Well… the indie author book launch struggle continues. For my book launch today:
- I tried to write an amazing book.
- I emailed 700+ people, (the number on my newsletter who actually opened the email.)
- Did campaigns on every social media platform, including an ad spend on
@btchesloveonika
@lizzo
Would y’all care if Lil Wayne took his bouncers to a male strip club and told them to lick it like a lolipop?
Just askin… some double standards up in here
#lizzo
@GovRonDeSantis
Finally. Thank you. But respectfully — these lights could be way better. Please, we are the home state of the magic of Disney. Can’t we at least make the light display as good as Paris?
@rgay
My 14-year-old is presenting a bill they wrote on this topic, arguing that top surgery should be treated the same as a boob job to their Florida middle school classroom today, just sent them this tweet.
@ItsEmilyKaty
I think about this all the time with my daughter. People never realize she’s on the spectrum, though it’s very clear. They think it’s great that she doesn’t talk much.
Many people don’t want girls to talk.
@TorontoStar
Anyone who moved from Toronto to Florida like me, knows that this is fake news and masks are unnecessary, otherwise all the Floridians would be dead 😂😂 but we’re all fine and enjoying the sunshine without our masks on! Which we haven’t worn for over a year!
Hello 👋 again! New profile pic!
I’m author ✍️ Charlotte Dune and I write psychedelic fiction 🍄 and also nonfiction.
Read me on Substack or check out my two novels — Cactus Friends 🌵 and Mushroom Honeymoon 🍄.
Third novel on the way! 📖
Links to all in my bio. 💋💋💋💋
This mfcker is definitely real.
West Coast Florida we’re rooting for you. Manasota Key. Cedar Key. Big Bend. Tallahassee. Tampa. Take care. Stay safe out there y’all.
#Idalia
Video from west coast florida air force base.
Just opened the package of my first proof copies of my first book Cactus Friends: A Psychedelic Love Story!
I was nervous, but now I’m so excited to see them in real life!
What do you guys think?!
#writingcommmunity
#writerslife
This has been one of the most challenging books I’ve ever read.
If anyone else reads this, please get in touch so we can discuss it.
The concepts go deep into brain and computer science and I have so many questions.
@alieninsect
@sarahhepola
Aristocratic tutors also.
Homeschool Teacher/Tutors where I live are making $300 an hour and are so booked up that they won’t take new clients.
Huge demand for this from parents dissatisfied with public schools, but lacking in private school options.
An editor keeps marking parts of my memoir as “not credible” and I’m triggered AF.
Like, you think I’m making this up? This was my life!
Has anyone experienced something similar?
Do I talk to her about it?
I don't want to come off as overly sensitive, but…
Is there a name for the syndrome where whenever you’re about to take a vacation you have the urge to bring 800 projects, write a novel, and read 10 books during your short trip?
Is this an ADHD thing?
Why do we think a vacation means weird, unrealistic creative pursuits?
@TaylorLGrothe
I heard a trigger warning in the middle of a podcast recently complete with time codes for the section and it was much appreciated.
@AfronautsPod
to be exact.
@JoyceCarolOates
I did it in public school in western Virginia. Every day, I think.
It never bothered me. Not opposed to this. Feels patriotic and kind of is an act of gratitude. Like, take a moment, and be thankful I’m in school in America, and not living under a burka with the Taliban…
Yes!!! Shouting it from the rooftops! I finished this year’s
#nanowrimo2019
and the book I was writing. So excited!! Coming in on this one at 54,219 words!
If you were doing
#nanowrimo
this year did you finish?
Definitely an amazing movement of
#writers
!
#writingcommunity
What if we made a decentralized, free-spirited festival that was the opposite of burning man—easy to get to, based on feeling comfy, cozy, squishy, temperate, soft, yummy, and we created lasting things instead of something we burnt?
What would that be called?
@michaelmalice
This is what happens when people dehumanize others with labels like “Karens.”
All one needs to study is the Rwandan genocide to understand why the mass adoption of derogatory labels specifying race, regardless of the hierarchy in place, lead to mob violence.
#Pitmad
Newly graduated Charlotte leaves Appalachia for Uganda to do service work, but soon finds herself enmeshed in the world of the Ugandan 1%, awash in drugs, diplomats, and wannabe African kings.
#Mem
#IRMC
#OWN
Happy to announce that my debut novel Cactus Friends is now available on preorder! Free for Kindle Unlimited and half-price until release on April 28th!
@AdamSinger
@texasrunnerDFW
Def recommend the book Die with Zero for all boomer parents.
My parents used to be ridiculously stingy and I gave them that book and everything changed.
Now they are enjoying their lives way more too, because they were even being stingy with themselves.
@sarahhepola
US DOS Foreign Service Political Officer, though I hate to recommend it, because I find the DOS morally reprehensible, but it is very stable and adjacent and pays super well for a writer gig.
You write on politics in whatever country you’re stationed in and interview people.
