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  1. Another Small Step Down. <3 

    As long as I can get it published by atleast the end of the year I’ll be happy. Reading Copyright law was horrible but at least legalese is at least legible. Understanding what is and isn’t culpable…

    But hey, at least 70 years

    1. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      There is a copyright lawyer on youtube, by the name of Leonard French, if you want to watch about copyright and other cases.  Might be easier than reading through law, though few of his videos are short.

    2. InvidiaRed

      InvidiaRed

      Ah the pitfalls of doing this thing solo.

  2. Copyright is boring af.

    1. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Maybe, but it’s also there to help dissuade people from ripping your stories off and claiming them as their own.

    2. InvidiaRed

      InvidiaRed

      True, that said 70 years after my death if people would still like my stuff I’d like them not to ruin it with whatever bile that is the propaganda of the day.

       

  3. 20% of all evil witches end up being shanked by children.

    1. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Sounds like a perfect time to have a better-house-keeping course for witches, to help mitigate the possibilities.

    2. InvidiaRed

      InvidiaRed

      Instructions unclear, Decided to found a school dedicated to Hansel and Gretal

    3. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      The Hansel and Gretel Cookbook?

  4. Updated Tarnished Lion.

    By far the darkest chapter I’ve written.:devil:

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    2. InvidiaRed

      InvidiaRed

       Dark Lord Leo, The Black Lion That Stalks Unseen

      -Slain Narcissa Malfoy on the crossroad to knockturn Alley after being provoked

      -Subjugated The locket horcrux, Found Rowena’s Diadem.

      - Plunged into the abyss and fought off the horcrux that infested him and ate it. Violating the fundamental law of magic on a level much worse than Voldermort did.

      -Dark Lord finally matures. Leo has taken over. And is about to make a play for Azkaban.

    3. InvidiaRed
    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      Nice thing with where I branched off, I don’t have to mess around with horcruxes!  :)

  5. I’ll try to describe a quick scene for informational purposes. “WE LOVE YOU MERESKA!!” Her fans screamed in adoration as the swarm of Holodrones swarmed around her as her hover-board maneuvered crazy eights and other flight patterns. The Stadium was packed to bursting. She posed as her rotating nipple tassels displayed the list of her sponsors. Ad Revenue malarkey she never bothered to pay attention to. It wasn’t enough that her patented drone subroutines had become common place. It wasn’t enough that she was beautiful naturally without the aid of being pumped full of nanites and a dedicated team of beauticians and it wasn’t even enough that she could perform sing and dance while on a hoverboard. These people didn’t want a person… They wanted a perfect goddess no matter the cost. She would have preferred being treated like a picture perfect porcelain doll. She had done her best to avoid Hesperia Seven which lay on the outermost western spiral galactic arm. Away from the safety of the core worlds. At least the core worlds respected copyright. She lamented. She waved and blew kisses as she touched her omnitool bracelet to commence her wardrobe change routines. She was never doing another favor for the Corpo Kings who commanded the super-corporations here on the outer edges. She reminded herself to smile for the holodrones. It wasn’t that they fricking cheated. Casinos cheated as part of their everyday practice. It was the fact that despite knowing it from the onset… She had fallen for it. One holovid of a…. ‘Personal’ android doing some rather indecent things while having her likeness spread like wildfire over the holonet. And the culprit was here on this backwater fringe world. Mereska scanned the leisure suites for the fat cow that was behind it all. She had never killed before, but she figured all it took was some serious determination and perhaps a liberal application of expertly calculated blunt force trauma. There she was Tortoise CEO and future murder victim manhandling her doppelganger with her fingers in places that would have any HR firm priming for immediate dismissal… Had they been human. She kissed her lips and as the holodrones swarmed the position her kiss projectile would be to spell out I LOVE YOU! Wreathed in a prismatic heart large enough that even the highest seat could see it. She had been born too late. She decided, Too late to explore lost and sacred Terra Prime. Too late to explore this section of the galaxy. The preshow was about to end. The music began to build as her first song came up. There in the moment of silence before her first words there was a deafening screech as some large shadow drifted over her. “What the f-” She began and her eyes widened as she looked up. Something large was coming straight for her. She touched her bracelet and her fingers clacked over the interface as she switched the hoverboard to manual and shifted her weight so the hoverboard glided to the side. The dark object sped past her and the wind buffeted her out of the central stadium. The hoverboard spiraled as she hunkered down and clutched the board. Forever grateful to whomever invented the boots that were bound magnetically to the board. Without out them she’d have been flung off the darned thing ages ago.She managed to stabilize the hoverboard and it came to a stop. She sighed as she fought the nausea that threaten to vacated her lunch. She refused to throw up here on this planet. Outright refused. Some fans had gone so far as to plifer her bathwater from the hotels she had stayed at. They even stole her mattress out from under her while she slept! She shuddered, People were crazy. A few women and one man actually used nanites to remodel themselves after her. She absolutely refused to contemplate what her fans would do if they got a hold of her sick. She swallowed and kept the burning bile down. She ignored her burning throat and focused on the noise. There was a persistent droning and other noises. Noises that she realized was screaming. The persistent droning was infact the stadium alarm. The black figure that had nearly crashed into her. Wasn’t alone. As more dropped into the stands like meteors. It was currently biting stadium security forces in half like unwanted corn dogs She brushed her omnitool and set the holodrones to live-stream. As the holodrones regrouped around her catching her every move in a perfect spotlight. Predatory eyestalks darted to look at her location. That wasn’t a good sign. She grabbed her hoverboard and wordlessly pulled up. Her hoverboard promptly sped towards the rafters.
  6. One more step down.  The cover art is done

