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One of the audionovels my wife listened to literally had a bad guy group called "Shadowy Organization" or something close to that. Had to laugh every time I heard it. She stopped listening to that one when I was around... :D Ah yeah - it was kind of worse than that, now that I think about it...

I don't mind either IF the person using it admits they did so (about half of my covers started as AI creations and then were modified in a paint program) and, if a writer, puts at least something of themself into it - or just admits they edited or collaborated with the software instead of...

Maybe they aren't translated poorly, but written poorly and translated perfectly? I have to think that is the case with some of the audionovels my wife listens to... There is one where the "in that very moment" "just at that second" comments are so plentiful it became a punchline.

I have seen too many other people claiming nearly identical experiences to believe it IS a non-existent problem. Likely not as wide-spread as those who've fallen victim to it want to believe, but a definite real thing, or at least close to what the victims believe to be worrying.

I know someone created a thread in the Illustrator's area that they posted nothing but graphics for their ongoing stories to - that might work if that's the intent here?

No, that is one of the classic examples. 1. A narrator whose perceptions may be in doubt (H. P. Lovecraft used this a lot, most notably in The Shadow Over Innsmouth) 2. A narrator who just does not take things seriously (Deadpool is the most recent example of this I can think of) 3. A narrator...

Good lord.... Passive voice kills this. Perhaps: "It is the dawn of a new era on the world of Radaris. Legends from the past crawl out of the darkness to expose the lies that shaped this world's history. Plots that could sink entire continents form in the shadows. Into this morass comes...

Unreliable Narrator can be very effective for horror as well (H. P. Lovecraft employed this in a few tales). And I have a story I'm working on (at chapter four and crawling slowly so probably won't surface for a while) where the narrator is very unreliable. I think he's even lied to ME (in a...

So far I posted three as "Writing Prompts" in various threads (don't remember if I ever started one) and most of the rest only have two or three chapters - so, unless I do the "Cavalcade of First Chapters" idea that hit me this morning (would create a "book" where each entry was just the first...

And Edgar Allen Poe delineated several of them in the poem often used to exemplify onomatopoeia, "The Bells"

Sorry - Royal Road.

Any answer I gave would be a guess at this point - asking them is your best bet.

Rub his belly and find out!

Another thought - if Amazon has the songs available for sale, they might permit use of what radio shows call a "bumper" - a recognizable bit of the song to be embedded, and require the reader to purchase the full version to hear i.

It sounds like you are PROBABLY safe - but I would suggest you contact an actual IP lawyer before updating KDP (and yes, I do mean "selling for profit"). Heck KDP might even have specific rules for external files like that (they seem to have rules for everything else)

Willing? Yes. Reliable and able to promise feedback in a timely manner? Probably not (given two of my three attempts as Alpha or Beta readers) but can give it a shot.

I was THERE (along with about a million other viewers) in 1977 when Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzerelli, feeling betrayed by Hollywood and his best friend, Richie Cunningham, literally (ski)jumped the shark. It was a season-ending cliffhanger, inspired by the popularity of Jaws and the show Happy Days...

I found that, no matter what I start out with, my writing tends to morph into either horror, fantasy or superheroes at some point. Managed to avoid that, almost (but found out, thanks to Chinese and Korean novels and television that having a lot of money really IS a super power, as Batman...

One of my stories slowly, steadily increased until the holidays hit and I got a part time job, cutting into my writing time. One keeps getting small leaps but never a lot even after I slowed down. The other two are crawling along.

I'm halfway through one myself - not for toning it down, just to see if I could. Unless you count someone making an unauthorized audionovel of one of mine, I haven't yet had anything stolen (that I know of) so can't identify with that part.