End of year Random

[wawa]

I am having a moment. Who's the poster who writes historical fiction romance, has them linked in her signature. I cannot think of her name, screen or pen, and I have over 600 books on my Kindle so can't hers them to show them to my sister. Halp my sad brain.

[TR]

Is it smock?

[BlondeSpiders]

smock!

[pixy0stix]

Smock

[pixy0stix]

Lolololol! Is this one of those, "Call her thrice and she shall appear" things?

[underwaterrhymes]

Her pen name is Sylvia Prince, I think.

[TR]

Dec 28, 2023 17:08:12 GMT -5 underwaterrhymes said:

Her pen name is Sylvia Prince, I think.

Yeah, this is the link in her bio: redirect.viglink.com/?key=71fe2139a887ad501313cd8cce3053c5&subId=3435524&u=https%3A//www.sylviaprincebooks.com/

[wawa]

Thank you everyone! One of those tip of your tongue things that just doesn't want to come out.

[basilosaurus]

Dec 28, 2023 16:38:15 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Lolololol! Is this one of those, "Call her thrice and she shall appear" things?

RANCH

[pixy0stix]

Dec 29, 2023 1:34:55 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

Dec 28, 2023 16:38:15 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Lolololol! Is this one of those, "Call her thrice and she shall appear" things?

RANCH

You shut your mouth. Lol

[wanderingback]

Dec 29, 2023 9:57:59 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Dec 29, 2023 1:34:55 GMT -5 basilosaurus said:

RANCH

You shut your mouth. Lol

Lol. Has anyone ever figured out who that person is?
I went on a reddit rabbit hole awhile ago and I didn’t realize how deep this person is in the internets.
I think this would make a good investigative journalism piece!

[pixy0stix]

Dec 29, 2023 10:02:46 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

Dec 29, 2023 9:57:59 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

You shut your mouth. Lol

Lol. Has anyone ever figured out who that person is?
I went on a reddit rabbit hole awhile ago and I didn’t realize how deep this person is in the internets.
I think this would make a good investigative journalism piece!

I also think someone should study this person. Truly a harmless troll that seemed to hit every message board they could find to evangelize about ranch. I doubt there's any corner of the internet that doesn't have a least one story about them.

[basilosaurus]

Dec 29, 2023 10:02:46 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

Dec 29, 2023 9:57:59 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

You shut your mouth. Lol

Lol. Has anyone ever figured out who that person is?
I went on a reddit rabbit hole awhile ago and I didn’t realize how deep this person is in the internets.
I think this would make a good investigative journalism piece!

I agree. I'm truly fascinated. What if it's a team secretly employed by hidden valley? Because of it's a single person, that would be ripe for case studies. Although I'm a former psych nurse and managed an out patient clinic, I never came across something so interesting and ultimately harmless.

They haven't been around in quite some time. I think of pre COVID.

[smock]

Dec 28, 2023 16:27:23 GMT -5 wawa said:

I am having a moment. Who's the poster who writes historical fiction romance, has them linked in her signature. I cannot think of her name, screen or pen, and I have over 600 books on my Kindle so can't hers them to show them to my sister. Halp my sad brain.

Ha ha, it IS me! Thanks to everyone for the tags, lol. I saw this on the app but the preview text only said "RANCH" so I figured it wasn't about me. 😜

Also, plug for my sister, who has published way more books than me under her pen name Emma Prince. (hers are spicy and mine are not, and she's sold about 100x more books than me as her full-time job!) And fun fact, both our pen names are family names. Prince is our paternal grandmother's maiden name, and both Emma and Sylvia are on our maternal family tree. See, we really do like history!

[basilosaurus]

Lol sorry about the ranch. (That's the 3rd mention I think. Stay tuned).

I've really liked the books of yours that I've read if that makes up for it.

[wawa]

Dec 29, 2023 11:04:30 GMT -5 smock said:

Dec 28, 2023 16:27:23 GMT -5 wawa said:

I am having a moment. Who's the poster who writes historical fiction romance, has them linked in her signature. I cannot think of her name, screen or pen, and I have over 600 books on my Kindle so can't hers them to show them to my sister. Halp my sad brain.

Ha ha, it IS me! Thanks to everyone for the tags, lol. I saw this on the app but the preview text only said "RANCH" so I figured it wasn't about me. 😜

Also, plug for my sister, who has published way more books than me under her pen name Emma Prince. (hers are spicy and mine are not, and she's sold about 100x more books than me as her full-time job!) And fun fact, both our pen names are family names. Prince is our paternal grandmother's maiden name, and both Emma and Sylvia are on our maternal family tree. See, we really do like history!

Hey!  I felt very silly not being able to think of any of your "names."  Tried just scrolling my kindle library till i found you, but there are entirely too many books in there.

