As an artist, I go where the wind takes me. Sometimes I like to sketch. Sometimes I go on an epic, year and a half journey developing my own cryptographic cipher and novel alphabet and use it to encrypt a book and then weave all the clues for how to solve it into a thriller novel. You know, just going with the flow of my completely normal mind. #coso #cryptography #amwriting #cosoauthor
@Amaryllis haha nice!
@BipolarArtist Oh that is so cool! If you published that you'd make a fortune. A few years ago they did a reprint of "Cain's Jawbone" (after some TikTok person talked about it) and offered a prize to the first person who solved it.
@nonayadambidnes haha I did publish it! If you have any ideas for how to turn it into a fortune, I am ALL ears!
Bell's Codex https://a.co/d/9yjDKM7
my magnum opus (Bell's Codex Book 2) https://a.co/d/0pkk9lb
@BipolarArtist Oh wow, I've got those both bookmarked for next time I have some extra $!
In the case of "Cain's Jawbone" it was a TikTok video that spurred the popularity of it - of course it was after the original author was long dead lol. 😄
I'm really impressed with the alphabet you created. Maybe you could do a short video showing some of the pages with a voice over talking about Lucas Bell and do it as a Facebook reel or TikTok or something? It's really cool!
@nonayadambidnes thanks! So glad you like it! Yeah I will post about it on TikTok and make a reel and see where it goes. Thanks!
@BipolarArtist Please let me know when you get it done and I'll share it too. 🙂
Also check into people who do book reviews online - there are a lot that you need to pay for reviews, but some do it free because they love to read, it will help with exposure. Basically you just have to give them a free copy of the book.
@nonayadambidnes I made this TikTok video about my books and tied it into the theme of the videos I have been making there. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8qE1UQ3/
Then I uploaded the video as a reel on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/WzNnFCpdRP8opbj4/
@nonayadambidnes I have looked at many avenues as an author for promotion and the competition is fierce and the scams overwhelmingly outweigh the real reviewers. I tried promoting it a lot, now I am just working on writing my next book. It makes me feel great that you are interested in it though!
@BipolarArtist What about writing a post on boredpanda? Talk a bit about you and your background, how you came up with the idea for the books, creating the cypher and alphabet etc, show a couple screenshots of the code and images of the books etc...?
@BipolarArtist The Facebook reel was cut short, just so you know.
But I shared another of your Tiktok videos on Facebook - I don't have a huge amount of friends, but I have friends that do, and they're going to think what you did is cool too, so hopefully they will share it. Honestly I think if you get some publicity, you'll do really well with this - it's such a unique idea. 🙂
@nonayadambidnes thank you so much! Yeah I will make a new Facebook reel today that isn’t cut short. Thank you so much for your help! It feels great that you like this idea. Getting publicity for things is hard without a lot of money. I have never used bored panda before and I don’t know anything about it but I will look into it. I will report back later today.
@nonayadambidnes I think I am going to put a bit more effort into a reel. Maybe make more of a commercial type thing, rather than name just talking. Give me a few days, I’ll let you know.
@nonayadambidnes I haven’t forgotten about this. The whole family has been sick the past two weeks so things are a little bit of a challenge right now.
@BipolarArtist Take care of yourself and I hope everybody feels better soon. 🙂
@BipolarArtist I used to do that to keep my older brothers from reading my diaries.