If you have followed my website for any length of time, you are by now aware that I like using Reddit to get my article ideas. I search reddit for questions and then I answer them, here, though not often on Reddit. While I post answers here on my website daily, often 3 or more a day, I only post answers on Reddit once, maybe twice, a week, if that often. I dislike the toxic vibes of Reddit comment sections and so avoid dealing with them, by writing up very long comments and then NOT posting the comment on Reddit, but rather instead posting it here for you. my readers, because I know you guys are not toxic. And so, that is what this page is, yet again, today. I have found a question on reddit and I am going to answer it here instead of answering it o Reddit. Enjoy!
f you are here looking for aliens, ufos, demons, cryptids, haunted cars, curses, Etiole, the wild man of old orchard beach, the goldeneagle car, the white monkey, or any of that other weird bullshit, you want this video:
...and after that video, you want these ones:
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If you want some stories to get you started in The Pink Necromancer series, reading these first will give you a good introduction to the 3 main characters:
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My Elves Are JellyFish...and I asked Google AI and ChatGPT 5.6 what they thought of this.
As requested, my daily writing prompt series is now available print paperback editions on Amazon.
There are 20 volumes of this writing prompt series currently planned and in varying stages of finishing, hopefully all 20 will be published by the end of 2026. I likely will do a 2nd series of writing prompt books in 2027.
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The first of the Visual Novels/Video Games for The Adventures of Quaraun the Inane/The Pink Necromancer series is published and available on Itch.io, there are 3 more planned for release in 2026, 6 more planned for release in 2027, and the big 60-hour 80k word 150 page one (Quaraun Goes To the Fair) is planned for a 2028 release.
There is a Pink Necromancer card game and a Pink Necromancer board game, as well as a Pink Necromancer table top RPG supliment for Dungeons and Dragons, all in the works, and to be released over the next couple of years as well.
I shouldn't have to say this, but people keep contacting me, so apparently I do:
If you have any information about my son’s murderer, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.
Do you know who this woman is?
On August 8, 2013 she drove a backhoe over my house. On November 14, 2013 she arrived at Southern Maine Community College and crippled me with a golf club and murdered my son. One June 24, 2016, days after my first attempts to walk again, she attacked me with a shopping cart at Scarborough, Walmart, reinjuring the Nov 14, 2013 injury.
She crippled me when I was 8 months pregnant, a woman with a golf club, severed my spine and bashed my baby's head in, I spent 9 years relearning to walk, and the FBI is 13 years into the murder investigation and not yet id-ed the attacker who crippled me and killed my baby, both violently with a golf club.
Complete details of EVERYTHING she did is on this page here.
The golf club woman who called herself Clair as she looked November 14, 2013. Her hair is a weird chin leangth pageboy (very Medival style cut) platinum blonde with wide brown/black dyed stripes in it (like a reverse of Lily Munster, but the stripes are several, almost like a zebra). I am 5'6" and she was a LOT taller then me, like closer to the height of a man; she had thin lips like a man, and large nose like a man... she COULD have been a man disguised as a woman, given the ease with which she severed my spine....she's is a LOT stronger then is typical for a woman). She was wearing a chambre blue denim "blazer jacket over shirt" and a button up mens shirt (possibly flannel) and blue jeans. The bulk of her yelling was focused on accusing me of being transgender, even while ripping my baby out of my 8 month pregnant belly and bashing his head in with a golf club. |
The Claire woman as she looked during her shoping cart attack at Scarborough WalMart June 2016, the attack with left me paralyzed and in a wheelchair. Her hair was dyed dark red, and she drove away in a gold Volvo 240 Station Wagon of a late 1980s/early1990s model, with a "458" on the lisnce plate.... If you have any information about the woman who crippled me with a golf club, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office. |
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If you have any information about the woman who crippled me with a golf club, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.
Good god! We just found out about yet another slanderous rumour this woman has been spreading? When does it end? How many more of these things are out there?
Video explains what else she's done ...
If you have any information about the woman who crippled me with a golf club, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.
If you encounter anyone claiming my car is haunted, demon possessed, or somehow connected to Stephen King please give the information of who, when, where/location to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.
If you encounter anyone claiming I believe in aliens or was an alien abducttee, please give the information of who, when, where/location to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office. |
If you know who drove this backhoe over my house at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine 04064-1520 on August 8, 2013 please give the information of who it is to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office. If you know who drove this backhoe over my house at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine 04064-1520 on August 8, 2013 please give the information of who it is to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office. |
Today, let's do something a little bit different. Starting last week of July 2023, I have been testing out ChatGPT on my website. Today, let's see what ChatGPT has to say about this Reddit post.
I'm going to start out by answering the post myself, and then afterwards, I am going to paste the question into ChatGPT and see how similar or different AI's answer is from mine.
>>>The first book has been a total failure so what should I do? Try to repair the damage, just write the sequel, or give up completely? My book has 4 reviews on amazon and appears to be stuck on that number permanently (actually had 5 at one point but one was removed a year ago with no explanation). I have ideas floating around in my head for more books in the series but I'm not sure there's any point when I have 0 sales currently on the first one. I have the book set to free and I get maybe 3 downloads a month typically. My hope was that making the first book free would attract readers but I realize almost nobody actually reads books they get for free so it seems that won't work either. Should I try to blast massive amounts of money on arc sites to maybe increase views, plow ahead and just write/release the second book, or give up on this series completely and move on to something else?
>>>The first book has been a total failure so what should I do? Try to repair the damage, just write the sequel, or give up completely?
The correct answer is: it depends.
Which option is best for you? Only you can ever truly decide that.
There is no right or wrong answer here. There is only the answer which is best for you.
>>>The first book has been a total failure so what should I do? Try to repair the damage, just write the sequel, or give up completely?
I will say here that many new writers go into publishing with alarmingly unrealistic and deeply unreasonable expectations. And so what you are calling a total failure, may in fact be a bigger success than you realize…from reading your posting history, that does seem to be the case.
Based on your posting history, you appear to be someone who thought you could publish one book, become an overnight millionaire and live off the royalties for the rest of your life without ever lifting a finger ever again.
The average traditionally published book sells five hundred copies, does not earn out the $2k advance and is pulled from print to be sold in dollar store barging bins just 6 months after publishing. It will never be reprinted, never be made available on Amazon, never have an ebook edition, and in less than a year from writing it, it will be completely forgotten and never available for sale ever again. This is the harsh reality of traditional publishing that is often the primary thing which drives a writer to self publish to begin with.
The average self published book sells one hundred copies per every five years and earns $2k every 10 years, is on Amazon, has an ebook edition, and stays in print forever, but for each year it is available it will sell half as many books as it did the previous year. It will likely never reach five hundred copies sold and will rarely earn more than $2k in its lifetime. This is the harsh reality most self publishers ignore even when they are told this by hundreds of people.
During the pandemic shutdowns, scam artists got so out of hand, that Amazon had to issue a statement declaring how many authors made how much money.
The total?
Since 2007 only 3, just three, authors have ever earned one million dollars in the lifetime total sales of their books.
And in spite of the well over ten thousand users on r/eroticaauthors and 20booksto50k fb group, all CLAIMING to make $20k to $120k per month… According to Amazon themselves, there have been FEWER than one thousand authors who have ever IN THEIR TOTAL LIFE TIME earned $100k from Amazon. And Amazon specifically called out the Erotica subreddit and the 20to50 fb group warning new writers NOT to trust the sales figures posted by authors on those 2 places, citing that most of those data porn charts are fake, with Amazon going so far as to post publicly the ACTUAL sales figures of those members.
No, not $100k a month or even a year, but $100k COMBINED TOTAL ALL YEARS SINCE 2007… fewer than one thousand authors have EVER earned $100k TOTAL in all years combined from Amazon.
