Sheila Jenné
@jennelikejennay.bsky.social
Science fiction author & copyeditor. BLACK SAILS TO SUNWARD, THE SEA OF CLOUDS, and BISECTION out now. Support small presses and indie authors. 🚫 AI.
Find my work at https://sheilajenne.com/works
Find my work at https://sheilajenne.com/works
You don't need a "credible plan" for paying authors, you need to *not spend the authors' share* as it came in! Royalty money needs to be set aside immediately, not used to patch cashflow gaps. It is not a loan!
December 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
You don't need a "credible plan" for paying authors, you need to *not spend the authors' share* as it came in! Royalty money needs to be set aside immediately, not used to patch cashflow gaps. It is not a loan!
I've gotten partial screenshots and things, but never the full numbers I've asked for.
It doesn't really matter because I'm not getting paid anyway, but I would like to KNOW.
It doesn't really matter because I'm not getting paid anyway, but I would like to KNOW.
December 7, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I've gotten partial screenshots and things, but never the full numbers I've asked for.
It doesn't really matter because I'm not getting paid anyway, but I would like to KNOW.
It doesn't really matter because I'm not getting paid anyway, but I would like to KNOW.
If I were ever to sign with a small press again, I would at the very least demand that the person who does the sales reports should not be the owner. I want that person on salary, with nothing to gain by fudging the numbers.
December 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
If I were ever to sign with a small press again, I would at the very least demand that the person who does the sales reports should not be the owner. I want that person on salary, with nothing to gain by fudging the numbers.
In theory, though I'm not sure how I'm supposed to exercise that. The contract also says they're supposed to pay me.
I do doubt my publisher's sales numbers (Midnight Meadow) but I have no recourse but to ask for proof and get ignored.
I do doubt my publisher's sales numbers (Midnight Meadow) but I have no recourse but to ask for proof and get ignored.
December 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
In theory, though I'm not sure how I'm supposed to exercise that. The contract also says they're supposed to pay me.
I do doubt my publisher's sales numbers (Midnight Meadow) but I have no recourse but to ask for proof and get ignored.
I do doubt my publisher's sales numbers (Midnight Meadow) but I have no recourse but to ask for proof and get ignored.
(they pretend *now* that a company would do all that for the price of stamps, but if any company wants to do that, they'd be doing it already! They just don't want to because they can't do it any cheaper than the USPS can!)
December 6, 2025 at 3:43 AM
(they pretend *now* that a company would do all that for the price of stamps, but if any company wants to do that, they'd be doing it already! They just don't want to because they can't do it any cheaper than the USPS can!)
And of course, if they privatized it, they would turn around and pay ten billion dollars to the contractor managing it (extra billion because companies have to profit) and tell us this is just the normal amount things cost.
December 6, 2025 at 3:40 AM
And of course, if they privatized it, they would turn around and pay ten billion dollars to the contractor managing it (extra billion because companies have to profit) and tell us this is just the normal amount things cost.
A job that didn't train him at all for what he's doing now! But okay!
Did not love the fridging of the girl in chapter one either. Is she ever even mentioned again?? I don't remember.
Did not love the fridging of the girl in chapter one either. Is she ever even mentioned again?? I don't remember.
December 3, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A job that didn't train him at all for what he's doing now! But okay!
Did not love the fridging of the girl in chapter one either. Is she ever even mentioned again?? I don't remember.
Did not love the fridging of the girl in chapter one either. Is she ever even mentioned again?? I don't remember.
Oh man I hated it. It was just Hunger Games but really REALLY in love with the bleak "everyone is awful and bad things happen constantly" vibe. Which is not what I liked HG for.
Also the Martian geography was wrong, not that it matters.
Also the Martian geography was wrong, not that it matters.
December 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Oh man I hated it. It was just Hunger Games but really REALLY in love with the bleak "everyone is awful and bad things happen constantly" vibe. Which is not what I liked HG for.
Also the Martian geography was wrong, not that it matters.
Also the Martian geography was wrong, not that it matters.
Saying "concrete over abstract" is so much easier for me, because I can literally look at a sentence and know which words in it are connected to something you can sense.
Politics ✖️
Rooms full of nattering old men ✔️
Sadness ✖️
Tears ✔️
Murder ✖️
Stabbing ✔️
Criticism ✖️
Tongue-lashing ✔️
Politics ✖️
Rooms full of nattering old men ✔️
Sadness ✖️
Tears ✔️
Murder ✖️
Stabbing ✔️
Criticism ✖️
Tongue-lashing ✔️
December 2, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Saying "concrete over abstract" is so much easier for me, because I can literally look at a sentence and know which words in it are connected to something you can sense.
Politics ✖️
Rooms full of nattering old men ✔️
Sadness ✖️
Tears ✔️
Murder ✖️
Stabbing ✔️
Criticism ✖️
Tongue-lashing ✔️
Politics ✖️
Rooms full of nattering old men ✔️
Sadness ✖️
Tears ✔️
Murder ✖️
Stabbing ✔️
Criticism ✖️
Tongue-lashing ✔️
Purple, it's a little easier to read while the yellow is a bit *too* bright.
December 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Purple, it's a little easier to read while the yellow is a bit *too* bright.
And by doing that, you undermine authors. If people only pirate our books, we can't afford editing for the next book, and the crop dries up.
That's why I offered such a large variety of ways to read that DO support us without costing a lot.
That's why I offered such a large variety of ways to read that DO support us without costing a lot.
December 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
And by doing that, you undermine authors. If people only pirate our books, we can't afford editing for the next book, and the crop dries up.
That's why I offered such a large variety of ways to read that DO support us without costing a lot.
That's why I offered such a large variety of ways to read that DO support us without costing a lot.
"I doubt it, unless you're into science fiction."
Most people read one genre at most, and it's never yet been the one I write.
Most people read one genre at most, and it's never yet been the one I write.
December 2, 2025 at 12:46 AM
"I doubt it, unless you're into science fiction."
Most people read one genre at most, and it's never yet been the one I write.
Most people read one genre at most, and it's never yet been the one I write.
Oh man facebook needs these, these viral posts keep going around, but when you go to the page you see they post thousand-word essays every hour round the clock. Best sign of AI I know.
But of course there's also insomnia 🤣
But of course there's also insomnia 🤣
December 1, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Oh man facebook needs these, these viral posts keep going around, but when you go to the page you see they post thousand-word essays every hour round the clock. Best sign of AI I know.
But of course there's also insomnia 🤣
But of course there's also insomnia 🤣
I sure hope so! 🤞
December 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I sure hope so! 🤞
Wow, that's a lot of reading! Thanks for your hard work ⭐
December 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Wow, that's a lot of reading! Thanks for your hard work ⭐
WOULDN'T IT BE NICE if the companies would simply let me use the old version?
Why should I have to give up things that worked great without AI until very recently?
Why should I have to give up things that worked great without AI until very recently?
December 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
WOULDN'T IT BE NICE if the companies would simply let me use the old version?
Why should I have to give up things that worked great without AI until very recently?
Why should I have to give up things that worked great without AI until very recently?
I still don't want it. I should be able to choose not to have it.
December 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I still don't want it. I should be able to choose not to have it.
I'm going to be buying used phones for the foreseeable future just to avoid that. Not that I can help all the apps shoving AI in all the same.
December 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I'm going to be buying used phones for the foreseeable future just to avoid that. Not that I can help all the apps shoving AI in all the same.
It was filtered for spam five years ago using traditional coding which worked exactly as well.
December 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
It was filtered for spam five years ago using traditional coding which worked exactly as well.