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Council of the Eternal Hiatus

About Us

The Council of the Eternal Hiatus (COTEH) is a queer inclusive Discord community for readers and writers of webserials created on March 12, 2020.As a reader community, we focus on sharing our enjoyment of webserials and other media, including traditionally published books, films, TV shows, anime, and manga.As a writer community, we focus on craft and uplifting newer writers in the webserial community across all platforms.We're roughly 2,000 members strong and growing.Come join us!

Publishing Guides

Our community believes in providing resources to uplift other writers. Since the road to self-publishing and/or indie publishing starting from Royal Road can feel opaque, our community has worked on creating guides to make the process more transparent.These guides are subject to random updates, and we hope to offer more guides in the future.

Writing Resources

Our community believes in sharing resources because what might have helped one writer may help another. Here are some writing resources that members of COTEH contributed to the community.These resources are subject to random updates.

In addition to our Comprehensive Resource Document, we keep resources that members of our community have found helpful organized in our 📁︱coteh-wiki:

Self-Promo

So you want to Self-Promote in COTEH? You've come to the right place! Authors benefit more from self promotion when there are more readers, and so the more readers we can invite to the server, the more readers there will be to see your work.

Here is what we ask:

  1. Shout out the server in either your latest chapter or the backmatter of the work you're shouting

  2. Complete this Self Promo Approval Request form to get the Self Promo role

  3. Once approved, you can promote your work once a week in #✨︱promotion

How to shout out the server:

In your author's note at the beginning or end of a chapter or in the backmatter of your published book, please introduce the server and include this invite link: https://discord.gg/nw9GNE2Qjb

  • You can also use this COTEH logo

  • We also recommend including a pitch about the server that describes your experience as a writer and/or reader

How to self-promote once you have the role:

  1. Include a link to your story

  2. Provide a short pitch about your story using one of the following categories without repeating the same one in the same month (and we encourage you to write a new pitch each time):

  • General

  • Themes

  • Tropes

  • Characters

  • Inspiration

  • Worldbuilding

  • Story Lore