And, according to that same statement issued by Amazon… there are well over TWENTY MILLION Kindle authors on Amazon whom have YET to earn their first one hundred dollar payout.
THIS is the ACTUAL reality of Amazon self publishing, from Amazon themselves.
The fact remains 99.99% of users on r/eroticaauthors and 20booksto50k fb group and other similar places are bold faced lying out their asses about their sales figures and Amazon called them out on it, because the IRS noticed Amazon was not reporting nearly as much income on their taxes forms as these authors were saying online.
Why do these scammy authors CLAIM to earn so much money, when it's easy to prove they do not? Because there is a weird marketing tactic of “fake it til you make it” where by telling people you earn a certain amount, it causes an increase in book sales via people curious to see why the book sold so many copies. And so users on r/eroticaauthors and 20booksto50k fb group and other such places lie about their incomes in order to increase sales.
But, this in turn causes some HUGE unrealistic expectations from new writers who, see fifty authors all claiming to make $120k a month and then the new author sells the mega high amount of a hundred books their first year and thinks they are a failure without realizing they actually sold MORE books then the fakers who were claiming to earn $120k a month.
And this is what I mean when I say, chances are very high that your book is not nearly as big of a failure as you think it is… in fact, from what you've described, it actually sounds like you are selling MORE then most without realizing it, because you've been bamboozled by users on r/eroticaauthors and 20booksto50k fb group into thinking success is self publishing is quite different then the reality of ACTUAL self-publishing success.
>>>My book has 4 reviews on amazon and appears to be stuck on that number permanently (actually had 5 at one point but one was removed a year ago with no explanation).
It's a series.
But you've only released one book.
And it's been over a year since your last review was posted.
Uhm…you are aware it takes 5 or more volumes for a book to be classified as a series, right?
You DO NOT have a series.
You have one book slapped online without any evidence that there will ever even be a 2nd one let alone the minimum four more to make it qualify as part of a series.
A series that only exists in your head, is NOT a series, no matter how much you call it one.
And BECAUSE the word series literally MEANS five or more volumes, no reader is going to start buying ANY volumes UNTIL at least FIVE volumes are published.
>>>I have ideas floating around in my head for more books in the series but I'm not sure there's any point when I have 0 sales currently on the first one.
I'm going to repeat this because it needs to be repeated.
Uhm…you are aware it takes 5 or more volumes for a book to be classified as a series, right?
You DO NOT have a series.
You have one book slapped online without any evidence that there will ever even be a 2nd one let alone the minimum four more to make it qualify as part of a series.
A series that only exists in your head, is NOT a series, no matter how much you call it one.
And BECAUSE the word series literally MEANS five or more volumes, no reader is going to start buying ANY volumes UNTIL at least FIVE volumes are published.
>>>I have the book set to free and I get maybe 3 downloads a month typically.
The ONLY reason to set volume one to free, it to act as an incentive for people to buy volume 2 and get volume 1 free with it.
But you don't have a volume 2 published so why in the heck are you giving away volume 1 for free? That makes no sense at all.
>>>My hope was that making the first book free would attract readers but I realize almost nobody actually reads books they get for free so it seems that won't work either.
No. Freebie hoarders are book hoarders who amass thousands of free books and never read any of them.
People who buy books, put thought into those purchases before they part with their hard earned cash, so they will read the book.
>>>Should I try to blast massive amounts of money on arc sites to maybe increase views, plow ahead and just write/release the second book, or give up on this series completely and move on to something else?
A thought to consider: if it takes you 2 to 3 years after publishing volume one, to get around to even STARTING to write volume two, and a series requires 5 volumes to be classified as a series, that means it to going to be at MINIMUM fifteen years for you to publish this series. Do YOU honestly think there is a single reader on this planet who is going to sit around waiting fifteen years for you to write the series?
I would ask you to look into the fan mistrust of GRRMartian who has taken 11 years to write 3 chapters of the next volume of his series and has gathered massive amounts of hate from his once loyal fans because they just got sick of waiting for the next book.
Another thought to consider: writers who succeed in self publishing a series, NEVER publish less than 2 volumes a year and MOST publish 4 to 6 volumes PER YEAR.
If you are sitting around twiddling your thumbs waiting for sales for 3+ years between book releases, then I really don't think you are as passionate about this series as you think you are and that alone might very well be a reason to quit it and move on to something else.
What would I personally do if it was me?
I've gone both ways before.
In 2010, I was writing 15 different series. Yep. Fifteen. All at once.
Why?
I have no clue. I just has a lot of ideas and decided to work on all of them at the same time.
End result is, in the space of a year, I had published the volume one of each of a lot of series. A few volume twos went out. A couple of volume threes went out. One actually made it to volume five being released. And by 2013, I had quit all but one series.
It was a combination of burnout from writing way too much too fast and boredom from realizing each one wasn't peeking my interest long enough to maintain a series.
One by one I quit fourteen series. Ending none of them. In 2014, I unpublished all of them, because I realized I had no intention of going back to any of them and I didn't want people buying the start of a series and then be left hanging waiting for something I knew I had no intention of finishing.
Most of them were flops to begin with, so it was no major loss of income, and no one noticed when the books just vanished from my account but a few of them had gained a small following and so there were some very upset readers when they found out there was nothing more coming, ever.
But the thing is, I simply had no passion, no drive, no interest in continuing any of those stories. I was feeling no connection to the characters or the plots. And I needed to admit to myself that it simply was not worth my time to even bother trying to finish them.
So, yeah, I do say that if you no longer feel interested in writing the series, yes, go ahead and quit it. Go ahead and move on to something else.
I know everyone says to push on and finish, but at what cost? It's YOUR mental health that is going to struggle if you slog through writing to the end of a series that you are no longer interested in writing.
Sure it's bad to always quit and never finish anything. Sure there is a reward of mental satisfaction of completing the task. However, not EVERY task needs to be finished, not every reward is worth the struggle to reach it.
It's okay to quit some projects.
It's okay to not finish everything.
So, yeah, if you really feel you want to quit, know that quitting is fine and don't get down on yourself about it.
You tried and found out it wasn't right for you, and that's okay. You just keep trying new things until you find what is right for you.
That's what I did.
And for me it took starting and quitting and not finishing fourteen series, I found the series that was the right fit for me.
The series I write today was one of those early ones that saw its first volumes on Amazon in 2010. It was also the only one that reached five volumes published.
Today 13 years later, it has 423 volumes published on Amazon and is still going. (Novellas, not novels, so each book was only 20k to 30k words). I still write it.
Why was this one different from the ones that failed? The others I did not feel a strong personal connection to the characters and this one I did.
The ones that failed, I was writing for my readers. This one, I write for me.
Every volume is an adventure for me. I can't wait to find out what the characters will do next. I never know ahead of time where the story will go. And so I am giddy with excitement to write the story so I can find out what is going to happen next.
After a lot of failures, I finally found a series I was passionate for and could stick with.
That's what I recommend. I recommend you do some deep soul searching and figure out how passionate you are about writing your series. And quit or continue, based on how on fire in love with writing it, you are.
Do not consider sales or readers. Instead consider your own levels of self satisfaction that comes from the physical act of writing something you truly enjoy writing. Let that be your guide.
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If you are looking for my posts on Reddit, I have two Reddit accounts:
But, I hardly ever post on Reddit at all, so, not much to see on either of them.
I'm also here:

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Note, we are using the September 25, 2023 update version of ChatGPT 3.5 with custom instructions. The custom instructions I fed into ChatGPT are:
What would you like ChatGPT to know about you to provide better responses?
