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Creating your world and getting paid for it.
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The Crystal Crusade
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Vanguard Galaxy
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Fear the Liberator
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2015
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Frontier Effects 1: Twisted Encounter
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Syndicate Slayer (The Crystal Crusade #2)
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Attack Planet
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Machine Gods
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Blogbuster
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Ally or Alien: A Sci-Fi Novel
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3 commercial storytelling lessons that helped me sell more fiction books
I’ve started self-publishing 3 years (so 12 years ago in internet years) and failed abysmally. My goal was selling enough books so I could comfortably take home 1-2 grand each month by the end of the year.
Mission: failed.
I wrote stories no one was interested with covers no one clicked. Needless to say, I was frustrated but eager to learn. I had consumed tons of other indie authors shooting up the
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unique Nihei art about two demon-like biofreaks fighting each other in a post-apocalyptic world with desolate skyscraping structures and the oppressive forces that control it. Love the gloomy atmosphere, the menacing mega-structures and fighting scene ...more |
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I liked the loose, sketch-like art and the flow of the panels and poses but missed character and environmental details. Didn't get the story at all--I found the switch between virtual worlds and the real worlds confusing and had to read it twice with ...more |
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![ケントゥリア 1 [Centuria 1] by Tohru Kuramori](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1719757772l/215700863._SX50_.jpg "ケントゥリア 1 [Centuria 1] by Tohru Kuramori")
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Japanese take on Eldritch horror in a vaguely European medieval setting where a slaveowner rescues a girl from a hurt woman, gets almost killed before getting resurrected by some kraken goddess? I love the drawing style--hyper detailed clothes and su ...more |
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![タワーダンジョン 2 [Tower Dungeon 2] by Tsutomu Nihei](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1718131444l/214519531._SX50_.jpg "タワーダンジョン 2 [Tower Dungeon 2] by Tsutomu Nihei")
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Improves the story significantly, diving deeper into the Tower Dungeon, with more characters including the fiery Firemage, introduced. Reads fast and invites to multiple rereadings. Main character Yuva is still shallow though. Style is still the simpl ...more |
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Improves the story significantly, diving deeper into the Tower Dungeon, with more characters including the fiery Firemage, introduced. Reads fast and invites to multiple rereadings. Main character Yuva is still shallow though. Style is still the simpl ...more |
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Rather mundane high school-ish stories featuring puppy love style sexuality and innuendo. I did like the story with the devil-type girl about to bring the end of the world but the rest was rather so-so. If I hadn't known this was done by Fujimoto--i ...more |
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Read the first 2 volumes. It's intriguing and weird and doesn't make much sense so far. I love the post-apoc, Japanese sci-fi elements. It's two storylines--a young boy and girl trying to make money in a violent futuristic world with man-eating creatu ...more |
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Last major work by Satoshi Kon. Grrreat beginning with a fun premise--comic characters coming to life and crossing into the writer-creator's world where they treat him like a god and deal with a vicious antagonist he has created. Due to Satoshi's demi ...more |
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Decent one-shot about two weird siblings bringing melting body horror to every place they visit. The body horror is excellent as always; just like the creepy characters and eery atmosphere. The story repeats itself though in the second part and culmi ...more |
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