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I'll never understand indie authors that talk about how bad Amazon is (for numerous reasons), yet.... even when not locked into Kindle Unlimited, don't publish wide. Is it laziness, ignorance? something else?

Like, what's the point in that? Saw a book that sounded interesting. Go through author's site, which links to amazon so I'm like, "OK, KU" I click through and nope. Book isn't in KU. Oh well. Guess not reading that.

#ScribesAndMakers 23 April
Do you have deadlines? External or self-imposed?

As a self-publisher, I have self-imposed deadlines. There are softer ones, such as what I want to achieve per week or month, and harder ones, such as what I want to achieve within a calendar year.

I currently have a hard deadline: To publish the second part of my novel series #EverlastingRoaringThunder in 2025.

Softer deadline: to push on with my WIP.

"New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer.

The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent the forensic accountant — what a bounty hunter is to people, he is to money — but for now he’s an MIT dropout odd-jobbing his way around a city still reeling from the invention of a revolutionary new technology that will change everything about crime forever, one we now take completely for granted.

'Picks And Shovels' is a high-tech crime thriller about the “weird era of PCs” in the early 1980s, when Reaganomics, the tech industry, multilevel marketing, and the AIDS crisis all converged in San Francisco. "—Jacobin

"Picks And Shovels" by Cory Doctorow @pluralistic, with Yanis Varoufakis @VaroufakisDE & David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com >

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