Authors ask me if they should use a publisher or go indie. I tell them how after 2016 my first publisher announced Christians are too dangerous to be allowed to work in healthcare and threatened to start a campaign to get me fired from my day job because of my faith.
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Also of note was their declaration our shared program of sending documents back and forth was now a “safe space” and I was not to share more documents or contact them about projects through our shared project system. I was currently writing a story in THEIR fictional setting.
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Then I heard about @NickColeBooks and learned how much worse publishers can be. Look up his story about Harper Collins attempting to smother his career to assuage the rage of an editor who took personal offense to a story detail in a non-political fiction novel they asked him for
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Authors shouldn’t trust publishers. Treat them as hostile agents. Big and small, they take control of your projects. There are a few out there who act in good faith. A very small, precious few. But you surrender nearly total control in exchange for paying your publishing costs.
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Replying to @TheBrometheus
What to do, what to do. Traditional publishers won't touch me because I say "boys are not girls" on Twitter. Christian publishers won't touch me because my projects are smothered in awesomesauce rather than saccharine. But the dread lord Bezos hasn't kicked me off his site. Yet.
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Replying to @AmericanDan1776 @TheBrometheus
I'm not avoiding Vox due to guilt by association. I'm respecting his wish not to receive endless submissions from randos. He wants to work with proven creators. I have a high opinion of my work, but I have to acknowledge it is not proven. Yet.
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Replying to @AmericanDan1776 @TheBrometheus
And I didn't intend to come across as defensive rather than explanatory. Such emotional context misses are the nature of digital discourse.
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Stop getting along and calmly clarifying, don’t you realize this is Twitter?
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @AmericanDan1776
Geez. You're right. I should probably accuse you of worshiping the Saints or something.
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