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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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Authortube: The Best Piece of Writing Advice I Ever Got

Posted on April 29, 2024 5:20 am by A.P. Fuchs

Authortube: The Best Piece of Writing Advice I Ever Got

A long time ago, a fellow author and I were talking about book reviews and how some of them can be so malicious.

During that conversation, my friend said something that would change how I approach writing and producing books from then on forth.

Watch this vLog to hear what he had to say and how it can apply to your own writing or artistic efforts.

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Authortube: The Best Piece of Writing Advice I Ever Got

Check out A.P. Fuchs’s latest zombie book, ZOMTROPOLIS: A RECORD OF LIFE IN A DEAD CITY:

Amazon (US)

Amazon (CAN)

ZOMTROPOLIS Book Unboxing.

Thanks for watching!

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Patreon for Creators

Posted on April 18, 2024 5:00 am by A.P. Fuchs
Patreon for Creators

A lot of time and thought has been put into the essays and articles I post on Patreon for my patrons to help the creators there boost their arts career.

These articles and essays aren’t available anywhere else online except for patrons. Definitely worth the read even if you drop in for just a month.

These are the topics covered so far with more to come:
Realm of Heroes and Monsters Patreon Page Trailer

Please join me on my Patreon journey by going here.

For some free reading on writing and self-publishing, please check out the articles at this site.
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Status report – 041724

Posted on April 17, 2024 5:00 am by A.P. Fuchs

Status report – 041724:

All right, we’ve got a full roster going on over here. Between the stuff you see on a daily basis and working on stuff behind the scenes that you’ll see eventually, we have our hands full.

Right now we’re:

1) Writing AXIOM-MAN: THE SUMMONING
2) Freelance editing for a client
3) Creating daily content for you both here on this blog and across the Web
4) Getting the second season of the Realm of Heroes and Monsters: Story Time podcast ready for launch (I’m building a queue to ensure you get it weekly)

And a day job.

But basically, our creative focus is on the Axiom-man books for this year. My main goal is to get the first drafts done by summer with, say, mid-July completion at the latest. Then all the heavy lifting is done and it’s just an issue of cleaning things up before publication.

The secret to getting all the above done and maintaining the schedule is just that: maintaining the schedule. Work on something every day and eventually you’ll get what you need out of it.

Back to work.

This has been your Status Report for 041724.

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Axiom-man vs Axiom-man?

Posted on April 13, 2024 10:27 am by A.P. Fuchs

Axiom-man vs Axiom-man?

Had to check in on something with the distributor and say this! The new Axiom-man release is in the lead in my overall book sales but the 10th Anniversay Special Edition of AXIOM-MAN is a close second. I’m glad people are checking out the first book. I hope I win them over so they check out the rest of this superhero series.

The first edition of AXIOM-MAN was written and published at a time when independent superhero books were not a thing. There was me and maybe five other people publishing their own hero. Now, independent superheroes are everywhere. My hope is THE AXIOM-MAN SAGA can keep up.

If you tuned into this week’s newsletter, you got a quick glimpse at an upcoming event in AXIOM-MAN: THE SUMMONING. Newsletter readers and Patreon patrons always get the news first. A perk of part of being in the club.

Anyway, who from the above will ultimately win? Will newcomer the Crimson Cloak beat out a hero that’s been around for a decade and a half? We’ll soon find out in this Axiom-man vs Axiom-man battle!

Be sure to tune into this blog again. Same Axiom time. Same Axiom channel.

Cheers.

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