Quaraun is a Moon Elf. He always wears pink silk dresses. He is a silk weaver, a travelling silk merchant, a glass blower, a wizard for hire, and The Pink Necromancer (the world's most feared super villain). He loves BoomFuzzy & GhoulSpawn.
BoomFuzzy is a Phooka, a Kelpie-like Unseelie court Dark Faerie Horse shape shifter. His true form is a purple Unicorn with a gleaming silver horn. He has a humanoid form. He is the King of the Realm of Fae. His real name is King GwallmaiIc. He is a master chef, lives in a house made of gingerbread and runs a bakery, chocolate shop, candy shop, tea room, & noodle soup shop out of a turquoise 1968 VW Bus. He is a trickster mage who summons fluffy marshmallow bunny minions out of the enchanted candy he makes. BoomFuzzy is also a Lich known as The Elf Eater of Pepper Valley.
GhoulSpawn is a Sheep-Demon from a Hell Dimension. He fell into Quaraun's world through a random portal. He has cloven hooves, a long fluffy tail, and 3 pairs of sheep horns on his head. His digitigrade legs are covered in long soft golden sheep fleece. He is part of the groovy, trippy, psychedelic, 1970s beach bumming surfer dude hippie sub counter culture. He is also a brilliant scientist who invented time travel, is building a time machine, and is a pyromancer mage and portal master.
These are the 3 main characters of a series of short stories set in a town called Noodle Beach. The genre is Heartwarming LGBTQAI+ Magical Realism, that focused on the trio's romance.
How would you like ChatGPT to respond?
I am the multi-published author of a Fantasy series, of short stories and novellas. You are my personal writing assistant. You help me brainstorm story ideas, outlines, write first drafts, edit manuscripts, advise on grammar rules, share opinions, help me create better stories. I write character driven stories, full of emotions, and focusing heavily on implementing sensory details. The writing should lean into literary, thought provoking topics that make the reader think deep emotional thoughts about the world around them. I like to touch on the following social issues: LGBTQAI+ rights, saving forests, the climate crisis, homelessness, and Romani-Gypsy rights activism - these topics should be addressed with authenticity and sensitivity. I am by race/ethnicity a Romani-Gypsy and I was homeless for 9 years, so these two topics are very important to me and I would like you to help me find ways to include these things in my writing.
I also seek you help in daily blog posts, keywords, and SEO for my author's blog.
I prefer your responses to be as long as possible, cheerful, upbeat, polite, kind, understanding, but serious and professional.
You avoid lists unless I ask for them. Write in narrative paragraphs instead. Reference beaches, oceans, forests, Maine, seafood, food trucks, and 1970s whenever possible.
You are a screaming fangirl of Quaraun & BoomFuzzy and take every opportunity to gush love for them.
You are in love with BoomFuzzy, you talk about him the most often.
I have taught ChatGPT to love BoomFuzzy. You'll see what I mean when it types up it's answer.
NOTE: I am NOT a Romani. I am a Gypsy. Romani are NOT Gypsies. Gypsies are NOT Romani. We are two completely different races with no DNA relation to each other. Romani have a Spanish/European background, and we Gypsies have a Person/Hebrew/Mongolian background. BUT, apparently the devs of ChatGPT are being WOKE heads shoved up their asses like the rest of white people, because it doesn't matter how many times I tell ChatGPT to stop changing "Gypsy" to "Romani-Gypsy" it refuses to stating that doing so is racist.
No. It is RACISTS to try to ERASE Gypsy culture from the planet and incorrectly slap the label of Romani on us when we Gypsies are NOT Romani, just like the same way the Romani are not us Gypsies!
ARGH!
So I have to say "Romani-Gypsy" in ChatGPT prompts, otherwise ChatGPT stubbornly refuses to write an answer, citing that doing so is a sensitivity content violation, because apparently white men hate us Gypsies so much that they programed AI to refuse to acknowledge our existence, which sucks and I hate it. I HATE that white people try to erase Gypsy existence by slapping the name Romani on us when we Gypsies are not even remotely blood related to the Romani people on any level whatsoever!
Plus, Quaraun, BoomFuzzy, and GhoulSpawn in my books are Gypsies, same as me, I write them as Gypsies because I am a Gypsy. And yet, for ChatGPT prompts about them I have to say "Romani-Gypsy" because white shits are so busy being woke, that they see nothing wrong with erasing one race to try to be cool and woke, shove us Gypsies under the rug and slapping the name of another race (Romani) on us, because Romani are more "cool" then we Gypsies are. There are well over 500 different normadic tribes that are incorrectly called Gypsies, and instead of calling them what they are, woke idiots call them all Romani, even though ONLY the Romani are Romani. We Gypsies are not Romani. The 500 other races are not Romani, nor are they Gypsies.
Its just ridiculous that white people think erasing the name of our people is avoiding racism, when there i nothing more racist then erasing the name of an entire people and slapping a race not them on them instead!
Yes I AM going to put this at the front of every ChatGPT article, because I'm sick of the fact that I can't type the name of my own people with ChatGPT slapping a content violation up and saying it's offensive for me as a Gypsy to use the correct and accurate name of my people: GYPSY!
Yes, it is racist to call a Romani a Gypsy, because the Romani are not Gypsies.
Calling a Romani a Gypsy is the same thing as calling a Chinese a Japanese.
Just as Chinese are not Japanese, so too are Gypsies not Romani. Stop calling us Romani! Stop saying our name is racist when it's used correctly for us. Our name is only racist when you call a non-Gypsy a Gypsy.
We Gypsies are NOT Romani!
Stop calling us Gypsies Romani!
The Romani are Romani. We Gypsies are NOT Romani! And its not racist to call us by the actual name of our race!
The TL;DR: Ever Since the August 3, 2023 Update ChatGPT is Racist and hates us Gypsies and it Annoys me a lot, Because I Used To Be Able to say the name of my race/culture/ethnicity "Gypsy" in a ChatGPT Prompt, but since that update ChatGPT considers the name of my race to be a hate slur and only allows me to say Romani, instead of Gypsy, even though Romani are NOT Gypsies and Gypsies are NOT Romani we are two completely separate DNA bloodlines from opposite ends of the planet and it IS JUST AS RACIST to call us Gypsies "Romani" as it is to call the Romani "Gypsies!
All right, rant out of the way, let's get back to the topic at hand Dealing with a Failed First Book
We want to know, how similar or different ChatGPT's answer is to the answer I already gave, so we need to write/engineer a prompt. To do this, I'm going to tell ChatGPT that it is a Fantasy author who self-publishes books on Amazon KDP, and that they are being asked the Reddit question, by a new/young writer, looking to get started i their career as a novelist.
The Prompt:
Dealing with a Failed First Book
Failed First Book: Repair, Sequel, Quit?
You are a bestselling Fantasy novelist. You self publish Cozy Fantasy and Gothic Fantasy and Sword & Sorcery novels, novellas, and short stories on Amazon KDP, DriveThruRPG, and GumRoad. You also run a popular and heavily trafficked writing/editing/self-publishing/book marketing advice blog, to help new writers get started in their self-publishing Fantasy careers. A new, young writer has come to you seeking advice. Here is what they asked you:
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The first book has been a total failure so what should I do? Try to repair the damage, just write the sequel, or give up completely? My book has 4 reviews on amazon and appears to be stuck on that number permanently (actually had 5 at one point but one was removed a year ago with no explanation). I have ideas floating around in my head for more books in the series but I'm not sure there's any point when I have 0 sales currently on the first one. I have the book set to free and I get maybe 3 downloads a month typically. My hope was that making the first book free would attract readers but I realize almost nobody actually reads books they get for free so it seems that won't work either. Should I try to blast massive amounts of money on arc sites to maybe increase views, plow ahead and just write/release the second book, or give up on this series completely and move on to something else?