@eiffeltyler
@ZakiyaNJamal
@TheCut
This seems obvious given the level of racism in China. I bet no Black people even work for TikTok’s parent company ByteDance.
I got to see the first two episodes of 1899 in the movie theater last year as part of TIFF and I was like holy shit, every big budget Netflix show should do a theater run, because the sound and visuals were absolutely incredible on the big screen.
Since Oppenheimer and Barbie are getting nothing but good reviews….
What’s the best movie you’ve watched in theaters and you thought to yourselfthis is the greatest thing I’ve ever seen?
Just finished this book and I’m shook. My GOODNESS.
Neuroscience, consciousness, dreams, sex, academic alcoholism, death, cloning, urbanity, animal ethics, fate.
Exceeded all my expectations, not just for this novel, but for any novel.
Colleen Hoover is 42. She’s outselling every other author in the entire world and people of all ages adore her books.
Don’t let anyone degrade you for being a “middle-aged woman.”
Women over 40 are crushing it.
@HFLane_writing
How about the fact that agents won’t show potential clients their success metrics or sales figures.
Maybe some will, but all the ones I’ve asked said they would not.
Imagine looking for a real estate agent and they won’t show you past sales… not a good sign.
@AmyNielsen06
I find it frustrating that agents don’t provide any success metrics of past financials or deal info. How can I know who to query if I can’t actually see the amounts they helped the authors take or the percentages etc.?
Even with a hit book, the numbers could be off.
Good morning.
Is anyone else
#TeamAmber
?
I feel like I’m out here all alone, but after watching most of the trial, I do not think Johnny Depp is winning this lawsuit.
Love it when people leave a rave review on my novel, but then only give it 4 stars… 🤦♀️
Why people why?
If you write a gushing review, why not give five stars??
#authorproblems
I’m reading the Bible all the way through as a literary activity.
Have you read it?
My version is separated into books and printed on regular paper vs that flimsy Bible paper so I can highlight and annotate.
It also gives me motivation to continue as I can finish each book
My heart is urging me to write a book about my personal journey and how I both caused and overcame PTSD and addiction.
I will do this once the books I’ve already written are all released.
This 7th book will be composed of what I tried and what actually worked for ❤️🩹 healing.
I’m an indie author interested in NFTs and the publishing industry. Following
@bookcoinHQ
@nftbstoken
@booktopia
and
@thecreativepenn
— Who else is in this space, or interested in the intersection between NFTs and fiction books?
Happy Bicycle Day, never forget the secret, very racist history of MK-Ultra when the CIA tortured Black men in prison with LSD.
And remember, practice civil disobedience when appropriate.
#BicycleDay
#decriminalizenature
#psychedelics
@jzux
@pronounced_ing
Not to mention the disturbing charts showing how women with kids are 75% less wealthy than women without kids. Men, almost no change.
Transparency rules.
Instead of removing blocking, Twitter should lean in and add a “blocked by” count next to followers and following.
This will insinuate account controversy level and also incentivize people to be nicer and less insane.
@NaomiAKlein
Wow. I’ve definitely been confusing Naomis and thinking you all were the same person. My sincere apologies. Sorry it took a literal book release to get this straight.
They say every author should have a website, but yesterday I got so frustrated with my Wordpress site and it's costing me money every month.
Donna Tartt and Sally Rooney don't have websites.
If I have a Twitter, a facebook, a youtube, an Instagram, and a Linktree, AND a…
“If you don’t have some kind of consistent way of doing things, it looks as if you’ve lost your mind.”
This was long and great.
So many good quotes.
Legends led by a legend.
Can’t beat redneck cuisine.
Best meal I ate in 2022 was a peanut butter and jelly burger from a food truck off the highway in the Shenandoah Valley.
Then a fella offered me homemade peach moonshine in a dixie cup.
Still thinking about that sweaty, perfect summer night.
@AutismCapital
Hotels suck when you have kids though. Airbnbs are way better if you have kids, but then again, no one in their right mind would bring kids to NYC.
@emollick
Can it mine insights from our own emails? This I would appreciate. Since Google is reading all our emails anyway, they should pass back some of the benefits…
@MattFnWallace
Or that the editor failed to edit well, or forced the author to do a ridiculous rewrite, or made them distort things for misguided political or marketing reasons.
Last day to get a discounted kindle preorder of my new book — “Cactus Friends: A Psychedelic Love Story”
Free today for Kindle Unlimited readers too!
Order it now for 1/2 off before the price goes up!
#MondayMood
#Kindle
#discount
Why is money taken out of your account instantly when you pay for something, but getting paid and depositing income checks seems to take days to clear…?
Where is that money sitting?
@alieninsect
@stuheritage
Really laughing at how much this show is making academics fall out and freak out. Like chill people, he even says the whole thing is a “possibility.” But profs got their panties on fire.
@justinbaragona
@TheLincoln
@ElonJet
Is
@ElonJet
stalking? Hence, a crime? Just honestly wondering. Like do we want strangers to be able to tweet our movements and travels? I don’t want that for myself.