Guides for fiction writers: how to serialize a novel, run a beta read, find readers, and charge for chapters.
Alpha readers see a draft that can still change shape. Beta readers see it when only the reading can change. Critique partners trade reads at either point. Who gets your draft first, and what each one costs you.
Forty chapters posted free online and an agent's form asking whether the book has been published. What "published" means to agents, magazines, contests, and Amazon, door by door, and how to keep a book's options open before chapter one goes up.
Your cover is judged at a hundred pixels wide, on a phone, beside twenty others. What it has to say at that size, how each genre's readers read it, how to brief a designer, what to get in writing, and what each site allows.
KDP sells books made with AI and asks you to say so, but only for one kind of use. Amazon's definitions of AI-generated and AI-assisted content, quoted in full, and a table that puts everyday writing tasks on the right side of the line.
On a reading list or a store page, your cover is drawn about a hundred pixels wide. Wattpad wants 512 by 800, Tapas 960 by 1440, Kindle 1,600 by 2,560. The sizes each site states, one master file that crops to all of them, and how to check the title still reads at stamp size.
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