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Was on Reddit today. And found two questions to warrant one answer. Here they are.
Why is the answer to the great mystery of self-promotion always "write more books" how does writing more books work as self-promotion?
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Why is the answer to the great mystery of self-promotion always "write more books" how does writing more books work as self-promotion?
I've noticed that whenever someone who is new here (including myself) asks about how to promote your book... many of the answers always say "write more books."
Now I don't know how it is for the more experienced writers here, but for me at least, producing even a single book, takes several months, even a couple of years.
So how is that exactly supposed to work for promoting your previous work?
Sometimes, it feels like this is a dismissive statement to get newbies to stop talking about their sales woes.
But I digress. I want to learn. Why is "write more books" given as advice ?
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I wrote a romance novella and it doesn't have a sale or single kenp read after a week
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>I wrote a romance novella and it doesn't have a sale or single kenp read after a week
I have one sold copy that came from a family member. Nothing else. Is this normal? Have I really screwed up? first book. Just hit publish with no marketing. Priced at 2.99 for 28000 words.
Some things to consider here:
It’s your first book.
It’s 28k words.
There is no marketing.
It's only been a week.
Stop, take a deep breath, and carefully look at that list there and see if you can not figure out for yourself why you have no sales.
It’s your first book.
It’s 28k words.
There is no marketing.
It's only been a week.
Can you not see how these things which you yourself have listed off, are self explanatory?
Quaraun and Lich King Gwallmaiic aka BoomFuzzy the Unicorn (humanoid form)If you can not see the answer, I shall explain what I mean.
It’s your first book: You have no proven track record. No fan base. No previous releases. No one looking forward to your book, because they have not yet read your previous book, because you have no previous book.
It’s 28k words: It is very, very, very rare for any Romance story to be under 80k words. 80k words is the industry standard used by Harlequin, Kensington, Avon, Signet, and all the other big publishing houses who specialize in Romance. Most of these publishing houses state they want you to stay as close to 82k to 83k words as possible, adding that they will look at nothing under 79k and nothing over 85k. They are THAT adamant that you stay at 80k words.
Your 28k words SCREAMS to readers that you not only do not know the genre, but you also did not bother to make even the slightest attempt to research the genre.
And that’s a huge red flag for Romance readers are very vocal in their vehement hatred of writers who ARE NOT AVID READERS of Romance.
The fact is, you have shown Romance readers that you DO NOT know the genre, can’t be bothered to reach to expected word count of the genre, and don’t give a rats ass about reader expectations.
Simply put: readers look at your word count, know you know nothing of the genre’s expected word count, which leads them to think you also do not know the beats or tropes readers expect in the genre either.
Is it possible to sell 28k word Romance? Yes. But only if you are well read in Romance of that word count and know what readers of that word count expect to see.
Is it possible to sell 28k word Romance if it is your first book? Not likely. If you pay careful attention to the authors who are big sellers in this word count in Romance, they usually have 20 to 30 novels of 80k words each, BEFORE they start publishing the 20k to 30k novella length books. Meaning, they already had a really big fan base before they started publishing novellas.
There is no marketing: While it IS possible to sell books without marketing, it’s rare and highly improbable that a first book will do it. Most of the biggest sellers in any genre, are also the biggest spenders in marketing. They are usually people who have an extra monthly $10k to $30k in spare chance laying around, allowing them to buy $10k to $30k in ads each month.
It's only been a week: Publishing is about long-term sales, not immediate sales. This is why your goal should always be HOW MANY BOOKS CAN YOU PUBLISH PER YEAR/MONTH.
Self publishing isn’t really geared for people who take several years to write one book, this is a very harsh but true reality that most new writers do not want to see or accept. They always think they will be the one hit wonder exception who will sell millions with only one book published.
I'm one of the top sellers in my niche, because I've literally FLOODED the niche so much, that it's kind of difficult to ever get done scrolling through my books enough to find books by any other author.
Since 2010 I have published 138 novels (150k to 175k words each), 423 novellas (20k to 75k words each), and over 2k short stories (7k to 18k words each). I publish a new title about every TEN DAYS, around 40 new titles a year. All titles for ONE series following ONE character's life. EVERY title is a standalone. EVERY title can be read first, last, or in whatever order you want, because there are no continues, no parts, no one plot to follow forever.
I also had multiple dozen novels published before I started writing novellas.
And, I also started publishing in 1978. Yes, five decades ago. That means, I was traditionally published for three decades before I started self publishing and I brought a fan base with me. I did not start out self publishing as a no name newbie, nor did I start out with novellas.
Yes. I did.
But it was in 2014, when there were still fewer than two thousand self published authors on Kindle. It was not my first book, I had DOZENS of traditionally published novels, dozens of traditionally published novellas, and HUNDREDS of traditionally published in print magazine short stories. And I bought a $2k 24hour ad on BookBub. And the book was not a novella, it was a 157k word novel. And it was not the only book of it’s set. There are HUNDREDS of titles in the series.
