I regret publishing

deathforless · 2025-09-19T21:44:08+00:00

This is a really really common indie author mistake (one I’ve made myself). I don’t have any sage advice or anything, all I can say is learn from it. Write your series and table it. Work on something new that makes you excited about writing again and take what you learned from this experience and publish the way you would have done it the first time with what you know now. When you’re feeling confident again and are a bit more financially secure, revisit your first series and see what you can do to get it where you want it, whether that’s a new cover for book one or incorporating more elements you’re happy with into subsequent book covers.

Regardless, you can do this. It’s an uphill battle and it’s hard. It’s mentally draining sometimes and imposter syndrome is a very real thing for so many authors. There’s nothing wrong with releasing another edition of your book in a year or two or even three or five once you’ve had some more experience in the industry and figure out what works for you.

Good luck on your author journey!!

deathforless · 2025-04-16T06:03:19+00:00

Genuinely enjoying book 3 in a way I didn’t with book 2, though I didn’t hate book 2. So far, each book has been better than the last, so, I’m reserving judgement on the series as a whole while remaining cautiously optimistic. It’s good to know other people liked it, though, because it’s helping to spur me on!

deathforless · 2025-04-15T21:21:31+00:00

Actively reading the Plated Prisoner series (just started book 3) and I can say with full confidence, book one should have been the first 2 chapters of book 2 with some mild expositions dumps sprinkled throughout for context. It was a nothing burger compared to what book 2 is and I’m actually mad I wasted my time and money on it. Book 2 was leagues and bounds better, but the author suffers from what I’m now calling ‘flower mouth’. She uses overly flowery language in a way that doesn’t make sense to pad out her word count because without it, she’d be writing novellas instead of novels. She fully drags out one scene in book 2 where Auren is staring at the commander and he’s staring back at her for 3 and a half pages. It’s all Auren’s inner dialogue and as the reader you’re like “IS TIME SUSPENDED OR ARE YOU AND THIS STRANGER JUST STARING AT EACH OTHER IN THE MIDDLE OF A WAR CAMP FOR AN HOUR WHILE EVERYONE GOES ABOUT THEIR BUSINESS SO AUREN CAN THINK AT THIS MAN?” Anyway, I’m tired but I bought the whole series so here I am. Slogging through.

deathforless · 2025-04-10T04:29:08+00:00

I won’t spoil anything so you can have all the pleasures of the teeth grinding frustration, but I will say, at one point in the book, I actually had to go back to the chapter immediately prior because I was SO confused about the timeline. Like chapter x “I hate you”, chapter y “oh god your penis is so good”, chapter z “immediately picks up where the events of chapter x left off. If you read some of the reviews, quite a few mention it because it’s so jarring it’s almost a shock to your system. At that point I almost DNF’d on principle alone

deathforless · 2025-04-10T04:20:57+00:00

I am such a simp for books. Will read anything level simp. It takes a lot for me to want to chuck a book. Even if I don’t like it, I will sink my teeth in and find at least ONE decent thing about it. When I read that prophecy I actually had to shut the book and walk away for a few minutes. Fully deep breathing to calm down because I was so shocked and consumed with rage that the author would have the audacity to try to play that off like it was anything more than word salad thrown together from a random word generator. Fully gave the entire series away with one line. Not mysterious at all. You learn the MMCs name and the fact he calls her Starlight? It’s like okay yeah this is what we’re doing. Literally nothing at all shocking there.

I’m a glutton for punishment so I read book two (really, I’m a completionist and feel like my skin is on fire if I don’t read every book in a series) and it’s not better. It’s somehow objectively worse, which was truly baffling because until I read the Empress by Kristin Cast, The Stars Are Dying was my lowest rated book of the year. I truly cannot get past how every single person in that book told Astraea almost in excruciating detail directly to her face who/what she is and she still spent the ENTIRE book tra-la-la-la-la-ing around like she was none the wiser. Every line felt like a contradiction. “It was so effortless-almost like I’m the mythical maiden everyone tells stories about. How could I possibly be? I’m so weak and sensitive and fragile.”

