The first and most obvious question: what the hell did I build? Let me tell you a little story...
When Alisa and I first started Curiosity Quills in 2011, we only wanted one thing: to help promote our own writing efforts in ways that other authors weren't. Just a humble little blog for Alisa and I where we would build a personal brand, gain a following, and produce great content to keep readership growing.
Little did we think that our burgeoning two-and-a-half author enterprise would get the word 'Press' stuck to the end and grow into something so huge and wonderful. How huge? According to the database, at this very moment, we're tracking 225 authors and 415 books. That's a lot of work!
At some point, we realized that the workload was simply scaling too fast with additional books for us to deal with, especially where royalty calculations were concerned. We needed a technology boost to help us improve the way we work.
The simplest way to explain Novelful is by describing it as a hyper-specialized database for publishers, agencies, and authors, with a few nifty features.
Mind you, not all of these features are available just yet, but my overall vision for Novelful includes: