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the corlew always rings chris
@thecorlew.bsky.social
writer | musician | co-host, The Line Break podcast | fiction reader, Cotton Xenomorph | 1/2 Lazy & Entitled | basketball junkie | Chicago Over Everything | exhausted dad | he/him

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here’s another one. The point isn’t that I think people reading books by whatever means is bad. But I think encouraging people to steal books is bad for authors

www.storiesfromvine.com
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Vine is a series of texts discovered in the mountains of East Tennessee. Like the Holy Bible, it is a codex of 66 stories. Efforts to track down its author or authors—“Editor” in the text—were unsucce...
www.storiesfromvine.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:36 AM
here’s a book I cowrote that I put on the internet for free

www.lazyandentitled.org?p=162657621
Chapter 1 – Lazy & Entitled
www.lazyandentitled.org
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 AM
that is a wonderful practice! That’s different from pirating tho
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
seriously this whole website hates AI but all of the sudden it’s racist and classist to ask that an indie author and press get $17
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
we are talking about different things then
November 26, 2025 at 1:29 AM
I haven’t heard about this, I am talking about small press authors being paid they meager sums they are owed
November 26, 2025 at 1:26 AM
don’t bad faith read my shit
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
libraries exist and are cool

also I’m poor
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
yeah libraries exist and are cool
November 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I am very okay with libraries! Libraries also help authors!
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I just think libraries are cool too
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
lmao at first I read this as you saying people weren’t listening to the L&E podcast and I was like I KNOW HAN DAMN
November 25, 2025 at 11:37 PM
if we ever start Lazy & Entitled Books I promise @bnothing.bsky.social and I would do all we could to relentlessly promote yr book, get people to purchase it, or eat the cost ourselves and still pay you if we gave it away
November 25, 2025 at 11:33 PM
also I’m glad my wife and I are not the only ones who want a Kill Bill 3
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
@renbolger.bsky.social and @hanvanderhart.bsky.social talk about their day jobs

AINT NO MONEY IN PUBLISHING YR OWN BOOKS OR STARTING A PRESS

IT’S LOVE OF ART AND BELIEF IN THE WORK

THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS PAY $17 FOR A BOOK
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
listen to the @emmdubb16.bsky.social episode where they talk about hustling for grants

listen to the @neonpajamas.bsky.social episode where he talks about working in a library

listen to the @thelincoln.bsky.social episode where he talks about how many different jobs he does
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
the ICE agent’s family does not love him, and he knows he deserves shame

OR

the ICE agent’s family is proud of him, and he knows that if they are proud of him, that means they are bad people being fed lies
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM