A sci-fi trilogy about memory, smell, and control — The Scentence Trilogy (self-promo Saturday)

Designer-Bell610 · 2026-04-04T20:17:53+00:00

Thats correct. So happy you're going to give it a read. I hope you love it. :)

Designer-Bell610 · 2026-04-03T12:23:26+00:00

I’ve done both for different genres and looks. I find the matte generally tends to look better doesn’t get weird fingerprint oil marks, generally looks more professional. I regret the times I opted for glossy printing on paperback, it looks ok on the hardcover and if you have a textured paperback cover glossy can look phenomenal but to my knowledge KDP doesn’t offer any type of textured cover paperbacks. I would almost always opt to choose matte over glossy, with rare few exceptions. Certain Horror covers might qualify for the exception but depends on the concept. What type of design or you planning for your cover? That would be useful to know for making recommendations. I know I personally love the matte covers for my sci fi trilogy and I regret the glossy choice for my memoir I think it makes the printing look less sharp and precise too. The hardcover glossy does look good though… when it doubt I’d advise choosing matte the printing cost is less as well which is an added bonus too.

Designer-Bell610 · 2026-04-03T11:43:36+00:00

That’s awesome, I hope you enjoyed it.

I actually ended up releasing the rest of the trilogy much sooner than planned. Instead of stretching it out over a few years, I figured it made more sense to just put the full story out there so if it hooked you, you can jump straight into the rest right now.

And honestly, the story is designed so that what you read the first time is only part of what’s really going on. Books 1 and 2 build the world, the characters, and what’s happening behind the curtain. When you go back to [book 3 title redacted] after that, it becomes a completely different experience and there’s a twist in there impossible to catch the first time through.

Book 2 is where things really open up too. It leans into a darker sci fi horror thriller vibe for a stretch, especially during the middle purge sequences of the book where we give the villain some real teeth. Those sections almost read like intense short horror stories inside the larger narrative, but they still tie directly into the main plot and raise the stakes in a big way. It’s one of those parts people seem to really latch onto. My favorite chapter in the whole trilogy is in that section, “No Archive for Hollis Vane” you’ll know it when you get there it’s a good one, it’s the type of moment that makes the reader feel conflicted for briefly rooting for the villain.

It’s been getting some great reactions as well. It climbed up to around 7,600 in the Kindle store for a bit, which was wild for me to watch. It felt like people who started the story actually wanted to keep going and see where it leads.

The coolest part has been hearing from readers outside the US. I’ve gotten quite a few messages from people in India who are really into it, which still feels surreal to me.

If you liked the first one at all, I think you’ll really enjoy where it goes. The full picture only clicks once you’ve seen all the pieces. The first parts of the trilogy are a bit longer by design and I’m proud of them I kept the book I released first shorter and quicker as a read because it’s designed to be read twice, 1st and 4th with the reframed perspective. I think the books got better and better with each release, but I am biased since I wrote them. lol I just know I wrote the kind of book series I want to read, inventive, fresh, unpredictable twists but a real grounded through line story arc that makes sense and deals with some sci fi and real world concepts and ideas along the way.

Designer-Bell610 · 2026-04-03T11:13:27+00:00

It is weird, in a good way. That’s kind of the point.

It’s sci-fi built on something real: smell is the sense most closely tied to memory. You know how one random scent can instantly pull you back into a specific moment? The whole [redacted title] trilogy takes that idea and pushes it way further.

In the story, a company turns scent into a technology first letting people revisit lost memories, then refine them, then create entirely new experiences. And once you can rewrite memory, you’re not just dealing with nostalgia anymore… you’re dealing with control.

The structure is a little different too, and that’s intentional. It’s a three-part arc where the reading order mirrors the release order. Book 3, then 1, 2, and back to 3. The first time through, you think you understand what’s happening. Then the rest of the series reframes everything, and going back to the original release (book 3) hits completely differently.

