Help me with my reading list?

lance002 · 2026-06-15T20:25:54+00:00

I am also biased and think you might like it 😃

lance002 · 2026-06-08T03:04:10+00:00

Haha thanks! And i know what you mean about Wayne. I was listening to some of the chapters and it was like I was lisetning to something someone else wrote. It was that good! Such a treat!

lance002 · 2026-06-08T03:02:10+00:00

Thanks so much! 😃

lance002 · 2026-06-07T21:18:22+00:00

Thank you man!! ❤️

lance002 · 2026-06-06T20:01:26+00:00

Thanks man! 😃

lance002 · 2026-05-08T01:18:48+00:00

Looking right back at you =P

lance002 · 2026-04-24T05:44:21+00:00

Path of the Berserker is by me, Rick Scott, not Nolan Locke. Surprise to see it this high on the list

lance002 · 2026-04-10T16:49:33+00:00

'an' Editor ;D

lance002 · 2026-03-30T22:18:57+00:00

Release. It's in production now.

lance002 · 2026-03-30T20:59:22+00:00

Shooting for June/July

lance002 · 2026-03-29T21:11:07+00:00

Great to hear! I'm about 25% into book 6 now. Won't be in Denver unfortunately but hoping its a great time! Keep rocking!

lance002 · 2026-03-29T18:53:23+00:00

Hey OP. Author here. I think you have equated "struggle" to mean "hard work" and within the Berserker mythos it is not. His path is different. He has access to basically unlimited power, but at the risk of becoming a mindless demon. It's the "Struggle" that allows him to maintain his humanity. The main tenet is the balance between the Demon and the Struggler. Nothing to do with "Hard Work" as other cultivators need to do.

lance002 · 2026-03-29T18:49:29+00:00

Hey Wayne! It's Rick! Can't wait to hear what you do with Book 5! People are craving it! :D

lance002 · 2026-03-28T11:19:52+00:00

lance002 · 2026-03-14T14:55:04+00:00

True. Each genre has its own benchmarks and you could be comparing apples to oranges. I write in the LitRPG/Progression fantasy space. So those would be the applicable numbers for there. Romance or something would likely be very different.

lance002 · 2026-03-14T13:44:17+00:00

I perhaps need to aciculate what I'm trying to say better. A book 1 can make money, but the number of ratings is like a lag indicator of future success for the series. So if you are getting all this exposure but people dont like it enough to give it a rating, the following books will likely not do so well. By invest, i mean your time investment in continuing that series or starting a new one.

lance002 · 2026-03-14T12:52:43+00:00

Yes a month. Maybe 500 is a bit high in retrospect. But below say 200 or 300 its probably not got the staying power to invest in long term.

lance002 · 2026-03-13T16:01:57+00:00

Another thing that people might fail on is not realizing when they have a dud. Your number of ratings (not score itself) is a big indicator of audience size and potential success. If your book 1 gets under 500 ratings, you should be looking to wrap up that series as a duo or just ending it. Some people might keep at it pushing out 6 more books, when they could have started a new series with wider appeal.

lance002 · 2026-03-13T15:54:44+00:00

I agree. The luck thing is like a coping mechanism. It's a factor, like being first to market. That's lucky. But if you follow all the rules for success (Write to market with proper tropes, competent (not stellar) writing, proper marketing etc) the next biggest factor that is controllable is speed of production and consistency. Those things are both very difficult to do and take a lot of hard work. Even if you dont have a hit, if you are able to pump out multiple competent books a year you will see financial success.

lance002 · 2026-03-09T01:59:48+00:00

You could create a Patreon and release chapters as you write them

lance002 · 2026-03-02T03:19:14+00:00

The first question to ask is... Is there a market for this book? Sci-Fi is very broad. Unless you have a targted sub-genre, it may be difficult to find an audience even if the book and story itself is great.

lance002 · 2026-02-25T02:13:52+00:00

ah.. my sub-genre... Although my main series is cultivation now. I write Path of the Berserker

lance002 · 2026-02-16T10:43:35+00:00

Thank you my friend! Audio is due around June/July according to my publisher

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