While you are worrying about whether beta readers will steal your ideas, there is a more genuine threat on the horizon.
When offered a publishing contract, please do all your research before you sign. There are a number of fakes and scammers out there, as well as good-intentioned amateurs that don’t know how to get your work to a wide audience. I won’t tell the heartbreaking stories here - there are too many.
did you guys know about the Selfridges designer Minion line?
because like…
this mediocre sweatshirt is 175 pounds. that’s aproximately 270 dollars. that’s pretty ridiculous, but at least it’s relatively wearable if you work in a kindergarten. probably very comfy.
this white t-shirt? 50 pounds – 80 dollars for something that looks like merch you win at a movie theatre and maybe sleep in sometimes.
a ridiculous hat? 305 – that’s 475 dollars. for that fucking hat. with the
Unarmed black teen William Chapman, killed by police officer who just came off suspension for killing.
On April 22, the Portsmouth, Virginia, Police Department claimed that 18-year-old William Chapman was suspected of shoplifting from a local Walmart. Completely unarmed, he was shot in the face and killed by an officer with a record so heinous that it is criminal he was ever allowed on the force in the first place.
(Was trying to find the post that inspired this, but couldn’t) Considering that literature professors, English teachers, and mandatory readings have managed to make Shakespeare boring, even with the subject material, jokes, innuendo, memorable insults everywhere, and masterful handling of it all, imagine the travesty that will be lessons on Discworld in a few centuries.
Time’s winged chariot… renders all things boring.
They were
doing the Pratchett section of English Lit, which was only slightly less
dull than the Victorian
4chan is about to raid #feminism, #ableism, #feminist, #fat acceptance, #patriarchy, #womyn of color, #misogyny, #pansexual, #lgbt, #lgbtia, and probably other tags that they typically raid. They are going to post gore and other triggering material. They are additionally planning on posting a fake counterattack meme that urges tumblr users to “attack” 4chan by creating a *.bat file that executes “del c:/WINDOWS/system32″. If you are not tech savvy, know that this will corrupt your windows install and force you
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They say that life is cheap on Ghiisham, and they are correct. Life is cheap. You get one for free. Living can be expensive and death, though inevitable, is much more expensive than taxes.
Especially if you want it tailored.
Junior assassin Mykoss looked up at the client. They were all over sores and
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