Updated my sensitivity reading page. Because of newly ongoing harassment towards authenticity/sensitivity readers, I stopped cataloging published books I've consulted on. Shame because they were fantastic books! I work with trad publishers but am open to indie as well. https://robertkingett.com/reading/#Publishing@books@bookstodon
Creatives: Would you like to better understand why writers & authors (+ musicians and artists) are being squeezed? The impact Amazon has had on the publishing industry, the chequered history of DRM, the dirt on copyright? How about 'how news got broken', 'why streaming doesn't pay' & what people in the creative industries can actually do about the current state of affairs? Highly recommend Choke Point Capitalism (by Rebecca Giblin & Cory Doctorow) as a read. Please ask your local library to get it in too so more people can have access.
Checking into the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi) Self-publishing Conference #SelfPubCon this weekend for top tips to inform myself and help support my lovely indie authors!
You can too: it's completely free, replays are available for three days 👇
Our publishing co-op is looking for a marketing volunteer, which could lead to paying work once we are funded or selling more books. (We are currently developing a crowdfunding campaign / investment round to launch later this fall.)
Five Norwegian White Bear Tales is an anthology of five Norwegian folktales that follow the story of Cupid and Psyche, but instead of the god of love, in all of these we meet an enchanted white bear.
A brief introduction puts the tales into a more international context.
And the illustrations are gorgeous.
.epub format that may be read on nearly any digital device.
I am going to change how I sell books. When I get around to sorting things out, I shall offer paperbacks on Lulu and Amazon (pushing Lulu over Amazon), and e-books on Ko-Fi (.epub - at reduced prices because of reduced overheads) and Amazon (.mobi - for those locked into the Kindle library).
The way I look at it, I'm unlikely to grow rich from writing and selling books, so why waste time working towards that end? It is enough that the stuff I produce is made available for those who may be interested.
In my latest article for Unsustainable Magazine, I unapologetically brought my #academic research on #affect to bear on our current #ClimateEmergency. I hope it contributes to the discussion of how we react to the #climate#apocalypse in a good way.
Today in Labor History October 3, 1957: The California State Superior Court ruled that the book Howl and Other Poems, by Allen Ginsberg, was not obscene. The poem was based, in part, on a horrifying peyote hallucination he had of the glitzy Sir Frances Drake hotel, in San Francisco, morphing into a child-eating demon. The poem’s references to drug use and to homosexuality are what provoked the obscenity trial. City Lights bookstore own and publisher of Howl, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and bookstore manager, Shig Murao, were arrested on obscenity charges for selling the book.
Pay writers a (morally) decent wage, or go broke. When everyone is salaried but the creator whose work is the foundation of those salaries, someone is being exploited. Guess who!