It’s getting dark quite early in my part of the world, and I’ve been enjoying spending extra time curled up at the end of the day reading. I could so, so easily spend more time reading this story. It flows so easily, has an exciting pace, and it just has the same sort of feeling as any of the published books I’ve been spending my evenings reading lately.
I’m not sure if I can explain that sentiment any better or point to anything concrete, but if I had read these first two chapters as, say, a kindle sample, I would absolutely be getting the book in order to keep going.
I understand it’s a short story, not a novel, but it is really checking all the boxes for me--except that I have to wait!
I don't think you need to explain that sentiment in any other way--I completely understand what you are saying and I think it is high praise indeed.
I think I mentioned before, how these Tales of The Lesser Evil are, essentially, prequels to a longer work which has yet to be finished. This was for several reasons, to help me enter this world myself, and the heads of the characters who will reappear, but also for a financial one--the idea being that the trilogy will then draw people to these shorter stories, seeking to find out more about the characters, for example (and there are several clues strewn throughout). In a way, I think your experience will be quite different to that of those who read the longer work, then go back to these--and I think it might even be a better one.
For me, knowing I have hooked someone like this, created a story which demands reading, that is a real blessing and a powerful incentive to keep going. Thank you so much.
Thanks! I'm glad you're reading! (So far, I think fiction has a long way to go here on Substack, it's not well-read or very easily discovered, yet... Fingers crossed that changes.)
Yes, that would be a very useful addition to Substack. I used to use a similar browser plugin, and still have many articles I read, all neatly filed in my kindle account.
Sally/S.E.Reid sends out Talestack News every couple of weeks, which is really handy and a lovely thing to do. There's also The Library (the link library.substack.com) which is another great place to look. Erica Drayton has The List, which is a curated spreadsheet for similar details, and I recently saw someone else doing likewise on their own website. I have a feeling this year will be better for fiction here, but I also suspect Ream will become a bigger challenger in this...
It’s getting dark quite early in my part of the world, and I’ve been enjoying spending extra time curled up at the end of the day reading. I could so, so easily spend more time reading this story. It flows so easily, has an exciting pace, and it just has the same sort of feeling as any of the published books I’ve been spending my evenings reading lately.
I’m not sure if I can explain that sentiment any better or point to anything concrete, but if I had read these first two chapters as, say, a kindle sample, I would absolutely be getting the book in order to keep going.
I understand it’s a short story, not a novel, but it is really checking all the boxes for me--except that I have to wait!
I don't think you need to explain that sentiment in any other way--I completely understand what you are saying and I think it is high praise indeed.
I think I mentioned before, how these Tales of The Lesser Evil are, essentially, prequels to a longer work which has yet to be finished. This was for several reasons, to help me enter this world myself, and the heads of the characters who will reappear, but also for a financial one--the idea being that the trilogy will then draw people to these shorter stories, seeking to find out more about the characters, for example (and there are several clues strewn throughout). In a way, I think your experience will be quite different to that of those who read the longer work, then go back to these--and I think it might even be a better one.
For me, knowing I have hooked someone like this, created a story which demands reading, that is a real blessing and a powerful incentive to keep going. Thank you so much.
Thanks! I'm glad you're reading! (So far, I think fiction has a long way to go here on Substack, it's not well-read or very easily discovered, yet... Fingers crossed that changes.)
Yes, that would be a very useful addition to Substack. I used to use a similar browser plugin, and still have many articles I read, all neatly filed in my kindle account.
Sally/S.E.Reid sends out Talestack News every couple of weeks, which is really handy and a lovely thing to do. There's also The Library (the link library.substack.com) which is another great place to look. Erica Drayton has The List, which is a curated spreadsheet for similar details, and I recently saw someone else doing likewise on their own website. I have a feeling this year will be better for fiction here, but I also suspect Ream will become a bigger challenger in this...