

[Anonymous No.12891083]

Knowing these people spent thousands of hours chasing a dream that was destined to go nowhere breaks my heart

[Anonymous No.12891086]

>>12891079
you know, having gone to some of these things, it's also about meeting people and having a rousing time with your fellow authors who can relate to being on the spectrum.

[Anonymous No.12891089]

>When mommy makes you drop out of school to go on the self-published touring circuit with her

[Anonymous No.12891106]

>>12891086
I feel like it would be very awkward to engage in a conversation with any of these authors, then NOT buy their book.

>"here's this thing I spent thousands of hours creating in hopes of you accepting it in this moment"
>"Thanks dude... but I think I'll pass"

[Anonymous No.12891121]

>Is there anything more depressing?

Spending years submitting query after query and sucking jew cock in the hopes some white woman in New York will pay you a $5000 advance.

[Anonymous No.12891144]

>>12891089
How many of those authors are trying to make new GoT?

[Anonymous No.12891167]

>>12891083
>thousands of hours
Let's be honest here. The average /lit/izen might spend 1100 or 1500 hours writing a full-length novel, maybe 2000 if you're a very meticulous editor and spend a lot of time redrafting, but most of these people probably wrote their books in under 500h.
that sounds less depressing, right? I want to look at them and feel less depressed

[Anonymous No.12891171]

>>12891106
could just say you forgot your wallet in the car. i'll be right back!

[Anonymous No.12891179]

[Anonymous No.12891184]

>>12891070
your face

[Anonymous No.12891196]

>>12891078
Most writers are aspy.

[Anonymous No.12891208]

>>12891078
you misspelled ashy

[Anonymous No.12891209]

>>12891083
it fills mine with content knowing that plebs will, in fact, not get the recognition they don't deserve

[Anonymous No.12891211]

>>12891196
the more i look at him, the more i adore him. he simply wants to share the grand exploits of the diamond league.

[Anonymous No.12891212]

You're a new writer going against monsters like Borges, Bolaño, Cela, Casares, Tolstoy and many others.

[Anonymous No.12891217]

>>12891212
Oh come on, Borges was not *this* ugly.

[Anonymous No.12891223]

>>12891209
lots of 'artists' dont deserve recognition. you think ariana grande does?

[Anonymous No.12891226]

how many do you think break even? i've heard it's relatively easy to break even on the table that you rent, and they all likely have an online store where they make a bit of dosh and on amazon and the other online retailers.

[Anonymous No.12891229]

>>12891209
>plebs will not get the recognition they don’t deserve
ever looked at the top sellers on amazon?

[Anonymous No.12891240]

>>12891209
b-but what if there is an undiscovered diamond in the rough?

[Anonymous No.12891243]

>>12891179
>YA Fantasy Romance
Maybe they should try a less saturated genre

[Anonymous No.12891250]

>>12891217
He was a Chad.

[Anonymous No.12891255]

>>12891240
this image is nauseating.

[Anonymous No.12891265]

>>12891070
I wish I could feel this good about the things I write

[Anonymous No.12891272]

>tfw going to publish my post-post-,modern manifesto in the guise of a YA fantasy
I hope somebody here will live long enough to see me become famous and think "ahh,all these years I spent browsing that shithole were worth it,I may have conversed with the greatest mind of the 21st century"

[Anonymous No.12891364]

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[Anonymous No.12891503]

>>12891421
>that author
>that cover
jesus...

[Anonymous No.12891507]

>>12891421
that shirt is incredible

[Anonymous No.12891511]

I think it’s awesome. It shows they love what they’re doing so much they take it to autistic levels. And they really believe in their work and subsequently stand behind it.

[Anonymous No.12891516]

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[Anonymous No.12891557]

>>12891070
mfw i'm selfpublished

[Anonymous No.12891587]

>>12891167
>1100 hours for an average sized novel
Anyone doing this is doing something wrong—I’m on track to finish a 250k commentary in about 500-600 hours and I’m not particularly speedy.

[Anonymous No.12891596]

>>12891542
If she can’t get a paperback romance published she must be truly awful.

[Anonymous No.12891630]

do you think The Diamond League is about black chads or blerds or black chads that paradoxically have blerd tendencies?

[Anonymous No.12891636]

>>12891070
Not depressing at all.

[Anonymous No.12891638]

I looked up the Amazon reviews for a lot of these books. Yikes. They are all from people who know the authors and even then some criticize the spelling/grammatical errors.

[Anonymous No.12891659]

>>12891070
I like how he has a copy of the book for community browsing on top of the cash box so he can keep the other copies in perfect condition

[Anonymous No.12891689]

>>12891516
https://www.comixcentral.com/products/amazing-adventure-superior-sam-1/
lmao this nigga didn't even draw the illustrations, 3d looking ass

[Anonymous No.12891692]

>>12891638
>They are all from people who know the authors
>and even then some criticize the spelling/grammatical errors
Sounds like they chose the right people to surround theirselves with.

[Anonymous No.12891708]

>>12891689
his ladyfriend is acute cute

[Anonymous No.12891709]

>>12891070
from a user review for The Diamond League
>some phrases that used an incorrect word (think "take for granite" instead of "take for granted"
he is just adorable.

[Anonymous No.12891720]

I would never set foot in such places because it's too sad. It's like going inside an empty restaurant and having the waiter move you towards the window so people outside can see you inside. It makes my heart break just thinking about it.

[Anonymous No.12891747]

>>12891070
>>12891079
>>12891089
>>12891364
>>12891421
>>12891542
WHY ARE ALL OF THESE BEASTS GREASY FAT FUCKS?

I know they're in from burgerland, but ffs have some respect for yourself. No wonder they're so dumb they can't get a single sale.

[Anonymous No.12891755]

>>12891209
based

[Anonymous No.12891761]

>>12891709
>"take for granite" instead of "take for granted"
Brandon is too pure for this world

[Anonymous No.12891905]

>>12891089
>>12891083
>>12891078
>>12891179
When I see stuff like these, I'm glad my parents forced my to Study Engineering. Regret Nothing.

[Anonymous No.12891978]

>>12891070
There's one woman here that always has a stand at the yearly medieval fair, she's selling ugly covered fantasy books that no one even glances at and she just sit there all day looking sad in her princess costume

[Anonymous No.12892003]

>>12891978
Stop it! You're killing me!

[Anonymous No.12892023]

>>12891070
>forgetting to put the author's name on the cover
oof

[Anonymous No.12892026]

>>12891587
What type of "commentary"?

Fiction usually takes quite some time to write simply because the amount of drafting you need to make: you write something, then spend time re-writing it with a different PoV, or in different tone, or in different style.

Either way: whether people taking literature "seriously" spend less than a 1000 or more than a 1000 hours writing their works, self-published authors for sure spend way less than a 1000. We shouldn't pity them. They're probably somewhat happy doing what they're doing and they could maybe achieve something if they put some more effort into it.

[Anonymous No.12892032]

>>12891557
me too, man, me too.

the worst part is that i've shilled my stuff on here and got genuine attention and even downloads, and from my various half-hearted attempts i've wrangled up a couple hundred if not a thousand downloads in a few years, but if i stop shilling then the reads stop coming.

>tfw no growth

[Anonymous No.12892034]

i imagine brandon's voice is a smokey bbq creole croaking that will prattle on and end in a satisfied chuckle, yet says nothing anyone can understand.

