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  1. 6 Jun 2020

    It has been brought to my attention that sharing is forbidden by my contract. In any job where you're an employee, the National Labor Relations Act states that employers can't ban the discussion of salary and working conditions among employees.

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  2. 7 Jun 2020

    is a feel good read centering White people and it has a white savior. GLORIOUS speaks directly to the racial inequities found in the publishing industry all while delivering a narrative rooted in the American history as experienced by Black people.

  3. Mar 9

    Don't do this. It's hard enough to keep the art business going during a pandemic, let alone in normal times. Dont ask to take advantage of "up and coming" new Indigenous artists. Dont ask established artists to disresepect their peers.

  4. 16 Jun 2020

    New video about I'm Frustrated.

  5. 6 Jun 2020

    What is missing from the conversation is that a rise in advances as your career progresses isn't always the trajectory we all experience. I have had highs and lows, and not in a direct line upward. The End of East sold well, but The Better Mother did not. 1

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  6. Okay, cis white guy taking a stab at . Because I'm a slow writer, this goes back into the mid-1990s and is based on memory, so advance $$ may be off by a bit.

  7. 10 Jun 2020

    The pressure/demand for excellence on PoC is real. Don’t tell me there isn’t a systemic problem

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  8. 10 Jun 2020

    Seeing everyone share on & how that convo evolved to include freelancers makes me depressed. I've only haggled on price twice bc I've always just felt lucky to get work. Realizing how much more I am worth makes me sad. Especially bc I can't find work rn.

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  9. 8 Jun 2020

    After and the rush for reading lists, a message from us on now

  10. 3 Sep 2020

    Communities like those supported by EV have been historically underfunded across industries, from housing to healthcare to education to employment. And also the literary world–as evidenced by

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  11. 6 Jun 2020

    If makes you feel bad, it's ok. Same.

  12. 9 Jun 2020

    We need to talk about the NYT list. by John the Correlator

  13. 11 Jun 2020

    The whole reminds me of another scenario where black women often are short changed. Example: a firm has a TOR for a job and approaches a white woman and a black woman and asks them for their fee.

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  14. 10 Apr 2021

    Remember that white man who described labia as “baffling folds of skin” and was given over 100k advance for his book when people were doing . And it was his first novel too whilst established black authors were never seeing that amount on their careers.

  15. 7 Jun 2020

    Woke up to ... we also need to talk about .....

  16. 8 Jun 2020

    Been keeping my eye on the hashtag, but to reiterate what everyone else has said, this shocked the hell out of me and enraged me.

  17. 8 Jun 2020

    , school and university curricula, library and bookshop shelving and much more have shown, in the eyes of too many – including too many who commission, agent, and edit authors—everyone who writes who isn’t white works in a subcategory of ‘writing’ proper.

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  19. 9 Jun 2020

    Publishers: demands more than implicit bias training & diversity quotas. Expand assumptions on audience for BIPOC authors. Use data — sales & metadata — combined with marketing & publicity efforts for top and midlist sellers by BISAC to determine advances.

  20. 8 Jun 2020

    Lot of friends and colleagues with heart ache after all the tweets. After all, we live in a capitalist culture and equate $$$ with intrinsic, personal value. Our terrible false equivalency. Yet another scale for systemic racism to play out on...

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