DREAMS OF A LOST MOONCHILD

So I made an application for Heart Shaped Tattoos to be added to Goodreads, since Wattpad books (finished)is completely okay, and legally seen as a publication.

But I’ve been waiting for more than the 3 damn business days they claim it takes, and I’m not even sure I filled out that stupid form like I was supposed to. I mean it was very unintuitive for me, to say the least.

Oh well, I hope I hear something soon, either way. I can see in the rules of the librarian group, that bumping your thread is not cool. So I won’t but it’s like there is added like 30 titles or more on the daily, and I don’t know how many volunteers they have working on it, but not enough apparently.

A wattpad book doesn’t have a isbn or asin number, but I could read in the rules that it was okay when it was wattpad. I’m not sure if I was supposed to offer them a link to a frontpage or not, it wasn’t really clear on that matter – at least not for me.

I tell myself to not expect anything, and that I did it wrong and therefore no one is going to reply, or add the book. And then try again in a half years time or something. And most of all to not take it personally, because if they don’t react, it’s probably my own fault for not doing it right, or forgetting something that is mandatory or some shit.

And I must admit, that of course I want it added, or I wouldn’t have applied. But even if it’s not. I feel very accomplished in having something I can even submit.

As an author (or artist, i know cause my ex husband was an art painter). The first rule of fight club is to profile one self, and get out there and hustle to make people notice you. Because the algorithm is not good to you when you are undiscovered, or new. And that is where I fail miserably, cause I HATE badgering people, and I am way too private and perhaps insecure to push my stuff everywhere. And so I stay here at the bottom of the totem pole because I am shit at promoting myself.

Back when I was published by BSB, I did have an authors facebook profile, that was a part of their conditions, for promotion. I deleted that like over a decade ago, and the other day I wondered if I should indeed make a new one. Like new author profile, new style, new market, new me… But I didn’t because who in the hell would care?

none that’s who.

So I see no point in making one before I have more stuff up, and perhaps either my friend dealt with the amazon shit, or I am not in the ass end of the algorithm (which is a pretty tall order, since i do little to no promo – which i don’t delete).

Because I do post promo stuff, like on facebook. My normal facebook that is, where friends and family pretends to be interested… Except, the stupid cat meme before and after, have like 50 likes and comments. My post about my book, has nothing. This is not even me being funny, this happened more than once. and Again I will refer to this rant of mine about being ignored for various reasons.

And as always this whole thing is one huge catch 22.

Get out there and flood the world with something they didn’t ask for, and pay the price mentally. Or stay put, have no readers and pay the price mentally.

It’s awesome to be a writer, innit?

IF my book should appear on Goodreads, I’ll let you know. But until then, let’s just assume that it won’t.

EDIT: I did look into this some more, and I can deduct that any Amazon titles are automatically added because Amazon owns Goodreads, but titles from Wattpad or other publishers does not. These have to go through the volunteer team, and let me tell you I checked and my request is like on page 20+ and it’s 4 days ago.

So Goodreads favors Amazon, sure I get it. But why is it so ridiculously hard to add anything not Amazon? I looked at the updated FAQ on Reddit, and found the mod said that for a new title you want added, if you didn’t get a reply within a week, to bump your thread.

But on Goodreads it says in the updated FAQ that you shouldn’t bump your thread, because if it has two replies the librarians think that someone else dealt with it…

So who the fuck knows?

And I also found that someone commented on Reddit that it usually takes anywhere from 5 to 7 months for some people to even get a librarian to look at a new title.

Come on Goodreads, you have the author program, you have all these things to help new authors, and yet you do not support the biggest community of authors there is? (even Forbes said so, I mean that it’s the largest author community there is)… and come on, even R.L. Stine posts stuff there sometimes, it is NOT all ‘my boyfriend is a werewolf’ or ‘my mafia dads boyfriends sister’ whatever. There are genuine fucking talent on Wattpad, and it pisses me off it gets snubbed like that.

I mean why should the those on Wattpad be worse than the ones who publish free stuff on Amazon.

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And about Spotify. I’m gonna make a site for story playlists, I prettied them up (according to me). And I felt it made sense to have them listed here.

I love that track. The lyrics go:

Ninna nanna, ninna oh
Questo bambino a chi lo do
Se lo do all’uomo bianco
Se lo tiene finchè campo
Se lo do all’uomo nero
Se lo tiene un mese intero
Se lo do alla befana
Se lo tiene una settimana

The rough translation is:

Lullaby, lullaby oh
This child to whom should I give it
If I give it to the foreigner (white man)
He keeps it as long as he can.
If I give it to the Babau
He keeps it a whole month
If I give it to the Befana
He keeps it for a week

Often you’ll see this nursery rhyme end with ‘if I give it to the mother she will keep it forever’, or ‘I will keep my baby for myself’. But not in Lulu Rouge’s version.