PSA for any Apub authors whose books are in the Anthropic settlement list: Amazon is not participating in the settlement, since they have an investment in Anthropic. When you submit your claim form, you DO NOT have to list Amazon as an add'l rightsholder, & can claim 100% of settlement money.

We've got a big announcement to make! For the entire month of November, we're going to be hosting an event celebrating indie and self-published SFF authors that we're calling... A Month of Rain and Reads! But we'd like YOU to get involved! Find out more: www.readindiefantasy.com/announcing-a...

Status on PETITION's distribution: Affected: Libro.fm Unaffected due to direct distribution: my shop, Google Play, Kobo, Spotify Currently unaffected: Chirp, Everand, Apple, B&N, Hoopla, Libby, Downpour, Booktopia, Booksamillion, Storytel, prob most others. 😩 I've contacted @libro.fm, stay tuned 🎧📚

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As said below, knowledge is your greatest ally and your best defense--not just against scams, but misconceptions and mistakes. All writers need to be familiar with the basics of copyright.

New Release! The Gallant, a Wars of Light and Shadow novella, is now available in audiobook format narrated by Zachary Shaye Jennings. The audiobook (and original e-book format) are available exclusively in the Studio Shop: shop.paravia.com/janny-wurts/...

Just interviewed @nghivo.bsky.social for an episode highlighting the newest addition to The Singing Hills cycle, A Mouthful of Dust. Nghi is fantastic! So appreciate her taking the time to chat with us and her extremely thoughtful answers to our questions. This episode will be out on 10/7! #booksky

Thinking of buying direct but not sure if you can figure out how to sideload files? Audiobooks are a little tricker than eBooks, right? I've made a free product in my Payhip shop so you can practice sideloading PDFs, EPUBs, and M4B (compiled) audiobook files.

Wednesday's episode will be a BONUS where we are choosing the next #IndieMission Pick. Today and tomorrow we will be highlighting the various authors and their book, which we may be reading in October! #IndieAuthors #IndieBooks #Booksky owwrpod.com/2025/08/25/i...

BEGGING ALL INDIE AUTHORS AND PRESSES PLEASE put excerpts of your books on places that AREN'T Amazon The Itchio pages, indie press sites, etc We're never gonna convince readers to abandon Amazon when it's still a better source to research purchases. #booksky

Authors, there are more and more ways to produce and distribute audiobooks without Amazon's ACX. If you're interested in producing audiobooks without Amazon, we've rounded a handful up: blog.libro.fm/how-authors-...

Scammers are really intent on scaring authors into not contacting someone like me. For example, this "confidentiality notice", appended to a fake offer of publication from Celadon Books, which threatens "blacklisting" of the author "across the entire publishing industry"

The Narratess Indie August Sale is ALMOST OVER! Dozens of indie fantasy, sci-fi and horror books are on sale or even free! Go check out this amazing sale before it ends!!! indiebook.sale 💙📚

ICYMI, PLEASE SHARE! Writers! Uncanny Magazine is OPEN to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! We can't wait to read your stories!!! buff.ly/xB0IZOX

LAST post about the Narratess sale: ‘Children’ is also part of two #itchio bundles! itch.io/b/3240/narra... – 24 books for $29 itch.io/b/3246/narra... (yes, it’s all long novels and chonkers) – 20 books for $23 THE LAST DAY! #Fantasy #Sale #BookSky

LAST DAY! Get these great deals before they’re gone! 💙📚 indiebook.sale

This amazing sale is still on for today and if you are feeling overwhelmed by all the awesome books you can check out this thread for some recommendations!

Today is the last day of the Narratess Indie Sale! Grab one of the 300+ amazing books before the price goes back to normal! indiebook.sale 💙📚⚔️📚🩸📚🌈📚

It’s the final day of the Narratess Indie Book Sale. With 300 titles to choose from this is a great chance to pick up some bargains and discover new authors for Indie August. indiebook.sale

As part of @narratess.com's Indie Book Sale this weekend, you can grab these eBooks on sale for $0.99–1.99 each through August 25th! Find them in Campfire's online bookstore or on the mobile reading app. Some of them include or offer bonus reading and artwork! 🔗 www.campfirewriting.com/explore

As @narratess.com's sale has begun, I made as usual a list of recommendations. Each time is more difficult to keep it short! Feel free to check: jamreads.com/articles/my-... 💙📚

Check out the Narratess Sale and Bundles! I have a book in the Fantasy 1 bundle 💙📚 #queerwriters #queeradultsff 🌈🚀💫 📚🌎 #writingcommunity 📢📚 🩷🧙♂️⚔️ 🪐📚 #BookSky #Books #readingcommunity #bookcommunity #readers #bookish #readersofbluesky #booksonbluesky itch.io/b/3238/narra... indiebook.sale

Interested in a sci-fi survival story with elements of Animorphs, Orphan Black and the Hunger Games?!? Now available to add to your Goodreads shelves! Releasing November 20th 🐺

Ok. I'm gonna give individual posts to the two remaining books that I've actually read and then I'm going to batch together the remaining books. Here's Petition by Delilah Wan This is a truly excellent story about a gritty tenacious MC overcoming every obstacle thrown at her by a corrupt society

Hey fam, it's time for the August indiebook.sale run by @narratess.com! There are more than 300 books in this one (including Dungeons & Dragon Dating by yours truly)! You should definitely check out all the books if you have the time, but for those who want help here's a thread of recommendations:

Hey #booksky, #ICYMI: there's 320+ #indiebooks on sale this weekend ($1.99 or less). The handy filter on the @narratess.com sale page indiebook.sale will help you find EXACTLY what you're looking for. Me, I've been scoping out the epic fantasy titles 👀 there's 21 of them, including mine. 🪐📚💙

Robin Sullivan steps through exactly how bad Audible's new royalty model will be here: www.change.org/p/convince-a... She's also got an easy fix. If you agree this is a real shitty move by #Audible, please sign Robin's petition and share widely. Your voice matters—you can make a difference! 💙📚🎧

Some of us do! My audiobook is available everywhere EXCEPT Audible bc I REFUSE to accept this kind of royalty split: Audible & intermediaries: >90% Me: <10% Yeeeeep. As an Australian author who wants my audiobook to be as accessible to as many readers as possible, I’d get LESS THAN 10% on Audible.

