#Author

Comfort Women Action for Redress & Education

comfortwomenLA

There is a bad (academically lite) article claiming that “comfort women” are “prostitutes.” It oddly relies on game theory and ignores international law on forced labor & trafficking.The journal is

Scott MacDougall-Shackleton

ScottMacShack

my thought of the week: Author-pays Open Access publication model is worse for science and society than the traditional subscription model with for-profit publishers. Why? . 1/6 Institutional libraries have

Yashar Ali 🐘

yashar

1. Important! If you want to support an author, please do not wait for their book release day/week/month to buy their book. In publishing, pre-orders are critical! Pre-orders can make

IRON FIST EBOOKS 👊🥷

ironfist_ebooks

I'm tired of seeing these discussions regarding "forced diversity" in fiction. Especially ones which try and claim it doesn't exist. Of course it does. It exists when (and because) the

ana 📌

pynchpipedream

— how sometimes people confuse bad representation with just not traditional things: just because something is usually a bad thing in whatever community the character is part of, DOESNT mean

JOMAozedong

aozedong

Lmao ever see an embarrassing post where a “reader” misreads something so badly they LITERALLY ATTRIBUTE to an author something that author EXPLICITLY REJECTS Maoists > so u want some

Alex Segura

alex_segura

I wrote a thread about blurbs a while back but it's gone, so some tips:Be understanding if someone can't blurb your bookUse an author's blurb if they put in the

Elana Roth Parker

ElanaRoth

I have so many thoughts about all these agent conversations and threads and don’t know where to start. Or if you even need me to throw more logs onto the

KJ 🏳️‍🌈😊😉🥺💜👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏻

propertyofKJ

1/A ridiculously fabulous well-known lesfic author DM-ed me recently. Chat chat chat blah blah she likes my writing wait what chat chat and meanwhile my fingers are trembling because I’m

Carol Howard Merritt

CarolHoward

Dear White Men, I worked at a Methodist bookstore. We had a section for Women’s Authors, where we put all the books written by women. There was a section for

Catherine Scott

Cataranea

Dear peer reviewers: please take the time to be kind. Remember that, more often than not, the author of the paper you are reviewing is a student. There is no

Amy E. Reichert

aereichert

Apparently there is a company launching next year that will allow authors to pay other authors for blurbs. That’s not how it works and is clearly designed to take advantage

coitus toitus 🐢

fuIImarks

i have noticed some people on the internet do not understand constructive criticism (concrit), when to use it, or how to format it, so i would like to give my

Asexual Simp

AspieOnAStick

I believe in Death of the Author as in a text should stand by itself and the author has no right to tell people what they should or shouldn't read

Olivia Messer 🌊

OliviaMesser

NEW: I investigated a giant, unsanctioned “superspreader” homecoming dance in Missouri. Turns out it was thrown by parents, and they may have tried to hide the number and identities of

✨Aza?🌫️🌌 (my w and x keys are broken. sry. uvvu)

sazandorable

i m going to bed the second after this to physically prevent myself from being more annoying about this but: another reason why i'm so touchy about the usage of

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