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Her mother beamed. "You did remember!" She pulled Mia into a hug, stretching the bruised skin across her shoulder blades. "Mia. Mia. Mia. Light of my life. See you tonight!"
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There were so many they could have chosen – an elegant bottle or a happy leaf green – but no, someone had chosen the mud green of bruised avocado flesh. Which, now she thought about it, was appropriate, considering the state of her back this morning.
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Wesley Reid highlighted an excerpt from The War of Wind and Moon: Season One
There were so many they could have chosen – an elegant bottle or a happy leaf green – but no, someone had chosen the mud green of bruised avocado flesh. Which, now she thought about it, was appropriate, considering the state of her back this morning.
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That is a killer opening line. Wow. Love it.
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    Floating to the ceiling of Mia’s bedroom, its dangling belly swollen after a feast of rage and fear, the Gossip enjoyed a dessert of contempt and defiance.
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    Wesley Reid liked the forum thread, change in author royalties? when?
    I’m also uncomfortable with the changes. It’s great that already published authors are happy with the platform but this is a bait and switch for everyone else. Worse that we had to find out about it on our own.

    I signed up for Inkshares in late 2015, did a big push for about three weeks, then moved to rural Asia where my campaign slowed down considerably.  I had been planning for a big push in my final 30 days to get me over 750. That big push should have started yesterday, as I’ve moved back to the US this week for a seasonal job I have every fall in New York, but I’m seriously doubting it all now. I’ve already invested a lot of time and energy and hundreds of friends and family have already signed up and made purchases, but this has really drained my enthusiasm for the platform. Part of that big push would have been writing about the platform for some magazines and encouraging fellow authors to sign-up but, again, I’ve lost much of that enthusiasm. Sure, I want more money but it’s not just that--I’m 80% done with my campaign and they change the terms (without telling me) now? That leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

    Thirty-five percent is still okay--though we have to consider that that the first 250 or 750 does not go toward that. Assuming that the average published author sells as many past that mark as they do in pre-sales and that number is cut in half to 17.5%.
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      Wesley Reid liked the forum thread, change in author royalties? when?
      This has kind of made my heart sink. I only discovered Inkshares through Geek and Sundry’s competition and over the last few days have been quietly falling in love with the whole site and concept - a site where writers can post work, support and critique each other but, unlike other sites, the site owners don’t expect to never pay for their content. In good faith, they provide a transparent path to "traditional" level publishing with a fair royalty percentage. Amazing! The perfect halfway point between old exploitative publishing and self-publishing! 
       
      But a few days ago, when I and probably hundreds of people signed up via the competition, the site information said the royalties were 50% for print and 70% for eBooks of gross receipts. Now suddenly it’s down to 35% for both and of ’net receipts’.   

      It’s great to hear how well the guys below have been treated and that you feel/know how much Inkshares has invested in your book and publicity (which is the one thing we can do with self-pub) but, let’s face it, writers are used to being screwed and anything over the 8-12% net contracts with their outrageous non-compete clauses is going to be lauded. This is an enormous drop and I find it hugely disappointing. The same % drop again would get us to similar levels of the current traditional publishing boiler plates.  
      Were the original royalties unsustainable or just not enough profit? (They are two different things.) Bookcouture, Sourcebooks and many other digital first and POD imprints are chugging along happily offering 50%... 

      I’ll search for other threads on this but if there aren’t any, I’d really like to be pointed toward something showing the reasoning behind the drop and particularly the change to ’net’ - ’net’ allows a certain lack of transparency and has traditionally allowed both music and literary publishers to exploit their artists by adding costs before royalty calculations which can leave an artist that’s selling well in debt to their publisher. 

      Before I get too far into this comp, I’d really like to hear the philosophy behind this move - and I really want to be happy with it because I’m loving the quality of the work, here - quite aside from my own project, there is so much good writing and good will - it seems a truly lovely community that deserves to be well treated. 
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        Wesley Reid sent an update for Child of Secrets

        Second Mini-Update!

        Child of Secrets now has 3 pre-orders and 20 followers--none of whom know me outside of Inkshares! That’s awesome! A special thank-you to M. Robert Randolph (author of Wings of the Crallow) for his review and recommendation!

        I felt like my "About the Book" blurb wasn’t punching the way I wanted it to, so I tweaked it and added a section about the world of Child of Secrets: Athonassyar. I’m also working on some excellent changes to the prologue (mostly inspired by comments and critiques from you guys!) that I’ll post sometime tomorrow.

        It’s going to be fantastic. I’m excited.

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          “We go inside and chase shadows with the rest of them,” Jacer said flatly, and bulled ahead despite Niko’s look of bewilderment. “We’ll look like fools, but only the same kind of fool as everyone else. If we don’t go with the group, they’ll find some way to pin his escape on us. If there’s one thing I learned from my time in the army, it’s that you don’t want to be the odd man out when things go south.”
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