C.B.’s Comments (group member since May 01, 2015)

C.B.’s comments from the Support for Indie Authors group.

Riley wrote: "CB is just trying to give you a little bit of a heads up, because if a romance reader reads it, and it's not romance....your days are numbered. Seriously, I considered writing a romance until some ..."

My feet are large, and the cement needed to make the shoes would outweigh the benefit of drowning me with them... I tell myself.

Diana wrote: "C.B., I'll message you my address and you can send me my share of the desserts. Kidding, you obviously already ate them all and owe me new desserts. "

I am a much better baker than chef. So yes, the desserts were immediately devoured.
Perhaps I should send cookies with copies of the book? That might at least get a review on the cookies!

Ade wrote: "It is completely unrelated. Unfortunately, I couldn't find another title that fits the feel of the novella.

My heroine is Sadie, a young woman with a troubled past. She has worked hard and is read..."

There are two different bikers?

... wait a second here. Are these Bikers or Bikers?

I thought they were cyclists, as the man on the cover looks very much like a cyclist. Are these motorcycle tough guy bikers? The man on the cover does not look like a tough guy biker.

Regardless, as these are stalkers threatening lives - the title doesn't fit. How to lose a guy in 10 days isn't even close to being about that, so you are alienating your actual audience with the title.

Can you please tell us more? What genre? What is the overall feel? Is it a HEA?

If we knew more than we can help you brainstorm! :)

Winifred wrote: "C.B. wrote: "Winifred wrote: "Love the title by the way, even though normally I go for shorter ones. Yours is immediately intriguing. "

I am sure it is a play off of the Kate Hudson / Matthew McCo..."

My dislike is a personal preference. I don't know how the rest of the community really feels about it. I may be the one who is off in their thinking. :)

Diana wrote: "I go to author's websites to get to know the author. I am always curious where they are from, do they have kids--unrelated to their writing. Some have newsletters and some have blogs, some have bot..."

No thank you Diana! You liked so many things, looked at so much, and commented on so many things that I entered an entire new level of Website Stat Euphoria. I honestly threw an impromptu party and make a glorious dessert to celebrate!

Whenever I see my website stats and notice that someone even looked at my website / blog I always get exceptionally giddy! When some has looked at more than one thing I become euphoric. If someone favourites something I nearly faint. If someone comments on something I treat myself to a night out! :D

Winifred wrote: "Love the title by the way, even though normally I go for shorter ones. Yours is immediately intriguing. "

I am sure it is a play off of the Kate Hudson / Matthew McConaughey RomCom 'How to lose a guy in 10 days'. If I am to be completely honest here, I personally don't like it. I don't really like it when anything plays off the title of something else like this unless it is a direct sequel.

Right now it seems to be happening a lot with books having 'Shades', '50', or 'Gray' in the title. I avoid those books with an exceptionally large step. I know that it is to inspire others to buy, perhaps even click as the name is like something else you like, but it always turns me off.

It often sets up unrealistic and unnecessary expectations. Are we to assume that this is a sequel to that movie? If it isn't, should we expect the tone and feel of that movie to be the same of this book? What if it isn't? What if my favourite movie of all time was that one, will this book be right for me?

Why compare yourself to something else in the first place? Why not be yourself from the start? In all honestly, you are blatantly ripping them off... I don't think they could do anything, but still... it is like naming your movie The Unusual Suspects and it having nothing to do with Kevin Spacey.

Sorry, I just get such feels over this subject.

Hello Ade,

All of your covers seem to suffer from the same problem to a lesser degree. They all lack contrast between the background and the writing.

Cover one: I can't read the top orange text at all thanks to the script font and the dark colour next to dark background. It simply isn't legible.

Cover two: The green is hard to read on light backgrounds, making your first name a blurr as well as the E in Lose. Also, red text on a dark background is hard to read, if I didn't know that 'In Ten Days' was on there, I wouldn't have seen it.

Cover three: This has tiny red text again. Never use red text. It doesn't read well unless it is on solid white.

Cover four: The teal is also hard to read, and the red.

All in all though, the image is striking, and I think it shouldn't be blurred. The girl, to me at least, looks like she is from the 70s, so hopefully she is retro, or it is set in the past. :) The layouts of text are nice, my personal favourite being number 3 as it doesn't go over as much of the image.

Certainly a good start, but legibility is the most important part of cover design. If you make it hard to read, no one will bother to read it. :)

Susan wrote: "Lipid pools of sorrow -- a woman weeping bacon fat. I can see this being worked into humor writing. :)"

Sounds more like a Skittles commercial to me.

You can 'own' them. In the snap your fingers kind of way.

I use #SoFuckedUp constantly.

The secrets of the Maya is one of my favourite games of all time.
No wait, that is the Secret of Mana. Never mind.

I really like that idea Riley. The one hackzored ring, or magic spells in leet!

Riley wrote: "Now I want to write a fantasy book and make my elven language look like that. "

Hackzor Elves! That would be teh amazezors!

I have a character that talks in leet. It was not pretty. ^-^ I lasted an entire chapter until I stopped, slapped myself, and lessened the l33t.

Just 4 f3w l3tt3rs 4r3 |nt3r3st|ng!
F|_|11 1337 |5 |\||g|-|7/\/\4r|5|-|!

Christina wrote: "Current gave me problems, but I'm blaming you 4 your typo."

Yeah, sorry bout the typo, but leet is hard!

100% yes. The last thing you want is for google to say 'Did you mean the Mayan Secrets? Here is Clive's Book, not Kevin's.

Google is mean like that.

Ann wrote: "You can read that? I have no idea what that says!!!"

We must strive to remain the current in all we do writing wise. hehehe! kitty face.

Christina wrote: "Dammit! Proof I'm old. It took me far too long to parse that."

I suppose it doesn't really keep with the 'keeping things current' idea. :)

Ann wrote: "*rolls up sleeves as she prepares to dive in*

Okay, I have never, nor will I ever, know all the grammar rules of the English language. And I'm an English Education major. Gasp, point, and stare al..."

\/\/3 /\/\u57 57r|\/3 70 r3/\/\4|n teh c|_|rr3n4 |n 411 \/\/3 d0 \/\/r|7|ng \/\/|5e. kekeke! ^-^

I think this falls under the "There is no magic bullet" / "There is no secret ingredient" Category of advice.

My most popular # so far was something like #NeedlessHashtag. It just depends on the day.

What I can tell you is this. If all you use twitter, or any soical media for that matter, for is book promotions, and selling wares then you then you will crash and burn faster than Super Dave Osborn.

:)

Diana wrote: "Very good. Well, if the clue is in ball form, shouldn't it be two? "

Well... I think we just found out what our 'clue' looks like. The marble ball of a man statue.