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Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 1d

Best of luck!!!!!

Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 3d

Being in a bookclub is fun because people will talk about scenes you have no recollection of and it just makes you realise how often your brain switches off when you're reading 🫠

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 3d

I genuinely cannot express how vital it is that you train yourself to recognize AI-generated images and videos for your own good because none of this is going away and many, many people are counting on you to fall for their shit

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Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 7d

Would anyone be able to help me with this error on Draft2Digital?
When I upload my manuscript it's telling me it doesn't pass the EPubCheck due to an ERROR(OPF-029). Has anyone dealt with this error before? I've tried looking it up but couldn't find anything specific

#indiewriters #selfpublishing

screenshot of an error message from Draft2Digital about a manuscript not passing EPUBCheck due to an ERROR(OPF-29) that 3 images do not match the media type image/png (while all the images I have uploaded in the manuscript are .png files)

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Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you. I'll try to look into what they mention in the replies but i'm not sure it'll help me :/ the string of numbers d2d gives me as file names is definitely not from my files so somewhere along the way Atticus or D2D renamed the files to that and might have done something else to them ???

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Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 7d

Would anyone be able to help me with this error on Draft2Digital?
When I upload my manuscript it's telling me it doesn't pass the EPubCheck due to an ERROR(OPF-029). Has anyone dealt with this error before? I've tried looking it up but couldn't find anything specific

#indiewriters #selfpublishing

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 7d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 9d

And maybe it wouldn't be if I was a better organised person but here we are ...
Also a big blind spot I've had about publishing a translation is all the stuff besides the story that also have to be translated 😬 like the goddamn map ☠️

Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 9d

Not having released a book in over 2 years also means I had completely forgotten how annoying and time-consuming it is to publish a book on multiple platforms 😮‍💨

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Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 9d

What if they're secretly Chinchillas?

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Robin in the woods @robinjohnson.bsky.social · 9d

You regret the things you didn't do far more than you regret the things you did

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 11d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Platonic Games @platonicgames.bsky.social · 11d

After two years of publishers telling us “visual novels don't sell” and “AI could make a thousand like that” we’re finally announcing ❤️‍🔥 Mythic Love: Iberian Legends, a human-made monster romance VN (no, there's never enough of these) inspired by Spanish myths and legends! +info⬇️

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Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 12d

❤️‍🔥 Cover reveal ❤️‍🔥

Ein glühender Glaube, the german Translation of A Searing Faith, first book in The Heart Pyre series, releases October 16th!

#coverreveal #indiebooks #indiewriters #selfpublishing #bücher #fantasybücher

Graphic with a dark green background and the cover of Ein glühender Glaube, Book 1 of The Heart Pyre by Audrey Martin, in the middle.The cover is dark green with bright red and orange flames in the lower half. In the middle is a young woman with her back to the viewer looking over her shoulder, with long brown hair and a beige dress. Above her are three crows flying away and the full moon. Text above and below the book reads: Cover reveal – Epic fantasy – mystery – steampunk – found family – tauer & Verlust – alte, vergessene Götter – Release 16.10”

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Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 12d

Ich werde am 18. Oktober in Dreieich auf der BuCon und am 30. November in Völklingen auf dem WeihNerdsMarkt mit dem Buch vertreten sein. Wenn du also dort bist, komm doch vorbei und sag Hallo!

Das Buch wurde von Guido Lenz übersetzt und die wunderbare Coverillustration stammt von Fuzzylunar.

Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 12d

Die Suche führt sie und ihre Gefährten durch das Königreich Kal-Hemma, um herauszufinden warum diese mysteriösen Brände vertuscht werden. Während Rena mit dem Verlust ihrer Familie kämpft, klammert sie sich an den Gedanken, dass sie möglicherweise nicht die Einzige ist, die überlebt hat.

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Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 12d

Ein glühender Glaube begleitet Rena, nachdem sie sich als einzige Überlebende eines Brandes, der ihr Heimatdorf zerstört hat, wiederfindet. Seltsame Hinweise rund um das zerstörte Dorf verraten ihr, dass das Feuer möglicherweise kein Unfall war, auch wenn die Obrigkeiten anderer Meinung sind.

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Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 12d

❤️‍🔥 Cover reveal ❤️‍🔥

Ein glühender Glaube, the german Translation of A Searing Faith, first book in The Heart Pyre series, releases October 16th!

#coverreveal #indiebooks #indiewriters #selfpublishing #bücher #fantasybücher

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Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 12d

I was think more interview style studies 🤔 I don't know how different languages would show up on scans but that's also a very interesting aspect! I don't know how often that's done in linguistics though

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Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 12d

Especially since there is barely any media being translated into Luxembourgish so we automatically consume all our media in a non-native language but not everyone choses the same non-native language. Would be interesting to see how that changes someone's language output.

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Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 12d

(I didn't notice that I wasn't following you back yet 🙈🙈)

I would love to read some studies about this actually, how people think in different languages if they move countries and if it depends on the age when you move or other factors, or how media consumption changes your inner monologue.

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Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 12d

4th 😬 but it is the last language I learned fluently. I do think 50/50 in Luxembourgish and English (which is fascinating cause technically french is the first language I spoke but I never think in it even if I speak it semi-regularly) but all my media consumption is in English.

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Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 12d

I have too many feelings about language and what does and doesn't sound right 😔
It's probably cause I don't have my social media in german that it just feels really wrong to have anything about book promo in german. But also English has established itself so much in my life that I think in it now 🙃

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Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 12d

Was thinking about making a trope map thing but then do I translate the tropes? That feels horrible?? "Gefundene Familie"??? I would rather set my eyes on fire

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Audrey Martin ⚔️📚🌈 @audreywrites.bsky.social · 12d

Even though I'm fluent in german, having to write promo material for the german translation release makes me want to tear my skin apart ☠️
No idea why having to be on the internet in any language besides English feels so horrible to me. Everything just sounds bad and not right 😔

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Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social · 15d

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *deep breath* AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

bio.to/Pre-orderITCH

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10 Days until ITCH! launches in hardback in the UK!

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