I woke up to an inbox full of self-publishing delights that dropped overnight. Back in the Smashwords days, if you didn’t want your furry erotica pseudonym publicly linked to your middle-grade adventure pseudonym (for example), you had to have separate accounts. This was their own policy, not a shady workaround some scammer came up with. […]
UPDATE: As of April 11, 2026, I can now can see 1- and 2-star reviews on Amazon. They did not send me an “oops, our bad, you’re actually approved” email, so there’s no explanation for the change. I’m leaving this post up for posterity because who knows who’s still being blinkered, when it might happen
Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1922. The Pulitzer Prize is awarded to works of “distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.” This is one of (at the time of this writing) 10 Pulitzer-winning books that are no longer under copyright and are available free