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.
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