So, this Unbound/Boundless fiasco. I was going to be polite about it, but after this morning’s email: no

Unbound/Boundless owes me $15k+ on a book that in its first royalty reporting cycle had sold around 3k copies of its 5k copy print run of which I have not seen a single penny. They also haven’t even reimbursed me for postage costs I incurred mailing out the arcs in the US at their request

I discovered yesterday, in a mass email sent at 3am, that I will not be receiving the roughly £40,000 that my publisher Unbound/Boundless owes me for pre-order sales of The Paradox Paradox. The payment for five years of work, gone. #unboundless

Signal boosting. I found my books in the LibGen database. This is the link I used: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... (BTW if you support piracy don't bother commenting, just take yourself elsewhere.)

I'm close to burn out so I'm taking a mini-sabbatical from social media. Deleting apps from my phone & limiting myself to desktop sites, as well as removing all pressure on myself to post. You might see me a bit, or I might go dark. Either way, I'm fine--just re-aligning myself. 🖤

When the coffee is doing less than nothing... 🥱

4,197 words today! Manuscript of top secret project is now over 50K and I am ALMOST caught up with where I should be to be on par with my yearly word count goal.

#HappyValentinesDay everyone! I hope your day is full of love, laughter, and whatever type of book you like best. Today Mr. Katje took me to De Dutch Pannekoek House, which I hadn't had in over 15 years. It was amazing. 😍

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Never ceases to amaze me how many editors think negging authors online is going to get them clients. Generally speaking...treating potential clients like shit won't get them to hire you. Unless you're a professional Dom specializing in degradation/humiliation. Then maybe.

My last post here was about Imbolc and spring being here. We then had snow, and have continued to have below freezing temperatures since. Well-played, Cailleach. Well-played.

Blessed Imbolc everyone! Spring is here. 🌷

I was complaining to my husband that I haven't written enough this week so he said I wasn't allowed to go on social media until after I wrote every day and I am very unhappy to inform you that this, in fact, does work, and I am much more productive now.

It feels so good to win but also I'm sort of wondering if they turned on that particle collider again or something and this is parallel universe Canucks because 2 wins back to back? Whaaaaat? (it's been a rough season okay)

"Canucks will get their 2 points here" Look man I know there are only 15 seconds left but DON'T JINX IT

Wooo Chaos Giraffe!!! This score is making me so happy but we have less than 2 minutes in the period so the dread is real (even though I already know the outcome). Let's be real, I don't think the dread ever leaves if you're a Canucks fan.

may have just shouted JIIIIMOOOTHYYYYY TIIIIMOOOTHYYYYYYY at a quarter to 4 in the morning risk of watching the game later than everyone else

Me: Your boos mean nothing! I've seen what makes you cheer! Mr. Katje: I think they're shouting "Go Blues" Me: omg lol

Oh my gods, watching Garland ZOOM in on that puck like a dog for a piece of cheese that fell on the floor. 🤣

Watching Miller and Soucy in the penalty box and wishing I could read lips.

Every time I see a post disparaging third person it only fuels my commitment. I'm going to third person my books even harder now. Oh, I thought I might do one in 1st? Nope. Only 3rd. 3rd forever. You will pry this POV from my cold, dead hands.

Sometimes when I don't reply it's because I've typed and re-typed an answer several hundred times trying to make sure my tone is coming across correctly and finally just give up because I'm so tired.

Okay the Caps goalie deserves headtaps for that save even if we (somehow) managed to win; that was incredible. Be sure to pet your goalie, Caps.

I could be wrong but it looks like the Canucks are actually...*checks notes*...playing hockey??

new drinking game, every time I overthink my worldbuilding for entirely too long before throwing my hands up and saying "Fuck it, I'm just using the English and saying I 'translated' it from the language in my world", take a shot be hospital drunk in one writing session; works every time

that was an extremely painful 2.5 hours of my life seriously, my headache got worse. oh well. back to writing now i guess.

this game I stg

Holy shit we scored. Am I having a stroke? Is this a dream? What's happening?

Intermission, quick, someone bring Demko a coffee so he wakes up

You don't HAVE to be a masochist with a humiliation kink to be a Canucks fan but it sure does help.

Every few minutes my computer likes to freeze for a few seconds & when it does it sometimes causes my music to pause for the freeze, which is really awkward when I'm just trying to dance in my desk chair to Pump It.

Husband is off to work, so time to spam our Discord server with links and memes! (It's our love language: sending so many links and memes the other cannot even process them in the post-work haze. And then going "DID YOU LOOK AT WHAT I SENT YOU????" 👀👀👀)

Ok, now that I don't HAVE to watch hockey to make sure they win I've got some more free time! I mean, not much, I'll still be watching off and on, but I don't have to catch EVERY game. More time for writing! (By which I mean getting distracted by social media.)

Good news: I don't have to deal with the pressure of being a lucky charm. Bad news: Cardiac Kids whiffed it again.

There is so much I love about hockey. My favourite thing has to be goalie head taps when we win. Second favourite is when the players fall over themselves on the ice like golden retrievers on a freshly waxed floor. Top tier.

Texting with Mr. Katje, talking about how PDG is better than Petey. me: yeah like PDG actually scores Literally 20 seconds later--Petey finds his motivation and scores a goal. me: apparently Petey heard me 🤣

Mr Katje: you're not watching the game are you me: no, not gotten out of bed from nap yet him: so it's your fault! me: what seriously Buffalo was 1-0 against us. I get up, turn on the game. DiGiuseppe scores, bringing us to 1-1. ...

I misread something in a chat yesterday and was a complete fucking farthead but by the time I realized I'd misread and had been, in fact, an insufferable asshole the chat had scrolled by way too much for me to make a correction and apology

Bieksa is 100% right, btw. We need to keep fighting in the NHL or we're going to get more face cross-checks, it's just simple aggression math.

My husband joked that b/c I watched our game against the Leafs & we won that but have lost everything I haven't watched that I HAD to watch today so we would win. I watched & we won (3 goals in 1st!!). Man, I don't wanna be a lucky charm. It's too much pressure. #Canucks

me: Temu finally tempted me w/ one of their ads husband: oh no me: resin prop replicas of the Book of the Dead and the Book of Amun-Ra from The Mummy husband: *shaking head, laughing* me: DON'T JUDGE ME

I wish I were still fuelled by consuming copious amounts of drama and outrage. I'd be unstoppable after a brief scroll of any feed. Alas, my chemistry changed and now it just makes me tired.

Things I research for my romance books: * astrophysics and space weather (solar storms) * the natural noise-muffling abilities of cetaceans * crystals as a super-material * Norse mythology (Yes, this is all for the same book.)

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Moved on from worldbuilding (at least temporarily; it's never done). Now I'm plotting a book so I need to become a minor expert in Space Weather (the astronomy type, not the astrology type) for one plot point. Insert hand-wavium, shake, and voila, an outline. #AmWriting

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