Cupid Bow Mouth

Three books behind on this year's Reading Challenge that, if I'm honest, has everything to do with the way I'm mood reading my way through life these days. Bookmarks (of the chaotic kind) live in three things that I'm moving through regularly and three other things that are on the back burner but that I'm still picking at.

The sum of which means that I haven't finishing anything and I'm three books behind on #goals.

1. My Heart is a Chainsaw - Stephen Graham Jones
2. Gallant - V.E. Schwab
3. The Searcher - Tana French
4. The World That We Know - Alice Hoffman
5. Unlock Your Storybook Heart
6. A Song of Fire and Ice - George R.R. Martin

And then there's the things that are just kind of floating:

7. Caste - Isabel Wilkerson
8. Salem's Lot - Stephen King

I am a mood reader and all over the place. And because I am writing and chasing aesthetics, I re-read a passage or two of Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia and Daughter of Hounds by Caitlin R. Kiernan before I get started. I've added in Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth for parts of the novel because I'm also studying how body horror and dread work. It's a job of work on top of work. But I love it and it continues and the finish line is so close I can taste it.

Tuesdays and Wednesdays are job hunting days.

Not to put the totally wrong energy out there ... but ... well ... I can't stand job hunting.

I will stay at a place for years and years so long as there's new things to learn and I enjoy what I do. That was the case for most of the last seven years, to be honest. I had not yet gotten bored with my job. Plus, I have the added bonus of having an incredible manager.

Alas, my company is ... doing things ... they say they aren't selling but all signs point to yes. Layoffs, not replacing almost anyone, very little investment in any true improvements, overloading a single department with like, ALL, the processes.

It's frustrating and annoying, plus they are restructuring and I'm not interested in the addition of collections into my daily job duties which means that I have to find an elsewhere to be.

UGH. I would rather be writing.

Like, seriously.

So, I've committed to three applications, minimum per week. Focused searching on Tuesday and Wednesday and maybe (most probably) Sunday. That means that Monday and Thursday - Saturday, I can write my little heart out. The novel is coming along so well and I really like where it's going and I am going to have it finished before this summer.

Goals -- if I could drum up $20K per year in net sales, I could take a reduced role at another company. Something very truly 9-5 and just write and write and write. Working on manifesting that. $20K minimum in net book sales! We can do that, can't we?! YES WE CAN! But first the book. The book that is nearly there and then I can start the next book in July.

In the meantime, tomorrow, we write.

From kita0610
According to fyeahcopyright, the AO3 fic have been taken down, but there are quite a few published authors and I don't think that's cool. Sure, money can be tight, and you wanna read books, but that's what the LIBRARY is for. So, I'm going to post this again, just to get the word a little further out ...

FROM fyeahcopyright:

We’ve been getting pings and @’s all morning about ebooks-tree.com who seem to be scraping/taking stories off of AO3 and hosting them as PDFs and mobi downloads on their site; the site seems to be pulling from UrBookLibrary as well. They’re not reading your “do not copy/duplicate” notes on your AO3 fic; their bots are pulling things directly from AO3, without AO3′s authorization or assent. It looks like they are pulling from Wattpad too, again without authorization or assent.

While the Ebooks-Tree DMCA page seems to imply that you need a lawyer or other “authorized person” to submit a takedown notice, you don’t; you can do it yourself.

As we’ve posted before, fanfic writers hold copyright in their stories, although not in lines/quotes from the works they’ve been inspired by, and because of that, fanfic writers can submit DMCA takedown notices, or have someone do it on their behalf. While this post isn’t legal advice (none of our posts on FYC are), you might want to consider using this template (well, the bolded bits) in telling ebooks-tree to take down your content:

Your Name and/or Pseudonym as an e-signature (or the name of the person you’ve authorized to submit this request, with a slash before it and after it):
Link(s) to the unauthorized works (link to the pdf, the mobi and the page hosting all of it):
Link(s) to an authorized version of your work (whether on AO3, tumblr, LJ or somewhere else):
An email address of the submitter (include it again even if it’s in the header):
This statement: I have good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law.
This statement: The information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.
That’s it - that’s all they need to know - you can submit all the info via http://www.ebooks-tree.com/info.php?contacts with DMCA Complaint in the subject; you may wish to submit the same content to Google or to BING.

(Fwiw, even though they claim that they comply with the Copyright Act, they aren’t compliant with the DMCA Safe Harbor rules, as they aren’t listed on the copyright.gov list of agents.)

You can also submit a complaint about ebooks-tree to CloudFlare, who hosts the site. Their DMCA page is at https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form - as a matter of law you do not need to include the legal name of the copyright claimant/the fanfic writer, but you should include the pseudonym that the fic was posted under if you don’t want to include a legal name or address.

Above copied from here:
http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/116305027604/transformativeworks-fyeahcopyright-weve