My target audience is Catholic thriller readers

Q: Does Clairedeplume satisfy both conditions? (Catholic and thriller-reader)

Also, do you have a band within that spectrum? For example age strata or maturity within the available content?

For example, Project L is targeting "Vampire/Werewolf fans" but within that wide discipline, I'm chasing the market of Twilight fans who love/loved it but have grown tired of the genre. My target market is between ages 35-55 (Hence why I put the story in the 90s). I assume 75% female readership, so I conform to their needs (for example, I've read that my market is fed up with OW/cheating stories within the genre)

Ok, so for yours...

Q: are you writing to the catholic who will watch a violent Rambo movie and thinks Dan Brown is mild?

Q: if there is an ecstatic review in some blog or column, how old is that blogger? (This question is probably more important than it first seems)

That reminds me, you have a post above from 10-29 with my name and character name together. Would you be willing to nix it?
I'm not super worried about the Google-monster, but ever vigilant

Ok as to your question, I had asked before if your target market was reading Dan Brown, and you indicated you were going for a more moderate crowd, but I still don't have a solid idea who your reader is. I recogniize I've been desensitized to violence because I just read about a young boy being stabbed and didn't bat an eye. Granted this problem, I understand how escalating violence could be an issue.

More food for thought: Project L is not a good fit for this site because we don't have tons of Twilight fans here. That's perfectly fine; I filter comments with this in mind. You may be stuck in this situation too. This will take some work to overcome... you'll need to build a platform where your market is. You'll need one anyway, when it's time to release. Honestly, the time to start building is now.

Not really screwed. If you browse my catalogue, you'll discover I only put my name on about half my covers. Part of a plan to stay at the sidelines

o dear

Works.

Another option is Connor heals everyone with the same action. I think this has weak new testament precedent though

--er don't care is not the right word... "accept its flaws"?

No worries... it's deep enough into the series that only die hard fans will be reading it. I've noticed this with modern Star Wars fans. They just don't care about the continuum.

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Can you leave some errors in there so we can get points?

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Holy giant chapter, Batman

Hey Dirk. This will boil your mind, I bet.

I've been getting riddled with caps issues on "Earth". eg: "Bye everyone, I'm headed to Earth."

but "I would travel to the four corners of the earth" apparently the rule is lowercase.

Kdot and K. can't be called formerly.

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There should be an emu in this thread.

I don't recall this, but it's been a while since I last read it. So much going on in that book yikes

They survived here. Making money now, thanks to Covid

Weird example since stranger isn't a job yikes

A minor addition, "teacher" can be made to pass the uniqueness rest.
Imagine your 5-yr-old running in the door:
>Mom! Dad! We caught a bug today and Teacher let us keep it

(Later same book, talking to a friend)
Dad: Our son's teacher gave him a bug.
Here, Dad cannot use capital because uniqueness lost

Another example, the Lone Ranger & Tonto walk up to two villains.
Villian: Hey lawman (Addressing Lone ranger as one lawman among many)
vs
Villain: Hey Lawman (Using a common term that everyone in the scene understands who it is)

In this above case, I'll take either as long as it's consistent that no other good guy is also Lawman

38 Special wrote:

Teacher, teacher, can you teach me?
Can you tell me all I need to know?

However I would expect the caps if teacher was shortened.
>Hey, Teach! How you doing

Revenge of the Sith (opening night) was my last excursion to the theatres

I have a high incident rate of female names ending in -a but I don't fight it. Most readers don't spot that

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Heh ShutterStock (where I buy some cover properties) is sneaky. I bought the 5-image pack. Turns out it has an auto-renew and automatically bought me 5 more images back in March

I logged in while working on another cover and found these extra downloads about to expire. It would have kept rebilling me until I caught it on my statement. Although I check my statement monthly, my "usual billers" such as Google, Amazon etc dont get much scrutiny. I mostly check for large bills and unexpected/unrecognized transactions. They could have snuck another 2-3 through before I found it

https://blog.bookbaby.com/2020/08/the-r … nfographic

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oki. post & run

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I should qualify: I'm not expecting the story to deal with any of these philosophical quandaries.

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Seabrass wrote:

You're making assumptions about what them gods can and cannot do.

Ha, not really. I'm clocking them over the head with simple causality (A variation of the omnipotence paradox)

Builder has no problem letting people climb out of windows that are not there.

Ok in this case, the ugly causality for Builder is that Bev can claim there is a window (She can see out of it... she could exit through it in case of a fire... provided she did not completely exit (say had one arm or leg through it so she could find it again) she can traverse back inside of it... etc).

Bev may hereby claim the window exists; she merely cannot see it. (eg it's a window hidden with magic or science in a way it cannot be perceived from the ground)

Builder may counter argue that no, he did not put a window there, but a window-sized layer of treated mustard.

Bev may counter-claim that the mustard:
a) has no properties of mustard
b) has visual properties of a window
c) has physical properties of a window
Therefore is a window

Builder's mustard is Bev's Window. Both characters are correct. eg: Despite Builder's attempt not to make a window, a window has been created from Bev's point of  view

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