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New federal rules blamed in disappearance of Kindle erotica titles
The upcoming Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, in addition to making Microsoft move to reduce obscenity on its platform, has hit erotica authors on Amazon. After many authors saw their rankings stripped on the Kindle store, essentially reducing their availability and visibility, while forcing others in the romance category to recategorize or get dinged as […]
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Unwrapping any book in the post is always a little bit exciting, but now imagine it’s your book that you actually wrote yourself.
Then imagine your reaction going viral on Twitter to the point where Stephen fricking King actually ends up retweeting it. That’s what happened to author Tomi Adeyemi on Wednesday.
Adeyemi’s debut novel, Children of Blood and Bone, is coming out next month. On Tuesday, Adeyemi received her first copy in the post.
Will be sharing a verrrrry special unboxing later…#childrenofbloodandbone pic.twitter.com/HZGs4p0Mop
— Tomi Adeyemi (@tomi_adeyemi) February 6, 2018 Read more…
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View More This video of a debut author unwrapping her first novel is super adorableRIP Ursula K. Le Guin, dreamer of the best dreams
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Ursula K. Le Guin, who was arguably America’s greatest living author (and one who hated getting pigeon-holed as a science-fiction or fantasy writer), died Monday at the age of 88, her son has announced.
The news set off a firestorm on Twitter — not the usual kind, thank goodness, but a sudden flurry of people debating which of Le Guin’s works touches us the most deeply and remains the most relevant.
Usula K. LeGuin, one of the greats, has passed. Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon. Godspeed into the galaxy.
— Stephen King (@StephenKing) January 23, 2018
Was it Wizard of Earthsea, the 1968 classic, and its five sequels, which showed the world how to write a wizard student’s coming-of-age story decades before Harry Potter was a gleam in J.K. Rowling’s eye? The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), a truly revolutionary novel about a race of aliens that changes gender at will, which holds up better than ever in 2018? The Dispossessed (1973), which featured the first ever anarchist utopia in fiction, decades before Occupy Wall Street was a thing? Read more…
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Pronoun, an ebook service for writers, shuts down
Pronoun, a self-publishing service for authors, is shutting down after promising free ebook distribution for authors. The company, which raised millions in funding and ended up being sold to Macmillan announced the shutdown in an email to authors…
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