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Hey self-published authors! Did you know you can upload and publish your EPUB or PDF books to Leanpub and start earning up to 80% royalties on your sales in just ten minutes?

Here's a full tutorial:

Getting Started Using Leanpub's Upload Writing Mode to Self-Publish Your Book | Leanpub Help Center help.leanpub.com/en/articles/2

Ted Talk on hypocritical activists on SoMe and selfcare/decision autonomy
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Something that rubs me the wrong way is, that often the same group of people, who white-knightely advocate for support of small businesses, local stuff, going away from corporate social media into the fediverse and more individualism
is also the group to most often complain when small businesses, artists writers and local companies acutally move into the fediverse and promote their

Here's a tip for all you authors who either want to sell your book on Mastodon or don't expect to do so.

*** Don't mention your book on your profile. ***

Because if you do, when you follow me, I just conclude that this person wants to sell a book, not interact in any worthwhile way. So I don't follow back. Which is bad for you whether you mainly want to sell your book or just be friends.

Last week's blog post:
The Place for Patience and Self-Discipline in Self-Editing

This begins a series on my blog.

It's about my journey, but it also shares takeaways people are free to borrow. It's for everyone, whether you're struggling to pay an editor or want the cleanest manuscript possible before sending your book to an editor.

I hope you'll stop by. No need to sign-up for anything.

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Christina Anne Hawthorne · The Place for Patience and Self-Discipline in Self-EditingIn wanting to talk about self-editing in the coming months, which few people ever mention, I decided to first talk about patience and self-discipline, two key ingredients. Patience has served me we…