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  1. In Topic: Mark Lawrence thread for all things Mark Lawrence'y'ish

    17 March 2025 - 08:42 AM

    View PostMacros, on 16 March 2025 - 05:25 PM, said:

    Mark,
    You should write a book about an AI thing murdering Azath, just so he gets the point



    I have written a book about AI (It's called The Chinese Room and it's on my patreon). My publishers made an offer on it last year but I wasn't happy with it so I put the book back in my electronic drawer.

    Azath isn't murdered in it explicitly. Have to leave that to the voice actors' guild :D

  2. In Topic: Mark Lawrence thread for all things Mark Lawrence'y'ish

    16 March 2025 - 03:27 PM

     Azath Vitr (D, on 15 March 2025 - 05:12 PM, said:

    Any plans for an audiobook version of Missing Pages? (Which would be aptly missing all the pages...)

    Rakuten Kobo was in fact paying people $15 "cash back" for buying a $2 audiobook or ebook of their choice---with the caveat being iirc that those "$15" were actually 1500 points towards a digital gift certificate on Swagbucks. Though iirc I used them with points from other similar offers towards getting a $25 Amazon digital gift certificate for 2200 points, so it was actually more like (1500 points)*($25 / (2200 points)) = about $17.05, so $15.05 net profit. There were plenty of offers like that back during the (not so) halcyon pandemic depths of ZIRP. Of course you could generally only do each offer once, and most of them got discontinued after interest rates rose.


    Nope - audio books are very expensive to make, and thus only sensible where you anticipate selling good numbers of them.

    Plus, it feels like another variable between me and the reader (rather like translations). I wouldn't know how to pick a good narrator. I don't feel I have an instinct for what's good or bad, audiobookwise.

  3. In Topic: Mark Lawrence thread for all things Mark Lawrence'y'ish

    15 March 2025 - 11:06 AM

     Macros, on 15 March 2025 - 07:35 AM, said:

     Mark Lawrence, on 12 March 2025 - 04:43 PM, said:

     Macros, on 12 March 2025 - 03:02 PM, said:

    I full6 expect you to receive a bizarre list of requests from broken bindings that compells you to go to there and update some of the signatures.
    Its what Jorg would have wanted


    I mean - if you really want a signed and dedicated copy sent to you today (UK edition) or in the near future (US edition) then you just need to jump on my patreon at level 4+ for a month. Just sayin'.



    What and miss out you finay caving and sending me a personally signed book after years of badgering?

    For shame Mark, FOR SHAME


    I know... I'm ashamed.

    I should definitely change my business model and start paying people to accept books off me :D

  4. In Topic: Mark Lawrence thread for all things Mark Lawrence'y'ish

    14 March 2025 - 10:30 AM

    View Postchamp, on 13 March 2025 - 09:24 PM, said:

    View PostAbyss, on 13 March 2025 - 07:39 PM, said:

    Just my $0.02, but the majority of books i buy now are earbook or ebook, i reserve 'dead tree' for the very special/limited/personal/personalized and I'm willing to spend a bit where i can.



    This is where I am at too... once over I remember thinking that I'll never convert to earbook or ebook but convenience / house space required took over. I more do earbook for books that I have read before though.

    I'd rather pay for a special edition book of my favourite authors than get a standard paperback/hardback nowadays so sometimes that means waiting for the right edition and having it for looks rather than reading.


    I like the audiobook money, but as a format it has never worked for me. If I read a great line or there's an very emotional or impactful section, I like to change pace or go back, or take a moment, and the audio just rolls on. Plus, my mind wanders and I find I've not registered anything for 5 minutes while the narrator chugged along.

  5. In Topic: Mark Lawrence thread for all things Mark Lawrence'y'ish

    13 March 2025 - 05:31 PM

    View PostAbyss, on 13 March 2025 - 01:55 PM, said:

    View Postchamp, on 06 March 2025 - 06:10 PM, said:

    ...Broken Binding really do throw out some beautiful books, I have The Broken Empire series in special editions from there. Just resisted buying into the Hyperion series that looked awesome.



    i was very close to going for Hyperion. Fiscal responsibility and future Malazan books prevailed. If a full set of Mark's Library shows up after the series is completed i'll have to weigh priorities again.


    Fancy editions seem to be a big money spinner these days.

    If I ever get the chance to self-publish, I'll be diving straight into a kickstarter fancy edition push.

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    Tsundoku 

    12 Aug 2020 - 10:02
    Didn't mind One Word Kill.
    Now on to Limited Wish.
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    Tsundoku 

    25 Apr 2019 - 09:35
    Hi Mark. I promise I'll get around to reading your stuff one day, hopefully soon. But my To Read Pile is terribad, sorry. Congrats on your success though.
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