#markethingmonday 6/23: Five things your readers would hate about your world
(Continued 2/2)
- that this offers an explanation for the present course of events in the US which might not be too far fetched…
- that the MC is a woman who has a leading role amongst a group of men and is respected as their superior.
#MarkethingMonday 6/23: Five things your readers would hate about your world.
- that esoteric mumbojumbo really exists (astral projection, superhuman gods and demigods, aura reading and the real existance of auras)
- Vampires
- the undermining of society by the latter.
- that it resembles despite the before mentioned exceptions the US in the pre Trump area
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#MarkethingMonday 6/23: Five things your readers would hate about your world.
I'm realizing more and more that readers who love the average shifter romance books will actually hate my Wolf shifter series.
Because it goes against some tropes. So I had fun making a meme of that, and I also hope that it might make you more likely to try my Wolves.
First book is free:
https://shop.hannah-steenbock.de/b/wolvesquest (my store link)
All other stores:
https://books2read.com/WolvesSouthQuest
#MarkethingMonday 6/23: Five things your readers would hate about your world.
Too many unicorns
Too much queer joy
Too much found family
Too much finding your purpose
Too many magic systems
#MarkethingMonday 6/23: Five things your readers would hate about your world.
Pick things that are typical for your world, things that could be keywords.
Make it so your target audience will laugh and decided that yes, your world is perfect for them.
#MarkethingMonday
Five things your readers would hate about your MC.
Ume
1. She intellectualizes pain.
2. She lets others lead emotionally.
3. She can sound superior without meaning to.
4. She avoids hard decisions until cornered.
5. Her morality is pragmatic, not pure.
* Bonus: she smokes.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/52770025
#NMMM #NMPrompts #KonbiniIdol
#MarkethingMonday 6/16:
Five things your readers would hate about your MC.
Maybe she is too much into esoteric spheres and she has unique martial arts skills that could lead to envy. Even worse she isn‘t much of a tradwife - quite contrary.
#MarkethingMonday 6/16:
Five things your readers would hate about your MC.
Ben McMullen really cares to much about others.
He actually treats women as equals.
He runs away instead of fighting on after getting injured. What a hero, huh?
He loses his family heirloom. Really, can't even take care of his things.
He doesn't even smell the poison he's fed. ('cause colloidal silver doesn't have a smell).
Grab A Wolf's Quest here for free:
https://books2read.com/WolvesSouthQuest
How about some free Steampunk?
https://paulkater.com/aeroparts-factory.html
Aeroparts Factory
A short steampunk story about the deadly happenings around a factory where parts for airships are made.
#MarkethingMonday
Five things your readers would hate about your MC.
- Taking to Harry Galahad will give you instant depression.
- He moans about the loss of his wife, mostly in silence to himself, but still, he does. And you have to read that!
- He is incapable of being a captain - he knows, you know, EVERYBODY knows. But still, this is a whole book about it.
- Knight in shining armour he isn't. Everybody else saves the day. Shouldn't it be the MC who does that? Lazy brat!
- He is useless at romance. Which gets even worse when he falls in love. Honestly, it is like watching a very slow trainwreck with nothing you can do against it.
If you want to suffer with him, anyway:
https://books2read.com/HeraldPetrel
#MarkethingMonday 6/16:
Five things your readers would hate about your MC.
Make it fun, make it snarky, kudos if you create a meme for it.
#MarkethingMonday New book out today!
Living in the middle of nowhere in Siberia is bad enough for Volodya, but his town also sits on the border between the worlds of humans and the mythical, and it's his family's job to keep the peace.
So, want to find out what to do if the local mobster's being haunted, an artefact from the space race is causing nightmares or there's an elk on your car refusing to move, this is the book for you!
https://books2read.com/thricetenthkingdom
#bookstodon #books #urbanfantasy
#MarkethingMonday 6/9:
Tell us about five things your readers would hate about your antagonist.
I picked A Wolf's Quest again, because it really makes the most sense (and you can all read it for free).
So things to hate about Theo:
He’s not your nice grandpa.
He’s really strict about his rules.
He gave away his dogs.
His barn is a mess.
He poisons dinner guests.
Yup. All true.
Wanted: hero.
When Sebastian Fowler sees a strange light in his cellar he has no idea what's in store for him.
A weird journey to another planet and an unknown race whose planet is occupied by an even stranger race is only the beginning of an incredible adventure.
#MarkethingMonday 6/9:
Tell us about five things your readers would hate about your antagonist.
1. power hungry
2. evil people
3. killers
4. sneaky
5. ruthless
Taken from "Otherworld", a story yet to be completed/released.
Pleased to meet you...
#MarkethingMonday 6/9:
Tell us about five things your readers would hate about your antagonist.
Extra points for turning it into a meme image.
@joewynne Hahaha, thank you. I loved that prompt. 😆
I think @kmherkes did it first and @Firlefanz now invented the hashtag #MarkethingMonday to help fellow authors marketing their stuff without it feeling like the chore of marketing.
#MarkethingMonday What are 5 things to hate about #KonbiniIdol
1. Uses Japanese names in Japanese format - family name first.
2. Uses Japanese honorifics (I don't know some people hate them)
3. Characters have multiple names, like real people.
5. Not a queer fairytail. SI, unlifeing, homo/transphobia, and bullying are referenced and may appear. Not story-centric but realistic. Trigger warned, but who reads those (me)
#MarkethingMonday What are 5 things to hate about #HeraldPetrel ?
* You call the main character "Galahad" and then he is like...never actually saving the day? He's like...dunno... a Non-Action Hero? That's false advertising!
* It says #SciFi but there aren't any robots? And no sentient ship AI?? WTF?
* TOO WOKE!!!! Shoves a queer character into your face every few chapters. Some of them are even couples *yuck* And all that tolerance for all species and cultures is just nauseating!
* Too straight!!! There is a romance between the male MC and a female really-also-the-MC and I don't care if you say he's #demisexual and his best friend is #aromantic, you have no rights to file it in the #LGBTIAQ+ category!
* But we need capitalism! It isn't the dystopian scenario you are describing as its logical endpoint. Capitalism good. How dare you challenging my belief in capitalism!
#MarkethingMonday 6/2: What are five things to hate about your book?
For this I picked the first Wolf book cover, but the things to hate are true for the entire series.
For me, this fits so well because my Wolf Shifter tales do not run along some of the genres most common tropes. Which means I need to reach readers who love the idea of shifting but hate some of those common tropes.
A Wolf's Quest, Wolves of the South 1
(free in all stores)
