The “current publishing model assumes that authors, even “successful” authors, already have means. Publishers don’t pay authors for their labor. They assume we survive by inherited wealth… a supporting partner… a job teaching in academia … or a day job in some other industry.”
It was generous for this author to break this down and to be transparent because the publishing industry is NOT transparent and people trying to publish books are in the dark about everything. monicacatherine.com/2024/05/16/q...
~ free public post ~ The general population is slowly getting the message that things are really hard for traditionally published authors right now, in ways it was not hard twenty or even five year…
TODAY: our own Carrie Frye on the devastation wrought on Asheville, and specifically the incomparable Root Bar, which featured a sport played nowhere else in the world. flaminghydra.com/r/025a8f0e?m...
Carrie Frye, reporting from Asheville
I mean it was inevitable that the modern Right would eventually turn against the Good War, all of its narratives are against all of their narratives I keep expecting Trump to say “can you imagine any of these Gen Z kids defending Omaha Beach”
I think it's good that the Allies defeated the Nazis, rather than the other way around. The Nazis winning would've been worse. Sorry to get so partisan and speak out against one of Republicans' chosen standard bearers in Minnesota like this, but that's how I feel.
As the control of the Senate hangs in the balance, GOP candidates across the country are facing a similar problem: Troubling and bizarre past statements, both in-person and on social media, are coming...
you know what, walz didn't do great but as i scan the various news websites the big takeaway is that vance refused to accept the results of the 2020 election
If this is as bad as it seems, I hope all of these people sue Paxton to his last corrupt quarter. What an execrable human being.
I actually want to expand on this and why I think Harris is having so much of a popular surge right now: politics really is about telling a story, and if more people believe your story than the competing ones, you win. Policy positions are important, of course, but as part of that story, mostly.
If there are any questions about who I am as a person, my character or capacity for loyalty, I think it says a lot that I just now bought a Braves hat immediately following that game.
Apparently, the first thing Tim Walz said in his VP interview was, "How can I help?"
“I’m not angling for anything else.”