Folks, if you love audiobooks, if you want creators to be able to keep MAKING audiobooks, you're going to have to start... paying for audiobooks. Not subscriptions. Audiobooks themselves. Because Amazon are absolutely intent on paying creators even less. They aren't cheap to make.

CONGRATS @stephwrites.bsky.social !!!!! Can’t wait for HELLBOUND to hit the shelves so I can finally tell everybody to GO READ IT!

Today we're excited to share an exclusive interview with @tessahastjarjanto.com the mastermind behind the amazing Narratess Indie Sale, which is returning this August! Are you an author who wants to take part? Submissions close tomorrow! Find out more: www.readindiefantasy.com/an-interview...

If you need more books to help you celebrate #indieAugust then you should definitely check out the #BelovedSFFSale! Sairō’s Claw is one of over 100 beloved SFF books on sale from today until the 11th!

We heard you like indie sales! The Epic Sale of Beloved SFF Books 2025 is taking place between 7th-11th August featuring books recommended by other indie authors at 0.99 or FREE!! Here are 5 books I've read from the sale and 5 books I want to read: www.readindiefantasy.com/epic-sale-of...

There's a massive sale of indie books taking place over at Beloved SFF for the next few days. There are lots of great titles to choose from, including several I've recently reviewed and recommended. You'll also find my standalone novel A Quiet Vengeance on sale for limited time!

I loved chatting with Hannah at @owwrpod.bsky.social ! If “East Asian post-magic-school fantasy about an angry Asian underdog beating privileged rich kids in a ruthless job hunt tournament” sounds fun, get 50% off the ebook & audiobook with the exclusive OWWR codes 👇 💙📚🌎📚🪐 #epicfantasy #bookdeal 🎧📚

Just counted up everything and I'm currently at 93 pre-orders!!! 😱😱😱 JUST SEVEN AWAY FROM ONE HUNDRED!! 🔥🔥🔥 Do you have yours? Will you help me hit this incredible milestone?! 🤩🤩🤩

*slams it down* I finished it My article About AI use, impacts, etc, with lots and lots of links It's uh Really long

We're over on r/fantasy today doing an AMA! Have questions about what goes on behind the scenes at a bookstore, want some recommendations or anything else? We'll be answering in a couple of hours! www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/s/...

I only realized that it was Prime Day because Amazon must have spent a fortune on ads bombarding me. Then I checked other retailers. Bookshop.org (which I love anyway and which gives a percentage of your order to indie bookstores) is holding an anti-Prime sale:

This Prime Day (& every day): ➡️ Support the small businesses making a positive difference ➡️ Get book recs from people who actually read—not algorithms ➡️ Visit your indie, immerse yourself in books, maybe chat with real people, & leave feeling happy ➡️ Support your indie with audiobook purchases

Hello #PortfolioDay ! I'm Zoe, a fantasy illustrator from Italy, looking for more work on book illustrations, as well as TTRPGs and games! I'm available for both commercial and private commissions. Find me here: 🎨 cara.app/zoebadini 📩[email protected]

BASE GOAL: FULLY FUNDED! Thank you so much to everyone who has donated so far! BUT we're not done yet! We have some juicy stretch goals just waiting to be unlocked!

Ebook sale! For the next ten days, Solaris is selling (giving away, really) an excellent selection of modern SFF titles at 0.99p in the UK, including both of my novels, THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS and RAKESFALL. See geni.us/Solarissale! Some titles are available outside the UK, too.

We're at 176 submissions to the collection now! Help me hit 200. Flood my inbox and fuck my shit up.

I worked at a tech company I won't name who made me sign a moral rights waiver. As soon as I left, they removed my name from *hundreds* of articles I'd written for them, over a year's work. They just say 'by: [company] team' now. Do not sign a moral rights waiver.

ICYMI: my paperbacks—and over 200 others—are currently on sale at an indie bookstore. 👌

It's a wild world—which is why writers rely on community to figure out what's important and what's unusual in our industries. For this first piece in "Writer Beware® Presents: Creators and Their Contracts", we dive into moral rights. What do writers need to know? www.sfwa.org/2025/07/03/m...

Also (because I've already had a few questions about this) if you'd rather read it as a pdf/epub/etc. rather than as a post on Patreon, drop a few dollars in my Ko-fi and I can send it right on to you!

Much credit to @clarkesworldmagazine.com for setting the industry precedent. Authors, if you haven't already got an AI statement and you're thinking of putting one together, feel free to use mine as a starting point.

The Strange Horizons Fund Drive still has signed books available including: Victories Greater Than Death signed by Charlie Jane Anders Rakesfall signed by Vajra Chandrasekera The River Has Roots signed by Amal El-Mohtar Her Body and Other Parties signed by Carmen Maria Machado and lots more!