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StreamWeek - Day 1

Gays: “fine then we’ll make it an actual damn rainbow”

and the old professor said, “you little fucker, I’m going to make a statement and then I’m going to take you out to the parking lot and beat your ass. What good does your pessimism do?”

U.S. suicide hotline: call or text 988 (available 24 hours)

U.S. trans lifeline: (877) 565-8860 (when you call, you’ll speak to a trans/nonbinary peer operator. full anonymity and confidentiality)

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357) – provides 24/7 confidential support and referrals for individuals and families facing mental health and substance use disorders, including panic attacks and anxiety.

LGBT National Help Center: (888) 843-4564

Trevor Project: Call (866) 488-7386, text START to 678-678, or chat online.

I decided to make some positive translation memes

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So, I write YA, which means that for most of my contracts when the book is in hardcover, I get 10% of about $20 (YA books tend to be cheaper bc we want kids to buy them. They are going up in price, which is not ideal for kids). An author writing adult books gets the same percentage, but the books are almost twice the price, so the get a theoretical $4 every time I get a theoretical $2.

Once the paperback comes out (if it does), the percentage AND the price drops, but adult books remain higher than YA.

I got a flat fee for AHSOKA (I try not to think about what my life would look like if I got normal royalties, but...let's just say I'd own my house, and that's not counting the rest of my IP books, which I get 1-5% on), but we have been arguing with Disney every contract since then.

This is why we beg you not to pirate books. We need sales numbers to keep our advances (ie the original amount of money our publishers pay us) in the "livable wage" range, and even then, it's not a regular payment, so we need to keep selling books. Publishers only buy our books if we have a sales record, and pirating torpedoes that. Corporations don't really care if you pirate, but literally every sale is important to the author.

(Libraries buy books, so that's great! And used books are also good because SOMEone bought it, and now we might get a new fan. Buying ARCs is not cool--it literally says so on the cover--but I can't really blame consumers for that: it's the bookstore that should know better.)