JankyFluffy

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          Conform or Suffer: A Paranormal Retelling is now #3 in Fantasy on Inkspired. 
          Thanks to everyone who has supported me. 
          It's a special feature.

Ruthie is Falling Backwards has reached 26K reads and Unintentionally Married by Magic has reached 18K and is two reads from 19K. If you haven't read it. It's on Inkspired. I am working on Book two of Unintentionally Married by Magic which I hope to start publishing in December or Jan. I am line editing and proofing. It will never be perfect without a  2k editor, but this is one of the first books I wrote which is mostly self-edited. So, I should be thrilled I was able to put this out.  The  beta reader fell through. It's weird. I feel it's better than Muses and Conform or Suffer and those books had real editors. 
          
          I don't think I finalized any Amby awards this year but send congrats to your friends.  It's okay, one of the books finalized last year.  And the other version of Conform or Suffer finalized a couple years back.
          
          
          Does anyone want me to keep Saving the Damsel and Conform or Suffer a paranormal retailing up.  I plan to repost Saving the Damsel on royal road, but I don't do well on RR. Though, my reads are rising.

Wattpad is a place I cross-post. I am an adult woman with two now-adult children. Most of my early readers of my romance novels are men. I feel my writing is too quirky and weird for Wattpad. 
          
          There are days I feel like giving up writing! Today is not that day.  My inner critic is calling me a whiny baby and telling me I just need to create more. 
          I made a copy/mistake which led to a bad review. My fault. It seems to happen when I am copying my books from Reedsy or Google Docs.  But it was my fault and no one else. 
          I checked before I published. It must have happened, when I was fixing a small typo. 
          The typo would have been better. 
          Then I found formatting errors I didn't cause in a book I am publishing and a couple I published. 
          And I also have to deal with sites removing the paragraph spacing and the spacing together. 
          But I will stop promoting and crossposting Muses, Mishaps, and Murder! I love the book, but it doesn't do as well as my other cozy dystopian novellas. It's not as good as I think it was. No, the problem was the old version was fine, and I wrecked it trying to appease beta feedback.  I created a new wattpad file with a copy edit mistakes. I am going back to the old version.  The old version was an Amby Finalist. But fixing things made it worse. 
          It's too quirky, too cozy, too oddball.  It's hard giving up on a book I love, but it's half 
          
          I wish more serialized book companies and webnovels would allow full books to be uploaded, and it's absolutely possible.   
          I plan to write a new adult full-time for maybe 4 more years. My goal is to go part-time. But only if a big dream happens.
          It depends on when and if a dream comes true. But I am already going part-time on Wattpad and Royal Road.  I plan to cross-post Saving the Damsel, but not my popular books.  
          
          
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@JankyFluffy Wow, that's a drastic difference. I've came across a few really good books on here that just didn't have much views. Seems they get buried beneath the already popular books continuing to gain more readers. 
          
          Yeah, there have been some rare nice r4r exchanges, but it's true that does nothing really long-term. Biggest concern is my books not getting read at all when the time comes shortly I can't juggle them anymore. Apart from a few smaller awards, those deals are the only way my stories get read. Whether on Amazon or on free sites still got to promote, so I'm trying to work on doing that a bit better. Writing skills still needs a lot more improvement though. 

@JankyFluffy First readers are always a gem. What book of yours was the first to truly take off? I only ever had one reader that wasn't a fellow writer trying to support each other that loved my book. It was on my old Wattpad account, and she came across it at random. I wasn't expecting a flood of comments with her binging it in two days. Though the story had a lot of plot holes and was unsalvageable to bring to this account, it was still a great motivation after quitting writing for over a year.
          
          The pen name I tend to stick with is Rainbow_Skies. It's the same on here, Inkitt, and will be on Royal Roads though I'm only just looking into the site. For Amazon, I had never considered before because nobody would pay a dime to read anything I write xD My writing has improved a smudge over the years. It is more about reaching more potential readers, even if I don't expect too much. I'm searching for my short stories to have a beta reader first before looking into it. I rather the last draft be on Amazon alone while the old draft remain free to read. 
          
          On here, my books will only get read for awards or r4r exchanges. Which majority of the time aren't genuine, even when people claim to be looking for that. I've had a few people who read my stories as a read swap at the start, but they ended up really enjoying my book. Very hard to come by though, so I can understand not having here as the main focus for promoting.

@JankyFluffy Really putting the work in! I admire such motivation. Adult romance more male leaning is an interesting target audience. And I say bring on the quirky! I love books that have originality than a repeat of the same tropes with different characters. Some never grow tired of them, but it's just hard to stay engaged to me. I haven't been putting much energy into Inkitt, but it's a shame many good books can get overlooked because of a lack of spice:/
          
          For genres, I kinda jump all over the place. Probably not the smartest idea for someone taking baby steps with writing improvements. I'm debating about self publishing on Amazon for my short stories as a collection after a beta reader. Though I really can't make up my mind until it's time. Self promotion is pretty difficult for someone not at all involved with social media. 

Hello, nice to come across another adult writer that has non-mature books:)

My Wattpad Story 
          The Clairvoyant's Kitchen was Reviewed 
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/347200243
          
          https://www.tumblr.com/communities/self-care-by-sadhanja
          
          
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@JankyFluffy oh they have a review post and a milestones post

Guess what. I just finished posting Muses, Mishaps, and Murder!  A Cozy Dystopian on Royal Road, and I am already over 1000 views.   You can read it on Wattpad. 
          
          
          Read it here.  
          
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/345854128-muses-mishaps-and-murder-a-cozy-dystopian