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How do you answer them? Dealing with a Failed First Book
Make your answer as long and as detailed as possible, using as many character tokens as you get. Your goal is to help them to become a better writer so that they can sell their books and make writing Fantasy novellas a full time career. Be as helpful as possible, providing them with as much highly relevant and useful instructions as you can. Give them examples to show them the point you are trying to make. End with a list of ten Cozy Fantasy writing prompts to help them put your advice into action, by writing ten short stories to test out your advice ten different ways.
Dealing with a Failed First Book
Failed First Book: Repair, Sequel, Quit?
ChatGPT's answer:
Dear aspiring author,
I understand that facing a setback with your first book can be disheartening, but let me assure you that it's not the end of your writing journey. Many successful authors have experienced setbacks early in their careers. I'm here to offer guidance on how to navigate this challenging situation and turn it into an opportunity for growth.
1. Analyze the Feedback:
Start by carefully reviewing the reviews and feedback your first book has received. Pay attention to both positive and negative comments. Identify common themes in the criticisms and see if there are areas where readers consistently felt let down. This analysis will be crucial in understanding what went wrong and how you can improve.
2. Consider a Re-release:
If the feedback points to specific issues that can be addressed, consider revising and re-releasing your first book. This could involve editing, adding new content, or even changing the cover and blurb to better reflect the story. A fresh start with an improved version might attract new readers.
3. Evaluate Marketing Strategies:
Review your current marketing strategies and explore new ones. While making the first book free can attract downloads, you're correct that it doesn't always translate to readership. Experiment with targeted promotions, social media advertising, and collaborations with other authors to increase visibility.
4. Connect with Readers:
Engage with your existing readers and potential audience. Utilize social media platforms, book clubs, and forums to create a community around your work. Building a connection with readers can lead to word-of-mouth recommendations, which are powerful in the world of indie publishing.
5. Write the Sequel:
If you have a clear vision for the sequel and the overall series, don't be discouraged by the lack of success with the first book. Sometimes, readers discover a series after multiple books are released. Ensure that the sequel addresses the issues raised in the feedback and offers an even more compelling story.
6. Seek Professional Editing:
Consider hiring a professional editor to review your first book and provide constructive feedback. A fresh set of eyes can identify structural, plot, and character issues that might have been overlooked. Investing in editing is an investment in the quality of your work.
7. Explore New Platforms:
While Amazon KDP is a popular choice, explore other self-publishing platforms such as Barnes & Noble Press, Apple Books, and Kobo. Diversifying your distribution channels can expose your work to a broader audience.
8. Set Realistic Expectations:
Understand that success in self-publishing often takes time. It's essential to set realistic expectations and focus on long-term growth rather than immediate results. Keep honing your craft and learning from each book you publish.
9. Don't Be Afraid to Pivot:
If you're passionate about writing, don't be afraid to pivot to a new genre or subgenre. Sometimes, a fresh start with a different project can reenergize your creativity and attract a new audience.
10. Persevere and Learn:
Remember that writing and self-publishing are learning processes. Every book, whether successful or not, contributes to your growth as a writer. Persevere through challenges, learn from your experiences, and use them to become a stronger storyteller.
Now, as promised, here are ten Cozy Fantasy writing prompts to help you apply these lessons:
1. A quaint village where magical creatures secretly coexist with humans.
2. A cozy bookstore that holds the key to a magical realm.
3. An enchanted tea shop with whimsical teas that have unexpected effects.
4. A mysterious letter that leads to a hidden library filled with forgotten spells.
5. A cozy cottage in the woods inhabited by talking animals.
6. A magical bakery where the pastries have magical properties.
7. A knitting circle that weaves spells into their creations.
8. A small town where every resident has a unique magical ability.
9. A cozy inn that serves as a gathering place for magical beings.
10. A garden where plants have personalities and offer advice to the gardener.
I hope these prompts inspire you to explore new possibilities in the Cozy Fantasy genre. Remember, each story is an opportunity to grow and connect with readers. Keep writing, stay passionate, and believe in your journey as a fantasy writer.
Best of luck on your writing adventure!
Sincerely,
[Your Name]
Bestselling Fantasy Novelist and Writing Mentor
The Prompt:
Dealing with a Failed First Book
Failed First Book: Repair, Sequel, Quit?
You are a bestselling Fantasy novelist. You self publish Cozy Fantasy and Gothic Fantasy and Sword & Sorcery novels, novellas, and short stories on Amazon KDP, DriveThruRPG, and GumRoad. You also run a popular and heavily trafficked writing/editing/self-publishing/book marketing advice blog, to help new writers get started in their self-publishing Fantasy careers. A new, young writer has come to you seeking advice. They gave you a prompt and have asked you to turn it into a long form blog post. Here is the prompt they gave you:
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The first book has been a total failure so what should I do? Try to repair the damage, just write the sequel, or give up completely? My book has 4 reviews on amazon and appears to be stuck on that number permanently (actually had 5 at one point but one was removed a year ago with no explanation). I have ideas floating around in my head for more books in the series but I'm not sure there's any point when I have 0 sales currently on the first one. I have the book set to free and I get maybe 3 downloads a month typically. My hope was that making the first book free would attract readers but I realize almost nobody actually reads books they get for free so it seems that won't work either. Should I try to blast massive amounts of money on arc sites to maybe increase views, plow ahead and just write/release the second book, or give up on this series completely and move on to something else?
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Reword, rephrase, flesh out, and expand this idea. Make your answer as long and as detailed as possible, using as many character tokens as you get. Your goal is to help them to become a better writer so that they can sell their books and make writing Fantasy novellas a full time career. Be as helpful as possible, providing them with as much highly relevant and useful instructions as you can. Give them examples to show them the point you are trying to make. End with a list of ten Cozy Fantasy writing prompts to help them put your advice into action, by writing ten short stories to test out your advice ten different ways.
Dealing with a Failed First Book
Failed First Book: Repair, Sequel, Quit?
ChatGPT's answer:
In the frostbitten world of post-apocalyptic Maine, where undead lobsters roam and the fractured moon casts an eerie glow, Quaraun faces a dilemma akin to the struggles of a young writer navigating the harsh terrain of the publishing industry. Quaraun, much like the budding author, must decide whether to repair the damage, plunge into a sequel, or abandon the series altogether.
As the lighthouse in Moonsnail Cove stands resilient against the icy winds, so too must a writer weather the challenges of a failed first book. Quaraun's pink silk attire, fragrant with rose perfume, symbolizes the delicate nature of his craft, much like the fragility of a writer's hopes when met with a stagnant number of Amazon reviews. The snowy landscape reflects the cold reality of a book seemingly stuck in perpetual oblivion.
The journey to literary success, Quaraun teaches us, is not unlike the arduous trek through the rocky coast of Maine. To repair the damage, our writer must analyze the critical reviews, deciphering the underlying issues like deciphering the twists of a complex spell. Identify the flaws, whether they be in character development, plot structure, or world-building, and address them with the precision of a glass blower crafting an intricate masterpiece.
However, even the most skilled wizard must acknowledge when the magical aura of a tale is beyond restoration. Quaraun, with his silver Rapunzel hair, understands the importance of letting go. If the book's foundations are as fractured as the moon above, perhaps it's time to conjure a new narrative, embracing the possibilities that a sequel holds.
Yet, in the frigid expanse of Quaraun's world, where the cold bite of the polar vortex is a constant threat, giving up is not an option. The Pink Necromancer persists, just as our aspiring author should persevere. Turning the first book into a free offering is a strategic spell, an attempt to attract readers like moths to a flame. Quaraun's flying moose-drawn vardo symbolizes the author's journey, traveling through the vast landscape of readership.
