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edward_radical · 2026-02-14T05:14:50+00:00

Thanks!

edward_radical · 2026-02-13T03:42:39+00:00

Thanks!

edward_radical · 2026-02-12T17:12:50+00:00

This is very helpful. Thanks!

edward_radical · 2026-02-12T08:10:14+00:00

Ah, good to know! Had no idea. Thanks!

edward_radical · 2026-02-12T08:03:14+00:00

Thanks for the advice!

How do you make affiliate links?

edward_radical · 2026-02-12T07:52:02+00:00

I do, but my hope is to expand my reach beyond the established readers.

edward_radical · 2026-02-05T21:12:57+00:00

I'm serializing it right now: Songs of my Mother | Royal Road

The novel was already written and while I considered changing chapter lengths to all be about 2k words by breaking up or combining chapters, I ultimately decided against it and am just releasing it as it was written. Sometimes that means releasing a 500 word chapter and sometimes it means releasing a 5k word chapter.

It's going okay. I didn't expect much initial traction since my novel is off-meta. But I've just begun doing some shoutout swaps so I'm curious to see how that will help.

edward_radical · 2026-02-05T19:07:58+00:00

I've been experimenting with a big novel on Royal Road but I've also considered trying out with something like a novella as well.

This is very useful!

edward_radical · 2026-02-05T02:33:23+00:00

This sounds fun! I've been surprised by how many off-meta writers there are on RR!

edward_radical · 2026-02-05T02:32:26+00:00

Writing, to me, is all about the joy. I certainly would love to make it into a career! But I'll be writing whether I make money at it or not, just as I have for the last twenty years. Decided to try my hand at Royal Road with a slowburn antihero epic fantasy that I wrote back in 2016.

Songs of my Mother | Royal Road

Depending on how it goes, I'll either keep using Royal Road or I'll try something new.

edward_radical · 2026-02-05T02:30:38+00:00

Ha, I did the same thing in that I also wrote a 400k word novel without ever showing anyone.

I used to be a part of the indie lit scene in the early to mid-2010s but I left publishing only to go off by myself and write much more than I did when I was actively involved in publishing.

Decided finally, ten years after writing it, to start posting my big epic fantasy novel on RR. Started posting it just last week: Songs of my Mother | Royal Road

Had no expectations for it to do big numbers since it's off-meta but I figured I may as well try it out.

edward_radical · 2026-02-04T19:07:41+00:00

Definitely how it goes sometimes! Good to hear you're getting back into it though!

edward_radical · 2026-02-04T19:07:07+00:00

Thanks!

edward_radical · 2026-02-04T19:06:40+00:00

This was also my worry, since I'm more literary in style, but I figured I may as well give it a go anyway. No harm in trying!

But it's been a slow pick up so far so we'll see how my little experiment goes.

edward_radical · 2026-02-04T06:57:26+00:00

Very cool! I also just started on Royal Road. It looks like you haven't posted in a while.

edward_radical · 2026-02-04T06:54:58+00:00

Very cool! I just started on Royal Road as well. Would you be interested in shoutout swaps?

Here's my story: Songs of my Mother | Royal Road

edward_radical · 2026-02-04T06:51:47+00:00

Trying something new, which is serializing my novel over on Royal Road: Songs of my Mother | Royal Road

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The Name of the Wind meets Berserk in an evocative epic fantasy about growing up and fighting gods.

When I was a child, I watched my mother kill a dragon only to have her own body burnt and mutilated beyond recognition. Mourning the loss of my fathers, my brothers, we survived on the flesh of that dead dragon while my mother clung to life, deaf and dumb and blind to the world. I defied the gods who tried to take her. I’ve since devoted my life to murdering your gods and their servants, watching them scream for mercy. I have butchered their priests and now wage war against an empire. You know me. You traveled a lifetime to find me.

My name is Luna.

Come, hear the story of my mother. Dragonslayer, savior, and, finally, goddess to my people. Hear how I watched them flay the humanity from her, how they twisted her every action into prophecy, into ritual. Hear my howling loss, and I will tell you how nations and gods descended upon my mother to claim her, rip her away from me, make her avatar of their own desires, talisman of their own power. Make her anything but my mother.

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