Where's the lie though

Historicity: The 1999 episode “The Initiative” from Buffy the Vampire Slayer is the origin of the phrase the Shovel Talk.

Fuck ya life, bing bong

Finally finished this! Very happy with the result ^^ Love this show <3

"dual wielding is too dangerous and impractical to be effective in real life combat" dual wielding is cool and sexy and sick as fuck and he who makes his enemy look like a lame little punk ass loser has already won half the battle before he even starts fighting the war. sun tzu said that.

The Pizzaman - a lil comic based on a dream I had.

reddit is still free. also tbh good riddance for the op

Name! That! Musical!

served my duty as an autistic artist and made a bunch of autism creature reaction images

bedbugs

Here’s some quick snaps of the sheet music from the OTGW booklet if anyone wants to attempt plays this season! 🍁

OP WHERE CAN I BUY THIS

Hi! Mondo is the company that does the pressings (the booklet comes with the vinyl) and you can find the most recent pre order here:

heathcliff's new ego but with vine booms

Cost of inflation aside, the draft2digital upload process is brilliant in comparison to Ingram Spark. It's intuitive, easy to follow, and lets you see the files in real-time instead of making you wait to see your physical proof. I also had a minor problem with something, and customer service got back to me within a few hours, not the literal weeks I've gotten used to with Ingram.

The cover it auto-generated from my ebook files was not the greatest, but if you're on a tight budget or unable to afford separate covers and wanted to do paperback, you could absolutely make it work with a little tweaking.

I had separate covers already because Ingram and Amazon require you to have PDF wraparounds (both different dimensions from each other), and while the Ingram one didn't work (Ingram formatting works literally nowhere, not even on Ingram 🙃), the Amazon wrap worked. There might be a sliiiight issue with the ISBN overlapping, but it was hard to tell on screen. I guess we'll see how it looks when the physical proof copy arrives.

So. Yeah. That was way less of a stressful experience.

And none of my files are being held captive! I can hit cancel at any moment without having to pay $25 to talk to a human to get my files pulled. Incredible... And if you're thinking to yourself, Joy, that sounds like the bare minimum of competency, I need you to know that after years of Ingram Spark, the bar for this kind of thing is so low it's in Hell.

Anyway. I'll post an update on print quality once the proof gets here.

heyo! d2d author here! i like the quality of d2d proofs but the cost of printing is what prohibits me. i have like...no budget, so amazon POD is pretty much all i can afford. i love the print versions of my books available through d2d but i just can't afford to get them in.

also the formatting is weird, but not too bad.

I'm confused by what you mean about not being able to afford it because uploading paperbacks with draft2digial is free. (Unlike Ingram which is a $75 upload fee.) Is it just the price point they set that you find is prohibitive?

If so, the recommended price it quoted me is the same as what Amazon just quoted me for their price increases.

purchasing author copies, is what i meant. when i last printed with them, it was VASTLY more expensive than amazon. maybe it's gotten better since then.

Oh, for sure! Author copies are always cheaper on Amazon. If I need author copies for events, I'll get them off the 'zon. But that won't stop me from using d2d as a global paperback distributor alongside Amazon.

Diversifying income streams, and all that. Not to mention library access.

A note about Ingramspark, as of August 2023 there is no longer an upload fee. It is free to set up both print and e-books. The only issue I have personally is that the e-book publishing is not available in New Zealand and I have to use paypal instead of bank deposit.

They've removed the initial upload fee to compete with d2d, but not the fee to make changes to files after 60 days.

After that, it's $25 to make changes to the interior file, $25 for changes to cover, and an additional $25 if you have a dust jacket. With d2d you can make changes for free every 90 days. (Amazon KDP still comes out on top with this one when it comes to print because you can make changes as often as needed at no cost.)

They've also made it so that the retailer discount fee is 40%, or they won't host your work for distribution. Which, like... fine. 40% is the industry standard, but I should be allowed to opt out of that if I want.

(There is also the issue that Ingram may not be representing our discount rates to booksellers accurately. I am still waiting for a response from Ingram over this. I suspect I will be waiting forever.)

Ingram is also charging $25-50 to talk to a customer sales rep within 48 hours over the phone, as opposed to their email, which now seems to just go into the void depending on planetary alignment.

So yeah, they removed the initial upload fee. But they're still squeezing money out of us in other ways. It's almost like they want to drive people to Amazon.

The Poll Wormhole

The Poll Hole, if you will

I've already seen a lot of strange broken polls, but this is by far the strangest.

how th fuck?

how did you do that