Month: June 2020

• Taking Down Trolls

  The last time I fought I troll I did so quietly and with anonymity. Last night on Twitter that did NOT happen. Was it the glass of wine or the late hour on a Friday night or the nature of the attack? Nope, it was because this guy had nothing to spew but a generalized…

  E. J. Dawson

  June 20, 2020

  Social Media

  #amquerying, #bullying, #MSWL, #querying, #selfpublish, #selfpublishing, #trolls, #Writerscafe, #writingcommunity, amwriting, writerslife, writing

• Cue the Editor

  When I set out on my self-publishing journey I knew that I’d need a good editor. I spoke to a friends, found a few people who might help, and sent them firstly my novella. The people I spoke to had varying degrees of warmth – all of them charging a reasonable rate but to me…

  E. J. Dawson

  June 13, 2020

  On Writing

  #authors, #edit, #editing, #editors, #selfpub, #selfpublish, #selfpublishing, #writers, #writingcommunity, writerslife

• The #WritingCommunity’s Inclusiveness & Support

    We’re living in a world with a lot of chaos and fighting.   Covid. The BLM movement. The art vs artists arguments.   The truths coming about from the traditionally publishing industry, agencies that have had staff walk out, the disparaging differences for advances to black authors, and most recently the NYT revelations. *deep…

  E. J. Dawson

  June 9, 2020

  Social Media

  #authors, #creativity, #selfpub, #selfpublish, #selfpublishing, #Writerscafe, #writingcommunity, writerslife, writing

• Ugliness in The Publishing Industry

  Ugliness in the Publishing Industry   I’m angry. I’m furious. I’m at the end of my fucking rope. I’d like to say its about the BLM movement, and what’s happening in Australia and America is terrible. I’d like to say it’s the #Publishingpaidme tag and the disparagement between black authors and white authors is sickening.…

  E. J. Dawson

  June 7, 2020

  Social Media, Uncategorized

  #diversity, #indieauthor, #indieauthors, #indiebooks, #selfpub, #SelfPubIsHere, #selfpublish, #selfpublished, #selfpublishing, #writingcommunity, amwriting, indie, writing

• Featured Poet Taia Dominque

  I have not been silent on my support of the Black Lives Matters movement and I’ve been doing that by one action alone; sharing and retweet the voices of those it affects most. Today some of those words were lost. A clear screen shot on Taia Dominique’s Twitter can be seen that she posted the…

  E. J. Dawson

  June 4, 2020

  Uncategorized

  #blackpoets, #blackwriters, #inspiration, #poems, #poetry, #poets, #PoetsofTwitter

• Red Sofa

  Originally posted on shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows: This is not a post I ever thought I’d be writing, and I certainly didn’t expect to be writing it now, when there’s so many terrible things going on in the world. But the SFF writing and publishing community is not an island: we impact and are impacted…

  E. J. Dawson

  June 2, 2020

  Uncategorized