I share your 'pain' - we are far from alone in this; I am a paid subscriber to very few substacks (I would be nice to support many more, but in return, many of those don't read mine let alone subscribe or pay. And, if I did sign up to pay you, it would probably wouldn't go through because I'm almost always over my limit on my credit card. YES, we need to publish/sell more, so we need to write more and write better ...
Hi David, if not aware of them yet, you might want to check out two author groups set up exactly for this reason and do a search to see what kinds of solutions people have used to deal with it -- it's happened to lots of folks and there are appeal routes apparently:
Your struggle and victorious storied are so uniquely and impressively conveyed, always. I know little and can afford less. Wishing you a new path my friend and fellow subscriber. Nothing rewarding is ever easy.
Was this an account using a company named after a sprawling forest somewhere in the southern hemisphere?
Perhaps we need to seek solutions other than those offered by Baldy. :)
Selling direct and crowdfunding are just two of them. Note that I didn't say they were easy solutions. :)
I share your 'pain' - we are far from alone in this; I am a paid subscriber to very few substacks (I would be nice to support many more, but in return, many of those don't read mine let alone subscribe or pay. And, if I did sign up to pay you, it would probably wouldn't go through because I'm almost always over my limit on my credit card. YES, we need to publish/sell more, so we need to write more and write better ...
I am so sorry to hear this. Oh no.
I am sorry to hear about this - was it that popular self publishing platform?
That sucks. Hopefully they figure it out. If not Kobo is pretty nice.
ITIDIC? Probably not.
Hi David, if not aware of them yet, you might want to check out two author groups set up exactly for this reason and do a search to see what kinds of solutions people have used to deal with it -- it's happened to lots of folks and there are appeal routes apparently:
Wide for the Win -- https://www.facebook.com/groups/wideforthewin
20booksto50k -- https://www.facebook.com/groups/wideforthewin
As if there's not already enough to deal with, heh? Sorry.
Your struggle and victorious storied are so uniquely and impressively conveyed, always. I know little and can afford less. Wishing you a new path my friend and fellow subscriber. Nothing rewarding is ever easy.
J
We are at the mercy of these wealthy bald people. Draft To Digital (D2D) might be an alternative?
You are perhaps the strangest and funniest author friend I know. That's says a lot! LOL. Thanks for all your interesting posts.