YAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Yay, this makes us coworkers again.

You can do it! I believe in you!

Whew, nice work!

Somewhere out there, some writer wants to do something with some conceptual or structural overlap with mine. The industry will treat my book as a test. Even if it is well-written, if it doesn't succeed, they will say there isn't a market for books like it and specifically, authors like me.

If we're including imperatives, I've got a looooooong list of those.

I've been waiting for this! Happy pub day.

Exactly. I usually go with, "I dunno. How well read are you?"

Literally buying one copy of a book at your local indie bookstore can mean the difference in whether they buy future books from that author.

Most publishers (there are always exceptions) decide whether or not to buy a second book (or a third etc) based on how the previous book did. So when you pirate a book in most cases it’s less about the money you just stole from both author and publisher it’s about the future book you just killed.

Related: I feel like a lot of the piracy vs buying discourse (🤢 that this is even a thing) gets framed as stealing money from individual authors vs. stealing from faceless corporate publishers when for most authors it’s about whether or not they’ll get to publish another book.

Too real.

Oooof.