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Saint Caliendo

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Hello! I'm Saint, and I write Novels. :slight_smile:

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A Court of Thorns and Roses Children of Blood and Bone Days of Blood and Sunlight Girls of Paper and Fire No... this is not a series... this is just how you name a YA fantasy novel (and these are all actual books that have sold very well!) Lol. Just wanted to emphasize that the point of class…

[image] For anyone wondering about that one snake plaguing all novel covers. (Lmao, the books featured are really good. It's just funny the cover artists used the same assets.)

Err, can someone explain to me why comics having a similar art style or marketing is bad? If something shares a genre aren't they SUPPOSED to have similar marketing/writing styles? That's very much the case with novels? (I don't know If anyone is aware of that one snake in EVERY new fantasy novel …

I can see how it can be therapeutic for many people, but for me, not really. If anything I mostly write under high stress. (When I am ill, short bursts like NaNoWriMo, in the noisy as hell train station etc.) But then, I don't necessarily like the process of writing. I like stories, and I like tel…

I promise you no one cares. Depends on the audience you're trying to cultivate. If you're not trying to write anything where people are supposed to think too deeply you're good to go. I have not seen angry people about this. I have seen people who say it's very counter what is expected from her …

I 100% feel your frustration, but the thing about a lot of people is that they don't really want to hear what works, and would like to just do whatever they think works. (Yes, self promo on a forum of mostly other creators won't do anything. And accumulating a high number of subs that don't interact…

Haven't been here in a minute. Here to say thank you for the Tapas twitter shout out, and to those that linked me on the thread. Means a lot. [:smile_01:]

People do get really creative when trying to find reasons why the works they like are not popular (and the very bizarre methods they plan to 'rectify' this.) It boils down to demographics. Leave authors and readers alone, and maybe encourage men to read.

I get your point, BUT it's free. There are people who get paid to review comics and books, the random person on the forums is properly just doing it for fun or because you asked. When something doesn't go the way I like, and I'm ready to mouth off like I paid for it when I did not, I pause and re…

Lovecraft was racist. The reason why his horror is so good is because it feeds on his fears of minorities. Basically, imagine racist rambling... but well written. That's Lovecraft.

There’s your problem. You don’t read the genre, and hence don’t know what makes the genre the genre. My point is—writing something that is clearly not romance and calling it romance is not in any body’s favour. A marketing disaster for the writer, and a waste of time for readers that bump into …

I also want to mention that there is a difference between playing around with a trope and breaking genre foundations. If someone wrote Star Wars and dressed it up in Victorian aesthetic and called it historical fiction instead of sci-fi steam punk we’ll have a problem.

The whole point of Romance is HEA. It’s in the definition that it has a happily ever after. So no, it’s not a romance. File it under literary fiction or Tragedy if it has too much of a Genre fiction feel. Here’s an article for people not familiar enough with the romance genre to know what counts a…

I LOVE IT, I BINGED EVERYTHING IN ONE DAY (INCLUDING THE MANGA AND THE SPIN OFF COMIC.) [:heart_01:]

Ehhh, nah. I personally don't judge things as "bad" because I don't like it. I think most isekie is terrible plot wise, repetitive and has bad prose, but a lot of people will fight me to the death over it lol.

Lmao what. Explain. I'm interested.

She did start a whole sub genre frenzy. She has my respect there.

Yup. I'm a commercial writer. I write to market.

Hmm, nah, just doing alright with my million of views, and happy to be on tapas and having received premium novel deal already. I experiment and cross apply. I do all the things you say that don't work, and I just keep stumbling in the right direction. Quite strange.

This is not my main platfrom, lad. This is my play site. LMAO.

Hey, it is what it is! :smiley:

Lad, I do my thing, and what I get out of it speaks for itself. Maybe what I'm doing doesn't work, and I am just "lucky", and I am glad to fall into luck 33 times over.

I would think this was one and the same? Pandering does mean to cater to? Or maybe we're working on different definitions. But yes, I agree, someone can love the life out of their job. I do love mine! I do think we're talking about the split between passion Literary works and Commercial ficti…

Goodbye I enjoyed picking your brain as someone in marketing. Maybe one day we will talk specifically about how books are marketed, acquired, and what dictates their success in the industry. :slight_smile:

Lmao, I'm sorry! Don't worry.

Profit does not dictate quality... Where did you pick this up from LOL. This applies to companies as a whole as I mentioned. An animation studio, for instance, determining what product has earned its keep. For entrepreneurs (or simple partnerships), the game changes a bit.

I agree with you, though, I'm not a fan of the "put art on a pedestal" slant. Very important things---things we need, are products and are marketed as products. Food, medicine etc. Many of our favorite books today were "pop fiction" written for serialization. Written for money. A lot of books from…

Then we need to talk about financing costs for continuation. (Google what financing means, and what this means in regards to businesses making sure they keep running.) This would apply to the company as a whole, not one product. To me, a product has broken even and "earns its keep" is a success…

You should have googled break even. To break even you have to exceed Total cost of production (implicit [capital costs for instance] + explicit [wages etc]) to break even and start making profit. E.G. My laptop is $1200, my writing/editing software is $50, I pay $200 for a cover my TP is $145…

Okay, I'm going to break it down to you. Revenue - Cost of production = Profit. $1 - $2 (price of pencil) = $-1. This is you. You cannot make ridiculous comparations like this because CP is a thing. (Capital cost) On a none ridiculous level. A self-published writer who has made $100,000 this…