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I’m starting off 2024 with a bang! My beta readers community started, I looked into Webmentions and realized it was a kind of strange social media lite so didn’t want to be notified every time someone...
View ArticleReplacing apps for websites
I woke up today, which is about ten days ish into 2024, I don’t know, time stopped for me in 2020, and decided I was going to delete all the apps off my iPhone. Well, okay, maybe not all the apps. I...
View ArticleWanna be my beta reader?
In addition to beefing up my website, adding things to it, and more, I decided to also beef up my community as well. I know many other authors have beta readers. These are people that want to see their...
View ArticleAppreciating spelling and grammar mistakes as a writer and reader.
It’s not every day that you get email from a reader that makes your heart soar. Then again, maybe other authors get stuff like baked cookies and giant stuffed cats, and I’m the odd one out that only...
View ArticleHow to block AI narrators on Audible.
Skip down to the second heading if you just want to know how to hide these without my commentary. I’m a huge fan of audio books. I know other blind people hate audio books but I just imagine them as...
View ArticleWe need less objective journalism
I’ve been thinking a lot about journalism today, and I’ve also been thinking about a post I deleted but wished I could resurrect. It was a post about why I was giving up objective journalism. I used to...
View ArticleA weird Fediverse break.
Over on Mastodon/the Fediverse, the culture is very weird and also very, well, inclusive, so I thought I’d announce my hiatus from Mastodon in a very fun way! I’m not leaving for good, but I do have a...
View ArticleArtificial Divide Buzz
The below is a short roundup of media/buzz about the Artificial Divide anthology. Writing Works Wonders. This podcast with Blind writers has me talking about the anthology and some overall writing and...
View ArticleAudio fiction has some dashingly free art!
Recently, as I’m deep in the editing process of a few upcoming books, I haven’t been on Mastodon in a while. Even though Mastodon is certainly slower than Twitter was and far less sludgy, for me, at...
View ArticleHow to sync Lire with Miniflux
I decided to make this because I haven’t seen a good writeup online, so wanted to help others that were stuck like I was and wanted to write this down so I could come back and reference it later for...
View ArticleWe need bad representation in books.
I did one thing this past weekend, and nothing else. I stayed in bed all day to listen to the Graphic Audio version of Fourth Wing, because part two was released recently and I became so enraptured I...
View ArticleFinally, there’s a comic book store for the blind.
This was published on Vice. It was a good journalism piece, I feel, even though I am no longer a journalist. Still, this was great because I got paid well above what I was expecting. It was my first...
View ArticleIntroducing the BOOK
I can’t believe I came up with this in high school! I was digging around old flash drives and found this. Ironically, I think I captured the tech culture that plagues us today. If you show this to a...
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How to Save the World- The Compassiviste Anthology: Volume One: Visions for...
Cover description provided by the publisher. It has the title "How to Change the World- The Compassiviste Anthology" in white text on a grey background, running vertically down the left-hand side of...
View ArticlePass the Salt
Publisher: Compassiviste Publishing. Online dating is never easy. You’re meeting a complete stranger, and you’re opening yourself up in a way that some of your best friends don’t even get to see. But...
View ArticleTwo new books to buy from me.
Surprise! I have news! I’m publishing something new! Actually, it’s two things. One is a contribution to the anthology How to Save the World. I published a personal essay about my experiences becoming...
View ArticleGetting started with static site generators with a screen reader.
This post took me a very long time to write, so give me money if you like the below post. Additional resources are below the two tutorials. I wanted to make this guide, partially so I can have...
View ArticleRoyalty statement 2023
I’d like to show you how much I made for 2023 on my published books. In short, not so well, but you can read the table below! It’s a good thing I have other books and other writings out now, but still,...
View ArticleMaybe we should SMS again.
A very bizarre thing happened the other day, and, no, we’re not talking about someone donating a billion dollars to me, but that would be pretty sweet. The incident began on Facebook, actually. First...
View ArticleAll 2023 highlights.
I know we are far past 2023, but I wanted to compile everything into one highlight post for the whole year, including Buzz/press, AD highlights, and writing/publishing highlights and more! So enjoy...
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