u/AzherVayne

Just some of the tricks of the trade i have been learning by reading recently ....

Hey everyone! I want to keep being open about my self-publishing journey. Book 1 of Duck You launched on May 2nd, and I wanted to share how things are going.

The Numbers So Far As you can see in the picture, for this past 8 days I have:

• Orders: 7 ebook orders
• Pages Read (KENP): 775
• Royalties: €19.32

RR & Followers I mainly promoted the launch using an Author Note on Royal Road. I had 400 followers before I took my chapters down for Amazon (stubbing). After taking them down, about 20 to 25 people dropped, which is seems pretty normal!

Paperbacks Are Coming Some RR readers asked for physical copies, so I made a paperback version! My proof copies are arriving this Wednesday. Once I check them and make sure they look good, the print version will go live. For anyone curious about Amazon math: the printing cost is around $6 for about 414 pages with my settings. You get a 60% royalty on paperbacks, minus that print cost (eBooks are the ones that get the 70% royalty!). You can set this via KDP and also get an ISBN number which is important for free.

Reviews I asked for ratings and reviews ( keep it honest here don't ask for 5 star etc), but I haven't gotten a single one yet! :) It happens, we just keep moving forward.

Marketing & Ads Here is what I did to get the word out:

• Facebook Groups: I shared in some LitRPG groups. If you do this, read the group rules first! Some groups let you post for free, while others charge you for featured posts. It is also important to be active in the group and not just drop links.
• Paid Ads: I spent about $30 on Meta ads (Facebook and Instagram).
• Videos: I posted short videos on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram to try and get more eyes on the book. ( see pics and my attempts at social media marketing lol)

I will keep sharing these updates periodically as the process goes on. I hope this helps anyone else who is looking to self-publish! Ask me any other question and I will try to answer to the best of my knowledge.

Great input Courtesy of u/EndlessSleeper3992 List of groups and rules for anyone starting out on this journey!

[Progression Fiction Addicts (Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Gamelit/litRPG/Cultivation)](https://www.facebook.com/groups/progressionfictionaddicts/): only post Mondays, Wednesdays, or Fridays.

[Progression Fantasy](https://www.facebook.com/groups/349808165619256): 1 post per book.

[LitRPG Rebels](https://www.facebook.com/groups/LitRPGRebels): 1 post per book.

[LitRPG Adventures Reviews and Discussions](https://www.facebook.com/groups/LitRPGAdventures): Saturdays or Sundays only.

[LitRPG Releases](https://www.facebook.com/groups/LitRPGReleases): contact Troy Osgood, BJ Woods or Sean Oswald. They will post about your book.

[LitRPG Forum](https://www.facebook.com/groups/litrpgforum): 1 post per book.

[Fantasy, Fiction, litrpg books and Audible](https://www.facebook.com/groups/618412771839288): 1 post per book.

[A Speculative Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Readers & Writers Hangout](https://www.facebook.com/groups/spec.fic.scifi.fantasy): 1 post per book, add #selfpromotion to the post.

- You can also post in these subreddits when the book launches and send me the link to the posts so I can share them.

[r/ProgressionFantasy](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgressionFantasy/): you need to have contributed comments or posts to be able to self-promo. Only 10% of your posts can be self-promo. It's a good idea to ask the mods beforehand.

[r/LitRPG](https://www.reddit.com/r/litrpg/): only 10% of your posts can be self-promo. No need to ask mods here.

[r/RoyalRoad](https://www.reddit.com/r/royalroad/): you need to link the Royal Road page instead of the amazon page. I suggest you put the genius link in your RR novel description and in the chapter before stub (author notes).

I just got a sales pitch from a book marketer for my AMZ launch, and I had to share it because it is so low effort. Here is her brilliant plan:

​- Copy and paste my exact book summary including the keywords like "alpacalypse" and the pumpkin paladin so it looks like a personal email.

​- Remind me that I have zero reviews and tell me my rank is in danger. (Thanks, I already know!)

​- Tell me my book is great, but my title might be scaring people away. Lol the title is one of main reasons why my book is attractive.

​-Offer to send me a "secret" phase by phase plan to fix it of course potentially for a fee.

- literally just suggests that I ask my friends on LinkedIn and Discord to leave reviews.