Readers get hung up on the character, fall in love with him, then want to read everything featuring him, and, well, with over 2,500+ titles to choose from, they can literally jus keep coming back every week to buy more of my books, never run out of new books to buy and, never need to look for any other author in my niche, because they got plenty to read by me.
Learn touch typing, teach yourself to type 100+ words a minute (that's over 5k words an hour), I type 10k to 20k words DAILY, so, its very EASY for me to publish a new 30k to 50k word novella EVERY WEEK.
...and if you can't publish MINIMUM four books a year, you REALLY should not try to do KDP self-publishing as a money making career, because you will never keep up with those of us who put out books monthly or weekly.
Without seeing your book, without knowing its cover art or plot or title, it’s obvious why there are no sales.
It’s your first book.
It’s 28k words.
There is no marketing.
It's only been a week.
The solution is:
Write more.
Match the reader expectations for the genre better.
Start marketing.
Give it more time.
Those who do this for a living. How?
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Those who do this for a living. How?
Hi all.
I have been self publishing for nearly 2 years. I published my first short story in June of 2022. Since then, I have published more short stories, a novella and a novel. The short stories are in erotica, and the novella and novel are in romance.
I feel like I must be doing something incredibly wrong. With the results I have made so far from KDP, I feel like they are low. As of writing this post, I have earned £25.50 That's how much I have made from self publishing for nearly 2 years. I know there are likely others who have been publishing for the same length of time as me or longer, and may have published more books, so I know I am likely not the only one in this situation. It's just with the genres and niches I write in, I thought I would have reached a higher amount. Nothing crazy like a grand, but say something close to £400.
I would like to be a self published author for a living. It is my dream job. I know that is the case for many of us here. But for me now, being self employed as a author, has gone from being a dream job, to something I most achieve. Like a new year's resolution or a goal in life, I am determined to reach this goal, and I am frustrated that I am nowhere close to write for a living.
What makes me feel more disappointed with myself, is seeing my books tank immediately after release. In January, I published my first full length novel. It has 8 pre-order, and once it released, it has earned like 2 sales. It did get a lot of pages read through kindle unlimited, but even that has tanked. Same goes for my erotica books. They make a few pounds during the first few days or week, and then after that, they tank as well. It's just so frustrating to see it.
A big part of why I know I must be doing something wrong, is that I see other posts or comments here on Reddit or elsewhere online, about someone self publishing their first book and reaching 350,000 pages read via Kindle Unlimited within a month, or someone published their third erotica short story, and has made $3000 in two months.
I will try to get out of this mentality of comparing my success with others. But, a part of that isn't necessary to compare them against me, it is also wondering what they are doing that I am not. How are they reaching higher levels of success with one book, that my 13 books in total haven't done?
For my romance books, which there are only 2 right now, I would say the covers are good and garner attention. They were both made by GetCovers. For my erotica covers, some I have made myself, others I hired cover artists. The ones by the cover artist are great and definitely garner attention. Funnily enough though, the book I made my own cover for, was one of my better performing books for some time.
The blurbs for the romance books I do think are good. Especially for my novel. Now, I would say that for the erotica books, I do find myself struggling writing good blurbs. I have posted on the critique thread on the erotica sub, and I will be doing that again this Thursday for my recent book.
Now as for the writing itself. I have received mostly positive feedback for my erotica books. I even have a few 5 stars. For my first romance book, the novella. I did receive mixed results upon release. I have gotten a few four stars and one 5 star since then. My romance novell has received a more positive rating nd good feedback upon release, compared to my novella.
I do think my issue is marketing and ads. Also keywords. I am terrible with keywords. Well, I think I am, even though I use Publisher Rocket to help me discover relevant keywords.
How niche can I get? Can I share my niches with you in a DM?
I do think some of my earlier erotica books are tame by comparison to what is out there on the market. But my more recent books are more raunchy and niche driven, and yet the results are near enough the same as the books that are more tame.
I understand, but unfortunately the niche I am writing in now, doesn't have its own category. So I just had to select regular basic erotica categories like, erotica, BDSM and suspenseful erotica. These are generic erotica categories, but unfortunately, Amazon doesn't have a wide range of sub categories for erotica.
I do mention the niche in my keywords, but that doesn't seem to help. Also, it doesn't change the category. Even with mentioning the niche in the keywords, the book is still swimming in the ocean of other books in the generic erotica categories.
I have not heard of erotica authors promoting on OF and Twitch. TikTok, yes. I have heard of some marketing their books on that app.
Some of the covers for my books are professionally made. I do not hire an editor. For romance, I will at some point. For erotica, most likely not. Many erotica writers seem to do fine without an editor.
