Amazon is excluding spicy romance & LGBTQ books from the affiliates program.

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

READERS need to lead the way by moving to retailers other than Amazon:
@bookshop.org has ebooks now.

AUTHORS need to get their books over there too (via @draft2digital.bsky.social ).

I'm already on 4 other retailers (plus print, audio, libraries), but I'm working on getting my books on Bookshop.

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

@smashedratonpress yep, I shared that a few days ago

[davidbridger@writing.exchange]

@Broadfork @susankayequinn I agree 100%.

[broadfork@mastodon.green]

@DavidBridger @susankayequinn It can be a hard choice to make when they are the market leader for your line of business so huge credit to you.

As a customer, where possible, I choose who, where and how I spend my money. That and how I vote are two givens in my life.

[fluffykittycat@furry.engineer]

@susankayequinn bezos is part of the fascist agenda

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

@DavidBridger I respect that choice, but yeah, it's brutal.

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

@Broadfork @DavidBridger

I do think people are, more and more, understanding that their choices in shopping are really holding THEM hostage as well as having all the negative impacts. Finding a way for readers to still be able to get books and work their way off dependency on Amazon is tough... but the environment is ripe for it. Sometimes people just won't leave... until they do. Until there's just one terrible thing too many.

[davidbridger@writing.exchange]

@Broadfork @susankayequinn Thank you. I share those two givens of yours.

[davidbridger@writing.exchange]

@susankayequinn It effectively stalled my career. Not my love of writing for my readers. I've kept going, and my established readers have stayed with me. But commercially it was a head-on collision with a truck.

[mycotropic@beige.party]

@susankayequinn

Bezos is an asshole and I hope that #ChuckTingle takes his awesome library to his own store and makes bank! I'd happily purchase; "Pounded By This Weregroundhog In A Seemingly Endless Time Loop On Groundhog Day " for twice the price if Chuck got it all!

Think I'm making that title up?
https://www.amazon.com/Pounded-Weregroundhog-Seemingly-Endless-Groundhog-ebook/dp/B0GKXF61S9

[broadfork@mastodon.green]

@susankayequinn @DavidBridger Yes, that’s very true. One minute the customer thinks they’ve got a good deal from the options available to them. The next there’s only one offer on the table because the competition has folded or been assimilated.

But sooner or later Empires always fall. And when they do, they crumble quickly.

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

@mycotropic Chuck Tingle is a national treasure

[weirdwriter@caneandable.social]

@susankayequinn I hate this timeline we are in, where fascism is appreciated and promoted on the Internet more than kissing and gender or sexuality expression.

[mycotropic@beige.party]

@susankayequinn

Are you also into Dan Lacey? https://designyoutrust.com/2019/06/this-artist-makes-a-living-by-painting-celebrities-with-pancakes-on-their-heads/

I discovered both through #SomethingAwful back in the day. I still have a stock of Lacey paintings and I always wanted Chuck and Dan to collaborate!

[sapphireangel@mastodon.online]

@andrew @susankayequinn Keep in mind Bezo is no longer the CEO of amazon so you guys can't blame this on him.

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

@mycotropic nope never heard of Lacey

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

@sapphireangel you're... you're kidding, right?

@andrew

[sapphireangel@mastodon.online]

@susankayequinn @andrew Andy Jassy became amazon president and CEO July 2021.

[donhawkins@mastodon.social]

@susankayequinn @angiebaby

[susankayequinn@wandering.shop]

@sapphireangel I know I'm just amazed that you think that's important to point out

@andrew