​Has anyone else gotten these? It gave me a good laugh today.

P.S. for anyone interested i have had 6 unit sales and 290 pages in KU read so far :)

Hey all, I’m thrilled to announce that Duck You! Glitch Please : Book 1 is officially live on Amazon and KU! I started the journey of my writing on RR with a post here about 4 months ago which has led to this moment of AMZ publication. I cannot begin to thank some of the people here who supported and have ended up as readers of Duck you!

So for people not yet familiar with my story here goes:

Have you ever stared at spaghetti code at 3 AM and wished you could just isekai yourself out of the office? Don't do it. It’s a trap, and the System literally charges you for breathing.

The Pitch: Duck You! is a satirical GameLit comedy about a sleep-deprived dev ( Kai) who fat-fingers a typo and gets sucked into Aether a glitchy, heavily monetized RPG ( More on this later if its actually an RPG or something else).

In Book 1, the magic is tied to a laggy Autocorrect and snarky system. Try to cast "Apocalypse"? You get an "Alpacalypse" of spitting llamas. Try to cast "Fireball"? You throw a "Flyer Ball" of cheap coupons. You also have a bunch of ways to exploit the game world.

To stop a catastrophic server wipe, Kai is stuck trying to survive with the ultimate liability squad:

• Sir Gideon: A paladin who thinks game bugs are "signs from the gods," currently swinging a squeaky hammer while wearing plastic roller skates.
• Viscount Pigglesworth: An aristocratic NPC who deals zero physical damage but causes devastating emotional damage by critiquing enemies' fashion.
• Grom: An Orc Guildmaster who treats every dungeon raid like a hostile corporate takeover.
• Maya: A senior artist whose magic paintbrush keeps getting censored by the game’s "Child Safety Protocol".

A quick note on the series: Book 1 kicks off with the Autocorrect chaos, but as the story evolves into Book 2, we focus much more on breaking the game, exploiting collision bugs, dodging reality leaking spills from the real world, and surviving a System that literally micro-transactions us to death.

Status & Links:

• Book 1: Fully polished and live on Amazon/KU right now! https://books2read.com/u/bP2v57 **(**Universal Link via Books to Read to direct you to the correct AMZ by country marketplace )
• Book 2: Wrapped up on Royal Road. It will be stubbed at the end of May, so binge it now before the System charges you a reading tax. https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/144384/duck-you-book-2-will-stub-end-of-may
• Book 3: Currently in development, posting in RR will resume shortly.

Thank you to everyone who followed along during the RR serialization. Your comments / follows kept the servers running 😄 !

​Hey all, ​I just finished book 3 of Dead End Guild Master by Marshal Carper, and I would 100% recommend it! I think it is really underrated, so I wanted to make a post in case anyone here hasn't read it yet.

​I will say it starts a little slow, but stick with it. I absolutely love the way the characters< Hans and Mazo are my favs> connect with each other. It has a great mix of casual slice of life stuff, but there is a much bigger, deeper story going on behind it all.

what to expect: ​Kingdom building & Dungeon Master parts, ​Detailed party based fights, ​Guild politics and best of all ​Deep mysteries: There is cool mystery running through the whole thing, and the story uses flashbacks to slowly reveal the secrets of the past along with some fun as well. MC is not OP though he does have significant influence over some OP ones.

Also the gag with books by Hanyu B Dumas is great... There are 5 books out on KU as far as I can see..

Hi everyone!

If you want a fun break from huge battles and just want to read about monsters dealing with real everyday horrors like tax forms and long meetings check out my free story, Misery Inc.

It takes place at a reinsurance company where the staff is a little different:

• Alucard is an energy vampire working in the Tax department. He eats office stress to survive.
• A werewolf who fixes computers in IT.
• A zombie stuck working in the mailroom.

Life at the office was perfectly gloomy until a super-happy HR manager showed up to spread joy and cheer. Now, Alucard is starving! The three friends and an intern must team up to bring the bad moods back before a forced "team-building event" ruins their lives.

It is a light, cozy story about friendship, normal magic, and fighting back against forced office pizza parties.I wrote this mockumentary style finishing Vol2 of my other book Duck you!

You can read it for free on Royal Road right here:https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/162349/misery-inc