I wasn't sure if Facebook ads would allow erotica others to market their books.
How do you advertise through Google?
I do market my books across social media platforms. As for ads, I haven't done any. I have no clue how to start with them and budget money for them. Also, I could only do ads for my romance books. I can't do ads for my erotica books, at least not on Amazon anyway.
But how are authors of erotica making a lot of money from their books, when erotica books are not eligible for ads?
I am also communicating with other authors across various social media platforms. It is helpful and the support is nice from them.
I market my books across social media platforms. I do not have my own website. Part of the reason being is that I make my books available through Kindle Unlimited, so I of course can't sell ebooks anywhere else, so there is no point in me making my own website. If I had more print books to sell, then I would create my own author website. Recent experiences have me second guessing if KU is worth it for erotica. For romance, it is still too good. So many romance readers go through books with kindle unlimited.
I am writing a lot, but man, I feel discouraged from writing sometimes when I see my latest book that I spent hours on and paid for a great looking cover for it, only to make pennies within the first week or so.
I don't make posts everyday for a book. For a book that I have just published, I will post something about it everyday for nearly a week or so, after that, not so much
As long as I can make around £20k a year, I would be happy. There must be some people doing this for a living, as some authors have told me they do so, and based on their output, I believe them. These authors pump out books left and right, so they surely don't have a regular job to be at.
Even for the time being, 10k would be fine. If I can reach 10k, I know I could go higher than that.
I am venting at this point, but my goal with this post is to hopefully receive feedback on what I may be doing doing, and what I should work on and improve.
I am absolutely sure that I am messing up big time with keywords. I got Publisher Rocket a few months ago, and while that may have helped a little, I don't think it has been the saving grace it has for other authors.
Can I share my keywords for one of my books here or in DMs?
Any help or advice would be appreciated.
>Those who do this for a living. How?
>I have been self publishing for nearly 2 years. I published my first short story in June of 2022. Since then, I have published more short stories, a novella and a novel. The short stories are in erotica, and the novella and novel are in romance.
So, you only have ONE novel? There’s your problem right there.
Short stories do not sell, neither do novellas. Novels are the big sellers.
Write your next book is the best way to get more sales. But write your next book means write your next NOVEL, not your next novella, not your next short story.
People always point to me and say “But you sold ten million books and your write primarily novellas and short stories”.
Yes, I DO write primarily novellas and short stories. But MOST of my short stories have YET to reach even one thousand copies sold, and while a FEW of my novellas have crossed one thousand sales, NONE had reached 30k sales, with the highest being at 27k sales. AND I have MANY short stories and novellas that have yet to reach ONE HUNDRED sales.
I have published 423 novellas and over 2k short stories and all titles combined have YET to reach 100k sales.
People spend so much time saying “that novella and short story writer sold ten million books” that they forget one very important thing: it was NOT my novellas or short stories that got the big sales, AND those sales were largely to just TWO titles.
In addition to 423 SELF-PUBLISHED novellas and 2k TRADITIONALLY PUBLISHED IN THE 1970s short stories, I also have 138 TRADITIONALLY PUBLISHED in the 1980s novels.
I had ALREADY CROSSED: THIRTY MILLION SALES to one TRADITIONALLY published non-fiction book in 1997, DECADES before self publishing.
And the two self-published books that crossed a million sales each were Epic Length Dark Fantasy NOVELS, one at 157k words (540 pages in it’s paperback edition) and one at 175k words (750 pages in it’ paperback edition)... and here the kicker: these were self-published REPRINTS of two books that ALREADY HAD A FAN BASED and had been PREVIOUSLY TRADITIONALLY published decades earlier. They were 35th anniversary editions.
So, the two self-published books that reached a million sales, were NOT from a non name debut writer, they were NOT novellas or short stories, and they were REPREINTS of books that had been previously traditionally published 35years prior, had been out of print for twenty years…
AND…
The reason those two books were picked, was because I had put up a poll asking my fans “Which titles do you want to see reprinted for the 35th anniversary edition set?” and those were the books readers requested.
So, when those two books went live on Kindle, they sold a million+ copies each in 7 days BECAUSE there were die hard rabid fans lined up and waiting to be the first one to buy the coveted 35th anniversary rerelease of books that were out of print for 2 decades.
Far too many people look ONLY at my sales numbers without looking at WHICH titles got those sales and WHY they got the sales they did.
Another misconception people point out about my sales is this:
People like to say “She’s sells 2k books a month!”
Yes. I sell on average around 2k paperbacks, around 300 hardcovers, and around 5 (yes five) ebooks a month.
So, yes, I DO average around 2k books sold each month.
AND, if you look at my books, specifically their sales rankings, you will notice that my HIGHEST SALES RANK is 4MILLION, while the bulk of my books have a sales rank of 6million to 13million.
