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**Helena Fiori** @HelenaFiori@mastodon.social · 16h

Helena Fiori @HelenaFiori@mastodon.social

If I was in charge of your book launch, this is exactly how I’d market it to blow up your sales.
Drop your genre and current strategy, I'll reply with a free game plan. #amwriting #authorlife #authorsoftwitter #bookreview #indieauthors #writerlife #WritingCommunity

**C. M. Rosens** @CMRosens@horrorhub.club · 18h

18h

C. M. Rosens @CMRosens@horrorhub.club

Meet N.R. Wolfman, an indigenous, queer indie horror author from Colorado. N.R. Wolfman is talking to us about THE WOODS, a YA folk horror! #AuthorSpotlight #AuthorInterview #HorrorAuthor #IndieAuthors

https://cmrosens.com/2025/04/04/author-spotlight-n-r-wolfman/

Author Interviews graphic - the text is above an open book, pages fanning out with sparkles

C. M. Rosens · 18hAuthor Spotlight: N.R. Wolfman

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**Courtney** @vernilla@mastodon.social · Mar 22

Mar 22

Courtney @vernilla@mastodon.social

Stumbled upon a book sale today. I love getting to meet and support indie authors! So glad I happened to drive by at the right time or I would have missed it entirely.

#bookhaul #books #bookstadon

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**azteclady** @herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club · Mar 21 *

Mar 21 *

azteclady @herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club

If your books have been stolen by Meta to train their GenAI machine, The Authors Guild has concrete steps for you to take today; also important to know that if your work was stolen, you are automatically part of the Kadrey v Meta class action in California:

ETA: I am told this only applies to U.S. authors/U.S. copyright holders.

@romancelandia @bookstodon #Romancelandia #IndieAuthors #GenAI #Meta #IPTheft #AuthorsGuild

https://authorsguild.org/news/meta-libgen-ai-training-book-heist-what-authors-need-to-know/

The Authors GuildMeta's Massive AI Training Book Heist: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild Today, The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works are in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. This is a similar tool to the one that journalist Alex […]

**azteclady** @herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club · Mar 21

Mar 21

azteclady @herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club

@romancelandia @bookstodon #Romancelandia #IndieAuthors #Readers

#Beware #AtthisArts

Royalties are not operating capital. Royalties should never be touched.

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.

Definitely not behavior to encourage.

Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com on Bluesky (timestamp March 21, 2025 at 12:51am):

I'm going to be very blunt and say: do not send Atthis Arts any money or manuscripts. The four-alarms red-flag phrase here is "borrow to pay due royalties".

Let me explain for those who don't already know roughly how money works in small presses.

Posted in response to E.D.E. Bell @edebell.com on Bluesky saying:
Can I ask people something? Before I post over there? Atthis Arts is struggling hard. I promised no more GoFundMe and I won't do another. We have an empty account and almost not sales. Our Patreon keeps dropping. I can't pay A.J. We'll have to personally borrow somehow to pay due royalties.
Timestamp for E.D.E. Bell's post March 20, 2025 @3:27pm

Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com on Bluesky:

A copy of a book is sold, the money goes to the publisher. If they paid the author an advance, they keep any royalties until the advance amount is reached (also known as "earning out"). If the book never earns out, the publisher loses money on the deal (clawing back an advance is super, super rare).

If the book earns out or there was no advance, royalties go to the author. The publisher does not get to use them for, say, office supplies and then pay the author later--they can only go to the author.

Or they should. This is 101-level publishing. Writers might not know it, presses must.

Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com on Bluesky:

When you say royalties are due, that means there have been books sold. So where did the money from those sales go? Why is ti not available to pay the authors it's owed to?

It reveals you have been shorting your authors to keep the press afloat.

Ahd here's the real kicker: if people are urging you to support Ahhis Arts because they publish bold, risky trans writing and trans author need support...that means Atthis Arts has been shorting trans authors to protect Atthis Arts.

That's not behavior to encourage.

**azteclady** @herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club · Mar 20

Mar 20

azteclady @herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club

@romancelandia @bookstodon #Romancelandia #IndieAuthors

You can now search to find out which of your books, short stories, articles, etc. have been stolen by Meta/Facebook.

Most authors I know have had *their entire backlist* stolen.

Divest from Facebook/Instagram/Treads.

#GenAI #Theft #Zuckerberg #Meta

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

The Atlantic · Mar 20Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AIBy Alex Reisner

**azteclady** @herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club · Mar 19

Mar 19

azteclady @herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club

@romancelandia @bookstodon #Romancelandia #IndieAuthors

#ReaderBeware #PSA Please note: the same people behind Unbound Publishing, who haven't paid authors or fulfilled publishing obligations towards readers who funded specific books, are now behind the "new" Boundless venture.

