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Use Shirtaloon's He Who Fights With Monsters as your case study.
He spent 20 months writing his first volume offline (roughly 350k words) then started posting on RoyalRoad with a large backlog for patreon. After he'd written and posted roughly one million words of content for free he published to Amazon through Atheon.
Obviously, he put a ton of work in and nearly two years of his life before even putting the story up for free, but he's been very successful now.
speaking of, defiance of the fall is my number one recommendation, first is on amazon and the rest is on royalroad, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09168R29M?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_0&storeType=ebooks&qid=1627873967&sr=1-1
another good one would be threadbare, about a sapient teddy bear golem
- <strong><em>Defiance of the Fall</em></strong> from a Swedish author. It's a rare kind of readable mix of xianxia and litrpg. The hero progresses not just as a cultivator but also as a leader; it deals with management, city building, alliances and backstabs, some economics, genocides, etc. It feels quite, ehm, gritty realistic, but not without a weird humor sometimes. The first tome (~600 chapters) is completed, the audiobooks are there.
Just discovered this series and absolutely love it. Two books are out on Amazon with the third coming in April. The third book and the start of the fourth are also available on Royal Road.
It's a mix between Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Hunger Games/Battle Royale type dystopian novels with litRPG mechanics. Quick read, very funny and the writing and editing is solid.
https://www.amazon.com/Defiance-Fall-LitRPG-Adventure-TheFirstDefier-ebook/dp/B09168R29M
Just register to Amazon, go to buy, enter your credit card details and buy it. Afterwards you can get the Kindle app.
City of Sin from a Chinese author, it is definitely inspired by Planescape: Torment, it is a representative of the rare D&D xianxia genre. The hero is a runemaster, heir to the cursed clan, where the devil bloodline is supported by incest, he rises to power in the planar metropolis, leads planar invasions. Epic, drama and all sorts of 18+. The novel and its translation are completed.
<strong><em>Defiance of the Fall</em></strong> from a Swedish author. It's a rare kind of readable mix of xianxia and litrpg. The hero progresses not just as a cultivator but also as a leader; it deals with management, city building, alliances and backstabs, some economics, genocides, etc. It feels quite, ehm, gritty realistic, but not without a weird humor sometimes. The first tome (~600 chapters) is completed.
<strong><em>Defiance of the Fall</em></strong>, there's the audiobook too.
It's a rare kind of readable mix of xianxia and litrpg. The hero progresses not just as a cultivator but also as a leader; it deals with management, city building, alliances and backstabs, some economics, genocides, etc. It feels quite, ehm, gritty realistic, but not without a weird humor sometimes.
The german book prices of game of thrones.
It is absolute ridiculous. Via the german Amazon you can order the english box set with all books for around 26€.
All translated books will cost you around 120€.
Amazon sells a Kindle version (https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-One-J-R-R-Tolkien-ebook/dp/B007978OY6?tag=hz0d-20#nav-subnav) and Apple (https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-lord-of-the-rings/id503019669?mt=110) has one as well.
The Complete Wheel of Time (English Edition) https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00M64A8UA/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_PrpLFbW2BA7XV Talking about this.
Na i will still try to do it. Maybe i will reach the point, where i can just ignore it (i really hope). But i needed a vent.
If you get this one, it's actually a deal on Amazon US right now for $2.99 for the Kindle edition, then you can buy the audiobook for $11.99 whispersync deal. I remembered seeing it on the /r/ebookdeals subreddit earlier today. Depending on how much you pay for your credits (and whether you have any interest in the Kindle edition too), this could be a good deal.
When you say "entire series" are you talking about Delve or Delvers LLC? Both are good, but very different.
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Wheel-Time-Robert-Jordan-ebook/dp/B00M64A8UA
That's the series, but not absolutely everything.
The Strike at Shayol Ghul is online, and is in The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time (AKA the Big White Book) but not in the Amazon compilation.
The original version of New Spring is in the Legends anthology.
River of Souls is in the Unfettered anthology.
A Fire Within the Ways is in the Unfettered III anthology.
