As someone whose deleted their kdp account... your books remain listed. They say 'out of print' or 'unavailable' but they can sell any copies they have. Your profile can not be deleted either, they refused to ever delete my profile. So my face and bio are there with a list of books you can't buy.

Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️@eliseswords.eurosky.social · 4h ago

Head's up Indie Authors still on KDP "I finally got in touch with a human, who told me... that only artificial intelligence could determine if your book was legit." "It's our books that made it (Amazon) the ebook retailer. We have the power to take that away, if you're just brave enough to do it."

Nothing, #SumLuv! That is incorrect. It is Iggy's handler, she's trying to keep them apart. It isn't working, but she's trying. No personal things though, neither have any debilitating insecurities to overcome and misunderstandings tend to get resolved quickly. They are my healthiest characters...

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 10h ago

Even the coziest of romances has some tension, some aspect between them that must be unlocked over the course of the story to bring them closer Is there some insecurity or some misunderstanding that must be overcome? Perhaps there is a very literal plot machination keeping them separate #SumLuv 🧡

For big releases: The Last of Us For independent releases: Disco Elysium Giving reasons would lead to someone yelling at me again so you just get the titles.

Kristin 🇨🇦🤓@faierius.bsky.social · yesterday

No hate, no dogpiling, just curious. For me, it's Skyrim. Don't know why, considering it should be exactly my kind of game, but it just didn't click for me.

This is the man who sent bricks and a dead gopher to a publisher for trying to put ads in his book. Most unabashedly grumpy fucker what ever was and what they've done to his book is repugnant.

Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures@michellefranklin.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ellison would have been livid. Extremely disappointing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5I...

So now that both Hachette and Simon & Schuster have come out peddling Ai trash this week, everyone should buy an independently published book. The only way the big companies will get the message is if money goes toward supporting only human endeavour. Choose any book and tell someone about it.

Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures@michellefranklin.bsky.social · 2d ago

He's removed the original post on Twitter and is now attempting to do damage control on his Substack. Keep telling him this is wrong. Keep telling him Ellison would have hated this. AND KEEP TELLING HIM YOU WILL NOT BUY IT.

Queer people: facing a global right-turn in politics that seeks to legislate the work we make and in some cases our own selves out of existence I: make a post about how beautiful it is that you can purchase creative works from these very queer people Straight person: but what about meeeeeee

A friend of mine works in social services and I feel the need, every time she tells me horrible stories, to scream; Children are people. It doesn't matter if they're yours, or how old they are, if they're mentally or emotionally unstable or even violent. They are people. Treat them like people.

Rudy Ayoub: Why Is It So Hard To Learn?

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Children are playing MtG upstairs and it sounds like it is going poorly for some of them. Lot of subdued shouting... which makes them sweet because they know someone's sleeping down here. Not me, of course. I am unfortunately awake forever.

Emperor Palpatine Says 'I'm Awake' - Star Wars Meme

Alt: Emperor Palpatine rising up from somewhere, blue electricity lighting his maniac laughter. Superimposed at the words 'I'm awake'

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3am was too early to wake up. I is seepy now. Got bunch of arts for a thing done though, if not any writing...also made a food what is safe to eat and will last all week so, woo. Please behold my crime. It won't get used, I was just having fun.

Name your fav 70s tv show. As I recently started watching it and have fallen in love: Columbo

Columbo Says 'Hey That's Me!'

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Quinn Qincaid@qincaid.bsky.social · yesterday

Name your fav 70s tv show. Scooby Doo. All these years later I can make some comfort snacks and watch an episode.

My alarm goes off at 8am to write and I *will* write today. I will do it. Going to write more #Hitch and get those idiots into hell and see how that goes. It is 5am now. I fed kitties, cleaned boxes, made foods, made coffee, so I can play Warframe for three hours before writing. >.>

Futurama: Fry & Bender - I Can Do This

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Tiny me favorite was Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories, my dad used to do silly voices for it and made storytime an event. His mother read it to him when he was little and I read it to my son when he was little. All the same copy of the book too...it's missing its covers but still whole.

Sophia_Nyx 🐰@sophianyx.bsky.social · 2d ago

Name your fav book or book series from childhood.

