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tassosss ([personal profile] tassosss) wrote2025-06-13 09:59 am
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marketing blah

While I'm waiting for my manuscript to cool, I'm doing a short book marketing course that I bought to see if I can get my head around where the heck to find readers. I know I'm not doing a lot of marketing and I'm okay with that because my strategy right now is in the one hour of useful creative energy I have a day I want to get the writing done. The next book sells the previous one and all that. So the goal is to get this trilogy done, then lean into marketing hard for a while.

I've set up a foundation - I have a brand style, I'm on Instagram and have indie author friends. I have an email list. I have not... done much else. I don't even have freebies to get people to sign up for my newsletter (see above one (1) hour of functional creative energy per day.)

Hence this little course. It's basically all stuff I know from my day job. But it does have worksheets, and I'm a sucker for worksheets. 

So, since my target audience is exhausted, demoralized older millennials/borderline gen X whose hips and knees hurt, who are tired of their favorite characters dying and into competence porn, who like sci-fi and fantasy in the Gen and Bob flavors (me. it's me.), where do they hang out online?

I'm on Instagram and that's about it, because I can only handle one social channel at the moment. Is Bluesky the new Twitter? If I'm going to put energy into marketing, I want to be in the right place, because I sure as hell am not going to be able to do more than one or two channels. 
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aliensamba ([personal profile] aliensamba) wrote2025-06-13 03:26 pm

063 - header and gifs; 25.02 - the last jedi, jane eyre (2011)

Medium: film
Fandoms: The Last Jedi; Jane Eyre (2011)
Characters/Pairings: Rey/Kylo Ren; Jane Eyre/Mr. Rochester
Prompt: Passion
Lucky Color: orange (write a crossover or create a graphic work based on two different fandoms)
Notes: 1 header and 2 alternatives (gif sets) for week 5 of Fortune Wheel at Fandom Empire.

Read more... )
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cornerofmadness ([personal profile] cornerofmadness) wrote2025-06-13 12:39 am
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Write Every Day Day 13



Have the king of horror for Friday the Thirteenth. This is probably one of King’s more controversial quotes and often misinterpreted too but regardless, editing is important. I wish I enjoyed it more. It was funny one of the author’s group on that zoom meeting prefers editing to drafting, complete opposite of me.

Word faulted out HARD on me today. Lost a lot of what I wrote for the finish of the story. I recreated it but it’s not nearly as funny as the original. And then when it saved, Word put it under a complete different file name which thankfully I had posted that story so I could retrieve it. Sigh.


Let me know what day you’re reporting in for. If I've missed you on the tally let me know. Feel free to jump in at any time.

Day twelve - [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] nafs, [personal profile] cmk418, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] yasaman, [personal profile] brithistorian,

other days )
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Dani Rose ([personal profile] dani_meows) wrote2025-06-12 11:45 pm

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Jasper is currently resting comfortably with me checking on him frequently to make sure he doesn't scratch his eye area or need anything. In exchange he doesn't have to wear the cone.

So far he's being a real trooper about it just like last time. I really do think cats understand English and he understood my explanations of what was happening.

The opthalmologist took out everything they could and hopefully the biopsy will show the cancer not all the way through the removed tissue.

Ian gets paid in ten minutes so we don't have to worry about not having enough money for groceries/expenses after that.

The above picture is of Jasper at our vet the day we went to understand his diagnosis.

Besides Jasper I've mostly been reading fanfiction and making sure the other three cats aren't jealous of the attention Jasper's getting.

The headache I've had for days is getting better. And I'm glad the cancer cells are hopefully out of my cat.

Three weeks or so we should know for sure.

Which will put us in July. Hopefully after the anniversary of the cat who's death still feels fresh rather than almost a year ago.

Anyway Jasper is asleep and safe for now. I'm going to go back to reading fanfiction mostly about Harry Potter being raised by his godfather. Sometimes with manipulative Dumbledore... They are my weakness.
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cornerofmadness ([personal profile] cornerofmadness) wrote2025-06-12 10:39 pm

Happy Anniversary

It's my parent's 60th wedding anniversary. They were supposed to go somewhere. They're still here. Ah well. Happy anniversary anyhow mom and dad.