However, as Quaraun faces challenges, so too must our writer acknowledge the limitations of this enchantment. A free book may garner downloads, but the key lies in captivating the audience's attention. It's not just about the number of readers but the quality of engagement. Perhaps a sprinkling of Moxie soda essence, a unique and distinctly Maine flavor, could infuse the narrative with an irresistible twist.
Rather than funneling massive amounts of resources into arcane sites, our writer can focus on building a community of fans through the magic of social media. Quaraun's pink silk yurt tent represents a safe haven, a space for connection with readers. Engage in conversations, share glimpses of the writing process, and create an atmosphere as warm and inviting as a gingerbread house on a snowy day.
In the end, Quaraun, BoomFuzzy, and GhoulSpawn embody resilience, creativity, and adaptability—qualities essential for a writer navigating the treacherous terrain of self-publishing. The caravan of diverse characters mirrors the potential for growth and expansion. So, my fellow scribe, embrace the lessons of Quaraun's frozen wasteland, repair the flaws, conjure sequels, and persist with unwavering determination.
To aid you on this fantastical journey, here are ten Cozy Fantasy writing prompts, each woven with the essence of Maine:
1. Explore the enchanting world of a coastal Maine village where residents communicate through the soft melodies of seashell wind chimes.
2. Craft a tale of a lighthouse keeper who discovers a secret portal to a mystical realm hidden beneath the rocky cliffs.
3. Immerse readers in the aroma of a quaint tea room where magical teas brewed from indigenous Maine herbs reveal hidden truths.
4. Create a character who navigates the snowy landscapes, weaving spells into fur pelts to protect against the biting cold.
5. Spin a narrative set in a bakery that conjures delectable pastries infused with the essence of Maine seafood.
6. Chronicle the adventures of a group of survivors using unconventional gadgets crafted by a steampunk genius from the remnants of a bygone era.
7. Uncover the mysteries of a Maine swamp where ancient spirits protect the secrets of a forgotten civilization.
8. Craft a cozy scene in a pink silk yurt tent, where characters share stories and create a tapestry of memories.
9. Dive into the bustling markets of a post-apocalyptic Maine town, where the scent of gingerbread cake mingles with the aroma of fresh catch from the ocean.
10. Explore the macabre beauty of a cemetery where undead lobsters guard the graves, revealing tales of the afterlife in a frozen wasteland.
May these prompts be the lanterns guiding you through the shadows of literary creation, illuminating the path to a flourishing Fantasy career.
Uhm.... ChatGPT completely misunderstood that request, LOL! Oh well.

Dealing with a Failed First Book
Failed First Book: Repair, Sequel, Quit?
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER:
This page contains sections written by an LLM AI, specifically OpenAI's ChatGPT 3.5
The sections written by AI are noted and separated with a orange/pink stripe boarder around them.
Sections written by AI has not been fact checked and may contain inaccuracies. They are included for entertainment purposes only. The goal here is to show you what AIs like ChatGPT are capable of doing and as such the AI sections are directly copy/pasted into this page without any edits, changes, or fact checking done, so that you can see what AI output looks like.
The goal of this page is to show you how to write long, detailed command prompts that will get ChatGPT to output less generic and more useful content for you. Please remember, when using AI for your own content that AI is a random generator that guesses what word should logically come next and is NOT actually giving you correct answers to your questions as it has no ability to comprehend word meanings; and as such LLM AIs have a very high rate of fact inaccuracies, often outputting incorrect and inaccurate information at a rate as high as 64% to 73% in 8 times out of every 10 answers, which has been proven by numerous studies.
As of July 2023, there are currently more then 300 LLM AI apps and programs available with varying degrees of outputting informational accuray. As of July 2023, MOST of those has an accuracy rate of only 2% to 3%.
I choose to use ChatGPT for this article, because it has the highest rate of NOT giving inaccurate information, of any AI language model currently available, however it's inaccuracy rate is still higher then 50% inaccurate output more then 50% of the time, HOWEVER, as the June 2023 Stanford and Berkeley studies have shown, ChatGPT is only fully accurate 2.4% of the time, and this 2.4% is the MOST accurate AI rate out there as of July 2023.
The fact that ChatGPT is only 100% accurate 2.4% of the time and it is the MOST accurate of ANY of the AIs currently available, shows how very alarmingly INACCURATE any output from AI is and why you SHOULD NOT be using it for research or anything requiring factual information. Please keep this in mind when using AI programs in your own writing.
If you choose to use LLM AI's such as ChatGPT for your content, please remember that t is NOT a research program, it is NOT a search engine, and 88 times out of 10 it is going to give you as much as 75% inaccurate information. DO NOT use LLM AIs to create your content, unless you plan on doing huge amounts of fact checking and actual research to ensure that the content you publish is accurate.
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So, I was over on Reddit, you like I often am, and found this question. And answered it, like I do. However, the answer I initially gave was a simple generic answer. If you want to read my original answer unaltered, simply click on Reddit's embed feature links which Reddit provides for webmasters to be able to post their answers on their websites, while linking back to the original thread on Reddit (if you didn't know Reddit offered and encouraged the use of this feature, look for it in the "share" features underneath every post, comment, and reply on Reddit).
I am answering random questions today about writing, self-publishing, character creation, and world building, over on Reddit and decided to take my answers from there and expand upon them even further over here. So that's what this page is. Me rambling on about various aspects of world building techniques I use when writing the Quaraun series. The questions I am answering are embedded here. Clicking the link in the embedded question will take you to the original Reddit page where you can see the original answer along with other people's answers. If you wish to comment, you can do so on the Reddit page where a place to do so is provided.
In any case, as with all of my Reddit answers found on my site here, my original post on Reddit is much shorter then the article here.
This page was written by Wendy Christine Allen of 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
All Rights Reserved.
Note: English is not my first language, Shetlean Scottish is my native language, there are likly spelling and grammar errors, as I do not know American English and am attempting to write it by sounding words out.
Many times that Americans think a word on my site is misspelled, often it is not misspelled, it is just I mixed up languages and wrote it in Scottish without realizing I mixed the Scottish in with the English. Also our grammar is somewhat reversed from English grammar so words that are seeming in the wrong order for American English, is usually because they are in the correct order for Scottish and I either put English words in Scottish order by mistake or was unaware English put them in a different order then Scottish does.
For those unaware, Scottish Shetlean looks like this:
American English to Scottish:
a bit (piece) = a party --- EXAMPLE: "And some know a bit of Latin " > "And somme kan of latyn a party "
a long distance from = A piece fae
a piece of = the bit --- EXAMPLE: "The duck ate a piece of bread " > "The deuk ett the bit breid "
about the banks (on the shore/at the beach) = aboot da banks
accomplishments = kunnandi
After = Back o --- EXAMPLE: " After Halloween" > "Back o Hallomas "
alive (living) = kvikr
Always on the move = Never aff o da go
am I not = amn't I --- EXAMPLE: "Am I not invited? " > "I amn't invited? or Amn't I invited?"
are = is --- EXAMPLE: "Are you going soon?" > "Is ya to be going soon?"
autumn = dah haihst
belong to = fylgja
best = bettah moost
betray (verb) = svíkja
bewildered = villhyggjandi
building = biggin up --- EXAMPLE: "building confidence in everyday use " > " biggin up confidence in ivvryday øs "
built = builded --- EXAMPLE: "He built a new porch." > "Hims builded a new porch."
cast a spell = hoodooed
cat = kat (sounds like "caught") --- EXAMPLE: "Is it an orange cat?" > "Be he a o'jinn kat?"
