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This week, a friend and I had a conversation about how seldom I post sad/bad/ranty things on Facebook. Apparently my life is all epic mountaintop views and book launches. While thats not inaccurate, theres also a lot of crap and frustration in the between. So I promised Id do a ranty, things-I-hate-this-week post for her. Here you go: 1) Dear tourist who kicked me in the shins accidentally the other day and never said sorry: you suck. 2) Dear Amazon: you also suck. In fact, you suck WAY WORSE than that guy who kicked me in the shins. Why? A) Because of how youre blacklisting authors in order to force their publisher to comply with your demands (this, by the way, is like when your four-year-old holds her breath until you give her candy); B) Because you take 70% of my profits on eBooks (I get that you need a cut for use of your platform, but I think 25% would be more than fair since you do absolutely no work on the project); C) Because you convince indie authors, struggling as we may be, to sign something saying that we wont list our books for less money on other sites. Then, you discount our books heavily (while you take so much of our profits) and we cant even match your pricing on our own sites because we signed a thing saying we wouldnt. And so some of our hard-won sales through our own websites go to you because you knocked $5 off the price and you still make more than we do on the thing we created, marketed, and sold. D) Because writing this makes me nervous because youve monopolized the book industry and being blacklisted by you is hurting authors more than the fact that youre basically robbing them blind. 3) Dear customer service rep from last week: if you dont understand the question or problem, ask a clarifying question. Do not keep repeating your not-at-all-related-to-the-problem scripted response. If you cant understand after I explain three times, pass me on to your supervisor, thanks. 4) Also, creating a new business is hard. Being a self-employed writer, hard. Its absolutely what I want to do with my life, but its also really, really exhausting sometimes. Just so you know. End rant. I need wine.

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