What does that mean?
A book with a 4million sales rank on Amazon is a book that sells around ten copies a month, while a book that sits at 10million sales rank on Amazon sells around 1 copies every 3 months.
Meaning, all my books sitting in the 10million sales rank sell around FOUR copies PER YEAR.
Let that soak in.
Not 4 copies a month, not 4 copies a week, not 4 copies a day, but 4 copies PER YEAR.
So, how exactly is it that I average around 2k books sold per month.
I have over 2,500 titles up on Amazon. And most sell fewer than 1 copy per month.
I have 2 novels that each sell 10 to 30 copies per month, 5 novels that each sell around 5 copies per month, 423 novellas that each sell 1 or 2 copies per month, and 2k short stories that each average 5 to 8 copies sold per year, and yes, do the math that comes out to around 2k copies sold per month.
But it is NOT 2k copies of one title. It is 1 to 3 copies a month each of 2k+ titles.
If I did not have 2,500+ books on Amazon, I would not be getting 2k+ sales per month.
None of my books are bestsellers. MOST of my books sell fewer than 5 copies a month. In fact the bulk of my books average just 5 copies sold PER YEAR.
There’s the reality check that most people on this sub are never going to be able to face.
I’m in the top 7% on Amazon. I’m one of the authors Amazon lists in their lists of top highest selling authors, and yet my books struggle to get 5 sales per month, per title.
I’m not one of Amazon’s top sellers because I wrote one book that sells lots of copies each week.
No.
I’m in Amazon’s top list of highest selling authors of all time, because I have TWO THOUSAND books each of which sells ONE copy per month.
MOST of my books sell fewer then TEN copies PER YEAR.
I only sell 2k copies a mont, because I have 2k titles that each sell ONE copy per month.
Next time someone tells you “write more books” but neglects to tell you why. This is why.
Because books don’t sell more then a couple of copies per month, That’s just standard average normal.
If you want to sell a lot of books, you NEED a lot of titles.
Plan on never selling more then one copy of a book per month, figure out how many books you want to sell each month, and that’s how many books you need to write.
You want to sell one hundred books a month. Great. Now all you got to do is write one hundred books.
Too many people get hung up on the number of total sales and forget to count ACROSS HOW MANY TITLES those sales are.
Yes, TWO THOUSAND books sold each month sounds great… but it is NOT two thousand sales of ONE title. It is ONE sale each of TWO THOUSAND titles.
The REASON the biggest sellers have 300 or 500 or 1k or 2k or more books in their backlog is because they NEED that many titles in order to get the sales they get, because harsh reality is MOST BOOKS sell fewer than FIVE HUNDRED copies in its lifetime.
If you sell 500 copies of ONE title, you are already in the top 1% highest selling authors.
Think on that for a while.
Let it really soak in.
If you sell 500 copies of ONE title, you are already in the top 1% highest selling authors, not just self-published, but traditionally published as well.
The people making full time incomes from writing are NOT selling huge numbers of a few titles, rather instead they are selling low numbers of HUNDREDS of titles.
You’ve been publishing since 2022. That’s barely a year.
I’ve never seen an author succeed at a full time career in anything under three years, though for most it is 5 to 6 years. And it’s not about the years, it’s about how many titles they publish. For most they did not start seeling full time incomes until after they crossed ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY titles in their backlog which usually takes 3 years to do
If you are aiming for novels, usually it takes 12 novels to do it, so again, usually 3 years, assuming you publish 4 novels a year.
For novellas plan to publish one a week for 3 years before you see a full time income.
For short stories 3 to 5 a week need to be published for three years, before a steady income starts to show up.
The TL:DR is: you have not published nearly enough titles to see steady sales yet.
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Clearly they never read my books. However, it is causing a lot of Erotica readers to buy my books and get mad because there are no sex scenes. All I have to say to you is this: you shouldn't fall for the scammers who call themselves Christians and devote their lives to acting like Satan instead of acting like Christ.
Sorry honey, but, the people running around calling my books Erotica are the same dim witted idiots who are also running around saying my car has demons living in it, and are the same people slandering me with UFO rumors as well.
Sorry honey, but if you came here looking for Erotica, haunted cars, aliens, or UFOs, you can consider yourself scammed by a weird group of people who've made it their life goal to do everything in their power to try to cover up my son's murder.
ALL the rumors started a few weeks after my son's murder: the Stephen King rumors, the haunted car rumors, the alien abduction rumors, the UFO rumors, and yes, even the Erotica rumors---the fact remains, my son was murdered November 14, 2013 and the murderer is the one who started ALL of those rumors to try to turn the FBI investigation away from herself.
If you find ANYONE making videos, blogs, or podcasts about me, my car, or in any way, shape, or form slandering me by connecting me to Stephen King, Erotica, Aliens, UFOs or witchcraft, know that there is a 99% chance that YouTuber, Blogger, or podcaster either IS my son's murderer or is a family or friend of my son's murderer.
