Another PSA about Amazon:

They only pay authors 30% in royalties (even if they price above 2.99) when someone buys a book through Amazon COM while not actually living in the US.

That's right. Amazon "steals" 40% of my royalties because the customer is in a different location that the USA.

Why?

Because they can. Because we authors let them get away with that. No other store does this.

Buy direct. Or at least not through Amazon.

shop.hannah-steenbock.de/

#Reading
#WritingCommunity

Hannah Steenbock

Hannah Steenbock is a German writer of fantasy and science fiction. She uses both her native German and English as languages for her tales, as she loves English and tends to think in that language when plotting Fantasy.

^{Hannah Steenbock}

This story bundle with many African scifi books, including mine, ends in 16 days. If there are any "book influencers" here, or perhaps you want to run a campaign of some sort and need to give people a gift or bonus or something, let me know and I can get you gift codes.

storybundle.com/scifi

@bookstodon #writing #writingcommunity #sffbooks #sff #africa

StoryBundle

Pay what you like and get a bundle of awesome ebooks and more!

^{storybundle.com}

It’s been a long long while since I’ve focused on my writing so I signed up at
writingmonth.org. My goal is simple - commit to writing at least 500 words/day and see where it leads me ✍️

My handle is curiousmagpie if you want to connect there. 👋

Weblog: curiousmagpie.weblog.lol/

#WritingCommunity #WordWeavers #WritersCoffeeClub #WritingMonth

I remember #NaNoWriMo's innocent early days of simply cranking out a terrible first draft without your internal editor interfering, and then watched in disappointment over the years as it became institutionalized and started taking itself way too $eriou$ly.

This latest misstep isn't terribly $urpri$ing, and they surely won't be the last arts organization to make a tone deaf decision related to "AI" non$en$e.

#cmonson #WritingCommunity

404media.co/nanowrimo-ai-polic…

My new narrated audio fiction project An Invisible Sun launches on August 1st!

Go to invisiblesunpod.com to hear the teaser, subscribe on your fav pod app, and get more information!

But if you can't wait, members of my Patreon can hear the episodes early and ad-free! patreon.com/wkeithtims

I hope you'll listen!

#audiodrama #audiofiction #fiction #podcast #fictionpodcast #sff #specfic #writingcommunity #writing #indie

I made a Classical Chinese Poetry Bingo to help people recognize the common tropes and motifs.🤣 These show up frequently in the modern poetry I translate as well. Do you recognize anything from your readings or from pop culture? Tag yourself. I'm "feeling sad on a boat" lol

#poetry #amreading #诗 #翻译 #writingcommunity #cdrama #sinophone

Remember to include little human touches in your work so that it breathes. Random bits of humour. Rude or angry graffiti. Kids playing with a rock.

(The trapped mason from Abbey de Sainte Foy, France, c.1050.)

#WorldBuilding #writing #ttrpg #dnd #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

Hey #WritingCommunity, here is a working masterlist of lit mags and presses that are on Mastodon and will be posting submission calls. This resource will be updated periodically, so make sure you bookmark it for future reference. :)

All handles have been added with consent from the representatives. If you are an EIC or staff member, please get in touch and I'll add you to the list.

[updated 02 Jan '24]

#LitMags #SmallPress #Publishing

docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Lit Mags, Presses & Other Publishing Venues on Mastodon

Sheet1 Lit Mags & Presses on Mastodon This is a working masterlist of Mastodon pages on which submission calls and print/web issues will be shared. All handles have been added with consent from the representatives.

^{Google Docs}

Issue two submissions open now for members of marginalised groups! Please send us your stories ✨❤🧠✨

inner-worlds.org

#SpeculativeFiction #SFF #SFFH #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #LitMag #SubmissionCall

Hey, remember that you can join #WritingTreat during #NaNoWriMo this year again. That's when we really kicked it off last year. Oh and, ofc the rest of the month for NaNo-prep. No one is required to follow NanoWrimo "rules or goals"

We're a twice-weekly writing group, with few option for video or voice chat. We're ND friendly, and try to focus once or twice during a two hours slot. 😅
We are actively working to be an anti-racist space, and filled with queer and trans people.

