It all takes time, but I received my first book review.. and also a 5 star-rating from someone who bought it on Amazon.. so I am getting at least somewhere.
Hoping someone with a little better sense of humor can review it, but this one was a THREE out of FOUR possible stars.
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[Following is the official OnlineBookClub.org review of “War and Vegetables” by Robert Run.]
In 2010 I wrote the first two chapters. One month in 2013 I wrote the core of the book and started revisions. In 2016 I closed the loops and wrote the final three chapters. . No way is this as interesting to you as it is to me. I get that. Hey, I’m not even asking you to read the damn thing. If you buy the eBook it’s only three dollars, you waste more money than that throwing food away. Nice…
I derived the title for my first book War and Vegetablesfrom an interview with John Lennon and Paul McCartney, where the interviewer was asking them questions about youth culture, and what, if any good they thought they could bring to the youth of their era. At some point during the third revision I was searching the internet for music, just trying to relax an overstimulated mind and maybe find…
Absolutely fucking incensed by this ad. I can get unlimited months of unlimited reading and listening through Libby on my phone you dumb sack of shit Amazon I will not let you kill libraries I will not let you kill libraries I will not let you kill libraries
Listen to me. You can read any library’s digital collection via Libby in America and apparently in uh 78 other countries. If that doesn’t do it for you, the internet archive has two million digitized books you can access for free. The only thing I can’t help you access is books self-published through Amazon but even then sometimes they’re ALSO published through separate websites. Do not fucking give in to this amazon bullshit. Amazon has a vested interest in destroying libraries and replacing them with for-profit bookstores or book rentals. Do not fucking let them do that. It’s up to us to support libraries and keep literature free and accessible and we have to do everything in our power to act in that vein
Amazon can afford to throw money from exploited workers towards random shit like making an MMO and trying to destroy libraries. Libraries cannot fight that kind of financial might. It’s our job to see amazon, tell it no, and choose libraries instead. As often as we can.
If anyone has info on other ways to ethically access self-published books on amazon feel free to add it
Project Gutenberg is also a really useful source for free ethical eBooks! They’re volunteer run, and have free PDFs and eBooks for any out of Copyright book– both fiction and non fiction! So if you’re after a copy of Pride & Prejudice, or The Great Gatsby or The Communist Manifesto, that you want to download and keep – check them out!
If you do self-publish, you can go through Draft2Digital as well as Amazon and D2D will make your books available via lending sites such as Biblioteca as well as alternative sales sites. And they’ll provide you with a universal URL so that your readers can choose where they want to spend their money (in case it’s not with Mr. Bezos).
You can even use D2D to sell on Amazon, but be aware that there are drawbacks to this approach (like delays in printing and no advertising availability). The best approach, generally, is to sell directly on Amazon and also with D2D, and just tell D2D not to make the book available to Amazon. You can still include the Amazon URL in your universal URL, and as long as your prices are the same, Amazon is fine with this approach.
Happy… Pride month? Father’s day? Why not both with these queer reads starring dads! Purchase through the publisher’s book market for 20% off as part of the pride sale.
The day before his coming-of-age ceremony, Eirik has a fight with his best friend—who had pointed out that, adopted by a pair of traveling warriors as Eirik was, how can he know who his ancestors are to celebrate them? Embarrassed and angry, he’s not in the mood for the story his fathers insist on telling him: The tale of the son of the god of Love who has never felt pain, and the son of the god of Envy who always does, how they struggle with each other and their community, and how, ultimately, they trick the underworld out of a very special prize. (m/m, fantasy, mythological, 20000 words)
Cute demigods with feelings firmly in It’s Complicated territory
Shape-shifting tricksters
Daring rescues
Found family feels
Innkeeper Pelerin is willing to do what he must to keep his city safe from demons—after all, he lost his beloved wife to demons many years earlier, leaving him to raise their son on his own.But when his now-adult son disagrees with his actions, he is forced to reexamine the past. Is he doing the right thing, when it may have caused the deaths of innocents? Why is his son skulking about, and what secrets is he keeping? And while Pel’s hands are full with this, a stranger comes to stay at his inn, one who makes the question more relevant than Pel ever imagined would be possible. (m/nb with side m/m, fantasy, 42000 words. Part of the Pandemonium series but can be read as a standalone.)
Happiness in Numbers is an anthology of queer polyamorous stories around a family theme! Among other stories (there are a pair of GREAT dads in the story “Heart & Parcel”, for example), my story “If Wishes were Fishes” is about a dad:
After fighting off evil spirits, unwilling psychic Keith would love to take his time and enjoy dating Lucas, the ghost attached to him, and Hiraeth, the deer-antlered immortal he met not long after being dragged into the world of the paranormal. But when Hiraeth’s son shows up asking for help with a curse, Keith’s got a lot more to deal with than just finding time for a date! (m/m/m, side m/f/m, urban fantasy/paranormal romance, 20000 words. Sequel to Empty Vessels, but can be read as a standalone.)
