The Redemption 3 slow down, the reason
When I get worried about something, everything I do creatively slows to a crawl. The latest worry is tax withholdings by Amazon's KDP. I have managed to get enough sales to warrant a cheque in the mail, but if I don't act quickly, I lose 30% of my royalties to the IRS. I don't like that. I am not a US citizen and the IRS has no right to my money, but yet I must jump through their legal paper hoops (all of which are designed to give paper cuts that bleed you to financial death) to get a personal tax number. And Amazon isn't helping me avoid the paper cuts.
This morning I researched tax withholding on royalties. Kindle Direct Publishing will not issue the supporting document to successfully apply for a TTIN (a personal tax number). This means I must either file a tax return at the end of next fiscal season to reclaim the 30% KDP withheld for the IRS (and also get taxed by my Canadian government at the same time) or I push enough sales on Smashwords to reach 10$ royalties. I'd prefer the latter. Smashwords will provide supporting documents if my royalties reach 10$.
In order to accomplish this, I need something to sell other than The Beast in Beauty. Beast is not suitable for all market distributions, considering the current climate with credit card execs deciding what constitutes publishable fiction. I can't put The Soulstone Chronicles on Smashwords because I can't get a rep to clarify their content rules enough to let me know if the difficulties my under-aged characters face are allowed in books not designated as erotica. I did query, but was ignored. No rep contacted me after my query, nor did I even get an acknowledgement that I made a query. I am either being treated as a crank not worth responding to, or once again a publishing house has let me down with poor support.
So that leaves me with an urgent need to have something on Smashwords that can sell easily, something without beasts or under-aged readers struggling to overcome the problems of their society and the dangers threatening their particular family. That means toeing the line and writing "acceptable" subject matter.
Well, it's still gonna be gay fic.
I do have something started, years ago already, that is promising. I think I will concentrate on it for a little and get it up on Smashwords ASAP. I need 10$ in royalties before frickin' Amazon sends that cheque. I may not get through the paper hoops with the IRS in time for the first cheque, but I hope to do it before the end of the fiscal tax year.
That or I must file a tax return with the IRS. I wonder how hard that will be. I worry that Amazon won't send me the necessary docs to get even that done.
I suppose I have to research more on it, but I may wait a day. I've had a spike in the eye headache since last night.
I must have known I'd be researching taxes before I thought to do it.
This morning I researched tax withholding on royalties. Kindle Direct Publishing will not issue the supporting document to successfully apply for a TTIN (a personal tax number). This means I must either file a tax return at the end of next fiscal season to reclaim the 30% KDP withheld for the IRS (and also get taxed by my Canadian government at the same time) or I push enough sales on Smashwords to reach 10$ royalties. I'd prefer the latter. Smashwords will provide supporting documents if my royalties reach 10$.
In order to accomplish this, I need something to sell other than The Beast in Beauty. Beast is not suitable for all market distributions, considering the current climate with credit card execs deciding what constitutes publishable fiction. I can't put The Soulstone Chronicles on Smashwords because I can't get a rep to clarify their content rules enough to let me know if the difficulties my under-aged characters face are allowed in books not designated as erotica. I did query, but was ignored. No rep contacted me after my query, nor did I even get an acknowledgement that I made a query. I am either being treated as a crank not worth responding to, or once again a publishing house has let me down with poor support.
So that leaves me with an urgent need to have something on Smashwords that can sell easily, something without beasts or under-aged readers struggling to overcome the problems of their society and the dangers threatening their particular family. That means toeing the line and writing "acceptable" subject matter.
Well, it's still gonna be gay fic.
I do have something started, years ago already, that is promising. I think I will concentrate on it for a little and get it up on Smashwords ASAP. I need 10$ in royalties before frickin' Amazon sends that cheque. I may not get through the paper hoops with the IRS in time for the first cheque, but I hope to do it before the end of the fiscal tax year.
That or I must file a tax return with the IRS. I wonder how hard that will be. I worry that Amazon won't send me the necessary docs to get even that done.
I suppose I have to research more on it, but I may wait a day. I've had a spike in the eye headache since last night.
I must have known I'd be researching taxes before I thought to do it.
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