(Because bankruptcy laws in the U.K. let them do this with impunity and ad infinitum)

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social:
Today's Guardian newspaper has covered the ongoing Unbound fiasco: still no payment for me and other authors, and most shockingly of all, the publisher is refusing to refund the readers who supported my new novel (which thankfully will now not be published by them) (link to piece)
(preview from linked The Guardian piece reading, "Authors await overdue payments as publisher Unbound goes into administration; The company, launched in 2011, has been acquired by new company Boundless, after writers have been left unpaid for months")

KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com:
Anyone considering signing up with Boundless ought to read this carefully, note that the same people are in charge, and remember that past behavior predicts future performance.

KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com:
It may be legal to wind up a company to avoid debt and start another one with the same business and the same directors. Giving it *the same name* kind of looks like you are laughing at people.

I am also hugely pissed off at how much damage this will do to the crowdfunding model for books, by destroying reader trust that their pledge money will be used for the book they spend it on supporting.

#UnboundPublishing #BoundlessPublishing #Scams

**Hannah Steenbock** @Firlefanz@writing.exchange · Mar 15

Mar 15

Hannah Steenbock @Firlefanz@writing.exchange

Today, I have an awesome opportunity for you if you want to support indie authors.

A lot of us have teamed up to give you extra sales or even freebies through Bookfunnel.

There's almost 200 books for you to chose from!

Take a look right here:

https://books.bookfunnel.com/IndieAuthors25/hqdt34o8ym

#ReadingCommunity
#IndieAuthors
@bookstodon

Promotional image from the Bookfunnel sale.

One a yellow checkered background, there's an open book, a pencil and the text: Support Indie Authors!

There's also a blue button saying "Learn More", but it does nothing here.

**azteclady** @herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club · Mar 14

Mar 14

azteclady @herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club

@romancelandia @bookstodon #Romancelandia #IndieAuthors #Reading

Author Dax Murray has a fantastic post on how to leave the amazon book ecosystem, for both readers *and* authors!

Go forth, free yourself from Bezos.

https://blog.daxmurray.com/supporting-indie-authors-without-shopping-at-amazon

Dax Murray - Fantasy Author · Mar 14Supporting Indie Authors without Shopping at AmazonI’ve done some digging into the numbers, and the latest I can find for the breakdown of authors that have their ebooks exclusive to Amazo...

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**Coreo Jones (coreopsismajor)** @coreo@wandering.shop · Mar 10 *

Mar 10 *

Coreo Jones (coreopsismajor) @coreo@wandering.shop

Then there's my epub formatting gig: I make them clean, as lightweight as possible, and pretty, for all the major ebook distributors. Kindle, draft2digital, you name it. I also do pdf print-ready layout. https://www.fiverr.com/s/Egq4NyY

#indieauthors #indiebook #selfpublishing

**Wendy Palmer** @wendypalmer@mastodon.au · Mar 8

Mar 8

Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer@mastodon.au

Last day of the #Smashwords #ebookweek25 sale!

It ends 11.59pm Saturday 8 March Pacific Time (which is 3.59pm Sunday in Perth, Australia, and that’s the last timezone help I can give anyone )

It’s a great chance to stock up on DRM-free ebooks — browse those two hashtags to check out the huge range of Mastodon indie authors with their books on sale.

https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos/

#books @bookstodon #ebook #IndieAuthors #IndieBooks #DRMFree

Smashwords sale, emphasising that we’re in the last hours.

**Wendy Palmer** @wendypalmer@mastodon.au · Mar 2

Mar 2

Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer@mastodon.au

The Smashwords Read-an-Ebook sale has started — which is very convenient timing for anyone maybe looking around for alternatives to Amazon right now.

There’s heaps of DRM-free indie books on sale or even free for the next week:
https://www.smashwords.com/shelves/promos

Mine are here, all 50% off (making them the massive investment of US$2 to try out) for escapist queer romantic fantasy fun:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/wendylpalmer
All proceeds to Ukraine
Content warnings on my website: https://wendypalmer.au/content-warnings/

There’ll be plenty of other #MastoAuthors on sale there too (feel free to tag yourselves).

Give it a browse, you might discover your next favourite writer

@bookstodon @indieauthors #BookSale #Smashwords #fiction #ebooks #fantasy #QueerRomance #IndieAuthors #IndieBooks

An extension of the usual Smashwords Read-an-Ebook orange and grey advertising banner, which is those words plus a cartoon woman reading on her phone. This one adds an ereader with a pile of physical books stacked atop it (cartoon still), and some words about discovering new indie authors, getting DRM-free, great discounts - the point being a fantastic opportunity to stock up.

**Elise (they/ them)** @ElisesWritings@wandering.shop · Feb 25

Feb 25

Elise (they/ them) @ElisesWritings@wandering.shop

Can any fellow #Authors recommend a cover artist?

I'm looking for a digital painter with cover design experience, to produce something like the cover below, for a four book YA Fantasy-Crime series.

(I'd happily buy the pre-made below, if it came with 3 more like it, but it alas it doesn't).