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My first book is up on Amazon and Audible. Very exciting to see it. More volumes will follow and Butcher of Gadobhra as well, so very exciting for me. Also stressful. I thought I'd gotten over Imposter Syndrome long ago, but it hit hard this last week while waiting for the book to go up. Now I just pray that the wider world likes it as much as you fine people do.

And I could use your help. If you don't mind running over to Amazon and leaving a review or a rating, I'd be eternally grateful. The better a book does, the more Amazon pushes it, which can have a big effect on sales. Reviews/ratings help a lot.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D98Y54PL

So what changes? Not a whole lot. I don't yet have an endpoint for either story, I love writing them and would be sad to quit. You can look forward to two chapters a week from each book, maybe more. This is a different route than most authors take. RR is a different type of animal that many are trying to figure out. Many established authors are trying their hand at Litrpg since the genre is growing in popularity. I've seen some authors post to RR, and then pull down the story as soon as they can to send to Amazon. They write books, I write webserials. There's a difference.

Maybe it's my background in comic books, but I love long stories and telling a continuing one, instead of focusing on a set plot that ends conveniently to tie things up in a book. (Also the reason I love cliffhangers, as many of you have noticed.)

What does change as my books go to Amazon (and hopefully sell) is that I can spend more time writing, and less time at my other job. College is a struggle to pay for and I have to get the twins through the next four years. Another reason I won't quit writing anytime soon. :)

Comments

Engineer4God

Tank oo fur da stories!

brig head the hung

Done a review, is there any new content in the published book compared to RR apart from grammatical fixes and stuff

MorningDawn

Downloaded and reviewed, love that you got it published!

MorningDawn

Also, you're not an imposter, I would be, having never published a story - I've checked best reviewed, and you have not one, but two on there! At #19 and #21 - making you twice as good as anyone else on there, so if you're awful, they are half as good, and I doubt you believe that for a second. Genuinely, I love reading the stuff you write. I believe you'll blow up on Amazon, and I'm crossing my fingers just in case

Heather White

Congratulations! Milo and his story deserve to be read. Hopefully the KU universe will discover that & get on board. Also congrats on pushing back against your brain’s imposter accusations enough to put your work out there. That inner roadblock is insidious.

Heather White

I don’t know if you personally have any control over the Audible preview, but it seems like it was just slapped up there to start at the beginning of the audio file. That kinda wastes the first 15 seconds or so with the generic “Welcome to Audible” and the reading of the title, when what you really want is for people to experience the story. At the end of the sample, it cuts off in the middle of introducing his tail & right before “He hit the Big Drop, shooting into open space.” It would be great to have those be part of what a potential buyer hears instead — more of Milo’s interesting character & a bit of adventure. Many Audible samples I’ve listened to start in the middle of the story or at least start with the first words of the actual story (leaving out time wasters like “Chapter One”). It’s not a huge thing, but if you have the option to adjust the starting point (or can push your publisher to), it might be worth it.

Heretic Morgan

Hey King, it looks like the book got double listed on Amazon, when I'm looking at physical copies.

Heather White

There’s also something odd about how the series is being linked (at least what I’m seeing). On the kindle page, book 1 displays correctly as “1 of 2”, but when I switch views to the audiobook and paperback, the links to the series both read “2 of 2” instead. Also, when I open the second book’s page, it’s showing the “you borrowed this book on nov 12, 2024” message just like the current book (the one I’ve actually borrowed). I don’t know why it’d do that, but seems like maybe some crossed wires somewhere.

Heather White

Ah, on the series page, Kindle is correctly displaying the current book and the unpublished second book, but if you switch to looking at the series page in the audiobook or paperback option, both books 1 & 2 are actually book 1. That explains why they’re both showing up as “2 of 2” on each one’s main listing. (Also, the links to audiobook, paperback, and kindle are all doubled on those two versions of the series page)

Michael Clark

Not really new, but some things are rewritten. In hindsight, and knowing it wasn't just a writathon story, I did some things a little differently. Especially what he picks for abilities. Once the whole system got laid out, I questioned some of my earlier choices. And some parts of the slavermage chapters are a little different, reflecting feedback from readers. But the story is 99% the same.

Felix H.

Mate due to you mentioning imposter syndrome, maybe this will balm your soul a bit: I am an absolute bookworm, with a rough estimate of like 50000 books under my belt, if not more. And your story good Walrusking, is absolutely under the top 10. You write coherent, interesting stories, which remain interesting after 400+ chapters and keep surprising both with the plot and your humor. I wish you much success on Amazon, cause boy do you deserve it

AlbusScitus

Not sure if anybody else has pointed this out, but one error that I noticed is that the epilogue titles are wrong. It looks like the title for epilog two refers to epilog three and so on and so forth

Kenan Saxton

You’re an absolute legend mate, and I genuinely don’t believe I’ve ever found myself attached to characters like I have been with the ones you’ve made for Butcher and Tunnel Rat. Thank you for writing the way you do, and please know that you’ll have at least one reader for as long as you keep things rolling!

Garrett Brown

Hi Heather! I can help with that. I'm the narrator for this awesome book. Audible changed this process recently and even though we put up what we want as the sample they are just doing the first 5 minutes of the book. I dont know why, we narrators dont like it, but we don't really get much of a say either. There's plenty of complaining going on, I can promise you that.

Heather White

Hi Garrett! I’m sad to hear Audible/Amazon has chosen to shoot their/your marketing in the foot. What a stupid change to their own system. It’s an important tool to get people to push that buy button. I hope they change it back for you guys. BTW, I’ve very much been enjoying your narration. You’ve brought Milo to life, and he deserves it. Cheers!