There will be space for additional sessions during the month, but that requires more people to host. And even if you only want to offer to host once session during the whole month, that could really help the community!

Feel free to ask me or @ljwrites for an invite to the matrix chat room as well!

And wiki info is here (we try to keep this updated)
wiki.writeout.ink/writingtreat…
You can Check out our other hosts from under the hashtag too.

#WritingCommunity

Taken from #Google's updated "privacy" policy.
I mean, I find it ironic because there doesn't seem to be any #privacy to speak of here 😆

I know this is no laughing matter, but I am at the "oh what the hell can I do so might as well laugh about it" stage 🤣

#WritingCommunity #Data #AI

Here’s my suggestion: get your AI to write books, then get your AI to read them.

Repeat this infinitely in a closed loop of techbro busywork until you get bored or die.

Leave the rest of us to create and appreciate the art form in a modest human way.

#chatgpt #ai #techbros #publishing #ebook #writing #writingCommunity #amWriting #reading #amReading

@libreoffice

Hey, folks.

I love using Libre Office and have been for years. I write all my books with it. I believe you're leagues better than the MS version.

So why, oh why has Writer lost the ability to remember the last cursor position?

It's beyond annoying, especially when editing a 250 page document. This is one of the most important functions, to be able to continue where you stopped - why is it even broken?

Why has it been broken for so long?

#WritingCommunity

In this Substack post, I interviewed my agent about how he chose which editors to send my novel manuscript to (and his sub lists are #diverse in a way the #publishing industry often isn't, and the novel eventually drew three publishers to an auction). I also share thoughts on revising to prepare for this process. Hope it's helpful!

sarahcypher.substack.com/p/wha…

#AmRevising #WritingLife #WritingCommunity #AmEditing #submission #query #agent

I started writing on Substack to talk about the process a manuscript takes in traditional publishing, and how to navigate the process without losing the book's soul.

It's a happy story that starts at the end of many rejections, and I'll post some threads in case the takeaways are faster/easier to get here vs. Substack. The site is The Bird's Eye, and it's completely free and goes to folks' inboxes every other week.

sarahcypher.substack.com/

#writing #publishing #WritingCommunity #author #novel

The Bird's Eye

A longtime writer and indie book editor shares notes on debuting with a Big Five publisher. Click to read The Bird's Eye, by Sarah Cypher, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

^{The Bird's Eye}

Lesson 5. The agent has to say yes, but SO DO YOU. Find *your* agent, not just any agent. Preserving your power to say no is important at many stages of the publishing journey (multiple offers, bad deal terms, etc.), and you want an agent who respects you and gives good advice. I can't stress this enough. 6/8

#WritingCommunity #agents #LiteraryAgent #publishing #editing #querying

Full post: sarahcypher.substack.com/p/fin…

Step 2: Finding the Right Agent

Once your novel is done, here are five lessons it took me 20 years to learn.

^{Sarah Cypher (The Bird's Eye)}

Welcoming the #WritingCommunity to Mastodon!

Perhaps, I should do the second #writerslift here.

So you know how it goes, like, follow for follow, and post your #links to your #books #wip #blogs etc. on this post below

#amreading #amwriting #writers #writersblog #writerchat #writerdons #writerlife #writingtips

I'll go first, I'm working on my first #novel The Ravenport Club, you can follow for updates on its Facebook page www.facebook.com/TheRavenportClub and very near to publishing it.

I'm a Blind writer that writes romance, making sure Disability is given agency in romance! I've published books, short stories, and more. I'm on sub with more books. I have a literary agent. If any romance readers want to check out my work, My main writing page is here blindjournalist.wordpress.com/…

I also blog, blindjournalist.wordpress.com/…

My guide to Mastodon/Fedi is here blindjournalist.wordpress.com/… #RomanceLandia #Romance #CripLit #Publishing #writingcommunity

Mastodon for writers and readers

This post includes Fediverse accessibility resources in addition to the below. I finally did it. I deleted Twitter off my phone and subsequent apps off my phone. I still kept my twitter account act…

^{Robert Kingett}