nhaines

Thank you for your amazing level of engagement with the community and your spectacular release notes with every new release. The game stands on its own but it's a lot of fun to know that you're all here on reddit and involved with the discussions and the fun.

NASA lent their logo and some SLS and asteroid (and kerbalnaut!) recovery parts to 0.23.5, and now ESA has licensed their logo for 1.0. How did you approach these space agencies and how receptive or enthusiastic were they about licensing their logos for in-game flag use? Were there any conditions or concerns that they needed to be addressed in-game?

He is altering the deal. Pray he does not alter it any futher.

Hey, I'm sorry you didn't get traction on this AMA.

As someone with almost a decade in indie publishing, I see so many missteps in the launch. The cover looks YA, but doesn't read as sci-fi at all. The blurb shouldn't quote your opening lines, and is structured wrong. You don't have a series, you have a single book, and there's no reason at all to give away your book for free. (You shouldn't discount/freebie the first book in a series until the series has five books, at which point, go wild.) Why would you offer the paperback for $9.99 for a limited time only? You probably shouldn't announce that this is your first published book; it's only going to turn people away. Meanwhile you claim you're a romance, sci-fi author, but the book is categorized as fantasy, contemporary, and romance.

The book itself isn't my style, so I won't say much about it. Just that the formatting (one sentence per line most of the time) makes things difficult to read. If you have to put a guide before the story begins that explains how to read the textual conventions because they're so weird (and did you make sure the "start" marker in the ebook includes this and doesn't start with the prose?) then you should seriously think about the prose style.

But good luck, and publish the rest of the series as fast as you can. The momentum will only help, and I hope you find your reader base that loves what you've done.

That would be what they do.

You're welcome! I'm sorry it wasn't more positive, but with every single book you publish you'll improve, and of course in a year you can go back and refresh your titles. Better cover? Better blurb? Easy and simple. It all comes with experience. So keep writing, keep improving, and again, best of luck!