I started glut exercises with those crap therabands. I knew I had lost strength but not this much. Also it's causing serious pain in my knee. I'm not sure why. Will need to research that


And it's community rec thursday (as usual these are mostly one Dreamwidth)

[community profile] comment_bingo is open. Get a bingo card. Comment to fan creators. Make their day.

[community profile] summerofthe69 is open with their first prompt. If you like writing 69s, by all means join the party.

[community profile] summer_of_giles is open but using last year's mode, no actual assigned dates. If you like creating for Rupert Giles now is your moment.

And this one is for Pride. Check out [personal profile] reviews_and_ramblings This is a LGBT book review blog and the person running it has been reading tons and tons of boy's love stuff from Japan, China and Korea and I know there people on my list who might like to take a peek at that.

And this is not on DW. A million lives recovery You may have heard of this where a lot of authors were scammed by a so called book festival. Many were left in debt. That link will take you to affected authors, find new authors, get new books, help someone.

I'm annoyed right now. My computer glitched badly with Word. SOmething wasn't saved and I had to restart the computer. Even more annoying I could have sworn I saved that file in two places before stopping for dinner and the two places have two different versions (didn't save at all in one place)
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kingstoken ([personal profile] kingstoken) wrote2025-06-12 03:20 pm
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Comment Bingo Card #7

a work from a Big Bang a work from a science fiction/fantasy canon a work posted in 2015 a work inspired by art a fic between 1-5k
a fanvid a work posted in 2016 meta a work by your favorite creator a canon compliant work
a work you've already commented on a work from a fandom you don't normally seek out FREE SPACE line art a fic that's over 5k
a work posted in 2012 a work from a comedic canon a work that wasn't created for any challenge a canon divergent work a work from a movie canon
a work from a tv show canon a work from a fandom with a closed canon a work that has two of your favorite tags a work from a horror canon black and white art

Fanworks commented on )
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purplecat ([personal profile] purplecat) wrote2025-06-12 08:15 pm

Rani Icons

Some icons of The Rani which have been languishing on my hard drive since there was only one of her. I guess I need to make some more...


Kate O'Mara as the Rani, dressed as Mel.  Face and lots of permed red h air. Kate O'Mara as the Rani from the hips upwards, striding forwards in her red outfit. Kate O'Mara as the Rani.  Side shot standing next to her Tardis console. Kate O'Mara as the Rani.  Waist up looking at Camera in red. Kate O'Mara as the Rani looking mildly annoyed.  The Master stands behind her.


Snaggin is free. Credit is appreciated. Comments are loved.
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cornerofmadness ([personal profile] cornerofmadness) wrote2025-06-12 01:06 pm
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Comment Bingo summer edition

line art Black Widow Hazbin Hotel a fic that's over 5k leave a comment on twitter The Cutest Hazbin Hotel a fic not on AO3 a crossover
a fic with multiple chapters a work that made you happy a work from a tv show canon Out Of The Shadows Buffy the Vampire Slayer a fic with more than 5 additional tags a work that inspired you
a work from your newest fandom fanart FREE SPACE a work from a comedic canon a work from a fandom with an open/ongoing canon
a work from a rec list a work from a mystery/thriller canon a fanvid a fic that's under 1k leave a comment on fanfiction.net
a work from a fandom you don't normally seek out a remix 5 drabbles (works of 100 words each) a work from a Reverse Big Bang a work from an action/adventure canon
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My Fannish Corner ([personal profile] mxcatmoon) wrote2025-06-12 01:28 am
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Hypocrisy epidemic (religious topic)

I've wondered a lot recently: how can these evil, hateful people who literally want "others" dead call themselves Christians. How do they not see their hypocrisy?

I found this video to be informative and explained a lot.

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Dani Rose ([personal profile] dani_meows) wrote2025-06-12 01:24 am

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Jasper's surgery is in six hours.

I am a mess of anxiety.

We won't know until about 3 weeks or so if this time they got all of it. Last time they didn't know it was cancerous and the cancer was all the way into the margins.

I hope they can get the cancer out. I hope he'll forgive us for putting him through another surgery.

I hope he won't stop cuddling me or purring on my shoulder while nesting onto my boobs for a nap.
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cornerofmadness ([personal profile] cornerofmadness) wrote2025-06-12 12:32 am
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Write Every Day Day 12



I think this realization is an important one.


Noodled on the new Hazbin thing trying to get it there by Friday’s deadline, made 1200 words so good job me.


