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<span style="color: #181818;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Two Girls (Two Girls #1) by Justin Sirois is a sci-fi adventure set in the near future that is really chilling. Manipulation of birth and genes, cover-ups, and murder if the heroes the readers are following get caught. All very exciting and lots of twists and exciting ending. Loved it all the way through.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Starting in the year 2018, every person born has an identical twin. What was dubbed the mysterious Set Mutation is now, twenty years later, a worldwide phenomenon. Penny and Sam, two 16 year old twins, have never understood why they are different from one another. While all the other sets of twins grow to be more alike, in every way, Penny and Sam struggle to fit in—they aren’t naturally the same person. Soon they will find out how deadly their secret really is.</span></div>
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<br />Justin Siroishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16691670673258509953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088472812657371817.post-78245763768351997972017-01-27T07:35:00.001-08:002017-01-27T07:36:10.847-08:00Amazon's Kindle Scout - editing with Amazon's Kindle Scout editors<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">It took about three weeks to get back my edits from the Kindle Scout team. Admittedly, I was a little nervous opening up the editorial letter, fearing that I would have to make major edits to the structure of the plot. Luckily, that wasn't the case. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">The editorial letter was very thorough. It both complemented the novel and gave thoughtful suggestions about clarifying motivations and story points. I was a little lucky as this is a series and much of what the editors wanted addressed does get solved in the second book. The letter was broken down into sections:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Structure/Plot Flow - no changes here, the novel is a fairly straight ahead linear story.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Characterization - great compliments on character evolution and realism .</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Tone and Style - no changes. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Dialogue - editor said this was one of the strongest elements of the novel.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Grammar - typical consistency edits with m dashes v.s ellipses and such.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Formatting - no edits there.</span></li>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Overall, the track changes in the Word doc that I got back were easily accepted. The editor used the Chicago Style manual and paid close attention to consistency throughout. I basically accepted 99.9% of the edits and kept just a few that I felt were stylistically native to the series. The editor even commented positively in a few places which made me feel great.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">I made a few edits of my own to clarify what the editor thought was foggy and submitted the novel yesterday. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Amazon already updated Goodreads with Two Girls and the publishing date says March:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">IF you asked me what I thought of the whole editorial process with Kindle Scout, I'd say I was absolutely pleased by their level of attention. It makes sense. Amazon paid a $1,500 advance to me as well as paying an editor to go through a 300+ page novel. They don't just want to make their money back, they want to turn a profit. Editing Kindle Press books as well as they can only makes their investments more valuable. It's a win/win for me and Amazon.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">The current plan is to see how Two Girls book 1 does and then hopefully submit book 2 to Kindle Scout this summer. Fingers crossed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><br /></span>Justin Siroishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16691670673258509953noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088472812657371817.post-60881699248256753802017-01-05T04:59:00.000-08:002017-01-27T07:35:47.365-08:00Amazon's Kindle Scout - paperback rights and cover design with CreateSpace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">I was excited to know that I have full control over the print version of Two Girls. With <a href="http://www.severedbooks.com/">Severed Books</a> already running for five years with So Say the Waiters, I have nearly all of my properties printing and selling through Amazon's <a href="https://www.createspace.com/">Create Space</a> website.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Knowing I'll get live updates of sales to books that I price myself is a relief. Making a little over $3 on a $11.99 sale through Amazon is a way better deal than any average author would get through a traditional contract. </span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Without an agent in the way, I'll avoid the 10% off the top fee as well.</span></div>
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campaign would be an understatement. I launched my campaign during the worst
time, got a dismal page view count, and barely hit the "Hot and Trending" list. When I got the <em>You’ve
been selected!</em> email, I held my phone, stunned. How did I pull it off? Let me back up just a
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">I’ve been writing fiction for about seven years and poetry for
much longer. I've gotten a few local grants and awards for my work, but nothing on an NEA scale. Thought I’ve tried to get an agent now and then, my work usually landed
with great indie presses and no agent wanted to take on those projects. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">In 2014, after self-publishing <a href="https://www.amazon.com/So-Say-Waiters-episodes-1-5/dp/147926282X/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1483542448&sr=8-3&keywords=so+say+the+waiters">So Say the Waiters</a>, I started
