What are you working on right now?

Well, luckily, due to a few factors tonight, I actually made a freaking breakthrough on this episode of Tooninoot...now to just finish it up and think up the next one. :eek:
 
Well, now I'm not sure. :| I don't have an idea yet for the next episode of Tooninoot...maybe I should go to one of my other backlogged projects. :|
 
Hi,

Well strangely, I'm currently trying to get Amazon to publish my book! I mean I did publish Roar on the seventh. About a week later it disappeared from my author page and couldn't be found through searching Amazon. So I sent them an email and it returned before they answered it, so I chalked it all up as some sort of glitch.

A few days ago it vanished again. And this time it hasn't come back. It's been three days now. I've sent emails, been promised someone will get on to it and give me some sort of explanation as to what's happened. But so far that hasn't happened. I don't know if they've deliberately taken it down for some reason and not bothered to tell me, or if it's a glitch.

Either way the moral of this story is clear. Check your author page regularly just in case some of the titles on it vanish without warning. And cut your hair really short - it's harder to pull out then!!!

Cheers, Greg.
 
Is it showing up on your KDP page?

Not had problems of that sort myself, but if you check that and your Author Central page it may make it clear whether it's a problem with publishing it or just the author aspect. Does it show up on Amazon?
 
psychotick said:
Hi,

Well strangely, I'm currently trying to get Amazon to publish my book! I mean I did publish Roar on the seventh. About a week later it disappeared from my author page and couldn't be found through searching Amazon. So I sent them an email and it returned before they answered it, so I chalked it all up as some sort of glitch.

A few days ago it vanished again. And this time it hasn't come back. It's been three days now. I've sent emails, been promised someone will get on to it and give me some sort of explanation as to what's happened. But so far that hasn't happened. I don't know if they've deliberately taken it down for some reason and not bothered to tell me, or if it's a glitch.

Either way the moral of this story is clear. Check your author page regularly just in case some of the titles on it vanish without warning. And cut your hair really short - it's harder to pull out then!!!

Cheers, Greg.
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From what I've read it seems this is happening to quite a few people.
 
Hi,

It's not on my author page - just completely missing for some reason. But it is on my KDP bookshelf which says it's live. I can't find it if I search Amazon, but oddly I can find it if I do a Google search. But when I click the link the book page just tells me the book is unavailable. It suggests to me that they've taken it down - twice - without telling me or giving me a reason. But if they'd done that then surely when I sent an email asking about it they'd at least be able to tell me rather than setting their techies on the problem as they say they're doing.

Oh the problems of indies!!!

Cheers, Greg.
 
Hmm. Does it say on the KDP page if it's in review?

Things can take a while to work through, although I haven't experienced something going up only to come down (excepting when Kobo removed every self-published book after one hit the headlines for particularly 'strong' sexual content).
 
Hmm. I've not had any problems like that with Tooninoot, but it's the only thing I've put up and it's been up for over a year...


Speaking of which, I may really need to ask someone for some opinion help at some point...I'm at a loss of how to continue season two...
 
-K2- said:
I'm seriously considering shifting the dates of my series for a couple reasons, pushing them out roughly twenty years.

In my series, everything starts to fall apart due to the U.S. President's actions beginning in 2017... Yeah, that's right, "the Mad Clown," we all know who that is ;) I literally cannot come up with a more destructive scenario than what that bozo is doing... So, in my series, the problems begin in 2017, government and ecological collapse happens in 2020 and so it begins, the initial protagonist initially presented in 2028 and 2029.

However, I'm thinking I don't have to stick to those dates just so everyone knows the Mad Clown is the A** Clown, donnie t**** (yeah, little d&t for him). Though events of 2017-2019 are as they have/will happen, I think readers would be able to make the connection to 'now' easily enough if I push them out to 2037-2039. You know, "that reads just like t****!"

Further, no one likes reading about history past that never happened. So, hoping that the world doesn't actually collapse in 2020, that gives me until 2040 that the series remains a 'possible future.' By then, I'll be dead and gone so who cares if I get it all wrong at that point.

Opinions welcome!
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So @AlexH & @sknox or anyone else who'd like to add their thoughts, I've continued to think on this and I'm not sure that what I proposed is the best way, mostly in that I would hope by 2040, instead of 2020 (when advancement would stop), there would be significant enough technological changes that I don't want to have to deal with. So how do these possible ways around the issue sound?

1. I simply eliminate the dates changing things to 'X number of years ago, Y number of years later' and so on.
2. I take an event and make it 'year zero.' For example, the date when CASE City came into existence, becomes year 0. Anything before that is 0-X years anything after is 0+Y years. Justification for that could be, the Mad Clown's narcissism, and after, the new government's desire to try and erase history.

Any thoughts are appreciated helping me to talk this out.

K2
 
I like the first. The quickest way to make SF seem quaint is to place it in time, especially in the near future. Keep the date references vague and you guarantee immortality!

You might also do a combination of the two (good name for a song). Choose a year zero, but don't tell the reader what it is. Strictly a reference point for you. Then you can say X years ago. You can even say things like, in my father's day or grandmother's day, or when I was a child. And if the reader thinks she has it pinned down to the 2020s or whatever, then good on her. Only you know the true secret!
 
Hi K2,

I'd think about doing two things. First start with the Mad Max approach - no dates, just an event that everyone sort of agrees upon as a starting point eg the oil wars. Then go from there forward using not years but lifespans. Eg grandma says - "when I was a little girl before the oil wars ... " In that way you get a sort of rough estimate of time.

The second thing you can do is date things through language. Simak used to do it through his countryfied terms which sort of shifted your feel as a reader of when things are happening. But for you you might want to use more cyberpunk terminology (assuming that's the future you're planning on). Think the expanse and its slang.

Cheers, Greg.
 
Three scenes into an entirely new storyline in my wip. After struggling with four different stories for the current day plot I realised it was a case of the characters acting to serve the demands of the plot. So... that’s 70k binned.

But... now I have an entirely new storyline with far more logical integrity and most of all, much better characters.

Sadly I’m not sure l’ll hit my December deadline for draft 1 complete.

But then it has been 9 years...

oH
 
Hi,

Yeah! Roar is once again available for sale at Amazon! I wonder how long it'll last this time?!!! But anyway, now that I'm no longer writing them emails I can return to my latest book - 31k into a a story about a man with the gift of dominion over plants and animals in a world where wizards (he's not one) are beginning a war.

I named him Chance and - don't laugh or tell me that it sounds like a detective noir - the book may be called Last Chance!!!

Cheers, Greg.
 
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