If you find ANYONE making videos, blogs, or podcasts about me, my car, or in any way, shape, or form slandering me by connecting me to Stephen King, Erotica, Aliens, UFOs or witchcraft, copy the link to the video, blog, or podcast and give it to FBI agent Andy Drewer who is the FBI agent in charge of my son's murder investigation.
Be aware that the New York Podcast is spreading information that was found ONLY in the classified documents of the Old Orchard Beach and Biddeford Police Departments, meaning someone involved in the New York podcast was AT THE MURDER WHEN IT HAPPENED.
NO ONE BESIDES THE MURDERER HERSELF knew what the murder weapon was. And New York Podcasters are broadcasting that information in a DELIBERATE ATTEMPT to sabotage the FBI investigation of my son's murder.
You can contact FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 or you can go into his office directly to talk to him in person at the FBI building on Middle street in Portland, his office is on the 4th floor, last hall on the parking garage side.
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If you find an account online claiming to be me, that is NOT one of these profiles linked above, there is a 99.99% chance it is a FAKE account impersonating me and only a .001% chance it's actually me and I just forgot to link it here.
Also, I do not have or use email, so don't trust ANY emails you receive claiming to be me. Likewise I DO NOT make videos about my family, Etiole, my car, or Stephen King, so ALL videos you find of such nature are fake as well. Likewise I do not run fundraisers, request donations, or have any involvement in any such things, so beware of ANYTHING using my name to request money from you, because I simply DO NOT do that.
These fake emails, fake accounts, and fake videos all claiming to be me are an increasingly big problem since the pandemic, and are being made by scammers who have zero affiliation with me and are illegally using my name for their scumbag dealings.
Do NOT trust ANYONE in any way contacting you claiming to be me because I DO NOT contact people AT ALL!
I wonder if the verification will help end the fake scammer accounts? I've been having a problem with someone pretending to be me, and publishing nonfiction books (I don't write nonfiction) about really bad topics (like outright terrorism stuff - how to build bombs and things, really bad stuff), and then going on social media, and trying to pass the books off as mine, right down to listing my home address, posting photos of me and my family and my car, etc. FBI is involved, and found out the ISPN of the accounts is only 14 miles away from me so it's someone local doing it, and FaceBook was able to shut down the fake FB accounts via me submitting driver's lisence and birth certificate to FB to verify my account real, but it's not been so easy to get the fake accounts off places like Amazon.
MOST of the accounts ISPN go to the Biddeford McArthur Library’s public computer, so it is someone EXTREMELY LOCAL who is creating these fake impersonation accounts and they are doing it at the Biddeford public library.
I have been petitioning places like Amazon and Reddit and FaceBook to put ID verification in place, and all 3 are now doing it. Hopefully this verification system will help with that. It's been worse on Reddit too. FBI has found 33 different Reddit accounts pretending to be me, and 27 different FB accounts pretending to be me. Similar numbers on other places. Most are spreading wild rumors about aliens, ufo, Stephen King... FBI has not yet determined why the fakers are doing it, but my son was murdered 11 years ago, and these fake accounts started showng up then, and FBI thinks it's the murderer's family doing it to try to make me look crazy in order that no one will believe me son was murdered... weird and terrifying. So, yeah, if more places like Amazon and Reddit had id verification, that'd cut down on these sorts of scams.
The FBI is ACTIVELY TRACKING DOWN all of the accounts impersonating me - and there have been well over a hundred of them found so far… and if you find an account claiming to be me, you can send the url to FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322 or you can go into his office directly to talk to him in person at the FBI building on Middle street in Portland, his office is on the 4th floor, last hall on the parking garage side.
And while we are talking about it... this person is also doxxing me, AND doing this weird thing where they are finding mentally deranged people, convincing them that I am EelKat and my car is The Goldeneagle and my friend is Etiole. resulting in, 3 to 9 times a WEEK these mentally disturbed people show up in my yard, addressing me as EelKat, calling my homeless friend both "Etiole" and "alien" or "demon" and calling my Dodge "The Goldeneagle" while saying it is haunted!
Trust no one who says I am EelKat.
Miss Citten The Eel Kat is a fictional cat from the fictional planet Ptarmagin. EelKat is her title, not her name. It means, The cat who raises eels as pets.
EelKat is not real. I shouldn't have to say that. EelKat is a fictional talking cat from a series of Fantasy novels. Only someone too stupid to tell the difference between fiction and reality, says an author is one of their characters.
Do you call J. K. Rowling "Harry Potter"? No. You call her the author who created Harry Potter. So why the fuck do you call me EelKat? I am Wendy Christine Allen the author who created EelKat.
