I’m just glad you too get the “marketing help” emails.
“Your book looks so fascinating! You could really benefit from a bigger audience.” Or whatever ChatGPT mess they come up with, lol.

Idk though. 46 is a lot. Maybe you should consider it. 😂

Muslim woman in red scarf

Thesis!

No fiction-writing updates, but I did write something!
Title: “Policy Intervention in the EV Battery Supply Chain.”
Officially have an MPP now, thank God. Hoping to be back once I get some things worked out re: my books.

Ahahaha

Haha dankeschön 😊
And yes it was excellent, I love that the internet is basically forever 😂

Ahahaha oh probably

Honestly, for creative-control reasons, I skipped all that and went straight to self-pub (other than flash fiction). No regrets, nothing wrong w/my books (unless you count that they need a warning for being addictive 😂). I might query my next project, but at this point I have thick skin. Many don’t.

I randomly came across your post but hahahaha this is gold.

Exactly - and random thought; it’s amazing to me how much stuff gets advertised and sold on the basis of “your fault, not the system.”

Oh America.

That’s my understanding yeah - and idk I wouldn’t want to work with someone who is saying “There’s something wrong with your book.” How about “How can we think about this differently?”

lol that’s like saying “if you don’t get an interview there something wrong with you despite the hundreds-of-people-applying thing, stop trying.”

Wait, who doesn’t like copyright? Seriously?

Genau 😂

The umlaut thing was funny and now that I speak German it’s funny in a different way 😂. It sounds so weird in my head 😂

I’m looking it up right now. T-glottalization, for example - I tend toward a glottal stop rather than a hidden release of air, from what I can tell. I speak American English, sometimes more enunciated than others. My “normal” speech (grew up in a rural area) is pretty unreleased, if that’s a term.

Wait, I don’t think I do that in English? If I’m overenunciating a word, yes, but normally, no, not that I can tell.

Idk what this PosterPit thing is about buuuut I did use Canva to make a trailer for Aestus 3 back a few years ago, with the wildly optimistic release date of 2023 (sorry)…anyway I can’t show it for spoiler reasons but some of you will likely be very upset with me, bwahaha.

I want to write a super fun treasure quest! Right now mine is historical fiction but it feels too “real.” I want more of a “rollicking adventure” type of story haha.

Oh wow you didn’t??
I loved Treasure Island as a kid. I am working on a pirates story. But I might write more of a fantasy-esque one.

The kid in me desperately loves the cover art.
The adult me, same haha.

I really hope you’re writing something like this 😂

That title 😂

Wait wait I missed a pun!
“Since I keep seeing books with this same formula…”

Black mock book cover. Gold frame. At the top, gold text says “The Math Series” and then “Can you solve the problem…without a calculator?” Center, all caps: “A Property of A & B” by “Professor Punname” Reviews: “Intimidatingly brilliant” - Some dude “I cried” - Reader

I keep seeing books called “A _____ of ____ and _____” soooo here you go. #books #writing #WritingCommunity
Note: this is a joke. I’m just amused how many books seem to be called some variation of this.

(In addition to many of the reasons you listed. It has to feel like the character. And yes I saw your second post before your original one so was responding without that context.)

Names are hugely important in my experience. Wrong name? I can’t write.

Idk why this is so hilarious to me

Two blankets!

Muslim woman in fancy blue and gold outfit

Eid Mubarak!

Kind of tempted to make this my profile pic. My current one is from like…2018. But then how would you recognize me (haha jk)

Cover myself in a blanket.