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HornedLion
05/02/21 10:25:00 AM
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This is some authors description of himself.



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Far-Queue
05/02/21 10:37:40 AM
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Laugh all you want but that motherfucker has drive and ambition and self-confidence, and wrote a motherfucking book at 40 years young.

What the fuck have you done with your life, pray tell?

Sincerely,

S. Wolf awwooOOOOooo

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Kanatteru
05/02/21 10:45:55 AM
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Far-Queue posted...
What the f*** have you done with your life, pray tell?

how dare you. he clearly spends his time being weirdly hateful towards women online

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MasterChiefer
05/02/21 10:51:51 AM
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His book Kinzurdia sounds like Secret of Mana.
Tortured by a magical curse unleashed by his own blood, James finds himself leading his burdened brother into a decaying castle's dark forest. James and David run into danger and find themselves saving a young girl from an unbelievable evil. Hurt from years of rejection, Elizabeth discovers inner strength and forgotten magic from a mysterious visitor. A prophecy drives a horde of evil creatures to find them and force Elizabeth, a newly found princess, to open a portal to a foreign world. Elizabeth yearns for family ties, while David wrestles with his overwhelming hunger. James uncovers secrets of a world long lost and unforgiving to humans. With danger around every corner the three of them must join forces and conquer each new discovery in a world full of magical beasts.

Sort of.
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Metalsonic66
05/02/21 12:04:17 PM
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I don't believe someone who wrote a description that poorly worded is actually a serious author

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Mead
05/02/21 12:07:09 PM
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I channel more energy towards S. Wolf on his journey

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EclairReturns
05/02/21 12:25:26 PM
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Metalsonic66 posted...
serious author


He's more of a salesman than an author, really.
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SunWuKung420
05/02/21 12:42:12 PM
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I'm sold.

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Lokarin
05/02/21 12:54:54 PM
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Two time Hugo award nominee Chuck Tingle

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Mead
05/02/21 12:56:41 PM
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EclairReturns posted...
He's more of a salesman than an author, really.

many successful people are ultimately great salespeople, regardless of their field

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Zeus
05/02/21 2:53:03 PM
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"Collective nature" is a weird turn of phrase, and it doesn't sound like it means what he intended.

While it's a bad author bio (in that it's both a bad bio for an author and likely a bad author's bio), I wouldn't necessarily describe it as cringe-worthy.

MasterChiefer posted...
His book Kinzurdia sounds like Secret of Mana.

Sort of.

tbh, that blurb is much more poorly written than his bio >_>

Metalsonic66 posted...
I don't believe someone who wrote a description that poorly worded is actually a serious author

Welcome to the self-publishing revolution.



Part of the first page of the book off the Amazon preview. Her face was "aged with wrinkles." That's some amazing prose right there.

And "stands from is throne with anger." Because we couldn't tell he was angry from the fact he was bellowing, or from his word choice. And speaking of word choice, "stands from his throne with anger"? Not "rises from his throne in anger"? Or "leaps up from his throne in a rage"? And why is suddenly so angry anyway? All that happened so far is that his guards have dragged somebody into the room. Is he just a very angry king? Or was in the middle of something? If he was plowing his wife in a bedroom and his guards burst in with some old hag, I could see him "bellowing" about the intrusion. But it seems like guards are constantly coming and going.

Not to mention the sheer descriptiveness of "the rough stone tile floor." It sets the scene immediately with that vague level of detail that leaves the reader just waiting to hear more.

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Metalsonic66
05/02/21 6:38:22 PM
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Zeus posted...
aged with wrinkles.
That's hilarious

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wolfy42
05/02/21 7:52:26 PM
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I support all my wolf brothers and sisters out there, though i'm a bit icked out by the stuffed animal thing (if he has a real stuffed wolf I may have to eat him).

It's funny, i'm living with a couple that has a 1 1/2 year old and I wear wolf shirts so much, she points at them alot, so I started to howl like a wolf when she does. Now she howls like a wolf all the time and so do her parents, so our house sounds like a wolf pack lol.

We are gonna put her into daycare soon and I'm worried she is going to teach all the other babies to howl as well and we will be blamed.

Worried, and excited.

I am converting the children of tomorrow into wolves:)

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keyblader1985
05/02/21 8:18:54 PM
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Normally exposing people to masturbation like this would be a felony.

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HornedLion
05/02/21 8:27:29 PM
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wolfy42 posted...
I support all my wolf brothers and sisters out there, though i'm a bit icked out by the stuffed animal thing (if he has a real stuffed wolf I may have to eat him).

It's funny, i'm living with a couple that has a 1 1/2 year old and I wear wolf shirts so much, she points at them alot, so I started to howl like a wolf when she does. Now she howls like a wolf all the time and so do her parents, so our house sounds like a wolf pack lol.

We are gonna put her into daycare soon and I'm worried she is going to teach all the other babies to howl as well and we will be blamed.

Worried, and excited.

I am converting the children of tomorrow into wolves:)

Thats the cutest fucking shit Ive heard all week.

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T0ffee
05/03/21 12:01:55 AM
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Lokarin posted...
Two time Hugo award nominee Chuck Tingle

Ah yes. Who could forget the brilliant author of the book.

Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Book 'Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Book 'Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt"'"'


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Zareth
05/03/21 12:34:41 AM
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Why is it written in present tense, it's a book not a script.

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Zeus
05/03/21 1:47:43 AM
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Zareth posted...
Why is it written in present tense, it's a book not a script.

I'm guessing because they intended it as a YA (despite the fact it's also fantasy) and a lot of YA books use present tense. The whole book feels like a conflux of weird decisions.

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