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Hello! You write, and you learn. Your first draft will almost certainly seem horrible...as you are writing it. Don't stop. Push on. Finish the story. (Then set it aside for a few months before rereading it. You will be surprised.) And regardless of the edit passes (and there will be many of...

Glen Cook put it best: 'Gods have more names than a two-hundred-year-old con artist.' In real-world mythology, the names and functions of various Gods shifted from place to place and time to time.

One of my pet projects at Mythic Scribes is reading and reviewing a book or three by our published authors. I might as well add yours to the list. Titles? Links?

Of the four books I published last year, one was a linked-together 'spicy' anthology ('Empire: Southern Heat'), and two others were novellas ('Reset' and 'Disharmonious Spheres'). The tales in 'Southern Heat' tie in with 'Empire' and 'Labryinth War,' while 'Spheres' is connected with 'Exiles...

Both. I released 'Labyrinth Journal' a week ago, and am continuing to line up promo sites. One of these promo sites gets its first shot tomorrow with 'Disharmonious Spheres,' released last October. We'll see if the new site is worth the ten bucks. Right now, I have a dozen books plus the...

That gets into the other part. 1 - Reviews matter. Getting reviews - especially for an indie author - is a pain. I tried all sorts of approaches towards getting reviews. Readers look for reviews, and so do the better email promo sites, which want at least five, and sometimes ten. 2 - The...

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I regard Amazon and FB ads as overpriced. Before the scammers took over, I had modest marketing success with ordinary posts to FB book sites. I see most book promoters as scam artists, though I did get minor benefits from a few. (I get 5-8 s cam emails a day.) I see a lot of chatter about...

Here. This thread details my marketing misadventures. Read the last few pages: https://mythicscribes.com/community/threads/where-to-go-from-here.24204/

To recap: 1 - An ancient tyrant attempted a dangerous ritual to become immortal via the theft of life energy. 2 - Instead, this ritual killed the tyrant and the majority of his subjects via the release of dangerous magic crystals. 3 - This disaster also opened up portals from this world to...

The 'magic' in my worlds is 'enhanced PSI ability' genetically imbued into favored humans and select members of other races thousands of years ago by the 'ancient aliens,' who imported groups of these peoples as servants and test subjects. These utterly inhuman aliens had high natural PSI...

This used to come up in an Astrophysics subforum I used to embarrass myself in. Put bluntly, there is no way to tell if other universes exist. Additional dimensions within our universe are allowed. The other thing that came up was time travel. The rules were: 'Times Arrow' is not completely...

The capsule version of my writing history.

I'll take a stab at the numbers this time. 5-6 books a week = 260-312 books a year x 50 years = 13,000-15,600 books up until 2024 (ages 10-60), when I had to scale back due to eye issues.

Going from the reviews (and the sheer number of freebies during the last Smashwords promo), I seem to have some fans...maybe enough to fill two or three tables at a diner. Then again, I might be delusional.