If you crave lonely, salty #horror starring an ocean what remembers you and desperately wants you back... or just wanna go a little nuts with a wet noodle here is #BeneaththeBrine. amberreinke.itch.io/beneath-the-...

Beneath the Brine by Amber Reinke

[Horror Novella] Follow a wet noodle of a man lost at sea

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Every time I set a deadline for a thing my brain immediately stops wanting to work on that thing...

The Good Place: The problem... is me.

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World is bad but you can still buy ai free writing art and games lovingly crafted by bonafide queer freaks

Okay, #WIPSnips this is from #Paleblood and you're not meant to feel for him, but it is heartbreak in action if not words. Their argument is too long to share in screenshots but Savor is quite heartbroken, if too proud and full of himself to show it without insults and violence.

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag@wipsnips.bsky.social · yesterday

The #WIPSnips word for August 12th is "heartbreak" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Recently, critical comments about LGBT people every day make me very sad. LGBT people just want to love whom they love and live proudly as themselves—why treat that as a demand? Living as a human is a right and shouldn’t be restricted by male and female genders🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

It is one thing to see a spider when you are terrified of them, it is another thing to have it chase you...quite literally, out of your own bathroom. I cannot have teeth now because they're in the cleaning thing and the spider is waiting for me. ...I will miss you, teeth.

What brings Iggy and Bo together in #Hitch is Bo being a big curious sweetheart, #SumLuv. What attracts them is intrigue. Bo's a bit of a contradiction in too many fun ways with a soul like sunset and Iggy's a salacious grin hiding too much with eyes impossible to reason with.

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · yesterday

Tomorrow we'll chat about what keeps them apart Today, I want to know what brings them together! What do they find intriguing or admirable in the other, maybe despite circumstances? What keeps them from simply being strangers in each other's stories? #SumLuv 🧡

There is nothing more distressing in #Warframe than playing as a fresh Hildryn Prime with no adapters installed, no archon shards, no pretty larkspur weapon... and watching this tank of a robot get her ass handed to her repeatedly. I don't grind enough, I'm sorry pretty lady I will do better. T^T

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I cleaned all the kitchen my bones will allow. Sometime before summer ends I will organize those cupboards... I will do it. It must be done and I am the only one who has the time to do these things. But for now I play more Warframe because I wrote words in my phone and that counts I guess.

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I am obsessed with bloody, carnivorous, ambulatory trees what sing like whales, fuck like rabbits and are incredibly hard to kill... Someone stop me, I keep putting the damned things where they do not belong. T^T

Well, I mean...everybody eats, right? So they all have that in common. I suppose Parnamyr could appreciate the Hollow's obsession with eating up every sapient bit of meat in the wretched egg if he were not currently within said egg and already terribly lonely. I couldn't see it enjoying anything.

🌱🫜 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2d ago

Tell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Antagonist Day! Do your antagonist and protagonist share any interests? Stripped of any quarrels between them, what could you see them enjoying doing together? Like Mario Kart for Bowser and Mario! #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Word of mouth is basically the only way small team projects can gain any traction. People hate ads with a passion, and ignore creators when they pitch their own work. But people will give something a chance when a person they know says they like something

Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Tonight's adventures in Barnes&Noble being weird and stupid again has shown me why I haven't been able to write. Got a 'why bother' feeling going on here. The idea was to make this a career but bad practices at nearly every self-pub option (itch excluded) and AI ruining magazine submissions...

Everyone using AI chatbots for the help and support of their business is getting negative reviews every time I have to talk to it.

Successposting.

I come bearing issues with the accepted terminology, #SumLuv, so this is a fun exercise. They are salaciously dancing through a sweltering jungle intimately entwined, soaked in sweat and singing an aria of bliss so sharp and sweet it makes the birds blush. (dunno if this counts as metaphor whup)

📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 2d ago

"Closed door" "high spice" "🌶️🌶️🌶️" YAWN! We can get a little more creative with describing the amount and explicitness of physical affection and sex in our works, so tell me: are you on the ridge of a volcano, or the top of icy Mt. Everest? Hit us with your metaphors 🧡 #SumLuv

Do we want the mama Warframe because she is a support-bot and we love those? Yes. Do we want to fly around looking perpetually pregnant with a horrifying demon baby? No, but we can get used to it. Now the grind to get mama...that...that we cannot do...want to eat own fingers instead.