I was thinking of going with the two-week trial, review a few books, quit, then come back a month or so later for another free trial.
Or I might just scrape up $180 for a year.
Currently, I am using Bookroar.
Authentic is shutting down. Existing members will be shunted over to a bigger review site, Book Bounty, effective 12/1. Points transfer with the membership. The first two months at Book Bounty are at the same price as Authentic. After that, their cheapest annual package is $15/month or $180/year...
This subforum is where individual MS authors post threads to discuss their WIPs and what comes after. (Marketing, annoying, and filled with expensive traps.)
https://mythicscribes.com/community/forums/writers-work.63/
My thread is titled 'Where do We Go From Here'
Most of my books are set in a tottering empire on another planet, where characters struggle to forge new lives in a nation they no longer understand while coping with past trauma in the wake of the Demon War.
'Empire' is he main series - six books plus the omnibus. It revolves around four main...
Welcome! Good fortune with your book!
Best advice:
Write a little every day, even if the vibe isn't there, even if you think it is horrible.
That approach let me finish and publish a dozen books.
I have a dozen dark fantasy tinged with SF books out there set on three reasonably detailed planets, plus references to several others (including Earth). The stories include knights, quasi-Roman soldiers, wizards of a sort, goblins, elves, dwarves, cat-people, utterly inhuman aliens, crashed...
I have lots and lots of files filled with worldbuilding materials. That is mostly for prep and is rarely consulted during actual writing.
For drafting, I have 'Title 0' files, one per story, with a bullet outline and a list of the main characters, towns, and stuff like that.
Welcome!
Congrats on the book!
There are over a dozen other published authors in your position here at MS...and six or eight successful authors as well, including a name or three you might recognize. The rest, including me, fall somewhere in between.
That said, one of the things I do here is...
Depends on where you live in the Solarian Empire, along with your social status. In the more conservative provinces, being Gay comes with a death penalty...for commoners. Elsewhere, Gays and Lesbians are tolerated.
The main lesbian in the 'Empire' series is a formidable female warrior of noble...