    oh lord… I can almost believe its happening

    1. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      Seeing the cover for the first time is just… well, there’s aren’t words for it. It’s just like nothing else in the world. 

    2. InvidiaRed

      InvidiaRed

      Yeah. I’m trying not to be blubbering.

  7. Ebook Launch is a go :D

    So far they’ve been helpful and professional.

  8. Making Progress. Slow progress but a step is still a step by any measure

    @BronxWench you were right It was way more cost effective to buy 10 ISBNS

    I feel like that’s how they suck you in. Well you only wanted one but….

    You got the rest of your life to use the rest of them ahaha.

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    2. InvidiaRed

      InvidiaRed

      Didn’t know that. But for right now going to focus on Ebook first.

       

      Before I try for print…

    3. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      Print is usually much more expensive, and has a lower rate of return for a self-published author. You have to pay the costs of printing, and even when books are only printed after they are ordered. you need to price them in order to recover your costs. My novella doesn’t offer print copies, but my novel sells on Amazon for $5.99 for a Kindle ebook, and $15.95 for the paperback. I don’t sell a lot of print copies… :lol: 

    4. InvidiaRed

      InvidiaRed

      Oh good I feel like I made a good decision by going for E first

  9. Recursionate

    is definitely going to be a WIP but I made a promise to myself I’m not going to delete.

    Also did anyone one know.

    Ate- Is the goddess of Foolhardy and ruinous Impulse?

  10. Oh man I guess its too late to add that but the thought of a horse with a full on boot keep it from moving is just hilarious.
  11. Thats sorta how I started with my story. Just looking at how my favorite authors started. hahah Weirdly enough I got absurdly stuck because I got almost the whole story done but hadn’t thought of how to begin. I eventually was like you know what? Gonna start with a prison tale along the lines of one time I was snatched from bed at an ungodly hour and thrown into jail for no discernible reason.
  12. Writer Question has anyone used Ebook Launch?

    https://ebooklaunch.com/

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    2. BronxWench

      BronxWench

      I haven’t used them, but they look pretty damned good from what I’m reading. The prices for editing are fair, and so are the cover prices. If I were to self-publish, I think I’d give them a shot myself.

    3. InvidiaRed

      InvidiaRed

      Okay I decided to give them a shot they look and feel legit.

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      I did notice they don’t have developmental edit services, so you’d have to budget elsewhere for that.

  13. Eyecandy should be unisex in my opinion. Not every man has to be a bodybuilding adonis of course nor every women a perfect voluptuous sex goddess Give him a broad shoulders, or great legs or a big booty or a nice bulge or even those nice full jawlines. Her experiences sound like she got them early/ they were bigger than the other women around her. And she was not treated well because of this sudden puberty driven endowment.
  14. Offering Sorrow is complete and it’ll be awhile before I return to this particular verse.

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    2. InvidiaRed

      InvidiaRed

      *touches fingers together self-consciously* yeah…. I tend to delete stories :unsure:

    3. JayDee

      JayDee

      I’ll get it read and reviewed as soon as I can – thursday maybe!

