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Anil Bahuman's avatar

I agree its a good idea to promote the first chapter. Have you tried making a photo-gallery, one image per chapter? It will have an Instagram like feel to it, you can take relevant pictures from free sites like unsplash, pixpay, freepik, pexels, shotstash

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Jon Auerbach's avatar

I wrestled with the same question you did while writing my debrief post. It seems like the Royal Road-type reader who will binge a ton of chapters (or who come back and read a new chapter daily) is not yet on Substack.

I thought about offering portions of my book as an ebook to help people catch up (longer than the 7-chapter excerpt I use on BookFunnel) but the entire ebook is a benefit for paid subscribers only. I think I will take an idea from Mark and publish one of my short stories over several weeks as a break in between book 1 and book 2 and see if people react more to that.

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