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I really did think we all knew about the horse romance novel but I guess I may be wrong

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A stack of hardbacks I drew for illumicrate

Links

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I finished reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time in my life. With all of *vague gesture at everything* this going on.

I Am Not Okay

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Doesn't Lucy Undying also take place in Modern times by having Lucy have a therapist and also a girlfriend who calls Mina a moocher who took advantage of her rich friend and dared to have vacations while being poor

I only read the first like 20 pages of that book because the changes were so unbearable to me 🤣

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So many modern day retellings are just straight up hiding the fact that their authors fucking hate the original classic literature books but still need the marketing validation of writing a diverse retelling lol

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Sluttiest thing a person can do is read a book I've recommended them and then have a discussion with me about it

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People saying "spice" instead of "sex" and calling romance "clean" if it has no sex scenes give off absolutely rancid vibes

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Hnngh. The Audible "hack" is making the rounds again, with people claiming you can use your Audible credit to listen to a book and then return it "for free." While I am the first among many to say "fuck Amazon and we should gullotine Jeff Bezos," I need you all to know it's not Amazon refunding you.

It's the authors.

They take that out of our royalties. And that's after they take 80% of our royalties on sales we do make.

(Note: Also, do not assume that your credit is worth the price listing that Amazon shows. Amazon does not pay us the cost of the listing. ((WHICH THEY PICK, we cannot set our own prices on audiobooks and then that forces us to use the Amazon price for the rest of the market!!)) What we get is 20% of the credit's value, so my book might appear on Audible for $20-30. However, if you received an Amazon credit for one of those $4.99 deals, I'd get 20% of $4.99. Yes, it's fucked, it's all fucked. Yes, other audio retailers do the exact same thing. This is one of the reasons authors don't make half as much money as people think they do.)

This became such a big issue that they had to make it impossible to return books after a certain point without talking to a customer service representative, because people were using Kindle/Audible and Amazon's return policy "like a library," and some authors (myself included) were getting royalty checks that showed negative income.

At this point, I don't even know if the Audible "hack" still works (Amazon has made changes to protect authors from this kind of thing at a glacial pace), but I need you to know it's not Amazon that's refunding you. This isn't a fun little "fuck Amazon" thing. The way Amazon has it set up, it's directly fucking the authors over.

So, yeah. Obviously, if you download something and can't get into it, or if something pops up on the author's side that makes you not want to support them anymore, yeah, process that return. Yeet the bitch. But please don't use it "like a library."

It's really harrowing to see your predicted income based on sales and then find out you're getting one-tenth of that because of refunds. And it's not even because people didn't like your book. They're just using the wrong place like a library and fucking over your algorithm as well, because once you get too many returns, you stop getting promoted.

Try using a library. You can access places like @queerliblib for FREE provided you have a US library account that you've hooked up to Libby. It's a little bit of work, but once you've got a card number, you're golden.

Just, y'know, throwing it out there because I don't think people realize this is how it works. You're not taking something back to Walmart, and Walmart is eating the refund before dumping the item in the garbage. Amazon takes the refund, turns to the author, and takes it off our plates.

Note: this does not affect Kindle Unlimited. Flip through the end pages to give the author maximum pages read, and then return that bad boy so the author can get paid. But also, please, maybe think about switching to a Kobo+ account instead. It offers the same subscription-based membership without demanding exclusivity, so authors aren't locked into just Amazon the way they are with KU. (Royalty rates are roughly the same, but it's a better deal in terms of allowing broader market access.)

This has been a rambling and exhausted PSA from your local peddler of weres.

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i have borrowed......so many library books........................

but hey i got Accomplice to the Villain first so I win :3

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one day VE Schwab will write a book I like again... one day...

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I’ve never done a rainbow shelf before…… 🌈

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it's 2025 why are we still writing that corsets were uncomfortable torture devices 😑

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If I go to hell for reading this book am I allowed to bring the book with me yes or no

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so i think publishers are not making audiobooks available globally through Libby...

i lost access to one of my libraries recently and I've been trying to find some of the books that library had from my other ones but they don't come up in Libby, not even in deep search. but when I had access to the other library, they would show up

and that is. really unfair.

why should i lose access to audiobooks just because i don't live in the US? why can't i even recommend the audiobooks to my library? probably because they're Audible only here 🙄

this truly is the worst fucking timeline.

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JOMP BPC - 5th August - Paperbacks

Probably more than 90% of my books are paperbacks. I tend to find hardbacks heavy and cumbersome so there needs to be a particular reason for me to choose the hardback edition over the paperback - and I almost always wait for the paperback edition to come out before I buy a book

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tagged by @e-b-reads and @bigcats-birds-and-books to post the next nine books I want to read, but I don't think that far ahead so here are the nine books left on my 25 in 2025 list instead :3

tagging @agardenandlibrary and @logarithmicpanda

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the way the chapters are numbered in this audiobook of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil is stressing me out 🙈

i'm sure it will make sense once I'm further in but as someone who likes to know how many parts/chapters there are, I am so out of my depth right now 😂