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Holy crap, it's still climbing. #70 right now. -
BOOM. Top 100, Military Fantasy. With no social media. Go ahead and keep telling me why SM is important; I wasn't listening. aters.
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Hey, STONELANDS is live. Get it for cheap while you can. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GWYG1H1G BIPOC MC! Dokkalfar! Women snipers...
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Translation is a separate art from writing. For a good translation, you'll have to do away with any machine translations. I have done...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Writing in different languages.You haven't said how well you know this other language, so it's hard to say how much effort you'd need to put in. I'm fluent in several...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Writing grim dark fantasy with self injected main character.If your story gets published you will be judged. You may not want that, but it will happen. All you can really do is choose whether to...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice.If you want to call the process by which publisers find a new author and/or book to publish gatekeeping then do so. But in my view that...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice.I wonder if you and pmmg haven't missed my point. I wrote that publishing is a form of venture capitalism. And it is. My books are an...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread To map, or not to map?.I have a sketch map of the setting for my stories, and also sketch maps of some of the towns and places where things happen. This is...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice.It is, which sometimes makes it very hard to give newcomers the feedback they need about their writing. I sometimes wonder if the growth...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice.He said something else too, and that is that the (traditional) publisher must believe they can sell your book otherwise they won't take...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice.Yes, there's a lot of people who need to hear this. The only thing I would say is that the cost of publishing a book (that is, what it...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Translation Goals.OK, writing this as someone whose books have been translated into another language. To produce a readable book what you need is an...
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Mad Swede replied to the thread Question about Goats and Religion..This is something which is incredibly specific to country and region so I wouldn't pay too much attention to what was said in that video.
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That image is incredibly cool. <3
