OK: Have not yet read, but this looks to be right up GelCube's alley:


Chronicles of a Royal Pet: A Princess and an Ooze (Royal Ooze Chronicles Book 1)

Yes, but he's a pretty new author, first book was in October 2016. Don't think he has figured out the advantages of KU yet, nor price optimization.

Price a bit less, sell a lot more, make a lot more. And KU, as I keep saying is a great deal for authors...unless you have some magical way of getting your book noticed on the apple bookstore, BN or playstore.

I wasn't on KU at first (but it wasn't as good a deal then either) because I wanted to be at all bookstores. Quickly found out that they don't count for a plate of mash potatoes against the mountain of Amazon.

Never sold anything on Apple, sold maybe 2 or 3 on BN, sold 4 on Smashwords, sold 5 or 6 on Playstore in the first 2-3 months, compared with a couple hundred on Amazon.

Currently I make about 2x as much from KU as from individual sales, and individual sales are 2 orders of magnitude beyond what I could do elsewhere.

Most people will eventually get a clue and come around so that's a good plan on your part.

No, she's just carrying it. Apparently, oozes in that world don't "ooze". Ah, damn my reading addiction. I went ahead and bought it. It was entertaining, and an interesting take on things, but many of the plot points seemed a little forced to me.

Still, it was fun to read.

As I understand it, the Ooze is her pet at first, and then maybe her lover?

That's an odd relationship progression, but then humans dating oozes is not that common.

I read it. It started out pretty interestingly, since the main character couldn't communicate, but then the jelly suddenly learns how to speak! Became kind of a standard coming of age story after that, with just an unusual MC. Book 2 looks to be a standard going to mage school type thing. Will there be romance in the future? God I hope not, as it will be completely derivative at that point.

https://www.amazon.com/g...QI6/ref=series_rw_dp_ssw
Staving dragonblessed is a good fantasy novel. The first book is on discount

Bummer, hate that when it happens, but perhaps it's just part of the superior nature of slimes, oozes and gels, being a master race and all has its advantages, or so I would assume.

In terms of different character development, I think the Divine Dungeon does relatively well, yes, in book Cal, the dungeon, does go from unable to speak to fairly sophisticated in not a couple hundred pages, but lots of time is passing around him as it does. So their are lots of very explicit periods of weeks or months where he is very purposefully working on learning things and building himself out, learning how to make monsters etc.

I've got book 2, which just dropped into the Abyss, but haven't got to read it yet. Busy running back and forth between Book 4 and CoA:ITA, it's hard to be the most important character in two books simultaneously.

Will the god be out on this third strike? Permanently dead?

Do gods even play baseball?

Hmmm.