I am squeeing with delight at the cover for our new book! It's SO SHINY! Out in August.

I find myself nodding in agreement. Not everyone is left standing the war has ended & also the notion that some of those left standing have been irrevocably changed by their experience But there is hope for a better future and an urgency to fight for what we might never see #poetry #poemoftheday

I make an involuntary "eww" face whenever anyone says "I asked chatGPT…".

IF THIS WORKED, SHE WOULDN'T NEED TO SELL THE TECHNIQUES TO YOU

We've all met 'monsters' in our time!! #BookSky

#Chickam and the Wheel of Food is live! Go here and click the 'Live' button: www.youtube.com/@jackshenhouse

At my #writing group's meetup a new member mentioned using AI to 'organize' her notes, and it took all I had not to leap over the table and yell things. Took a breath, then gently explained why #writers *HATE* AI. Hope she takes it to heart and stops feeding the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine.😒

✨ ENTIRE TRILOGY ONLY $11.97 ✨ FREE ON Kindle Unlimited ✨ 📚 950+ pages 🏔️ Epic fantasy 🧭 Maps 👥 Found family 🦇 Winged cartographer 📙 Link: www.amazon.com/Mapmaker-Tri... #booksky #indieread #mapmaker #mapmakertrilogy #bookstoread #epicfantasy #fantasyforadults #bookboost

Gonna remind of the obvious: what companies are calling "ai" is not intelligent. It's a predictive language or image regurgitater. It's literally complicated dice spitting out clouds of letters or color. It was never more than a gimmick and is now an industrial scale theft machine. Drop. It.

The #writing group I'm part of now has a name: The Unreliable Narrators. 😁 Also, we have two projects in the works for later this year that should be fun! #WritingCommunity #Writers

Yuuurrggg... Can't start writing the last book of my series till I go back and add little things to the first 3 volumes in the appropriate spots. Has a real 'Finish your vegetables before you get dessert' feel. I just wanna wriiittte... 😡 #Writing #Editing

Good trouble. 😈

Wow, is that ever gorgeous! And now I can say I've seen cereal charts in a comic book. 😁

Midnight. A light flickers on in the darkness. Coils of smoke hang in the projector's glow. The movie is about to begin, and the theater waits in breathless silence. BLACK FLAME is finally here. You can get it at the link below, and wherever books are sold. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Better than some actual real love ballads. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwLZ...

Catherine O'Hara was tremendous. She could do anything. Go watch A MIGHTY WIND and see her pull off being effortlessly funny and unselfaware, a near-impossible thing to project onscreen, before she turns around and melts your heart. What a loss, man.

#Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book. #WritingCommunity #Writers #SciFan

Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book. "I swept down the streets of the Undercity, and with my tall frame, heavy coat, and gun in each of my hands, most people left me well enough alone. " - The Remembered, Launching Thursday on Patreon

As AI develops: This goes for writing too.

And heartlessly block #AISlop whenever and wherever you come across it. Stomp that weed OUT.😒

And take a 'Pet Your Pet' break and snoodle the critter(s) of your choice!

a lot of y'all never learned how to use the card catalogue at school and it shows

Unveiling the cover for THE DRAGON HAS SOME COMPLAINTS! Garrodigh is a curmudgeonly three-headed dragon who pretends to be tame so he can eat for free at the local dragon-riding academy. Unfortunately, the rider he's assigned to is... a lot. Coming Summer 2026 from DAW (US) and Arcadia (UK)!

Once in a while, I get asked "where do your ideas come from?" and this morning I got a mini-version of the process to share. 1. See an ad from 1925 for Tuxedo Tobacco which features a white woman in profile stating "I love to see a man smoke a pipe."

I'm not gonna have enough room to shout y'all out, but there's a bunch of y'all that are "that" author, to me @tkingfisher.com @nghivo.bsky.social @premeemohamed.com @alixeharrow.bsky.social @wiswell.bsky.social @diane.dianeduane.com @chucktingle.bsky.social @clpolk.com @tobiasbegley.bsky.social

#Chickam 2026 is loosely planned... I'll set eggs in the incubator May 1st or 2nd, aiming for a hatch date of May 23rd/24th! 🥚🐣🐓

Hey folks! I want to take on some private commissions in February, feel free to get in touch if interested! ✨ www.margawart.com/commissions

Hello #portfolioday ! I’m Joe, a freelance artist based in Scotland, working in games physical and digital on illustrations and concepts, previously in animation assets and UI. Currently looking for new projects! ✉️ [email protected] 🌐 joewatsonillustration.com

🗡️ Dance of Deception 🩸 New portfolio piece! This one took over a year to finish between making three whole books and other work, but I'm glad I didn't rush it.

Do you work in Affinity Publisher? Would you like some freelance work, or to screen share with me and show me how to fix things? I've got a bunch of notes from the printer that are above my pay grade (£0) and am open to throwing a little money at the problem to make it go away.

Just found a forgotten pack of Best Journey minicomics, so they're in the store now – ko-fi.com/s/00f9f13d42 £5 for a hard copy of the PDF you can download free at gum.co/bestjourney

Tealin's work is amazing, buy her stuff! 😀

Here we go. Here's the official blurb.

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Your green-tinted spectacles this time do not deceive you! Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social returns as a contributor for the anthology Omniboz: Tales from the Land of Oz, based on L. Frank Baum’s Oz books! @jendiagammon.bsky.social and @erniechiara.com co-edit. #oz #books #adriantchaikovsky

#storytelling #creativewriting #amwriting #words #story inventingrealityediting.com/2...

there is a genre of person who hates AI in *their* field but sees how it could be useful in *other,* less prestigious, fields; ignore them. they are not trying to save the ship. they are just racing you to the lifeboats

auld lang syne 🤝🏻 louie louie nobody knows the words, everybody sings

if you push the buttons on a vending machine and it spits out a coke, that doesn't mean the vending machine understood thirst

THIS ARTICLE. ✊ #NoAI

"Let's use AI to write and design an embroidery stitch book, what could possibly go wrong"

Yeah, same. 😁 #Writing

my 2025 art summary 🦇

For those who have just left twitter/X and are afraid for their financial security as they try to rebuild, I want to share my experience as it will hopefully provide a bit of comfort. Earlier this year I ran a Kickstarter. Bsky outperformed Twitter for backers by more than 3x.

Lyn and I are runnin' a sale on our digital book to ring in the new year! You can get our 180+ book full of OC self-indulgence for only $9.90! ✨ 🎇 itch.io/s/177466/new...

I feel like there's a GenAI joke in here somewhere but I'm not funny enough

Blatant promo here: my independently published ebooks are on sale until Jan 1: it's a good time to give my writing a try! www.smashwords.com/profile/view... Thank you for your help and support! Happy reading!

Do you need to wrap a gift that's awkwardly shaped with sharp corners or protrusions? Try this tip: 1. Use thin cardboard, adhesive and bubble wrap to construct a rudimentary time machine. 2. Return to the moment right before you bought the fucking thing. 3. Buy something different.

2025 Quiz of the Year! 1. What the fuck? 2. Seriously, what the actual fuck? 3. Shall we put more brandy in the eggnog?