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Mars Dorian
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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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Another great Fables volume (apart from the Hollywood story in the beginning that I had to skip) We're almost exclusively in the Homelands, following Boy Blue's adventures into the heart of the Empire where the adversary gets finally revealed. (I'm no ...more |
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Grrrreat mini-climax with the adversary's henchman entering NYC and threatening the Fables trying desperately to live in their refuge and blending in with the Mundys (if you know, you know) Drawing style is conservative and not special--getting some o ...more |
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(German version) VERY approachable book about the powers and dangers of using AI in your daily life and why it's essential to learn (by yourself) and teach our generation. It's written from a German/European perspective and geared towards beginners an ...more |
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What a disappointment. While the first one isn't quite my humor, I did enjoy the whacky storyline about Fungirl, her f*cked up relationships and the funeral service storyline. While the drawing style is the same, the storyline is so random and feels r ...more |
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grrreat continuation of one my favorite series where characters from famous Fairy Tales are reimagined in their struggle with today's world. The drawings feel rushed; they almost have that sketch-like looseness with a lack of detail, but they still f ...more |
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One of my favorite fairy tales now put into an atmospheric graphic novel. Drawing style feels European--the colors are simply but moody. Everything is tinged with brown, gray and blueish color tones that make for a dark fairy tale. Character designs ...more |
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Atmosphere of the Chinese town is incredible--even though it's a cartoon style, I get the feeling, mentality and ambience of Chengdu incredibly. BUT, and this is a big BUT, story and characters are...meaningless. The characters all wear masks which ma ...more |
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Great premise of two different people from different earth ares (vaguely: the past and the far future) who accidentally (or not?) bump into each other through a mysterious temple that may or may not be connected to a native blue alien race. Confused ...more |
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Creepy and disturbing post-apoc story about a young boy and girl seemingly traumatised by the war they barely survived. They meet a spaced out man who seems lost. What makes this story eery is the nothingness--the kids are wandering around an enormou ...more |
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“I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.”
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“But I can't erase the past, only learn from it. It's ok. Applying what I know makes the present and the future a beautiful place to be.”
― Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
― Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
“The only kingdom that makes any man a king is the kingdom of his own soul. The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.”
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― Shantaram
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