News and Notices from the Writing Trenches #102…

Item. Taxes. First the EU with its VAT, now Japan with an 8% Consumption Tax. It’s becoming more and more difficult to market ebooks in other countries (all bad-news bulletins from Amazon affecting KDP Select authors). I can’t say I make many sales there (dribs and drabs, but that can describe all my sales), but here’s the thing: many of my stories are international in scope and I think overseas readers would enjoy them as much or more than U.S. readers. I have an international outlook, not a...