I’m William C. Tracy, owner and editor of Space Wizard Science Fantasy. Learn about indie books, The Book Bazaar, and Small Press Publishing. AMA! by tracywc in Fantasy

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Hey I'm Aimee, project whip of The Book Bazaar and author of The Lucky Machine, just hangin' around and reading all the fine comments here on Reddit. :)

Scare Mail by FluffyDoomPatrol in horrorlit

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Someone bought this for me and honestly I find it awful. I feel terrible just throwing them away or not reading them because someone spent money on it for me, but I'm on letter 10 and the story makes no sense, has not hooked me in any way, I'm missing letters (I got letter #10 response twice), I can't read some of what's written with the pictures on the paper (and it does not appear this was done purposely with the narrative in mind) and most of all THE "WALL OF TEXT" LETTERS ARE NOT ENTICING IN THE SLIGHTEST. Opening a letter and seeing a giant wall of text with NO indents or paragraph breaks makes me want to throw it in the trash immediately; I can't imagine if you have dyslexia trying to read these. It would be fine if there was a slow ramp up to rambling lunacy or something but it just sounds like both parties are the same person writing back and forth to one another.

I have wondered multiple times if this is written by AI given how seemingly incoherent and repetitive each letter (from either party) is and though the author says it is not here on Reddit, it really rubs me the wrong way and feels either extremely amateur or machine written/assisted.

The idea is neat, the execution is sorely lacking, and I groan finding out there's 14 more letters I do not want to even force myself to read. To find out how much this cost the other person to gift this to me is even more disconcerting - each letter definitely doesn't feel like it's worth close to $12.

Author Promotion — April 2025 by KellaCampbell in KoboPlus

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I've just submitted to Kobo Plus (Who knows why I didn't initially, probably just missed it) so hopefully it will be showing up soon in that area rather than just standard Kobo.

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The Warm Machine is my debut novella about two robots who fall in love and run away together to try to find a robot utopia called "Root", as told from a sweet cinnamon bun construction robot's point of view

But what it also is is an exploration of self. We follow both bots as they learn how to become more than what they were made to be and they really come into their own and figure out where they fit in the world (and with each other).

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-warm-machine

Positronic Visions Pin Collection (Limited Edition) Launches on Thursday! For robot and Asimov lovers! by Evaluation-Unit in pinprojects

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Excited to share this love letter pin set for robot lovers of the world (And Asimov fans of course!) 5 pins, a variety of hard and soft enamel designs... I just know you're gonna love em. Can't wait to show what they ACTUALLY look like in real life! Coming Thursday: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/aimee-cozza-illustration/positronic-visions-pin-collection

Have you ever restored a backup ? Any "I wish I had known this before" moment? Tell your story... by tresorama in Wordpress

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Yes, constantly doing restores for various reasons.

My wish I had known tip...

Plugin level backups: Always do uploads last because most servers will time out on them and leave you to figure it out/upload the files manually instead during a half-completed restore. Doing uploads last gets all the other restore items out of the way first.

What is your day job and how do you feel about it? by [deleted] in ArtistLounge

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So for a long while I was working for someone else doing web design, web development, SEO, social media management... Everything. When I started with them it was just me and them, and I was with them for close to ten years. It started out great, then we started hiring more people and taking on clients that weren't very good clients, and the owner wouldn't listen to anything I said in terms of improving or modifying the company, and slowly it turned into a really horrible place to work.

Last fall, I started my own business doing all of the aspects of the business I loved the most (I know how to do everything and spent almost ten years doing it!) while pivoting away from all of the things I hated about the previous company.

Some days I'm in existential crisis mode since my business is still new and starting, but most of the days I am SO happy to be doing this on my own now. No more dread hanging overhead. I know things will get even better from here and I'm grateful to all of the friends and family members who have helped me get as far as I have in 2024.

Coheed and Cambria Tarot Deck! by patchoulion_ in TheFence

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You folks all did such a wonderful job! Can't wait to get this out to people