E.H. Demeter, Author

E. H. Demeter is the mother of two wacky kiddos, and she's married to the love of her life. She lives in South Carolina, where she loves to hate the heat and miss the rain. She can almost always be found with her nose in a book and a notebook on her person. She writes in every free moment she has, and she's been writing for as long as she can remember. It's truly her passion, and she fuels it to the best of her ability.

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Bethda Promenade

A staple of Bethda Lane, this cheerful promenade is here to welcome all traveling along route 33. The quaint Star Valley Motel will provide respite for the night, sims can get their laundry done at the Bethda Laundromat, and of course, spend a fun evening out at Kandy Floss Karaoke. CC Free.

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Underlined PSA

Figment, the recently closed writing website, has just launched (after a long delay) their long-awaited successor to figment known as Underlined, where users can post their work and receive feedback, supposedly.

DO NOT USE UNDERLINED. DO NOT POST YOUR WORK ON UNDERLINED.

Underlined’s terms and conditions contains a clause stating that the rights to all your work that you post on their website belongs to them!!!!

Underlined belongs to Penguin Random House. This is an extremely dirty trick for them to play on writers, especially young writers and children, who come to the internet to get feedback and will lose the rights to their work. Please boost!!!

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For my writing friends looking for an online writing community, DO NOT USE Underlined. 

I went to confirm @greater-than-the-sword‘s post, because seriously publishers are still pulling this garbage?  And yes, they are.  If you want to check out the full terms and conditions, have at it.  They are full of writers’ nightmares, a few of which I’ll highlight under the cut.

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Welcome to Selvadorada - Vacation World Makeover

I love this tropical world. It’s closer to the sort of vacation I would go on rather then to a mountainous retreat with lots of pine trees (they really aren’t a thing here in Australia, just flammable Eucalyptus). I have already made over the larger community lot which was in desperate need of attention, and now I have completed the remaining lots (minus the park at the bottom left). This style, a mixture of Mission and vibrant Spanish influences was so far out of my comfort zone I was afraid even GPS wouldn’t guide me back. However I managed to get more comfortable with the style and kept on building and the end result is what you see here, something I am incredibly proud of. Hopefully you all enjoy it as me as me.

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TS4-Cats and Dogs game mesh recolor

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Raven Legacy Gen 2 House

Another house I should’ve posted ages ago! Just like the previous one, this isn’t the exact same house I had used in gen 2, it got a slight update. And again, I would change a bunch of things today, but I didn’t. Pictures of the interior under the cut this time!

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Feel free to do whatever you want with this house but don’t claim it as your own

Maybe let me know if you use it? I’d love to see your pictures! Just tag me or something, I’m curious.

Download at the gallery - my Origin ID is veronika2212

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I’ve decided to tell you guys a story about piracy.

I didn’t think I had much to add to the piracy commentary I made yesterday, but after seeing some of the replies to it, I decided it’s time for this story.

Here are a few things we should get clear before I go on:

1) This is a U.S. centered discussion. Not because I value my non U.S. readers any less, but because I am published with a U.S. publisher first, who then sells my rights elsewhere. This means that the fate of my books, good or bad, is largely decided on U.S. turf, through U.S. sales to readers and libraries.

2) This is not a conversation about whether or not artists deserve to get money for art, or whether or not you think I in particular, as a flawed human, deserve money. It is only about how piracy affects a book’s fate at the publishing house. 

3) It is also not a conversation about book prices, or publishing costs, or what is a fair price for art, though it is worthwhile to remember that every copy of a blockbuster sold means that the publishing house can publish new and niche voices. Publishing can’t afford to publish the new and midlist voices without the James Pattersons selling well. 

It is only about two statements that I saw go by: 

1) piracy doesn’t hurt publishing. 

2) someone who pirates the book was never going to buy it anyway, so it’s not a lost sale.

Now, with those statements in mind, here’s the story.