Likewise:
Trust no one who calls the local homeless WW2 vet Etiole.
Etiole is a fictional Electric Eel Merman, also known as The Silver Salamander, Captain Goldeneagle, and The Silver Arrow.
The local homeless man is not Etiole, no matter how much you call him Etiole, he's still not Etiole.
Etiole is not real. I shouldn't have to say that. Etiole is a fictional Eel MerMan from a series of Fantasy novels. Only someone too stupid to tell the difference between fiction and reality, says a disabled homeless man is a fictional character come to life.
The Sacred Pink JellyFish is a shapeshifting Elf who turns into a jellyfish. He's not real either.
Yes, that is a thing locals are saying now. The latest crazy rumor, is that The Scared Pink JellyFish is some real god of a real religion, that I really worship. Which is utterly stupid that people are saying this. I am a 5th generation LDS/Mormon. I do not worship jellyfish.
The Sacred Pink JellyFish is not real. I shouldn't have to say that. The Sacred Pink JellyFish is a Moon Elf wizard from a series of Fantasy novels.
The same can be said of ALL of my characters. They are all fictional. None of them is real.
The fact that there are SO MANY locals in Old Orchard Beach and Biddeford, Maine, who can not tell the difference between fictional characters and the author of the novels those characters comes from, is deeply concerning.
I don't know who is starting these rumors or why, but I do not appreciate people coming into my yard calling me EelKat. My homeless friend does not like people hunting him down and calling him Etiole or telling him he is an alien or demon. I do not like people calling my 1964 Dodge 300 "The Goldeneagle" or saying it is haunted. Nor do I like being told you worship the jellyfish from my novels because you think it is real.
I do finding it deeply concerning the sheer amount of people who are doing this, AND I find it very unsettling that there are so many who not only do not have enough brain to tell the difference between reality and fictional characters from novels, but also, worrying how many of them take the initiative to hunt me down and show up in my yard.
And if YOU are someone who things EelKat or Etiole or The Sacred Pink JellyFish are real, I would suggest you seek psychiatric help as quickly as possible. You NEED it.
Some additional thoughts on the FBI Murder Investigation of 144 & 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine:
How many murders are caused by cancel culture, have you ever wondered?
I have — because my son murdered by cancel culture, so I wonder this a lot.
I have never been able to wrap my mind around cancel culture. It has baffled me ever since I first discovered it, when the “God hates fags” group showed up in my yard to start a bonfire on my lawn and burn my books (I’m an author, 138 novels published since 1978) and I later found out the group had spent weeks on social media planning the event and gathering followers, because one minister got it into his head I was gay (I’m not) and write gay erotica (I don’t), and used gay hatred and white power rants (I’m not white, it’s the only thing they did get right) rants on Twitter to incite canceling of my supposedly gay erotica books (that were neither gay nor erotic) and get a mob to show up in my yard.
A week later a bomb blew up my house, I had to rebuild, a week to finishing rebuilding a backhoe drove over my house, 2 months (November 14, 2013) later a crazed woman with a golf club showed up at my college class shattered my spine and bashed my 8 month infant sons head in while screaming “transvestite freak” and claiming I (a cis female) was a “man in a dress”.
Because of Twitter’s cancel culture I homeless, now 11 years, I am crippled paralyzed unable to walk, now 11 years, and my son is dead and the FBI investigation of his murder is still going on these 11 years later, and the killer still walks free and unidentified, and the primary reason for being unidentified is there are over 30k people online who spread these false accusations of gay erotica and transgender about me and the FBI has to investigate EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM, yes, ALL of them, yes, if you’ve ever posted hate about me online you ARE being investigated for your potential involvement in my son’s murder, and in 11 years, they’ve only made it a quarter of the way through that list, and not yet found golf club woman..
And the man who started it all, Peter something, is now the biggest YouTuber in Quebec and the biggest anti trans YouTuber on the planet, and has yet to be held responsible for starting the gay erotica and transvestite rumours about me on Twitter because, for some reason there are no laws that hold cancel cries accountable for the the death and destruction their hivemind followers do after being incited into a frenzy by the cancelers tweets.
Perhaps the issue is I am too old to understand the herd mentality of cancel culture, I grew up on a very isolated egg farm and I was 42 years old before cancel culture existed, or perhaps my not using social media causes me to not understand it.
But I wonder how many people out there are like me, lives destroyed by haters, who hate things about me, that aren’t even things I am or do, because they believe one cancelers lies on Twitter and never took the time to fact check before they reacted.
EVERYTHING We Are Allowed To Publicly Release About The FBI Investigation Can Be Found HERE
Do you know who this woman is?
