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A Thousand Li: the First Step Deluxe Edition - Less than 2 days left

Just one last post about this, figured I'd let people know / remind them that there's less than 2 days left for the 2024-05-02 01:15:35 +0000 UTC View Post

Business Post: On Hiatus

Hi all.

Just quick update. I'm putting the Business Posts on hiatus for a bit. I'm ill and recovering and really busy trying to get a bunch of other projects sorted, and the amount of brain ...

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The Fourth Wall - Chapter 8 preview

The travelers inn was a simple affair, barely more than a single story building with attached stables. There were three private rooms, one of which contained the proprietor and his family; the othe...

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The Fourth Wall - Chapter 7 preview

Time passed quickly. Agonizingly painful in some ways, as Wu Ying struggled with the new burdens his weakened body and soul placed upon him, but also with some gratifying improvements. His sense of...

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Business Post: Product Line Management - Marketing Plan Basics

This is a very basic overview of marketing strategy and the marketing plan. Please understand, you could cover entire textbooks on this topic and I have literally written a book about marketing str...

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The Fourth Wall - Chapter 6 preview

Yang Mu found him in the garden, slumped against the tree. She paused at the doorway leading out to it, drinking in the sight. Wu Ying looked thinner, wan and exhausted after the brief conversation...

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The Fourth Wall - Chapter 5 preview

Author Note: Preview chapters are rough/first drafts. These chapters have not been edited, expect that there may be errors - however, feel free to point out consistency issues!

Wu Y...

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Business Posts: On Trad Publishing, Agents and Contracts

For those that don't know, I'm self-published. Quite decently well, too. I pretty much run my own tiny publishing house, but for all that, I actually don't have any issue with traditional (in this ...

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The Fourth Wall - Chapter 4 preview

Why had he rejected the winds? For Wu Ying had rejected it thrice over. Perhaps he should have realised it, long ago during that first moment when he had refused to finalise the path that he had be...

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Now on Kickstarter: The First Step Deluxe Edition

It’s here!

I've always wanted to give A Thousand Li: The First Step a gorgeous deluxe edition with beautiful art, gilded edges, and premium binding. 

Now on the 5-year anniversar...

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The First Step Deluxe Collector's Edition Early Bird Tier

Heads-up Patreon readers: The First Step Deluxe Collector's Edition will have an extremely limited early bird discount tier, so mark your calendars for April 15th at 12pm ET t...

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The Fourth Wall - Chapter 3 preview

Elder Yang Fa Yuan moved carefully, feeling the immense strength of the formation and the searing heat of the flame she wielded in her hand. To utilize all this, she had to place her spiritual sens...

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Chaotic Apéritifs book 2 of the Hidden Dishes series

Chaotic Apéritifs book 2 of the Hidden Dishes series is now available as an e-book download.

Download your copy here - https:...

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Business Post: The Canadian Book Market

I was intending to continue my series of posts about backlist management, and I swear, I'll get it done at some point; but this came into my inbox recently and I had to read it.

ShuSH ...

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The Fourth Wall - Chapter 2 preview

Yang Mu watched as Tou He came back down the stairs, joining the group in the cultivation room that they had set aside for the procedure. He eyed the formation flags, though she knew he had only cu...

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Coming Soon: The First Step Deluxe Collector's Edition

The A Thousand Li: The First Step Deluxe Collector's Edition launches in one week on Kickstarter.

I'm revealing the cover art one piece at a time publicly, but I wanted to gi...

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A Thousand Li: the Fourth Wall - Chapter 1

*Author Note: Preview chapters are rough/first drafts. These chapters have not been edited, expect that there may be errors - however, feel free to point out consistency issues!*<...

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Business Post - Backlist Definition & Importance

What's the Backlist?

There is no precise and generally agreed upon definition of a backlist. I've seen multiple attempts, from 'books older than a year', to 'every book but...

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The Fourth Fall - Chapter 49 & Epilogue preview

It took the combined might of the surviving Nascent Soul cultivators, the altered and empowered spiritual instruments and the aid of the Core Formation cultivators to stem the oncoming disaster lon...

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The Fourth Fall - Chapter 48 preview

**Author Note: Preview chapters are rough/first drafts. These chapters have not been edited, expect that there may be errors - however, feel free to point out consistency issues!*

Meng Dai c...

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Business & Craft Post: On Editors - Rankings and Learning

Hadn't really planned on writing this post right now, but since I wrote the other editor post, I thought I'd elaborate on an idea that has been churning through my mind about the types of copy &...

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The Fourth Fall - Chapter 47 preview

Even if he lived to a thousand years, Wu Ying thought he would never forget what transpired next. His friends and allies, working together to give him the opening he required. The start, coming fro...

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The Fourth Fall - Chapter 46 preview

Wu Ying woke, in the comforting arms of his lover. He swallowed the water dribbled down his throat, feeling it refreshing him as it slid down his throat. It eased the parched throat, made it possib...

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Business Post: Editing and Testing

Been talking to a few new authors recently, both in my Discord and on Threads and realising that a lot of people struggle with the cost of publishing. Which I get - it can get up there.

I sho...

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The Fourth Fall - Chapter 45 preview

Long Wu Ying was bald. It was a silly fact, but one that kept running through his mind, over and over again as he fought the ruler of the Cai nation. Not that their battle was registering much gain...

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The Fourth Fall - Chapter 44 preview

Something in the air, something in his instincts had him glance upwards. Throw his hand above him, catching the lightning as it came crashing down. The bolt was so wide, it took up half his body. S...

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Business Post: Series Management (the Chart)


Some of you might have seen a variation of this chart before. I'm going to be discussing ea...

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The Fourth Fall - Chapter 43 preview

The battle had only lasted minutes at this point, not even a quarter of an hour. Many mortals, or cultivators close enough to mortality with only a few Body Cleansing meridians opened, were still s...

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The Fourth Fall - Chapter 42 preview

Of them all, only Wu Ying had directly clashed with Cai Meng Dai. He was the only one of them who understood the full strength of the man, the way he was empowered not just by his cultivation stage...

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Business Post: Audiobook Payments and MSRP

Answered someone's question on Audiobok Royalties, realised I wrote a giant text and figured I'd just post this here rather than waste it. I also got a bit tired towards the end after discussing AC...

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