[Anonymous No.12892049]

>>12892034
except you'll be able to pick out "Diamond League!" every now and then. it seems it's all brandon thinks about.

[Anonymous No.12892108]

>>12891070
He's happy. To be honest, I would find those people more interesting to talk to than those who went through the meatgrinder of today.

[Anonymous No.12892152]

>>12891070
He has a better chance selling a mix tape. It must be hell being a nerdy black guy.

[Anonymous No.12892175]

>>12891070
Based happy thicc Black man

[Anonymous No.12892402]

>>12892152
Black nerds are interesting. On the one hand there's the six foot three glasses-wearing mutes who wouldn't swat a fly if it bit them and then there's the guys who look like chads that walk around with waifu pillows, spend all their free time watching anime and playing fighting games, and make their living drawing cartoon titties. Their tweets are the exact same weeby shit their counterparts say, but run through a AAVE filter.

[Anonymous No.12892520]

>they have more ratings and reviews than me

https://www.amazon.com/Diamond-League-Brandon-Jones/dp/1539602230

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36949179-raven-thrall

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34877116-a-war-of-deception

[Anonymous No.12892536]

>>12891179
she is a bonafide success, dozens of books with 200 reviews each. most of these you pity are more successful than any of us.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2741078.Beth_Trissel

[Anonymous No.12892815]

>>12892536
had you head of her previously or did you just google?

[Anonymous No.12892820]

>>12891070
>Is there anything more depressing?

yeah, wasting your life on a cartoon website instead of at least TRYING to chase your dreams

[Anonymous No.12892934]

>>12891089
>>12891364
>that preposterous "J" in the author's name.

[Anonymous No.12892946]

>>12892402
You’re a faggot

[Anonymous No.12892968]

>>12892032
behead all satans?

[Anonymous No.12892984]

>>12892946

[Anonymous No.12893003]

>>12892402
Is this to be admired? I love anime but keep it to myself for the most part. There's a certain allure of going all out like that.

[Anonymous No.12893009]

>>12893003
It is what you make of it.

[Anonymous No.12893018]

>>12892032
yeah thats how you sell art. word of mouth is a lie. the only way people find out about your work is if you tell them about it

[Anonymous No.12893038]

>>12893009
Do people actually have waifus or is it all just an elaborate joke that I'm not in on?

[Anonymous No.12893079]

>>12893038
I'm pretty sure most people who use that word are being ironic and/or seeking attention. I love anime girls, own figures and dakimakuras, etc. but I don't think of them as waifus, just characters I adore.
In fact I would say calling them a "wife" is misplaced from the beginning. It's ignoring the fact that the moe anime girl phenomenon is a consumer phenomenon - anime girls are more akin to virtual courtesans or entertainers than wives. "Virtual idol" would actually be a great term for anime girls in general.

[Anonymous No.12893093]

>>12893038
They do, but there's also people who say they have a waifu ironically or who use waifu to refer to any anime girl regardless of level of devotion or interest because they don't know what they're talking about, they just know it's a word that exists and relates in some way to anime women.

[Anonymous No.12893114]

>>12893079
>dakimakuras

No offense, but what is the appeal? A regular pillow works just fine. I like anime but the whole community and fandom has always seemed alien to me. Maybe I'm just the odd one out, idk.

[Anonymous No.12893144]

>>12893114
The fandom ruins it. Stuff like K-On and Non Non Biyori are unironically good and heart warming but the fandom is shit. Even /a/ would tell you that.

[Anonymous No.12893145]

>>12893079
>I'm pretty sure most people who use that word are being ironic and/or seeking attention.
I used to think the same thing about MLP. I was wrong.

[Anonymous No.12893163]

>>12892968
strangely analogous - the gods wait

>>12893018
word of mouth is reached at a critical mass of readership, of which i'm less than 1% of the way to if i had to guess.

definitely putting together a better marketing package for the next novel and actually trying to get it published.

[Anonymous No.12893175]

>>12891070
Let's be real, people like this know they won't sell a lot. It's more than likely that if they went all the way and finished their shit and self-published, they're doing it more so because they just like writing than any want for fame and recognition.

[Anonymous No.12893176]

>>12893163
>definitely putting together a better marketing package for the next novel and actually trying to get it published.

Just pay for 100 Amazon reviews, make the book free for a month to drive up position in sales rank then start charging for it. easy as pie

[Anonymous No.12893184]

>>12893175
All of these people think they are just one agent/publishing rep meeting from being "discovered".

[Anonymous No.12893199]

>>12893176
or i'll write a book that's not a dumpsterfire of intolerant and intolerable ideas and has things like emotional development and character insight. i think that's where i went wrong.

to quote a reader who made it 500 words in to an 80,000+ word novel,

>So I started reading this, but for whatever reason, the flip flop between characters makes this a dizzying write.

[Anonymous No.12893203]

>>12893114
>No offense, but what is the appeal?
Lifesize art of a character you love, represented in an ideal way, that can be treated either as a beautiful/charming/sexy decoration or treated like a doll, carried around and cuddled with. I always loved stuffed animals as a kid - more than typical, still had dozens into my teens - and even had a body pillow to help me sleep, I may be predisposed to this sort of thing.
>I like anime but the whole community and fandom has always seemed alien to me
>>12893144
>The fandom ruins it
I agree that the fandom is annoying, but I'm not aware of any "fandom" (what a contempible term, sounds so pleb and low-class - can you imagine Nietzsche or Shakespeare being "fans" in a "fandom") that isn't annoying. I don't go to /a/, reddit, or anywhere else to discuss anime and I have no friends that like it. I just enjoy it and interpret it in my own way.

[Anonymous No.12893208]

>>12892175
>>12892108
>>12891078
He looks embarassed.
Are you guys ACTUALLY fucking autistic?

[Anonymous No.12893213]

>>12893175
as a self-published offer,
>they're doing it more so because they just like writing than any want for fame and recognition.
the two are hopelessly intertwined in a mutual and fatal relationship. fame and recognition fuel the love to write, the love to write fuels fame and recognition, unless of course one of them is missing, in which case an author can be manic-depressive in their relationship with writing.

[Anonymous No.12893216]

>>12893093
There's nothing more gay that ironic waifu dinners, you're literally only doing it to fit in at that point.

[Anonymous No.12893233]

>>12893203
>I just enjoy it and interpret it in my own way

What anime do you watch?

[Anonymous No.12893234]

>>12893038
I love my waifu with all my heart, she means more than your shallow normalfag brain could imagine.

[Anonymous No.12893240]

>>12893203
>I always loved stuffed animals as a kid - more than typical, still had dozens into my teens
That's pretty cute honestly, anon.
> I don't go to /a/, reddit, or anywhere else to discuss anime and I have no friends that like it.
Me neither. I've been here half my life and I've never even lurked /a/. I have one friend who likes it but that's about it. He mostly like Moe but I guess there's some stuff we both like.

[Anonymous No.12893250]

>>12893234
>not shallow
>can fall in love with a 2-dimensional caricature

[Anonymous No.12893257]

>>12893250
>Displays his shallowness with absolutely no shame.

[Anonymous No.12893271]

>>12893208
are you?

[Anonymous No.12893275]

>>12891144
Every single one of them

[Anonymous No.12893288]

>>12891240
leave six flags guy alone

[Anonymous No.12893296]

>>12891421
I think most people here probably didn't catch this joke, but I gotta say 10/10.

