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Royalties are not operating capital. Royalties should never be touched.
Every small/indie press implosion I've witnessed in the last twenty years (far too fucking many) has stemmed from publishers using royalties as operating capital, then defaulting on royalties and defrauding the authors.
Definitely not behavior to encourage.
Atthis Arts, a family owned and operated press, is doing a fund drive to cover unsexy things like operating costs, and sexier things like publicity and new projects.
Atthis Arts has published a lot of great work.1 Last year’s lineup included Embroidered Worlds: Fantastic Fiction From Ukraine and the Diaspora, Rosalind’s Siblings, and Pluralities. Coming soon is work like Heretic, the conclusion of Gregory A. Wilson’s Gray Assassin trilogy, and a translation of The Factory, a novel by Igor Mysiak, who was killed in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Independent presses like Atthis Arts do a lot with very little. Take them away and the literary space becomes much less varied and vital.
Atthis Arts is trying to get to $15,000 on a GoFundMe campaign. Check out the April Rally page for more information on other ways to help.
https://aphowell.com/2024/04/22/small-press-fund-drive/
#atthisArts #eDEBell #embroideredWorlds #fantasy #fiction #fundDrive #fundraiser #gregoryAWilson #igorMysiak #inclusiveFiction #indiePress #pluralities #queerFiction #rosalindSSiblings #scienceFiction #smallPress #translation
Look what arrived!
Love the cover design. And the cover has an interesting almost soft touch feel to it - maybe from the independent printers?
Very good work, so happy to have backed this project and with what I've received. Thanks to everyone at Atthis Arts and all who worked on bringing this to life.
And of course, thanks to all the writers for providing their works!
Слава Україні!
Received my two copies of Embroidered Worlds! I cannot wait to start reading these stories this weekend! 
https://www.atthisarts.com/product/embroidered-worlds/
#EmbroideredWorlds #AtthisArts #UkrainianAuthors #UkranianStories
Today is LAUNCH DAY for an anthology I edited!
#RosalindsSiblings: Fiction and Poetry Celebrating Scientists of Marginalized Genders.
The Rosalind Franklin memorial anthology!
ToC + direct purchase from publisher:
https://www.atthisarts.com/product/rosalinds-siblings/
#SFF #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Anthology #Science #SciComm #RosalindFranklin #QueerBooks #Feminism #AtthisArts @bookstodon @shortsff @shortstory #Bookstodon #Books #SpeculativeFiction #SpeculativePoetry #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity
Worked on Rosalind's Siblings stuff a good chunk of the day!
Getting closer to publication....
Preorders this way, from @atthisarts -
https://www.atthisarts.com/product/rosalinds-siblings/
#RosalindsSiblings #ScienceFiction #Science #SciComm #Poetry #ShortStories #PoetryCommunity #Bookstodon @bookstodon @shortsff #Anthology #AtthisArts
On the anniversary of a minor personal publishing milestone. #AtthisArts #anthology
https://aphowell.com/2023/05/04/this-anthology-is-now-a-toddler/
Ok, this is all the Emily show, you know that. (A joke about my tired self but also sarcastic, because obviously everything about this is community.) But seriously, I am so tired of typing and finding more ways to tell people about these cool treasures, that I decided to just try saying it. Behold: I show you treasures. If you'd like to add any of these, you can until the campaign ends! And if you have any questions at all about how this works, or what do I pledge to get x, etc, just message me. I'll be here. ♥, - Emily.
Ok, this is all the Emily show, you know that. (A joke about my tired self but also sarcastic, because obviously everything about this is community.) But seriously, I am so tired of typing and finding more ways to tell people about these cool treasures, that I decided to just try saying it. Behold: I show you treasures. If you'd like to add any of these, you can until the campaign ends! And if you have any questions at all about how this works, or what do I pledge to get x, etc, just message me. I'll be here. ♥, - Emily.
Ok, this is all the Emily show, you know that. (A joke about my tired self but also sarcastic, because obviously everything about this is community.) But seriously, I am so tired of typing and finding more ways to tell people about these cool treasures, that I decided to just try saying it. Behold: I show you treasures. If you'd like to add any of these, you can until the campaign ends! And if you have any questions at all about how this works, or what do I pledge to get x, etc, just message me. I'll be here. ♥, - Emily.
azteclady
A. P. Howell
Matthew
Leonieke
Bogi Takács
A. P. Howell
E.D.E. Bell