✔️ Changing Accounting Systems and/or software ✔️ Amazon allegedly swapping to a ‘different way of paying’ ✔️ Accounts errors ✔️ Long but sporadic emails that ramble and actually say very little at all ✔️ Owners / Management uncommunicative thereafter ✔️ Authors turning against authors ✔️ Bigger authors prioritized over smaller ones ✔️ Secretive groups ✔️ Authors telling you not to contact the company because the company are *super busy* ✔️…
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Ghost Writing and #CopyPasteCris
I saw some very interesting tweets yesterday “People paying other people to write words for them? Then claiming the words as their own? Wait? Is that really a thing?” And the old argument – “Ghostwriting is an old profession that doesn’t hurt anyone.” And… this one I love “I’m not a plagiarist. I just put my name on other people’s work.” First off, did people really not know that a…
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The Pantser/Plotter question
I am a pantser. This means as a writer I write by *the seat of my pants*. I sit at my Mac and literally make stuff up as I go. There is no big plan for where a story is going, it just kind of happens. My editor says my first drafts sound like the story has fallen out of me. Poor editor. 🙁 I do have an endpoint in…
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Why do I love Christmas? It’s not so much Christmas Day itself…
…It’s the build-up to Christmas Day. From July (when I am playing Christmas music as I write) to October, the Christmas season seems far away. And then it becomes 1 November, and all of a sudden, it’s here! Clocks change, it’s dark early, in the UK we have Bonfire Night, with fireworks. The leaves are turning, there is frost in the mornings, and everyone seems to be making plans for…
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A note on ethical publishing – author post
Something was sent to me this morning. A link to a tweet, that I then followed to read the entire thread. I am horrified. MM authors are changing pronouns and releasing their books as FF. FF authors are changing pronouns and releasing their books as MM. MM and MF and FF authors are changing pronouns and releasing their books as MPreg. Horrified yep… but… we’ve known that authors have been…
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The decision to move to KU
I’ve resisted putting my new books in KU for a lot of valid reasons, some made business sense, some were more personal. A couple of things I need to say first. I’ve been published for 8 years now, and I’ve seen so much change. Without e-books I might not have a career as an author at all – Amazon may be squeezing authors but without them, I would still be…
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