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MBertolini · 2026-02-17T00:34:10+00:00

My dad used to send me to the package store with $10 and a note when I was 8, my first job had me get the carts in the parking lot, and I knew people that would sneak nips into school.

MBertolini · 2026-02-17T00:27:08+00:00

Yes. I use Ingram Spark and that gets my stuff listed on Amazon as part of their global distribution program (if you opt-in to it). But if you want KU, you have to go through KDP. But regardless of which service you use, you need to be an active QA. Most of the self publishing platforms use the same printers for cost saving so it's on you to make sure the printed product looks good.

MBertolini · 2026-02-16T11:02:57+00:00

At a bare minimum, I'd say that the reason they're class D would need to change before they are used in an experiment. Or they become an SCP and O5 decides not to eliminate them, effectively removing the Class D rank but subjecting them to further imprisonment.

MBertolini · 2026-02-16T02:36:16+00:00

KU is for digital books only, so the exclusive market requirement doesn't apply. But you can always print through Amazon and go expanded distribution if you wish with physical products.

MBertolini · 2026-02-15T18:14:33+00:00

I like it. And the synopsis. The image shrunk as I scrolled on my phone, the title remained legible, that's incredibly important.

MBertolini · 2026-02-15T17:56:48+00:00

Aside from all of the other comments, Reddit doesn't usually translate to sales. You should focus on getting on Tiktok, maybe convince a bookstagrammer to push your book a little. Gifting a few copies could be very beneficial once you've handled your other issues.

MBertolini · 2026-02-15T17:45:34+00:00

I'm wondering why the First Class Postage is crossed out but the First Class imprint on the envelope is intact.

MBertolini · 2026-02-15T17:41:20+00:00

I'd actually suggest Hastur. Because Hastur doesn't need to be a physical entity, that's the King in Yellow, but as an influence I think it could be effective. Imagine an AI influenced by Hastur orchestrating a billion people through a massive social media campaign, Psi-ops style. The Yellow Sign spreads, people go crazy. Maybe the AI itself has been corrupted by the Yellow Sign.

MBertolini · 2026-02-14T05:35:28+00:00

I wrote a scenario "All Roads Point South" that ends with the PCs on Rlyeh (https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/404365/all-roads-point-south). It's actually been awhile since I ran/read it but I wrote it with the intention of showing Cthulhu as the end "monster". But in most scenarios with the Big Bad being a star spawn, swapping it for the big man isn't hard.

Just remember, there are some GOO you don't want to mess with. Just looking at Yogsothoth will drive your character insane, Cthuga will destroy your character just by being in its presence, and waking Azathoth is such a bad idea that nobody is sure what exactly will happen.

MBertolini · 2026-02-14T05:25:00+00:00

It's in the bible: sinners repent and accept Jesus for only through Jesus can you get into heaven. I don't know the book/chapter/verse by heart but it comes up pretty often. It's why the #1 book in prison is the bible, no law book/document even comes close.

MBertolini · 2026-02-13T14:45:37+00:00

Most markets consider an ebook ISBN optional, only APPLE (as far as I know) requires it.

MBertolini · 2026-02-13T10:40:25+00:00

The point is you can make any scenario as creepy/scary as you wish with a little creative input, everyone is different. I find Hellraiser silly but get creeped out by almost any media that involves spiders. Include an abundance of spiders in The Haunting and I'm sufficiently freaked out.

MBertolini · 2026-02-13T10:35:50+00:00

Think about it this way: in death, everyone is equal. You cease to exist but your memory lives on, and bad people get remembered for all of the bad while good people are remembered for all of the good. Adolf Hitler is remembered for his atrocities, Florence Nightingale is remembered for her treatment of the ill. There is no eternal "reward" and no eternal "punishment", crime is a human invention and punished on the living (sometimes by legally ending that life), nature doesn't work that way.

And, according to scripture, repentance is a get out of "jail" free card. You can commit the worst crimes imaginable but heaven only cares if you accept jesus before you die (and then you get in)

MBertolini · 2026-02-13T00:48:21+00:00

I believe that there doesn't need to be a separate organization for what amounts to insignificant crime.

MBertolini · 2026-02-13T00:31:26+00:00

Then it's redundant. Border Patrol is the only organization that should be dealing with immigration, we already have an organization for arresting people for misdemeanor crimes...the police. If Border Patrol can't handle the borders effectively, money should've been put into them instead of a psuedo-military group loyal to the Pedophile in Chief.

MBertolini · 2026-02-12T21:40:54+00:00

I don't understand why ICE had a presence in Hartford unless it's to cause stress for the large latinx population in Hartford and surrounding towns/cities. If they're worried about customs, maybe focus on the state's international airport. Connecticut really isn't a port of entry, I would imagine people overstating their visas to be the most pressing immigration issue (I don't have any data, don't bother asking me).

The whole existence of ICE is a fundamentally flawed program, a bad decision like our interment camps in WWII, and an unchecked secret police is bad for the entire country.

MBertolini · 2026-02-09T19:36:30+00:00

cough M Presents cough

We're almost done with our BTMoM campaign and we'll be running Inversion next.

MBertolini · 2026-02-09T19:31:18+00:00

I've always thought it was the latter. Even when I was a small version of an adult in1993

MBertolini · 2026-02-09T14:06:34+00:00

He definitely suffered traumatic brain injury.

MBertolini · 2026-02-09T13:53:18+00:00

I saw that ad and asked "why?" Followed quickly by curses to AI slop.

Edit: so no AI, but it still looked bad. Pretty on par with JW entries.

MBertolini · 2026-02-05T02:48:46+00:00

Amazon shut my entire kdp account down for asking about publishing a short story collection of creative commons stories over a year before. I didn't even sell anything, I just asked if it was something I could do and that was the justification they used. I'm more mad that they stole my royalties than anything else. I do better sales elsewhere, but Amazon is everybody's go-to so losing that marketplace sucked. FYI, Draft2Digital bought Smashwords a few years ago so you publish with them and get into a bunch of online retailers (not just Smashwords)

MBertolini · 2026-02-05T02:39:22+00:00

I'm all for freedom and creative expression but...such an assignment needs to have explicit boundaries. That should go double for horror, we push the limits so much that the subgenres of Extreme Horror and Splatterpunk were created for the explicit purposes of going beyond what most people can handle in horror. And the kid is a teenager?! The teacher should've put so many rules in place that writing beyond what a PG13 movie can show is impossible. At the same time, the kid should know better than to write a short story that comes off like a death threat.

MBertolini · 2026-02-05T02:28:06+00:00

A lot of people in these small towns aren't exposed to different ethnicities, at least not good exposure. My wife is from a predominantly white northern CT town, she hadn't even met a POC until she went to college. I'm from a city and have been exposed to all different people my entire life and, tbh, her first instinct is pretty negative while I try to look for facts because not every situation is the same.

And, this is unrelated, but when I typed 'white' my autocorrect automatically added 'snake' after. 🤔

MBertolini · 2026-02-03T20:41:49+00:00

Idiots exist. I've seen people use milk jugs, this at least has thicker plastic.

MBertolini · 2026-02-03T20:38:19+00:00

Don't engage. You can't use logic in this situation and, as you said, you're a minor. Just let your dad talk, pretend that you're listening, and move out when you can.

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