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AnimeCon Harem: Book 3

Amazon.com: AnimeCon Harem: Book 3 eBook : FortySixtyFour: Kindle Store

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Nchalada

Already bought!

Marcus Cassin

Uhhh.... Was this foreshadowed in notes I haven't seen? I had no idea this was happening so soon.... Anyway, will have it bought in a moment, and will toss up a 5 star review soon.

Kirrocen

Congratulations!

Exilhamburger

Hm.. on amazon.com $6.99, on amazon.de €6.99, which, right now is approximately $7.58.

FortySixtyFour

Have been real sick lately and not active posting, and then also this time Amazon didn't sit on our submission and hold it in limbo for a month. To our surprise they just approved it almost right away.

FortySixtyFour

Sorry for that. We tried to follow the current genre market for pricing with the first book, and then increased it for both the second and third as both of them are longer pagecount-wise. This third one significantly so, it's weighing in over two hundred pages longer.

FortySixtyFour

Thank you! It's a weird feeling actually having a trilogy of books up now.

Marcus Cassin

Please get well soon, and thanks for the update!

Exilhamburger

Sorry, my comment was more about the fact that the prize was identical in dollar and euro, while those two currencies fluctuate, but since the start of the euro the goal has been to have roughly a 1:1 conversion rate! Nothing against the pricing itself... Saved the stories way back from literotica, on my PC, but I enjoy taking a whole library with me, when travelling with an e-book!

Dutch Palmer

Glad to see it's out... picked it up. Can't wait for more Renfaire, though.

Stuart

Very nice cover art.

Chris G

Agreed! Love renfaire so far!

Dastauf

Bought the whole series. Congratulations for your accomplishment.

Terry Tremblay

Purchased yesterday, now own whole series. Big thumbs up.

Martin D Jensen

Wonder if you have any idea if audiobooks for books 2 & 3 are coming out and when? I am enjoying the audiobook for # 1.

L_S87

This was a great ending. The level of improvement in the writing, and quality of editing, from the first book to this one was noticeable and well done. That doesn't even cover how great the characters were written and how well you fleshed everything out. Definitely going to be reading your other works after this. That said, if I could, I'd like to offer some advice. While my major complaints in what I felt were flaws from the first book were largely addressed in the 2nd and 3rd, I do have two things I think could be improved. 1. When trying to convey uncertainty or fear in your dialogue, you go way overboard with all the stuttering, start stop, bouncing about like a metronome, language. The likes, umms, i means ... etc, all combine to make the characters appear like vapid airhead who can't complete a single sentence without falling into "valley girl" speak. Plus, as a reader, it makes it hard to even understand the message being conveyed because of how badly convoluted the dialogue is. Instead of conveying uncertainty, it's just confusing. Just a dab here and there is enough, instead of paragraph after paragraph after paragraph of word salad sentences, would be better, imo. 2. You're a metaphorical genius. The words and descriptors you use are like God tier. It's pretty amazing how well put together some of your internal dialogue is when describing the dreamscape. But. Cause there's always got to be one, right? In some areas you go overboard with it. Where it feels like it becomes a competition to see just how long you can drag out the metaphorical menagerie of goodness. And it becomes detrimental. Where I, the reader want to know what's happening next, but instead I get 3 pages of metaphorical dreamscape internal monologue where I'm not quite sure where we're even at by the time we're back to real life... and we get two paragraphs of that following by 2 more pages of monologue. While i love your skill with words, its damn amazing, truncating it a little sooner to continue the main course would be beneficial I think. Please don't take any of that to mean your writing isn't great. These are nitpicks at best compared to how great everything else is. I look forward to reading more of your stuff. It's truly awesome!

L_S87

No, thank you! I kinda figured this was meant to be an end that wasn't so we the readers could imagine the future. I hadn't dug into your other stuff to realize it continues. That's awesome! The fact that I get more "I'm in danger!" means I should be thanking you!

L_S87

If I could provide one other point of feedback? I noticed in your writing you do a great job of separating internal thoughts via italicized text. Which is really good, something a lot of authors don't do, which can become confusing when figuring out what's thought and what's narration. But the way you blanket italicize the entire paragraph also leads to confusion. Take this statement from Christine. I think I’m really losing it, Christine blinked. I’m just—yeah... All of that is italicized, but it shouldn't be. The "Christine blinked" portion is narrative action, not thought, so it shouldn't be normal text . In this instance, it's not that big of a deal, but I've read other, longer paragraphs where there were multiple narrative actions, and even verbal speech to others, that were italicized as internal thought text, but weren't. Which leads to confusion of what the actual intent is. So italicizing is good, but just blanket italicizing the entire paragraph for brevity and quickness isn't the right approach. Make sure the narration or speech is normal text so it stands out as being different. That's all with the grammar policing for today. Still love this series and your writing in general. Keep up the good work!

FortySixtyFour

Any and every time that happens it is in error and in no way intended. I never mean to blanket italicize anything like that for brevity and hopefully the Mango editor is catching them.

L_S87

Okay, that makes sense. But as an FYI, they aren't. In fact, they may be editing them and making the problem worse as every italicized internal monologue is like this, where the entire paragraph, regardless of context, is italicized. Even when it's speech text that is clearly external and not internal. Could be a misunderstanding on their part. One of the biggest challenges for independents like you is that you don't have the power of a team of editors like a traditional publisher does. So it's all on you or who you've partnered with to be as professional as possible. The editing from Mango isn't bad. It's far from perfect, as I've seen a number of errors, but I've read far, FAR worse from others. To the point I sent the author a message letting them know their money was being wasted and to find someone better, it was that awful. This is nowhere near that bad. You just keep up the good work, we'll keep on reading, because your really good at this writing thing.