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I guess the first step is to decide what kind of villainy you want. There's the overt villainy, like wiping out an orphanage, or targeting schools/hospitals/malls with weapons of mass destruction. Then there's the more subtle villainy, the reasonable leader who gradually institutes more draconian measures until you realize you have no freedom left, or who engineers a collapse of your defenses by treachery and deceit, working behind the scenes through people he's corrupted. For the overt kind, any slaughter of innocents works for me in making me want to see the villain get his, preferably painfully. For the subtle kind, I'd rather it take a good month to kill that one. Slow, very agonizing, and with great inventiveness.

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@Dark listen: Yes, I do. Here on AFF, I'm BronxWench. Elsewhere, I write as Morwen Navarre, and you might have seen my banner ad here on AFF.

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Please see the other thread where you posted your complaint. Let's not fill the entire forum with the same complaint, shall we?

Are you talking about the label that appears on the individual browser tabs? If so, it's not broken. It simply displays differently. That will happen when we upgrade to the new php and code. My work in the archive requires that I often work with close to a dozen tabs open at once in my browser window. More than that, and I wouldn't be able to read anything on the tab that was longer than three letters unless my browser was set to full-screen, so I'm really not getting the issue here.

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Thanks, Joe, and you have my very sincere wishes that you find a good publisher. Don't be afraid to look at smaller, niche houses. Sometimes you can really do well with them, if you don't mind doing a little work on your own to market. Twitter, blogs, even Facebook if you tread carefully - these are all ways to reach potential readers, and don't cost you anything. What I've published thus far is all niche stuff. I write gay erotica for publication, and I'm fine with my niche. I might also sell some mainstream some day, but who knows? In the meantime, I'm making a little space on the bookshelf for the rest of it.

I'm one of the authors here who started with fan fiction, got comfortable enough to branch out into original fiction, and now have some work out there with a publisher. Look around, find publishers who offer books in the genre in which you're writing (and don't settle for only the bigger houses), and read their submission guidelines. Submit, submit, submit, and when you do, take it down from any online sites. No one wants to publish a work that's available for free. Make sure you've read your manuscript, had a beta reader look it over, checked grammar, punctuation and spelling, formatted it properly, and GO FOR IT. You'll never know if you don't try. And if someone does take your story, be prepared to toss your ego into a closet when you're assigned to an editor...

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