[Anonymous No.12893324]

>>12892049
>>12892034

There was this guy in my hometown who was 6foot 10 and wore an old texan style suit and a cowboy hat. He would always be standing around this shopping center near the Chinese restaurant I ate at nearly every day. He had an eyepatch after an injury related to a stroke he had and he was an author.

Anyone that would come up to him he would talk in the way you are describing. His words would just be a grumble of croaking that was totally unintelligible. He would often bookend his gurgling at you with the phrase "BUY MY BOOKS, BUY MY BOOKS" and give out his business card for his western stories.

desu I did end up buying one.

[Anonymous No.12893341]

>>12893324
Sounds like a cool guy. Did you like the book?

[Anonymous No.12893343]

>>12891070
I'm a self-published author, and yeah, 'self-published author shows' sound kinda cringy. I'm extremely verbally articulate though, and people tend to enjoy conversations with me it seems. I've also self-published almost a dozen books with my primary pseudonym with 10 of them being available in paperback format. In fact I have a copy of each of them at this very moment and have taken... a couple photosof them all together. Well then, yikes... it occurs to me that I could now upload one of the pictures. Would that be cringe? The covers aren't too good; made with cover creator programs for free. In fact I spent basically nothing to get those books self-published.

Well I spent a little bit of time checking out the pic, may as well include it since I went and mentioned it. I'm doubtful I'll ever go to a self-published author show, though, not with my J N Morgan pseudonym. I've written some fucked-up stuff with this name, anyhow, the top 5 are all one series, the bottom five are currently stand-alones though I anticipate I'll be doing more with the Firearm Valhalla concept. I dedicated that book to /k/. As someone who frequents /k/ and /lit/ primarily, does that make me a /klit/? Sounds pretty fuckin' gay...

[Anonymous No.12893347]

>>12893233
The most recent that I enjoyed a lot was Kaguya-sama from this last season. Also the movie Maquia. My all-time favorite is Hibike:Euphonium. I tend to like girl-centric anime focused on beautiful aesthetics but I also like some more macho fare like Patlabor 2 or Akira.
>>12893240
>That's pretty cute honestly, anon.
This made me smile. I do sometimes wonder what I'll do with all of it when/if I get married but with no progress on that front to speak of I'm carefree about it.

[Anonymous No.12893351]

>>12893343
>a genuine /klit/boi

[Anonymous No.12893361]

>>12891070
Shame on you anon.

[Anonymous No.12893380]

>>12893324
>I did end up buying one.

[Anonymous No.12893385]

>>12893343

You could honestly do better covers in 30 minutes of photoshop. These are so bad that they look like you are trying to be ironic. Tell us more about what some of these books on the bottom row are about?

[Anonymous No.12893399]

>>12893347
You sound very sweet. Best of luck finding somebody equally sweet to be with and likes that kind of thing too.

[Anonymous No.12893424]

>>12893351
Ironically, I'm a very masculine fellow. If I were indeed gay I think I might quality as a 'bear'. At best I'm just bi, since I seem to primarily have sexual interest in the feminine which just so happens to extend to traps and even ultra-feminine 'cis' males, meaning basically femboys or sissies or what have you. Very small, basically hairless below the eyebrows, thin, weak, and very submissive. Actually gave a consideration to a story that involved an interesting class or even biological differentiation between men, separating them between Alphas and Betas. As mentioned it could be biology, with men born as Betas being naturally small and weak while men born as Alphas being naturally big and strong but there's enough DISTINCTIVELY in both groups with not too much in-between variation that, in a way, males are almost themselves separated into two different categories.

Or, y'know, it's not as complex as all that, but anyways Alphas will partake in heterosexual monogamy, BUT, Alphas are allowed a Beta and it's considered quite normal for Alphas to have both a woman and a submissive man as their long-term partners, maybe even the Alphas being 'granted' a Beta at a young age and the assigned Beta serves him throughout their lifetimes. In terms of familial structures, the Beta is at the very bottom. The wife holds more sway than him, but of course the Alpha husband is the absolute patriarch of the house and if he's truly an Alpha, then he will be somewhat like a 'just Monarch' of the household. She is something like the Parliament of this 'Constitutional Monarchical household' concept, with some say in the matter but ultimately deference goes to the Alpha husband. Maybe some Alphas go in between fucking the wife and fucking the Beta throughout the year, or perhaps in times of pregnancy when she's not interested, or if she's sick, or on the period, whatever, it might be that the Beta only receives sexual use in those times. It's up to the Alpha. I suppose in theory some Betas can be brutally mistreated, even beaten, but in my mind the Alpha would generally regard the Betas with a level of respect or at least generally not mistreated unless they fuck up. They serve, sexually, and perhaps occasionally something like 'hired help' too. Cleaning, changing diapers, MAYBE cooking if they're inclined to it, etc.

If it comes down to biological changes, then it's likely that Betas are all sterile, either from birth naturally or made sterile upon birth when 'discovered' to be a Beta or is 'assigned' it. I'm still working out the concept, been rolling it around in my mind from time to time for months, maybe over a year. Lots of 'slice-of-life' type stuff would go on, the Alpha's work, the Beta's home life, the wife's position ahead of the Beta but defers to the Alpha, perhaps even instances where some wives are given permissions from the Alpha to take out frustrations and angers on the Beta. Could build up quite an in-depth 'society' of sorts...

[Anonymous No.12893444]

>>12893424

Shut the fuck up about this weird cucked rant you retard. Talk about your books, or fuck off. Nobody gives a shit about your childish pseudo-sociology you are pulling out of your ass.

[Anonymous No.12893470]

>>12893385
>When her No means Yes
Based around a couple College students, a male who's nearing graduation and a female who's just beginning. Tragic backstory of female, crippling social anxiety, and some quite twisted sexual idiosyncrasies. Really it's just an erotica, but there's a decent bit of story and character development to it. The ending is rather bittersweet, not exactly a 'happy' ending, but not entirely bad either I think. I also experimented with a watersports scene, she's hyper-submissive by nature and he's quite dominant though not to the extent that she'd like. He has some personal demons, she has some personal demons, and so while in the shower he puts her on her knees and pisses on her to 'dominate' her. They ultimately don't much like it and don't bother with it further.

>Firearm Valhalla
Post-apoc of sorts, seems to be set in America, lots of different firearms being used, and I sometimes refer to this as 'my gun-porn book'. I took the photo for the front-cover myself.

>Another One Please
Bad marriage, wife apparently barren but she has lots of female relatives with big families. Not taking it well, she end up alcoholic, abusive, he mainly sleeps on the couch, he's falling into alcoholism too, I think the ending turned out pretty good. Well, 'good'... it's pretty awful in many ways but I just think it turned out 'interestingly'.

>To Take what is Needed
Wrote it on Fiverr for a woman in Mexico, she liked it, I thought it turned out good, asked if I could self-publish it, she said it's fine as long as I changed a few things, and so I changed the things and self-published it. It's about a nerdy and chubby shut-in University professor who mostly just stays home and plays videogames. She has a thing for the... was he the 'Dean' of the university? Anyways, she secretly likes him, he finds an interest in her, takes her on a date, brings her home, he has an elevator in his mansion, it goes down to the basement, and there he kidnaps her, ties her up, essentially forces himself on her, but in fact deeply loves her and wishes her to bare him children. Won't give how it ends.

>Delicious Addiction of Oppression and Outrage
Non-fiction about the insanity of the modern left. Wrote it in 2017, some of it about fake hate crimes. Perhaps around a year and a half or so before Jussie Smollett.

