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Isabelle Santiago’s Zerah’s Chosen has been reviewed by Aloe of Aurora, the YA segment of Long and Short of It Reviews.

“Ms Santiago’s characters are strong, well-defined and determined to do the right thing. They have conflicts, there is jealousy, there is hate, and there is love. [...] The ending in this one will leave you yearning for the next book.”

Click to read the rest of this review. Read an excerpt of Zerah’s Chosen.

John Lawson’s Sorrow has been reviewed by Anne of OCD, Vampires, and Rants, oh my! .

“The secondary characters were rich and varied, with some wonderful bit parts you can truly grow fond of. Some of them I wanted to see more, as the story hints at incredible depth. This is one of Sorrow’s strongest points. [...] there’s plenty of intrigue and action to be had.”

Click to read the rest of this review. Read an excerpt of Sorrow.

Heather Parker, author of Middlewitch (and with a new story about the hapless Alicia Meldrew in the works), found a very nice resource for those of you in the UK who need to obtain an ITIN: an article on the Andrew Lownie website. If you’re frustrated and confused, take a look here.

I’m a little lost in the thicket of tax requirements. The IRS requires that we report every royalty payment of $10.00 or more in a tax year, including payments to authors living outside the US, regardless of treaty status.

Spreading the fun around, all of those non-US authors are required to have a US individual tax identification number (ITIN), again, regardless of treaty status, reported on the W-8BEN. To get an ITIN, you can send off your original passport by itself or multiple other original forms of identification together. Don’t want to send off the originals and wait to get them back, assuming you do get them back? You can go to the US Embassy in your country and they’ll certify your copies (which the IRS puts in quotes. Are they ironic copies?). They don’t say how much that costs. OR, if you can’t go to the embassy, you can go to a proper authority as approved by The Hague Convention, which will give you an “apostille”–in Ireland it only costs €20.

All that to legally accept a payment of $10.00.

If anyone has information on how to more easily acquire an ITIN, we’d love to hear about it.