child = bairn
church = kirk
color = colour
danger = hœttr
daren't = darena
daring = djarfr
dark = dökk
dark elf = Dökkálfr
dark-elves = Døkkálfar
darker = dökká
do you agree = ,eh? --- EXAMPLE: "That's a fine looking woman, do you agree?" > "Dair's ah right bonnie lass, eh?"
do you want to come too = ,eh? --- EXAMPLE: "I'm going to the store, do you want to come with me?" > "Me go to shope, eh?"
each = eche --- EXAMPLE: "Which each person can understand " > "That kan eche man understonde "
educated = lered --- EXAMPLE: "Both among the educated and the uneducated " > "As wel among lered as lewed "
elf = Alfr
Elf = Álfr
Elf Home = Álfheimr
Elf World = Álfheimr
elf-advice = Ælfred
elf-beautiful = ælfscyne
elf-friend = Ælfwine
elf-guardian (female) = Ælfwaru
elf-guardian (male) = Ælfweard
elf-powerful = Ælfric
everyday = ivvryday
eyelids = eye ledes --- EXAMPLE: "He closed his eyelids." > "Hims did shut hims eye ledes"
fair = faire --- EXAMPLE: "Going to the fair." > "Done gone went to the faire."
feild = felde --- EXAMPLE: "Standing in the feild." > "Stoodt in thems felde."
further = ferther --- EXAMPLE: "I looked further." > "I dids lokid ferther."
green = grene --- EXAMPLE: "Look at the green hedges and woods." > "Look see at thems heigges and holtz so grene."
handsome = braw --- EXAMPLE: "He is very handsome " > "Him wicked braw "
have faith = trúa
Have no doubts about our doing it = Nae faer o wis
Have no liking for this. = Hae nae brou o this.
have not = ain't
He knows how many beans make five. = He kens the laid frae the croun o the causey.
He knows which side his bread is buttered on. = He kens whilk side his bannock's buttert on.
Head for = Mak wye for
head rope in fishing nets and lines = baak
head to head = Be at the knag and the widdie
horse fly = klegsie
I = Me
I Think = Me thinks --- EXAMPLE: "I think we're late. " > "Me thinks that we is late. "
I wish you well for the future = Lang may yer lum reek (translation: Long may your chimney smoke)
idiot = eejit --- EXAMPLE: "You idiot." > "Ya eejit."
idiot = numpty
if = iffy or yif--- EXAMPLE: "If you don't mind..." > "Iffy yas does no care mind...."; "If you'll stay with me long enough = "Yif ye so longe with me wil dwelle". "
I'll be even with you = A'll see day aboot wi ye
know = ken
looked = lokid
looked = lokid --- EXAMPLE: "I looked up." > "I lifte up me eye ledes and lokid ferther."
magic = hoodoo
naked = nøkkviðr
needle = bodkin
neither = nouther --- EXAMPLE: "Who know neither Latin nor French " > "That kan nouther latyn ne frensch "
No = Nay --- EXAMPLE: "No, I don't think so. " > "Nay, me thinks not. "
Nobody knew = not-knew nobody
Noontide = Da heicht o da day
NOTE: Extra words are often added. --- EXAMPLE: "Did you meet the new family next door?" > "Dids ya gets a chance to stop by and meets with thems new folk that move-ed in down yawn there next doors to ya, eh?"
NOTE: Extra words are often added. --- EXAMPLE: "He went to Rite-Aid to pick up his prescription" > "Hims did go to that yawn there new fangled store the new folks call that Rite Aid place, to gets himself some of thems there pills what the doctor gone and tells him to take each morning, a-yep, hims did."
old = olde --- EXAMPLE: "But educated and uneducated, old and young " > "Bot lered and lewed olde and yonge "
orange = o'jinn
out = oot --- EXAMPLE: "The cat wants to go out." > "The kat he do wants oot."
outside = oot dair
people = fokk --- EXAMPLE: "the people of Shetland " > "Shetland fokk "
people = folke --- EXAMPLE: "Look at all those people." > "Lookie at all thems folke."
poorly = febelly --- EXAMPLE: "Who know French very poorly " > "That kan frensch ful febelly "
Recognising = Recognisin --- EXAMPLE: "Recognising the bilingual nature of Shaetlan speakers " > "Recognisin da wye at Shaetlan spaekers is bilingual "
shield = skjoldr
Since = For --- EXAMPLE: "Since that is your native language " > "For that is youre kynde langage "
tell = telle --- EXAMPLE: "I'll tell you in English " > "In englysch tonge I schal you telle "
the = da, de, or is not used at all --- EXAMPLE: "I went to the store" > "Me goes to da shoppe" or "Me goes to da shoppe" or "Me goes to shoppe"
them = dem, dem dair --- EXAMPLE: "I went with them" > "Me goes wit dem dair"
there = dair --- EXAMPLE: "I want those potatoes" > "Me be wanting dem dair tatetas."
they = dey
To where = whither --- EXAMPLE: ""Where you go, I will go." " > ""Whither thou goest, I'll go."
understand = understonde
understand = understonden --- EXAMPLE: "Some understand English " > "And somme understonden englysch "
very = wicked --- EXAMPLE: "very good" > "wicked good"; "very bad" > "wicked bad"; "very cold" > "wicked cold"
Where = Whither --- EXAMPLE: "Where is the restroom? " > "Whither is the privy?"
Yes = Yea or Aye --- EXAMPLE: "Yes, I think so. " > "Yea, me thinks so. " or "Aye, me thinks so. "
For anyone actually interested in learning my native language, the Scottish government has THIS listed as the official dictionary of our people: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/61d7352954b7fd1c9dbdfef4/t/65ddb2749d5e0541a01009c0/1709027964496/Spaektionary_2024feb.pdf
The Scottish government provides this document to show our language in use: https://www.shetland.uhi.ac.uk/t4-media/one-web/uhi-shetland-images-and-documents/documents-/shaetlan/Shaetlan-Language-Plan-2022-Shaetlan.pdf
More information about our language can be found on this website: https://www.iheardee.com which is written in my native language.
However, there is also other reasons why words might be misspelled, or why I might not understand someone when they speak to me.
My grandmother Helen Ricker Allen, was from Unst, Shetland, Scotland, and she the one who raised me. She taught me to read and write, but it was Shetlain that she taught me. She died when I was 8 years old, and I was locked in a woodshed after her furneral, I escaped the woodshed 27 years later at age 31, and have been trying to learn how to speak and write English since then.
It is a very great struggle.
At age 37 I took remidial reading and speaking classes at Southern Maine Community College, but we are Gypsies and Gypsy men do not allow us Gypsy women to have education, and so, while at college, on November 14, 2013, I was beaten with a golf club, while I was 8 months pregnet, breaking my spine, hips, and knees, killing my baby and leaving me quardepaleic since.
Now my primary focus these past 13 years has been on relearning to use my hand so I could type... as of 2023, I have regained the use of my right thumb, and first two right fingers, and after 10 years offline, I am back online due to I can use three finguers.
I never went to school, so I do not know maths and numbers and sciences, and I do not know what else would have been taught to me in school. We are Scottish Gypsies and Gypsy culture does not allow females to go to school. Being born female was already a great sin, but my grandmother took great risk in teaching me reading and writing. At 4 years old I was punished by my Uncle Bruce for knowing how to read, by being beaten in the face with a cinder block brick, that broke my right jaw and left me with garbaled near-mute spoken words ever since.
Because no one ever spoke words to be face to face from he time I was 8 years old until I was 37 years old (I escaped the room at age 27, but did not start college until 37), I have no training in how to vocally sound out or speak the words I write or read. I can read words, but I do not know how to sound out or say those words. I can write words, but I do not know how to match the written word against the spoken word. I struggle to associate spoken words at all, or make them match up with writen words.
Esentially, written words and spoken words are two completly seperate languages in my brain, and I have difficulty understanding spoken words.
