Monthly Archives: 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 hatred of the world, its laser beam focused on me. Why? I invited him to. On this… Read More

Category: Social Media Tags: #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 was half a fortune. Editing is expensive because its work. In my case a LOT (but… Read More

Category: On Writing Tags: #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 breath* All of these are confronting and difficult and we need to hear them. So… Read More

Category: Social Media Tags: #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. I’d like to say it’s the transphobic tweets from JK Rowling this morning but to be honest… Read More

Category: Social Media, Uncategorized Tags: #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 whole poem, but that later other parts of it were taken down. This is not right, the… Read More

Category: Uncategorized Tags: #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 by the world in turn, and it’s because of this relationship that I’m speaking now. This is…

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