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Author Topic: SO Collection...in BOOK form?!?!?!?  (Read 23316 times)
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« Reply #15 on: January 21, 2009, 05:11:26 PM »

You should make a cool cover art  16 i bet some people in the forum could help with that, i see some nices stuff in the fan art section, you should get one of those artists to make you something
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« Reply #16 on: January 22, 2009, 04:16:58 AM »

You should make a cool cover art  16 i bet some people in the forum could help with that, i see some nices stuff in the fan art section, you should get one of those artists to make you something

I actually have a cover artist now, she's doing the art by hand. What I've seen so far looks amazing.
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« Reply #17 on: January 22, 2009, 05:13:59 PM »

thats cool.  cover art is usually what sells a book, I know that if i saw a book with a an awesome cover art i'd be more compelled to buy it.
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« Reply #18 on: January 22, 2009, 11:46:45 PM »

Ya, cover art does help sales a lot, which is why i wanted someone else to do it, cause I suck at art, hand and computer based, lol.
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« Reply #19 on: January 23, 2009, 12:17:42 AM »

Just put a picture of me on the cover....that book would be a bestseller in like...a week.  XD j/k j/k

Anyways, this is a great idea and I can't wait to buy a copy :p
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« Reply #20 on: January 23, 2009, 12:44:14 AM »

Just put a picture of me on the cover....that book would be a bestseller in like...a week.  XD j/k j/k

Anyways, this is a great idea and I can't wait to buy a copy :p

if by best seller you mean *worlds fastest book purchased for fire materials* than yes it would. 16
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« Reply #21 on: January 23, 2009, 03:11:02 AM »

Yea
No way i would pay over a few bucks for something a kid wrote about this game
I think books are way overpriced as it is
Not to mention becoming outdated
If you really are just doing it to get the book out
Then sell it for 7.51
That way you pay for cost and no profit.

i just want to re submit my suggestion of $1.50 because the book is worth about the same as toilet paper...
it somehow got deleted last time i wrote it

am i not entitled to my opinion???
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« Reply #22 on: January 23, 2009, 07:29:52 AM »

Well...errr...good luck and all but I don't actually like your stories  1 (no malice intended, just saying my opinion)
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« Reply #23 on: January 23, 2009, 05:13:47 PM »

Who is deleting my posts
I want to know why
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« Reply #24 on: January 23, 2009, 05:19:04 PM »

yah.... spayed's also got deleted from this topic.... he said something about the book being worth as much as toilet paper
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« Reply #25 on: January 24, 2009, 03:32:12 AM »

Come on, mods. If you just delete things without explanation, things get confusing.
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« Reply #26 on: January 24, 2009, 04:50:49 AM »

i think it's porbably de to the fact that spayed and cameron tend to jsut insult me in whatever topic i post/post in. I'm not sure why you'res got deleted waylain, unless it was pertaining to the spayed's/cameron's posts.

and thats ok TNTTony, I don't expect everyone to like my stories, there will always be people who think they are garbage or whatever. You at least said it in a nice way, which is much appreciated.

I think you guys will like the book, it shaping up nicely, approaching 300 pages with all the extras i added in.
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« Reply #27 on: January 24, 2009, 02:16:53 PM »

Spayed was given a three day ban.  Insulting is alright to an extent but after a while it just turns into flaming and bashing....which isn't allowed here.  As for your reply waylain, I believe I may have accidently deleted it when I removed Spayed's...my browser stopped loading so I hit remove again and it may have been yours which got removed, I will restore it if it lets me...sorry about that.

UPDATE:  Restored.
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« Reply #28 on: January 24, 2009, 04:54:00 PM »

Yea
No way i would pay over a few bucks for something a kid wrote about this game
I think books are way overpriced as it is
Not to mention becoming outdated
If you really are just doing it to get the book out
Then sell it for 7.51
That way you pay for cost and no profit.


Books cost what they do because of production costs and then the publishers making sure they get a good profit from it. I'm pricing the book at the industry standard of $15, which most people I've talked to agree that is a fair price, as atm, the draft is at a little over 300 pages.

And I'm not doing this to get the book out there, this is how I'll be publishing unless a publishers comes to me with a nice offer.

Also, I'm not a "kid" per say, I'm almost 20. I huess if you're like, 30-40 that can be considered a kid, lol.

And the book is really only inspired by the game, not about it, as most of what is in it has nothing to do with the game itself, it jsut happens in the same universe, lol.

But you have a point and are entitled to your opinion. As I've said before, I don't expect everyone to love or even like my book. I write because I love to, and the SO universe has become one of my favorite things to write.

As for outdated, not really, they still sell as much as they use to. Books won't ever really be replaced, probably just digitized, in which cause they'll be way overpriced if the price is the same, but thats a topic for another day.
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« Reply #29 on: January 25, 2009, 02:04:57 PM »

If you just write because you you love too then money should not be a factor
Im 20 and i can hardly imagine someone my age ready to start publishing a book worth $15
If I were to shell out at that kind of money it ought to be a bestseller
Even bestseller paperbacks are cheaper than that
If you find that hard to believe
Look at this
The Twilight Series is the most loved book series right now
Think its about tied with the Harry Potter series
And yet it only retails for $11
So why should i pay more money for a no name author and a no name book


PS. Thanks Snipe for correcting that and owning up to it
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