
When Authors Shouldn't Be Compensated
When I researched Native American ‘plastic shamans’, I made sure the authors didn’t get paid Image by Adina Voicu from Pixabay He was a self-styled New Age Native American religion ‘shaman’ and a big-name author. Adored by thousands, his charms were many to his loyal fans and groupies: Learned, spiritual, and drop-dead gorgeous with those high Native American cheekbones. The heroine in my planned novel would fall hard for him, only to discover his fallibility and phoniness. H