He says a lot of things!!
10.03.2026 02:28
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He says a lot of things!!
What? Moving pictures??
They'll never catch on!
Jon’s making a short film I’ve written and he’s vlogging about the process and you should check it all out!
I'm not writing the weird dream book Evan
Here are some slides with numbers (I have some peer reviewed publications too, but they’re paywalled. This has most of the info from them though)
author advance was the #1 predictor of sales & the only statistically significant predictors were marketing factors
docs.google.com/presentation...
Ammonites can't write!
Best idea EVER
I'm going to go see how they're doing, hold my martini for a minute
Oops! All Leggys
Okay but listen though, THIS time --
IS JUST A COINCIDENCE
i think the weirdest thing for me to get behind on TNG is the idea of a spaceship with wall to wall carpet
Oh yeah that's always a good one
Also "Yes I know this press is 'local' and 'looking for authors' but do not pay them $5500 to publish your novel"
I can tell you that there were at LEAST two individuals who came to me very emotional and were like "I just lost my job, so I'm going to try to get my novel published to support my family" and I had to explain a) publishing timelines and b) advances
Nobody had a good time
BY CROM!!!
Probably coincidentally I am also considering rearranging the entire main floor of my house, SURELY there is no way this can possibly go wrong
(I am going to run it past @authorizedmusings.bsky.social first tho as she is the brains of this outfit)
I definitely had to send a link to several people of that -- I think it was the Writer's Union article being like "Anyway most fiction writers are making below poverty level wages from their fiction"
It was a few years old but I... ..... don't know that it's changed a lot
So I'm in Early, Pre-Draft Days of my next novel and hmmm, doing the kind of... hmm... ... ......... did I pitch a novel that's too complicated and difficult for me to actually write, maybe I did
Uhhhhhh anyway as long as my agent and editor don't find out we should be good
I think I can fake this
NO ONE COULD TELL ME WHERE THEY GOT THIS IDEA FROM
Oh dear God this was like 80% of the conversations I had with writers when I was at the library
You do not get rich by publishing a novel!
You MIGHT get rich if a blorbillion people BUY the novel but that is a BIG IF
At least now I know where my last shipment of psychedelics went
You didn't confiscate them?
I went there in October 2024 -- it was a friend's birthday week and I think she made the reservations in July, when she knew for sure I was coming 😂
Everything was wonderful!
Should be ILLEGAL for plants to win
They showed some of the equations to my research assistant
He's having a lie-down
Is that the one that rearranges space and time if they play a certain note through the PA speakers
I can’t wait. The best part of this is getting to be in the same realspace room with both @older.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social for the first time ever!
All their paperwork was in order
But
Heck!!
Yes it is I am breaking the writing rule of where hyphens go :)
I have permission :)