Let me know what day you’re reporting in for. If I've missed you on the tally let me know. Feel free to jump in at any time.

Day eleven - [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] nafs, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] cmk418, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] ysilme, [personal profile] goddess47,


other days )
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cornerofmadness ([personal profile] cornerofmadness) wrote2025-06-11 09:57 pm
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The urge to slap CVS into next week

So I went to pick up an ungodly amount of meds from the cvs near the parents' they texted me yesterday about 2 that it was too early to fill. I get there and get the others but NOT my toujeo insulin. Where is this?
CVS - um it's on hold
Me - you texted me about everything else why not this?
CVS - we don't know
Me - WHY is it on hold?
CVS - you have to get in another line to ask that question

Me- goes to other line, muttering

CVS - we don't know WHY it's on hold
Me - is it covered because my insurance keeps threatening to kick this one out of formulary.
CVS -yes, we can fill it now or do you want to come back?
Me - i live 18 miles away. FILL IT (took them over an hour to manage it which should be a good thing because they didn't have the humalog yesterday. You know the most common insulin out there)


I keep saying I'll be doing a pride month book rec and I keep failing so here have all the LGBT books I've read this year (amazon links, no covers because I'm tired and in pain)

Books:

Under This Red Rock YA, horror/mystery, heavy on mental health issues


Disco Witches of Fire Island magic realism 1980s so this is steeped in both the casual sex scene and the horrors of the rise of AIDS (so this is not really a happy story)

Graphic Novels

Carmilla: The First Vampire Chinese-American retelling of Carmilla (in two volumes)


The Princess and the Grilled Cheese Sandwich fantasy rom-com

here.Les Normaux: A Dark and Dreamy Tale of Forbidden Love, Dare to Be Seduced by the Supernatural (Les Normaux, 1) supernatural romance webtoon

Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus


If you have questions or want to chat about any of them please do


What I Just Finished Reading:

The Witch's Orchard by Archer Sullivan PI mystery very much enjoyed this (no having the sleuth do something stupid to get in danger!)

West By God - horror, this was...honestly it could have been a journalist mystery without any supernatural elements and been better for it.


What I am Currently Reading:

Anima rising - a good reads Frankenstein retelling giveaway win but also real person fanfic of Klimt and others and so far it's not great.

Dark Entry - a short suspense/horror novel I got last year

A Spell to Wake the Dead - a YA horror arc that is...good but man one of the main characters I want to drop in the ocean


What I Plan to Read Next: Something for the popsugar challenge probably or one of the books I won from Goodreads
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yourlibrarian ([personal profile] yourlibrarian) wrote2025-06-11 06:56 pm

Oregon Trip, Days 7 through 13

1) The next day we were headed to Eugene by way of a stop at Silver Falls Park. This was our first bust of the trip, in that the falls required a walk to get to them. We had not found the entrance to the waterfall area easy to find either as we were looking for the wrong name. However the drive into the forest had been quite nice and we had time before check in at the hotel anyway.

Finding the hotel in Eugene proved a challenge due to one way streets, blocks and blocks of dividers preventing turns, and similar names, or streets that changed name on each side of the boulevard. When we finally arrived at our hotel (where even the entrance wasn't easy to spot, confusing our food deliverer as well as us!) we were amused by the painting in our room which seemed to echo the driving experience. Read more... )

2) When I returned to the room, M and I made some microwave popcorn and settled in to watch Captain America: Brave New World. My two takeaways were that Anthony Mackie did a good job as Sam, anchoring the film and giving it heart, as well as no doubt influencing Sam's perspective on the world. The second is that the overall plot mirrored Winter Soldier in many ways. I didn't mind that, as I thought that the changes both said something about our present time compared to CA:WS, and it also made both the similarities and differences between Steve and Sam stand out more clearly. Read more... )

3) After, we watched The Eternals, which was new to M as she was curious about the adamantium source in the sea in Captain America. I continue to think that it's a pity this film didn't do well. I liked the story, as I like using the MCU as a framework for different kinds of tales. I figured my friend would like it too as she's fond of origin myths. And she did, appreciating the variety of characters in it, even though this is also a sort of weakness in that we don't have time to explore them all properly.

It's also a shame that we probably won't have a follow up to either credit scene.

