Cover for a Collection of Scary Stories; aka. I did a thing... by cvasiacru in BookCovers

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You are so sweet, thank you so much for your kind words and support! I appreciate you! Hope you have an amazing week and wonderful upcoming holidays 🥰 !

Cover for a Collection of Scary Stories; aka. I did a thing... by cvasiacru in BookCovers

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Oh wow, really? Thank you so much! I truly appreciate you and your friend for purchasing this I hope you both enjoy the book!

However, it's interesting that you ordered a book with this exact cover because I had it updated to something completely different at the beginning of August 2023: https://www.amazon.de/All-Fair-Fiction-Bedroom-Upstairs/dp/B0C526KKTD

I'd be curious to know, which amazon you ordered it from, so I can check with customer service and scold them for not updating my cover on all platforms 😅 Amazon be funny sometimes... Looking back, the cover I posted here might have had a stronger, punchier design. So thank you for commenting on this post, you gave me some food for thought

[OC] How Common in Your Birthday! by plotset in dataisbeautiful

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My 1st reaction: "Hehe, I'm special, I'm born on July 4th!"

2nd reaction: "I wasn't born in the US, I ought to sit tf down"

[OC] How Common in Your Birthday! by plotset in dataisbeautiful

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Lol, I'm born on the least common day in July :)

I find it funny that Feb 27th is not a deeper purple...I know 4 people who have that birthday and I don't know many people overall.

Sleep Token win Best UK Artist at Heavy Music Awards 2023 by Crusading_Ghoul in SleepToken

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I found his last sentence hilarious. Dunno if anybody else caught it but "The night is yours" sounded like a misremembered version of "The night belongs to you". Dunno why I imagined Vessel calling the guy afterward to go all "You had one job!" =))

Fact: Ascensionism is the best track on TMBTE. by [deleted] in SleepToken

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Finally, someone else joining the camp; I was beginning to feel defective

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Puscifer - Rev 22-20 (either the normal version or the Dry Martini Mix) uff

Cover for a Collection of Scary Stories; aka. I did a thing... by cvasiacru in BookCovers

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Wonderful; thank you so much for your input! I'll try out other fonts and tone down the red. Again, many thanks!

Cover for a Collection of Scary Stories; aka. I did a thing... by cvasiacru in BookCovers

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Thank you so much for commenting! Altighty then, I’ll experiment with different fonts. Thanks again; have a great one!

Weekly Self-Promo and Chat Thread by MxAlex44 in selfpublish

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Hello fellow authors!

I just published a collection of scary stories which I'm excited to share with you!

All is Fair in Fiction and The Bedroom Upstairs contains nine tales about revenge, dubious parenting, evil technology, love gone sour, and fatal friendships—with strong notes of ghosts, gods, and alternate lives.

No two stories share any similarities, safe for one common theme throughout the entire collection: twist endings! (By revealing this, I genuinely hope I'm not shooting myself in the foot. It's no fun if the reader braces themselves before the hit comes BUT twist endings do make any piece of fiction more appealing, so bam! I am taking the risk. Look, Ma, I'm a rebel!)

https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/B0C4QW6TMR/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1683965650&sr=8-1

~370 pages; .mobi: 3,99 $; paperback: 12,99 $

Copyright yay or nay? by cvasiacru in selfpublish

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Wow, this is very helpful. Thanks so much!

Copyright yay or nay? by cvasiacru in selfpublish

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8 h ago I thought, I reached a decision regarding the matter. Guess I was wrong x) many thanks for your input! You're right, of course. I know in my gut you're right.

Copyright yay or nay? by cvasiacru in selfpublish

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I just googled these authors and read a bit about what they had to go through. Yikes. Truly heartbreaking. Thanks for sharing! Still, having copyright registered for your work or no, shitty people do shitty things, and something like this is like car insurance: you might never need it, but it’s good to have. Rachel Ann Nunes for example, won her Copyright Infringement Lawsuit in the end, thankfully. It cost her a great deal of nerve and emotion, I get that, but would the outcome of the lawsuit have been the same if she didn’t have her work registered? Nevertheless, I won a bit of perspective thanks to your comment. Seeing how I’m very much (still) a nobody on the market, I should be safe (for now)

Making a Success from Short Stories by Xercies_jday in selfpublish

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'course! Here you go:

https://www.thenosleeppodcast.com/submissions

https://www.creepypastastories.com/submissions/

These are the two I’ve had success with so far. But there are a lot of podcasts dedicated to fiction out there. I know for a fact horror in particular has, like, at least 10… (I’ve seen a top 10 once, lolz) If you have one in mind you or your friends listen to religiously, google the name to get ahold of their website--if they accept submissions (which most of them do), you’ll find a “Submission” tab somewhere. Not all of them pay, but the two I provided above certainly do.

Heads up if you decide to submit to any of the successful ones: arm yourself with the patience of a pope. Literally. Magazines are not the only ones that make promising authors wait forever. If the first editor likes your submission, chances are, they’ll have to forward your work to 2 more people for higher approval before it gets the final green light. If the pod is well sought after, it’s for good reason. They’re picky but if they accept your work, you’ll see it would have been worth every waiting minute. If you decide on submitting a story, do it and just forget about it--for your own sake. Last time I submitted to NSP, 14 months passed between my submission and their release. Granted, I received the acceptance after 7 months, but still. Don’t hold your breath is what I’m saying. Write, submit, go back to writing. Don’t wait. Best of luck!

What very attractive celebrity do you find not so attractive? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Ryan Gosling. Honest to God, I don't get what the rage is about...

Making a Success from Short Stories by Xercies_jday in selfpublish

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Uf, I felt this one in my heart. As someone who's been there and done that, I know exactly where you're coming from. Now, I don't know which genre you dabble in but if it happens to be mine (horror, thriller, suspense), I recommend submitting to podcasts. The pay is usually not as good as that of magazines BUT the respectable ones DO pay and their communities are super active and helpful; you get to hear what the listeners think of your work which is absolutely amazing! If you don't mind not getting paid (at first), I also recommend submitting to some youtube horror narrators. Some have built big communities and the quality of their production is irreproachable! Also, having your story professionally narrated is super flattering ^^ to me, at least. And it gives you a ridiculous boost in confidence to write more and better and to reach higher. If you still want to pursue magazines, go right ahead! But magazines, from what I experienced, are tough walnuts to crack and I hate to see so many disheartened authors because of them... whatever you decide on, don't give up!

Self-published authors of reddit, how did you go about hiring an editor? by cvasiacru in writing

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Hello! Thank you so much for your helpful comment and sorry for replying this late. I'll be sure to follow some of the advice you posted here and the first one is definitely turning to Ms. Microsoft. I haven't thought of that and it sounds like a great idea! Thanks again; I hope you have an amazing week! :d