Mr. Grumpy Pants Offers Sage Advice

[A. E. Lowan]

I like this guy a whole bunch. He's a bit of a curmudgeon, but so am I and you guys all think I'm awesome, so here we go.

Basic stuff, but there's a whole lot of writers who still need to hear this. Maybe we can help.

 

[pmmg]

I find he has useful things to say, and a good presentation, but I also found him on video telling me he did not wish for me to be in his audience, so...

/nuff of him.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

I find he has useful things to say, and a good presentation, but I also found him on video telling me he did not wish for me to be in his audience, so...

/nuff of him.

Okay, I'll bite. Why not? I'll admit, there are readers who I wouldn't want reading our work because they either wouldn't appreciate it or would have strong negative opinions about it. We write Urban Fantasy that's actually urban. In our first in series, Faerie Rising, we managed to go to print without a single straight white male character. Nobody's noticed except for our alpha reader, who is a straight, white male. Whoops.

We had a few low ratings from readers who really shouldn't have picked up the book, no 1's, not yet, a few 4's from readers who didn't actually read fantasy, and a single 2 got in. That kid needed a hug so much.

 

[pmmg]

Well...It would not be surprising that this dude and myself don't share the same values. I can tell that just by looking at him...

You and I don't likely share the same values either. I would not be the target audience for your books, but I do wish you lots of luck with it.

This dude is providing a service, a universal one at that... Here are things to write better. We don't need to share the same values to have things to say that may be of use to each other. The industry is what it is, the craft is what it is, and we are just looking for ways to navigate them.

But...he decided to make a separate video about his politics and decided to tell those watching that if we did not share to get lost.

I'd have to go look again to find it, and I am not interested. He seems successful, so he does not need my luck, but best to him. There are plenty of author tubers who do the same. I can find others.

Truth is, I would love to a respected guru of industry stuff and craft and make videos and such, but really, I need to just work on my book 5. I am not really at this point yet, so...its is of interest, but its not exactly stuff I am going to go apply as yet.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

I think that's fair. Everybody's got their something, and I think that's beautiful. Doesn't stop me from having a lot of friends and doesn't stop me from commenting on things and trying to change the world. I would not describe myself as even keel or conflict avoidant, but I'm also never boring. lol

 

[Selempi]

Hi everyone! Let's get to know each other.

 

[A. E. Lowan]

Hi everyone! Let's get to know each other.

Which is great. We love to socialize. But this isn't the thread for it. We try to - mostly... kinda... sorta - stay on subject so the threads remain an organized resource later. Chit Chat, down near the bottom of the forum listing is the perfect place to make a thread for getting to know each other.

 

[pmmg]

Yeah, i went looking but i dont recall which it is and he has a lot of them.

He has a lot to say and us author types need people to make these things. I saw another vid where he says he is not a shut up and sing type. Thats fine but politics makes you ugly. In the context id use him for i dont need his.

 

[Mad Swede]

I like this guy a whole bunch. He's a bit of a curmudgeon, but so am I and you guys all think I'm awesome, so here we go.

Basic stuff, but there's a whole lot of writers who still need to hear this. Maybe we can help.

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 costs the publisher) is mostly driven by the size of any print run. Things like editing, setting, cover design etc don't vary as much.