4) On the last day of the trip, M and I drove down to L.A. together. We passed a lot of nice sights during our crossing of the CA-152 West. Some were entertaining, such as all the garlic farms in Gilroy advertising things like garlic ice cream and garlic honey (also 10 avocados for $1!) Some were just pretty. One was the San Luis reservoir, which was huge. Read more... )

5) My week+ since the trip has been fairly occupied with catching up on things, dealing with the bed issue, and frankly just being tired. I thought it was interesting that both my friends took an extra day off work after their return than they'd planned. I had less to jump into than they did but felt so draggy my first day back I feared I'd managed to pick up a bug, despite consistent masking. But nope, just tired.

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Cher (TW) ([personal profile] thawrecka) wrote2025-06-11 06:15 pm
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After my last post, I managed to watch another one and a half movies on the weekend - the half because I needed to go to the bathroom partway through Bring Her Back, and when I realised all I'd left in the cinema was my raspberry fanta, decided the movie was so boring I didn't need to go back.

我去了电影院。看了电影。吃了爆米花。

So far this year I've watched movies from Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Spain, Thailand, UK, USA and Vietnam. I'd like to add more countries to that list!
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cornerofmadness ([personal profile] cornerofmadness) wrote2025-06-11 12:34 am
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Write Every Day Day 11




I edited and posted that [community profile] getyourwordsout Yahtzee story. And I’m 500 words into a new Hazbin story


Let me know what day you’re reporting in for. If I've missed you on the tally let me know. Feel free to jump in at any time.

Day ten [personal profile] goddess47, [personal profile] badly_knitted, [personal profile] lilly_c, [personal profile] cornerofmadness, [personal profile] nafs, [personal profile] luzula, [personal profile] cmk418, [personal profile] trobadora, [personal profile] sylvanwitch, [personal profile] carenejeans, [personal profile] china_shop, [personal profile] ysilme, [personal profile] brithistorian, [personal profile] yasaman


other days )
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cornerofmadness ([personal profile] cornerofmadness) wrote2025-06-10 10:28 pm
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The weather today was actually lovely

After all that rain. I even sat outside and worked some. Tried to garden but the empty pots were filled with spiders and bugs and I ran away. I shall try again another day. Zucchini and me and spiders don't mix.

I've also been learning odd things lately like in my search for things to do in Kansas City MO (for my conference next year) I was nosing about a historic cemetery and found this lady. I am always interested in the women who went up the ranks from prostitute to madam to one of the richest women in town, like Madam Dufran in Deadwood SD. Well meet Leannah Loveall She had the same career path as Dufran and something amuses me about a prostitute named Loveall. If I wrote that people would be annoyed at me being clever.

Also I'm reading a book with the tag line Klimt, Freud and Jung meet the bride of Frankenstein (Anima Rising) it's not what I was hoping for (I have a love/hate relationship with professional RPF usually falling on the hate side) but it mentioned Felix Salten, the author of Bambi, is now considered the probable author of Josephine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore, as Told by Herself , a famous early erotic novel (not one I've read and I've oddly read a lot of these things, none of which that were very good IMO)

So my brother calls me yesterday to tell me it's my turn to rent a cabin in the Hocking Hills (he did it last year for the group) and he has the perfect one for me to rent because I love caves. He said he'll kick in 100$. It's 1600/night....dream on, bro but man, it's something. Check it out




I am a bit tired so I'm pushing off my fannish 50 women of fandom til friday. Instead I'm going to fall back on a fannish 50 standard for me: the fan animatics.

Satana came out with a new one for Hazbin a few weeks ago (but YT just recced it to me) and they have another one to the song ricochet by starset. The new one is to Paranoid DJ's fan songs for Hazbin. I've recced their work before. This song Get Hooked is not my favorite by them but I love that DJ experiments with style. This one has a mumble rap feel which is what I don't like because the lyrics are very hard to hear over the unbalanced instrumental but the animatic is pretty amazing. Satana does not make Angel smooth around the bend like a Ken doll like so many fan artists do. He's decidedly male.

Warning BOTH animatics have Angel Dust in his drug-addicted, sex worker role (including pole dance/stripping) and the allusion to sexual assault is very apparent. His and Val's relationship is a toxic abusive mess. This doesn't shy away from that. (Honestly as prudish as YT is getting i'm surprised they haven't been hidden)