azteclady<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/romancelandia" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>romancelandia</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Romancelandia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Romancelandia</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/IndieAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndieAuthors</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Readers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Readers</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/Beware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Beware</span></a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/AtthisArts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AtthisArts</span></a></p><p>Royalties are not operating capital. Royalties should never be touched.</p><p>Every small/indie press implosion I've witnessed in the last twenty years (far too fucking many) has stemmed from publishers using royalties as operating capital, then defaulting on royalties and defrauding the authors.</p><p>Definitely not behavior to encourage.</p>