Turniper
8d ago
Xianxia, chinese cultivator fantasy. The second is book 2 of that same series, about an alcoholic monkey daoist loosely inspired by Sun Wukong, and the third is a weird sort of deconstruction of romantic tragedy set in fantasy post revolution not-france.
Turniper
9d ago
Steadily making progress editing my first novel, and writing my second and third. Been averaging 6k words a week written for 3 months now. Remarkable how fast 25k words a month turns into books. Excited to get to the point of publishing. My first book is going through the royal road->kindle unlimited pipeline, and the initial reviews have been pretty damn good. I'm quite proud of it. I just need a title, been calling it 'Between Beast and Buddha: Book 1' in my head for ages now.
Turniper
19d ago
These things are not unrelated. People like you more if your infodumps feel like stories than if they feel like condescending lectures.
Turniper
19d ago
Oh, I finished my first proper book a few weeks ago. I still have editing to do, a cover to commision, layout to complete, and a marketting campaign to plan, but the text itself is largely finished. I don't expect to be doing any more development edits beyond continuity fixes.
It's gotten pretty solid reviews from free readers (It's serially published now, it'll go down when it launches on Kindle Unlimited). I had some unsolicited interest from publishers and agents, but I'm leaning towards just doing it all myself because even a 'good' publisher's cut is 50-60 percent on ebooks, and that's just not worth it to me. Probably gonna try to partner with a publisher for the audiobook, because I know a guy current DIY'ing that, and he's spent into the five figures already.
Overall, I'm quite happy and proud, but it still doesn't quite feel real. I don't think it will until I have a physical copy in hand.
Turniper
19d ago
Idk about his jurisdiction, but they generally do that? I get a yearly letter even though mine are paid, with my balance and any proposed changes to the tax regime.
Turniper
19d ago
If you read the complaint, it sounds like they did exactly that, considering Dennis was served a foreclosure notice in person. I'd assume he got a heckuva a lot of deliquency notices too given that he lived at the address in question. It's right in the middle of page 3. Haven't read the full thing, but I can't say I'm feeling very sympathetic, it sounds like Dennis received repeated notices over the course of 12 years and just ignored them. They were probably addressed to his Dad, but you really should read any correspondence from the government addressed to your dead dad if you want to keep his house.
I mostly don't. I belong to product discords so I can ask questions about their code's weird behavior. This works great for me but they've probably answered my question a thousand times and I can't google their previous response.
I hang out in writer's discords so I can sometimes get muted for a day for making a joke that tangentially references drug use in a channel that allows the presence of children. This is stupid but I'm not gonna get bothered by it. It's just easier to taboo whole topics of conversation than make intelligent calls about the difference between a joke that references something and corruption of the youth.
If I actually want to, y'know, chat with people? I either use my own server or a friend's server. It's pretty much the only way to avoid officious mods, big public channels wade through so much shit on a daily basis that anyone who mods one will eventually become trigger happy. For the notifications: If a channel gives me a notification I don't need literally once, I mute it forever. You're basically never gonna regret muting things on discord in my experience.
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