Simon Roy Hughes 🧌<p>Here is the reason I refuse to have a side hustle. </p><p>Hustle (verb)<br> 1. push roughly; jostle.<br> 2. obtain illicitly or by forceful action.<br> 3. engage in prostitution.</p><p>Hustle (noun)<br> 1. a state of great activity.<br> 2. a fraud or swindle.</p><p>(Definitions from Oxford dictionaries.)</p><p>In fact, I appear to have turned my back on the idea of exhausting myself by producing a constant stream of promotional material, and posting it to every online platform under the sun, disregarding how much money my content allows the most anti-social people on earth to make off my back, in the scant hopes of a sale. It would be a foolish waste of my time, attention, and energy that is better spent translating and writing more books. </p><p>The books are out there, but I am not going to try to manipulate people into buying them. That said, if you want to buy books full of amusing, silly, dark, strange Norwegian folklore, lovingly translated into English, please take a look at my stuff: <a href="https://norwegianfolktales.net/books/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">norwegianfolktales.net/books/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. If you don't even take a look, that's OK, too. </p><p>Yes, my books are available on Amazon, making one of the chief arseholes of the world money, but at least Amazon’s POD outfit is an honest business transaction: they offer a service unavailable elsewhere, and I purchase that service. (Other aspects of Amazon meet the definition of hustle above.)</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/norwegianfolktales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>norwegianfolktales</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/norwegianlegends" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>norwegianlegends</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folklore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>folklore</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folklorethursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>folklorethursday</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/folktales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>folktales</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/norwegianfolktales" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>norwegianfolktales</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklore" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>folklore</span></a></span> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fairytales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fairytales</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/folklorethursday" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>folklorethursday</span></a></span> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/antiCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antiCapitalism</span></a></p><p>I hope your Sunday is as good as it may be. ✌️</p>