It’s the story of a novel called The Raven King, the fourth installment in a planned four book series. All three of its predecessors hit the bestseller list. Book three, however, faltered in strange ways. The print copies sold just as well as before, landing it on the list, but the e-copies dropped precipitously. 

Now, series are a strange and dangerous thing in publishing. They’re usually games of diminishing returns, for logical reasons: folks buy the first book, like it, maybe buy the second, lose interest. The number of folks who try the first will always be more than the number of folks who make it to the third or fourth. Sometimes this change in numbers is so extreme that publishers cancel the rest of the series, which you may have experienced as a reader — beginning a series only to have the release date of the next book get pushed off and pushed off again before it merely dies quietly in a corner somewhere by the flies.

So I expected to see a sales drop in book three, Blue Lily, Lily Blue, but as my readers are historically evenly split across the formats, I expected it to see the cut balanced across both formats. This was absolutely not true. Where were all the e-readers going? Articles online had headlines like PEOPLE NO LONGER ENJOY READING EBOOKS IT SEEMS.

Really?

There was another new phenomenon with Blue Lily, Lily Blue, too — one that started before it was published. Like many novels, it was available to early reviewers and booksellers in advanced form (ARCs: advanced reader copies). Traditionally these have been cheaply printed paperback versions of the book. Recently, e-ARCs have become common, available on locked sites from publishers. 

BLLB’s e-arc escaped the site, made it to the internet, and began circulating busily among fans long before the book had even hit shelves. Piracy is a thing authors have been told to live with, it’s not hurting you, it’s like the mites in your pillow, and so I didn’t think too hard about it until I got that royalty statement with BLLB’s e-sales cut in half. 

Strange, I thought. Particularly as it seemed on the internet and at my booming real-life book tours that interest in the Raven Cycle in general was growing, not shrinking. Meanwhile, floating about in the forums and on Tumblr as a creator, it was not difficult to see fans sharing the pdfs of the books back and forth. For awhile, I paid for a service that went through piracy sites and took down illegal pdfs, but it was pointless. There were too many. And as long as even one was left up, that was all that was needed for sharing. 

I asked my publisher to make sure there were no e-ARCs available of book four, the Raven King, explaining that I felt piracy was a real issue with this series in a way it hadn’t been for any of my others. They replied with the old adage that piracy didn’t really do anything, but yes, they’d make sure there was no e-ARCs if that made me happy. 

Then they told me that they were cutting the print run of The Raven King to less than half of the print run for Blue Lily, Lily Blue. No hard feelings, understand, they told me, it’s just that the sales for Blue Lily didn’t justify printing any more copies. The series was in decline, they were so proud of me, it had 19 starred reviews from pro journals and was the most starred YA series ever written, but that just didn’t equal sales. They still loved me.

This, my friends, is a real world consequence.

This is also where people usually step in and say, but that’s not piracy’s fault. You just said series naturally declined, and you just were a victim of bad marketing or bad covers or readers just actually don’t like you that much.

Hold that thought. 

I was intent on proving that piracy had affected the Raven Cycle, and so I began to work with one of my brothers on a plan. It was impossible to take down every illegal pdf; I’d already seen that. So we were going to do the opposite. We created a pdf of the Raven King. It was the same length as the real book, but it was just the first four chapters over and over again. At the end, my brother wrote a small note about the ways piracy hurt your favorite books. I knew we wouldn’t be able to hold the fort for long — real versions would slowly get passed around by hand through forum messaging — but I told my brother: I want to hold the fort for one week. Enough to prove that a point. Enough to show everyone that this is no longer 2004. This is the smart phone generation, and a pirated book sometimes is a lost sale.

Then, on midnight of my book release, my brother put it up everywhere on every pirate site. He uploaded dozens and dozens and dozens of these pdfs of The Raven King. You couldn’t throw a rock without hitting one of his pdfs. We sailed those epub seas with our own flag shredding the sky.

