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Sooooo burnout because last month I accepted too many jobs. I'm going to sleep now. See you again tomorrow. Think about you soon.
Sooooo burnout because last month I accepted too many jobs. I'm going to sleep now. See you again tomorrow. Think about you soon.
BBC has been blocked since the beginning of the internet here. So like early 2000s. Losers from the previous wars often wrote “articles” to expose the corruption that we were pitifully blind to. I never bought our history books, but reading BBC was like “Are there people actually buying this?”. Because the tone was overly emotional even for a 12-year-old. I thought, for that quality to be published, it must be very affordable for the propagandists.
Okay that's enough internet for today. See you tomorrow.
10-year-old me says you are cute. 29-year-old me has something else unspeakable.
That was the 29-year-old me. Not the 10-year-old.
You are so cool.
Hihihi.
Okay I think I know several more things about you too. See you again tomorrow.
Today I learned a lot about technology, after asking chatGPT to explain to me like I am 10.
There is a certain pride in signing off a royalty check. I wouldn't know because I used Payoneer so the money could get to me faster. Especially here in Vietnam where no one knows what to do with a check, so you might have to run to several different banks. Every time you will have to explain to the bank tellers what a hassle you go through just to get the money from your own book. So much pride!
The myth is that royalty is a passive income that comes as a perk when you work in books with publishers. It's not passive because sales of everything will go down over the years. It's not a perk when you are already underpaid. Kind of a luck, because out of 30 books (might take several decades), you might get 1 book that actually generates meaningful royalties. IF lucky!
So when someone said I have a book that brings in 50k in royalties, they forget to divide it by 30. Because when you run 30 ads and 1 ads that brings sales, you have to count the entire ads set of 30 different ads as the cost of business. The math works in favour of publishers because they are distributors and they can scale.
Unlike running ads where you are responsible for your marketing and have yourself to blame when it doesn't work and are still poor. You don't have any say in how other people print or sell a book, so you can only blame capitalism and be bitter.