#and bite the fucking book

[brainmoss]

oooh when i catch you hermann kafka when i catch you

i would scream at you on the behalf of your son and also say all the things i cant say to my own father through the several drafts of my own unsent letters to him

[scarlettgauthor]

A plea

Readers! Billionaire-haters! Comrades! I have a request for you, from the bottom of my self-published indie author heart:

Please buy your books from places other than Amazon.

I am not saying do not buy books. I am definitely not saying pirate books (authors need to be paid in order to keep writing). I am just asking you to shift your purchasing to a non-Amazon platform. Any of the non-Amazon platforms.

We all know that Bezos is using his bajillions of dollars to make the world an actively worse place. We know he's sucking up to Trump because all billionaires are the same, and all they care about is their money. We know he's at least partially to blame for this second Trump presidency. I think the world would be a much better place if Amazon didn't exist.

I hate Amazon and Bezos as much as it's possible to do, but I literally can't survive as a self-published author without selling on Amazon. I earned $1094.26 in royalties (through Draft2Digital) in January, and $863.46 of that was from Amazon sales. Even with the criminally low royalties I get from Audible because I choose to sell elsewhere instead of locking myself into their monopoly, I get between $200-300 a month in royalties from them as opposed to $75-150 a month from Author's Republic, which publishes my audiobooks to everywhere else on the internet.

I hate depending on Amazon, but I can't quit Amazon unless readers do.

My plea to readers is this: Get off Amazon. Get off Kindle. See if you can buy books directly from the independent authors you like (like through my shop on my website!). If you depend on Kindle Unlimited or Audible subscriptions to keep up with your voracious reading habits, try your local library instead. You can get so many books and audiobooks through Libby!

If I was getting 80% of my sales through avenues other than Amazon, it would be easy to take the financial hit and drop them. Currently it's the other way around, and unfortunately I do still need money to live.

I know for many people doing a complete Amazon boycott is not possible. I still occasionally use Amazon for stuff like printer toner, or camp chairs for a concert on short notice, or other housewares I would be happy to buy in an actual store except that in-person shopping has been so degraded by Amazon that's no longer an option. I'm not perfect, and I'm operating within a system that is stacked against me.

But books aren't any of those things. They're not two-day free delivery on groceries and pantry staples for a disabled person who can't safely leave the house. They're not a houseware that you'd have to drive a full hour to buy in person from the one shop that still has it available. There are so, so many other options available in the world for book purchasing, even if you don't have access to a cool local bookstore.

Even if you can't get to a Barnes & Noble.

Even if you don't have a good local library.

There are OPTIONS.

(I, for one, love Bookshop.org, but just look at the Books2Read link for Red, the Wolf, and the Woods! There are 14 non-Amazon retailers, plus I sell direct! Bookshop has just launched ebook sales to support local bookstores, too!)

Please, consider changing your book shopping habits! Ask your friends to change their book shopping habits! It's a small thing, but it's a small thing that means a big improvement for authors, and for the world.

Thank you.

[clottedscream]

just finished reading @ohcorny ‘s graphic novel Hunger Bites and OH MY GOODNESS I LOVE THESE TWO SO MUCH. i want to read about them going on adventures together solving supernatural mysteries for like 700 more books they’re SO charming and fun!!

[mamawasatesttube]

when people act like the only problems kon ever has are a) tim dating bernard and b) lex luthor

[fridayiminlovemp3]

not to talk about h*rry p*tter in 2024 but does anyone remember the fucking cursed child 😭😭 that book was so bad like i used to be OBESSED like unhealthy hyperfixation OBESSED with harry potter as a kid but that book was so fucking bad it literally snapped me out of it and i stopped thinking about and caring about harry potter. i remember i went to a whole book launch with my family and on the way home i started to read it and all the colour left my face along with any respect i had for jk r*wling. like why is harry potter an abusive father. why is voldemorts snake a sexy woman. why does he have a secret evil daughter. i need to throw rocks

[acquired-elfroot]

lol, do you ever think about the fact that Felassan was almost certainly the one who talked clan Virnehn into summoning Imshael in the first place?

he had been in touch with the clan for years, he and Solas both knew Imshael from waaaay back, and Solas had specifically tasked him with retrieving the eluvian key - which Imshael knew the location of. i'm one hundred percent sure that Felassan was the one to first plant the idea for the keeper, knowing full well just how that would go.

i'm a thousand percent sure that it was Solas' idea in the first place.

and you just know neither of those ancient elven assholes would ever accept blame for it either

"I merely offered guidance" "I gave no orders" "they chose to summon the demon" "if they're so beholden to suggestion they're not so much a person as a weathervane"

i love me some amoral trickster shitheads.

[greenerteacups]

not asking for spoilers but just wanted to let you know I am SO excited to see whether you'll be including any aspect of the golden trio's van life™ treasure hunting in the woods segment of DH in your story. I know you've talked about how silly and irrelevant it is for them to be off and away from all the other characters and action for so much of the last book, so I'm looking forward to seeing the changes you make and what kinds of new experiences they'll have if they remain more tethered to the plot. but c'mon. neverending geocashing group camping trip from hell. it's kind of hilarious.

RV TRIP DEATHLY HALLOWS they will never make me love you RV trip deathly hallows... tho you are right and I fully grant it is the funniest thing that book could have done... it's like. The Two Towers if you're reading Sam and Frodo's trip to Mordor and you don't know what fuck all else is going on while they're doing it. And also none of the stuff with Aragorn or the actual war for the ring is on the page. And there are Hallows there, for some reason.

[valeovalairs]

please i am begging you if you fucking love really good and interesting prose that you just reread over and over again a fascinating manipulation of language and weird stories and water being creepy and something casually horrifying, everyday lives going on as everything crumbles around them, AND queer fiction, please please please reading literally anything by Julia Armfield

[iamthemaestro]

gender rant in tags

[malkaleh]

I came across a Lore Bro Take Sadly and listen, listen adaptations can adapt etc but if you are going to whine about how having ROP having Elrond be kind, diplomatic, gentle and getting on with people/especially dwarves is Not Canon I will personally pull out all my highlighted passages from The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, LOTR, The Unfinished Tales and HoMe because it is The Most Canon. I have a powerpoint in my head about this*

(I am deliberately sticking to my happy place corner I swear I just saw this one with MY ENTIRE EYEBALLS and had to whine about it)

*No one needs this powerpoint but I have it okay one of my friends mentioned me on a podcast re this I have a Small Elrond Hyperfixation ;) hi M.

[dilsdesigns]

i ordered some pins and theres several problems all of which are my fault. so im having a time lately.

[dont-justdont]

that man is MUNCHING

[cheecats]

In reviews of the book, there were some children who openly said they were like 12 or so and said the book was good bc it showed how important it is to keep secrets and were talking positively about the relationship between spotted and thistle 🫠 the erins really fucked up that one

^ my fucking face reading this shit. I need to kill the erins with my bare hands [ref: X]

[gryptids]

What happened to synopses. Fucking synopses. Descriptions of what your book is about. "Kirkus Review say-" what's it about. "Tropes include-" what is the inciting incident. "Lovecraft meets-" WHO IS IN IT AND WHAT DO THEY DO

[misteria247]

Don't know when~ don't know how~ but I know we'll meet again some sunny dayyyy~!!!!

[keylimeguy]

oh yeah btw i got a print from one of the artists who helped design naven at a local convention last month. unrelatedly i am never going to be normal ever again