It just struck me like an hour after writing these that some of them are totally inspired by @valiantly.bsky.social 's #Febredit

Thanks for the inspiration!

Are you doing a tag prompt for April?

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sorry I never read the calendar ahead, I treat it like an advent calendar 😂

I just realized two days ago that my 12yo MC who runs out of her house when kidnappers come in, then goes on a big time+space adventure, almost never wonders whether her mother is ok after the break-in 😂🤣

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#Febredit day 28: the same again from Tuesday whyyyyy

Our last day of #Febredit is a lesson in having multiple editors and beta readers because NO ONE TOLD ME I COPIED OVER THE LAST THREE DAYS GLURASRHHHHHFFF FF BF

Let's celebrate our mistakes by sharing a mistake you made in your most recent work, and a link to buy it 😁. Quote or reply here! 🪐📚💙

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27. I'll manage somehow. I've considered letting people have access to the drafts of the novelization, so that could work.

Check out #Glassflower: Ursa and the Scarf Squad on Tapas tapas.io/series/Glass...

26) How much input do you want to have on your covers?

#Febredit Day 26 - prompt is a repeat of 23, so I'll just add: We really do need to stand beside our visual-arts comrades in the creative industry, and avoid using any AI elements for our covers. It's very insulting to artists of all media formats, and we should hold together on that.

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26. How much input do I want on my covers? How do ya got?

Check out #Glassflower: Ursa and the Scarf Squad on Tapas tapas.io/series/Glass...

As an indie author, I like control & I have veto power. At the same time, I’m not a cover artist. I give my artist a cover brief with a general idea of what I want and then I tend to trust what they come out with for the most part. So far, that seems to be working for me. 📚 💙

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25: Ain't done yet

Backtrack to 24: Never had a professional editor yet, but one day soon hopefully. Mostly had family and friends read, need to find more people who don't know me. But I have been bitten offering to beta in the past. Tea in the replies... 🫖

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Not from experience but from watching others: building hype before launch is so critical (especially for self pub). Get those ARCs out, get on those Goodreads "want to read" lists, get preorders...

...how?

The fuck if I know...

25) What's something you learned from publishing your first book that you wish you'd known?

#Febredit Day 25: True first "don't trust a print-on-demand publisher you have to pay" (remember PublishAmerica anyone? F@#$ 'em, I was young and stupid) -- with NICEF? Marketing is 99% of the job, and I'm bad at it.

24) If you can't afford an editor, do you have beta readers? Do you need beta readers? Are you willing to be one?

#Febredit Day 24: I've posted about this very thing. Pro editors are prohibitively expensive for indies (no hate, get your bag), but I do have a couple of very good friends that are willing to beta read my first drafts. I'm willing to do the same, yes.

#febredit I wish I'd known about wide distribution when I published BOS. It languished on the zon for years until I figured that out. Now it's available everywhere and doing decently for a book its age

#febredit day 25: What's something you learned from publishing your first book that you wish you'd known?

Lol turns out i blanked on posting #febredit yesterday! Sorry folks! I'll put out a beta summons at the end of the month maybe if people think that will be useful.

In any case, Day 25! What's something you learned from publishing your first book that you wish you'd known? #booksky #writesky

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I always have the idea for my book covers and I feel it’s good to know how to explain either that or the contents so you and the designer can be on the same page. As for me, I give my idea then the GD presents me something and we go from there.
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I’m with a small press publisher and they ask for input and present samples. I’m bad at picking though (a massive reason why I don’t self publish) so ask a couple trusted friends what they think. I don’t look at book covers in general

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I actually want to hand this over to other people, because I mistrust my visual aesthetic judgement

If left to my own devices I go kitsch 🙃

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24. I haven’t gotten that far yet. I'll probably find beta readers. I would only beta read for a friend personally, i don’t manage time well at all

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I'm trying to go traditional, so I have no idea how much control I'll realistically get 😭 But if I could input, I'd want the ficioanima to be on the covers... Some might have to double up to get them all, so I'd want to work with someone on what would be best there. 😅

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I make my own covers, and I generally come up with a concept before getting feedback from others. I kinda wish I had an expert handling it though lol, especially as I'm in the middle of doing the most artistically ambitious cover yet 🥲

23) How much input do you want to have on your covers?

Art by Luigiix - cover of "N.I.C.E.F.: Neural-Interface Controlled Exo-Frame" novel. Human eye top left, alien eye top right, title full-center, child facing a riot-police line with a mech bottom left, a Nicef (mech) with a beamsaber bottom center, young woman with half-body prosthetics in a medical cot bottom right. - Get the book: https://a.co/d/cyHzqQa

#Febredit Day 23: Covers? Big part of why I selfpublished is make sure I have ownership of my work. Control of the cover included. I paid Luigiix for my cover, and he took my concept, turning it into an /amazing/ work of art that I adore.

I haven't been in the position yet, but I'm probably fine with letting the expert handle it 😅 I have no clue of graphics and the like, it's why I write instead of painting etc 🙈 Would be nice to be asked if I'm fine with the idea, that's all I'd ask for 🙂

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#febredit day 23! How much input do you want on your covers? #writesky #writingcommunity

#febredit day 23! Pub prep week! This is going to be a mix of trad and self, so feel free to answer however is appropriate for you.

How much input do you want on your covers? Full control, general idea, let the expert handle it?

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23. I'll do it myself

Check out Glassflower: Ursa and the Scarf Squad on Tapas tapas.io/series/Glass...

#febredit — day 22

That would be both my poetry novels now that I’ve grown as a writer. I feel they’re just bodies of work that don’t really resemble who I am anymore.

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I've wanted to do this with so many movies and games more than books DX I'm gonna say Tales of Zestiria for this. Such a wonderful cast trapped behind so many bad writing decisions... like Edna's whole reason for joining being resolved in the worst way possible during a side quest.

I have been super hit and miss with these but this is something I've been chewing on for a while. I would rewrite my own Fia Drake trilogy into a single book. Read through has been absolutely abysmal and I would like people to read the whole story.
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Ok I will name and shame myself but I would rewrite Crass, which Uncharted published last August. When it went live and I re-read it, I was like... oh no. I wouldn't write it like that anymore. My craft has come a long way and I feel like I could have done better.

#Febredit Day 22: If you could rewrite one existing published work, which would you pick, and why?

#Febredit Day 22: If you could rewrite one existing published work, which would you pick, and why?

This could be your own book, someone else's (please pick don't pick on your friends or @ someone unless you know they're with it)

I would like to rewrite all of HP Lovecraft's shit to be Not Racist 😅

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I’ve never thrown away an entire story because I do tend to use bits of it in other stories, but I have found that whenever I rewrite, I usually end up with a longer story than the original 😅

22) If you could rewrite one existing published work, which would you pick, and why?

#Febredit Day 22: I actually did a rewrite for another person's fanfic on essentially a dare, and thus I can say 'no.' It's not worth it. I'd much rather take inspiration from elements of their work and make something more my own.