u/Shoot_from_the_Quip

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!

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).

https://preview.redd.it/bi27h9pgwl5h1.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86ac76331245c8b2d09c5ccb58eadcd0a1d85dbd

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!