I like my Kobo. I have the Clara 2. Only being able to log into one of my library cards at a time is mildly annoying, but at least the Libby integration is direct.
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I like my Kobo. I have the Clara 2. Only being able to log into one of my library cards at a time is mildly annoying, but at least the Libby integration is direct.
I really am starting to hate all the “your clothing makes you look old” or whatever videos on the internet that insist this or that looks better on “everybody” when what they mean are women of at least average to slightly above average height with less generous bosoms.
A display table filled with fantasy books, t shirts and book marks with a sign reading Owl Talyn Press.
Indy PopCon with Owl Talyn!
What do "legal copies" even entail in this context? Ebook licensing is more akin to software licensing than buying physical books. Do the publishers get to set specific license pricing for AI models? That penalty phase is going to be interesting (and probably enraging) to watch.
I think it depends on how the book is marketed. LitRPG is a perfectly valid subgenre, but it helps to know that's what you're picking up.
I'm upset by how awful it feels even contemplating wishing folks a happy or blessed Midsummer when you-know-who decided to just up and set the fucking world on fire today.
HUH?!? That's a new one. They sound... confused.
Aaaaand I noticed a mistake. This is what you get when you share unpublished snippets 😂
Miratha’s tail thrashed irritably. “What makes you so sure the humans would annihilate us?” “Your—our—numbers are few. And the humans have made many advances in recent centuries. Do you know what gunpowder is?” He enunciated the word in the common Salerian dialect. When the other dragon shook her head, he repeated the word with greater difficulty in Tolstadi. Miratha stared at him blankly. Salarath wasn’t surprised. He doubted dragonic even had a word for it. “It’s a human weapon,” he explained. “It allows them to create great explosions.” Miratha snorted. “Human sorcerers’ tricks.” “No. Gunpowder is not magic. Even the least energy-sensitive among their kind can use it to knock a dragon from the sky or cave in tunnels. They could bury us alive before our stone-shapers would have a chance to dig us out.” Guilt twisted in his gut. If it came down to war, Salarath knew which side he’d be on, and it wouldn’t be the one that wanted to slaughter his family and friends. Then again, something in his gut told him he wouldn’t be around to see it if Draumen got his war; Salarath suspected his cousin wouldn’t show him the mercy he’d granted Miratha, rules be damned. His description of humankind’s technological advancements seemed to give Miratha pause, the sure set of her jaw loosening as her air of superiority withering away. “And what would you do about the human menace then, son of Rathlorn? Would you have us continue to cower in our holes like rats?”
I'll finish this book someday, lol. Here's "cower" in Finding the Dragon.
I'm curious, for science, what this writer would assume about my gender and orientation based on my hair and tattoos, and whether they'd get it hilariously wrong.
(I am straighter than most 2x4s at Home Depot).
Yes audiobooks count as reading.
Yes romance books are still books.
Call dibs on both right here!
www.audible.com/pd/Dibs-Audi...
It seems you have a new side quest to learn French (I'm kidding)
Nothing like looking at your Books2Read links and realizing the Smashwords migration must have f'ed something up because all your non-Draft2Digital platform links have gone poof. So irritating. I wonder how long that's been broken.
Here's a commission for @shcleveland.bsky.social of her OC Mildryth! ✨
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It sure is hard to find a song when you can't remember the artist, can't remember the title, can't remember a whole line, AND the song is in a language you can barely communicate in.
The answer is still no
Many of the major retailers should be linked from the universal link in the post above, but if you don't see the storefront you're looking for, let me know!
It's pay week. Want me to hit you up in the DMs about a commission?
I can't draw to save my life, but I'd totally pay somebody else to draw what you want if it meant I got to add to my collection of my characters in your style 😂
Tomorrow we will be recording our first episode with a guest! Very excited to talk to Sara Cleveland about her writing journey. If you’d like to give her a follow she’s here on Bluesky at @shcleveland.bsky.social
Thankfully, no. I have had a few critique swaps that were difficult to navigate, though.
Meanwhile, I've had coworkers gleefully pull up my books in our system during a meeting to prove they exist 😂
That's wild though. Usually people just ask "what do you write about?"
I’m not actually sure which I read better now, Italian or German, but don’t ask me to speak either one. Pretty sure my high school German teachers would pretend not to know me.
Italian. I never reached anything approaching fluency but I could hold something resembling a conversation and read reasonably well with a dictionary handy. Now… bwahahaha.
Does anything humble you quicker than trying to read something in a language you never reached fluency in and haven’t spoken in five years? I feel so dumb right now 😂
Nothing to apologize for, lol.
That's why I say compared to "some" contemporary societies.
They had access to divorce and could, if I recall correctly, own property in their own name under certain circumstances. Comparatively, were they better off than in some contemporary societies? Arguably. Was it a feminist utopia? Hardly.
Probably from those of us who turn into mush-brained clams when asked about our writing Out In the Wild(TM).
