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Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was my first crush

I'm anti-fascist af

My feet are pretty sexy

I believe that hits all the marketing highs?

Info here

https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/about-my-book-drystone-a-life-rebuilt/

https://stonemaiergames.com/the-darkest-timeline/

StoneMaier Games has a good explanation on how the 54% US tariff on #TTRPG and #boardGame s printed in China will impact the game market, #gameDesign and #publishing of #games

'In my view, to fixate on words misses much of what translation is.'

Michelle Chan Schmidt talks to Matt Reeck about his philosophy of #translation

Just don't call it a #philosophy

https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2025/04/02/the-movement-of-language-matt-reeck-on-the-best-unexpressed

#books #reading #writing #fiction #poetry #publishing #bookstodon @bookstodon

'The company has taken our books and used it to make money. It has money, but instead of paying us for our intellectual property instead of licensing a word, it's taking it all for free.'

Andrew Rogers talks to the authors standing up against #Meta

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c70w24j7jk1o

#books #reading #writing #publishing #AI #bookstodon @bookstodon

The 30th #WomensPrize for Fiction shortlist has been announced today!
Six fabulous books are on the list, congratulations to all the authors #bookstodon #books #publishing @bookstodon
https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/entertainment/books/womens-prize-fiction-shortlist-2025

Congrats to @johnonolan and the team at Ghost, which today announced a public beta for users to connect their publications to the fediverse. If you're in their beta, you'll be able to find, follow and interact with people and publications on platforms including Ghost, WordPress, Threads, Mastodon, BlueSky, Flipboard and more. Get details in the blogpost here. If you want to know more about Ghost's approach to decentralization and the open social web, check out John's DotSocial conversation with @mike at the second link.

https://ghost.org/changelog/social-web-beta/

https://flipboard.video/w/sQCNmXx332xi3Y3dVVjd37

do any #nsfw artists use Mixam's print-on-demand service? I wasn't sure if their print-on-demand allowed NSFW the way they supposedly do with bulk printing.

Well, well, well, the chickens coming home to roost. Me and some other librarians (incl. celebrity ones) have been saying this for years. Publishers act as if the money will never run out, but meet goose and golden egg.

Help too if scholars and faculty stopped obsessing over high end journals and #PublishOrPerish. You helped enable this.

> Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/03/31/academic-libraries-cannot-afford-to-carry-on-with-transformative-agreements/

I Took a Break from Being Publicly Trans. Then I Came Back Stronger. • Buttondown https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/i-took-a-break-from-being-publicly-trans-then-i/ #Trans #Publishing

Lapham's Quarterly Announces New Stewardship

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/laphams-quarterly-announces-new-stewardship

This guy took the long way 'round to find out something I could have told him in five minutes. But, honestly? People have to learn the hard way or the lesson won't stick. So good for him!

> Why Is This Site Built With #C. https://marcelofern.com/posts/c/why-is-this-site-built-with-c/index.html

Writing a book can change your life - and basically nobody stops after writing just one.

That's a big reason Leanpub has Lifetime Author Memberships - join our global community of writers today!

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I appreciate the irony in my university inviting me to a workshop on Ethics in Scientific Publishing, hosted by Elsevier.

I just finished setting up an Itch.io profile for my writing. Ebooks of some of my work will soon appear there, starting with the five book bundle of The Wizard's Scion, on April 11, 2025.

I find this option for publishing a little odd, but I like the fact that people can pay extra for my books if they want to tip me.

The selectable royalty split is also very nice.

https://owentyme.itch.io

Writing a book can change your life - and basically nobody stops after writing just one.

That's a big reason Leanpub has Lifetime Author Memberships - join our global community of writers today!

https://leanpub.com/membership

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> What Happens if Libraries Can’t Buy Ebooks?
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2025/03/25/what-happens-if-libraries-cant-buy-ebooks-opinion

Let me bottom line it for you without some of the polite in the article: Libraries would be fucked, and more importantly, so would faculty who may rely on books and/or publish them.

#BadEconomy #academia #HigherEd #books #reading #publishing #fuckery (c)

Again, Published Doesn’t Mean Paid. https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/published-doesnt-mean-paid/ #Publishing #Writing