[Anonymous No.12893475]

>>12893444
thyʃe.

[Anonymous No.12893485]

>>12893444
Well then, hard to argue with those trips. I still think the idea is interesting, though.

>>12893385
Also, I'm totally illiterate when it comes to Photoshop and my interest in using it is quite limited. Fascinating product, the outcome is incredible sometimes, makes seemingly anything possible, but I'm just not interested in that. I've given quite a bit of thought to hiring people on Fiverr to make new book covers. I make a fair bit of money there from a different pseudonym primarily writing custom erotica for people.

[Anonymous No.12893543]

>>12893399
Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.12893544]

>>12893424
That's straight up omegaverse, the most cancerous setting to ever infect the internet.
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Alpha/Beta/Omega
https://archiveofourown.org/works/403644/chapters/665489

[Anonymous No.12893548]

>>12893544
Ah... well then... shit.

[Anonymous No.12893586]

>>12893548
I mean, there's a market for it, if you want a bunch of fujos and trannies breathing down your neck, but they'd probably take umbrage with your previous works, by the sound of them.

[Anonymous No.12893600]

I'm about to put a couple of my books up on KDP, since I'm sick of shopping them to agents. What can I expect? Can one of you in this thread that doesn't write smut give me some hard numbers on how many copies you generally sell on amazon per month?

[Anonymous No.12893662]

>>12893600

I've made money from my friend buying a single copy, that is it.

[Anonymous No.12893695]

>>12893586
If I write the book, it will likely be with a different pseudonym. My Living Amongst the Dead series actually introduces a Black lesbian character... spoiler alert, she's an antagonist for the most part, not a protagonist. I don't give any heed to political correctness whatsoever in my writings, though I don't particularly seek political incorrectness. If it happens, then it happens.

[Anonymous No.12893794]

>>12893600
Usually none, but if you put it on their lending library, they pay you if people read it. In other words, you charge money for the books to anyone who wants to buy, but also put it in the free library. They pay you a little more than a penny per page read. You can make some money that way.

[Anonymous No.12893871]

>>12893662
marry him

[Anonymous No.12893895]

>>12893794

How much have you actually made total on the highest-paid book you have ever had?

[Anonymous No.12893900]

>>12891070
Yes, AWP is at least equally depressing

[Anonymous No.12893904]

>>12891223
I do think honestly.

[Anonymous No.12893907]

>>12891209
recognition is a spook

[Anonymous No.12893960]

>>12891070
I had some free kindle credits from ordering slow shipping on Amazon. They were about to expire, so I ordered The Diamond League

Bless you, Brandon.

[Anonymous No.12893981]

>>12891212
They got nothing in common, damn faggot.

[Anonymous No.12893983]

>>12891587
>"I'm jotting down my half-assed thoughts on someone else's original work and stretching it out for hundreds of pages"
Congrats on doing what any grad student does we are all so in awe

[Anonymous No.12894007]

>>12893904
No, your thoughts are Dishonest

[Anonymous No.12894015]

>>12891106
>>12891070
I feel the same way at comic book/anything nerdy conventions. You yourself might even think ''this idea is shit and will never take off'' while they're giving you a rundown of their thing. Is there a music version of these things or is the closest those rappers trying to sell me their mixtape in a Walmart parking lot?

[Anonymous No.12894024]

>>12891089
Those bookends are the ones pictured in SCP-826.

[Anonymous No.12894075]

>>12893343

>when her "no" means "yes"

kek

[Anonymous No.12894081]

>>12893907
Same, I don't want recognition, I don't care if everyone hates my book as long as they pay up.

[Anonymous No.12894093]

>>12891070
I hope to see logo at the next one

[Anonymous No.12894094]

>>12891223
Of course she does. You may not like Pop music, but a lot of people do, and she's extremely good at it.

The same goes for this YA and fantasy crap. I'm not into it, but that doesn't mean I don't think people who are really good at it don't deserve recognition from the appropriate public. Mediocrity however, in any field, deserves to be buried in oblivion.

[Anonymous No.12894097]

>>12894015
>Is there a music version of these things
Look for the performers at free community events put on by your city/town

[Anonymous No.12894123]

>>12891070
>self publishing
People....people still do this?

[Anonymous No.12894133]

>>12891070 (OP)
>self publishing
People....people still do this?

>>12891121
>Spending years submitting query after query and sucking jew cock in the hopes some white woman in New York will pay you a $5000 advance

Naw, trying and failing is one thing, but going the self-publishing route is the epitome of shame.

[Anonymous No.12894167]

>>12891089
Mariah is a blacksmith's daughter. She should have never let herself hope for more. As a young woman with the wings of a hawk, it's no wonder she considers herself nothing less than a freak. Before she even has a chance to find her place, she is betrayed and chased from the only home she has ever known. Now, living alone is the only way she knows how to survive - away from judging eyes and the kingdom that would make her a slave. But when Xae, a young refugee shifter, shows up in her territory, her mentor pushes her to aid him, to hint that she is meant for greater things. Xae's little sisters have been captured, and Mariah may be the only one who can rescue them.

To succeed, she must return to her homeland and venture all the way to the seat of the king's power. Despite help from friends she and Xae make during their quest, Mariah finds that abandoning her own freedom may be the only way she can liberate the two young girls otherwise destined for a life of servitude and torture. Will their daring plan to free Xae's family work, or will Mariah end up bound by the shackles she's spent her whole life trying to avoid?

[Anonymous No.12894342]

>>12891630
it's a prequel to BLACK FUTURE

[Anonymous No.12894352]

>>12891978
You have to marry her anon,it's the only way

[Anonymous No.12894363]

>>12891070
Is anyone else getting the urge to go to one of these things and buy a book from everyone? I wouldn't even read them, I'd probably just donate them to a thrift store.

[Anonymous No.12894372]

>>12891070
he seems nice. i'd buy his book.

[Anonymous No.12894414]

Is self publishing really that bad a route?

[Anonymous No.12894427]

>>12893296
What's the joke?

[Anonymous No.12894457]

>>12893271
No, you are for not being able to read basic body language.

[Anonymous No.12894472]

>>12894427

He slipped in a person who is not a self-published author, who is a notorious leftist critical theorist author. In this photo he appears to be tabling books for a distribution/press company (as some of them are clearly not his, like Zerzans Origins is clearly visible for sale for example). The person putting him in this thread in a candid photo of him wearing a goofy outfit, makes him appear to be similar to the shitty romance authors in this thread.

[Anonymous No.12894483]

>>12893324
it was sweet of you to buy that lonesome cowboy’s book, anon.

[Anonymous No.12894552]

>>12892536
>Somewhere the Bells Ring (Somewhere in Time #3)
>Caught with pot in her dorm room, Bailey Randolph is exiled to a relative's ancestral home in Virginia to straighten herself out. Banishment to Maple Hill is dismal, until a ghost appears requesting her help. Bailey is frightened but intrigued. Then her girlhood crush, Eric Burke, arrives and suddenly Maple Hill isn't so bad.
>To Eric, wounded in Vietnam, his military career shattered, this homecoming feels no less like exile. But when he finds Bailey at Maple Hill, her fairy-like beauty gives him reason to hope--until she tells him about the ghost haunting the house. Then he wonders if her one experiment with pot has made her crazy.
>As Bailey and Eric draw closer, he agrees to help her find a long-forgotten Christmas gift the ghost wants. But will the magic of Christmas be enough to make Eric believe--in Bailey and the ghost--before the Christmas bells ring?