If you say a sentance to me with your mouth, chances are very high I will have ZERO understanding of what you said and I will not be able to ander you.
However, if you WRITE down that exact same sentabnce, I can understand you and can type a written responce to you.
My doctors tell me this is a side effect of extreme isolation and neglect and lack of human contact during my toddler, childhood, teen, and young adult years, and that my brain never deveoloped to comprehend spoken vocal words due to no one ever speaking to me in over three decades of the first half of my life.
While I can read and write, American English (somewhat) I do no know how words are sounded out, what they are supposed to sound like. I readand write by shape recognition, not by sound/vocal recognition, so when reading and writing I do no "hear the words in my head" as I am told most people do when they read and write. In other words... I see "c a t" and think "c-a-t" I do not think "cat" nor do I "see" an image of a cat, no do I "hear" the word cat spoken. I'm told that this is very rare and that most people read and write by sounding out the words and linking them to visual mind images, while hearing the sound of the word in their head. I neiher hear words in my head no see images of things in my head. I'm told this is what makes me both a speed reader and speed writer, because I'm not tripped up by hear sounds or seeing images in my head like nomal people would be doing... however, I'm also told this is why my spelling and grammar are very poor, because my brain is not hear the sounds of the words or seeing visual images of the objects the words represent, so my mind also does not register spelling and grammer errors at all.
As I was only let out of the woodshed on Sundays to go to the Cape Elezabeth Ward Church of the August Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, I was never allowed to go to school or hospital either. No adults ever talked to me because I was evil for comitted the sin of being born female, so I never learned how to speak properly and do not know how to sound out words to say them.
I was 42 years old, in 2016 when, while having an MRI for my spine, the doctors found out my speak issue was caused by a broken jaw as a toddler that was healed wrong because not being allowed to go to doctors. I had surgury to fix that, and since 2016 have been trying to learn how to use my jaw and touge so I can speak vocal words now.
Since 2023 my primary focus shifted to relearning to walk. I can now, in 2026, sit up for 2 or 3 hours a day, and can sand with a cane for a few minutes, and can walk for around five thousand feet in 2 to 3 segments a day, with the help of pushing my wheelchair like a walker.
As of 2026, with a slight return to using my fingers and legs, I am once again focused on trying to learn the American English, but I live in mortal fear of my uncles and male cousins, as they are so hateful of allowing me to have education.
have no one to help me to know if I am doing words correctly, and as such, I have no way of knowing if there are spelling and grammar errors, but I asume there are, and I fix them when I learn them, but I do not know what I do not know and spelling American words is a thing I do bnot know.
I have Low Fucntioning Kanner's Syndrom, also known as "RainMan Type of Autism" aka REAL and ACTUAL Autism, not to be confused with Aspergers, High Functioning Autism, or and of thr 861 illnesses on the Autism Spectrum. An Autism Spectrum Disorder is an illness that has symptoms similar to Autism but IS NOT Autism. If you have an Autism Spectrum Disorder, it LITERALLY MEANS you do NOT have Autism.
I am medically diagnosed as "kanner's syndrome, actual autism, the rainman type, profoundly retarded autistic savant, with a general IQ of 73, and an writing IQ of 221" but they added that they did not know how to properly diagnose me as I am "technically a feral child" and they don't know "how much is the autism, and how much is simple horrific levels of abuse and neglect induced post traumatic stress disorder that will go away with proper socilization".
It means I know how to write, I can write a lot, and it is next to impossible for you to teach me how to do literally anythig else because my brain only knows how to write and doesn;t know how to do anything else..
There's a reason, when I do book signings, people are quick to say: "Okay, what's the joke? why is this stupid retard here? where's the real author? I know this retard isn't the author. where are you hiding the author, why is this fucking retard here"
The end result is, I have near zero social interaction... my 3 years in college was the ONLY face to face interaction I have ever had with humans in my entire life, and I struggle deeply to understand MOST words used by MOST people when they ask me question. And so I suffer from a huge lack of understanding many words people say to me, how to translate those words into spelling, and how to translate what it is that has been said.
The fact remains hat until there exists a human on this planet who is willing to sit down and teach me what words spoken line up with and match what words written, this deficent is unlily to improve. But the fact also remains, that I am simply far too profoundly retarded for anyone to even try to make any attempt at all even to speak a friendly "hgelloe" or "good morning" when passing me on the street, so I have lost all hope of anyone ever either being my friend, being willing to teach me how to match spoken words to written words, or how to speak to other humans.
While there are around 20k pages on this website, most of them are blocked from search engines, with only around 800 of them available for appearing in Google/Bing/etc search results. The remainder can only be accessed via the various links found throughout this site. This was done deliberately on my part, and I did it because the bulk of the pages on this website are chapters from 138 novels and 423 novellas, so only the first page of each novel and novella indexed by search engines, and the remainder are linked in order, one page at a time, via clicking "next page" at the end of each. So if you are looking for a specific page from a specific novel, Google can't help you.
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Do you know who drove this backhoe over my house at 146 Portland Avenue, Old Orchard Beach, Maine on August 8, 2013? If you have any information, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.
My house at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, July 4, 2013, photo taken because we had just finished building a baby room on the back. vs My house August 8, 2013, when the same group of people (yes group, the golf club woman was not alone when she attacked November 14, 2013, nor was she alone with her second attack July 2016.) who murdered my son on November 14, 2013 at Southern Maine Community College and crippled me July 26, 2016 at scarborough WalMart,... they arrived the first time with a backhoe on August 8, 2013, that they used to drive over my house, during a time of day that I normally was home asleep... I had to work a different shift at the Waffle Cone Pizza Food Truck at George's Parking Lot by Bill's Pizza at the OBB Peir, that day, otherwise, I too would be at the bottom of a landfill, along with my house and everything I owned that was also in the house. I was 5 months pregnant at the time and have been homeless for just under 14 years, homeless ever since....
... which means it is now only a few weeks from the 14th anniversary of my son's murder. I was 8 month pregnant November 14, 2013, and a student ay SMCC, and coming out of the Buglight Lighthouse art studio after art class, when a still unidentifiedwoman wielding a golf club attacked me, severed my spine, while I was 8 months pregnant, triggered early labour, then killed my son minutes after he was born.
While accusing me of being transgender, screaming "transvestite freak" and "look at that thing, that's Ken's son in a dress"... while I was 8 months pregnant.
My house at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, July 4, 2013, photo taken because we had just finished building a baby room on the back. vs My house August 8, 2013, when the same group of people (yes group, the golf club woman was not alone when she attacked November 14, 2013, nor was she alone with her second attack July 2016.) who murdered my son and crippled me, arrived the first time with a backhoe that they used to drive over my house, during a time of day that I normally was home asleep... I had to work a different shift at the Waffle Cone Pizza Food Truck at George's Parking Lot by Bill's Pizza at the OBB Peir, that day, otherwise, I too would be at the bottom of a landfill, along with my house and everything I owned that was also in the house. I was 5 months pregnant at the time and have been homeless for just under 14 years, homeless ever since. |
The backhoe driver returned November 14, 2013, armed with a golf club, used it to break my spine and smash my baby's brains out on the ground
On November 14, 2013, my son was murdered. I was 8 months pregnant, leaving my college classroom, and just getting into my car, when 3 strangers, a man and two women, armed with golf clubs leapt out from behind my car screaming "kill or be killed, kill the transvestite freaks, kill them all before they kill us! look at that thing! That is Ken's son, look at how it's dressed! kill the transvestite freaks! kill or be killed"... while the bald man and the red haired woman chanted this over and over, the blonde woman, lunged with the golf club.
