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dickrubin716

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Multi-genre #SelfPublished author with books available on Amazon. #NewAdult. #YoungAdult #Sabres fan. #BillsMafia for life #WritingCommunity

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dickrubin716, to random
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I keep dusting off a story I originally started as a short when I was in high school. I’ve rewritten the easiest completed parts a couple of times, and continue to add to it over time. I was fully planning on diving in to finally finish it this summer. Now I’m thinking once again about putting it on the back burner. I’ve got 2 competing ideas floating in my heads. One I know I can wait on. The other is what’s intriguing me. /thread #writingcommunity #authorsofmastodon

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I wrote My New Roommate thinking it would be a stand alone story. I was already working on my next book when I started getting positive private feedback about the character of Lauren. As soon as I could I gave her a story of her own, The Challenges of being me. The plots of these 2 books overlap a lot, but told from different POVs. There’s a third character I’d like to focus on - April. She is the new roommate after all. /thread #writingcommunity #authorsofmastodon

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Ultimately, after the third book is out I’d like to go back to edit all of the stories together chronologically. Above the chapter numbers I’ll put the names - Tyler, Lauren, or April. Right now the world is building faster in my head than I can write. I have a major concern about the third book, and ultimately the compilation of all 3 into 1. /thread

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My New Roommate is a #NewAdult book, and has some heavy and graphic sex scenes, including with April. The Challenges of Being Me is #youngadult and Lauren is very wholesome, which she also was in the first book. April’s story will have to be sex-heavy too, as that was a plot point of the first book. In your opinion, is it ok to have 1 #YA story sandwiched between 2 more explicit stories? #writingcommunity #authorsofmastodon @bookstodon @mastodonbooks

noellemitchell, to DuckDuckGo
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"A global outage is affecting a variety of Microsoft services, including its Bing search engine and Copilot AI tool.

Users turned to social media on Thursday to complain about the outage, which is also impacting third parties, including the search engine DuckDuckGo, which relies on Microsoft’s infrastructure."

#DuckDuckGo #Bing #Copilot #AI #News #tech #Microsoft #press

https://techcentral.co.za/microsoft-services-hit-by-global-outage/245222/

dickrubin716,
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@noellemitchell I guess I live the life of a digital hermit as this is the first I’m hearing about a large outage online. To be fair, I also didn’t know about the large Facebook outage a couple weeks ago.

BonnettsBooks, to bookstodon
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Just moved from mastodonbooks net, which is shutting down June 11.
New intro forthcoming.
Long live @mastodonbooks
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dickrubin716,
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@BonnettsBooks @mastodonbooks @bookstodon I too will always have a warm spot in my heart for @RogerRemacle and Mastodonbooks. Glad you found your way to a new instance and we still can follow each other

dickrubin716, to bookstodon
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I would love to get your thoughts and feedback on my #BookCover from my latest book, The Challenges of Being Me. Do you like it? Does it capture your attention? Without knowing anything about the book, what genre would you say this cover best fits? #writingcommunity #bookstodon #authors @bookstodon

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@benetnasch @bookstodon Your second guess is closer. It’s a coming of age/kind of romance YA book. I’ve been feeling stuck because my “team” have all enjoyed the book and the cover. They’ve also spoken up when they didn’t like something. But now that the book is live I feel I’m hitting a roadblock and not getting the book into readers hands like my previous ones.

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@benetnasch @bookstodon In my mind I was thinking this non-illustrated cover might help it stand out when sharing a screen of covers from reviewers. I might use Mastodon to gather feedback on ideas for my next cover, whenever that might end up being

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@thorncoyle @bookstodon I’ve received this comment a lot. Seems I may have missed the mark on this YA book

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@negative12dollarbill @diazona @bookstodon Ouch, but likely well deserved feedback. Yes, this long pretentious phrase is the title to a YA book. I’ll definitely keep in mind to use contrast and non-stick fonts in future books. Thank you both

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@elysegrasso @benetnasch @bookstodon I’m beginning to believe my original goal of being different with this cover hasn’t quite been a hit with the intended audience. I’m still proud of the book. Now I’ll try to keep these struggles in mind for future books. Thank you for the thoughtful response!

