What's a fair price for a 500-page trade paperback?

[Uncle Sparky]

Elok - Are you going to include: "as serialized at Apolyton Civilization OT." in your submissions?

[Elok]

No, for two reasons:

1. It's not true; it was shared over e-mail.
2. Somebody might look at the site, assume the book was about gay immigrants arguing with Catholic reactionaries, and not buy it.

[Uncle Sparky]

It can be true, if you make it so.

[Pekka]

Yes, I've written a novel, it's sci-fi/fantasy, and if I sell it for much over twelve bucks I won't be able to move it so you're good (is the exchange rate really that high?). As for practice, as I've said earlier, this is my seventh attempt at a novel, and it's the first one I feel is good enough to publish. I've spent ten years getting decent. For all that businesses talk about wanting to encourage creativity, really it's a kind of disease. You feel like you have to continuously vomit stuff up from your imagination to be happy. You should probably be glad that you're happy doing something more productive.

The problem with creative endeavors is that there's no objective test to say what's good or bad, plus we've idolized the lifestyle, so any given field--painting, writing, acting, music, whatever--is going to be flooded with people who frankly ain't that great, but can't be proven so. Whereas an inept programmer can be shown his incompetence when his code doesn't work, a bad builder can't make the house stand up, a bad cook can't stand to eat his own cooking . . .

BUncle, I just realized I'm being annoyingly wishy-washy here, so I'm going to STFU and let you do whatever you want to help, and thank you when you're done, and let that be that.

nah, euro and dollar are almost the same, so 12 dollars would be probably a bit over 10 euros. But that's a fair price! Were can I buy your book?

[Ben Kenobi]

Shouldn't that be Catholic immigrants and gay reactionaries?

[Elok]

nah, euro and dollar are almost the same, so 12 dollars would be probably a bit over 10 euros. But that's a fair price! Were can I buy your book?

Nowhere, yet, but hopefully I'll get it onto Amazon CreateSpace within a month or so. The text is formatted, I just have to get the cover ready, do a once-over of the contents, give CS my payment info and hit "submit." Then wait for them to approve it.

[Uncle Sparky]

Dedication -

[Main_Brain]

Well perhaps this helps:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4xjh6g/iaman_author_of_erotica_with_over_200_titles_in/

[Elok]

Though barely a twentieth of its surface is habitable, Corban has always been a paradise for the descendants of its first human colonists. In its narrow valleys and fertile lowlands a perfectly balanced, engineered ecology allowed human civilization to flourish for eight hundred years--and then survive the most horrific cataclysm in human history, which killed ninety-nine percent of the world's population.

Now it is the sixteenth century of the Offering, and the High Priest Ibraim rules over a worldwide empire. Ignorant of the past, confident of the future, the priesthood appears supreme. Yet there are forces at work which Ibraim cannot control, and the community of the faithful grows restless.

Out of this chaos appears sixteen-year-old Yunise Columabbi, the last living bearer of the Curse of Life. Her miraculous powers of healing come only at the expense of her own health. To her father's subjects, she is an angel, a sign of divine grace in an increasingly unhappy world. Others take a more cynical view of the matter. Whichever is right, Yunise will soon find that there are diseases which even she cannot heal . . .

This is really frickin' wooden, but I don't know that I can come up with anything better. Would this get you interested in the book, or just make you conclude that the author couldn't write a non-corny sentence to save his life?

BUncle has modded the hell out of the nipplepic, and it looks incredible. Got a great cover design as well. We should be go for submission by the end of August. Then we wait for Amazon to tell me it's all wrong.

Also, I discovered that Wikimedia Commons has categories for "female nipples in art," "transparent clothing in art," and, yes, even "female nipples through transparent clothing." Other, more useful categories are underpopulated, but these three seem to offer a robust selection. Gentlemen, I'd like to propose a toast to the internet and/or crowdsourcing here.

[Lorizael]

The one thing I'll say about that blurb is that (a) it makes it sound as if Ibraim is a character the story follows and (b) maybe possibly Yunise is his daughter.

[Uncle Sparky]

twentieth, first, eight hundred, 99%, sixteenth, sixteen...

Unless math formulas are an important plot device, try another way to express these ideas.

Also, if feels 'teen fiction' to me. Is it?

Often authors use a short sequence from the book to 'hook' the potential reader. What would yours be?

[Elok]

You're right. Crap. I can write the book, just not a brief, interesting, non-spoiler synopsis.

Not really teen fiction; Yunise is one of three viewpoint characters, but the other two are in their thirties, and the story doesn't revolve around her as much as it would need to if it were aimed at the YA market. Probably older-teen accessible though.

[ZEE]

I call it "nerd-fiction."

[Uncle Sparky]

Try a short quote, a few paragraphs long, maybe bookcased by just enough exposition to hook the reader. The picture of the lady with the partially exposed nipple has caused me to pick up the book, now convince me to buy it.

[Ming]

I though I would give it a shot... not knowing the book, it might be off some, but what the hell

Corban, a planet described as “Paradise” by the original human colonists. Though much of the world’s surface is uninhabitable, the populated areas are made up of narrow valleys with fertile lowlands. The ecology was engineered to provide a perfect environment for humans, allowing civilization to flourish for eight hundred years. It truly was “Paradise.”

But then, disaster struck. A cataclysmic event swept the globe, killing almost everybody on the planet and wiping out civilization as they knew it.

Now, 1600 years later, the High Priest Ibraim and his priesthood rule over a global empire. While remaining ignorant of their past, they appear supreme to the masses and are confident in their rule. However, the faithful are growing restless as there are forces at work which even the priesthood can not control.

In these perilous times comes Yunis, the last living bearer of the Curse of Life.
She is the daughter of the High Priest, and has miraculous powers of healing. But to use this power, she must sacrifice her own health. To many, she is an angel and a sign of divine grace, while others take a more cynical view of her powers.

Looking for answers, Yunis will have to face great challenges as she discovers that there are diseases which even she can not heal.