As the title says, I'm posting my first fiction on RR next week so I took the placeholder page live today. I do worry the description is more than needed and the What to Expect section may go overboard.
Then again, I may be wrong and overthinking things.
Objective input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance for anyone willing to take a peek!
Bad Luck Charlie: The Dragon Mage - Self Promo for a pretty kickass flash sale of the entire dozen book series
Heya, it's the author here. So, check out this deal:
My completed 12 book sci-fantasy series following Charlie, a spaceship engineer pulled through a wormhole into a distant galaxy powered by magic instead of technology, is on sale this week. That's 4 box sets of 3 books each. I thought this subreddit would appreciate the self-promo in this instance.
The story? It's a wild mashup of sci-fi and fantasy, with portal/wormholes, dragons, AI spaceships, cyborgs, space pirates, nasty wizards, gladiators, a novel magic system, modifed mechs, and, of course, a hell of a lot of progression for the poor MC who gets stuck in a galaxy where he has to overcome his disbelief in magic if he hopes to survive. More than that, he has to master it.
Breakdown of the sale is:
Box set one (books 1-3 ) is only .99¢
Box set two, three, and four are $1.99 each (3 books in each box set) (full series link)
And since the box sets are also on Audible, the $4.93 per set (of 3) Whispersync discount applies them. Roughly $1.66 per 10+ hour audiobook if you break it down.
So that's the deal. Feel free to comment if you have any questions.
Hey all, Scott Baron, sci-fantasy writer here. I've got a question for those of you established authors with RR experience under your belts. Pardon the lengthy post.
I'm new to Royal Road and thus have no following there. I'm not new to publishing but I'm delving into the Wild West of Royal Road from scratch. Yeah, I'm a masochist ;) But how do I arrange quality shout outs if I'm seen as a noob on RR?
Social proof-wise outside of RR I've got many books on Amazon / KU / Audible, over 5,000 followers on my Facebook group, and have millions of pages read in KU thus far. My top progression book on Amazon (Bad Luck Charlie) has over 2,000 ratings and a 4.5 average for reference.
Would my Amazon and Facebook presence be of value when asking to swap shout outs? I can direct authors to check out my Amazon and Facebook pages, but on RR my story isn't even live yet - it's approved but pending until I get all this figured out. So, starting from zero there. Yikes!
To make up for my lack of RR followers I was thinking of not only doing shout outs on my RR chapters the normal way, but also posting a weekly "check these stories out" condensed recap post on my Facebook fan page. That way those 5,000 Facebook followers will see a post of interesting new reads once a week.
For those of you who are established authors, would that sort of a swap make sense to you, or is it really just the number of current RR followers that would make a difference in that calculus? Suggestions?
Thanks for your input, and good luck with your stories!
Book 1 cover below to give a feel for the series - Kinda like Star Trek meets Lost in Space (they're literally lost in space xd).
As the title says, I'm setting up my very first Patreon and want to make sure to load a version that doesn't ruin formatting but is also what readers prefer.
I'm a desktop user myself, so my personal preferences are kinda out the window as so many people prefer to use mobile (call me a Luddite, I guess).
Thanks for whatever input you may have. Trying to set this all up right the first time rather than fixing it later.
I tend to write too much. This is an attempt at being less wordy. Keeping a blurb tighter for the series. Is it still too wordy? Not catchy enough? Your input is greatly appreciated! (I'll paste the "readers can expect" list after the blurb, naturally.)
A ship of asshole aliens attacked out of the blue, and Sadira and Moose’s day just went from bad to worse.
It’s post-apocalyptic Earth, and 99% of the population is dead, killed in the Great War. The human survivors - now allied with the alien rebels who helped them rise to victory - have begun rebuilding. But where one enemy is defeated, another rises. Problem is no one expected the new one so soon.
Sadi and Moose now find themselves exactly where they did not want to be: Leading a misfit team of aliens, cyborgs, and off-kilter AI into the fray against an unknown foe. Worse, a warp drive malfunction sends them hurtling into the uncharted depths of space. They’re lost. Alone. In a word, they’re screwed.
I'm about to load my first story into RR and was wondering if that sometimes leads to reads of Kindle Unlimited books from your other existing series outside of RR (if people enjoy the writing, naturally).
Just trying to understand that aspect (the potential appeal not of stubbed content but rather of a whole different series/story).
Thoughts/experiences with that?
Many thanks for your input!
Self-promo (obviously) for a sci-fi/fantasy event in Hermosa Beach, CA.
Andrew Givler u/Sigils author of the Ironbound and Debt Collectors series will be there, along with Steve Truitt author of the Mindset Chronicles, Erin Gray of Buck Rogers fame, and me, Scott Baron u/shoot_from_the_quip - We will be participating in a panel discussing sci-fi, fantasy, technology, AI, space travel, and how it all interconnects. Should be a really fun evening. Come check it out if you're in the area!
