September 15, 2015 
mhoogland 
For today’s blog post I just want to share several short nuggets of information with our followers.
Nugget #1
A cover reveal! Because I know that’s a popular request, and I absolutely love this cover.
FATHER LINCOLN by Alan Manning
Nugget #2
Cause for concern?
I’m referring to an upcoming Authors Guild study on author income coming out this week that everyone in the industry should read, as it affects not only the livelihood of authors, but the wellbeing of the publishing industry as a whole. It’s hard not to wince at the idea of 56% of authors earning below the poverty line in 2014, and the always-contentious standard 25% e-book royalty rate and Amazon’s marketplace dominance are widely believed to be the cause of such an ugly statistic. BUT I would also like to stress that it’s too soon to jump to conclusions without seeing the whole report and being able to identify larger earnings trends. Do things need to change in order for midlist authors to be able to earn a decent living? Yes, almost definitely. And luckily technological innovation is giving us ever more inventive means of distribution, marketing, publicity, etc. Now we just need some sort of study to reveal some jarring statistics that shock us into a conversation about change. Oh wait…
Nugget #3
Gotta love the short fiction on Twitter! Something I alluded to in an earlier blog post.
Common sense has always indicated that writing for money is something you play around with in your spare time while you hold onto your day job. If the sky opens and a cargo plane dumps a mountain of cash on you while you’re doing this, you can refigure, after you pay the taxes and assure your deadbeat friends and long-lost relatives that you’ve in fact been dead these many years and all your money has long since been absorbed by the state. Then THEY can spend their valuable time composing micro-fiction on twitter. At… what’s the going royalty rate for tweet-fiction these days???