My sister and I were talking about self-publishing vs trad-pub, etc etc when I was at her house for belated xmas and I was trying to dig up an old book drop day thread of yours where I asked a million questions.  I have now found it.  LOL

She has a small rejection collection for a few of her novel efforts and we always talk about writing something more "fun" together.  With all that free time she has.  (full time job, 3 kids, other hobbies, etc) We have this conversation roughly once a year.   we mad-libbed an outline together over dessert - we'll see if she hyperfocuses her way through an initial couple of chapters or not.   

How's the Kindle unlimited treating you?  I own most of your books already but seeing that I can KU the rest is tempting.  Is there a significant difference for you?

[smock]

Dec 29, 2023 13:51:04 GMT -5 wawa said:

Dec 29, 2023 11:04:30 GMT -5 smock said:

Ha ha, it IS me! Thanks to everyone for the tags, lol. I saw this on the app but the preview text only said "RANCH" so I figured it wasn't about me. 😜

Also, plug for my sister, who has published way more books than me under her pen name Emma Prince. (hers are spicy and mine are not, and she's sold about 100x more books than me as her full-time job!) And fun fact, both our pen names are family names. Prince is our paternal grandmother's maiden name, and both Emma and Sylvia are on our maternal family tree. See, we really do like history!

Hey!  I felt very silly not being able to think of any of your "names."  Tried just scrolling my kindle library till i found you, but there are entirely too many books in there.

My sister and I were talking about self-publishing vs trad-pub, etc etc when I was at her house for belated xmas and I was trying to dig up an old book drop day thread of yours where I asked a million questions.  I have now found it.  LOL

She has a small rejection collection for a few of her novel efforts and we always talk about writing something more "fun" together.  With all that free time she has.  (full time job, 3 kids, other hobbies, etc) We have this conversation roughly once a year.   we mad-libbed an outline together over dessert - we'll see if she hyperfocuses her way through an initial couple of chapters or not.   

How's the Kindle unlimited treating you?  I own most of your books already but seeing that I can KU the rest is tempting.  Is there a significant difference for you?

Oooh, I've always wanted to write something with my sister! But it might be the end of us, because she meticulously plots out everything in multi-page documents and I wing it.

KU is pretty good for the Prince sisters. It's the majority of my sister's income and often a good chunk of my KDP revenue. Since KU pays per page, it's sometimes a little less than the royalty from a book sale (although for a really long book, KU might be more). I make around $2 per book sale, and a little less for a full KU read. I'm very close to 2 million page reads on KU, which is kind of amazing!

I've scaled back my fiction writing because my full-time job (freelance writer) is a lot more profitable. But thank you, all of GBCN, for years of support!

[wawa]

Dec 29, 2023 14:01:49 GMT -5 smock said:

Dec 29, 2023 13:51:04 GMT -5 wawa said:

Hey!  I felt very silly not being able to think of any of your "names."  Tried just scrolling my kindle library till i found you, but there are entirely too many books in there.

My sister and I were talking about self-publishing vs trad-pub, etc etc when I was at her house for belated xmas and I was trying to dig up an old book drop day thread of yours where I asked a million questions.  I have now found it.  LOL

She has a small rejection collection for a few of her novel efforts and we always talk about writing something more "fun" together.  With all that free time she has.  (full time job, 3 kids, other hobbies, etc) We have this conversation roughly once a year.   we mad-libbed an outline together over dessert - we'll see if she hyperfocuses her way through an initial couple of chapters or not.   

How's the Kindle unlimited treating you?  I own most of your books already but seeing that I can KU the rest is tempting.  Is there a significant difference for you?

Oooh, I've always wanted to write something with my sister! But it might be the end of us, because she meticulously plots out everything in multi-page documents and I wing it.

KU is pretty good for the Prince sisters. It's the majority of my sister's income and often a good chunk of my KDP revenue. Since KU pays per page, it's sometimes a little less than the royalty from a book sale (although for a really long book, KU might be more). I make around $2 per book sale, and a little less for a full KU read. I'm very close to 2 million page reads on KU, which is kind of amazing!

I've scaled back my fiction writing because my full-time job (freelance writer) is a lot more profitable. But thank you, all of GBCN, for years of support!

Her definition of together definitely allows for the fact that she is much more detail oriented than I am.  In that we together blue sky some shit (main characters, setting, general plot theme, where are we starting, etc), she writes it, and she comes to me when she wants to talk through plot points or get thoughts on what I think the characters would do in a given situation.  She's the author, I just help.  80% of said help is moral support.  I imagine if she did KDP I'd be copy editor because she's an ENDLESS DRAFTS kinda girl, so it's best if I handle the details so she doesn't try to re-write things AGAIN when she's supposed to be checking punctuation.