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Joy ✧ She/Her/Hers ✧ Queer ✧ International Bestselling Author ✧ Vampire Romancer Extraordinaire ✧ Chronic illness & Disability Advocate ✧ Co-host of The AyeSphere Podcast ✧ See pinned post for FAQ
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Welcome to the blog of international bestselling author, Joy Demorra, aka, the Crucifix Nail Nipples Editor.

This is my personal blog where I commit word crimes.

If you're looking for my chronic illness and disability advocacy posts, or you want to block them (fair), the tag I use is #chronic health tag.

You can also peruse my FAQ.

My international bestselling debut romance novel, Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites (Phangs), is out now and available in eBook, Paperback, and Audio.

Set in a pseudo-regency meets fake-Victorian Gaslamp Fantasy world, complete with gothic castles, enchanted forests, and just a smidge of industrial coal dust. Phangs has been described as "like reading the queer, goth love child of Terry Pratchett meets Jane Austen," and no amount of marketing buzzwords I say can ever top that.

If any of that sparks your interest, you can:

Why are there two versions and what's the difference between them? Glad you asked! You can also check out individual content tags and heat ratings on my website at www.joydemorra.com

If you've seen my dog, Holly Mop, trending around the place and would like to see more of her, her tag is #holly mop. You can also now follow her blog at @holly-mop; we just use it to upload pictures.

Other places you can find me online include: Ao3, Twitter , BlueSky Pillowfort, and Instagram. If you like what I do and would like to see more of it, you can support me on Patreon, Ko-Fi, Payhip, or through my Throne Wishlist.

You can also find me hanging around Twitch on Sundays, where I co-host @theayesphere podcast with @ayeforscotland and sometimes play games. Feel free to come hang out; we're always happy for new people to natter with.

If you've made it this far, thanks for reading and happy scrolling!

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I must not start shit online. Starting shit online is the peace-killer. Starting shit online is the little death that brings total obliteration.

I will stay in my fucking lane and let the urge to start shit pass over and through me. And when the urge has passed, I will quietly seethe in Discord chat with my friends and rejoice when karma inevitably gets their asses.

#if you can see this I'm not vaguing about you
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rayfishandchips

Tim's wing cape appreciation post, one of the best-looking robin equipment items in my humble opinion.

It doesn't always look good when stationary, but when it fly it is so alive with motion. Beautiful.

(from the comic robin war)

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foxgivenblank asked:

Well now I have even more questions but this is the article I read, if looking at charts and the tradpub names might shed some light

https://trl.org/blogs/post/the-real-costs-of-digital-content-ebook-and-digital-audiobooks/

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Audiobooks are tricky because platforms like Audible, FindAwayVoices, and Author's Republic don't allow authors to set a minimum price.

They decide the minimum price of the item, and you're only allowed to increase it, but even then, they treat it more like a suggestion than an actual price point. They can also take up to 80% of the purchase price in royalties, leaving the author with very little, so often, when you see a huge, huge price spike on audiobooks, it's being ramped up by the distributor for maximum profit for the distributor, not the author.

(I've ranted and raved about this before at length. I think it's under my audible tag.)

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foxgivenblank asked:

I have a question, if you have the spoons for it. Since you're self pub, can you set your price for libraries to purchase copies of your work just like you can set your prices on other platforms? And can you choose if libraries buy a time limited license for the e-book and audiobook? Or if it's even an option for them to outright buy the digital copy of the book the same as a physical copy?

Just saw an article from my local library about how much more expensive e-books and audiobooks are from the bigger retailers and I was really confused about the massive spike from physical copy to digital copy from their chart and didn't know if it was even an option to outright buy a digital copy for the library to lend out.

(Sorry maybe this would make more sense after sleep but I am very confused about the massive price difference. Wasn't expecting digital to be 3 or 4 times more expensive and only last 2 years compared to one and done for the physical book)

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thebibliosphere answered:

You can set the price the way you would for any other retailer, yes.

However, the large spike is dependent on the library system and whether they opt for an annual digital lending license or a "renew after X amount of checkouts" license, which is not something I can control as the author/distributor.

There's no option for me to let them just buy one copy; they need the license, too.

There are other factors at play, like major publishers massively hiking the cost of their ebooks (and thus hiking the cost of the digital licenses -- which, again, varies from library to library and also from country to country), and also sometimes the distributors we use hike the prices to make sure they're still getting their cut (audiobook distribution is daylight robbery I stg), but yeah, no the digital library lending license is required.

And that license exists for physical books, too.

It might cost them less to buy a physical copy in the short term, but they're usually still obligated by a lending license to replace the book after X amount of checkouts.

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derinthescarletpescatarian

When I released Curse Words, I intended to let libraries have it for free, and the D2D system straightup wouldn't let me. It makes you charge a minimum price to libraries.

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thebibliosphere

Yeah, there's no distributor that'll let you do that. It just straight-up doesn't exist, at least not any I've seen on the indie/self-pub side.

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thebookewyrme

I just want to correct something. In the US libraries do not need a license for lending physical books, nor is there any requirement to replace it after a certain amount of time. The only reason libraries in the US replace physical books is due to wear and tear cause by patrons. When the book is worn out, we buy a new one if it’s still circulating well or is a foundational text. Otherwise it just keeps getting checked out until it falls apart. If it’s being checked out a lot and we have the space we might buy a second copy to cut down on wait times for patrons, but there’s no requirement to do that and smaller libraries without much shelf space will not do that.

