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dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: and 1 other boosted

Authors are not okay, folks. Between AI destroying the industry and wrecking people's careers, and the big spike in piracy since people decided the solution to boycotting Amazon is *stealing* from people who are literally making *pennies* (21 cents per day... that's what I made in book sales in 2025. I calculated it yesterday), we are not okay.

Please, please, please support authors. If you can buy books in places other than Amazon, please do so. If you can't buy books, please borrow them from your library. Request that your library pick up titles from your favourite authors (most libraries have form you can fill out to do that). Leave reviews everywhere you can. Sign up for author newsletters, and follow authors on social media. Repost social media content. Talk about your favourite books - help other people discover that they exist! All of these things *matter*, and you really have NO idea how much they mean to most authors.

#reading #books #bookstodon #Author

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Susanne

@SusanneDoering@zirk.us · 2 weeks ago

Not so happy. Financially, 2025 was probably the worst year I had since I started translating for a living. I lost most of my long time clients - retirement, sickness etc. - and new ones are hard to find.
So I am on self promotion now - anyone here who wants his English book translated into German? No option for you? Talk to me. Most of my authors are glad for the additional income.
References on my blog - see profile.
#translations #books #writing #author

MikeDunnAuthor

@MikeDunnAuthor@kolektiva.social · 2 days ago

Today in Labor History December 25, 1831: The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt, the largest slave uprising in the British West Indies, began on this date. Samuel Sharpe, a black Baptist deacon, led the revolt of 60,000 enslaved people. The 11-day uprising began as a General Strike, but quickly turned violent. 14 whites and 207 enslaved black people died in the siege. However, another 340 rebels were executed afterward. The rebels had been inspired by the abolitionist movement in London and had intended to call for a peaceful uprising. The rebellion was depicted in Andrea Levy's 2010 novel, “The Long Song,” and in Herbert de Lisser’s The 1929 novel “The White Witch of Rosehall.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #abolition #revolt #uprising #jamaica #samuelsharpe #rebellion #books #novels #writer #author #fiction #BlackMastodon @bookstadon

Image is a painting by Adolphe Duperly depicting the Roehampton Estate in St. James, Jamaica, being destroyed by fire during the Great Jamaican Slave Revolt. https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2020/05/28/jamaican-uprising-samuel-sharpe-rebellion-christmas-uprising-great-jamaican-slave-revolt/ideas/essay/

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Victor

@ElysianThus@mastodon.gamedev.place · 6 days ago

If you're an #Author, who, like my wife, is searching for an #Amazon alternative to #SelfPublish your work, here's what she's found:

https://draft2digital.com/
Is a self-publishing platform that let's you choose which marketplaces you sell to. Soon this will include bookshop.org, which is my personal favorite.

https://ficstack.com/
Organizes #SubStack posts to aid in author discovery. I think you can set up monetization options on your associated substack.

#Draft2Digitial
#Bookstodon

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Robert Kingett

@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social · 4 days ago

Hey Fedi I recommend books at the end of all my blog posts but I would love to recommend some more Fedi authors. Put your DRM Free link below if you don’t have an audiobook link. I listen to audiobooks exclusively and only get DRM free Ebooks. If you have audiobooks, put them in the replies. #Author #Writer #Books @bookstodon

Robert Kingett

@WeirdWriter@caneandable.social · 4 days ago

Victor

@ElysianThus@mastodon.gamedev.place · 6 days ago

If you're an #Author, who, like my wife, is searching for an #Amazon alternative to #SelfPublish your work, here's what she's found:

https://draft2digital.com/
Is a self-publishing platform that let's you choose which marketplaces you sell to. Soon this will include bookshop.org, which is my personal favorite.

https://ficstack.com/
Organizes #SubStack posts to aid in author discovery. I think you can set up monetization options on your associated substack.

#Draft2Digitial
#Bookstodon

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Aral Balkan

@aral@mastodon.ar.al · 2 weeks ago

“How did it feel for the man who built a home, only to watch it turn to the rubble? How does a farmer stand before the land he tended year after year, now lying barren—no scent of soil, no whisper of harvest? How does a father tell his son the school he loved is gone, that the garden where he played is now only a rumor in the rubble? How does a mother walk through the ghost of a playground, finding a small shoe, a torn notebook, a toy she once mended? How do neighbors look at one another, wordless, knowing the world they shared has vanished?
…
I stood among the ruins, breath caught in my chest, searching for any trace of what once was. I felt the ache in every stone, every corner, every fragment of memory. But beneath it, I sensed something small and unbroken: my own heart, still beating. And a faint, stubborn light—a quiet voice within: I am still here. I can still walk. I can still love this life, despite everything.
…
I am Aseel, a writer from Gaza, living amid genocide and famine. Your support can help my family survive.
https://chuffed.org/project/138285-help-sehwel-family-with-their-medical-treatment”

– @Aseelsehwel, https://blog.gaza.onl/aseelsehwel/two-years-had-passed-since-my-feet-last-touched-the-ground-of-salah-al-din