[Anonymous No.12894562]

>>12891272
I like you anon. Good luck and please remember me.

[Anonymous No.12894570]

>>12894483
Here is his website if anyone else is interested. Music starts playing in the background like an old geocities site.

http://bobbyrwoodall.com/

[Anonymous No.12894590]

>>12893343
>Living amongst the dead
>amongst

STOP THE MEMES

[Anonymous No.12894621]

>>12891507
i thought the same thing. would totally fucking wear that.

[Anonymous No.12894639]

>>12891089
>raven
>thrall
have I been /pol/ too long?

[Anonymous No.12894667]

>>12891079
jesus this hits me in the feels
my mother wants to become an author and im worried she might be heading for this
so much disappointment in a single image

[Anonymous No.12894680]

>>12894667
let her pursue her passion. you're not in charge of her.

[Anonymous No.12894696]

>>12894680
i'm not saying that. i'll support her regardless
imagining her in this situation just makes me feel sad

[Anonymous No.12894738]

>>12891978
I knew this lady from campus and she was always trying to sell me one of her books, she was an anthropologist and the book was about a tribe or something. She was french and she got hooked hard on drugs with her Ex boyfriend, apparently dude killed himself in front of her and she became crazier, she was just roaming around campus smoking and having this weird ass tics all the time.

[Anonymous No.12894891]

yeah I think chasing your dream and failing is the worst thing ever to watch

perfect blue was torturous bros, nina was so happy when she was a pop singer and she threw it all away. she tried her best but in the end it didn't even matter

https://youtu.be/dpaCRJ_u600

[Anonymous No.12894895]

>>12894891
Not even a /pol/fag but i gotta say the fall of Berlin is an acute example of this for me.
All those lives, all that effort, those grand plans, all those hopes and dreams just ground into the dust.

[Anonymous No.12894901]

>>12891070
If you don't try, you don't succeed.

[Anonymous No.12894902]

>>12894901
if you don't try you don't fail

[Anonymous No.12894955]

>>12894902
>isekai

ewww

[Anonymous No.12894971]

>>12894075
Very applicable title. The female protagonist, spoiler alert, has a rape fetish. It is a fetish I had personally experienced from a female partner in a previous relationship. In the story, though, it's portrayed as much more brutal and emotionally affecting. My ex-gf from about a decade ago, she didn't like it anywhere near so rough, and I was too beta at the time to actually assert that much blatant dominance. This has since changed.

>>12894590
The ride never ends. Also, there's a Bible verse found with those words in it, found the verse after choosing the title if I'm not mistaken. I just searched, it's Luke 24:5.

Wait, what the FUCK?! They talk about my book on this website! Apparently a Polish person wrote about it, awesome, his home nation is based as fuck and have my respect.

http://zineyou.jp/living-amongst-the-dead.html

[Anonymous No.12894984]

thanks OP,
I am deleting all my novel ideas

[Anonymous No.12895000]

>>12894902
What a butchered and brainleted version of Kierkegaard's Either/Or.

[Anonymous No.12895004]

>>12895000
>Kierkegaard's Either/Or.

well which is it?

[Anonymous No.12895022]

>>12891083
I mean it's not that bad, I have 4000 hours of counter strike played

[Anonymous No.12895027]

>>12895004
You haven't even read it, have you? Embarrassing joke.

[Anonymous No.12895031]

>>12895022
did you at least make any money on skins?

[Anonymous No.12895034]

>>12895027
c'mon anon didn't even make you smile a little?

[Anonymous No.12895043]

>>12895031
I won a small tournament and got a mousepad and a gift card worth 50e

best day of my life

[Anonymous No.12895063]

>>12893485
how do you get into writing custom erotica
i used to be really into online stories to wank to and once wrote my own jacked off to it a few times and then deleted it in shame

[Anonymous No.12895070]

>>12891364
Is she selling tiny multicoloured gardening spades? What are those things?

[Anonymous No.12895096]

>>12895063
I've been interested in writing sexual content for many years, since sometime in my teens (surprise-surprise) though it was only for fun. I find it very interesting to write erotica for people, and I've become quite efficient at adopting a similar mindset to the person I'm writing through via conversing about their ideas with them. Eventually, generally, once I figure out the 'vibe' of the story that's desired, I can then start suggesting further ideas and they agree with them since it's in line with their desires. "Then after that, this happens, and she's conflicted because of action A and when he says B she just can't believe it's really happening and that when several loose strands of spaghetti seeps out of her pussy and ass."

Alright that went into an odd direction, I've never actually written something like that before, but anyways once I get the right 'mindset' of the story, I can then present different ideas and if I'm indeed on the same page then they'll be agreeing with most everything I say. I generally quite enjoy such conversations, and the fact I'm connecting with an individual insofar as I'm learning what gets them off. It's even women from time to time. I wrote this one story for someone who seemed to be a woman, ghostwritten it so they were going to monetize it. It was over a year ago, my prices were FAR lower back then. Something like 15-17k words for $100. I won't go into any detail of the story besides the fact it involved the 'reverse harem' sort of situation/fetish. One woman, many men, and the men are all chill with the fact. In short, she loved it so much that she gave me a full 50% tip, the highest I'm aware of, so $50.

I was quite proud that month... as for how long it took me to write it? Probably about 8 hours or so, so almost $20 per 1 hour of writing. Even after the tip, that's a bit cheaper than I write for now, ESPECIALLY when taking into account they got commercial rights for the piece. I don't know what they did with the story, and indeed sadly their account was deleted or blocked not long after. I hope they made lots of money from it.

[Anonymous No.12895119]

>>12891511
They're mainly sitting tho

[Anonymous No.12895128]

>>12891516
That's a big author

[Anonymous No.12895129]

>>12895070
raven feathers you silly-billy.

[Anonymous No.12895154]

>>12895070
My hunch is that they're pens.

[Anonymous No.12895173]

>>12894414
The internet and ebooks have made it feasible instead of the automatic badge of failure it used to be. But as far as I can see, to have a chance of making it work, you need serious self-promotion skills and dedication.

[Anonymous No.12895181]

>>12895128
for you

[Anonymous No.12895211]

>>12893216
Looks more like a shrine than a meal. There's probably fewer ironic shrines just because they're less of a meme.
I've forgotten what the wordfilter is for senpai so consider this a test

[Anonymous No.12895254]

>>12894570
This is fucking gold holy shit

[Anonymous No.12895258]

>>12895004
You'll regret it either/or

[Anonymous No.12895297]

>>12893343
this cannot NOT be a pasta

[Anonymous No.12895299]

>>12895034
I'm not that anon but I smiled

[Anonymous No.12895312]

>>12895297
Y'know, I get that comment a lot...

[Anonymous No.12895499]

this is retarded. the benefit of self publishing is using the net to get sales from the outliers all over the world who your shit happens to hit a note with. only b**mers would do in print sales from a fucking booth probably in some nowhere flyover city suburb high school gym being rented out for the day.
>>12891167
It takes me about 4 hours a day for 3 months if I'm not fucking around, so 360 hours? Research and editing might drag that out to 600 hours.

[Anonymous No.12895522]

>>12893343
"Another one please" said absolutely no-one to you after they finished one of your books.