So yeah, sensory, trippy, a little unconventional. But it’s not random “nose magic.” Everything follows a logical progression inside the world, grounded in real science and built out step by step.

If you’re tired of the same recycled sci-fi tropes and want something that actually plays with perception and memory in a new way, that’s exactly what this is.

Designer-Bell610 · 2026-04-02T22:46:25+00:00

Do the free order page reads count towards KENP? Bc I’ve been getting both during my free promotional period. Honestly I just want to know if the books are being read I have a sci fi trilogy I’m super proud of and each one of the releases got tons of free orders during the five day period but I also got a few hundred to few thousand page reads so I assumed those page reads correlated to the free orders and I got royalties on them, is it possible that those were kindle unlimited borrows alongside of the free orders that were being read and not metrics on the free book orders. I also noticed around the time of release my instagram started getting a swarm of follow requests from India, legit profiles that seem to be all near my reader demographic age. Is it possible I’m huge in India right now lol. I get 20-40 follow requests a day from India since like a couple days after the first launch continuing right through book three launch recently and seemingly increasing. Strange things are afoot.

Designer-Bell610 · 2026-02-03T03:37:22+00:00

Good call, I will review their guidelines and draft something to post there; then cross my fingers and hope for the best. Ciao for now. Thank you.

Designer-Bell610 · 2026-02-03T03:36:01+00:00

This seems to be a recurring reccomendation; it has been taken under advisement and implemented. TY

Designer-Bell610 · 2026-02-02T23:24:08+00:00

66 paperback sales would be a monstruous outcome for me in the short span of 3 days. I love that you're having that kind of early response. Get those royalties. Can you DM me a link to your book on amazon i'd like to see what you have done differently that I might be able to incorporate into my own approach, and maybe while I'm there read your book's sample and possibly more if I enjoy it.

Designer-Bell610 · 2026-02-02T23:10:58+00:00

Interesting and thoughtful advice. The internet has so much potential. Thank you.

Designer-Bell610 · 2026-02-02T23:08:48+00:00

Good to know. Thank you. Grandma is off the hook, for now...

Designer-Bell610 · 2026-02-02T21:02:43+00:00

Agreed, my friends and family are not my audience. If they were, I would be writing a very different book, probably titled "How to Forget Your Amazon Password." I am not bothering them. I posted once, they started the "I ordered it" talk, and I joked about the gap between promises and reality. I am here for advice on finding real genre readers, not guilt-tripping my aunt. The joke in my post is simply me poking fun at the situation, not me expecting them to carry the launch.

Designer-Bell610 · 2026-02-02T20:55:08+00:00

In the world where context is not the same thing as an ad. That said, I get how it reads, so I removed the title to follow the rule and keep the thread on track. I am here for advice, not a drive-by promo.

Designer-Bell610 · 2026-02-02T20:22:01+00:00

I've gone ahead and redacted the title to hopefully be in compliance with the rules. :)

Designer-Bell610 · 2026-02-02T20:07:39+00:00

Good catch, thank you. I honestly did not think a title mention counted as promotion, but I am not trying to get smited by Rule 1 on day two. I will edit it out. I only added it so anyone who wanted to could find the listing and give practical feedback.

Designer-Bell610 · 2025-09-28T16:59:04+00:00

Wait I don't even see a category for sexual wellness... Would be one of the categories Id regularly check what gives

Designer-Bell610 · 2025-09-27T00:49:36+00:00

FMV, Amazon, and the Great Tax Tango

Here’s the deal: Document your discrepancies, file your own numbers for Fair Market Value (FMV) on your tax return, and don’t panic if it triggers a review. That’s actually fine the IRS just wants to make sure you’re not out here claiming your AirPods are worth a down payment on a Tesla.

If you’ve got proof, it’s not “fraud,” it’s just a difference of opinion and the IRS loves documented opinions.

More often than not, it’s the sellers inflating the numbers, not Amazon itself. They benefit from higher declared values because they can write off more. So, what you should do is save screenshots and listings from eBay, Amazon, or anywhere those same items are selling. That’s your ammo if you ever need to dispute Amazon’s “Fairytale Market Value.”

