$250 to IAVA and Puppies Behind Bars this a.m.! **$2,500 donated so far!**
That’s 50% of December profits on “A Little Too Broken,” based on a guesstimate of what Lord Bezos will provide as a Kindle Unlimited borrow rate for December – I’m working from the lowest # so far, $1.33, and I have no expectation that it’ll go higher than that (see below). I went ahead and shipped the money out today because, well, TAXES. I need every deduction I can get for 2014. I’ve got no kids. No mortgage. They raised the percentage of your total income you have to expend on health care (from 7% to 10%) before you can deduct any of it. I can deduct tuition, but not insanely expensive textbooks, because I’m not a full time student. So yeah. I see red when I see those “GET YOUR BIGGEST REFUND YET” ads, because I’m the sorry motherfucker who’s paying for all these other people to get their big-ass refunds. Anyway! John Scalzi pointed out something about what I’m thinking of now as [MORE]