[Anonymous No.12895524]

>>12891421
This guy seems chill

[Anonymous No.12895536]

>>12894133
>but going the self-publishing route is the epitome of shame.

t. kike afraid of his dying industry

what separates traditional publishing from self publishing is that self publishing has less inherent """quality""" control and thus people are free to share their own creation without a committee breathing down their neck

it also means you will never be barred from releasing what you actually want rather than being forced to write something that appeals to the committee of trend chasing kikes who want to rake in the profits of your work

[Anonymous No.12895546]

>>12895211
It's a shrine. Yunofag's been doing it for years.

[Anonymous No.12895584]

>>12895522
Clever, but I have a reader in the US who said "you're like Stephen King in that I'm going to buy and read whatever you put out." There's also a guy in Germany who bought the entire 5-novel Living Amongst the Dead series in paperback format, I've exchanged some emails with him. Also a fellow in Australia who is also a fan of the series. Interestingly enough, all three of these individuals are at retirement age or very close to it. I seem to appeal to the Boomer generation quite a bit... which I don't quite know what to make of. They're not the leftie Boomers though, in fact the Aussie enjoys frequently going out to the bush to burn some black powder and the US fellow is allegedly ex-Military. In fact when he read Another One Please, which is about a terrible marriage, he had been through several divorces and said it brought back some bad memories, but he meant it as a compliment and I accepted it as such. A sad compliment, but a compliment none the less. He is also aware of my age, which is late-20s presently, and that I've never been married or divorced so he was quite shocked at how well I portrayed it.

All the same, I do have quite a few negative reviews so obviously there's indeed several people out there who would agree in not wanting 'another one please.' I'm not so foolish as to think that everyone on the planet would definitely enjoy at least two of my books, but I did sell 6 of them in-person to someone who's a recent friend. Only known him for the span of months, but it seems I've had quite an influence on him and so he dropped... what was it... $70 for them? Though also I've given one book away to someone for free whom hasn't spoken to me about it since and then there's another chick who bought one from me (with tip, she insisted), and yet another paperback sale to someone in the same building and then my landlord went and bought one. He generously gave me $20 for it even though I told him it's only $8. None of those individuals who bought/received one book has asked for others, so you're accurate thus far in that regard.

[Anonymous No.12895588]

Holy shit this guy is just itching to tell his fucking life story, he keeps doing it.

[Anonymous No.12895589]

>>12895546
Why is there food then? I'm pretty sure this is a valentines day meal.

[Anonymous No.12895670]

>>12895119
underrated

[Anonymous No.12895691]

>>12894024
kek

[Anonymous No.12896341]

>>12895588
he is the real story

[Anonymous No.12896381]

I want to read the diamond league

[Anonymous No.12896502]

>>12893114
>he doesnt have a collection of his favorite philosophers in body pillow form
>he doesnt strap kant in at night to stop him masturbating
>he doesnt share his bedtime fruit with nietzsche
>he doesnt dress hegel in his nightgown and beret

[Anonymous No.12896543]

Black guy looks super relatable. Idk if it's the hopeless optimism or the fact you can tell he's the "virgin" meme type of guy. I only hope people don't blow smoke up his ass and actually give constructive criticism that way he can improve.

[Anonymous No.12896614]

>>12891709
>Lazarus took for granite the stony stare of his friend.

[Anonymous No.12896624]

>>12895588

I have the feeling that he is actually fucking nuts, given the subject matter he writes about. Is this really what all you guys are like IRL? Crazy guys who /k/ themed erotica, who want nothing more than to rant about your life story?

[Anonymous No.12896642]

>>12891070
Is this an absolute deadend or can you actually get discovered this way? I know some well known writers self published their first work (like Whitman), but is there any chance of going anywhere with this in a modern context?

[Anonymous No.12896660]

>>12896642
Honestly it depends on how much you put into marketing and advertising. If you put as much money into your marketing as a normal publisher would for a given book you will have an equivalent outcome. It isn't hard to get you book into distributor packages as long as you have good PR materials.

[Anonymous No.12896675]

>>12893114
Body pillows (the normal, non-anime kind) are comfortable and a good sleep aid.

[Anonymous No.12896692]

amazon self published people are worse

[Anonymous No.12896703]

>>12891747
U S A
The land of the obese

[Anonymous No.12896705]

>>12896692
At least it's better than to having woken up early and arrived expectantly at this places and to sit and wait for someone to pay attention and maybe buy a copy and have nothing happen to you.

[Anonymous No.12896721]

Is Robert F. Clintz a good pseudonym?

[Anonymous No.12896742]

>>12891421
Bob isnt self published you cum ragged homos. He doesnt even do "novels".

[Anonymous No.12896750]

>>12896660
what is a “distributor package”

[Anonymous No.12896774]

>>12893586
what are fujos?

[Anonymous No.12896808]

>>12896750
Just how things work if you have ever worked for a small independent bookstore, ever wondered how they get their books? You think they decide to read literally every book they put on their shelves and pick and choose them all one by one based on their taste? No you tardlet, publishers have distribution packages you order where you just say "send me these things and an assortment of shit" kind of. Big publishers do their own distribution and smaller publishers sell their wares to companies that just do distribution. So say I'm a small publisher and I have a bunch of novels, some poetry, and some cookbooks. I sell a distributor the rights for specific territories, and they will package my cookbook in their 'cooking' package that might end up in the cooking utensil endcap at a Kohls in Nebraska for all I fucking know.

If you do distribution yourself it literally means calling stores and trying to get book placement individually, which is much tougher.

[Anonymous No.12896833]

>>12896705
This so much

In a lot of cases if youre not on the web you dont exist. Seems like every year Baudrillard becomes more right

[Anonymous No.12896834]

I admire people who can physically go to these book fairs and shill their books, or even social media. I'm such a coward. I self-publish to Amazon and hope people randomly buy my book

[Anonymous No.12896938]

>>12896834

How many sales have you had so far over the course of your publishing career?

[Anonymous No.12896981]

>>12896938
90 books, $35 bucks

[Anonymous No.12897066]

>>12891223
Ariana Grande was a bad example, shes actually talented. Could've chose someone like Cardi b

[Anonymous No.12897068]

>>12896981
based

[Anonymous No.12897106]

>>12896981
how many pages is your book?

[Anonymous No.12897129]

>>12897106
I've got 8 books out. Each "book" or booklet is about 3000-4000 words, between 40-80 pages, font size 16, and with pictures I draw in gimp.

>>12897068
t-thanks

[Anonymous No.12897133]

>>12896981
The last months look promising, sales are going up

[Anonymous No.12897155]

>>12897133
Yeah, but I also started a real job at a restaurant a few weeks ago. February was my last month of neetdom. It's way harder to write now that I'm exhausted after cooking, washing dishes and utensils, and mopping floors for 8 hours a day.

[Anonymous No.12897168]

>>12895536
>trend chasing kikes who want to rake in the profits of your work
no one wants to buy your shitty Turner Diaries/Gorilla Mindset book

[Anonymous No.12897264]

>>12895499
Now imagine that you need twice the amount of outlining, drafting, and re-drafting. Voila, 1200h.

[Anonymous No.12897277]

>>12893424
woah senpai it's like monarchic society was based on family

[Anonymous No.12897313]

>>12891421

Not the guy but from the same table years ago. (Little Black Cart, the guys who published the new Max Stirner Translation)

>At the Seattle Anarchist Bookfair on Saturday, August 26, several anarchists confronted Little Black Cart about their decision to publish and distribute Atassa: Readings in Eco-Extremism.(Book about the ideas of an eco terrorist group)

>After voicing these concerns and being met with smug indifference, one comrade ripped Atassa in half. The LBC tabler responded immediately by grabbing this person by the throat from behind the table, pushing through the table, putting them in a chokehold, and taking them to the ground in an attempt to choke them unconscious.

