Notices

New perk for Critter members — Free ads for your books

Many Critterfolk have asked if they could advertise their books and stories on Critters. I know how important it is to get the word out — and how hard that is — so I decided heck, let's try it as an experiment and see how it goes. Details are here

The State of The Future?

What are your thoughts about the future (as in, "The Future")? Is the future healthy or are people burned out on it? Share your thoughts at http://newnewforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=553

Ebook Pricing Results, and an Experiment

The results are in! I've written up an analysis of the results of that Ebook Pricing Survey I conducted. The analysis is at:

http://www.critters.org/ebookpricing.ht As a result of it I'm also doing an experiment to test out the variable pricing, "Pay As You Like It" idea by posting some ebooks under that model. (Reader pays after reading based on how much they liked it, with suggested prices for liked it / average / disliked it.) You can read about this little experiment here: http://www.critters.org/pricexp.ht Readers often say they'd like to avoid high prices on DRM-locked ebooks, and they'd pay if only they had the opportunity... so I'll be very curious to see if that bears out! I'd also like to hear what people think of the idea and how I've executed it.

Vote for Your Favorites!

http://critters.org/bestpoll

It has polls for your all-time favorite books / short stories / poems / poets / authors, each in genres of mainstream / SF&F / horror / mystery / romance / erotica / thriller / childrens / young adult / nonfiction. (Ok, there's no "nonfiction poetry" category but... :) )

Please give it a try, vote for your favorites, and please spread the word. The more people vote the better the scoring gets. Hope you find it useful!

Wishes for the Future

What do you want the future to hold? World peace? Self-driving cars? Share your dreams of the future, big or small, on the Wishes for the Future forum. What would you love to see? (It's part of my NewNewForum.com site. Meant to be fun, and it's anonymous, so don't be shy!) We're 73% of the way there, thanks!

Submit a Critique to Critters

You may submit critiques either using this form or by email (don't forget the "#" and the manuscript number in the Subject).

Remember to follow the standard critique format.

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Your Critters password:

Your E-mail address (If this is wrong, you won't get any credit!):

Your Name:

Manuscript Number : #
(Here is the queue, if you want to check on or copy&paste numbers, titles, names, etc.)

Manuscript Title :
(The title and author's name help me file things if, despite your best efforts, you typed in the wrong ms#.)

Manuscript Author's Name:

Is this intended for credit (if you only have a small number of comments, say no)? Yes      No

Would you like a copy of your critique emailed to you for your files? Yes      No

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Try this one if your browser supports file transfers and you've saved your manuscript to a text (not Word/etc.) file...

(You might want to check it first, to make sure it's in the right format; then come back here.)

Critique (plain/ASCII/DOS text!) filename to send:

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If your browser does not support file uploads, or you're trying to copy and paste directly from your word processor into your email program and thus have no text file to send, or you just want to type the critique in right here... Then paste or type here. Note that this box won't hold a critique longer than about 6,000 words; though that's far longer than most critiques):

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