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It depends. It is frequently very important BUT, important or not. it can be something as simple as a stylized logo and the author's name, or an image from inside the novel, or a character sketch - or you can even do a throwback to the paperbacks of the late 60s-early 80s and have an image that...

There is a self-publishing group on Facebook - I joined it a few months back but have never really looked at it so not sure how useful it is. It did show me Substack, though, which seems a good place for promotion. For the most part though... not sure. Unless you want to spend money on it...

Ever seen a really mediocre sci-fi/detective series from the early 90s called "Time Traxx"? SELMA was a credit card with the powers of a cell phone and full holographic projection abilities...

There was an entire Hulu series about the "Light as a feather/Stiff as a board" party stunt. The whole Ouiji board shenanigans (it was VERY LOOSELY based on a "spirit board" but meant solely as a toy... and got a ton of weird stuff attached to it as a result). Ring Around the Roses is a chant...

Man, know how that goes (though I did a lot of writing while in the hospital... wasn't much else to do!). Hope the medical issues resolve positively soon.

I think the point is that you should make big announcements on the forum - just include a link to the forum post or an external site in the announcement post.

Ah, and for the anime as well? Maybe the people talking about it got confused (or confused me when I was reading about it - as I said, I only watched the first season and most of the second - may have been talking about two different shows even and I missed the transition)

Ah - in this case, it was a talent. But not relevant to your search - good luck!

The golden finger sounds familiar - my wife was listening to something called "God Among Men" about a race car driver who should have died in an accident but instead spent 1000 years in the Realm of Gods before returning to Earth five years later who was considered to have a "golden finger"...

You mean like the movies "Birdemic" or "The Happening" - or are you looking for GOOD examples? :biggrin_s:

You have two minor strikes against you on that first page, at least for me: 1. Chapters with titles but not numbers. Have seen a few stories where the order got mixed up and without chapter numbers it was easy to get lost while reading. 2. Verb tense shifts and repetition of details in the...

Nice. My top one only hit 8.8k views today, and has been up about three times longer than yours!

A SATISFYING ending does not have to be a happy one. It can be bitter sweet, or set up a sequel, or be ambiguous so that the reader can decide if it was happy or sad for themself. I strive to find endings that feel satisfying to me. Those are not always happy, and often leave doors open for...

Yeah, had just finished the first season of the anime when people started griping about how bad the ending was (so I kind of moved on from it to the Ranma 1/2 reboot and ... Dan Da Dan)... One of the discussions about it mentioned a rumor that the writer for the series changed twice over the...

But Okarun's name is Ken... :D I tend to mix genres out of habit - grew up on a lot of American comic books which already mix genres (action, sci-fi, horror, romance - and people in carnival costumes added in for good measure), and then got really into it myself through role-playing games (my...

Well, my own Between Worlds kind of hits half the points in each of your lists (wish list, hate list)... Skeleton King | Scribble Hub seems to have stalled/gone into hiatus after 25 chapters but fits most of your first list.

It depends. Perhaps the story really is happening somewhere out there, and the writer is just chronicling events. Or perhaps the story only exists as it is being read, whether by the writer, the reader or the editor... Perhaps we are all just pretty butterflies, flapping in the breeze...

There is a sister site for translations - I think it's Novel Updates but someone will correct me if I have that wrong (and probably provide a link either way)

Translations only appear on the author's profile or on a direct search, unless it is a translation of your own work and you pre-approved it, IIRC.

One thing I found during my very minimal research on the subject - there were a lot of stories about female pirates. Most of the ones I found either turned out to be fiction or read more like political hit-pieces than actual chronicles. But, if even half of the hit-pieces were based on fact...