Wandering Adventure Party

If you're an #Author, who, like my wife, is searching for an #Amazon alternative to #SelfPublish your work, here's what she's found:https://draft2digital.com/Is a self-publishing platform that let's you choose which marketplaces you sell to. Soon this will include bookshop.org, which is my personal favorite.https://ficstack.com/Organizes #SubStack posts to aid in author discovery. I think you can set up monetization options on your associated substack.#Draft2Digitial#Bookstodon

Not so happy. Financially, 2025 was probably the worst year I had since I started translating for a living. I lost most of my long time clients - retirement, sickness etc. - and new ones are hard to find. So I am on self promotion now - anyone here who wants his English book translated into German? No option for you? Talk to me. Most of my authors are glad for the additional income.References on my blog - see profile.#translations #books #writing #author

I'm new to Mastodon (about 1 hour ago)2x Self-Published author w/ a 3rd book (WIP)I'm looking forward to meeting new people & supporting others' contentI post a wide variety of content. I tend to post popular opinions on many topics & unpopular opinions on many others#IntroductionPost #NewHere #New #indieauthors #author #writing #writer #mastodon #starwars #starwars #poetry #LGBTQIA #neurodivergent #education #WomensRights #humanrights #science #DEI #creativity #art #music #constitution

Is it me, or is the new #Mastodon #quote feature the MOST USELESS tool ever to be designed? It overloads a button, making you take an extra tap to boost, not to mention having to read and target a new menu with a finger or a mouse? In case you didn't know, it is hidden under the boost button in the Web UI. It allows you to quote a whole toot, annotate the quote, and ask, if necessary, if the poster will allow you to do so. The poster can revoke permission....to quote something, copy and paste only the content you need. Be sure to include the user's handle if you want to attribute the quote.Nobody that would abuse quoting, that is would misappropriate or twist a toot's meaning, would use the feature. They will copy and paste. This leaves the remainder of the community doing an extra tap, with the extra dexterity required for potentially challenged users, while trying to figure out why they would use the feature in the first place.Boost for Sample Size when you vote, please!#BoostingIsSharing #poll #fediverse #write #author #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon #writingCommunity

@ljwrites @Firlefanz @steaphan I, too, am an author-translator, and I don't bother with machine translation. For one thing, the texts I translate were usually written in 19th century German and use a lot of phrases that are simply no longer in use today.For another, the translation itself is actually the _least_ part of my work - I must also explain all the local cultural, historical, and geographical contexts for these texts. And if I don't think about this during the translation process, the end result will be much worse.