To celebrate the release of book three, the first 2 Kelpies Forever books are on sale. Once the sale is over, they'll be moving to wide distribution. Unicorns, Kelpies, a lot of vampiric shenanigans. www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZSX7DVP
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I like the animal parts to matter, species, traits, behaviors, but a well-written character is more important to me as a reader. I enjoy the rest, especially if it lends power to the story, but too much can also get in the way of it.
Editing a book I wrote in a frenzy at writer's retreat and pleasantly surprised that I actually DO know how to write a battle. Not sure how much tea is behind this, but it kind of rocks. Also, how do I not remember making these words? 📚💙🐻#furrylit
The good news about this is that, I think, it favors the young and upcoming artistic generation who are more fluent in the model and tools. Let there be new ways to reach your audience, ways we haven't even imagined, that put more power in the creator's hands over their own work.
It's not about 12$. It's about raising the cost to play. Meaning a niche or single title author, an author with a worthy book but a small audience, will likely be forced to find other ways to distribute. Less distribution= less availability = less options for readers. And round and round again.
Most readers don't know how this works. When you buy a book, the bookseller/platform takes a percent. Then the distributor takes another percent. Publisher? Agent? All get a percent. The remainder is the author's. The new fee takes an additional percent out of the author's portion.
If they're charging 12$ (I know, I know it's small but wait) to anyone who makes less than 100, that's a minimum of 12% on top of the % they already take (and after they've gotten paid) If an author makes less, say a one title author with low sales, it could be 50% ?? What if they sell less than 12?
I'm seeing a lot of "publishing a book shouldn't be free" posts in relation to this D2D fee. Guess what, they already take a percentage. No one expects it to be free. They already take their chunk, and now they want another chunk out of your share, calculating the threshold after they get theirs.
Good idea. I've seen some pro articles today as well, all from authors who make more than the 100$ threshold of course. I think what bothers me is that this is effectively putting books out of print if they're not profitable, and I don't believe that the only good/worthy books are profitable books.
Okay, she says the same things, but much more eloquently than I did. I'm still debating. I'm still not happy. This WILL NOT STOP THE AI SLOP is pretty much the only for sure here.
So much this. It is literally auto-correct technology married to a search engine. And we all hate auto-correct for messing up our swears, right? ugh.
But it sticks in my craw to take even more from those making very little to begin with.
But, despite my initial and continuing rage over this, I will likely keep my books with D2D for now. I'm not happy about it. But I know my readers prefer wide, and I believe it is worth a little fee to keep the books available to them and to libraries...cont.
AI grifters can churn out so many books, so so many, that it shouldn't be hard to make the threshold even if each book sells only a few copies. So, it's pretty much just sh*tting on the author as usual. And on the reader who, I still have hope, will prefer a book that actually has a little art to it
skip the fee entirely. Which of course means the fee schedule will primarily punish new authors still looking for their readers, and indie authors who for whatever reason haven't nailed their marketing yet. Or can't afford to leverage ads. D2D will still get their % of those AI sales, and the...cont
this strategy will work for a few reasons. The largest of which is that the "flood the market with AI and get rich quick" crowd is likely prepared to pay for ads. I'm sure whatever grifter class they took on making $ as an "author" told them to. In fact, I'm guessing a lot will sell enough to...cont
sales data equates to is how much someone can afford to spend on ads. (roughly and for the most part) Many exceptional books have trouble with marketing and many less than stellar books sell very well. While I understand their need to eliminate/fight the surge of AI rubbish, I don't believe...cont
I'm not happy about the Draft2Digital new fee announcement, as you probably figured from previous posts. I think what stuck in my craw was the wording of the email which equated books selling less than 100 copies with low quality. Anyone who plays this game should know, that the only thing...cont
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A pink unicorn profile in front of pink clouds with a spark of magic at the tip of her horn. The title of the book Kelpiecorn across the top and at the bottom, the author's name. Frances Pauli, Kelpies Forever Book Three.
She's plump.
She's pink.
And she has nothing left to lose...
Hitting publish on the third Kelpies Forever book. A very pink cover for a very pink character.
I'm leaving. A distributor already charges a percentage of sales, this additional fee is going to be the end of them. I'm looking into direct uploads to other sellers and selling direct on my own side for ebooks, but it effectively makes the Amazon and handselling the only game for print. :(
For folks who wonder why authors books are "just on Amazon." this is currently the primary (only?) other option and they're about to push us all back to Amazon only by killing any hope of making a cent off our work. Because work that isn't selling like hotcakes is "low quality content."
Fandom and Fiber Arts. These are a few of my favorite things.
I feel like books change people, and people bring change. But it definitely is a deeper, slower process in most cases.
Incredible writer and very good person. <3
A lot of vegan leather is made out of mushrooms. Just saying.