    4. JayDee

      JayDee

      Ok, I’ve been drowining in shit due to a sick relative. Next week looking more likely. Sorry for the delay! Want to see how it goes.

  15. Looking through some battle pics does confirm the smear on the ground bit.
  16. True but I want to be accurate at least. Epic fantasy meets an alternate WW2 decaying timeline.
  17. I’m gonna go with a standard shell from a panzer 3. I’m checking specs right now.
  18. Right? But the character in question is a regenerative immortal type.
  19. So I’m at a loss at the moment. What injuries can I expect pertaining to WW2 german tank rounds?
  20. From JayDee on June 27, 2021 Fallen City – Bit of an action packed part here! The explosion at the start and the use of the meat shield was hella fun. Liked the portrayal of the pissed-off-at-humanity gallows god too. People forget these days that ol’ One-Eye had a temper… With prophecy broken fate is in flux but tends to go the path of least resistance. The journey to catastrophic war is picking up steam. The Jotun will not stand idle not when their only ally that treats them as people rather than monsters is suddenly attacked. The roosters that foretell the final battle might be drowned in the river that never freezes. Inertia however is ramping up. Asgard is definitely on team fuck humanity and Jotun are on Humanity’s side when they hear humanity’s cry for aid the war horns will beckon Apocalypse is on the horizon. SPOILER COMMENTS …did I get that right? Did Glykon just destroy the spear? Now that was a badass tough moment there. Glykon did destroy Gungnir, Its power wrecking the city. The oaths The Allfather forced on others are broken, his symbol of authority ruined. This object showcasing Asgard’s unassailable might ruined. It’s a loss of face, a loss of strength. his greatest act was he stole the antichrist, The Beast Of The Sea right out from under Odin’s nose and for that he needed Zahhak to cause commotion and take everyone’s focus solely on him. And he did it all *without* hands Glykon got some hidden depths! Also kinda funny the way he shows up and does his effortless convincing through the sock puppet like usual! Did she even need to use the human as a meat shield, or was it just a bit of “being an asshole for the sake of it?” The Beast Of The Sea is a unrepentant jerk, She’s also the most powerful of Lucifer’s remaining brood. Since Zahhak and likely other players have been tracking down her siblings. She isn’t afraid of throwing down, not when she can go straight into dark souls boss mode with her warform. She is not a match against a skyfather, head of a godtribe but then her true power lay not in combat (which is considerable She’s a daughter of a confirmed god killer) But in her ability to influence others especially humans. She can bring out the worst in others. It seems like being mortal has limited prospects in this chapter anyway, with the Valkyries going full massacre. No doubt a few regretting they’re not fitting in old Viking activities like the pillage, and the other thing. Humanity just got sucker punched and blows keep on coming.I would not want to live on this particular world right now. The fact that a head of a tribe of gods just openly destroyed a city is all the admission one needs to successfully infer that the Global Pantheon is not on humanity’s side.
  21. Nearly done with the last preview. :D

     

    But here’s a writer question isn’t it a nice thing to do to put your manuscript through spellchecker/grammarly so your editor doesn’t hate you? You know catch the obvious errors first.

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    2. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      “Sorcerer’s Stone” does run off the tongue a bit better than the Philosopher’s Stone, otherwise, yep, would’ve been better if the Britishisms weren’t removed.

      As to my potter fanfic, not sure where the old disclaimer that I was American went to, apologizing in advance for not being perfect to British.  However, I do try to insert some British where I can, particularly “todger” and “zebra crossing”.

    3. InvidiaRed

      InvidiaRed

      Only have two HP fanfictions when where harry is trying to survive in a zombie apocalypse a scenario were the wizarding world is almost guaranteed to thrive in since wands don’t run out of bullets 

      And a dark lord Harry who AK’d peter in the graveyard, a relatively slow corruption story hahah.

       

    4. Desiderius Price

      Desiderius Price

      I’ve only got one potter fanfic I’m working on, now A/U because it was a “continue the story” type of fic that was popular between book releases, and it’s interesting enough to finish.  As it’s technically a sequel to my first “continue the story” fanfic, which itself was “continue the story” based on  another (now abandoned) fanfic, I can’t bring the story itself to AFF w/o filing off the serial numbers which I couldn’t bring myself to do.   However, it’s plenty fun to write with Harry being framed up to be a “suspected dark wizard” and it pokes fun at the Harry/Ginny shipping.

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