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Interesting! It got me to click. How would you get across the genre though? And do you intend to publish the whole novel on-line?

Interesting Mel L, however the quote does not necessarily come from On Writing, of which I have a copy. Stephen King has given countless lectures, talks and discussions over an extremely long career so the quote could be taken from one of those. Fantastic debate by the way. I find everything...

Welcome Julie. You are getting feedback and answers already so you should do fine on here. You have also posted, so you are well underway. Good luck with your work.

Hopefully we will both learn from people's comments Pamela Jo. I certainly hope so.

That is a very interesting reply Hannah. I see where you are coming from, especially about slanting the narrative. I must admit though that I still find it hard to write the story I want to tell and want to read - I can never get over the fact that it is being written for others to read, not me...

I don't know if you can recall @AgentPete that about 15 years ago when faced with huge costs of hardware such as state-of-the-art data centres, microwave, satellite etc to meet the growth of internet usage major ISPs proposed a token charge for time used across their networks. This move would...

The way I have always understood it is that if you were talking about something personal possessive to Julius you add the s, i.e. Julius's nose. Whereas something non-personal drops the possessive s, i.e. Julius' letter. Do you see the subtle difference there? However, it is a 'vague area' and...

The quote 'Write for the top ten percent of your readers' is attributed to Stephen King. After giving it a tremendous amount of thought I bore this in mind in my own writing for novels like Scenes From A Dying Planet and my WIP. Before I write anything on Litopia about my thoughts on this quote...

Welcome human. It is a long time since I have read any science fiction even though I love a good sci fi movie like Dune. Perhaps you can make me change alleyways you tease...

One take away from the statistics for me is 61.63% use reader magnets i.e. free book or other incentive and 50.87% use book giveaways. Personally, now that I pay much more attention to these matters and publicity offers, I have been utterly shocked at how Stephen King novels, Lee Child novels...

I say go for it agent Pete. I have lurked around these halls of writing pretty much since the beginning. My biggest lesson when writing Scenes From A Dying Planet and other works is that writers need to be commercially aware if they are going to survive, and I don't just mean to make money but...

I took a Master of Science in computing subjects in 1991. We studied and coded AI, so it is a far from new concept. You mention Autocad where as a form of AI it removed the tedious need to build elements of technical drawings from scratch time and time again. But it meant less tedious...

Thank you for your professional response @AgentPete . Your final point got me the most! My dear, cherished, readers are what really counts and I would never do anything to hurt them or mislead them, so you are absolutely right. Most of what I say about the publishing world btw is tongue in...

Yes. thanks Rachael, a very balanced reply. As someone from a partial academic background myself I see exactly what you mean.

Following on from the above comments I would just add that I have just bought a pack of books and they all say 'number one bestseller' on their covers. They all have endorsements on them too. Can they all be number one bestsellers? Can they all genuinely deserve such fulsome praise by big...