The effects were instant. The forums and sites exploded with bewildered activity. Fans asked if anyone had managed to find a link to a legit pdf. Dozens of posts appeared saying that since they hadn’t been able to find a pdf, they’d been forced to hit up Amazon and buy the book.

And we sold out of the first printing in two days.

Two days.

I was on tour for it, and the bookstores I went to didn’t have enough copies to sell to people coming, because online orders had emptied the warehouse. My publisher scrambled to print more, and then print more again. Print sales and e-sales became once more evenly matched.

Then the pdfs hit the forums and e-sales sagged and it was business as usual, but it didn’t matter: I’d proven the point. Piracy has consequences.

That’s the end of the story, but there’s an epilogue. I’m now writing three more books set in that world, books that I’m absolutely delighted to be able to write. They’re an absolute blast. My publisher bought this trilogy because the numbers on the previous series supported them buying more books in that world. But the numbers almost didn’t. Because even as I knew I had more readers than ever, on paper, the Raven Cycle was petering out. 

The Ronan trilogy nearly didn’t exist because of piracy. And already I can see in the tags how Tumblr users are talking about how they intend to pirate book one of the new trilogy for any number of reasons, because I am terrible or because they would ‘rather die than pay for a book’. As an author, I can’t stop that. But pirating book one means that publishing cancels book two. This ain’t 2004 anymore. A pirated copy isn’t ‘good advertising’ or ‘great word of mouth’ or ‘not really a lost sale.’

That’s my long piracy story. 

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Hey! so yesterday I was in the mood to build something which is really rare, but then I made this????? Idk but I actually love it so i thought I’d share it with you guys..? There are a LOT of activities you can do, swim, play, marry, sport, eat, listen or make music. Basically just a really cool place to hang out i guess.

Please don’t upload or claim this is yours.

NO CC

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this is weirdly relaxing

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And I’m already behind for #igwritersmay But really, were you surprised? ;) Day two and three were author’s morning and brainstorming. My mornings usually consist of some kind of breakfast and coffee. Because coffee is life. Brainstorming usually either happens in the shower (what is it about the shower being a mystical dwelling of ideas?) or in chat groups with some of my favorite ladies. ❤️ #authorsofinstagram #igwriter #igwritersmay #author #authorehdemeter #amwriting #amwritingromance

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My #maygoals are to finish Second Chance and get it edited and ready to publish this summer! It’s going well, so I’m hoping to be able to release it by July! #igwritersmay #maygoals2018 #goals #amwriting #amediting #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #secondchance #authorehdemeter

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Woo hoo! It’s MAY! It’s my birthday month! I’m going to try hard to keep this going all month. So keep an eye on my posts! #igwritersmay #itsmay #maybaby #amwriting #amediting #authorehdemeter #authorsofinstagram

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When you’re doing just that and feel like you got caught. #writingproblems #caughtme #whoops #shouldbewriting #procrastinationatitsfinest #procrastinator #authorsofinstagram #authormemes #authorehdemeter

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Writing Problem #126

Having so many things you want to write, but no motivation for any of them.

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I have this problem where I would much rather read the story I’m trying to write than actually write it.

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i’ve been looking for this post my entire life

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you put it in words

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#i want it to spring into existence already written for me #but i don’t want someone else to write it because they’ll do it wrong

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I relate to this so much.

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So much truth to this. A daily struggle.

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Ack! The review is in! I want to thank @cloemichaelsreads so much for their review! It truly makes my heart so happy when I hear that people have enjoyed my work. Want to read the review? Check out cloemichaelsreads.wordpress.com to read it! #review #cloemichaelsreads #readerreview #secrets #therunetrilogy #authorsofinstagram #writersofinstagram #readersofinstagram #fantasy #romance

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Chocolate chip cookie dough with chocolate ice cream and words. Best way to end a rough day. #bluebellicecream #bluebell #icecream #amwriting #amwritingromance #authorsofinstagram #authorehdemeter #writeallthewords

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