If you have any information about the identity of this child murderer, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322
On November 14, 2013, she used a golf club to bash out the brains of my 8-month-old baby Xavier-Octavian Allen. She called herself “Claire” as though she thought I knew her, but I know no one named Claire and had never seen her before. She was about 65 years old and would be around 75 years old today in 2025. The FBI believes the woman who murdered my son is the same woman who hired the backhoe to drive over my house on August 8, 2013, a few weeks before my son’s murder.
 If you have any information about the identity of this child murderer,
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 My house at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, on July 4, 2013 and on August 8, 2013 after vandals drove a backhoe over it. The backhoe is still running in this photo, I got home from work while they were doing it and the white haired man jumped out and ran away leaving the backhoe running, until it ran out of gas. It sat in my yard for 6 months until the police finally towed it away. |
She is the same woman who severed my spine with the same golf club used to murder my baby. She had distinctive two-inch wide stripes in her hair all the way around her head, platinum blond and dark reddish brown, in a pageboy haircut.
If you have any information about the identity of this child murderer,please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322
Of the Portland, Maine FBI Office, 4th floor, Middle Street Portland.
FAQ: How Did the FBI get involved?
The FBI believes this woman who crippled me and murdered my baby on November 14, 2013, is connected to the backhoe that illegally drove over my house making me homeless on August 8, 2013.
Between June 2001 and continuing on into 2025, there have been over 200 violent attacks on 146 Portland Ave, Old orchard Beach, Maine, including the beheading of 75 pet roosters April 2007, whose headless bodies were hung in my rosebushes from rope nooses.
The FBI believes ALL of these events are being done in an attempt to drive me off my land.
According to the FBI, in 2007, a developer went to the Old Orchard Beach Town Hall and filed an illegal building permit for a 27 unit condominium, on my land and CLAIMED to be the owner of my land. This land has been in my family since 1531, we are Native Americans of the Kickapoo tribe and there are more than 500 graves, most dating from the 1500s to 1600s on my land.
This land has been in my family well over 500 years, and I inherited it from my grandmother Helen Ricker Allen in 1983.
The FBI believes, ALL of the slander/rumours that falsely accuse me of being transgender were ALSO started by this woman who murdered my son, in a further attempt to drive me from my land via working locals of Old Orchard Beach into a trans-hating frenzy.
If you are a real estate agent and ANY ONE contacts you interested in buying 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, PLEASE report that "client" IMMEDIATLY to FBI Agent Andy Drewer, head of my son's murder investigation, and head of the investigation into the 200+ acts of vandalism and hate crimes which have occurred at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine between 2001 to 2025.
If you have ANY information about ANY of the incidents, attacks, vandalisms, and hate crimes that took place between 2001 and 2025, on 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine, please give that information to FBI agent Andy Drewer as well.
My land is not for sale and ANY ONE offering to buy it is likely connected to this woman who murdered my son.
ANYONE interested in buying my land has a HIGH PROBABILITY of being hired BY MY SON'S MURDERER, and you MUST send their information to the FBI.
If you have any information about the identity of this child murderer,
please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322She shows up at my yard (both in Old Orchard and in Biddeford), at my college classes, at my workplace... always violent and smashing things, always yelling "transvestite freak" and similar hate slurs about transgender people (she seems to believe I am transgender even though I am I cis woman, and her hatred of transgender people seems to be her primary motive.).
At one point the man who was with her called her "Vallerie". But she herself talked of herself (in a bizarre, not how normal people talk "3rd person") Claire. She kept saying things like "I'm Claire, bitch!" and "I'm Claire you fucking transvestite freak!"
She really, really, really, really was going overboard in emphasizing that her name was Claire - to the point that I am led to believe that her name is NOT Claire, and that she was in fact pretending to be someone else, who's name was Claire.
The fact that the man with her (who was later discovered to be a Biddeford police officer - he was identified in February 2025 when he was killed in a car accident in New Hampshire.) called her "Vallerie" and not "Claire" when he talked to her, indicates, that her name is more likely to be Valerie, then Claire.
But I know no one named either Vallerie or Claire, and outside of these events where she shows up and attacks, I've never seen this woman before and have no clue who she is.
She has attacked more then a dozen times, IN ADDITION to the golf club attack when she murdered my son and crippled me.
She frequently dies her hair and wears wigs. And has looked quite different in the over TWELVE YEARS of her stalking and harassment
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I have 3 broken vertebrae, 3 ruptured discs, a broken sariliac, hip dysplasia (broken hip and broken pelvic bone, with hip bone pushed back into pelvic bone and fused together), in addition to rheumatism in both hips, both knees, and both wrists, as well as MS.
Rheumatism I've had since I was 8.
MS I've had since I was 16.
All the rest was done by the crazy blonde woman with the golf club, November 14, 2013, at Southern Maine Community College. I was also 8 months pregnant and she murdered my son as well. I was paralyzed for 18 months and had to relearn to walk. Her hair was wild extreme unnatural rave style 2 to 3 inch wide platinum blond and dark blonde-brown stripes.
