Nick East (Indie Writer)<p>I can't be the only one who does this 😁 </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writers</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writingcommunity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writingcommunity</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writing" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writing</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/indieauthors" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>indieauthors</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/authorindiespeak" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>authorindiespeak</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritingMemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingMemes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Memes</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Authors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieAuthor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieAuthor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieBooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writerdons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writerdons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writinglife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writinglife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p>
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RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WordWeavers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WordWeavers</span></a> 2504.08 — MC POV: What are the 3 most important things you always take with you when traveling (besides money, ID and keys if applicable)?</p></blockquote><p>I don't care much for <em>things.</em> Oh, I'll use them, and properly value them, earn them when needs be, but only knowledge and people have real value. I wasn't born into wealth, but upon my parent's death, when I was five, the powerful decided I was <em>somehow</em> special. Wealth, training, and responsibility followed. I don't know exactly when I stopped being a kid who nerded out on magic† with her childhood friend, when I morphed into someone else's sharp tool. When I grew old enough to pass as an adult, with great precision, calculation, and planning, I ran away never to be found. My elite life wasn't what I wanted, what I needed. </p><p>Since then nothing, <em>no thing,</em> describes what I want or desire, other than simply my freedom to study and learn. When you don't have a place to return to, or a place to live, they call you homeless. I gave my former life up, and when I find a new situation that sours, I can give everything up again. <em>Snap,</em> like that. Being home-<em>free</em> is a freedom from being made to do what I dislike, or what's wrong. I've traveled across the continent on foot. I've lived in homeless encampments. <strong>The three things I take with me are a tarp, a bedroll, and my book of magic.</strong></p><p>Those are things, of course. <strong>I take my skills, my common sense, and a sharp tongue, also.</strong> They keep me safe.</p><p>————<br>† Magic is a simplification of a physically quantifiable repeatable phenomenon.</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/mystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mystery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/thriller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thriller</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/romance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>romance</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sf</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sff</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/sciencefiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sciencefiction</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a> <br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSstory</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSReluctanceStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSReluctanceStory</span></a><br> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microfiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/flashfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flashfiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/tootfic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tootfic</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/smallstory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smallstory</span></a></p>
ד-פּאַקס<p>"The short horizon is at least partly because Denby — who was the longtime film critic as well as staff <a href="https://babka.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> at the New Yorker — has chosen to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/write" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>write</span></a> about the lives of iconic figures who were active while he was a professional writer. One of them, Brooks, is even still alive, aged 98, at the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a>’s publication. But the claustrophobic constriction and end of the Golden Age goes to illustrate how, despite the brightness with which Brooks, Bernstein, Mailer, Friedan, and others, shone, the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> Golden Age was frighteningly short-lived.</p><p>For Denby, the lesson is that American <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> need to display assertive pride in the face of political tribulations."</p><p><a href="https://forward.com/culture/books/710758/david-denby-eminent-jews-bernstein-brooks-friedan-mailer/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forward.com/culture/books/7107</span><span class="invisible">58/david-denby-eminent-jews-bernstein-brooks-friedan-mailer/</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today In Labor History April 8, 1935: Oscar Zeta Acosta was born on this day. Acosta was a Chicano lawyer, writer and activist in the Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He wrote Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972) and Revolt of the Cockroach People (1973). He was good friends with Hunter S. Thompson, who called him “My Samoan Attorney,” in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Acosta disappeared in Mexico in 1974. He is assumed dead. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chicano" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chicano</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OscarZetaOcosta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OscarZetaOcosta</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HunterSThompson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HunterSThompson</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mexico</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/losangeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>losangeles</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today In Labor History April 8, 1943: The Nazis executed Otto and Elise Hampel for making anti-Nazi postcards and leaving them in public places. Hans Fallada wrote about them in his 1947 novel, Every Man Dies Alone (Alone in Berlin in the UK). The story was filmed in 2016 as Alone in Berlin.