It's done. I clicked "Submit".
My second Novella Conefessions of the Damaged 1.2 is up for pre-order.
Release date: March 1st 2022
All I have to do is come to the keyboard and the universe just kind of flows out through my fingertips. It's getting harder and harder to tell this story though. I absolutely love it, but it's a tricky balance that requires patience.
I am not sure how other people will feel about it, and of course I'm curious, but at least I like it, right?
My goal was to share the ethereal feeling of communing with life and nature and also the process of facing one's own demons and the struggle of untangling.
I don't know if I can call this a shamanic process of healing...but that's the direction I am going for. Most of the story takes place within the characters mind, even as he goes about his day and so it's a bit of a heavy read.
It says the book can be finished in 0-1 hours but I think that's nonsense. It took me 3 hours to read it and I wrote it. I also think that if you enjoy it you'll probably read each chapter a few times. The word count is relatively low, it comes in at about 50 traditional book pages.
I tried to express the characters stream of consciousness (from 3rd person) while still making it coherent enough to follow.
The ultimate goal of the book was to help myself heal from old fear and anger and to share my own process of healing with others, but through the experience of a character who is not me. I already feel like a different person compared to when I started writing.
The character is not me but is influenced by me for sure. He is influenced by many other people too. I like to think of him as another me, one that made slightly different decisions and had slightly different experiences to end up moving in a different direction.
The main character is a homeless man who is trying to find peace. He observes and analyses people, talks to trees and shadows, and sees things that others don't see. Memories come to him in dreams and those dreams and memories teach us more about who he is and how he got to where he is.
I tried my best to make it a story that people could relate to regardless of culture or background. That was not easy to do considering the character is homeless and doesn't seem to be all that bothered by the fact that he's homeless. Still, I think his experiences touch on things that every single person can relate to. Whether you read long and deep enough to find it is up to you.
I know not that many people are reading novels these days, and most people already have long lists of things they want to catch up on, but still, I thought this book had to be written...It asked me to be written, and so I trust that someone is going to read it and feel something from it.
For all of March, both books, Confessions of the Damaged 1.1 and 1.2 will be 15% off ($2.99) although that sale only applies to certain countries, I can't change the price for some countries. The original price is $3.60 each.
It's a continuous story, but it is not entirely linear, so you can actually treat it as a collection of short stories too. I wrote most chapters to be able to stand alone, although some chapters are more independent than others.
Of course reading it in order makes the most sense, but I predict that some people will really love some chapters and hate others. You may find yourself re-reading one chapter over again after finishing the book and disregarding the others.
I expect there to be 5 books in this series, the 3rd is nearly complete, I hope to publish it in the summer and I'm working on the 4th right now.
I'd love it if you checked these out and gave them a good rating on one of the sites listed in the links (Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Nook etc.) or Goodreads.com
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It's a great feeling that one XD
I'm selling that feeling as an NFT! Lol
The description of the book already makes it look like a cool read.
Congratulations on achieving this goal
Thanks man! Marketing is not my strong suit so I'm glad it sounds interesting, I think it is!
Sounds like an interesting and selfhealing read. Will you be selling digital copies for HIVE? Even if it's a few week/months later.
If you are really super opposed to buying from those platforms I can send a copy over discord for hive. I am only selling on those platforms to try and reach a wider audience, especially since Hiversters like spending more time at hive
I'm not super opposed at all. The country I live in, Suriname, has a bad economy limiting ways of purchase outside of the country. I used to have a USD credit card at my bank for international purpose, but ever since it expired, they have made it more difficult to get one, increasing the amount of money that had to be frozen on the card more than tenfold.
Over discord would work for me.
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This part made me laugh! Who is the expert? The author or A.I.?
I am really looking forward to reading this! It sounds powerful.
I can't help but feel that your book is/ your books are way too cheap ( at least for those in the Western world ). Have you considered selling physical copies too?
No matter what, I am definitely gonna buy this one and I'll then probably re-read your first novella too.
Congratz my friend and nice to hear that we finished a book almost in sync. I sense that this is gonna happen, more often, from now on, as I'm really on a roll these days.
Sending you a big hug all the way from Portugal!
P.S. The cover looks amazing!
Well....pricing is tricky, but I don't really expect to make much money with this book right now. If this is something that CAN make money, I'll start to think of it that way, but I have no idea how to reach the amount of people that would make that possible. I also don't want it to feel exclusive. It's only 40-50 pages. And it's an e-book. If it for 3.60, I earn 2.14. If I sell it for $6, I make 3.50. I don't feel a huge difference between the two, considering it's only sold 6 copies per month at the peak so far.
If I'm not getting rich and only my friends are reading it, I'd rather keep it cheap.
An arbitrary goal I set is finding 50,000 readers (I'm not making huge efforts for this, just small ones). I need to find at least 20% of that if I want it to be a real source of income, and I don't really know how to do that, so I'm just happy if people read it right now. If I raise the price later, the ones who like it will keep reading it, and the people who don't won't and that's fine by me.
Another thing though: Imagine it's the price of a full novel but only 1/5 the size? I wouldn't really like buying that.
If I want to make money with this, I need to figure out how to get people to write good reviews and buy it early so it's recommended to people, because I don't really know how else to promote it. I am not connected to the literary world, nor am I all that interested in it. Nor do I have a platform to promote it other than Hive.
I'm just trying to let the right people find the series right now, find people who really enjoy it and figure out where to go from there as far as pricing and all that goes.
I plan on putting out physical versions, perhaps two volumes or perhaps waiting until all 5 parts are released. The physical version will be about profit because I want to encourage people to be eco-friendly unless they REALLY want a physical copy. I'm also going to sell bags, because as eco-friendly as I want to be, people are still gonna use bags.
I'd love to sell the book for dirt cheap and then have a patreon that some people give $100 a month to cause they like it so much haha
I appreciate that you think it's worth more...if so write a review on one of those sites dude :-P You don't even have to buy it there.
Congratulations @selfhelp4trolls, I look forward to reading both of them.
Writing certainly has been a huge part of my healing process xxxx
🦚🦚🦚 I hope it's as healing to read it as it was to write it.
i will grab a copy of all release, Nice work. I personally cant sit down to write but i do a lot of readings. will check this one out. Am new here and i would love to keep myself reading these till i can publish my first post here.
Thanks so much! Yeah, feel free, I hope you like it! I need more time to read...I'm so busy trying to write
It’s matches with me except I’m not homeless😅.
Well then we have a lot in common! 😆
You are not the only one in this, everyone has already felt in love with this piece. I really have and thanks, sir.
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