Kwanzer?
Excuse me while I try to erase the cringe off my face...
Kwanzer cannot write a legible tweet and is pretending to be a writer?
As for Mags, the hateboner for her is that she is the embodiment of everything wrong with the modern comicbook industry. I had some positive experiences with her on twiter and, writing-wise, she has some potential for emotionally charged dialogues, despite the fact she cannot write a story. Unfortunately, transitioning from a wannabe fanboi to a pro woman in comics does nothing to improve ones writing...
That being said, she was promoted way before she had improved her craft, has been mentored by Gail 'fake geek auntie' Simone, who is... let's say not the most suited person to teach somebody how to write and, at the moment, she is a tainted brand.
Speaking of tainted brands and bad writing:
More people than you think do this full time selling books on Amazon and Kindle, but I don't know how they do it. A lot of them put a lot of money into Amazon ads, but I've had no luck with those. They all just say "have nice covers and do a series" but I don't know, I thought my covers were pretty good.
Let me tell you a secret about publishing and bookbuying, as a buyer of books: People doing self-publishing as a full-time job, publish books people want to read.
There is no use having a great cover for an uninteresting book or having a series of unsellable books.
A great cover will make people curious to read your blurb and if it is a series some of those who read the first book (expect around 50%) will buy the second, then will go on buying the rest. And with every new book coming out, you will have people buying the older ones and getting into the series.
Unless you understand why this advice is being given, you cannot make it work.
Let me tell you something: YBZ books are mediocre at best. But people buy them because he can hype them on his videos and because they are stuff people want to read. Expendables with superpowers, bordertown shoot-em-ups and a conspiracy thriller set in the covid era are cool concepts that have an audience. And, additionally, people like Zack, they tune in to listen to him talking comics and also listen about how his projects are going. Reading the actual book, after listening about how it is being made, is the culmination of the experience, the end of a journey and this covers for a lot of the badness.
Cyberfrog had some issues with the story and the writing. But once Ethan shows an impressive page, you want to see more of it.
This is YouTube marketing at its best - you have your audience join you while making that book, to the point where they are willing to spend a couple dollars to read the damned thing.
Now, you are twenty something, have published 4 books and 3 comicbooks successfully. You work hard and you are focused. This means you have all it takes to make a career.
What you lack is the craft (but you will get there) and the sales.
Maybe people do not want to read your books. Maybe supernatural horror is not selling.
Have you thought about taking your ideas about Brutas, repurposing them in another sci fi concept and writing some badass sci fi? There are a lot of self published sci fi authors so there is probably an audience there.
I would suggest you get a dayjob, get off the internet, go out and talk to real people, date a girl or two, see what reality is all about. People read to escape reality and this is what you should give them. But you have to know people to know what they want.
The reason modern comics suck is because they are written by losers who can't get of the internet long enough to know what the real world is, let alone wants.
And also learn how to interact with people. Because, honestly, you fail hard at interacting with people and it shows throughout your CG career.
