Tao Wong

Writing Update & Holidays!

Hi guys;

So, I'm nearly at 70k words (or 60k if you take out world notes) on the  manuscript. That doesn't mean I'm close to ending, it seems I'm ssomewhere in the middle, maybe 60%? I k...

Marketing Strategy Development: Promotions (4)

Last week, I talked about the minimum tools you needed. I'm going to start naming a few other tools I make use of and the various main promotional options. I'll cover each briefly, but realise that...

Stars Asunder - Spoiler Full Discussion Thread

This thread is for people who have finished reading the book.

It's a little bit of a different kind of book, hopefully not boring. I had a ton of fun with writing it and it's easily the large...

Marketing Strategy Development: Promotions (3)

Our last two posts have been on the theoretical side of marketing promotions, the tools that you need to have a proper promotional strategy and the kind of things you need to build out the promotio...

What now?

Hello, Kate here.

You might've noticed the Epilogue of Stars Asunder was posted for master class & above today, or maybe you've noticed the series table of contents post says "completed"....

Marketing Strategy Development: Promotions (2)

Last time, we talked about a very theoretical concept; which was the line. This week, I want to t...

Welcome new Patrons & Updates

Hi all the new patrons and resubscribing patrons;

I know I don't say that often enough, but hi everyone. Thanks for subscribing and sticking around for my constant flow of random chapters and...

Your tier benefits

Hello!

Kate here. I've sent all of you messages earlier about you benefits, but you might've not noticed it, so here's this post, because Tao wants to do right by you :)

2020-06-04 14:36:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Business Post: Author Brand, Donations and Moral Choices

I swear, I'll get around to finishing that marketing plan post. I actually have 3 others (all promotions) written, for the next 3 weeks. And then, the world went to hell - or was always in hell and...

Writing Update & Food

Just did a writing update:

https://www.mylifemytao.com/writing-life-and-protests/ 

Wh...

Craft Post: On Show vs Tell

This is an extract from a reply where someone was discussing Show vs Tell in another FB group. I figured I'd repost it here with some minor edits to make it make more sense as a blog post.

Th...

The obligatory sales tax post

So, Patreon is putting on sales tax. I'm not going to edit it, but basically, I've already gone in and edited the basic tiers. In some cases, the full amount of the tax won't be applied since some ...

Marketing Strategy - Promotion (1)

So, marketing promotion is a HUGE area. Like, there are literal advertising agencies that focus on a single area of promotion. Expecting me to cover everything in a single book or ...

Pain, writing and the quarantine

Alright, since I'm up at 5am today, unable to sleep; I figured I'd start out with one of the pieces of reality for me.

I'm one of those chronic pain sufferers. Those who have met me in-person...

To be personal or not?

So, been thinking of whether I should post more personal stuff. Not personal personal, but stuff that I think about in the publishing industry, my own musings about the writing process, personal st...

System Apocalypse Issue 5

It's finally done. Just one more!

PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1...

The Second Expedition & More

So, working on the second expedition. Trying for shorter chapters here, which means I'm now at Chapter 4, just 'cause doing 7k chapters is incredibly annoying when it comes to editing. It seems the...

Marketing Strategy Development: Product (2)

We talked about Products before in the previous post, about the various ways you can and should consider how your product can be created.

Now, here's something else to consider.

2020-05-21 01:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Asin Art

I thought I'd get a different artist to do Asin. I wanted something a little more Manga. This was a little too cute for my taste, but it's still kind of cool. Been debating if I want to pay out for...

Quick Update

Stars Asunder is out at editors. Not expecting to hear much for a bit.

 Took yesterday off mostly, no real work. Today was spent editing another piece of work, so no new words.

I'm...

Finance & Accounting

Shifting away from marketing to do a very, very quick and basic post about finances and accounting. I'm seeing some issues with the way people calculate profits and/or forgetting to ask the right q...

And done! And a Poll!

AND DONE! Star's Asunder is finished and on its way to the editors.

Some statisics:

28 Chapters. 1 Epilogue.

134,591 with my world notes

126,842 with normal backmatter (with...

Back to usual schedule

Hello~

Kate here. I've just re-uploaded all currently available chapters, so feel free to check them out for some extra foreshadowing ;) 

As for the schedule: I'll update with ch13...

Update on Stars Asunder progress

Hello!

Kate here. Tao did a lot of work already, so I've updated chapters 1-7. Feel free to check them out again, since some foreshadowing has been added ;)

Tao continues to fi...

On Contracts & Running a Small Business

One thing I recently ran into, and I realised people might not realise is the value of contracts. To put in a short way, a contract is only as useful as your ability and desire to enforce i...