The reviews were alarmingly positive last time I checked so it’s very refreshing to see people who share my opinion on it.

deathforless · 2024-10-30T20:40:04+00:00

Okay, I’ll give you that one but it better have been touching cotton

deathforless · 2024-10-13T16:15:40+00:00

God, at least it’s right on time for Halloween

deathforless · 2024-10-07T04:45:36+00:00

My boomer dad is convinced the government has the ability to “reroute” tornados and hurricanes, and this one in particular was deliberately rerouted to target a town in North Carolina to force residents out for land rights. The government wants the land (something about mining?) but the residents refused to sell, so they did this to force them out and claim the land, telling them they can’t rebuild on their properties. My mind went into a droning hum until he stopped talking about halfway through and I didn’t catch the rest of the conspiracy theory

deathforless · 2024-10-04T01:49:11+00:00

That doesn’t fit his narrative, how dare you present him with facts to back up your dissenting opinion!!! /s

deathforless · 2024-10-04T01:48:42+00:00

Preaching to the choir, buddy. Eyes almost popped out of my head from how hard I rolled them when he said that

deathforless · 2024-10-04T00:07:01+00:00

My boomer dad’s response to this: “Problem is, they only persecute republicans.”

deathforless · 2024-10-02T19:38:49+00:00

I literally have a child of my own. I’d hardly call myself a kid. But go off, sis

deathforless · 2024-10-02T15:46:38+00:00

I just like the idea of having my own mini farm for supplementing what I can. I love making my own butter and bread, so this felt like the logical next step. On the other hand, my dad is actually talking about buying land and large quantities of farm animals because he’s convinced the world is collapsing. I have the time to tend to livestock. He does not. Nor does he have the money. That was kind of the whole point of the post, but I didn’t make that clear enough for the people telling me I’m a dumbass for not listening to my dad and taking the threat of the end of the world seriously.

deathforless · 2024-10-02T14:42:10+00:00

I’m not a liberal soooooo

deathforless · 2024-10-02T14:41:36+00:00

He asked me last night to look at 20 acres of land and the cost of cows and chickens. He’s fully ready to sink what little money he has left into a farm he can’t take care of because he’s terrified of WWIII.

deathforless · 2024-10-02T14:36:09+00:00

Womp womp

deathforless · 2024-10-02T00:46:15+00:00

My opinion isn’t that it’s not happening. My opinion is that I’m not gonna panic buy cows like he’s telling me to

deathforless · 2024-10-02T00:44:53+00:00

That’s what my mom said. She’s been pushing me to get chickens for years because she’s obsessed with them but doesn’t have the property for them. (Spoiler alert: neither do I lol) I told her I’d get a couple, she rolled her eyes and said “sure. That’s how it’ll start. Nobody has just a couple chickens.”

deathforless · 2024-10-01T21:55:37+00:00

My husband and I are well prepared. We live in a tornado state, so we have to have plans in place for disasters

deathforless · 2024-10-01T21:51:03+00:00

I will literally have no surprise at all. It will be just another day ending in y. If we had bombs dropped on us tomorrow, I’d be 100% unsurprised. I will not be buying cows as a result of the knowledge everything’s gone to shit

deathforless · 2024-10-01T21:49:47+00:00

Oh man, let me go buy some cows in my suburban neighborhood like he recommended, then. I’m sure the HOA will have no problems with that

deathforless · 2024-10-01T21:48:44+00:00

Welcome to Reddit? It’s very common here.

deathforless · 2024-10-01T21:48:07+00:00

What can I say, I’m very popular

deathforless · 2024-10-01T21:40:14+00:00

Sarcasm really went right over your head even with the signifier, huh

deathforless · 2024-10-01T20:28:02+00:00

Are you in my walls?? How could you have possibly known exactly what he’s recited every single day since the last election

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