Patty Jansen
@pattyjansen.bsky.social
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SFF Writer of 50+ books, Australian, lapsed scientist, bad flute player, eco-warrior, political junkie, often full of swears. Books at http://pattyjansen.com/store/
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Patty Jansen
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· Apr 27
Today 27 April 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
Today when it is pouring rain outside, I mull about what makes books special, which is very difficult to define. For the vast majority of people, the magic doesn’t lie at the sentence level. Good sent...
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· Apr 21
Today 21 April 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
Earnings by authors. Articles like this one that came across my feed today make me angry. You know the routine: a writers organisation reports on a survey of writers. It concludes that authors make [i...
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· Apr 4
Today 4 April 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
As the world turns to dust, I finished narrating another backlist book! Yay! Only two more to go. All shall be revealed in November, which is when the last book covers out of ACX Royalty Share (don’t ...
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· Mar 31
Today 31 March 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
As the world slowly turns to shit, I received another box of books to be sold as signed copies within Australia. I now have at least one copy of the entire Ambassador series. I sell them at $22 each w...
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· Mar 26
Today 26 March 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
Today I want to talk about back matter, because it seems that far too many self-published authors don’t know and understand how super-critically important it is. So what is back matter? Simply put, it...
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· Mar 24
Today 25 March 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
The Ebookaroo newsletter just went out. I also just made live the Kickstarter for Expendable Heroes. It’s available in ebook, audio, paperback and hardcover. Both the paperback and hardcover have colo...
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· Mar 18
Today 18 March 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
Let’s talk about how to give books away. Hang on, I can hear people say, giving books away is easy. People always want free books. Tell me how to sell them instead. Well, yes, yes, and no. Giving away...
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· Mar 16
Today 16 March 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
OK, I’m going to call it: the days of the old indie author model are over. The days of selling purely on Amazon are over. It used to be that you could put up a book, choose KU or wide, advertise a bit...
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· Mar 13
Today 14 March 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
King Charles. Seriously. Every now and then we post something on social media that blows up. It’s never about our books, of course. Seriously, if you’re on social media hoping that a “Buy my book” pos...
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Patty Jansen
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· Mar 12
Today 12 March 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
Sales are crap right now. “It’s the Amazon boycott!” people will say. “People don’t realise they’re not hurting Bezos, they’re hurting us poor indies!” I’m rather ho-humbug about this. Sales are crap ...
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· Mar 10
Today 10 March 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
We had a busy weekend. I didn’t do any writing. I’m kind of at a crossroads with The Doomed Prophet. I had some ideas that will make the book even darker and more satirical, but I feel like writing so...
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· Mar 6
Today 6 March 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
I was working on The Doomed Prophet WIP and had thoughts a long the lines of… This is too over-the-top stupid. No one would actually run a society like this. And then I went to a news site to figure t...
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Patty Jansen
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· Mar 5
Today 5 March 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
Another Ebookaroo was sent out today! In light of *waves hand at political world climate* it might be a good idea to point out that not only am I not in the US (in case you’d missed that fact), but th...
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Patty Jansen
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· Mar 3
Today 3 March 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
Let’s talk about books again. Everyone else is already talking about politics. It’s about finishing things. A few days ago, a writer in my social media feed lamented a lack of sales, that they were do...
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· Feb 28
Today 28 February 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
Boycott. So we’re not supposed to buy anything today, especially not from Amazon. (I don’t actually have a valid Amazon account. I “boycott” Amazon 365 days of the year) I doubt boycotts of this natur...
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Patty Jansen
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· Feb 27
Today 27 February 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
Today I am speechless. Besides plugging a long with the audio (needs to be done by November so I have a lot of time), I’m finding it hard to concentrate. Day after day of deeply disturbing news aimed ...
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· Feb 25
Today 25 February 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
The Ebookaroo went out today. I’ve heard many writers complaining about their sales. Those complaints usually centre around Amazon, and since apparently there are all kinds of actions and boycotts goi...
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· Feb 24
Today 24 February 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
OMG, this video. The level of subtle resistance. Look at how stunned the people in the audience are. They get it. Life imitates fiction. Years ago, I wrote a whole novel based on something similar. He...
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Patty Jansen
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· Feb 21
Today 21 February 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
I finished narrating Fairy Bread*. It’s a ridiculous romp with a good number of hilarious characters. Apart from the main character, the hapless, middle-aged gay widower Perrin and Dorella, who owns t...
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· Feb 19
Today 19 February 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
I’m getting to the end of the audiobook of Fairy Bread and have also put up Iron & Rock for preorder or sale on my website. You will only get the special illustrated edition on my website. On an entir...
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Patty Jansen
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· Feb 18
Today 18 February 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
Apparently we’re talking about book covers again. I’m not sure why some people online get so hot under the collar about everything, but also I deplore the use of inflammatory language (news services h...
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Patty Jansen
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· Feb 15
Today 15 February 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
Apparently there is a big hullaballoo about KDP (Amazon) having drastically reduced the page payout rate for Kindle Unlimited reads. I don’t know. I’m not in Kindle Unlimited with any of my books. The...
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Patty Jansen
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· Feb 13
Today 13 February 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
I’m having a par-tay! I sent out all the Kickstarter rewards! It this was you, then look at your Kickstarter messages. All the info is in there. Pretty books have been sent. The plain versions will go...
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Patty Jansen
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· Feb 11
Today 11 February 2025 - Must Use Bigger Elephants
Impatience. Often you see new writers express their frustration at having no or only one book while someone else has so many. They want to spring fully formed out of the box, and then resort to blamin...
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