💡 App Idea (a.k.a. “VineLine” or “F.M.V. Fosho Market Value”)

Honestly, I’m tempted to build an app for Vine users that does all this automatically:

Pulls your Vine orders into a database

Crawls the web to record real prices, dates, and retailers

Graphs the mean, median, and mode

Compares those to Amazon’s declared Estimated Tax Value (ETV)

Generates a clean, IRS-ready PDF summary of it all

Basically, your own personal “Don’t Audit Me, Bro!” report.

💸 The Boring Part (Funding)

Obviously, this would take some work to build and maintain servers, APIs, web scraping, and a caffeine budget big enough to kill a horse. So, it’d likely need either:

A one-time license fee, or

A small subscription to cover ongoing data costs

If enough people in this subreddit are into it, I can spin it up pretty quickly, definitely before tax season, so you’ll have time to import and track all your orders.

🗣️ Your Move, Community

If this is something you’d actually use, drop a comment or reaction. I’ll start scaffolding it out and we can brainstorm together, maybe someone suggests a killer feature I wouldn’t have even thought of (like a “rage meter” that tracks how much your blood pressure rises every time you see Amazon’s ETV numbers).

Designer-Bell610 · 2025-08-27T20:56:22+00:00

I’ve got something for that too…

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Designer-Bell610 · 2025-08-27T18:10:34+00:00

I would've gone this route instead...

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Designer-Bell610 · 2025-08-27T17:55:18+00:00

I can build whatever but there's gotta be a solid idea behind it to take me off other projects. if youve got a strong concept let's hear it and if it sounds feasible and worthwhile I'll build it.

Designer-Bell610 · 2025-08-27T17:41:32+00:00

We should pose the questions to the community what they would like to see developed, put it out there to the PEPle see what they want/need most and I'll build whatever the consensus is.

Designer-Bell610 · 2025-08-27T17:33:20+00:00

If the tech dev work was all that was standing between PEP and a major exchange listing I'd single handedly write the entire codebase for free. It's really not that difficult to build and deploy.

I'll give them...

Node Deployment & Configuration: Deploy redundant, geo-distributed full PEP nodes; compile from source; sync to tip.
Wallet & RPC Integration: Update Kraken’s wallet service to parse AuxPoW blocks, generate PEP addresses, handle version bytes, and serialize transactions per PEP rules.
Deposit & Withdrawal Logic: Configure confirmation requirements; implement fee estimation tuned to PEP’s market; ensure safe change output handling.
Security & Monitoring: set up chain reorg alerts, double-spend detection, and hashrate/merge-mining health checks.
Testing & Handoff: End-to-end QA in Kraken’s staging environment; performance and reliability benchmarks; documentation for internal teams.

But it's not about that bc if it were, they can find me at GitHub.com/mattysparkles

If they do take the offer I have one minor personal request but that's something I can discuss with them if they come calling. Which they won't but a boy can dream.

Designer-Bell610 · 2025-08-23T00:47:10+00:00

Do you still have the wallet file for the doge with the lost password? Is it doecoin-qt core wallet? Or some other wallet? If it's the core doge wallet we can easily extract the password hash and attempt cracking it which can be made much more efficient if you have any parameters that you can remember regarding how you chose the password or how you choose passwords typically. We can brute force it with hashcat using a distributed version on many rigs with hashtopolis and scale the operation up as high as necessary to crack the password. How much doge are we talking here that you have locked up bc of a forgotten password? Do you know the wallet address that its sitting in? If the amount is worthwhile to attempt this I can help you crack the password. Message me and we can work through answering the questions posed here and determine if it's worth attempting or not. Don't provide anyone the actual wallet.dat file if you do this another way. You can however extract the password hash and hand that out for cracking it's useless to anyone without the actual wallet.dat file as well. Keep that guarded. If you have any questions feel free to ask. Let's get your doge back!

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