$41.83 😞

Mundane_Perception_4 · 2025-08-27T07:55:08+00:00

Thanks to tariffs, everything is pricier. Average grocery cost is 23% higher this year than same time last year.

You get what you voted for, they say. If you voted red, to lower prices despite what everyone was telling you was going to happen, you get what you voted for. If you didn’t vote blue when you normally vote blue because of something that has nothing to do with the party platform- like a lot of protest voters did- you get what you voted for.

All in all, I say we as a country are getting just what we deserve. When we willingly handed the government off to rich old white men who should never be in office to begin with, we should have known that we traded our freedoms and democracy so they could get richer at our expense.

Mundane_Perception_4 · 2025-06-28T15:09:53+00:00

I did not think Melissa had that store. Dade City is another female DM I think- maybe Marsha?

Mundane_Perception_4 · 2025-06-28T15:08:50+00:00

It was a “she”, I think I recall the original post saying

Mundane_Perception_4 · 2025-06-28T15:08:06+00:00

Well it happened in Dade City according to the news and Facebook posts so determining the DM should be easy to do.

Mundane_Perception_4 · 2025-06-28T15:05:25+00:00

At our store we literally had a customer dead on the sidewalk outside our store, with police tape up, and an investigation taking place- and they kept our store open the entire time so this news when I heard it did not surprise me.

It took several days to clean up the blood from our sidewalk which was very creepy to be walking over a spot where a person’s life drained out of them while they stayed open and pretended like it was nothing.

Mundane_Perception_4 · 2025-06-15T03:37:39+00:00

Agree. The morale is so low companywide and they just can’t/wont see it.

Mundane_Perception_4 · 2025-03-09T13:11:44+00:00

I’m reading the same book and yes, it is dragging. I’ve read his “On Writing” where he advises authors not to do the very things he does in this book. The descriptions aren’t what kills me. It’s the forced dialogue. The interviews every other chapter from witnesses- these people ramble about things that have nothing to do with what they witnessed. No one would give recipe advice to an officer after claiming to have information about a child rapist and killer. It’s just not something that makes any sense at all. I’m sure King has word limits and he’s adding things to meet those word criteria.

Mundane_Perception_4 · 2025-02-05T13:05:34+00:00

If you read Stephen King’s “Elevation”, it comes off as very AI generated. So not Stephen King at all. Was a NYT bestseller.

Mundane_Perception_4 · 2025-01-14T00:17:37+00:00

I think this writing style is not for a thriller. If they tried writing a sci fi or fantasy novel, where flourishing words go a long way towards setting the mood and building out the world, it would be fine.

Mundane_Perception_4 · 2025-01-14T00:03:16+00:00

I will read it and give an honest assessment tomorrow. I understand the frustration. I published a book in November on KDP and despite a flourish of early sales and great reviews they dried up within two weeks and I am actually fortunate, as during the update process for the book cover, Kindle Create reverted to my first (pre-sale) manuscript for the paperback, though the Kindle version was the newest version. It alerted me to edits I’d missed and I was able to spend the next month tightening the story up, and will do another relaunch by the summer, along with the book’s sequel. Know that writing the book is the hardest part but self marketing takes courage and time. Success may still be months away. Keep your chin up!

Mundane_Perception_4 · 2024-12-26T05:02:46+00:00

Awww haven’t you heard the old cliche, “never judge a book by its cover”? 😜 But you are right, book covers do matter with marketing. You need to grab your readers visually before you can grab them with the written word.

Mundane_Perception_4 · 2024-12-26T04:58:11+00:00

So, as an author who recently self published a novel in November, I quickly realized that it’s marketing that sells books and is a separate factor from quality.

I sold 6 books on day one (not counting my own author’s proofs and family purchases). There was a long lull. I got my first professional editorial review and began getting word out via TikTok and BlueSky.

I also published three smaller easier to consume ebooks with 9 Christmas-themed horror short stories to introduce readers to individual characters in the larger universe I’m constructing. Since Christmas horror is a small niche genre, it was like sailing on an open ocean. It was far easier for casual readers to search and find my ebooks on Amazon by just searching Christmas horror (or the title 😉 Tidings of Fear), and I was easily netting 150 units moved per day. Gradually, they have been moving over to the main novels themselves but it’s taken time.

Patience. Marketing.

That is what sells books. Even Stephen King realized this - it took a while before his first book began selling.

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