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I reviewed moments ago, having finally gotten around to reading them.  (Back to my potter fanfic.)

Thank you for participating with us! It was fun! 

Dying star, burn still bright

Cling to Life with all your might

The ampitheatre's long abanroned

The city's gone and left you stranded

Your empty audience lies dreaming strange

You stand, unheeded on it's stage

But somewhere else your light has travelled

The darkness that it's touched unravelled

Some will will drink your crimson light

Some won't know the subtle light

But out there, somewhere, your light will find

Another soul to touch and guide

Even unseen, your beauty shines

And will be treasured, by all who find. 

So stand tall and proud, and enjoy the show.

Your life has reach you'll never know.

I’ve always been partial to this one myself.

Possibility 1.

I adore forests in fog.

I adore that spooky otherworldy air.

Good… good… let the festivity flow through you...

Had to do it early since I’m pulling a double on thanksgiving.

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

Before I try for print…

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…  

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

Hey, sorry it went like that but I hope you can get another job soon.

I’ve got a this and that out with the old to catch up on, just been a little busy! (the mortuus orbis review I did was basically already written as I’ve sent feedback to IBD already! :) )

I got five years of customer service, I’m golden I’m going to take the rest of the month off and visit gramma and have a belated X-mas since I was forced to double shift Xmas.

“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”.

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.

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.

Corollary: Can’t ever make anything idiot-proof, because the universe keeps coming up with better and better idiots.

Idiot-resistant is the best you can hope for.

Sadly true.

But this was advanced stupid. Like one step above sticking a fork in an electrical socket.

I can relate. Last year I spent an hour hiding under a bridge because I got caught in a massive rainstorm while biking home. My wife couldn’t even come pick me up because the streets were flooded.

Had to throw the shirt and gym shorts out. It was like the grit had become solidly enmeshed in the fabric and like hell I’m gonna ruin the washer and I’m not willing to have sandy clothes every time I wash.

Hahah lessons were learned.

     One time me and a buddy went for a run without checking the weather and some how missed that there was an active tornado watch in the area.  Halfway into the run, the skies got dark, like might as well have been night, winds were threatening to uproot trees (and us) and it started raining sideways.  We had to take shelter in a nearby building until it passed.

Hm. There are so many possibilities…

I like positions which are easily fortified but which also provide avenues for escape. Mountain ranges with an extensive network of caves and tunnels would work, especially if I could allow my shadow people free rein in those caves and tunnels. “No one who enters leaves without my permission. Now have some pie.” That sort of thing.

Mountains are hard to assail, and also very useful for hiding things you’ve acquired but aren’t ready to use yet. And there’s just something wonderfully majestic about being on a mountaintop, surveying the world below, ripe for the taking. My gamer brain keeps recalling Flemeth of Dragon Age fame. She starts out in Origins as a cranky old granny in the Wilds, and by the end of Inquisition, well… the Old Gods are never really gone, are they?

thank you

Hadn’t considered mountains like that. Delightful space to hide the spoils and to found a harpy’s roost.

No one is gonna get the drop on you.

http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600109177

That bite on your neck, must’ve been while sleeping…. (or, it was super-deluxe oral and you were too...erm...busy to notice)

Aaah. Its pretty hard to bite through leather just saying.

Full vampire is always fun.

@Desiderius Price has a point. The editor needs to focus on the elements of the story, rather than act as a proofreader. If you don’t want to do an editing pass, have someone who’s good at it beta-read for you, and listen to them. 

I rely on my editor for things like making sure I haven’t screwed up the chronology between events and chapters, haven’t left some dangling threads or gaping plot holes, and that my characters won’t cause the average reader to think they’ve stumbled into the literary equivalent of Madame Tussaud’s. My editor also watches for repetitive phrasing, run-on sentences, and other abominations against the language. We both rely on the proofreader to catch any spelling or grammar mistakes we missed (damn those homophones!) and to keep an eye out for anything else that rings false on a clean read-through. But first and foremost, it’s my job to turn over a manuscript that I’ve read, re-read, proofread, spell-checked, grammar-checked, and cleaned up to the best of my ability. If I piss off my editor by being sloppy, or lazy, you can bet the publisher is going to be less willing to take another manuscript from me. Authors are a dime a dozen; good editors are rare, and therefore precious. 

I’m grossly simplifying of course, but at if you want to be an author you do need at lest a couple pair of eyes to catch what you can’t.

my editor was well compensated and tipped in gratitude.

I always try to respect the hired help, because they’re people too.  (Good plan in life, TBH.)

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. 

Yeah. I’m trying not to be blubbering.

I had a southern wind problem. Had to start chewing charcoal.

Good luck!

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*crosses fingers* Please let the finale flow

I know how that feels.  Good luck!

That’s when you just type “[LOOK UP]” and keep writing. Then look it up later.

I’ll try it Haha

After a week of feasting, Logan goes out to get the mail.

Only to find new neighbors.

http://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600109824