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There was an email about changing pricing structures and not allowing anything below, I think $3 USD as a recurring payment/subscription (and I think $2 for one-time things). Only skimmed it (after seeing discussion about it on Substack), and it was several months ago so don't recall specifics...

The thing is that implicit violence makes the reader part of the act - you KNOW something nasty happened, even if you didn't see it - and you did nothing to stop it, maybe even enjoyed it a little... (Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics did a great little essay on this). Graphic violence is...

So is this one story? It could be that the Player and Character have separate personalities, something the player never expected until they were reborn in the game, and now the two sometimes work together, and sometimes one clobbers the other and takes the body out for a spin...

The issue is that it's arbitrary. Unless the image was clearly not AI generated, or you can prove its genesis, anyone can claim anything about it and ban it - or let it slide, if they so desire. At least that's what I'm seeing. A fun test might be to see if an actual graphic artist is willing...

The thing with creative endeavors is: 1) What works for one person may not work for anyone else, or may yield different results. 2) Success may be independent of quality. 3) Lighting may strike twice, but you have to coax it back.

Yep - had one approach me with a portfolio that would have fit two different stories but was utterly wrong for the story they were trying to discuss (though it did KIND of fit the CHAPTER they approached me over). They went away when I said I didn't have enough money to pay anyone, but might...

Ah! Tapas... yeah, I was going to post stuff there, but the stories I had were either too adult for the "non-premium" area or ... had partially AI generated covers so I never did. They are the strictest site I've seen on the subject. Another idea - one that has been done for ages - is to have...

Not at all true - there are maybe a dozen audio books on Pocket FM that do NOT have digital covers (those very, very few licensed the covers from the original comic books). Now, you SHOULD modify the AI output a bit - add in your own title and byline, for example, but an AI generated cover will...

My best rated work is different from what I could consider my best, and varies by site as well (on RR, my "best" would probably be True Blue, even though it got zero attention. On this site, when it was here, it was probably Between Worlds but that had to migrate - but most successful is...

Not really - define "Best"

I see the Action and kind of see the Isekai part, but nothing there screams "harem"

Wait - why not the Car Wars universe (an old boardgame by Steve Jackson Games where you design, arm, and race/fight cars - pretty much inspired by the first Deathrace 2000 movie, with a dash of the Mad Max franchise for spice)

Whichever one the author can write most convincingly.

Star Wars (AKA "Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope") was pretty pedestrian. It just had a fantastic soundtrack and combined stuff that hadn't been seen in movies for a few years - the flow of the classic serials, a mix of Wu-Xia martial arts + space opera + epic quest + hero's journey + heist...

Well, unless you're like Raymond Feist and his collaborators - spend that time ALSO writing (and gaming ... and tweaking the games to fit what you're writing). Midkemia Press was born out of that worldbuilding exercise and did quite well for a while, maybe even still.

And it got its start as Twilight fanfic... Really - she wanted to rewrite the story but with the characters meeting as adults instead of teens, and with the "vampire" drawing power from S&M rather than blood. And it went downhill from there (sadly straight into a massive bank vault).

Or they might take it literally and send you pictures of a certain species of birds (Boobies), or of people named Richard...

Success at any creative endeavor is usually only 25% based on talent, with the rest a varying mix of marketing, luck, and "reading the crowd (producing what "the masses" seem to want)" This is why successful creators tend to go one of two ways: Either they get a dedicated following and THEN do...

No, just a little disappointed that (his stable of writers) chose to follow a popular trend rather than keep up the "coming of age with avian powers" adventure series it had been (and a little relief to not have to shell out the ever-increasing cover price or wait to find the books used).

Except the pretty nurse is the only important part, and she hasn't even shown up yet!