So You Wrote A Good Book and Don't Want to Starve to Death
I am an independent publisher. I have no secondary income, I have no one supporting me, I have no investors, I had no “seed money”, I have no


Who are they and what do they want?
Start with a name and a job here: https://perchance.org/4tpvv57r56 1-2. Very boring, exactly as they appear 3-4. Has a hobby (see table 2)


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Troika Weather
There are exactly six kinds of weather recognised by Troikan astrologers: Dreadful Hot Weather Delicious Weather Sad Sloppy Weather Windy Weather


A Coat Under Glass
I looked at the Old Internet today. The world as-it-is produces a profound repulsion (in the magnetic sense) pushing you away and awhen, making such


RPBourgeoisie
It’s that time of year again, three months since the last crowdfunding campaign. I’m listening to Creeping of the Gods by The Intangible. It doesn’t


Make a system every six months
Advice from the pros. My business doesn’t hurt me, honest. It’s one of three things that keep me sane. This is the


Do Not Invest In The Future
Whatever you do, do not invest in the future. As a publisher, you must go and find someone who is too sensible to engage in Kickstarters or handling


An Ounce of Frustration
When you stop to look at this business you might struggle not to panic. All the young prospective publishers, and people looking to leave a job


Time To Be Sticky
Business is a brutality to creative work. The apple tree has to hike up its roots to walk itself to market to sell the apples; the pig walks to the


Only Kickstarter
Times have changed since the pandemic ‘ended’. Before then, everyone felt confident and rich, during it people were scared and bored, after it


Why Try Just Die
It is self evident that being poor is expensive, and also that this can be applied quite broadly. The process of not being time poor, energy poor,


Love me love you
What is the feeling of finishing a book/film/series? Post partum depression? Separation anxiety? Le petite morte? Plain grief? Pain at the loss raw


How to make PDFs accessible
There is nothing the roleplaying book industry loves more than a good oxymoron. Concerns over accessible PDFs, for example, have been batted around


How to be a Writer
Pay for things. Including: Warehousing (separate fulfilment and storage locations because they both work on different cost structures) Editing


All my friends are winners
You silly sillies threw chum (made books that are sincere and resonate) in the water (the rpg industry) and now the sharks (companies that don’t


Is it now? Is this the time? When you just be?
Change this, don’t add that, remove that Oxford comma, you problematic bitch. What if you just were. No refiners fires. No posh pricks with a hunger


Mines a bitter
Imagine you and I are in a pub having lunch, talking about the things we care about. We’re in the middle of the room so people often walk past and


How to review reviews of roleplaying games
Go down the list. The first thing that appears determines their review review score. 0/10 if they talk about: Page count Cost The absence or


Audience of Zero
“Seek zero audience” is a mantra, used shakily at first but eventually wholeheartedly taken up after. For every kind, observant, critical,


Belly Talking Goes
Synchronicity continues to pile up. Think with the gut, the passage of the gut, katabolism/anabolism, belly talk, death wailers, direct divinity,


Happy Little Games
I’m not an educator, if anything quite the opposite, but if I were learning how to play roleplaying games I would want a step by step quided lesson


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Spoil
Anna von Hausswolff Swans Fever Ray Godspeed you black emperor Sun Kil Moon Hawkwind Mort Garson Book of the New Sun Viriconium Mount Analogue The


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A way to do horror games
If, as a GM, you approach horror by pushing towards it you will misdirect tension, the uncontrolled point will divert. You must pull. Think of


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Pseudo-Homer Climbs the Tree
1.If objective reality cannot be confirmed then one must behave as though it was. 2.Game is Ritual with ritualistic aspirations to numinous ascent,


Pdfs and the halving of the soul
Pdfs are not books. A picture of a cat is no more a pet than it is a piece of garden furniture. While I don’t begrudge people buying their postcards


A cure for kindness
Kindness in tension, fear of slack, jealousy of a bad bitch, our gardens are far apart


Homeric Games
Roleplaying games are too concerned with community, customers, with being in conversation with gross matter. They do not stand apart but rather