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nazis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/berlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>berlin</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antifa</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antifascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antifascist</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>resistance</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hampel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hampel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>novel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>film</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p>Self-promo time! What links, publications or media would you like to share? <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writephant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writephant</span></a> </p><p>I recently finished writing a feminist SF web-novel that I published on Mastodon. <strong>Mars Needed Women</strong> is a woman-centric adventure story of overcoming adversity while being female, with all the warts and frustrations, not as a man in disguise. It starts with ugliness of today's world having become the dystopian norm a hundred years from now. It takes thinly veiled jabs at a prominent bad actor. Our heroine, May Ri escapes becoming little more than a housewife to help colonize Mars, if you can call being shanghaied escaping, and being required to have children. (She does get to choose the gorgeous supportive guy, though, so that's a positive.) She's there with her children as power slowly shifts from being male-dominated. As the mothers and daughters increasingly control Mars' future (how is spoilers), May Ri with the support of her daughters gets to help create a world (Mars) the way unfettered women would image it. The men of Earth will take affront, of course. They will learn that women don't fight like men, especially when their children's lives are threatened, and their wellbeing is at stake. <strong><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSMarsNeededWomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSMarsNeededWomen</span></a></strong></p><p><strong>I will keep the web-novel available free-to-read at this link at least until April 10th: <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/114088945266387178" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eldritch.cafe/@sfwrtr/11408894</span><span class="invisible">5266387178</span></a>.</strong> I am currently revising and expanding it, and plan to republish as a book later.</p><p>Here is posted a revised book jacket.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a></p>
tj (i make it past the end)<p>Support Kirya Traber's Medical Recovery</p><p><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-kirya-trabers-medical-recovery" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gofundme.com/f/support-kirya-t</span><span class="invisible">rabers-medical-recovery</span></a></p><p><a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/MutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/BlackMutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Disability</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/DisabledMutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DisabledMutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/Queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Queer</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/QueerMutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>QueerMutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/Podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Podcast</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today In Labor History April 7, 1804: Haitian general, Toussaint Louverture died on this day. He was one of the most prominent members of the Haitian revolution for independence from France. The slave revolt against the French began in 1791 with the call by Dutty Boukman, a vodou priest. Encouraged by the French and American revolutions. Louverture led 100,000 enslaved Haitians in revolt, winning their freedom in 1793. In 1804, Haiti became first free black republic in the world. The U.S. refused to recognize Haiti for the next 70 and France extracted millions in restitution, destroying any hope of ever moving out of deep poverty. Louverture was betrayed in the end and died in prison. For a fantastic history of the Haitian Revolution, read “The Black Jacobins,” by C.L.R.James.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/toussaintlouverture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>toussaintlouverture</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/haiti" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>haiti</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>revolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/slavery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slavery</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/boukman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boukman</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/vodou" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vodou</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/revolt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>revolt</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/independence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>independence</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackMastadon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastadon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BlackJacobins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackJacobins</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CLRJames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CLRJames</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nonfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nonfiction</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
Kristie<p>Yesterday it was the memoirs page. Today my book’s top of Bookshop. org’s *main* Biography & Memoir list. </p><p>(right next to Jenni Fagan (Scotland represent!) and a bit under Marcus Aurelius!)</p><p>No PR machine. Just people getting behind a working-class Scottish debut</p><p>If you’ve been thinking about it, now’s the time:</p><p>tinyurl.com/4m68kbpv</p><p>Now I’m off to build a wall.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Scotland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scotland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/memoir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>memoir</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BooksofMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BooksofMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Publishing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Women</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/WorkingClass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorkingClass</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History April 6, 1919: The Bavarian Soviet Republic was declared. Novelist, B. Traven (Death Ship, Treasure of the Sierra Madre), served on its Central Council of Workers, Soldiers and Farmers. The socialist republic was quashed a month later by the Freikorps, which included Rudolf Hess and other future members of the Nazi party.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/soviet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>soviet</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>germany</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nazis</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/btraven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>btraven</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
J. Scott Coatsworth, Author<p>Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight. </p><p>Today: For author and textile artist A. Catherine Noon, it’s all about the yarn, both metaphorical and literal – spinning a yarn, knitting with yarn, weaving, sewing, painting, sharing stories and good times over a cup of coffee with dark chocolate. She teaches creative writing, creative expression and textile arts.</p><p><a href="https://www.jscottcoatsworth.com/author-spotlight-a-catherine-noon-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jscottcoatsworth.com/author-sp</span><span class="invisible">otlight-a-catherine-noon-2/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/AuthorSpotlight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AuthorSpotlight</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/Interview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Interview</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/WritersofMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersofMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.otherworldsink.com/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fantasy</span></a></p>