Ebook lending IS like that though and is controlled by a very few distributors who have the capability of adding an ebook to a library’s catalogue for lending, hence the big spike in ebook costs for libraries because monopolies never do anyone any good except the company with the monopoly.

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thebibliosphere

Huh. That's interesting. I know it's different in other countries, but I was talking to my US author friend the other day about the hassle she's having getting her physical books into US libraries, and her agent told her it had something to do with the library lending license for the physical books.

Admittedly, she's trad-pub, so maybe something got miscommunicated, or they're bamboozling her.

But now I'm wondering if it's just such a steep price hike on behalf of her publisher (I know on our end as self-pub, we're being prompted by distributors like Ingram to mark up our library prices by a significant margin) that the libraries are just like "nah."

Interesting. Welp. That's food for thought. And also good to know, thank you!

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writing-prompt-s

You’re meeting the friend of a friend for the first time, who’s apparently an empath. When they shake your hand, they immediately rip their hand away from you.

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teaboot

Covered mine in sweet strawberry jam cause I value my goddamn privacy

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thebibliosphere
foxgivenblank asked:

I have a question, if you have the spoons for it. Since you're self pub, can you set your price for libraries to purchase copies of your work just like you can set your prices on other platforms? And can you choose if libraries buy a time limited license for the e-book and audiobook? Or if it's even an option for them to outright buy the digital copy of the book the same as a physical copy?

Just saw an article from my local library about how much more expensive e-books and audiobooks are from the bigger retailers and I was really confused about the massive spike from physical copy to digital copy from their chart and didn't know if it was even an option to outright buy a digital copy for the library to lend out.

(Sorry maybe this would make more sense after sleep but I am very confused about the massive price difference. Wasn't expecting digital to be 3 or 4 times more expensive and only last 2 years compared to one and done for the physical book)

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thebibliosphere answered:

You can set the price the way you would for any other retailer, yes.

However, the large spike is dependent on the library system and whether they opt for an annual digital lending license or a "renew after X amount of checkouts" license, which is not something I can control as the author/distributor.

There's no option for me to let them just buy one copy; they need the license, too.

There are other factors at play, like major publishers massively hiking the cost of their ebooks (and thus hiking the cost of the digital licenses -- which, again, varies from library to library and also from country to country), and also sometimes the distributors we use hike the prices to make sure they're still getting their cut (audiobook distribution is daylight robbery I stg), but yeah, no the digital library lending license is required.

And that license exists for physical books, too.

It might cost them less to buy a physical copy in the short term, but they're usually still obligated by a lending license to replace the book after X amount of checkouts.

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derinthescarletpescatarian

When I released Curse Words, I intended to let libraries have it for free, and the D2D system straightup wouldn't let me. It makes you charge a minimum price to libraries.

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thebibliosphere

Yeah, there's no distributor that'll let you do that. It just straight-up doesn't exist, at least not any I've seen on the indie/self-pub side.

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trekscribbles

I just need a scene where Fire Lord Zuko has been kidnapped and taken to sea. Katara shows up to save him and beats up the baddies, then walks slowly over to Zuko, leans down by his ear, and

Katara: don't worry

Zuko: stop

Katara: I'll rescue you from the pirates

Zuko: please leave me here to die

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foxgivenblank asked:

I have a question, if you have the spoons for it. Since you're self pub, can you set your price for libraries to purchase copies of your work just like you can set your prices on other platforms? And can you choose if libraries buy a time limited license for the e-book and audiobook? Or if it's even an option for them to outright buy the digital copy of the book the same as a physical copy?

Just saw an article from my local library about how much more expensive e-books and audiobooks are from the bigger retailers and I was really confused about the massive spike from physical copy to digital copy from their chart and didn't know if it was even an option to outright buy a digital copy for the library to lend out.

(Sorry maybe this would make more sense after sleep but I am very confused about the massive price difference. Wasn't expecting digital to be 3 or 4 times more expensive and only last 2 years compared to one and done for the physical book)

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You can set the price the way you would for any other retailer, yes.

However, the large spike is dependent on the library system and whether they opt for an annual digital lending license or a "renew after X amount of checkouts" license, which is not something I can control as the author/distributor.

There's no option for me to let them just buy one copy; they need the license, too.

There are other factors at play, like major publishers massively hiking the cost of their ebooks (and thus hiking the cost of the digital licenses -- which, again, varies from library to library and also from country to country), and also sometimes the distributors we use hike the prices to make sure they're still getting their cut (audiobook distribution is daylight robbery I stg), but yeah, no the digital library lending license is required.

And that license exists for physical books, too.

It might cost them less to buy a physical copy in the short term, but they're usually still obligated by a lending license to replace the book after X amount of checkouts.

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thefloralmenace

I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.

- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.

- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.

- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.

That's love. 🐈‍⬛🐈❤️

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the-real-seebs

cats are so very unclear on what is wrong with us but they want to help

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electricpentacle

Last time I had a really bad migraine my cat curled herself round my head and purred sympathetically, and actually stayed there through two of her normal mealtimes. It wasn't until I was able to stagger to the kitchen and grab a protein bar for myself that she gave a very small, polite miaow to the effect of "while you're up... could you get something for me too?"

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