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Publishing Alternatives

Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing  has benefited many authors, but now many small scale authors are beginning to suffer from Amazon randomly cancelling their accounts. Amazon instead of deleting the accounts of click farm scammers, is removing the publishing accounts accounts of hundreds, maybe thousands of small self-published authors who, at one time or another, actually had a book or two bought by a scammer click-farm account. Some people I know who have had this unfair deletion of their accounts and books by the retailer have despaired and quit writing and publishing altogether.  Despair This causes me sincere frustration and I’ll share with you my reasons why.  Part the First:  Over the past 50 years at least professional publishers worldwide have packaged and sold books by millions of authors in different ways depending on where in the world the sale of the books were made. Book sales areas and pricing were tightly controlled.  Many books available in the USA were not (a
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Thoughts for prospective parents

Don’t treat parenthood as if it were a ‘THING’. Being a parent is a  natural evolving human process  throughout a normal life span. Without people with  intelligence  who are willing to be parents, we will continue to have plenty of children bred by those who are less able, and few or none, by those who are more able. For the survival of our mammal species  we need girls and boys in equal numbers.  Tinker with that quotient at the risk of everyone. Children are people who will remember  often in great detail EVERYTHING YOU DO. They are  not pets , nor are they property or inconvenient baggage. Treat children like this at your peril. Your children need to know what their  basic needs  are: Water, food, shelter, warmth/cooling, companionship. If you don’t  teach your children practical skills , you are letting them down. They need to know how to use tools to make things, get food, re-use things, adapt things to the use they want it for. Your kids need to be able to  grow food

Biological influences on gender and transgender

Gender is a social construct into which feed biological and social factors like: 1.       DNA which may be normal: or not normal. See DSD: disorders of sex development.  University of Michigan Health System 2.      Sexual differentiation: check out embryology of mammals, in particular humans.  Sexual Differentiation 3.      Visible external genitalia and the invisible internal sex organs which may be different again: e.g. Some people are born with testes  and  ovaries. And this is different from the DNA sex.  University of Michigan Health System 4.      Gestational chemistry: was the female infant bathed in testosterone which is thought to stimulate masculinity in behaviour or, alternatively the male infant getting too much of female hormones while developing. These situations occur because of drugs, drinking contaminated water, medication and a host of other reasons. The outcomes are children who feel and behave as if they are the opposite gender without there being any pe

What was my biggest mistake?

I've recently learned that my biggest mistake is that bad habit of not believing someone when they tell me their truth at the beginning of a relationship. Thinking ‘that isn't right’ or ‘I'm sure I can help’ or ‘together we can make it right’ or some such conceit. So: if I had listened to my first husband when he told me his goal was to go mad, then when he threatened suicide: if I'd paid attention and said to myself: do I really really want to have children with this man, given what his goals are? I would have said no, and moved on to have my children with someone healthier and happier. Instead I loved his neediness, his brilliance and creativity and thought I could change his goals. I thought I wouldn't believe him because he might think those things but - surely with me as his wife, that wouldn't necessarily happen, right? Wrong. and it took me a long time to realise that I could do nothing to help this man. Love didn't heal his hurts, intelligenc

I start my day: how does it compare to yours?

Yeah, this may be boring, but here goes... Wake up 6.30am to my two black polydactyl cats running over the bed like elephants and rain. It rains a lot where I live, especially in the spring, Which is the season we have here now. Northern New Zealand, while the rest of the world has water shortages, it's not so likely here so long as we can collect rain from the sky. Get up after reading on Quora.com Here's my profile there and my answers, good and bad  Quora Profile Take my Dragon's Breath! Ha! Essential drinking for anyone over 50: Check out the recipe Go to fitness blender on YouTube and do a half hour of exercise. Today it was stretching.  Fitness Blender: Awesome Then, wake up further by listening  and dancing to a bunch of Lady Gaga songs while I make breakfast which is home made enriched porridge. Yech! why porridge you ask? I've found that after years of eating crud manufactured breakfast foods or toast for breakfast, that oatmeal or millett porridge wit

One small thing

What is one small thing you could say to me to brighten my day? My response   Every day is a day in which you can begin again: with a new attitude: Joy: peace. Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Spirit of America 

Why live past age 50?

Someone asked me on Quora  What's the point of living past the age of 50?   After 50, unless you have a family and / or amassed some assets, what’s the whole point of living? How do people in their 50s feel about their lives, generally? I replied: Anyone aged 50 now stands a good chance of living for double that time. Why quit on life when it’s only half way through? There are amazing breakthroughs in nutrition and exercise and healing which mean that the ailments my grandparents suffered from, I will never suffer from. Ever. There are amazing new people to meet, new challenges every day, amazing things being said on Quora. Over 50 you really don’t care any more about what people think. If you are lucky you have family and friends who care for you and you can spend time with them. If you see someone you like the look of, you can step up to them and say hello. You don’t have to be a wage slave, if you want to start a business online you can. There are even bus