Aimee Cozza Illustration<p>Looking for books with queer representation during the <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/NarratessIndieSale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NarratessIndieSale</span></a>? Check out these great <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/queer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>queer</span></a> book offerings! Purchase at your place of choice using the links at <a href="https://indiebook.sale" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">indiebook.sale</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieAuthor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieAuthor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/LGBTQ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQ</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hcommons.social/@joyce" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>joyce</span></a></span> </p><blockquote><p>The US media is too cowardly to cover the [Hands off!] protests for fear of Trump.</p></blockquote><p>I assume you mean on broadcast TV. I get my news on the web, not on TV. Here is what I found:</p><p>Fox News isn't covering. USA Today says there are thousands, not hundreds of thousands. Washington Post, NBC, and New York Times, are completely mute. However CBS and ABC have stories. PBS is full throated on the spot with live feeds. CNN has below the fold (10 stories+ down) coverage. Axios, AP, and Reuters are covering prominently. Local Los Angeles affiliate television websites are also following.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/boostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>boostingIsSharing</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Protests" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protests</span></a>#HandsOff <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Journalism</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> community</p>
Nick East (Indie Writer)<p>So who's working on the creative project where I can download a car, I'm still waiting... 😜😂 </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writers" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writers</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writingcommunity" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writingcommunity</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/writing" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>writing</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/humour" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>humour</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritingMemes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingMemes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Memes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Memes</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Authors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authors</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieAuthor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieAuthor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/IndieBooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieBooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/AmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writerdons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writerdons</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writers</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/Writinglife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writinglife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/WritersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritersOfMastodon</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a></p>
tj (i make it past the end)<p>Full time black disabled student trying to survive my major with outside learning in poetry/fiction, puppetry, and stop motion. </p><p>I'm aiming for $100/month in support (books, travel, payment plans for classes). You can check out my monthly (sometimes more) newsletter to see what I'm up to and find alternative ways to support me all in my Ko-Fi bio! </p><p><a href="https://ko-fi.com/atonyjerome" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ko-fi.com/atonyjerome</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/MutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/BlackMutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/Disabled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Disabled</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/DisabledMutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DisabledMutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Disability</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/TransMutualAid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TransMutualAid</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/IndieGameDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieGameDev</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/StopMotion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopMotion</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/Puppetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Puppetry</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/Theatre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Theatre</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/SpecFic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpecFic</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/Writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writing</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/GameDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameDev</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/SpeculativeFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SpeculativeFiction</span></a> <a href="https://diaspora.im/tags/Poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poetry</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hexbear.net/c/mutual_aid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mutual_aid</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mutualaid" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mutualaid</span></a></span></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> and <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> and AI, oh my? </p><p>From my favorite historian pundit, Z:</p><blockquote><p>… no serious economist is going to endorse [Trump's] approach to tariffs. No unserious one, either, probably. So, where did the White House come up with this formula? Well, if you put the phrase "balance bilateral trade deficits" into <strong>AI engines,</strong> the administration's approach (or some close approximation) is what you get. That is the case with ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude. <strong>If you put the phrase into Grok, you get the EXACT formula the White House used. In other news, Grok is the AI platform owned by... Elon Musk.</strong></p></blockquote><p>Guess you don't need the terminator to destroy the world. Simple AI is enough.</p><p>Scroll down to "Fuzzy Math" at this link, but the whole 4,000 word article will clear up the whole muddy mess.</p><p><a href="https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2025/Items/Apr04-1.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">electoral-vote.com/evp2025/Ite</span><span class="invisible">ms/Apr04-1.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/tarrif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tarrif</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/tarrifs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tarrifs</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economy</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economics</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/elon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>elon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/grok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>grok</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ai</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/chatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/genai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genai</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a></p>
