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
I’ve been using IRS Direct File for a number of years, after “free file” from other sources decided to exclude 1099s. This year, IRS Direct File has likewise stopped accepting the stack of 1099-MISCs* that I and all freelancers/gig workers have. If you find it worthwhile to pay to file your taxes, carry on as
As of today (February 14, 2025), a whole bunch of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books are $1.99 at multiple retailers. This is a great opportunity to fill in gaps in your collection. If you’re new to Sir Terry, Discworld is a massive series that does not have to be read in order. (In fact, I disliked
THROUGH NOVEMBER 30! Haymarket Books, a radical, independent, nonprofit book publisher with a focus on social and economic justice, is offering 10 free ebooks from their catalog. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one
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
Today (June 20, 2024) only, there are two book events to aid you on your quest to accumulate the most massive TBR. Romance Bookworms is hosting their regularly scheduled Stuff Your Ereader day. As you may have guessed from the site name, the offerings there are romance or romance-adjacent. If you’ve partaken in the past,
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
PSA: In the US, you can get 4 free COVID tests from the USPS. If you ordered some during a previous round prior to September 25, 2023, you are eligible for another set. If you’re eligible for the 2 orders (8 tests total) mentioned at the top of the page, it will say so after
On September 20, Romance Bookworms is hosting another Stuff Your Ereader Day, this time with over 1,000 free romance and romance-adjacent ebooks never before featured in the event. That means if you loaded up last time, you can load up again without worrying about duplicates! As always, you can sort by store and banish all