/lit/ - Literature

I notice on here there is very little discussion of how to actually sell the book once you've written it.
Perhaps this is because the people on here never actually finish writing anything...
Nevertheless I was hoping we might a discussion going here. Has anyone here actually had success selling books? What techniques did you use?
What do people think of giving away one book for free (as an e-book) to make people buy another? Would you be more inclined to buy a book by the same author (let's assume it's the same series too) if you read a free book from him and liked it already?

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>>17396618
I meticulously proved my thesis that the Comedy represents Dante's coming to terms with his own transgenderism and rejection of hetero-normativity.

I rigorously demonstrated how the content and structure of the Comedy expresses a slide away from CIS-centric modalities of thought (lost in the woods, mid way through the journey of life) via tracing lines of flight in a process of self-critique beginning with a recognition by Dante of his own oral fixation i.e. the oral morphology of Hell into which he enters.

The oral cavity of Hell and its preliminary torments which represent the coming into self-awareness of Dante's trans-proclivity convert themselves to the appearance of the phallic-structured Purgatorio which he must ascend, deconstructing various patriarchal moralities along the way, until finaly arriving in the ultimate sphere, Paradise, which climaxes in the absolute Yonic image of God-as-Female-Genitalia which grounds all subsequent ontology.

I also demonstrate how Virgil, who accompanies Dante through the phallocentric domains of Hell and Purgatory, is a parabolic externalization of his masculinity which cannot enter into the Absolute, into the divine realm of Paradise. For this, Dante must convert the representation of his psyche into the female figure which first prompted his transitional thoughts to begin with. The masculine nature fails to be a sufficient orientation and so he becomes a passivity in relation to this newly adopted femininity's activity. This demonstrates a taking on by Dante of the feminine identity that he has longed for ever since a young boy.

The fact that Dante perceives the Divine itself as an eternal yonic activity, as a deterritorialized neovagina which he wishes his own genitalia to become is almost too obvious to mention. The poem literally ends with him staring at the completion of his journey to becoming a transwoman.

Dante

Prerequisites for The Divine Comedy? And should I read the whole thing or just The Inferno?

(I've already read The Aeneid and The Bible)

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>There's nothing wrong with separating the biological differences and behavioural differences between men and women. The fault is where you suddenly assume they are not linked.
This might be the case for the vast majority of people, but transgenders are an anomaly. They are people who, for all intents and purposes, view themselves as the opposite gender than that which their biology dictates, and act in that way. That sex and gender are linked in the vast majority of cases doesn't disprove the minority of cases where they are not.
I would also push back on your assertion that gender and sex are so closely linked as to be interchangeable. This is not the case for all aspects of gender. I already mentioned clothing; just look at how different the various male and female fashion trends have been throughout history. There's nothing in my male biology which dictates that I should wear suits instead of skirts, dresses, togas, kilts, earrings, bracelets, or whatever else. This is just a cause of societal gender influences. A male who is more at home wearing skirts over suits is not yet a woman -- but if he is more at home presenting as a woman in literally all aspects of gender, then he is a gendered woman, even if his sexual biology is male.
>But seriously, if they are XY, then they are a man behaving like a woman.
Again, this just isn't how the words 'man' and 'woman' are used in culture. If something can be called 'men's fashion' without being linked in any way to the chromosomal makeup of males, then surely a transgender man can be called a man without having male chromosomes. If we do enter a genderless society then I would agree with you that sex is the only important distinction. But in our culture gender seems to be so far abstracted from sex that one can cross over into the other gender while still remaining part of the same sex.

Maybe he was gay?

>This sonnet has three parts.