RS, Author, Novelist, Prosaist<blockquote><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/ScribesAndMakers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScribesAndMakers</span></a> 2504.04 — Can you handle praise well, or do you get embarrassed and play your achievement down? CW: self-analysis</p></blockquote><p>Oddly enough, this devolves to gender roles and the confusion an autistic can discover in any social illogic. As a child, I quickly evolved into a listener, observer, and a pleaser with my shyness providing me an escape route from any confrontative situation—things I worked on (had to!) as I became an adult. Wanting to be an author is not entirely compatible with these personality traits regardless of gender—there is a definite forwardness and egoist nuance to insisting on communicating one's ideas—and I couldn't rely on others to meditate for me. </p><p>I got praise growing up, especially when doing well in school. Then again, my mother had me convinced I'd die if I didn't bring home top marks. I mostly got to hide from praise. It's not that I don't, didn't, like it, but I could better process it unobserved and generally make it appropriately and comfortably undeserved. <em>A pleaser can't accept being pleased well!</em></p><p>Yeah, I got help. If you've heard of EST, I did that.</p><p>Now my reaction to praise is a Venn diagram of who, what, and where. If it is online, where nobody has to see me physically react, I'm a lot more copacetic with it. In person, it can be uncomfortable. I can still find ways to minimize the input but as I get older I'm better at fairly assessing my abilities. I do remember having this one fan at conventions that would greet me. She really wanted a sequel. Maybe she sensed I was shy, I don't know. But I grew to like her reminder.</p><p>[Author retains copyright (c)2025 R.S.]</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/BoostingIsSharing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BoostingIsSharing</span></a> and <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CommentingIsCool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CommentingIsCool</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/gender" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gender</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/photographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photographer</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/chef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chef</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/cooking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cooking</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writingcommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writingcommunity</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writersOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writersOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a><br><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/RSdiscussion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RSdiscussion</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today In Labor History April 4, 1866: Russian revolutionary, Dmitry Karakozov attempted to assassinate Czar Alexander II. He failed and the government executed him. Some believe that Karakozov chose the year 1866, since that was the year in which a character in Chernyshevsky’s “What Is To Be Done?” planned to launch a revolution. In the book, the protagonist, Vera Pavlovna, escapes a controlling family, and an arranged marriage, to start a socialist cooperative and a truly egalitarian romantic partnership. She starts a seamstress commune, with shared living quarters, profit-sharing and an on-site school to further the women’s education. Chernyshevsky wrote the novel in response to Turgenev’s “Fathers and Sons.” He wrote the book while imprisoned in the Peter and Paul fortress. The book inspired generations of Russian radicals, including the nihilists, anarchists and even many Marxists.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nihilism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nihilism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anarchism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/chernyshevsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chernyshevsky</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>novel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolutionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Revolutionary</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/commune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>commune</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
Sarah J Hoodlet<p>Poll time!</p><p>I'm publishing my first middle grade (MG) story, and need to set a price for the PRINT format. It will be 5x8 inches trim size, with 104 story pages.</p><p>I don't have kids, so I'm not sure how to price it. If you have middle schoolers, enjoy reading MG stories, or publish your own MG fiction, what's an acceptable price?</p><p>Again, this is for the PRINT format. Thanks!</p><p><a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/WritingCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WritingCommunity</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Reading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reading</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Poll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poll</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/SelfPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/SelfPublish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SelfPublish</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/IndieAuthor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieAuthor</span></a> <a href="https://writing.exchange/tags/Author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Author</span></a></p>
Robert Kingett<p>I think my new website is ready for prime time! Built with <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@eleventy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>eleventy</span></a></span> <a href="https://sightlessscribbles.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">sightlessscribbles.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Writer</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Blogger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blogger</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Blog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blog</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/Blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blogging</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/11ty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>11ty</span></a> <a href="https://caneandable.social/tags/IndieWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a></p>
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