RE: Introducing myself, finding your passion, and who wants to start a Steemit Book Club?
@neilstrauss Welcome aboard! Listen I don't want to spoil a secret, but we've got a secret project going to encourage authors to create books and stories exclusive to steem and allow them monetize them through upvotes, donations and even sales.
For now if you have have content you want to contribute to that. just add the "storytime" hashtag to your works. Ideally these should be short stories, or individual chapters (blockchain has a limit on letter counts). Anyways, use that tag and it will be picked up automatically and added to the library of our ebook and tablet friendly reader front end to steemit.
For an example of what this can look like, take a look at this short story...
https://steemit.com/storytime/@williambanks/mud-blood-and-glory
Note that I wrote it to use the max character count the blockchain can handle. So you can see how much content you can cram in there.
If you want to follow me, as soon as the app is ready for beta I'll be pinging all of my followers to let them know.
Anyways, great content and welcome aboard!
LOL ok, so I just realized you're an already published author. Somehow that just didn't register as I was reading your post. I really need to stop trying to use this site on my phone, looks like half the post is missing on my phone, but on my desktop it's just fine. My phone cuts off at The lesson: Just having a dream is not enough; just having a mentor or guide is not enough; just working hard is not enough. You need to be receptive, positive, and open: in short, teachable
So umm yeah, sorry about that.
The steembooks thing is meant to lure folks away from wattpad etc. But you're welcome to join us too!
As for your book club that's a great idea too. Trying to figure out how that would work in steemit in general. But we do have steemit.chat and if you ever want to do face to face video conferences I've been using https://meet.jit.si/steemit which can handle a huge number of participants and has no cost.
Love what you're doing. Will follow you and stay tuned in, and maybe participate sometime as well. Have a ton of unpublished stuff I love on the hard drive, which is one of the reasons I'm here.
@neilstrauss Awesome and glad to hear it! I'm really excited to have someone who actually reads books, try this stuff out. So many people just quickly scan anymore and don't give themselves time to really enjoy it and think about what they just read.
Its actually really weird.... he didnt mention once that i noticed in this or the phil collins post what i guess might be his most "pop appeal" work. The Game... which is kind of a bible to douchey PUA types. I wouldnt have made the connection if he wasnt mentioned in another thread i wouldnt have made the connection myself.