Terri DelCampo's Patreon plans - week one

 

How are you today, my awesome readers?

It's been an exciting week for me and I've learned a lot – about Patreon, about publishing. Patreon in different than other platforms I've published on – it combines publishing with promoting which is demanding and fun all at the same time. 

Demanding in that you do all the work at once – writing, posting, and then figuring out ways to catch the eyes of readers looking for what I've got.  I know you're out there! Pick a tier and sign up! Put a little ooky on your lunch menu. Find a kid story to read to your little. Read an essay about a topic we both have opinions about.

If you don't see anything that floats your boat, drop me a comment and I'll see what I can do because Patreon is all about you and what you want to read. 

So far I have thirty pieces published on Patreon, and I'm adding to them every day. I've been popping new stories/essays/poems up every day since my launch trying to get cool stuff in front of your eyeballs. 

I'm already tweaking the hell out of my Patreon Plans –

I was only going to have one tier with everything on it, but I now have four – Kid's stuff ($3/month), horror stories ($3.25/month), non-fiction & poetry ($3.75/month), and a combo that has everything ($10/month).  I did that because I wanted to create a tier that would separate my children's stories from everything else. And I took into consideration that people looking for horror stories might not care about my personal essays – thus, three separate tiers and one big ol' pile of everything. 

Another idea I tweaked was publishing on Fridays. I decided to expand on that.  I'm putting up stuff every day.  I planned to put a piece up from each of my niches every week – and that's still my plan, but I'm going to put one or two things up a day. 

Then there is Freebie Friday when I put up a piece or two for free. 

Now I need to get some attention! So check out the stuff I have up – some is for free just to give you samples of my work. Come on, everybody! Broken Old Broad writing here!

Drop me a line! Eyeball my page and subscribe – it's like watering a story tree. Come read under it!

For those of you who read this blog regularly, I'm changing its name from Pause for Thought to Broken Old Broad Blog to make it more easily found. I hope you like it! 

Have a great week!

Ter

What Publishing Platform Protects Writers the Best?

 

Broken Old Broad Writes

What Publishing Platform Protects Writers the Best?

Don't want to get cloned and ripped off again. 

 

Jeez, it's been a long time since I posted on my blog. I am shopping around for a new publishing platform because not only did Medium change their Terms of Service contract to further exploit their authors (which boggles the mind, because we were already groveling for claps and pennies), but the entire site was recently cloned, which means that in China and Russia and other countries where copyrights mean nothing, our material is being scrubbed of our bylines and used without our permissions – aka pirated.

So in my search for a new home for my somewhat large body of work, I am interested in knowing how well protected each of the sites I'm considering actually are.

I am not all that computer savvy – nor am I well-versed in tech-speak. I just want a general comparison about how much one site protects their material as opposed to others.

And also, I know there isn't much recourse when pursuing pirates in countries that don't cooperate, but how responsible can I hold publishing platforms for the loss of my copyrighted material?

I'm sure Medium is receiving a deluge of questions from irate writers because the entire site was scraped and cloned. Every single publication. How much protection is available for writers, and do individual publications, like "The Atlantic" have more protection from their own end? 

Before I choose a publishing platform, I want to find out about this.

I would appreciate answers from various tech support departments of the platforms I'm considering, and if anyone else wants to chime in and tell me why theirs is better, I'm all ears. 

Thank you!

 

 

US Democracy in Jeopardy

The Russians landed planes and troops in Venezuela on Monday, March 25^th, 2019. They received a 'rebuke' from the United States.   Venezuela is about 1700 miles from Florida. The range for an ICBM is 5000 miles. 

And the President of the United States does virtually nothing.

When the Russians planted missiles in Cuba in 1962, President Kennedy recognized the threat to our national security and did more than 'rebuke' Krushchev. He stood toe to toe with him for 13 days until Russia removed the damned missiles. 

Does anyone realize the nuclear threat here? The threat of invasion? Does anyone care that the Trump administration has apparently sold out our democracy?

And where the hell is the media? The only reports I see about this act of aggression are from the BBC and the Wall Street Journal.

We don't need the Mueller report; we only need to open our eyes. Trump is setting our country up for his Kleptocracy, with Russian backing.  It's obvious. It's imminent. What the hell happened to the United States making the world safe for democracy? What happened to making our country safe for democracy? Apparently Americans are too busy squabbling to open their eyes and see the evidence of collusion.  No loyal American president would allow Russia to invade Venezuela, so close to the US. 

Wake the hell up, Americans. All the rest of Trump's crimes pale in comparison to this treason. And many of those crimes are tied to it. He's been beholden to Russia for decades.  And he proved that when he kissed Putin's ass in front of the whole world in Helsinki. 

Trump belongs to the Russian mob, which controls the Russian government. And he is taking over our country with their help. They bailed him out of bankruptcy in the late 1980s, and because of that we now have a compromised president who is selling out our democracy. We have a crime syndicate in the White House posing as our government.

Read:

"House of Trump, House of Putin" by Craig Unger

"View from Flyover Country" by Sarah Kendzior

What if I told you... fake news

What if I told you that "Fake News" is a propaganda campaign dreamed up by Robert Mercer who was hired by Trump to confuse Americans and distract them from legitimate investigative journalism exposing Trump's criminal and immoral past? 

No caging babies!!!! WTF is wrong with the US?

Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions and the entire US is responsible for this and it's inhuman!  Anyone who supports this is a piece of rancid shit. 

Obama VS the current Fake POTUS

There was a post about the Republicans shutting down Obama at every turn, and lying about him constantly.  And then it went on to say that the author of the post would treat Trump the same way and I realized I agreed with every word, because I have been reading about Trump and his entire family from journalists and writers who supply our country with facts and always have. Who have Pulitzer prizes and journalistic awards for their objectivity, honesty, dignity, and integrity.  I've come to the conclusion that Trump shouts fake news at the top of his lungs because he has never had any of those qualities - they are not in his narcisstic nature, and neither was he reared with them.  Here is my reply to that post: 

Obama had more American ethic and class under his fingernails than the entire Trump family has, all the way back to the immigrant grandparents who were racist swindlers right from their arrival. Trump is a filthy smudge in the history books, hopefully a small one. 

And for all you Trump supporters and Obama detractors, read a book once in awhile instead of right wing blogs masquerading as news sources. Start with this one by Pulitzer Prize-winning David Cay Johnston:  "It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America."  I'm not even half through it and I want to throw up.  And just for the record, I don't really care who agrees with me.  Trump's campaign was propaganda and filled with lies. He distracted everyone with his opponent's flaws conveniently omitting the fact that he committed the same crimes, and many, many worse crimes all through his past and present.  His administration continuously violates the emolument clauses of the constitution.  He's turned the presidency of the United States into a racket, and he's snookered the American people into believing that reliable, ethical news sources are fake. 

The only fake thing in this country is Trump.  He's a thief.  He steals from average Americans - there are court orders and public records to prove it.  He's a liar - he's used illegal immigrants in the construction of his buildings because they would work under any conditions (he didn't supply safety equipment) because they couldn't complain - and then he stiffed them their $4 an hour pay because he could get away with it. 

He is a piece of garbage who abuses his presidential powers at every turn. He does nothing that isn't self-serving.  He is rich, white, racist, hateful, petty, vengeful,  piece of trash and a disgrace to the human race.  And as soon as I'm finished posting this, I will Tweet it directly to him. See if he calls me a liar and watch me shut him down with the facts.

What if I told you...