Just Launched LitRPG Book, Adventures of a Scribe

[Michael]

I just wanted to say a couple of things. First, thank you for helping to pave the way for new authors like me into LitRPG. I am really excited to be launching my first book. Yeah!

Definitely once of the biggest challenges if properly managing tables and working with my formatter on that. That is the secret weakness of the LitRPG genre, tables. Like medicine, good in small amounts and properly made. ;p

I have included my blurb below. Any suggestions or advice is always appreciated.

Edward Monteger has grown up in a family of scribes learning about the world around him through books in his family’s shop. Not wanting to be consigned to his fate scribbling away all day or managing a shop, he takes matters into his own hands. Striking forth into the wide world, he makes friends on his journey, and experiences the joy of victory to the agony of defeat.

Set in a Fantasy LitRPG world there is balance of all aspects one might expect to find from crafting, mana, and fighting. Discovering the forces that control his world Edward is a scientist at heart without knowing the word or even the concept behind it. Struggling against monsters, humans, and the forces of necromancy, he overcomes hardship to grow as an individual and as an adventurer.

[Anthony]

Learn the JSON syntax its really quite simple, then use a converter like this: http://json2html.varunmalhotra.xyz/

After that its just matter of pasting the resulting HTML code into your EPUB. (Or other format of choice, most support or are based on (X)HTML anyway)

Its probably much easier to do something like:

{
"Name": "Ragnar",
"Class": "Barbarian",
"Titles": [
"Novice Hero",
"Slime Slayer",
"Persistent"
],
"Stats": {
"STR": "10",
"INT": "2",
"AGI": "4"
},
"Equipment": {
"R-Hand": "Oak Cudgel",
"L-Hand": "Empty",
"Top": "Bare",
"Bottom": "Fur Loincloth"
}
}

(Random character sheet, low detail, thrown together as an example)

And have it generate the tables for you (Tiny image, Click to enlarge):

[Thistle]

Hi Michael! Your book sounds quite interesting. :) Since you asked for feedback, here are a few things about your blurb -- my opinions, at least! Just little nitpicky things.

"and experiences the joy of victory to the agony of defeat."

I'd reword that. Using the saying makes it sound cliche and not very original, making me less interested in reading the story.

"Set in a Fantasy LitRPG world there is balance of all aspects one might expect to find from crafting, mana, and fighting. "

I'd lose "all aspects one might expect to find from" because again that makes it sound less original and less interesting -- like it will be a story I've read before. Also, I'd add a comma after "world" and between "find from". Comma after "control his world ".

I'd delete "or even the concept behind it", the sentence is stronger without it.

But all in all, I really liked it! Especially the last sentence! :) These are just small grammar issues, all in all, it was quite good!

[Charles]

Anthony wrote: "Learn the JSON syntax its really quite simple, then use a converter like this: http://json2html.varunmalhotra.xyz/

After that its just matter of pasting the resulting HTML code into your EPUB. (Or..."

Thanks for that advice, I'm going to try and add a table in my book using those steps. You make it sound so easy :)