I blush to self-promote at all

Since the thread is aged and superceded, my tl;dr du jour. (de la semaine?)

Sometimes I pimp (theme of the day) on my one fiction short story, Invulnerable - link in nick. I blush to self-promote at all, much less in the company of so many brilliant readers and distinguished authors, and with so much good to read in the world - but if I don't mention it, who would?

When I mention it, I'll check the stats laster that day, and I'll usually see average maybe three clicks from AoSHQ.

Don't know if anyone ever got past page one, though. Never get a syllable of feedback, there or here. Oh, well, there was one comment once: someone followed the link to the table of contents but couldn't figure out that you click on the chapter titles to proceed. !! Other than that, nothing.

As far as I know, the only person who has actually read through to the bitter end is Milady, my fan club of one.

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I'm used to little-to-no feedback on my webworks, and anyway asking for feedback is major "be careful what you ask for" territory, especially since, under my gruff, manly exterior, I'm as sensitive as that SJW girl in the vine with the balloon sword. I suppose no feedback is like no news. Better silence than having my soul crushed by scathing criticism or snarky derision. (Which I've had for some of my musical efforts.)

But I do gots t'wonder, how does it come across?

I'm not a pro writer or aspiring author - this was just something that poured out of me one winter, after years of contemplating the idea. I don't expect five star reviews. It's light drama, I suppose you'd say. I'm kinda fond of the characters and think the story works, but of course I can't have any kind of objective view.

I suppose it can be confusing - starts out as rough-sketch "graphic" storytelling (comicstrip), then quickly becomes straightforward text with shifting narrators, and the epilogues are faux webpages and emails. Begins with a guy who has a pacific kind of superpower that influences others, and then part 2 ends up ... well, I don't want to spoil it, but, sci-fi.

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So, glutenous for punishment perhaps, I've mentioned it again. It's on my website for free. Comments can be left on the ToC page. Would you pay 99¢ - or 10¢ - for it on Amazon or Kindle? There's PayPal donation buttons atop each page. (Been meaning to drop PayPal, but haven't figured out a good substitute yet.)

Feedback and funding aside, it'd be nice to think that I hit that niche market of someone who was entertained by it - that's the reason I promote it, really.

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