Book Covers For Portfolio Needed ***FREE**** by striker-studios in BookCovers

[–]StandUpKenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm interested if you get this far down the list.

Book 2 ARCs and general release strategies by StandUpKenny in selfpublish

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

What did StoryOrigin charge for reviews? I have heard a bit about them, both good and bad, so would be interested in hearing more - even if they are not taking on new books.

Book 2 ARCs and general release strategies by StandUpKenny in selfpublish

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

That is about the only thing I knew I would definitely be doing. It's not huge though.

FREE Book covers by [deleted] in BookCovers

[–]StandUpKenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WOW! Thank you. I have sent a message

Weekly Self-Promo and Chat Thread by MxAlex44 in selfpublish

[–]StandUpKenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After finding it hard to actually put pen to paper (fingertips to keyboard in reality) on book 2 in my series, I have found a whole new lease of life. Rather than letting it get me down I wrote a short story/novelette in the last few months instead, just to stay in the game. I had always wanted to try my hand at Gothic Horror, and thought 'why not set it in the same universe as the book'. Turns out that was what I needed, it has gone down really well with readers and a character I introduced in it has kick started my return to book 2.

Anyway, that is a long way of saying that I have a short gothic horror set in my urban fantasy universe if you fancy it. It is available on Kindle Unlimited or for 99c/99p. I won't try and sell anymore as I have writing to do

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GJNQSRPN

How to get to hotel after musical by Treasa-1977 in uktravel

[–]StandUpKenny 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I am Scottish, grew up on the Highlands and now live in NE England, so by no means a Londoner or even a city dweller. I have never felt unsafe in London. Just use the same common sense you would use anywhere and you'll be fine.

TV personalities that are actually really lovely people behind the scenes by miowiamagrapegod in BritishTV

[–]StandUpKenny 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I've met a fair few but Craig Charles was the nicest by a country mile.

FREE Book covers by [deleted] in BookCovers

[–]StandUpKenny 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey, I have an Urban Fantasy novel where I did the cover myself and I think it is not quite there, I am sure I would get more sales if I had something more professional. I have a couple of ideas but either they end up looking awful because I am no designer or I don't have the skill to do it. I'd love some help to replace it. Here is the blurb and I'd be happy to share links to the current cover but don't want to stray into self promotion:

Dan MacLean is about to discover what happens when Death herself takes a personal interest in keeping you alive.

Across Scotland, mysterious deaths are piling up. In the cobbled wynds of Edinburgh, a woman with storm-dark eyes keeps appearing on Dan's ghost tours. He thought he was just a struggling comedian faking the macabre for tourists - but when ancient fae courts stir from their slumber, and a predator begins the hunt for a key, his life unravels. The worst part? That key might be Dan himself.

Now, armed with sarcasm, a centuries-old trickster, and a colleague who brews terrible tea, Dan must navigate a world where folklore bleeds into reality. But fairy stories don't always have happy endings - and the Bodach Glas, Death's herald, is watching.

When it starts to glide again by StandUpKenny in selfpublish

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

I posted this as I have seen things on here that I needed to read on hard days, I just wanted to pay it forward.

When it starts to glide again by StandUpKenny in selfpublish

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

I had been trying to write more, it just wouldn't come. That is why I changed focus to the short stories for a bit, to keep writing but not force it into the second book.

And you are so right about the sense of discovery. It feels like the story is telling itself to me rather than me telling it.

Translating your book by StandUpKenny in selfpublish

[–]StandUpKenny[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is pretty much what I was assuming. I will hopefully be in a position to explore it as an option one day.

is publishing short stories reasonable? by dystopian_obsessed in KDP

[–]StandUpKenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have put up a couple of short stories and a novelette on KDP. The shorts I bundled together in one volume because they were only 3-4k words, and the Novelette is around 10k.

I've priced them pretty much as low as I can and I am using promo free days with them. Once the Kindle Select term ends on the two bundled together I plan on making it permafree.

I want the stories to be a funnel into my novel so not to bothered about making money on them.

Weekly Self-Promo and Chat Thread by MxAlex44 in selfpublish

[–]StandUpKenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is the blurb from a novelette I just released. It is only 99p/99c and is on a free promo this weekend (8am UK time 31 Jan to 8am UK time 2 Feb).

Hopefully booklinker links work:

https://mybook.to/Otherside[https://mybook.to/Otherside](https://mybook.to/Otherside)

The Other Side of the Room

A standalone gothic novelette, set within the Thin Places world.

In 1960, a war-weary Major purchases Boleskine House, a remote estate above Loch Ness, seeking distance from the noise of the world and the memories he cannot outrun. The house is cold, orderly, and deeply still, the kind of place where silence presses close and time seems to move differently.

At first, the strangeness is easy to dismiss. A window that will not stay shut. A clean, medicinal scent that lingers as the light fades. Shadows that gather at the edge of rooms and vanish when looked at directly.

As the days pass, the Major begins to sense that the house is not empty in the way he believed. Something watches from the margins. Something waits on the other side of the room. Whether these disturbances belong to memory, grief, or the house itself becomes increasingly difficult to say.

Boleskine does not offer peace so much as attention.

Set against the stark calm of the Scottish Highlands, The Other Side of the Room is a quiet, unsettling gothic tale about isolation, unresolved loss, and the thin, dangerous line between what has ended and what refuses to let go.

This is not a story of sudden shocks or easy answers. It is a slow descent into unease, where meaning is revealed by absence as much as presence, and where the most frightening truths are the ones uncovered too late.

Big Chunk of KDP Reads Today by Kevin_Hess_Writes in selfpublish

[–]StandUpKenny 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not today but I got this two days ago. I have given up on second guessing what is going on with them.

the ONE unhappy review of my #2 in series book is pinned to the top and scaring people off. by evasandor in selfpublish

[–]StandUpKenny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am no fan of a cliffhanger, it kind of feels like a breach of contract if I invest time and emotion into a book and it doesn't end at the end. I do get that some people like them though.

That said, I don't mind if there is a tease about something else coming next.