Jared Nelson

Jared Nelson

@jarednelson.bsky.social

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Writer of horror & fantasy in many flavors. Multi-class nerd. Coffee and tea enthusiast. LFC Fan. IG: jarednelsonbooks

Website: https://www.jarednelsonauthor.com

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Romance authors been inventing ebook marketing techniques since forever. Most popular, lucrative genre fiction there is. Home to some of the most incisive writers around. But some of y’all just gonna fuck around and find out, huh?

Can not believe I saw a person on this site try to explain the strategy of making a first book in a series free as if he'd had a revolutionary thought. I understand it's impossible for shitheads to respect romance authors, but I did this for the first time BEFORE MOST OF YOU KNEW WHAT EBOOKS WERE.

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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

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Instead, they stealth-edited the title.

Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

My whole life people have said “I’m not voting because I can’t trust either one of them.” And they go about their lives while their rights are stripped away right under their nose. Don’t want to vote? Fine. What ARE you going to do? Because this democracy thing? It’s our job to keep it.

Hey @nytimes.com, as a subscriber, can I ask, and I mean this as respectfully as I can… What the hell was the editorial board of thinking by publishing a piece exhorting the virtues of not voting authored by a right-wing operative who does, in fact, vote and releasing it today, of ALL days.

In the midst of the discourse about NG and the SA allegations, seeing plenty of folks ride up and say variations of “well I can’t say I’m surprised because he was weird/a jerk to me/etc Folks never miss a chance to be petty do they? Yes, let’s decenter the victims and talk about you instead 🙄

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This is the explicit goal of an astonishing amount of paid (and paid for!) propaganda out there. If you're feeling voting doesn't matter, maybe consider why it is so many people are spending so much money, time, effort and ad space trying to convince you not to.

“If a [political] party knows you’re not going to vote for them, the best thing they can do is convince you not to vote at all." — Stage_Door_Johnny (on instagram)

The NG news ended up being the first thing I read about today, and I’ve been shattered ever since. For the victims, who are already being bullied, doubted, slandered, and threatened. And for 13-year old me that read Death The High Cost of Living and loved his work for 31 years since. 🧵

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THERE ARE 20 MORE SLOTS IN THE CLASS with @clairewillett.bsky.social! I'm pretty sure these will sell out, so don't hesitate.

Did you miss out on the grantwriting class with Claire Willett? Now's your chance. She's generously offered to add 20 more slots--and one additional class--for all our participants. www.32auctions.com/o...

Grantwriting Master Classwww.32auctions.com Auction item 'Grantwriting Master Class' hosted online at 32auctions.

Believe victims.

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Good morning! After taking into account the additional money folks have already pre-donated on ActBlue, we have set our next Extremely Specific Milestone! 90.9% to $925,000 total raised! Also Courtney is releasing BINs chaotically now too! LOL http://auction.roman...

It’s July 4th, 2024. The UK holds a general election today that most expect will result in a peaceful transfer of power through democratic action. Meanwhile the United States, the oldest modern democracy, just this week gave the office of President powers to act like a monarch.

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A lot has happened in this past week, but don't forget that Neil Gorsuch and the rest of the conservatives said cities can criminalize needing a blanket in the cold.

The Supreme Court's cold ruling criminalizing homelessness: Justice Gorsuch's horrifying opinion in the Grants Pass case recalls an earlier heartless dissent. www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-co...

“We are in the process of a coup and we will kill you if you resist.” We’re not in 1770s. We’re not in the 1930s. We’re in the 1850s.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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🥳Today marks the 11th Anniversary of The Anime Nostalgia Podcast! 🥳 And to celebrate...I'm now offering MEMBER SUBSCRIPTIONS THRU MY KO-FI! Read all about how you can support me AND get access to my upcoming BRAND-NEW subscribers-only podcast here! animenostalgia.blogspot.com/2024/06/happ...

Real journalism is needed now more than ever. Bravo to the students risking injury and arrest to shine a spotlight on the truth.

Pulitzer Prize Board acknowledges the "extraordinary real-time reporting" of student journalists covering campus protests. www.pulitzer.org/news/stateme...

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Derf's book is a must-read.

Sociopathic fascist Tom Cotton wants to murder protestors so bad he can taste it. To "teach" them a lesson. The reality. 67 shots fired. A parking lot full of unarmed students, most walking to class, not protesting. 4 murdered, 9 shot & wounded, 5 of them critically. Most were shot in the back.

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the Kent State massacre was metabolized as a tragedy in history books, but it was cheered by reactionaries at the time. the fantasy of delivering violence to naive young liberals is foundational to the modern right. they never learned the lesson of Kent State because they never stopped supporting it

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"Jose Andres told Reuters in an emotional interview on Wednesday that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them 'systematically, car by car.'"

Chef Jose Andres says Israel targeted his aid workers 'systematically, car by car'www.reuters.com Celebrity chef Jose Andres told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them "systematically, car by car."

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Crunchyroll fails to meet industry standards for Closed Captioning While other streamers like Netflix, HiDive, and RetroCrush caption their entire dubbed libraries, the monopoly-holding #Crunchyroll only does so for a fraction of their library www.animefeminist.com/crunchyroll-... #accessibility

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AAAAAAAAAA ALERT ALERT IT'S A NEW CHERIE PRIEST BOOK SLAM YOUR FIST DOWN ON THE ORDER BUTTON

Does the idea of Cozy Horror appeal to you? Do you like the prospect of being gently spooked with a weird little ghost mystery? Well then HEADS UP ye gentlefolks, because CINDERWICH is still on deep discount through B&N... just enter DIAMOND25 at checkout for a fat 25% off the cover price!

Cinderwich|Paperbackwww.barnesandnoble.com “Who put Ellen in the blackgum tree?” Decades after trespassing children spotted the desiccated corpse wedged in the treetop, no one knows the answer. Kate Thrush and her former college professor, Dr...

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Airplane food ain’t great but it’s better than the alternative…

Good morning to X-Men 97 and X-Men 97 only!

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Oh, and houses cost ten bajillion dollars.

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It's because we all have day jobs, advances are pennies, publishers don't market, one underperforming book tanks your career, and we're expected to be well-tuned brand machines on social media websites designed to suck our souls dry.

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And, gentle friends, Let’s kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods, Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds

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just to be clear: this is unambiguously illegal. absolutely no doubt about it. illegal in every state.

The employee did nothing but exist and be trans www.al.com/news/2024/03...

Alabama official calls for firing of transgender Space Camp employee after parent speaks outwww.al.com “We would like to assure parents, teachers, and the public that the safety and security of Space Camp students is our number one priority."

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the mad lads actually did it

The King of England lies dying and one of his sons has been exiled. A princess has vanished. Plague stalks the land and the Treasury has been plundered. NOW is the time for strange women lying in ponds to distribute swords to form the basis of government.

1,100-year-old Viking sword pulled from UK river by magnet fisherwww.livescience.com Experts have confirmed that a sword pulled from a river in Oxfordshire at the end of last year is an "archaeologically rare" Viking weapon dating to between A.D. 850 and 975.

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Drivers of cars by General Motors, Kia, Subaru and Mitsubishi may not realize that their driving data — like when they sped or braked too hard — is being shared with insurance companies. Numerous people have complained about spiking premiums as a result. nyti.ms/3wHDftF