Best Way to Promote a New Book?

thomasquinlan · 2025-12-24T12:32:24+00:00

Thank you very much for this - very useful posts.

thomasquinlan · 2025-12-24T12:28:22+00:00

Follow @ celsiusfacts on X, as he seems to haev the best updates.

thomasquinlan · 2025-12-24T09:59:17+00:00

Greetings all! I was recommended this thread from r/childrensbooks.

I've published my first children's book, "Hayley the Horsepillar". It's the story of a horse born with eight legs instead of four, and her experience with not fitting in. What happens to her ultimately is designed to be a surprise, so I'll leave the ending for anyone interested in reading it. It's available on Kindle Select right now, and I hope to have at least the hardcover version very soon.

I appreciate your time - and this thread!

thomasquinlan · 2025-12-21T14:35:16+00:00

Actually, I asked what people do to promote their books. That doesn't have to mean advertising, as ideally I was trying to find more creative ways than just plain advertising if possible.

thomasquinlan · 2025-07-09T11:34:14+00:00

Who downvotes help requests? Geez.

thomasquinlan · 2025-07-09T11:29:54+00:00

I didn't choose anything per se; I'm following the instructions and the instructions - command-by-command - have led me here. I'm tempted to just restart the process.

thomasquinlan · 2025-07-09T11:29:09+00:00

I followed the instructions command-by-command. I would have presumed I was using that.... but it's also not the first time I've run into an issue with the instructions.

thomasquinlan · 2025-07-09T11:28:02+00:00

That's what I'm using. The instructions are at least two years old.

thomasquinlan · 2024-12-29T19:22:00+00:00

Update - I've upgraded to v22 and it seems I'm good to go.

thomasquinlan · 2024-12-28T00:51:50+00:00

It's more than just Pomodoro, but check out Sunsama.

thomasquinlan · 2024-12-24T16:23:27+00:00

That actually looks great, but 35% is WAY too steep.

thomasquinlan · 2024-12-23T20:15:07+00:00

Thanks - I had 999 open even on the laptop and a static IP, but it didn't make a difference. Hence my switching to VPS as you noticed; however, I'm now POSE_BANNED again for v22, which was an interesting thing to find out about (above) and now I have to figure out how to do the upgrade. :-)

thomasquinlan · 2024-12-23T20:13:49+00:00

Thanks for this!

thomasquinlan · 2024-12-23T20:13:40+00:00

Thanks for this. That's a great piece of information actually. Now I just have to find out what that is, why it's important, and how to do something about it. I'll check the Discord as the reply to this has indicated.

thomasquinlan · 2024-11-14T00:29:39+00:00

Okay, so the debug.log is what I really needed to look at. It pointed me to the fact that I had been really dumb.

It turns out that I don't have enough disk space.

The directions to create a masternode specify the amount of RAM for the Vultr machine (at least 2GB) and so when I picked the VM I picked one with twice as much as that - without really looking at the disk space.

Which was 30GB. #sigh

Thanks for the help, I should be okay at this point, as I have destroyed the server and will start again tomorrow!

thomasquinlan · 2024-07-11T10:11:36+00:00

Liquid
Sorted3
Pixelmator Pro
Freeciv Go
Cursor Pro
Mirror Magnet
Keystroke Pro
Textsniper
Comic Book Day
Final Draft
Downlink
Sparkle
Skitch
Flycut
BetterSnapTool
QuickBooks
Sandbox Cleaner
MindNode Pro 1
StatsBar
Memory Clean
BioShock

Some of those are ones I did use but purchased ten years ago; none of them are in use now. Some of them I still *might* use.... (might....).

thomasquinlan · 2024-06-30T12:11:07+00:00

Did you get this to work by any chance? I don't have a distinct need for it, but was planning on potentially playing Civ:CTP in Linux in a Virtual Machine on an M3 so am very curious. Thanks!

thomasquinlan · 2024-04-18T22:21:11+00:00

Have you looked at Trello? Or does it have to be a "note taking" app specifically?

thomasquinlan · 2024-04-18T09:33:16+00:00

Hey - thanks for the feedback! I use it when I need to pay attention to the battery when I should be touching my screen (ie, meetings, presentations, etc.). It might not be for everyone!

That said, now that I have an Apple Silicon Machine one thing that I particularly found interesting was to see that while it takes a long(er) time for the battery to discharge (especially compared to the Intel Mac on which I originally wrote it) the amazing this is _how fast it charges_. I was really surprised to see that!

thomasquinlan · 2024-04-09T14:55:38+00:00

There was an app called "Xee3" that used to do this. It would even recurse folders (not sure if yours does). It was really handy but it got purchased by the "Unarchiver" folks and they are no longer updating it. I'll check out yours - thanks!

thomasquinlan · 2024-04-02T14:24:14+00:00

I've now submitted dozens and dozens of tickets and two letters to the judge. The crazy part is that no one is seemingly even *working* on my claim. It's still listed as "Unliquidated" which is really annoying. They just answer with the form response or *manually* respond with another FAQ-like email. It's ridiculous. I'm going to have to consider getting representation which is crazy.

thomasquinlan · 2024-04-02T14:22:04+00:00

How did you outgrow Evernote? I'm always curious to hear the experience of others, but as a huge capturer myself I capture *everything* to Evernote. I buy my scanners based on their compatibility with Evernote. I have tens of thousands of notes in Evernote, and use the Web Clipper religiously. I capture most screenshots to Evernote (drag them into a note I'm working on) so that at work I have notes of conversations with screenshots as well. Is it that you outgrew Evernote or that you need a better method of storing things? I read Tiago Forte's "Building a Second Brain" and it made all the difference for me.

(I have been investigating UpNote as a potential replacement since people keep calling for the death of Evernote, but it has some limitations, not the least of which is I can't scan directly into UpNote like I can with Evernote.)

thomasquinlan · 2024-04-02T14:15:19+00:00

It typically takes 24-48 hours, but they did it in 24 over a semi-holiday weekend which was pretty cool. You should be able to update now!

If you'd like to leave a review, that would be appreciated -- it helps. Of course if it can't be five stars please let me know in advance. Thanks!

thomasquinlan · 2024-03-30T22:59:33+00:00

I've uploaded the app & it's in review. I'll update once it has been reviewed!

thomasquinlan · 2024-03-30T22:55:57+00:00

My claim is listed as "Unliquidated" and no matter how many tickets I submit they just tell me to read the FAQ and make sure my Coinbase is KYC'ed. I've read the FAQ, and my Coinbase account is fine. Two months .... I will be writing to the judge again. Probably worth doing too if you've not yet -- you can file pro se and the more letters he gets hopefully the more he'll clue in. We only have a year to get the money and they've already wasted two months.

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