[ SECRET POST #5262 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5262 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Why is that so boggling?

[feotakahari]

When I tried to find good books on Amazon by reading what was most popular, I gave up and stopped looking for books on Amazon at all. I don’t understand what mindset is required to find the most popular Amazon books readable, let alone good.

Re: Why is that so boggling?

[(Anonymous)]

(Cozy Werewolf Anon)

As an indie author, the algorithms for the 'Zon are... shit and the listings, or at least the Kindle listings are either dominated by trad publishing stuff that's you know, ten years old or more. (They don't have the same rules as indies.) Or Indie stuff written in the last 90 days. And by that I mean, they're putting out a book literally every 90 days. So, the readers who find them 'good' tend to be readers who LOVE pulp style writing. You can get a lot of readers if you're writing pulp romance for instance. It's why romance/erotica is in almost EVERY Category tag.

So books like mine, get buried. (That is if you like books like mine. I try to take at least 6 months to write them when I'm well enough to write a book in six months.)

This is why I'm moving over to posting things on my blog/Royal Road. Wattpad is being just as bad as 'Zon in the algorithms. If there was an AO3 equivalent site for original fiction (without the download feature) I'd move over to it in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, I don't know if AO3 could be convinced to rewire their programming structure to do another site like that.

I don't like "pulp" writing. I don't find it bad. I just find it needs editing. I know people say "Oh that is bad." And I just don't like labeling it bad. It starts... fights honestly. I'd rather label things that are actually bad like racism and homophobia and anti-semitism bad. The writing might not be bad, the messaging certainly is. YMMV.