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They’re also setting a limit of 100 books per account, which works well enough for most, but those who serialize or publish novellas and other short fiction as standalones really get hit with the short end of the stick.

My understanding is everyone who already has an account (and maybe those who create accounts before the fees are implemented in May?) is grandfathered in and don’t need to worry about the activation fee. Everybody who makes less than $100 annually is subject to the maintenance fee, though. I’m...

“Even in death, love abides.”

I found out about this from an email and thought I’d share. D2D is introducing a $20 account activation fee for new accounts and a $12 maintenance fee for accounts earning less than $100 in royalties per year. Here’s the link to their official announcement...

On this note, try-fail cycles are a helpful way to break down or construct plots. Your lead tries to achieve their main goal and fails. They lick their wounds and regroup only to fail once more. Then they make one last effort and succeed. In a novel with conventional three-act structure, the...

The Artemis II liftoff was awesome to watch live. It took me back to the shuttle launches, though the implications of this mission are quite a bit grander. We’re about to have human eyes on the dark side of the Moon for the first time!

I can’t speak for anyone else, but the sort of eldritch/unnatural feel certainly comes across there. Also another example of how it seems easier to describe music from the POV of the performer! Yeah, if there’s anything I’m learning as I chip away at a musical passage in my current story, it’s...

Here’s something I’ve wrestled with more than once: what are the most effective ways to describe music in prose? When it’s a minor detail in a scene, it’s easy enough to throw in a few appropriate adjectives. But how about when the narrative focus is on the music? Or the music drives the plot...

Proud to announce I’ve launched all three of these wide via Draft2Digital! This includes Kobo Plus and a few library services, so they’re all available to borrow for members.

I’d always liked stories, but the biggest nudge towards actually seriously writing my own came from a high school creative writing class, where I found I had a knack for them. At the end of the year, everyone wrote messages for everyone else, and the one from my teacher mentioned wanting a...

Taxes🤢 It wasn’t even that bad, since my tax situation is fairly straightforward, but not at all the way I’d prefer to spend my day.

I assume the sounds include their names? Otherwise…we the readers might know the sounds are from their last intimate encounter, but in-universe, those noises could be any couple doing the horizontal tango. Of course, Tambal doesn’t really need good evidence. All he needs is an excuse, and the...

Ghosts are fun, but traditional ones didn’t fit my main fantasy world, since I’ve always wanted to maintain ambiguity around the existence of an afterlife and whether there’s truth to any of the religions for thematic reasons. After some inspiration from The Return of Sir Richard Grenville, I...

“On a cosmological scale, it’s all nearby” But yeah, not so much close in the sense of actual physical distance as in being a good guess, since both are very tornadic states and—much as my fellow Oklahomas hate to admit it—we’re basically Little Texas.

Close. Oklahoma!