Mostly spent getting my barony’s newsletter in final shape, emailing people about stuff involving the book, and general fiddling with stuff. But at least everything I had to do today, got done. That’s not nothing.
Hopefully the coming days will be more conventionally creative, though.
The Kickstarter over-performed just enough to give me some margin and still be able to have books for the con circuit this fall. God willing and the creek don’t rise, at least. It must be nice to have liquidity – mind you, compared to most self-published authors I apparently do. At least until 2022. I dunno, maybe I’ll have a good enough backlist by then.
Speaking off… feel free to share the love, hey?
I am currently working on the best process to convert some of the gaming seeds and whatnot that I do daily into functional game supplements that might be sold to the discerning customer (probably on places like DriveThruRPG). Which leads to the question: what, if any, of my past generic* material would you like to see developed further? Assume that I will only release a finite number of items per year, of course.
Moe Lane
PS: Also: if you have gaming groups that wouldn’t mind playtesting stuff in exchange for their names in the thank-yous, let me know.
*I can only sell RPG supplements for game lines that have Open Gaming Licences. I’m sure that I could get away with it, but I don’t want to get away with it.
There’s a book that I read today. It would have been a great book to recommend, except that it had one problem: it was horribly edited. All the author clearly did was run it through a spell check; so there were run-on sentences, the wrong word used (the ‘populous/populace’ mix-up has infested many a manuscript), bad punctuation, open quotes, at least one paragraph where three sentences were run into each other and then somebody ran off with the period, that sort of thing. It kind of grated, after a while.
I understand that editing can cost a lot of money, particularly when you’re somebody who doesn’t realistically expect to sell all that many copies of your e-book. But there’s such a thing as false economy. In this specific case, I can’t in good conscience recommend the book I was reading today, even though I personally enjoyed it. I’d like to, but I can’t. So maybe that cost the author a sale?
