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Publishing Books: The First Half of 2024 in Review

Posted on July 2, 2024 5:00 am by A.P. Fuchs

Publishing Books: The First Half of 2024 in Review

Since we’re at the halfway mark of 2024, I thought this would be a good time to review what’s been published this year so far. Link to book page in the descriptions, but this is where we stand so far in publishing books this year.

There will be a publishing gap until later in the fall. There might be one thing, but that’s in floating status at the moment. The work is done. Just an issue of assembly.

AXIOM-MAN/CRIMSON CLOAK: SCARLET SYNERGY:

Surrounded by a strange red mist, Axiom-man finds himself in a world not his own. Not again. Meeting a man who calls himself the Crimson Cloak, Axiom-man and this red stranger must fight their way through a hotel of madness where each new floor brings on a deadly challenge. Go to book page.

CAUGHT IN BLACK HEADLIGHTS: POETRY COLLECTION:

All right, World, this is how it’s going to be: Rhymes and verse, Melodies rehearsed, across life’s rocky sea. Read a poem, maybe two, pick three if you wish to dare. Ramblings and coherence, sometimes jots of incoherence, anything for poetic flare. Enjoy and explore, please do, I implore. Let’s talk about life bizarre ’cause it’s pretty complex stuff, said Harvey Pekar. Go to book page.

THE CANISTER X TRANSMISSION: THE VERY LONG YEAR SIX:

Running from June 2020 to March 2024, readers received news straight from A.P. Fuchs’s bunker studio at Axiom-man Central that was meant to engage, entertain, and have some fun. Go to book page.

For all titles, please visit the Realm of Heroes and Monsters on Amazon.

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The Canister X Transmission: The Very Long Year Six

Posted on June 29, 2024 7:13 am by A.P. Fuchs

The Canister X Transmission: The Very Long Year Six

Begin transmission . . .

Running from June 2020 to March 2024, The Canister X Transmission was sent via email to readers worldwide.

Readers received news straight from A.P. Fuchs’s bunker studio at Axiom-man Central that was meant to engage, entertain, and have some fun.

The Very Long Year Six took a long time to fulfill. It was a time of A.P. Fuchs’s settlement into a new life and a new way of doing things. Ups and downs occurred, but in the end, art and writing prevailed.

Topics include: the work log, blog headlines, content release notices, promotion of new work, and more.

Exclusive to this collection is a one-shot newsletter, Issue Two Hundred Sixty-one A, unavailable anywhere else.

Welcome to The Canister X Transmission: The Very Long Year Six

Available as a paperback at:

Amazon (US)
Amazon (CAN)
Amazon (UK)
Barnes and Noble

Available as an eBook at:

Amazon Kindle (US)
Amazon Kindle (CAN)
Nook
DriveThru Fiction
Smashwords

For other newsletter collections, please visit the Book and Comic Shop.

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Authortube: How to Write Your Back Cover Synopsis | 3 Easy Steps

Posted on June 24, 2024 5:11 am by A.P. Fuchs

Authortube: How to Write Your Back Cover Synopsis | 3 Easy Steps

Most writers complain when it comes to part of making a book where the back cover synopsis has to be written. Plenty of writers struggle with writing it . . . but it doesn’t have to be that way because, in truth, it’s a basic process. Case in point: If you’re able to sum up your book in one to four words as a title, it’s guaranteed you can sum up the same but just a little more loosely.

Follow these three simple steps and you’ll be writing your back cover synopsis with ease.

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Thank you for watching Axiom-man TV.

Authortube: How to Write Your Back Cover Synopsis | 3 Easy Steps

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Authortube: How to Design a Great Book Cover | One Word (Three Simple Parts)

Posted on June 15, 2024 8:06 am by A.P. Fuchs

Authortube: How to Design a Great Book Cover | One Word (Three Simple Parts)

A lot of authors feel overwhelmed when it comes to book cover creation. Whether you hire it out or do it yourself, you know that a good cover will potentially lead to a book’s success. What is a good book cover? What makes one cover stand out from the one next to it? What’s the most important part of a book cover? The image or graphic? The colors?

In this video, 25-year self-publisher A.P. Fuchs reveals the one word that makes or breaks a book cover. One word with three parts. Watch and see. It’s very simple. If you use this one word as your engine for your cover, you will have a good cover.

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Authortube: How to Design a Great Book Cover | One Word (Three Simple Parts)

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Authortube: Freelancing: The Follow Up | Manners

Posted on May 29, 2024 5:18 am by A.P. Fuchs

Authortube: Freelancing: The Follow Up | Manners

So, when to follow up with an employer?

This just happened at the time the video was made. I decided to make the video a little fired up because the arts are all about honesty and honest expression so that’s what you’re getting here.

The same rules of manners regarding the follow up is the same for freelancers as it is for working in the public or private sector. This is it on how to be a professional freelaner.

This is basic stuff. We learned this in kindergarden. I hope you learn something from this video, especially if you’re new to the freelancing world.