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@noodlemaz @willaful @benetnasch @bookstodon Yup, that’s me who self published this book using stock fonts. I do like the suggestion of using a handwriting type of font. Will keep this suggestion in mind for future books. Thanks for the feedback

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@beecycling @bookstodon I haven’t used Canva before, but have heard good things about it. Thanks for the suggestion

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@noodlemaz @willaful @benetnasch @bookstodon No offense taken. If we take my current book out of the equation, there are tons of self published books that can go toe-to-toe with trad published books. The reader wouldn’t be able to tell in most cases. Mine just fell a bit short. Which is ok since I write as a hobby to get the stories out of my head

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@patchworkbunny @thorncoyle @bookstodon I’m starting to wish I would’ve crowdsourced my options first before committing to this one

alhatch, to bookstodon

Hi folks. Sorry not been around. Work stuff and books. Got into the Wayward Pines trilogy by Blake Crouch and had to finish it. Great thriller series. Good balance of human interest, philosophy and hard Sci fi. And a page turner. Enjoyes it. Not reading Contact by Carl Sagan.
What you reading?
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dickrubin716,
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@alhatch @bookstodon I’ve binge read the first 23 Boxcar Children books out loud to my daughter over the last few months. The last book I read for myself that I enjoyed was The Couple At No. 9 by Claire Douglas.

CindySue, to books

More than a quarter of readers of YA are over the age of 28 research shows
Do you read YA?
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/30/more-than-a-quarter-of-readers-of-ya-are-over-the-age-of-28-research-shows

#bookstodon #books #read #reading

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dickrubin716,
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@CindySue @bookstodon I’m 44 and enjoy reading YA, especially contemporary stories. Not so much a fan of sci-fi or fantasy, which currently seem to be taking over the market.

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Anytime I randomly find myself on ANY form of social media other than here, I'm very quickly reminded why I am not invested in any other social media other than here.

dickrubin716,
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@heyfluxay yup, I’m with you!

dickrubin716, to bookstodon
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Wifey had an old episode on of #SVU where Stabler goes undercover to buy a hooker. Right when a cash exchange is made his team comes in to arrest her. I think it would’ve been more entertaining if she was also undercover from a different department and tried to arrest him. That would be an entertaining #storyidea to expand into a book: 2 undercover cops unknown to each other try to arrest each other. Know if any books like this? #storyideas #writingcommunity #authorsofmastodon @bookstodon

dickrubin716,
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@jaystephens @bookstodon Sometimes real life is stranger than any fictional idea! Thanks for sharing this

CindySue, to random

I am going to set myself a goal for the end of the week and if I accomplish the task, I am going to buy myself a cross stitch kit. I have been wanting to cross stitch again (my mom taught me when I was young, but as I aged I found other things to spend my time doing). Thinking it might be fun to try a small kit again.

dickrubin716,
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@CindySue I have faith you’ll do it! Setting small fun goals can sometimes be the ultimate motivation

dickrubin716, to bookstodon
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Lately I’m finding myself creating 1 or 2 great chapters in my outline for my next book. It’s those other chapters bringing everything together that I’m still working on. At the same time I’m also finding myself adding more details to the great chapters. I guess my overthinking is why it takes so long for me to release books. #writingcommunity #authorsofmastodon #author #amwriting @bookstodon

dickrubin716, to bookstodon
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I like to think of #KindleUnlimited as being similar to FAST TV streaming services with ads. Both have plenty of content for a low barrier of entry, and both have content people might otherwise not have consumed #writingcommunity @bookstodon #authorsofmastodon #author #writinglife

dickrubin716, to random

@CindySue Hi Cindy! I am about to be migrating to your instance today. By summer Mastodonbooks.net will be shutting down and I found your instance as another book friendly one to check out. If you ever change your mind about donations please let the world know as I'd happily contribute a little something.Thank you for creating this place! I'll be over soon :)

dickrubin716,
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@CindySue @dickrubin716 Yay, I’m here now! Still working on getting set up, but am glad i was able to transfer over all my followers/follows. I’d love a magical agent to conjure up a potion to help us self published authors immediately gain loads of reviews. Till then I’ll keep doing what I’m doing to connect with people. Thanks again for setting up this instance 😎

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