If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!

I often see people post that if something isn't available to them when/how/priced how they want, that piracy hurts corporations more than individuals and all it shows is that you sincerely, sincerely believe that your instant gratification is more important than someone else paying their bills

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Instead of stealing books you should become friends with authors and establish a barter economy. It’s working out great for me!

And like, can we discuss how unhinged it is that people are cool with stealing from writers and have no money for books but will donate to the site that provides the fencing service?

Sol is a bi guy with a kink background that looks like Bowie. Rain is a plus sized neurodivergent heiress. They do dirty things together.

And since someone will ask: The quickest way to get money to me as an author is to buy my spicy romance novels as I took no advance on them so I would make profit on every sale. www.amazon.com/King-Bourbon...

And if you really want a book but can't afford it, readers love sharing their favorites. Put it out there. Say, DOES ANY GIFT FAIRY WANT TO BUY ME ______. You'd be surprised.

You cannot respect artists at a fundamental level and steal their work. Sorry, but that's why we hate AI.

If it's truly to fuck over the corporations, go drop the cost of that novel in an author's tip jar anonymously. But we all know you won't do that. So. Request books from your library. Shit, I'd rather you ASK ME for one of my books outright than pirate it. Yes, I've sent copies this way.

You're not really screwing over the publishers. They make up for your pirating by jacking up prices, paying authors less, cancelling that series you love because it didn't sell enough, etc. You're hurting authors & your fellow readers because you feel entitled & I, for one, fucking hate you for it.

Authors: we're broke don't steal from us, please. Some person on the internet: this person is an idea landlord. I've uploaded every book they ever wrote over years to a streaming site because fuck them. We're tired. And idea landlord was a lift from Twitter. Literally aimed at us to shame us.

Or, you know, don't admit it. Just do what you're going to do and stop making it everyone else's problem because you need to be told you're being righteous. If you beleived that you wouldn't be online fighting with people over it.

And honestly with the number of free books available at any point now, there is very little defense I want to hear from people these days. You can sign up for deal newsletters and get offered 500 free books a day. Just admit you want what you want when you want it & don't care about anyone else.

Every excuse everyone makes for why this is OK falls the fuck apart when everyone gets to make money on our work except for us.

I yell about stopping AI now the way I did about Amazon 15 years ago and am hoping that this time it works 🫤

Always worth taking a moment to remind you if you’re pirating authors’ book you’re a shitty person. You can rail that our profession isn’t a profession all you want. You can paint yourself as an online revolutionary liberating ideas. It’s all bullshit. You’re just a shitty person who hates writers.

Imagine being snide at people who are already EXTREMELY aware the only real game in town is fucking them over. Exhausting. They need to go lecture at someone else.

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99% of authors I know have a day job and/or a side hustle. Next.

When you're wondering why a series is two books instead of three, or that final book to wrap everything up never comes, this is usually the reason.

I pretty much ignore illegal downloading because there is nothing I can do about it, and erotic books get pirated at rates that would break your brain. But I hope people who make collections and sell the data for profit step on Legos with every step for the rest of their lives.

I'd never heard of this site until tonight. Both my books are on there. Did you know my publisher offers one of three lowest royalty rates in the entire industry? And that I didn't get an advance? Literally all I make is from royalties. Royalties I don't earn when you pirate my book.

Fuck you, Apple. Inserting AI where no one asked for it and isnt even your software to begin with.

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Remember, this is not just about sticking it to Trump or seeing how Republicans voted. This about real people. I was in a meeting with Rep Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) today and she said the survivors told her “we are the Epstein Files and we want to be released.” THAT’S what this is about. 13/

I just paid the first half of what I owe my cover designer. AAAHHHHHH This is happening! I'm actually going to be publishing my work in 2026. 💙📚 #AmWriting

"What if another author has the same idea as you? Don't you worry about it?" Nope! Hell, knowing me, I will absolutely boost that author's book right alongside my own. Because there is no competition here, only community.

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I'm still represented by Becca Rodriguez with Subtext for film & TV adaptations. So, y'know, just putting that energy out there for IT'S A FABULOUS LIFE. 😉 Thanks! Let's goooooo! 🤩

Amicably parted ways with my literary agent. Putting some good energy out there for referrals or agents looking for an energized client who wants to do big things. I'm published in sapphic romance/rom-com & have an upmarket speculative fiction with romantic elements I'd like to sell traditionally.

"Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the West" Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...

Kind of crazy that evidence is mounting that the world is run by a group of rapists, pedophiles, and men convinced of women’s inmate natural inferiority, and the pundit class is trying to convince us that the real social crisis is that men are victimized and lonely because women have too many jobs.

"Mostly pay"

so many people have had so many emails that should have been made public before November 12th, 2025

The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.

All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Pretty disingenuous to ask, "Could it not be...?" Sure, it could. But in a time of relentlessly rising, violent govt crackdowns on civilian populations (waves from Chicago where they've teargassed elementary schools, pepper sprayed toddlers, broken ribs & killed people) this ban is a huge red flag.

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

W o w I have a sudden urge to set something on fire

This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.

In my old town the GOP had run basically without serious challenge for decades. A bunch of us "millennials" joined the local Dem party and basically asked to help. We were running it in a year. Within 4 years we had a majority of town seats flipped Dem. A FAR more progressive Dem than old party

"AI is forever" - guys who tried to convince us their stupid fucking ape pictures were a viable investment

who is letting the 8 Traitors do this much media??? like seriously all they're doing is making us more mad. what is the POINT. they should have caved and then gone home to take a nap, nothing you say is going to do anything but make us more mad at you & every democrat who speaks to you ever again

"We all told you there was nothing to worry about!" Gee, can't imagine why we didn't immediately believe you when that's the same thing y'all said about Roe.

we actually don't like you forcing a vote you know you'll lose just to show that the republicans will vote against it. we know this!! and anyone who doesn't know it is not going to be convinced in the year 2025. stop playing to a voter who does not exist. @kaine.senate.gov

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Kim Davis' call to overturn its 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. www.mississippifreepress.org/us-supreme-c...

The problem here is that we DO understand how the Senate works. And we also understand how the Senate SHOULD work. And more importantly we understand that it’s complicit cowards like Durbin who are the problem.

Go volunteer for a progressive launching a “hopeless” campaign against an extremely entrenched incumbent currently squatting in a safe Blue seat. The worst thing that happens, is that you drag the incumbent to the Left. Best case? Zohran Mamdani, who was polling at 6% in January.