According to Apple, their customers in the EU are not doing business with them but with me (someone explain why they’re taking 30% if I’m actually selling direct), and therefore my address and phone number must appear on each of my product pages. Needless to say, that won’t be happening. There are expensive solutions to […]
Content Warning Discourse is in the air again, which means people are showing their whole asses again, now with links to news outlets breathlessly and uncritically regurgitating anti-content-warning opinions because journalism is dead. I’ve already blown my stack about media literacy elsewhere at length, so I’ll drop the short, semi-polite version of that here, along
I’m shifting all my books that are currently distributed via Smashwords to direct listings with retailers before I’m forcibly migrated to D2D. (Yay for consolidation and eliminating competitive alternatives.) There will be minor disruptions in availability during this process. My entire backlist is already direct with Amazon and Google Play, so no disruption to those
The combination of escalated fuckery and my general dislike of social media have led me to finally cut the cord on the bird app. I’ve long known the endless barrage of bad news and increasing amounts of time cleaning up bigots, bots, and spammers in order to make the place remotely habitable aren’t beneficial to
‘Scuse the noise while I fire up the chainsaw and remove the cobwebs from this blog. Right, where were we? Ah, yes, The Great Serialization Experiment. The first Grave Oversight arc is completed. As is, it’s around 80,000 words, which is a fair length for a tight urban fantasy novel and exactly what I hoped
Q: You said [alarming thing], and now I’m worried there might not even be a next book. Will there be, and if so, when can we expect it? A: I’m currently 23,000 words into the rough draft of another contemporary. Judging by the position of the Act I/II break, I guesstimate the full rough draft
From the mailbag: Q1: Did you learn anything while writing this book? A1: It’s too soon to call it “learned,” but I did have a realization in the postproduction period (too late to apply to this book, but maybe next time). In real life, I over-explain as much as possible, hoping to be thorough and
Several years ago, I had a publishing experience that was so wretched, I said, “Fuck it. I hate writing. I quit.” I did quit, but I slowly came to realize what I hate is publishing. In fact, I love writing, I’m miserable without it, and breaking up was a dreadful mistake. But before we got
Previously on Distribution of Our Lives, the aggregator I’d been using to get into Google Play announced it was closing its doors and left me in the cold to die. I trudged door to door, pleading at each, “Please, kind sir, won’t you allow me to warm myself by your Google-accessing hearth?” Many doors closed
Well, November is off to a screaming start. *twitch* After much agonizing, formatting, uploading, metadataing, waiting, giving up on certain entities because of the waiting, resorting to other means, and linking (so much linking), I am finally pleased to announce the successful embiggening of my sales platform to most sellers. My books are now available at