The Real Heist is the Friends We Made Along the Way

What do you mean an author is railing against people using libraries/the Libby app because it’s “free” (it’s not. you as the author get money from the library purchasing the digital lending license) and meanwhile their book is on Amazon for free to try and get readers??? Hello????

Correct! Because again, libraries pay us. You putting your books up on Amazon for free means you get nothing.

Anyway. Authors. Love your librarians. We love you and seek only to help you get more readers so you can write more books. We have a symbiotic relationship, each needs the other.

Really at this stage, this person is shooting themselves in the foot by opting to remain an Amazon exclusive author and being a twit about it on main, but that's their hill. They can die on it.

And around self-pub and Libraries (hardcopies only, sorry) ... as a rule of thumb we only bought those rated 3 stars or above via Askew and Holts. Some authorities have a blanket ban. Some authorities will be one copy of every self-pub submitted to them. My old authorities used to accept "requests to stock" via email or online form, and we would assess if we thought the book would work in the collection. If you are an established self-pub authorities, who can show some sort of regular sales figure from your vendors, I would suggest saying something like "please consider stocking a copy of my books as I think it may achieve X amount of loans and help contribute to your CIPFA statistical returns". And please give hard data, and maybe an idea of why your book would improve the collection - saying it would increase LGBTQ+ representation (or any other form of marginalised community representation) within a collection would be a great selling point.

https://www.kidmograph.com/portfolio-collections/the-scifi-division/11

Well those are allllmost done

see? See!??!

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No wonder Americans are reliant on DoorDash and fast food, there’s no time or energy to cook. No one wonder mental and physical health are in shambles, many just spent all day sitting in fluorescent lights with little to no stimulation. “Just wake up earlier” “Just meal prep”… these are ok short-term, individual solutions, but the broader, systemic issue is obvious. We aren’t built for this. There’s no work-life balance. Genuinely, I think if our culture could normalize a shorter work week, many individuals’ biggest problems would simply evaporate.

Szilveszter Mako: Hyunji Shin wearing Loewe for Numero Magazine, 2023

please, reblog so we can get more results

But if we're gonna be truly honest, it's those frankenfruits that are like "apples that taste like grapes" and whatnot.

abandoned space elevator

Accurate recreation of me when I said "Oh wow thats a pretty picture I wonder where they took it at" and then scrolled down to see the tag #pixel art

But obviously these take place during the original run of the show so you couldn't just adapt them in live action in 2026, so it would be cool if they animated them

Ever since I saw this the first time, I’ve imagined it was Parker doing it. That she and Hardison had a free weekend and decided to take it out on a collections agency. That I was one of the lucky ones who got a little Leverage.

Like, the main reason I know about this is because John Oliver did a piece on debt buying a few years ago, and ended it by revealing that he’d bought 15 million dollars worth of medical debt just so he could forgive all of it. Both to expose how broken the system was because some random fucker like him could buy millions of dollars in peoples debt with zero regulations, and also just to take the record for biggest TV giveaway in history.

Be Parker! Be somebody else’s Leverage!

Reblogging for the website.

i'm going to commit a crime against the geneva convention, say her fucking name or dont talk about her at all for fucks sake

Which polish name are they saying yes to? Maria?

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