I'm not yet published - but I absolutely plan on gifting a physical copy of my book to at least 3 other authors who have been instrumental in getting this book off the ground.

At first, I thought these were all options for a single book - in which case I reaaaalllly liked #3. But then I saw the next comment in your thread that they're opening lines from 3 books and now I'm like "but they're all good..." LOL

Sol is a bi guy with a kink background that looks like Bowie.

Rain is a plus sized neurodivergent heiress.

They do dirty things together.

And since someone will ask:

The quickest way to get money to me as an author is to buy my spicy romance novels as I took no advance on them so I would make profit on every sale.

www.amazon.com/King-Bourbon...

And if you really want a book but can't afford it, readers love sharing their favorites. Put it out there. Say, DOES ANY GIFT FAIRY WANT TO BUY ME ______.

You'd be surprised.

You cannot respect artists at a fundamental level and steal their work.

Sorry, but that's why we hate AI.

If it's truly to fuck over the corporations, go drop the cost of that novel in an author's tip jar anonymously.

But we all know you won't do that.

So.

Request books from your library. Shit, I'd rather you ASK ME for one of my books outright than pirate it. Yes, I've sent copies this way.

1000000%

They're lucky if they get me in jeans and a sweater. I'm prioritizing comfort and flexibility over appearance when dealing with flying.

Or, you know, don't admit it. Just do what you're going to do and stop making it everyone else's problem because you need to be told you're being righteous.

If you beleived that you wouldn't be online fighting with people over it.

And honestly with the number of free books available at any point now, there is very little defense I want to hear from people these days.

You can sign up for deal newsletters and get offered 500 free books a day.

Just admit you want what you want when you want it & don't care about anyone else.

Every excuse everyone makes for why this is OK falls the fuck apart when everyone gets to make money on our work except for us.

Imagine being snide at people who are already EXTREMELY aware the only real game in town is fucking them over. Exhausting. They need to go lecture at someone else.

Okay. Sure. I'll bite. Yes, we can get fucked over by Amazon. We can also get fucked over by B&N, any of the big 5, any other publisher, Ingram Spark and every other distributor out there that distributes the books we write. What's your instant solution to replace all that?