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Thank you for watching Axiom-man TV.

Authortube: Freelancing: The Follow Up | Manners

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Authortube: A.P. Fuchs Superhero and Monster Writer Launched!

Posted on May 28, 2024 5:00 am by A.P. Fuchs

Authortube: A.P. Fuchs Superhero and Monster Writer Launched!

Did a pile of work this weekend, one of which was sending CAUGHT IN BLACK HEADLIGHTS off to press. If all goes to plan, it’ll be out June 1, 2024.

In the meantime, I’ve been doing a lot of Authortube videos so I decided to make an official playlist for them for you to enjoy. I also took the time to link one video to the next to ensure a smooth viewing experience. Please click the graphic above to be taken to the playlist. Also be sure to subscribe because there are plenty of Authortube videos coming, including a separate series on writing basics, the goal being that if you get the basics down as your foundation, everything else is just finer-point details going forward. Plus, if you understand the basics of writing–in this case, fiction–then it’ll save you a pile of headaches and frustration later come the revision process. It’ll also help ensure a quality book instead of the stuff being released today where writers don’t even understand the basics of writing and rush right into publishing.

Anyway, these Authortube videos are meant to get your head in the right space for creativity, the publishing business, and the craft in general.

Enjoy.

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Authortube: Behind the Scenes | Caught in Black Headlights Poetry Book – Going to Press

Posted on May 27, 2024 2:10 pm by A.P. Fuchs

Authortube: Behind the Scenes – Going to Press

Today’s we’re off to the races, er, to press to put the soon-to-be-released CAUGHT AND BLACK HEADLIGHTS into the publishing machine.

This video carries an assortment of behind the scenes looks into the my process of checking a book prior to press then going to press itself. If you’re a book production or creation nerd (I mean, book designer), this video is for you.

Peace. Enjoy.

Poetry coming.

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Authortube: Behind the Scenes | Caught in Black Headlights Poetry Book – Going to Press

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Status Report – 052324

Posted on May 23, 2024 6:41 am by A.P. Fuchs

Status Report 052324:

I heard back from Archives Canada regarding my reserved eBook ISBN number for CAUGHT IN BLACK HEADLIGHTS. I’m in a position to upload now but when I do, I want to make sure my head is clear so I can make any last-minute adjustments correctly. This may happen within the next couple if days but definitely this weekend so we’re still on track for release.

For those who read my recent newsletter, I came to an agreement with myself that for the secret Fredrikus project, if we average one item every few days, we’ll be in good shape come time when other stuff is wiped off the plate. Then after that, things will bulldoze ahead and my comic goals for 2024 will be met.

Yesterday, I posted about how to overcome writer’s block. You can check out the entry here or the direct video here.

Further, THE CANISTER X TRANSMISSION: THE VERY LONG YEAR SIX is about 70% formatted, which keeps us on track for an end-of-June release.

Lastly, work on the BATTLE OF POWER TRILOGY is still underway and thus far we are on schedule. I’m going to be putting down a lot of words in the near future and I know I’ll feel lighter once the first installment is complete. The other two installments all feed from that one so once that one is complete, then it’s kind of an issue of expanding on it but not in a purple prose way. In a more story way. As mentioned, this concludes the first act of THE AXIOM-MAN SAGA.

This has been your Status Report for 052324.

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Authortube: How to Handle a Bad Review

Posted on May 15, 2024 5:33 am by A.P. Fuchs

Authortube: How to Handle a Bad Review

Oh no! Someone bashed your baby! All those months–maybe even years–of hard work and somebody doesn’t like it. They leave a bad review and you’re stuck feeling like garbage. Or should you?

Veteran author and self-publisher A.P. Fuchs weighs in on a very simple way to handle a bad review.

Hope you find this encouraging despite it being blunt.

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Thank you for watching Axiom-man TV.

Authortube: How to Handle a Bad Review

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A Short Guide to Self-publishing

Posted on May 2, 2024 4:00 am by A.P. Fuchs

A Short Guide to Self-publishing

Those who know me know I’ve been publishing independently since 2004, before it was all the craze.

Along the way, I learned a few things and I’ve shared them here on this site. Here are a few of them to get you started:

Can You Just Start A Publishing Company? This article takes a look at the concept of just coming up with a name for your publishing house then publishing right away and how that’s not how things work.

Most Overlooked Step of Self-publishing, The – or – The Three Types of Writers. Without knowing this critical step, you’ll throw your entire writing and publishing career away.

Top Ten List of Truths for Self-publishers Part One. Telling self-publishing like it is in two parts.

Top Ten List of Truths for Self-publishers Part Two. The second part of telling the truth about self-publishing.

And, believe it or not, a plethora of self-publishing information is available in my book of collected letters called CANADIAN SCRIBBLER: COLLECTED LETTERS OF AN UNDERGROUND WRITER.

Please be sure to visit the Self-publishing Articles section on this site more!

Hope you enjoyed this little guide to self-publishing.

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