>A second comrade punched the attacker in the face in an attempt to get them to release the first. In response, an associate of the LBC tabler jumped on the second comrade from behind in defense of the choking attack, taking them to the ground and punching them repeatedly in the head until they were pulled off by bystanders.

>The physical conflict ended after the attackers were pulled off and both parties were told to leave by bookfair organizers, as per the bookfair policy. The comrade who was choked was fine, the one punched suffered a mild concussion.

>Many people in the immediate vicinity had no idea what was going on: all of a sudden, someone was being choked, another was being beaten, and no one really knew why. It was over quickly and people looked on in shock.

>Another LBC tabler, after witnessing the beatdown, expressed outrage about the property destruction when they found out their $7 book had been ripped in half. The person who put the comrade in the chokehold, after complaining about being kicked out because the other side had “started it,” was asked if the book was worth as much as the comrade’s neck and stated “Yeah it is.”

[Anonymous No.12897328]

>>12897168
Only racists self-publish. Of course!

[Anonymous No.12897346]

>>12891240
What building is this tall all the way at the top of Manhattan

[Anonymous No.12897348]

>>12897168
Tell that to BAP, his shit sold really well. You know why? Self-promotion and paying a PR firm.

[Anonymous No.12897356]

>>12897313
LBC are great, they don't fuck around. Aragorn is based as fuck.

[Anonymous No.12897364]

>>12897346
One World Trade Center obviously. You are looking at the picture improperly.

[Anonymous No.12897623]

>>12891421
I like Bob Black. Read his anti-work manifesto a few years ago when I'd just moved to the big city for work and hated living there.

[Anonymous No.12897647]

>>12895536
>anti-Semitic drivel

Fuck off. Why can't you people ever say anything without immediately nose-diving into the sewer? Really, what's wrong with you?

>>12897328
>Only racists self-publish. Of course!
No, only failures shitting out fanfic-tier garbage sell-publish.

[Anonymous No.12897656]

>>12897328
Given that anon was being racist, it seems a fair assumption that anon is racist

[Anonymous No.12897660]

>>12897647
> t. wannabe agent for Random House

[Anonymous No.12897672]

>>12897660
Seriously, or someone who has never actually published something through a real publisher. Jesus christ what a fucking ordeal and by the end of it I was making pennies and getting fucked while they made thousands.

Never again, stupid fucking shills for publishers can fuck off.

[Anonymous No.12897680]

>>12897066
>shes actually talented
I hope you're joking.

[Anonymous No.12897693]

It's comforting to know that I saved myself a ton of extra embarrassment by never actually perusing any of my dreams.

[Anonymous No.12897719]

>>12891070

You guys might laugh but this guys Diamond League book is carried by Barnes and Noble

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-diamond-league-brandon-jones/1125312080

[Anonymous No.12897736]

>>12897719
what's his youtube?

[Anonymous No.12897821]

>>12894570
>I was born in Oklahoma City June 21, 1944 and raised in Chickasha, Oklahoma. Wild as a peach elm boar when I was younger.
KINO

[Anonymous No.12897889]

>>12891503
It’s the best cover in this thread at least

[Anonymous No.12897985]

>>12897719
Barnes and Noble has a self publishing section too. I've also got a book on Barnes and Noble

[Anonymous No.12898004]

>>12891070
>negroes with Anglo names
Name a cringier duo

[Anonymous No.12898020]

>>12891212
>Casares
>monster
lmao

[Anonymous No.12898110]

>>12891070
I want to collect and translate norwegian/danish/swedish/german 19th century travel accounts of my tiny country and publish them as an English compendium. I can already see the 1 sale / decade ticking in.

[Anonymous No.12898113]

>>12894363
I can think of worse ways to blow $100.

[Anonymous No.12898162]

>>12898004
americans converting to islam

[Anonymous No.12898300]

This is your (deserved) future if you write fantasy.

[Anonymous No.12898344]

>>12898110
I unironically get high heartbeat excited when I get the occasional 30 cent direct deposit from Amazon

[Anonymous No.12898369]

>>12891070
All you Doomers are just jealous of this Bloomer. Look how happy he is.

[Anonymous No.12898531]

>>12896624
he is actually old school lit he has been posting his self pubbed stuff here for years. seems like a good fellow but a bit oblivious

[Anonymous No.12898940]

>>12898531
I don't remember him. Most of the good people from that era were people like quentin and Deep & Edgy, not weirdos writing erotica.

[Anonymous No.12899038]

>>12897680
Laugh my ass piss

[Anonymous No.12899133]

>>12894570
this post protected by GUNS. meme rustlers will be SHOT ON SIGHT.

[Anonymous No.12899216]

>>12897672
Can anyone recommend me how to get into self-publishing? Do I just write my book and make a bunch of .pdfs or what?

[Anonymous No.12899222]

>>12899216
Depends on what type of self-publishing you are doing. Try writing a good book first and then worry about it.

[Anonymous No.12899235]

>>12894570
>Wrote two western novels; CLEARWATER(76,694 words-276 pages) and MERCER'S MANOR(95,799 words-333 pages). There is no profanity in either. When I wrote MERCER'S MANOR, I had in my mind's eye, Tom Selleck as Dan Mercer, Sam Elliott as his side-kick and Reba McEntire as the love interest. In CLEARWATER, I envisioned Clint Eastwood as the aging sheriff, doesn't want to rock the boat just glide along until retirement. As the "serial killer", I thought of Jack Nicholson! This way keeps me from having to take notes!

[Anonymous No.12899260]

>>12891089
>Multiple grammatical errors in the synopsis for your book, which is meant to sell it
That's a yikes from me

[Anonymous No.12899264]

>>12899235
The one I bought was Clearwater, it was ok. I'm not a huge fan of westerns, it is kind of surreal actually. The main character just keeps having interactions with people and starts blowing them away with very little build up. Then the main character just kind of shrugs it off. The writing is very erratic and weird. The story feels like it has lots of 'jump cuts' for lack of a better description like it was written by someone with a very scattered/disoriented thought process.

[Anonymous No.12899462]

>>12893343
lmaooo
archive this thread

[Anonymous No.12899469]

>>12899462
But they are already are...

[Anonymous No.12899479]

>>12899462
Kill yourself you fucking reddit fuckstain.

[Anonymous No.12899482]

better to just read the good stuff and write commentaries on them than do something as ridiculous as self publish. Most of those books are YA, so they're just trying to be the next Twilight or Hunger Games and cash in. Literature is dead

[Anonymous No.12899531]

>>12896774
Joke definition: The worse things imaginable and ruin anything that can be seen as manly or strictly male focused/dominant casts.
Actual definition: Women that see a homosexual relationship in any friendship with two males. The full term is Fujoshi, which means rotten girl I believe. They enjoy yaoi, which is a genre of media that details sexual relationships between two men. Think pretty boy types and that is what they like.
They are best to be avoided and ignored if possible

[Anonymous No.12899609]

Say what you will for these people, but Josiah Bancroft started by self publishing and got noticed by a real publisher. He got noticed on merit because even when his stuff was on the same level as all these guys, it was quality. For all you know, any of these people might have your favorite book you haven't read yet.

