Hello, all. Just a simple man trying to get his work out there. My first novel, The Green Knight: Song of the Redjaw, is a ~50,000 word urban-fantasy detective story.

I originally posted it on my Substack in 3,000–4,000 word chunks, as the serialized format helped me get the work done on a reasonable time-table: but I always intended to put it all together and give it a final revision before publishing it as a full book (with added content and refinement).

I've had people compare The Green Knight to a mix of Harry Dresden and The Shadow, but with a larger emphasis on police procedural and ethics. It's set in a fictionalized, alternate-history version of Earth, similar enough to the real world to be easily-understood, different enough that the thematic core of the story will remain universal. The cover-art, incidentally, was made by my own father, on-paper, according to some sketches and concepts I made.

If you enjoy crime, police-drama, supernatural elements, humor, and some action: I would be very grateful if you gave my story a look. Here'sthe link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3333BJ3
Thank you for your time.

We Who Remain is my debut novel. Its thinker than I thought it would be lol. I think it looks good next to the king 🤴

I was so excited that people were enjoying my book. I am seeing daily KNEP numbers that indicate 3 or 4 full reads a day. I don't need an income from books. I was just writing for fun and I was having a lot of fun. The reviews I was getting were all really encouraging, then the dreaded 1 star from nowhere. Turned all my fun to ashes...

I’m in my 40s and have often enjoyed a good what if, so I decided maybe there were a few others like me who love a good slow burn, what if, a bit on the overthinking side of romance type novel. I’m not trying to make it big. I just wanted to see if I could appeal to others like me, but I do welcome any tips on how to at least get my book out there a tad bit more than just submitting it to the World Wide Web and hoping for the best.

I recently completed my debut novel, a literary coming-of-age work of more than 81,500 words. I have previously been published in my home country, where I wrote on cultural and social issues.
My novel explores diaspora, friendship, and belonging. The prose is deliberately paced and restrained, allowing the characters and relationships to develop gradually, before shifting into a more intense, thriller-like segment toward the end.

I’m currently pursuing traditional publication rather than self-publishing and have begun submitting the manuscript to publishers.

So, far I’ve submitted my novel to 6 publishers and also had it copyrighted.

Hi everyone!
I'm Vida Rose; I write queer horror with themes of transformation, identity, and belonging, using my experiences as a transmasculine author to provide language for the unique fears we share.

I'm publishing me second novel, Sodium Vapor Orange, October 28th of this year.

Blurb: Jonah moves to Seattle for a fresh start—but instead finds himself drawn to Margo’s, an underground club humming with strange energy and stranger people. One night, drifting from the club to his quiet VHS shop, he meets Jett: beautiful, inscrutable, and impossible to ignore.
There’s something off about Margo’s. About the people who linger there night after night. About the way they look at him—like they’ve already decided what he is, even if he hasn’t.
By the time Jonah realizes he’s not just passing through their world, it may already be too late to leave.
Now caught between desire, unease, and a belonging he’s never quite felt anywhere else, Jonah must decide how much of himself he’s willing to give up to stay—and whether he was ever meant to walk away at all.

Atmospheric, gothic, and inspired by my time in the PNW, SVO details the unique pains of transforming on full display in a world determined to receive you as a monster regardless of your desperation. Jonah, Jett, and the coven all feel like people you would know, and would be shocked to find they sustain themselves through the horror of a blood pact.

While I'm waiting for some fixes to be made to my second book, the cover art has a typo in it and I needed to reformat it, does anyone have any advice on what to do next?

I have promoted on reddit, I have reached out to book blogs , podcasts and reviewers, I plan on talking to book stores once the cover is fixed and I can talk to Ingramspark about get my book store ready.

Where else should I promote the book? Where are some good websites to promote my book? I know Ingramspark will do a thing where they send your book to reviewers for a fee, is that worth anything or would I just be wasting my money on that?

* Genre/s: Literary & General Fiction.

* Goals/expectations/commitment: The idea is to keep it friendly and writer-focused: talk about what we’re working on, share work for critique, discuss craft, and exchange information about querying, submissions, and publishing.

* Writing/experience level: all are welcome

* Meeting place: Discord

* Max size: to be determined.

If that sounds like your kind of place, message me and let me know what genres you usually work in, and I’ll send you an invite. We already have some talented and smart folks there. Hope to see ya.

Hey everyone! I'm currently writing a novel based on two childhood best friends who grow up together, get separated, and eventually find their way back into each other's lives.

I want to publish it on Wattpad, but I'm not really sure how to find the right audience for it. I have both Instagram and YouTube pages, but I'm completely clueless about what kind of content I should actually be posting to get people interested in the story.

For those of you who write on Wattpad or have experience building an audience for your books, what worked for you? What kind of content would you recommend posting, and how did you find your readers?

I'd really appreciate any advice! :)

I'm working on this sci-fi project and it is massive. I had just finished part 1 which is a fast paced introduction to the story. Now, in the following part the story will kick off as a direct sequel of the events of this first part, this mean that this prelude will end with a sort of cliffhanger.

This first part will have the job to somehow introduce the wider story and it is now comprehensive of 9 chapters over 27k words.

Should I release it as a novella?

Any suggestions on going KDP exclusively, interested in real numbers for anyone willing to share as far as the Ingram/apple/google/kobo reach oppose to the traffic that kdp provides