CW Author

Aspiring and Self-Published Authors & Writers

Got a new cover in the works, will need your opinions on it! :)

I need original short science fiction and fantasy stories to narrate for a podcast!

My prequel book: The No-Zone is a collection of post-apocalyptic short stories, split into 2 parts each. I'm wondering if this would be something interesting to you? Not everyone considers post-apoc to be a form of sci-fi but I think there is a lot of overlap. There are also some mild mythologic references that give it a fantasy element too.

Let me know if it is.


@Gisk

Aspiring and Self-Published Authors & Writers

@Hank So are you writing something at the moment? Got something in the works?

Aspiring and Self-Published Authors & Writers

Those are wonderful covers, @CW Author!

I don't know if this is too private a question to ask, but I've always been curious. How successful has your self-publishing venture been thus far in terms of sales? What's Amazon like when it comes to exposure? Do you have to do all of the marketing yourself or is there some kind of recommendation algorithm you can try to game, like YouTube has?

@Hank

Great question, Hank.

I can say that in my experience the toughest part is the 'start up costs' paying for a cover artist and an editor specifically. The sales process is mostly trying to make back the money you spent to release the book, which also is burdened by any money you spend on promotion (ads, etc).

I can say with my book I got very lucky on the editing side, and was able to save a ton of money and I was pretty good at shopping around for high-quality artwork that didn't break the bank, so to speak.

Without going into hard numbers I can say that I've made a couple hundred dollars profit after all my expenses over the span of about 7 months. So a great hobby to make some spending money but nothing in the way of 'making a living' at least not at my level. But then I'm fairly new at this and I'm still building my mailing list and doing promotion where I can.

I know some folks who write addjacent to my genre make up to 5k a month mainly just by being very consistent, writing to market and putting out a LOT of content consistently. People really like series in the E-book world.

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@Hank

Thanks Hank, I just made the book thread with my book covers included so please let me know what you think!

Aspiring and Self-Published Authors & Writers

Hello RPG

After a long time of lurking during my years-long hiatus from the guild, I noticed that many of you have mentioned writing your own original work outside of roleplaying. So I thought maybe it would be good to have a discussion thread for not only those of us who have released books but also those who might be putting ideas together for a writing project in the future. Hopefully, this can be a good resource for advice and feedback too.

I'll start with my own work. I'm a self-published author who has released two books in a Post-Apocalyptic series called 'The After-Skirmish'.

Here are the covers.

@Stormflyx and @Jabberwocky

(Thank you for both showing interest!)

I'm currently working on the next in the series but also looking to branch out into cyberpunk and horror as well.

What are you working on or hoping to work on?

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Thank you all for the greetings. I'm gonna start drawing up the outline of a post apoc RP now and I'll make an 'authors' thread where I'll share details about my books for those who are interested.

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I'm curious about your book series - how would you sum it up in a sentence?

@Stormflyx

One sentence? Umm...

Mad Max meets Fallout meets Underworld!

Previous user, back in town!

Hello all.

I used to use the guild a number of years back under a different name but now I'm back with a renewed interest in roleplay after taking some time to write my own book series and get involved with a few visual novel projects.

Looking forward to writing with all of you, especially those who enjoy the post-apocalyptic setting!