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Knight Breeze


Just your average gaming geek/college student. I study computer science, play pathfinder, and write stories, and have a patreon!

May
23rd
2023

Xlibris · 10:03pm May 23rd, 2023

Hey, you guys ever hear of Xlibris? I've got an offer from them to publish my book, but I'm getting some shady vibes from some of the reviews I've read about them. Any thoughts?

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Nightmare of the Past (A conversion of What I've Done.)
Legends of the Future (Working title, a conversion of What I Am, also coming soon!)

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3271984
So, recently I was talking to a few members from a writer's group, thinking of you, I asked them how to get more readers. Most of them told me the same 3 things. Not sure if any of this will be usefull or if you already knew this, but here is what I learned.

1) would be to get together with other writers in similar genres and have then promote you and your books on the back of their books and you do the same for them, this is effective, but if it's too long, Amazon gets mad, and there are rumors that they might start cracking down on this.

2) would be kindle unlimited. Most authors I spoke to told me that 50% to 80% of income comes from KU readers.

3) is audio books. I was told that they see a HUGE jump in readers just by having an audio book. There are two ways of doing this, you could either have a production company such as Podium Audio or Sound Booth Theatre, or hiring a narrator yourself through audible's ACX. With both, You can either pay for it out of pocket, which can cost $3,000-$5,000, but you get to keep all rights, or you can do royalty sharing, but you have to sign an exclusivity contract with the company you choose.

There where other things, but these where the major points.

Hope this helps

3271983 You're fine, and all of those are excellent suggestions. I'll see what I can do.

3271953
Nice! Back in the day, I was actually a voracious reader in r/HFY but haven't been there in a few years. I'll head over there and take a look at what you got. Can't get enough of the Birb people:raritywink:

I wouldn't know where else to post your story, maybe r/creativewriting? But I'm not sure if it's against the rules over there.

Also, have you thoght about royal road? How about promoting on some Facebook groups? I know there are several groups out there that would allow for self promotion, but they are for very niche genres, so you would have to find a group that both allows self promotion and fits your genre.

Sorry, i couldnt be of more help more.

3271943 It's KnightBreeze, and I post in HFY. I'd post in other places, like r/scifi or r/fantasy, but they have specific rules against self promotion, and are more about discussing these topics, rather than posting actual stories about these topics, go figure. Yes, I'm actively looking for other subreddits to crosspost my story, but so far the only subreddit I've found that actually welcomes these kinds of things is r/HFY. Go figure.

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Just bought it a few days ago, I'm 25% in and loving it!

Also I didn't know you where on reddit, what's your user name and what sub reddit do you post in?

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