"I’ve hitched my little coracle to the ‘Zon Barge". That's chillin' like a champ, Commodore Cedar. I cannot think of a better boat. It will 100% go exactly where the bow is pointed, every time and in any weather. And the bonus is that it has a Welsh/Scots origin. Cwrwgl...coracle. So naughtily nautical, naught not to like.
I first remember hearing the word and then looking up what a coracle was while reading CS Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia, and it's such a fun little word, but also, it works for my analogy. I don't have to stay hitched, I can cast off and paddle elsewhere, or I can go back and forth in multiple markets.
In a soviet-ized social ecology everyone gets grey to survive; everyone has to figure out how to balance honor against cruel incentives.
On the other hand, paying the Danegeld to a skin-suited institution and passing it off as wisdom, rather than sad necessity: Not so much..
Nonetheless it is a timely article, re: the gift of fear. What can any of us do against such reckless malice? How do we preserve our hostages to fortune? Mrs. Hoyt has the right idea on this one, Rachel Press, Castalia, Based Book Sale: Use Amazon as lightly as they can, build up, build over, build around.
Another useful piece about the fear-industrial complex:
I don’t know who you are talking about. I have two personal friends who did not receive their royalties and were eventually able to claw their rights back. This isn’t gossip.
And Amazon pays me, on time, with the numbers I can check. Has done so for 15 years now. So do the other outlets I sell through. No idea what you’re going on about.
Glad to hear it. Let me know what happens if and when you run afoul of using Amazon, and what recourse you had.
We had exactly this conversation, a while ago. And by claw their rights back, you meant "asked for them back and got them with cover rights thrown in", yes. Castalia learned the hard way the lesson Rac Press got right from day one.
Other small presses with ambition to grow leaned the hard way as well and didn't survive because giants do not care about the ants under their feet.
And yes, I should stop mentioning Castalia here. So I will.
You should, because you don't know what you're talking about. I do, since I did the new covers for all the books in question. RacPress learned because of what Castalia did.
"I’ve hitched my little coracle to the ‘Zon Barge". That's chillin' like a champ, Commodore Cedar. I cannot think of a better boat. It will 100% go exactly where the bow is pointed, every time and in any weather. And the bonus is that it has a Welsh/Scots origin. Cwrwgl...coracle. So naughtily nautical, naught not to like.
I first remember hearing the word and then looking up what a coracle was while reading CS Lewis and the Chronicles of Narnia, and it's such a fun little word, but also, it works for my analogy. I don't have to stay hitched, I can cast off and paddle elsewhere, or I can go back and forth in multiple markets.
You read CS Lewis, you can help but stumble across nuggets of wisdom.
In a soviet-ized social ecology everyone gets grey to survive; everyone has to figure out how to balance honor against cruel incentives.
On the other hand, paying the Danegeld to a skin-suited institution and passing it off as wisdom, rather than sad necessity: Not so much..
Nonetheless it is a timely article, re: the gift of fear. What can any of us do against such reckless malice? How do we preserve our hostages to fortune? Mrs. Hoyt has the right idea on this one, Rachel Press, Castalia, Based Book Sale: Use Amazon as lightly as they can, build up, build over, build around.
Another useful piece about the fear-industrial complex:
https://www.malone.news/p/the-infectious-disease-frenzy?
Castalia doesn't pay the authors, so I personally wouldn't espouse that business model.
Didn't we hash that out? I confirmed that Vox Day got the payments to the Ship of Fools author. Simple as reaching out to him.
Amazon? Not so much.
Castalia pays the people who work for them.
Setting gossip aside, we need all our builders in our American Revolution. We are outnumbered and outgunned:
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I don’t know who you are talking about. I have two personal friends who did not receive their royalties and were eventually able to claw their rights back. This isn’t gossip.
And Amazon pays me, on time, with the numbers I can check. Has done so for 15 years now. So do the other outlets I sell through. No idea what you’re going on about.
Glad to hear it. Let me know what happens if and when you run afoul of using Amazon, and what recourse you had.
We had exactly this conversation, a while ago. And by claw their rights back, you meant "asked for them back and got them with cover rights thrown in", yes. Castalia learned the hard way the lesson Rac Press got right from day one.
Other small presses with ambition to grow leaned the hard way as well and didn't survive because giants do not care about the ants under their feet.
And yes, I should stop mentioning Castalia here. So I will.
You should, because you don't know what you're talking about. I do, since I did the new covers for all the books in question. RacPress learned because of what Castalia did.
"You should, because you don't know what you're talking about."
My comments demonstrate that I do not believe that: I won't lie to you.
I should because it is an occasion od sin and I have enough already to repent of. Godspeed.