It's not exactly what you're looking for (not rational enough), but I quite like Dungeon Crawler Carl. (First couple books are now on Amazon, current book is on RR / Patreon)
An alien appears and advises you that in one week every structure on the planet, from chicken coop to Taj Mahal, is going to be sucked down into the ground. Everyone and everything in those structures will be destroyed...except not quite. They will be placed in storage, and if some human can fight their way through 18 levels of monster-infested dungeon then they will gain control of Earth and can put everything and everyone back the way it was. If no one can do it then the Earth will be strip mined and all the stored people and things will be reclaimed by the aliens.
You are a YouTuber with a platform of 200,000 and you rise to the challenge. What will you bring with you? Who will you invite to come along? The choice is up to you and all of the other readers who choose to vote.
This is a quest written by yours truly and set in the universe of Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl. As of this posting we are 6 chapters in so the initial decisions have been made but there's still a lot to do if you want to recover the Earth! Drop by and join in the fun.
Took a few minutes of Google searching, but:
https://www.orbit-books.co.uk/titles/robert-jordan/the-complete-wheel-of-time/9780356519623/
EBOOK / ISBN-13: 9780356519623 PRICE: £80 ON SALE: 21st April 2022
(That's $104.68 at today's exchange rate. If you bought the same thing from Amazon's US store today, it would be $163.85, so it looks like Orbit's publication will be significantly cheaper.)
It's better than 95% of the Kindle Unlimited LitRPG and Urban Fantasy stuff. It isn't as well written as popular Fantasy authors, like Sanderson, Martin, Abercrombie, McClellan, etc. But I would consider it on the level of Dungeon Crawler Carl.
It technically isn't a game, but the mechanics work the same and it definitely falls under LitRPG. It has problems here and there, but far better than most LitRPG I've read. The characters feel distinct, there aren't typos or missed editing, 'I' and 'me' is usually used correctly, unlike most Kindle Unlimited books. The mechanics are interesting (kind of similar to Will Wight's Cradle, I wouldn't be surprised if it took inspiration) and it's an interesting premise, but the mechanics all still work like a game, HUD, etc.
Defiance of the Fall is really scratching this itch for me right now. Book one didn't totally sell me on the story till near the last quarter of the book but after that it's full speed ahead. I'm on book 4 right now and loving it. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09168R29M?ref_=dbs_m_mng_rwt_calw_tkin_0&storeType=ebooks
"Awaken Online" does this. The author supplies a nice timeline and read order chart on all his book's web pages in Amazon's Kindle store. Here is a to his link first book.
Not sure how or where you look, but the Wheel of Time series is definitely here.
For example, the complete edition in English.
The Complete Wheel of Time (English Edition) https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00M64A8UA
You can get "vast chunks of WoT text" easily from .epub, .mobi, and .azw3 files, all formats available both legally and through piracy.
Legally there's Amazon of course, and MacMillan sells direct. Many of the legal avenues are DRM-free.
Piratically I won't give you any links, but if "Cursory Googling hasn’t yielded anything", then you're not looking in the obvious places.
I would recommend strongly "He who fights with monsters". I both it because my subscription was expiring, and it was... long. It litRPG, so it's basically a fantasy book, but the characters have stats and skills like in games. It doesn't affect the plot that much... maybe makes it a little growth-oriented (leveling) up. It's actually a really good book, disguised as trivial fun.
I haven't had that experience. Only when there's very few reviews and a series is new. (Honestly that's been my experience with other websites for reviews.) But this isn't a new series and there's thousands of reviews all saying the same things. They're not vague about their criticism at all and it definitely applies. There are issues with how firstdefier portrays women and writes romance. It was a terrible decision to handle the women that way. The pacing is actually kind of bad. It does feel like he didn't plan it well at first. And imo many of the other criticisms are true too. This is where the series came from and that's why I linked that in particular.
In my opinion there's not enough of the published story out to review that by itself, but from what I read of the second one it did feel like to me that he used a different editor or something? I will say that the first book was a much better start than RR's which I had to slog through, but definitely could have been better. For one there is no dialogue for most of the first part of DotF for the RR version at the start, which I assume he probably took down now that he's on Zon?