working on Two Girls. I’d never written young adult stories before, but this
felt right—the characters made sense and the semi-dystopic setting was weird
and challenging. The story grew into two books—Two Girls = two books, right? I pitched it to over a hundred agents, one of which gave me a sort of half-yes and then, after six months, decided not to take the series. That was pretty disappointing.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then I put the manuscripts down. Away. Shelved. My creative
life did a creative 180. I started making tabletop games, successfully funded a
$22,000 Kickstarter by myself, then another for $7,000 while reinventing myself
as a game writer. And it was/is fun. Amid all this and also writing the second
installment of a complicated role playing game, I decided to submit Two
Girls to Amazon's Kindle Scout.</span></span></span></span></div>
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all. The campaign for Two Girls literally started on Thanksgiving Day and ended…
take a guess… on Christmas Eve. Some people might say, “Oh, that’s great,
people are off work and looking for something to read.”</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">No. People are shopping on Black Friday. They’re scooping up
deals on Cyber Monday. They’re scrambling to cook and travel and pack and wrap presents
and avoid creepy uncles and everything else that’s holiday related. I knew I had made a massive
mistake.</span></span></span>
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game making endeavor has over 3,300 followers after 9 months of posting
original content. I’ve been promoting things like night club events to poetry
readings to political fundraisers for almost two decades. How did I make this insane timing mistake?</span></span></span></div>
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timing, expectations sunk, I posted about Two Girls on Instagram and Facebook
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nothing compared to other authors who paid for ads and posted on social networking
platforms with Trump-like aggression. And the “Hot and Trending” list? Well, I
got a pop at the end and made it on there for 71 hours = less than 3 days.</span></span></span></span></div>
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the campaign ended, I sighed and thought, “Well, that was a good lesson. Never
schedule a month-long campaign between the two biggest holidays of the year…
idiot.”</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And then the unimaginable happened. I got the email. Two Girls was accepted for publication by Amazon Kindle Press. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="color: #b45f06;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So what the hell happened here? I think the new lesson is this.
Amazon’s editors are paying attention and they are looking for compelling work.
Two Girls is a Young Adult series at its core, but its also difficult to categorize. It's kinda of science fiction, but not really. It's kinda dystopic, but hardly. It's a bazaar teen drama with lots of perspective shifting and questions about American identity. Not the easiest sell.</span></span></span></span></div>
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author with a good presence on Amazon. So Say the Waiters is a 3 book series
with over 600 reviews on Goodreads and Amazon combined. It's currently opened for TV. So where does that leave the first-time author with little to no web presence? I still think you've got a decent shot.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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have a wide social marketing reach, it might not matter. Amazon's editors get paid to find great writers. It's to their benefit because you're a possible revenue resource that takes little to no maintenance after installment: they plug in your asset and hopefully it makes them a 50% profit over the course of months or years.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">I'll keep posting about the editing and publishing experience here. I just submitted the updated manuscript to the editors and I'm waiting for their notes/edits.</span></div>
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Justin Siroishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16691670673258509953noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9088472812657371817.post-39579440045736789462015-07-02T05:07:00.003-07:002015-07-02T05:11:41.244-07:00So Say the Waiters pilot episode - TV<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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and submitted it to my producer. It was a furious four days of writing. The
pilot is nearly identical to the book’s first episode except for Dani doesn’t
get mugged, and I wrote a “teaser” that eludes to Henry’s eventual embracing of
his Taker identity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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those, I changed the ending to give it some real impact and the producer seemed
to love the idea. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">More
soon on another film project in the works with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000405"><span style="color: #999999;">this awesome lady</span></a>.</span></span></span><br />
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map</span></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <span style="color: #b45f06;">of all the
key locations in So Say the Waiters.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Update: Yeah, I wrote this. There's two So Say the Waiters references in it. ;)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Looks like someone leaked the extended menu for <a href="http://touch.baltimoresun.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83078314/"><span style="color: #999999;">Guy's Baltimore Bar-B-Que Joint</span></a> in the Horseshoe Casino. I can't wait to get down there and try a few of these.</span> </div>
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