I’d never written a book before so I spent time learning. Communicated with them about their setting in a program called Evernote (this will be important for later) where we could share documents I needed to understand their world I was writing in. Started the book. 2/
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I sent them a message and said hey, don’t know if this got missed, I’m a Christian. Hope we’re good. I love you guys, glad we’re working together. Didn’t expect the explosion that was coming my way. 4/
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They wrote back and said I was incapable of love, being a Christian. That my working in mental health as a Christian meant I was a danger to my patients and they felt the need to report me to every state agency as a dangerous threat. That they were considering starting that up 5/
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They didn’t explicitly ban me from the publisher for my faith, the potential discrimination apprently scared them is my guess. Instead they told me Evernote was their safe space (their words) and I was not to contact them there in the program we used for me to write for them. 6/
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The setting I was writing in, THEIR SETTING, as a favor for them to help expand their world and their publishing company. And gusss what, we’d never settled on a royalty split because, hey, we were friends and I didn’t know what I was doing. But I guess they sure did. 7/
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They’d also spent months talkin personally with me about their mental health struggles as I checked in on them and tried to encourage them. Helped them with free labor on their main series. Spread the word about their books. Helped them network. Not real love though, I guess. 8/
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So I made the decision to leave their company. Resigned gracefully and thanked them for their teaching up to that point. I said no hard feelings. Got a short reply threatening me with legal action if I ever shared any behind-the-scenes world building stuff from their setting. 9/
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I made contact with
@RealNickCole shortly after that when I learned he’s been blacklisted from a major publisher for the same fanatical politics reasons. He showed me the ropes on how to publish myself and not rely on dangerous lunatics who want to bury me. 10/3 replies 3 retweets 59 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @TheBrometheus @RealNickCole
Is that the nick cole who teamed up with Jason anspach for Galaxy’s Edge?
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It is. He’s an excellent guy who still made time to encourage an unpublished nobody. 
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Replying to @TheBrometheus @RealNickCole
Legit. He and Jason have a good vibe to them based on their work.
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