I found a pin that shows a similar hairstyle:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/tonos-de-cabello-rubio--322148179608879161/In May 2015 I returned to work, walking minimally with a cane.
On June 24, 2016, the same mystery blond woman with her hair now dyed rusted reddish blond, woman, this time driving a late 1990s vintage gold Volvo station wagon, drove up beside my car, while I was putting groceries in my car at Scarborough Walmart, jumped out, grabbed an empty shopping cart from the shopping cart corral, and attacked again, same as she did with golf club three years earlier. This attack is the one which caused worse damage, and I have still not yet recovered from now in 2025.
In the 2016 attack, her hair was dyed an unnatural burgundy red, with slight grey roots growing out, the same unnatrually straitened pageboy style, and she was wearing a burgundy sweater that time.
In the 2016 attack, her hair was dyed an unnatural burgundy red, with slight grey roots growing out, the same unnatrually straitened pageboy style, and she was wearing a burgundy sweater that time.
She most often looks like this, with the red hair... and it was what she looked like on the December 24, 2016 Christmas Eve attack at my dad's apartment building. And THIS attack we have on camera, and so we have actual video footage of her... including, we have audio files of her yelling and chanting "transvestite freak!" while shooting a gun, during the Christmas Eve attack at 27 High Street, Biddeford, Maine.
Her hair has been a different colour each time she has shown up. In 2021 it was a neon dayglow purple, but still the same pageboy. The 2021 attack she was wearing a black poly satin dress with neon lime green trim
Her hair has been a different colour each time she has shown up. In 2021 it was a neon dayglow purple, but still the same pageboy. The 2021 attack she was wearing a black poly satin dress with neon lime green trim
When she showed up at PortCon 2023 and the Round 1 at the Maine Mall the same day, she was again wearing the black dressed, but this time her hair was died black, but she was wearing a neon dayglow lime green "clown wig".
Her face is covered in deep "smokers wrinkles" and her skin is very, very abnormally dry and flakey.
She had a somewhat large nose, (kind of more like a man's nose then a woman's nose) and very thin lips (almost none existant, again, more like a man's lips, then a womans)... she is a LOT bigger then me... a LOT - I am 5'6" and she's maybe 5'11" to 6'2"... she's like really, really, really big.
When she showed up at PortCon 2023 and the Round 1 at the Maine Mall the same day, she was again wearing the black dressed, but this time her hair was died black, but she was wearing a neon dayglow lime green "clown wig".
at one point at the Round One in the Maine Mall attack, she pulled off the green clown wig while she was yelling and her hair was a black-black super fake dyed black pageboy.
The 2016 attack is the one that did the most damage and. That is why I have the cane, walker, rollator, and wheelchair. And which one I use is determined by how much pain I am in at the time I try to stand and move.
She is the one the FBI is looking for. He said he thinks Bruce’s family knows who she is. He said they become alarmigly, agitated, evasive, and violently hostile whenever questioned about her.
If you have any information about my son’s murderer, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322
She is the same woman who severed my spine with the same golf club used to murder my baby. She had distinctive two-inch wide stripes in her hair all the way around her head, platinum blond and dark reddish brown, in a pageboy haircut.
If you have any information about the identity of this child murderer,please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322
I have 3 broken vertebrae, 3 ruptured discs, a broken sariliac, hip dysplasia (broken hip and broken pelvic bone, with hip bone pushed back into pelvic bone and fused together), in addition to rheumatism in both hips, both knees, and both wrists, as well as MS.
Rheumatism I've had since I was 8.
MS I've had since I was 16.
All the rest was done by the crazy blonde woman with the golf club, November 14, 2013, at Southern Maine Community College. I was also 8 months pregnant and she murdered my son as well. I was paralyzed for 18 months and had to relearn to walk. Her hair was wild extreme unnatural rave style 2 to 3 inch wide platinum blond and dark blonde-brown stripes.
In May 2015 I returned to work, walking minimally with a cane.
On June 24, 2016, the same mystery blond woman with her hair now dyed rusted reddish blond, woman, this time driving a late 1990s vintage gold Volvo station wagon, drove up beside my car, while I was putting groceries in my car at Scarborough Walmart, jumped out, grabbed an empty shopping cart from the shopping cart corral, and attacked again, same as she did with golf club three years earlier. This attack is the one which caused worse damage, and I have still not yet recovered from now in 2025.
That is why I have the cane, walker, rollator, and wheelchair. And which one I use is determined by how much pain I am in at the time I try to stand and move.
She is the one the FBI is looking for. He said he thinks Bruce’s family knows who she is. He said they become alarmingly, agitated, evasive, and violently hostile whenever questioned about her.
If you have any information about my son’s murderer, please call FBI Agent Andy Drewer at 207–774–9322
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