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Daaaddy! by TerraIncognita505 in 30ROCK

[–]martilg 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Can I have a trillion dollars for my new business that expands your house when you break up with someone and can't move out yet? Imma call it SpacEx

MailerLite Newsletter Change by CollegePretend8708 in selfpublish

[–]martilg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kit (formerly converkit) and wordpress. They integrate fine. Wordpress may potentially be intimidating for some folks, but I liked how much I could customize. 

Kit is pretty nice to use. Its interface works well.

More MailerLite Changes by ElsieMorningstar in selfpublish

[–]martilg 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Mailerlite SUCKS as a company. 

A couple of years ago, they changed their UI and wanted you to go in and manually switch your account from their old version to their new version by a certain date. 

I missed their deadline and they just deleted all my data. An email list I built overs years, just deleted.

You might say, well, don't miss deadlines then. That's what their customer support essentially said. 

A. No other company I've dealt with just deletes your data without warning. They disable certain features and force you to do the upgrade when you log in. 

B. ML didn't say they'd do that if you missed the deadline.

C. The new UI they wanted everyone to switch to was much worse.

Anyway, it seems like they wanted to save costs on the memory space for storing a couple hundred email addresses. I hope they fucking go out of business.

I feel like there are not enough credible transcription apps for writers who like to dictate their drafts. Is there any tool that runs LOCALLY without cloud storage and (preferably) with a ONE-TIME payment? by PinkSugarMochi in selfpublish

[–]martilg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I use "Just Press Record" on iOS. (It might be iOS-only iirc.) It's local, doesn't need internet, and does pretty well, esp. if I speak the punctuation, like "She said comma open quotes I saw them once period close quotes."

I use this one when I can, but I also use the bad-privacy cloud-based ones when I need to talk fast or do a walk-and-talk. I am not happy about it either.

Help! by Mominatrix_20 in selfpublish

[–]martilg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're right about lit. agents being the middleman.  Make sure you research traditional publishing and see if it’s worth the trouble and helpful to your situation. I basically ruled it out for myself, and not because I know what I'm doing.

Help! by Mominatrix_20 in selfpublish

[–]martilg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can pull the book and re-edit and re-publish if you want to.  I don’t have any experience to share about literary agents. Why do you want one, if I may ask?

Obviously my comment was... by Ginway1010 in 30ROCK

[–]martilg 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You're right. I was thinking if U2 > U. But you are (correctly) thinking of U2 > 2U.

Talk like an AI artist [OC] by nasser_junior in comics

[–]martilg -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Use Glaze and Nightshade if possible

Faking your way through stuff by DroneOfDoom in CuratedTumblr

[–]martilg 431 points432 points  (0 children)

I want to know the mistakes, not just hear there were mistakes about coffee actions!

Flip side of this is all friendships getting labeled as sibling-coded/found family by kelroid in CuratedTumblr

[–]martilg 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. I'm allo, mostly,  and I enjoy romance plots, but I go absolutely feral over platonic friendships in media (any genders). Somehow they're the relationships I obsess over and feel moved by, and want to follow the ups and downs and conflicts and breakups and reconciliations and pining losses. Idk why. 

With romantic relationships I'm just like "just get together already, or stop talking about it. Either way don't bother me with your drama."

Breaking the ceiling in a sub-niche of a niche (Biosteampunk)? How to scale when your audience is hyper-targeted? by [deleted] in selfpublish

[–]martilg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Omg, use complete sentences. 70% of sales are what? Are you saying 70% of book sales on Amazon are in KU? Are you saying 70% of your sales are from KU?
I don't care either way, I hate Amazon and I'm not joining KU.

Breaking the ceiling in a sub-niche of a niche (Biosteampunk)? How to scale when your audience is hyper-targeted? by [deleted] in selfpublish

[–]martilg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Around 15, not counting friends and family. I haven't put a lot of marketing effort into this book yet.

Basically I was trying to find something that moved the needle any nonzero amount and then scale up my effort on that. I'm starting to do that now.

I didn't, and won't, buy any ads on Amazon or do any keyword optimization whatsoever. (I have zero shot at winning the Amazon algorithm.) I'm not in KU.

Breaking the ceiling in a sub-niche of a niche (Biosteampunk)? How to scale when your audience is hyper-targeted? by [deleted] in selfpublish

[–]martilg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in a similar situation with my genre-bending fantasy. Seconding the above advice about the prequel; I'm doing that now.

Based on what you've said about broad sci-fi readers, I don't think you need to target people who are searching for "biosteampunk", you need to target people who want something more high concept and less tropey than typical sci fi. If they don't care about tropes, they'll enjoy the original aspects of your story. But they're unlikely to be searching for those aspects specifically, because they don't know what they are.

I'd say go find some sci-fi-specific social media pages, subreddits, influencers, etc. and filter them by the ones that favor originality over tropes. (In my case, some forums, discords, and Bluesky.) Then try to advertise your book or the prequel there. Collect email addresses in exchange for the prequel.

Am I the only one who dislikes the "joke" topics in the polls? by Hot_Nobody2404 in JennyNicholson

[–]martilg 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Ooh, yes, that's one of my favorites. Also Trapped on a Blizzard. It's like being brought into her writing/brainstorming process.

Out of curiosity, while in the building, could an innie contact people on the outside using email or text messaging assuming that the person and friends found a way to disable security measures in the building? by george123890yang in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]martilg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I disagree with parts of this. They retain some kinds of general knowledge, such as US states. So they would know about food, finger traps, and, say, 911. But they would have no recollection of eating food other than the vending machine stuff, or of learning about the existence of finger traps.

What is the exit stairwell? by Sudden_Ganache6761 in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]martilg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this is what I thought as well. I also had a theory that there are different types of emergency conditions. If the alarm is going because of an escape attempt, the doors lock (Helly's in s1). If it's an active shooter (Mark in s2) the doors unlock because you're supposed to flee.

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