#AseelSehwel #Gaza #Palestine #author #witness #survivor #israel #genocide

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Nick East (Indie Writer)

@NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art · last week

A nice review of the second part of my "Fantasy/Attempted comedy" story The Last Philosopher 😊

Link to first part as #Free #Ebook

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tynp5wgkwr0dkvmf3dzp3/The-Last-Philosopher-Part-One.epub?rlkey=n61zknkz05eakr809gcs19kzd&st=fymuxn6v&dl=0

@books @reading l @writers @keepwriting @writingbooks @worldbuilding

#AmWriting #WIPWednesday
#Reading #Readers
#Fiction #Fantasy #Comedy #SFF
#Author #Authors #IndieAuthor #IndieBooks #Writing #WritingCommunity #Writinglife #WritersOfMastodon
#Bookstodon #Mastobooks #BooksofMastodon #FantasyBooks
#Review #Bookreview
#BookRecommendation

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Review by crig Dec 16, 2025

Challenging and compelling
"If you are looking for something different from the usual inkitt offerings, try this. If you are looking for something with a very original storyline, indeed, quite unlike anything else you might have read, try this.
As it is written in a very readable style, what are you waiting for?
Style Give it a go.
Colin Rigby" — Review by crig Dec 16, 2025 Challenging and compelling "If you are looking for something different from the usual inkitt offerings, try this. If you are looking for something with a very original storyline, indeed, quite unlike anything else you might have read, try this. As it is written in a very readable style, what are you waiting for? Style Give it a go. Colin Rigby"

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Fireside Fedi

@firesidefedi@social.firesidefedi.live · 2 weeks ago

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi! TODAY!

The #livestream will be on: https://stream.firesidefedi.live

Special Guest: @hfalcke
#Prof. #Astrophysics, columnist D/NL, #bestseller #author 'Lim Dunkeln/Light in the Darkness/Licht in de duisternisi' about the first image of a black hole shadow with the Event Horizon Telescope, that I was deeply involved in. Work at Radboud University, Nijmegen (NL), live near Cologne (D). Am a happy European, Christian, dad, and granddad.

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 10 December 2025 at 14:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )

If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:
#PeerTube ( #VOD ): https://tubefree.org/@firesidefedi

Or, even on #YouTube: https://youtube.com/@btfree_org

#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

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Nick East (Indie Writer)

@NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art · last week

A nice review of the second part of my "Fantasy/Attempted comedy" story The Last Philosopher 😊

Link to first part as #Free #Ebook

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tynp5wgkwr0dkvmf3dzp3/The-Last-Philosopher-Part-One.epub?rlkey=n61zknkz05eakr809gcs19kzd&st=fymuxn6v&dl=0

@books @reading l @writers @keepwriting @writingbooks @worldbuilding

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Fireside Fedi

@firesidefedi@social.firesidefedi.live · 2 weeks ago

Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!

The #livestream will be on: https://stream.firesidefedi.live

Special Guest: @hfalcke
#Prof. #Astrophysics, columnist D/NL, #bestseller #author 'Lim Dunkeln/Light in the Darkness/Licht in de duisternisi' about the first image of a black hole shadow with the Event Horizon Telescope, that I was deeply involved in. Work at Radboud University, Nijmegen (NL), live near Cologne (D). Am a happy European, Christian, dad, and granddad.

So don't miss it!

It will happen on 10 December 2025 at 14:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-5 )

If by any ungodly chance you miss the show:
#PeerTube ( #VOD ): https://video.firesidefedi.live
#Castopod #Fedicast ( Audio ): https://audio.firesidefedi.live

Or, even on #YouTube: https://youtube.com/@btfree_org

#firesidefedi #fediverse #fedi #interview #freesoftware #opensource #userfreedom #freedom #resistance

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Kristie

@kristiedegaris@mastodon.scot · 3 weeks ago

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Recently at a Q&A, the chair asked me an excellent question: Why do you push so hard against the idea of a ‘nature cure’ when moments in your book Drystone - A Life Rebuilt might look like exactly that?

The answer is simple.

#Reading #Writing #WritingCommunity #Scotland #NatureWriting #Nature #Land #Women #Author

A woman sits on a low pile of rough grey stones in a grassy Highland landscape. She has short dark hair with a streak of white at the front and wears a black long-sleeved top, blue jeans, and brown hiking boots. One hand rests on her knee and the other on the stones beside her. Behind her are rolling hills, patches of trees, and steep, rocky slopes. The light is bright, and the scene looks calm and windswept.

Photograph by Christie Hemm Klok — A woman sits on a low pile of rough grey stones in a grassy Highland landscape. She has short dark hair with a streak of white at the front and wears a black long-sleeved top, blue jeans, and brown hiking boots. One hand rests on her knee and the other on the stones beside her. Behind her are rolling hills, patches of trees, and steep, rocky slopes. The light is bright, and the scene looks calm and windswept. Photograph by Christie Hemm Klok