Interview with Dharma Kelleher #WriteTalkWednesday
About The Author Dharma Kelleher writes gritty crime thrillers about queer women who kick ass. With more than a dozen published titles, she is the most prolific transgender author in the genre and a fearless trailblazer at a time when her community is fighting not...
It’s Not Failure; it’s a Growth Opportunity (aka Plot Twist)
As someone whose day job is in tech support, I’ve learned not to discount the power of “Mercury in retrograde”. Except it isn’t, and the frustrations I experienced last week were obstacles to be sure. In fact, to be honest, it left me wondering...
Authors, Stop Using Jetpack Plugin Immediately!
Note: This post is a follow up to Thursday’s discussion about WordPress(DOT COM) and Tumblr making deals to sell your content for AI programming. Today’s article from 404 media highlights that not only is Automattic, the parent company of Tumblr and...
How Tumblr/WordPressDOTcom Selling Your Data to AI Changes The Website Game
Note: This blog refers to WordPressDOTCOM which is their free website hosting platform. WordPress dot org remains free and open source and is not included in this. I’ll be blogging more about this, I’m sure, as it’s a topic I’ve been trumpeting...The Findaway Voices Rights Grab isn’t Isolated
There’s been a lot of talk about the Spotify/Findaway Voices Rights Grab, and Victoria Strauss of Writer Beware wrote an excellent article breaking down the terms both before and after their “reversal” here. However, I’m seeing a lot of authors...
The Downside of Patreon and Membership Alternatives
In this episode I detail the issues that have affected Patreon since roughly Sept 2022 and how these can cause authors to lose income or depending on what they write, affect their ability to be on the platform at all. Additionally, I mention a few alternatives. Links...
Understanding Monotropism and “Negative” Thoughts
There’s a belief that “ruts” happen from multiple passes over the same territory, whether they’re from repetitive thinking or from tires and the weight of a vehicle, and I’d argue that rather often, that’s simply not the case....Authors Should Care About The 2023 Hugo Awards
A report was recently released on File770 and the Genre Grapevine that begins to hint at what happened with eligible works being left off the 2023 Hugo Awards ballot. At best it looks like the committee exercised self-censorship so as not to run afoul of China’s...