Okay so I feel the reader community of ScribbleHub really has an audience for the isekai novels. But, I can't really seem to find that. It's been like two weeks, and not even a single response, as it seems. My series is currently ongoing, and it's got elements of action, drama, and mystery. It's not just a typical isekai novel with comedy or great fight scenes. Rather, it's an isekai I myself want to read... an isekai where the 'isekai' is not just limited to one guy being teleported and forgotten in the real realm. Please, give it a try. At least, read the first episodes. I hope you'd like it.
Life was relatively normal and cozy for Itsuki and Haruto—two Japanese high school best friends living in the peaceful little town of Chizu on the foot of the great mounts of Tottori Prefecture. Takemura Itsuki, an all-time bedroom gamer, and Shiratori Haruto, a noob game fanatic, were just...
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Replace "mystery" with atmospheric world building, and you have pretty much just described my series as well.
Anyway, think you need to listen to some of this feedback. The marketing you are doing for your series is really not as good as it could be.
I've done a little looking into what attracts eyeballs and have put quite a bit of thought into my image for my series. I also admit I'm not really optimizing it. I'm intentionally not playing the system. I would rather not be cheap or have shallow followers. But, anyway, I would say it's working still considering my reader count.
Anyway, yes. Female characters on the cover often pushes it hard, especially a single female character in a vulnerable pose. That's cheap, but it's what attracts the most eyeballs. (You will notice, I have 2 female characters, and they are in a combative stance that screams strength and adventure. Not weakness. So, as I said, intentionally missing that "cheap eyeballs" zone, but still grazing the territory.)
For the title, there are 3 key words that attract a lot of eyeballs. "Isekai," "Reincarnated," or "liteRPG." Words or phrases that have similar meanings work just as well as those three as well. However, you cannot just say one of those words by itself and expect it to work out. The market is flooded, so you need to give more details and only just include one of the 3 key words as something of an "oh, and also it's this" sort of thing.
The rest of your title should give some inkling as to what kind of story the reader should be expecting. Why does the reader want to read your story? They need to be pulled in by your title. And, as I said. Just saying "Isekai" by itself is not enough. There are plenty of Isekai out there. So, just saying that is not enough. Not by a long shot.
(Also, the fact that your story's description sounds like it really could also be describing my story as well definitely means you have a problem. Your story really doesn't stand out as much as you might think it does, even with that description. So, you should put a little more thought into what actually makes your story unique. You will notice. I just said twice how your description could also be describing my own story. However, none of the things you brought up are in my synopsis. That's because the info in my synopsis and the things I actually push about my own story are the factors that actually make mine more unique and stand out from the rest. So, that's another thing to be thinking about. Try to develop more of an identity for your story.)