[Anonymous No.12899663]

>>12895584

[Anonymous No.12899697]

>>12894552
lmao that's like the book equivalent of

[Anonymous No.12899821]

>>12899663
Guy is a nutcase desu.

[Anonymous No.12899954]

Is there anywhere I can read these books for free? I kind of feel like seeing just how truly bad they are.

[Anonymous No.12899986]

>>12899954
shouldn't be difficult to find your local authors. there's meetup.com for writers and you're bound to find small town conventions. don't steal OP's finds just because he's putting them under your nose. you want to drink straight from the spigot. support your local weirdos.

[Anonymous No.12900010]

>>12893343
Somehow, before looking at the pic, I knew it was going to be you after making it through the first paragraph.

How are the sales on your zombie series going?

[Anonymous No.12900061]

>>12893114
My trade is baking, and Im also cursed with oily skin. Body pillows help with shoulder and back pain and the novelty anime cover is washable. I dont associate the character on the body pillow with intense romantic feelings so much as it is just a funny novelty.

[Anonymous No.12900077]

>>12898369
>Weak smile, bent back, looking down
Wow he's so happy. BASED BLACK GUY XD

[Anonymous No.12900085]

>>12894133
How is it that releasing music independently is less looked down upon than self-publishing, especially since the lack of funding and production quality potentially have a much greater an effect on music than lit? Provided the writer has an editor, I don't really see how it's any better or worse.

[Anonymous No.12900119]

>>12893907
Yeah, I couldn't give a fuck about recognition. Obscurity is golden. A girl jerked me off in an old factory stairwell leading to a converted music studio, and I splattered all over her dress. I was on DMT at the time. It was revealed to me that pleasure wouldn't be as intense if it was in abundance. I had to work for that single ejaculation, which elevated the satisfaction. Imagine if I was a big-named artist scoring and jizzing everyday, it would become boring as shit. Embrace being obscure scum.

[Anonymous No.12900169]

>>12893343
>When her 'No' means 'Yes'

based

[Anonymous No.12900170]

>>12900085
It has a bad name because the industry hasn't changed over yet. So the only people self-publishing are weird old ladies writing fantasy romance and young adult. If more respectable people actually did self publishing it would probably have the kind of shift you are talking about. Be the change you want to see in the world. Self publish something good.

[Anonymous No.12900238]

>>12899954
many of the books in this thread have free preview pages on amazon

[Anonymous No.12900247]

>>12900170
I'm a musician; I'm just curious. Surely it can't be just weird old new-age types writing softcore porn.

[Anonymous No.12900251]

>>12900247
you would hope to find sex in these books, but my estimation is that they're largely neuter.

[Anonymous No.12900290]

>>12900247
What kind of music do you write? Are you a composer, by any chance?

[Anonymous No.12900293]

>>12891079
This is the most depressing photo I've seen this year.

[Anonymous No.12900304]

>>12894570
Absolutely based

[Anonymous No.12900309]

>>12900293
I like how big she made the books dimensions, those are almost flyer/newsletter-sized paper. I wonder if the text inside is also huge.

[Anonymous No.12900460]

>>12891089
Daughter looks qt

[Anonymous No.12900472]

>tfw 25,000 hours into first book and still not finished

[Anonymous No.12900480]

>>12900472
Not humanly possible anon, that would mean you spent approx 3 years worth of time writing.

[Anonymous No.12900502]

>>12900480
Yeah that sounds about right

[Anonymous No.12900506]

>>12900502
Well tell us about it at the very least you dummy. It must be the work of the century, the next war and peace.

[Anonymous No.12900511]

>>12900506
It's about a futuristic amusement park, where dinosaurs are brought back to life through advanced cloning techniques.

[Anonymous No.12900525]

>>12894167
I embraced, but this doesn't sound that bad actually.

[Anonymous No.12900543]

>>12900525
It reminds me of those shitty chibi art movies made by kids on youtube, filled with spelling errors and text emotes.

[Anonymous No.12900626]

>>12900506
It's the future of philosophy. That's all I'm saying.

[Anonymous No.12900911]

>>12900010
The shillster strikes again, what can I say?

I get a sale every now and then, but overall it's not much. I make way more money on Fiverr.

>>12900169
Already triggered at least one Trump-hating feminist. Worth it.

[Anonymous No.12901060]

>>12900472
that's 5 hours a day, every day, for 5000 days. so for 12 years you've been writing this much daily? how old are you?

[Anonymous No.12901158]

If the actual nutters self-published more often I'd buy them eagerly. Think greats like Terry, Francis E. Dec ("GANGSTER COMPUTER GOD WORLD-
WIDE SECRET CONTAINMENT POLICY!"), etc.

Unfortunately the self-pub nutters are more Wayne Lambright tier. Just the same stale soup of standard conspiracy tropes.

[Anon No.12901170]

>>12894570

I'm going to buy a copy just for the site. He seems like a nice guy.

[Anonymous No.12901181]

>>12894097
is that really Phil Elvrum

[Anonymous No.12901352]

>>12893470
BWHA HA HA YOU LOSER

[Anonymous No.12901363]

>>12901170
I will do the same, he seems to be a nice person

[Anonymous No.12901633]

>>12891240

The unnecessarily high number of pencils in that jar is probably the most maddening thing about the entire image

[Anonymous No.12901659]

>>12891070

[Anonymous No.12901804]

>>12891070
They are extremely brave, even if the dream is clearly unreachable and they are irreversibly ignorant and unaware of their utter failure, they still do it.

What have you got going? Do you make fun of them because you think you are better? where is you best seller? where is your paradigm shifting philosophical treatise veiled by postmodern comedic take on cumming on your cat?

do you have the skills and organization to create or guide a friend or freelance designer to envision a cover? no you fucking faggot, and you never will. Because you dont have a job, friends, and family members look on your "hobby" with contempt and disdain.

I'm lmaoing at ur life, kid.(1)

(1) - this post is as much honest kneejerk reaction to op and several posts in this thread as it is a long overdue analysis of my own sad life.

[Anonymous No.12901845]

>>12891240
I am become LARP, cringer of worlds

[Anonymous No.12901851]

>>12901804
>>
>do you have the skills and organization to create or guide a friend or freelance designer to envision a cover? no you fucking faggot, and you never will. Because you dont have a job, friends, and family members look on your "hobby" with contempt and disdain.
Covers are 75% of the reason for sales on Amazon btw

75% of the remainder is social proof

[Anonymous No.12901860]

With the amount of absolute drivel getting published these days, anyone who can't even get that far is in the wrong field.

[Anonymous No.12901904]

>>12901860
Depends on what you write about and skin color/genitalia/queered status. A typical /lit/ white male with his pretentious bullshit isn't going to get published anywhere, ever.

[Anonymous No.12901936]

Who would even go to a self published convention other than self published authors?

[Anonymous No.12901990]

>>12894570
>http://bobbyrwoodall.com/


YEEEEEHAAAWWWW

[Anonymous No.12902094]

>>12901936
would be dope to buy this from the legend himself desu

[Anonymous No.12902441]

>>12891250
he was also blind for most of his life

[Anonymous No.12902623]

>>12900119
powerful

[Anonymous No.12902632]

>>12896981
congratulations on your record month anon

[Anonymous No.12902681]

>>12902632
He should really raise the price desu.

[Anonymous No.12902892]

>>12891223
>t. Paul Joseph Watson

[Anonymous No.12903230]

>>12902681
wow you should be someone‘s literary agent

[Anonymous No.12903289]

>>12903230
Fuck off mate