You Are Anti-AI Until It Is Amazon’s AI

The indie author community has strong feelings about artificial intelligence. I have watched the debates play out on Threads and Twitter for the better part of two years and the position is pretty consistent: AI-generated writing is a threat to authors. AI art is...

The Algorithm is Not Your Friend. It is Your Landlord

Let me ask you something. If one company controlled 80% of the storefront where you sold your work, set the rules for how your work was displayed, decided who saw it and who didn’t, and could change any of those conditions at any time without asking you — would...
We Built a Bookshop. You Keep Every Dollar.

We Built a Bookshop. You Keep Every Dollar.

I want to tell you something I have been sitting on for a little while.A few months back I tried to reach out to indie authors directly — through DMs, through email — to tell them about a little corner of our website I had been building. A place where they could list...