Unfortunately, unless things change all 8 volumes of the completed Another World Survival and the 10 released volumes of Fruit will disappear from stores next month:

Resuming this topic, we let @everyone know that we have not recieved a respond from Futabasha yet.

Consequently, The Fruit of Evolution and Another World Survival will be available on all stores until February 19th.

You can buy the DRM-free versions from the Hanashi store (recommended) or from Amazon, etc. Note that Amazon does still let you re-download titles that have been removed, I can still read all of my Sol Press titles.

In happier news, My Pet is a Saintess volume 4 was released December 30 and that series is now complete.

@Korppi Their statement on their discord mentioned

We regret to inform you that Hanashi Media is currently facing challenges in renewing the licenses for The Fruit of Evolution and Another World Survival. Despite submitting a renewal offer to Futabasha several months ago, we have yet to receive a response regarding the continuation of these titles.

As much as we value these stories and the community of readers who support them, the lack of a renewed agreement from Futabasha may result in these titles being unavailable on our retail partners’ platforms—including Amazon, Google Books, Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo—as well as on our own store by next year.

So unclear if they can get new volumes, but they might also have to unlist the previous volumes, which will definitely hurt sales long term.

@RobD said in The year fizzles out:

I take it all back! Grieving Souls and Dorky Space Mercenary are continuing with a whole new volume!

A Christmas miracle!

I also suggest the Scholarmance series by Naomi Novik. They are very good and have a LN vibe to them.

Japanese authors and physics
"Physics? Is it sparkly? Is it tasty?"

Ikaruga turned its thrusters to the weapon and started moving so fast that a steam of flames didn't hurt it.

OMFG LOL 🤣
Physics prep school graduate in me is crying tears of blood.

How fast is "so fast"? Mach 5? 1M? 0.5M? We know it's a steam of "flames" and we heard nothing about fuel so the weapon got to have a huge air intake for super-heated air. Well not so super heated as it's RED, making an intake even larger, cause less energy injected. Why author thinks that moving inside the steam of flames will make any difference? IMO it will make it worse, as you'd add that steam's matter's resistance to ambient heating.

So yeah, author was better of writing "It spewed the dense steam of mana at it" and be done instead of inventing half-assed "explanations".

I don't have the Go 6 but I have the original Palma and the Poke 3 and I definitely recommend! Both use android out the box.

I use mine to read epubs and n9vels on book☆walker and it's a great experience.

As mentioned - einkbro is the go-to web browser for eink devices although i haven't used it for prepubs (lmk if you want me to test it - it should work fine though, I just normally don't have wifi on for it)

You can run it out of the box, download your fave apps, or even use a custom launcher for it

I know this is an old topic - but I think technology as finally caught up to what was on my 'wishlist' for a device:

high quality/clear display: e-ink 300 dpi - minimal ghosting/high refresh etc. long battery life - weeks not hours O/S that supports both J-Novel app and website fits in my jacket pocket/hand inexpensive

making my 'Christmas list" :BOOX Go 6 - not the fastest cpu but ticks all the boxes - $150 US- includes case - anyone have one? thoughts? alternates (I also like the BOOX Palma2 but a bit more than I want to spend and prefer an aspect ratio closer to 4:3)

@AuroraFox88 https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3478/future-volume-release-schedule

Decided to check for the status of this one though honestly didn't expect much. But lo and behold, the entire series is back on bookwalker, along with new volume 18! I think I last checked late summer and pretty sure it wasn't back then...

Hopefully this advice from last month will be of assistance:

@Rahul-Balaggan said in [CONTEST OVER] JNC Original Light Novel Contest:

There is no "standard" for the outline. As the author you will determine what should be there. What characters count as "major", how far to go into the story, and any other information you feel makes your work shine.

That is one of the main things here. You are writing this outline to show your work has potential, and that you have an idea of where the story is going and how you will get there.

You have 10,000 extra words to make a sales pitch. Use those 10,000 words in a way that will leave you the writer satisfied.

Are we going to get an imprint for GL?