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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.17 — Marketing can be difficult. As a reader/viewer, what catches your interest and makes you want to buy? CW: The opinions are solely those of the author and don't reflect those of any marketeer or designer.

I am a golden retriever. Movement and color catch my eye. Squirrel!

I am also like a crow. What is the shiny thing??? Must. Have. It.

I am a baby. I've not seen that thing. Stare…

Recently, it's been authors writing about their work or their books that have made me buy. I like seeing the self-promotions, if they don't come at me like spam (or look like it). Thusly has mastodon marketed your books! I can't say whether I'm typical or whether I'm unique, but there you go.

If I'm browsing without aim in the bookstore, cover art and title play equally big roles. Your presentation doesn't have to be like all the others. I like the imaginative, the primitive, the abstract, and the non sequitur as much as I like the interesting hunk or princess on the cover doing the outrageous thing they're not supposed to be doing. A bit of abstract art on a shelf or the beautiful people will catch my eye. A puzzler title, or one of innuendo or doble-sentido, or stating the obvious forcefully will get me to think, though. Combined with the art, they will make me pick it up.

Not helpful, I know. No secret sauce recipes here. However…

AI art will cause me to place the book pages-forward, or hide it from view behind other books. Won't buy it! No I won't. If the publisher cheaps out, I'm assuming the author did, too.

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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.16 — What one thing would you tell your older or younger creative self if you could time travel?

The agent said don't write in 1st person. Ignore that commandment.

You sold the novel. Write the sequel now. While the day job is important, opportunity has a limited lifespan, as do editors who like your stories.

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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.12 — Shameless self-promotion day. Show us what you're proud of. Let's boost away.

Mars Need Women is a hopeful yet deeply dystopian feminist SF web-novel that leans heavily into Women's right's issues thanks to a set of writing prompts on the subject. It is a woman-centric adventure story of overcoming adversity while being female, with all the warts and frustrations, not as a man in disguise.

Our wannabe engineer heroine May Ri escapes a disheartening life, faced with becoming little more than a housewife because she lacks "blessings," to help colonize Mars—if you can call being shanghaied escaping and being contracted to have children a benefit. (She does get to choose the gorgeous supportive guy, though, so that's a positive.) As she learns to make martian machines, she keeps putting herself at the center of a global martian dust storm with her children as power shifts from being male-dominated. As the daughters of the Martian immigrants increasingly control Mars' future (how is spoilers), May Ri together with her five daughters shape a world (Mars) the way unfettered women might imagine it.

When the men of Earth take affront—of course they do—they learn that women don't fight like men, especially when their children's lives are threatened, and their wellbeing is at stake. #RSMarsNeededWomen

It remains free-to-read on Mastodon for a few more days:

eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/11408894.

If you start reading it now, a comment or a private mention will tell me not to delete the posts until the end of next week. I consider it a beta read. I'm already revising an augmenting the original story, tying up loose ends, and might add more chapters along the path to publishing it as a book. Meanwhile, I'm going to start boosting chapters for a last hurrah.

See #alttext for book cover description.

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The cover art for Mars Needed Women. The background is of the Mars surface with rover tracks, big rocks, sand, and a greenish sky. There is a triskelion image of Mars, which is a tattoo in the story. Credit NASA and ESA for the photos.
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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.09 — Are or were you taking courses for your creative activities?

Are? No.

Were?

  1. I took a writing seminar a very long time ago run by Theodore Sturgeon. I really really REALLY wish I remembered ANYTHING about that other than it was him, he was nice, and it was at Antioch.
  2. After writing a couple of novels and short stories, when I was attending UCLA, I decided to sign up for a creative writing course. Seemed like a slam-dunk. I remember it was in Royce Hall. After I turned in an SF short-story, the instructor informed me that it wasn't a "Christian" story, and that's all we were allowed to write. I dropped the course.
  3. I attended Clarion West, a six-week live-in intensive writing and critiquing course. You have to already be a writer, and you must provide samples. It's hosted by six professional writers or editors, each for a week. I learned that under pressure I could write freely and copiously. It's infamous for getting you out of your mundane world and isolating you in a community of writers in a very art-centric district of Seattle. I would 100% recommend that any SF, SFF, or Fantasy (possibly horror) writer who could take the course consider doing so. I admit the date I attended in my profile.

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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.08 — Share a song lyric you've written or heard that resonates with you. (Give credit if it's not your song.)

I'm not religious, but that doesn't mean that allegorical songs can't impress me. Allegory (incidentally as it were) by Murray Attaway is a strangely uplifting and mystical song that never fails to bring pictures to my mind and a sense of awe that brings me chills.

Coincidentally, or perchance not, the lyric snippet below inspired a chapter titled "Allegory" in Reluctant Moon. Thorn Rose takes her friend Streak outside the city to watch a meteor shower, knowing the precise time it will start. Seems the weather service had tracked the trajectory of a piece of the sky struck from the heavens.

I've included a listen link and a lyric link.

Lyrics: genius.com/Murray-attaway-alle
Listen: youtube.com/watch?v=wYVYSLS04Z

Sudden move in the stars, whenever I look to the skies
I can get lost, stand in a mirror and know that I
Am a fragment of something greater than I
Specks of dust in a moonbeam gathering shape
And potent of greatness waiting to light

Even the wind in the trees is the allegory
Everything that is and ever will be is the allegory

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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.06 — Talk To Me Day. Featured creator: Lydia VVinters ( @HeliaXyana ) #TTMD

It's now April 6th in London, so here's my question:

I see a lot of imagery on your website (lydiavvinters.com). How to you characterize yourself as a creator? A poet? An Artist? What do you focus on?

Also, is your last name of your pen name intentionally a double-V so it looks like a W (double-U)?

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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.03 — Would you like to form a writers/creative group? Share what you're looking for to see if anyone would like to join you.

Me? Form one? Shy. Not likely.

Were I to join one, I would hope for one with a Clarion ethic towards critique, and one that's strictly limited to 1 or 2 pages per person. Can't be writing if'n I am critiquin'.

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#ScribesAndMakers 2504.02 — What do you want to work on this month?

  1. Now that I've completed Mars Needed Women, I'm going to turn it into a book. I've already figured out how to create an ePub for my beta reader. The web version will disappear, so if you haven't gotten to it, you've got until about April 10th. So far, I've added material to almost all the chapters, and a glossary. Since it's only 25k, I am thinking of adding some writer's processes appendices. Since I was restricted to 5,000 words for each of the 31 chapters, 350 of which were hashtags, I had to practice samarai concision, becoming hyper focused on word choice, and ellipsis such that the words implied what needed to be said but couldn't be included. The prose is sometimes too sparse. I'm also correcting some science errors and fixing foreshadowing faux pas.
  2. I am returning to writing Reluctant Moon.

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