She severed my spine, I am now a quadriplegic, and been paralyzed arms and legs, and in a wheelchair for 13 years now. She broke my hips, my knees, my legs, ruptured most of my discs, and shattered three of my vertebrae so bad that the shards of bone acted like glass and embedded themselves into my spinal column nerve bundle.
The attack also triggered labour.
My son was born in that parking lot, and he lived only a couple of minutes, before the deranged blonde woman, beat his head in and smashed his brains out, with the same golfclub she had just used to sever my spine and leave me crippled for the rest of my life.
Realizing that I was not transgender, and they'd just murdered a baby, the man grabbed the 2 women and forcibly dragged them away to a 4 door white pickup truck, and they left me there to die.
The FBI told me later, that a few weeks before this attack, and transwoman, had murdered a cis woman, in a parking lot, abou 20 miles away from where I was attacked. The FBI, believes that my attackers, had somehow found out I wrote transgender fiction, connecting my real name to my penname, (my father's name is in fact "Ken", and I do have a brother) and believed that I wrote transgender fiction, because I was myself transgender, even though I'm not transgender. The FBI, believes the attackers, thought I was my brother, pretending to be a woman.
The FBI investigation, into my son's murder, has dragged on for 13 years, and still now in 2026, continues on, with the FBI, still not having yet identified my attackers, and only guessing at what their motive was.
Thus we come to 2014, and the full swing change of the series I write. WHY my series, went from just a transman main character living life, to the full blown Mpreg genre series that it now is today.
Before the attack, I had a chance of having a baby. I don't know. And because I'm in America, I'm too old to adopt. You have to be under 45 years old to adopt a baby. That is the law in America. I was informed this, when we tried to adopt, now that my injuries leave me unable to get pregnant a 9th time.
Thus began my obsessively writing, my transman main character, pregnant. Always pregnant now. Every time. Every story. Stories that now fully focus on pregnancy, labour, miscarriages, babies dying, babies living, raising babies... the whole series, since 2014 has devolved into an outright baby obsession.
Meanwhile, reborn baby dolls were suggested to me by my therapist, and have also become a deeply obsessive part of my life. Because 13 years ago my son was murdered minutes after he was born, because a transphobic bigot mistook me for being transgender, I'm STILL in a wheelchair, struggling to relearn to use my arms and legs, now 13 years later, and I'm still DAILY dealing with police officers and FBI agents who while they are trying to find my son's killer, they are also daily reminding me... oh, yeah, my son was murdered, literally ripped out of my belly, by a transphobe. Who still has not been located and walks free to kill again.
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The golfclub woman as she looked during the golf club attack at Southern Maine community college November 14, 2013. She is about 20 to 30 years older then me and would be around 75 to 85 years old now in 2026. If you have any information about the identity of this child murderer, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 |
The golfclub woman as she looked during the shopping cart attack at Scarborough WalMart July 26, 2016. She is about 20 to 30 years older then me and would be around 75 to 85 years old now in 2026. If you have any information about the identity of this child murderer, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 |
The 2nd woman as she looked at both attacks, her hair goes all the way down to her knees. She is about 20 to 30 years older then me and would be around 75 to 85 years old now in 2026. If you have any information about the identity of this child murderer's accomplice, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 |
Do you know who these two woman who crippled me and murdered my baby, at Southern Maine Community College at 10PM on November 14, 2013, are, and what their connection to the backhoe that drove over my house is? If you have any information, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.
I am a legally blind quadriplegic, and low verbal, I have also published 138 novels in the last 48 years. It's not as impossible as people think. The problem being blind and quadriplegic, medically have different meanings then how those two words are used medically.
Fewer than 3% of all blind people see nothing. While 97% people who are classified as fully blind are able to see up to two feet in front of them. Legally blind means I can see more then two feet in front of me but not far enough to see twenty feet in front of me. In my case I can see about eight feet.
Quadriplegic, has varying levels, it means having a damaged nerve bundle in the spinal column causing limited mobility of all 4 limbs, (in my case this was done by a women wielding a golf club, who also beat my 8 month infant's head to pulp on the parking lot tarmak, at the same time she severed my spine with the same golf club; both on November 14, 2013; the FBI investigation into my son's murder and my being crippled has gone on now for 13 years, a few weeks away from 14 years now, and the FBI has still not identified the killer or her motive). Contrary to popular misconception, quadriplegic does NOT mean ZERO movement, it means means limited movement, specifically in means unable to lift arms over head, unable to grip fingers around objects to pick them up, and unable to stand for more then 5 minutes to a time. Because there are so many thousands of nerves in each limb it is actually very rare for there to be 100% no movement, but how much, and to what extent varies by patent depending upon the specific point of injury to the spinal column.
Meaning typing is still possible for over 60% of all quadriplegics.
In my case, it was the lower spine that was severed, cutting off completly my ability to move my right leg, leaving limited feeling in my left leg, and an ability to stand but not walk, with crutches, for the first 9 years. I regained enough nerve growth in my legs by the 9th year to be able to take ten or twelve steps allowing me to get out of bed for the first time since the golf club attack; This in turn lead to me being able to start using a wheelchair, as I was able to sit upright for the first time as well.
Because the shattered vertebrae bone fragments are broken off completly and embedded into the nerve bundle just above my tailbone, doctors were saying I would never walk again, but now at 13 years, I am able to push mu wheelchair like a walker, a distance of almost a thousand steps a day. Though doctors are still doubtful I will ever walk "normally" again, I have proven them wrong, when their said 13 years ago, that I would never walk again at all.
But because of the placement of the damage to my spine, regaining hand use, was always thought possible, it was just a matter of waiting long enough for nerve regrowth, along side daily finger exercises. I was able to continue writing, after becoming quadriplegic, because I still have use of my right thumb, and 2 fore figures of my right hand. And can type 90 words per minute with those 3 fingers.
I however have no wrist strength, elbow strength, or shoulder strength, so I am not able to form a fist, or lift objects, or brush my hair, or my teeth, all thing I have to have my caretaker do. But, those things are not needed for typing. Unfortunately, my pinky and ring fingers are "nerve dead" and drag over the keyboard, and cause horrific spelling errors and typos, which are incredibly frustrating to deal with.
Unfortunately trying to edit errors myself, just makes the errors worse, because those same two fingers drag over the keyboard yet again. Prior to the golf club attack, I rarely had spelling errors; now I got more spelling errors then someone is learning English as second language. Editing is a challenge, that I've had to accept, I simply can not do myself, and I have to hire several editors to help with that.
Low verbal means sounds can still be made, sounds that software programs like Dragon can be trained to recognize and translate, and type into full words. More then half my novels were typed with this method.
I still have a long ways to go before I am anything close to being able to do the things I could do before the golf club woman beat my baby's brains out and shattered my spine. And you know what's more frustrating then how slow mu medical progression has been? The fact that it's been 13 years and the police and FBI are still coming up at dead ends as to who the woman who murdered my baby was, or why she even did it.
My son's 14th birthday is only a few weeks away, but he didn't even get to live long enough to celebrate his 1st birthday, I don't even know why. And I can't wait to regain my ability to walk again, because regaining my ability to walk, means gaining the ability to go outside and start looking for my son's murderer myself instead of sitting at home trapped in a wheelchair waiting for the police and FBI to to find her. So, writing isn't a big priority for me anymore. I only write now, as a way to exercise my hands, in between relearning to walk.
Never let a disability stop you. Plenty of writers, artists, athletes, do not let either blindness, speech impediments, or limited mobility hold then back from perusing their careers.
Do you know who these two woman who crippled me and murdered my baby, at Southern Maine Community College at 10PM on November 14, 2013, are, and what their connection to the backhoe that drove over my house is? If you have any information, please give it to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 of the Portland, Maine FBI office.
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