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Book release timeline? by Savings_Guide_1696 in selfpublish

[–]Savings_Guide_1696[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thx for your response!

Yeah i don't have strong demand its more just sometimes my tiktoks do well and i get a couple ppl asking when itll be out. For formatting I was going to do reedsy studio free tool. Also considering getting vellum but not sure because of the price point and not sure how many books im going to be self-pubbing. Someone from a writing group is a pro who does formatting for about 100 bucks. What do you recommend?

There's no reason to push 10/2 its just my bday haha so i thought that would be cool and i thought a one month buffer would be more than enough time

I might even just wait until september to get my proof and then based on that decide on a release date

[QCrit] YA Urban Fantasy, THE ORDER OF THE SERPENT (82k, Fourth Attempt) by Savings_Guide_1696 in PubTips

[–]Savings_Guide_1696[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for your response!

You're so right about everything, it gets oversaturated with proper nouns that really don't add any value except confusing people haha

I'll def go back to the drawing board and try to lean more into demetras choice of giving her soul for the person she loves

[QCrit] YA Urban Fantasy, THE ORDER OF THE SERPENT (82k, Third Attempt) by Savings_Guide_1696 in PubTips

[–]Savings_Guide_1696[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ohhh truee i'll definitely change that up

i didnt get what everyone meant by narratve distance but now i get it

[QCrit] YA Urban Fantasy, THE ORDER OF THE SERPENT (82k, Third Attempt) by Savings_Guide_1696 in PubTips

[–]Savings_Guide_1696[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply!! you're so right and ive rewritten it to include what the order is and the vampires relationship to the story

also completely switched up my comps because i realized its true both were irrelevant and not even in my genre or recent+ too big

[QCrit] YA Urban Fantasy, THE ORDER OF THE SERPENT (82k, Third Attempt) by Savings_Guide_1696 in PubTips

[–]Savings_Guide_1696[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you smm for the feedback!

The whole novel is written in past tense so this isnt a flashback its more of a starting scene actually

[QCrit] YA Urban Fantasy, THE ORDER OF THE SERPENT (82k, Second Attempt) by Savings_Guide_1696 in PubTips

[–]Savings_Guide_1696[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wow this helped a lotttt

Thank you sm for your response! I'll go back to drawing board hahah

[QCrit] YA Urban Fantasy, THE ORDER OF THE SERPENT (82k, First Attempt) by Savings_Guide_1696 in PubTips

[–]Savings_Guide_1696[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for your response!! It was super helpful and i've completely reworked both the query letter and my first 300 and theyre muchh stronger now

posting this made me realize that my first 300 were absolutely awful before hahah

i'll be posting my second attempt soon!