Well, I don't want my comment to get too long here so I'll just link to Amazon reviews which has a two star review as the top one and good reads to be fair to you.
https://www.amazon.com/Defiance-Fall-LitRPG-Adventure-TheFirstDefier-ebook/dp/B09168R29M
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57866482-defiance-of-the-fall
City of Sin from a Chinese author, it is definitely inspired by Planescape: Torment, it is a representative of the rare D&D xianxia genre. The hero is a runemaster, heir to the cursed clan, where the devil bloodline is supported by incest. He rises to power in the planar metropolis, leads planar invasions. Epic, drama and all sorts of 18+. The novel and its translation are completed.
<strong><em>Defiance of the Fall</em></strong> from a Swedish author. It's a rare kind of readable mix of xianxia and litrpg, and starts with the System Apocalypse trope. The protagonist ̶i̶s̶ ̶s̶t̶r̶o̶n̶g̶ gets cheats from the beginning, but he gets ̶s̶e̶r̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ impossible challenges as well. It feels quite gritty realistic, not without a weird humor sometimes. He progresses not just as a cultivator but also as a leader; it deals with management, city building, alliances and backstabs, some economics, genocides, etc.
<strong><em>Defiance of the Fall</em></strong> from a Swedish author. It's a rare kind of readable mix of xianxia and litrpg. The protagonist ̶i̶s̶ ̶s̶t̶r̶o̶n̶g̶ gets cheats from the beginning, but he gets ̶s̶e̶r̶i̶o̶u̶s̶ impossible challenges as well. It feels quite gritty realistic, but not without a weird humor sometimes. He progresses not just as a cultivator but also as a leader; it deals with management, city building, alliances and backstabs, some economics, genocides, etc.
City of Sin from a Chinese author, it is definitely inspired by Planescape: Torment, it is a representative of the rare D&D xianxia genre. The hero is a runemaster, heir to the cursed clan, where the devil bloodline is supported by incest, he rises to power in the planar metropolis, leads planar invasions. Epic, drama and all sorts of 18+. The novel and its translation are completed.
Currently reading Dungeon Crawler Carl myself (on Book 2!) and it has been a hilariously excellent read. Great way to start the genre.
My top recommendation that I think fits your request is He Who Fights With Monsters by Shirtaloon. Not only is it well-written with a great system and engaging MC, the surrounding cast is fantastic, and it includes some light romance. This story is a banger, so treat yourself to it once you wrap DCC.
He Who Fights with Monsters: A LitRPG Adventure https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08WCT9W26/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_ZDWFPPRSB40K4MMVPMS7?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Once you are done with that and if you still want more, you can try out my novel, Dive: Endless Skies, which is currently a contestant in SPFBO 7. It's a more traditional fantasy setting about a young woman who falls in with a team of guild mercenaries on a Dungeon quest. You can expect great characters, good action, a little romance (more just awkward flirting and budding romance), and light litrpg elements.
Dive: Endless Skies (The Dive Sequence Book 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08XQVLJBL/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_1TBZZF75RAMTV6CWJZY7
He Who Fights with Monsters by Shirtaloon has been great. Combat is fun and the dialog is increadable. I would avoid the audio book as it falls into the trap of having a stat sheet that is read out but the book for me is a must read. I would desibe this a a Isekia/Gamerlit with some great character building.
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Swing Shift by William D. Arand (Randi Darren is the same author) is another great book filled with modern fantasy fun. I would describe it as a mix of fantasy/mystery/action. All of this authors books share the same universe which is a plus.
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I would also recommend Demon Accords series but I would say it has some inexplicable character moments that really brought the series down as a whole. The Power Creep is also off the charts.
Which is why, in "galactic reality-show" type games like <u>Dungeon Crawler Carl</u> or <u>They Called Me MAD!</u>, it's always shown that the human population VERY quickly goes from 7.5 billion to around 1-2 billion. Literally 80% of humanity dead in a week.