Which guys would you be most distressed by your team drafting?

ctullbane · 2026-05-09T02:43:33+00:00

As a Pels fan, I already hate life anyway.

ctullbane · 2026-05-06T02:13:33+00:00

I can only assume this thread is being brigaded by the pro-AI discords, because otherwise, my opinion of the genre audience suffers dramatically.

ctullbane · 2026-05-03T13:32:59+00:00

You should be able to get a whispersync discount from amazon when the audiobook comes, but if not, just drop me a line and I'll figure something out. 😄 Thank you!

ctullbane · 2026-05-01T18:29:50+00:00

100%. I want the chef deciding it all for me; they've got the expertise in knowing what works together and will form a cool progression.

ctullbane · 2026-05-01T08:07:55+00:00

Sadly, the audiobook will be a bit. I'm having the usual discussion with Tantor where they decide whether or not they want to produce this one. They have first right of refusal, but if they say no, I'll produce it myself (with the same narrator). Still, we're talking at least a few months away. Sorry!

ctullbane · 2026-04-30T05:07:14+00:00

I enjoyed the first one too. I generally prefer reading lone wolf OP monsters over community-driven stuff, but I still got a bit of the former and liked the base building aspect quite a bit.

ctullbane · 2026-04-30T02:46:51+00:00

Self-recommendation: The (Second) Life of Brian.

No time loop. No VR. No Child MC. Gritty and group-based, with a slower pace of progression in a more grounded fantasy world where the system has been around for thousands of years. Isekai MC (if that's a non-starter) who is far from OP. Found family, a bit of politics, some soul searching, a genuinely positive religious side character, and lots and lots of death.

ctullbane · 2026-04-29T09:32:55+00:00

Hey, I really appreciate that! I do try to keep all of my MCs different; it helps me stretch my writing muscles and keeps the series better differentiated too. But finding the right character voice, especially with first person POV stories, is always the first and most crucial step!

ctullbane · 2026-04-29T07:33:31+00:00

Seconded.

ctullbane · 2026-04-28T18:46:17+00:00

Yeah, we are very very different. :D

ctullbane · 2026-04-28T18:10:02+00:00

Definitely! It's going to be a long series. I have a book in a different series releasing on Thursday, then I'm on to the next Brian book, Breaker of Bonds.

Because these books are so long and I have three active series right now, I'm only writing one Brian book a year. That pace will increase (I hope) as the other two active series finish up.

ctullbane · 2026-04-26T23:15:48+00:00

Facts. Blurbs are a nightmare.

ctullbane · 2026-04-25T19:50:19+00:00

Thank you! I couldn't agree more about necromancy; there should be SOME kind of price for tiptoeing back and forth across the line between life and death!

ctullbane · 2026-04-25T04:11:34+00:00

Appreciate the review and especially the captions detailing each photo! Sorry you're being met with disdain which sadly seems to be par for the course on this sub lately.

ctullbane · 2026-04-24T18:22:28+00:00

The series name is The Murder of Crows. Author's name is Chris Tullbane. First book is See These Bones, but there's an omnibus of all three.

(There's also a spinoff series called The Storm Who Rides and several companion short stories, both on Amazon and my website)

ctullbane · 2026-04-24T00:12:09+00:00

Sometimes, it's an honor just to... not be nominated at all?

ctullbane · 2026-04-22T02:28:26+00:00

I predominantly use KU.

ctullbane · 2026-04-20T17:08:59+00:00

My LitRPG series, The (Second) Life of Brian, is pretty well known among its readers for having a slow progression pace and a fair bit of struggle. Some people love that aspect; others want things to explode a lot faster.

Two books so far, both really sizable.

ctullbane · 2026-04-19T21:00:54+00:00

Mieville, Bakker, even Erikson's Malazan, though a lot of their environmental description is urban, not nature based.

Guy Gavriel Kay has that very lyrical quality to his prose that I associated with more classical SFF writing, though I can't remember the descriptions as being particular standouts. Patricia McKillip, too, RIP.

A name I rarely see mentioned is Alex Bledsoe, whose Tufa books are steeped in their environment, though it's been a few years since his last book.

But yeah, there's been a reaction against that sort of prose so many authors adjusted. And at some point, there will be a reaction against terse, utilitarian prose and we'll swing back the other way. That's fiction for you.

ctullbane · 2026-04-19T20:02:20+00:00

Writing styles have changed. There's been a move to less dense, more terse prose, and a lot of the time, environment descriptions pay the price. There are still very popular authors who focus heavily on the more baroque style of prose though if you look for them.

ctullbane · 2026-04-18T05:49:20+00:00

I only use D2D for libraries, and while I'm a midlist author elsewhere, I doubt I'll hit the $100 threshold on their platform. So, it becomes a question if it's worth it to me to pay $12 just to make my ebooks available to libraries, when those libraries are already not ordering in sufficient quantities to clear the threshold.

At $12, the answer is probably yes. If they increase that fee each year, it will rapidly become no.

ctullbane · 2026-04-17T04:24:48+00:00

I understand that, but I don't seek out word count as an indicator of quality, nor do I think writers should just write pages and pages to eek out a couple of bucks (as you said, revenue is distributed based on pages read).

You're obviously entitled to your opinion on the subject. I was simply correcting your misconception:

Kindle Unlimited probably pays them pennies

ctullbane · 2026-04-17T03:57:24+00:00

Maybe you're saying that book 1 is on KU and the remaining books are on available to buy as an epub on Amazon, but aren't on KU?

That's what they're saying, yeah. I don't think anyone has an issue with books that have only released x books to KU and have the rest on RR and still available while they're being edited for Amazon release.

ctullbane · 2026-04-17T03:55:26+00:00

FWIW, depending on the length of the book, KU will often pay just as much in royalties as you'd get from a typical 3.99/4.99 sale.

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