If you like tense disaster sci-fi and fraught, slow-blooming relationships, this one might be for you! (Reader, it made me cry.)

The entire reason AI is being deployed in schools is to funnel money out of schools and into tech companies. Whatever reasons you've convinced yourself that AI edtech is necessary, regardless of how "useful" you think it is, it's sole purpose is to pad the pockets of the wealthy.

A quick warning to my fellow authors. An online book club asked me to do a zoom presentation about.Calling Bullshit. I agreed because outreach is critical to what I do. As things proceeded, they asked me for a contribution of several hundred dollars to cover their expenses! Don’t fall for this.

🏳️‍🌈some special Pride Month shout-outs to a few of my favorite categories of LGBTQIAs🏳️‍🌈 1. to everyone for whom this is your first out Pride: congratulations, we love you, we are so proud!!!! by law you should not have to pay for drinks all month. try this on your straight friends, they might buy it

Speaks to a fundamental inability to see storytelling as anything but a product, I think. And an unwillingness to dismantle imperialism unless it's to replace it with another kind of imperialism. But I'm typing this at 5:30 in the morning so what do I know.

It's wild some of the biggest fandom worlds of the last couple decades—Star Wars, Good Omens, Supernatural—ultimately misunderstood the assignment and fed their hero to the machine. Rey should have been no one. Crowley and Aziraphale should have been free from predeterminism. Dean should have lived.

thinking about this a lot today

🐺📚Here it is! "Translating The Witcher. Publishing Fantasy Fiction in Europe" is available online for free for 2 weeks, until June 15! Feel free to share widely! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

My book, "The Middle Ages in Computer Games" is out in paperback tomorrow (2 Jun). If you've been waiting to get hold of it, now could be a good time! boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-mid...

Happy Pride! THE CHAMOS PROJECT ebook is on sale from June 1-7: books2read.com/b/mdBDo5.

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

Mockery is a legitimate form of protest and people underestimate how much bigots hate it.

This is yet another absolutely boggling example of a well off white dude seeming to be completely unaware of, completely detached from, the power of the State. We’re not just screaming at each other online. There are FUCKING LAWS being passed by one side using the State to eliminate the other! WTF?

Dang, this line from @sarahkendzior.bsky.social is such a tidy framing to describe the “Just let the South rot they’re already lost to us lol” crowd. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/overriding...

Doordasher of the Hous [to the tune of "Master of the Hous" from Les Miz] Dasher on the waye! Soon ther will be foode! You just spente thirtye dollars on a gyro, dude. Will the foode be colde? Will the foode be sadde? Tippe the dasher anyway, it ys the system that ys bad.

but they were all of them deceived, for another monday was made

WHO'S HUNGRY NOW, BITCH?

#Booksky Sale ends tomorrow morning! Get a great deal on our books and support our authors and us!

if I get one more scam email from a "book marketer" who has clearly just fed my Amazon page into ChatGPT in order to regurgitate hundreds of words of sales pitch-shaped slop in the hopes that I lack the common sense God gave a lemon and would believe this is a real human that wants to make me rich

Looking for some queer scifi? You've come to the right place! THE CHAMOS PROJECT is a queer adult scifi novel that's available now at all digital retailers! THE LAST INFINITY comes out in August, so be sure to add it to your TBR and sign up to be an ARC reader today! linktr.ee/alexis.ames

Oscar Isaac deserves credit for being, as far as I know, the first major actor to capture the tech bro CEO, in Ex Machina. Those guys were all over the news by then, but movies were still doing the "babbling nerd with a pocket protector" thing. Also accurate: what he really wants is slavery.

If you're curious about how this plays out, may I recommend the book INTO THE DROWNING DEEP, by Mira Grant?

Looking for readers who like: ⭐Queer characters over 40 ⭐Time travel ⭐Mars ⭐Father-daughter bonding ⭐Cute robots ⭐Happy endings Add THE LAST INFINITY on Goodreads or Storygraph today! www.goodreads.com/book/show/25... and app.thestorygraph.com/books/a49e43.... #WritingCommunity #SFF

I’m Dr. Kerry Pray, and I’m conducting an experiment to determine if posting about a book on social media can change its Amazon ranking This week’s book is Before we were Blue by EJ Schwartz and the initial ranking is 1,452,908

Remember: we were never given credit for being right about crypto, we were never given credit for being right about NFTs, we were never given credit for being right about the metaverse and we will never be given credit for being right about AI. Fuck 'em up anyway.

It has been an ... eventful week. Some happy, some exciting, some sad. I'm tired but optimistic.

trans people deserve to live, freely and openly and safely and unconditionally

@seananmcguire.bsky.social I saw this beauty this morning and thought you'd like to see her too

It’s just theft all the way down. The billions “venture capitalists” pour into the “AI” grift were stolen from workers and ordinary taxpayers, billions in creative labour is stolen from artists, increased electric and power costs are stolen from struggling families…

I’m Dr. Kerry Pray, and I’m conducting an experiment to determine if posting about a book on social media can change its Amazon ranking This week’s book is What Beauty there is, by Cory Anderson Its initial Amazon rank is 913,026

Today is a great day to check out a scifi book that has: ⭐queer characters over 40 ⭐enemies to lovers ⭐a disabled MC ⭐a mystery on a stranded spaceship ⭐grief, loss, love, and second chances ⭐people telling me they stayed up all night reading it books2read.com/u/mdBDo5

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

I’m doing a book giveaway! The winner gets: - A copy of Sidequested Book 1, a fantasy graphic novel by the Hugo nominated duo @alepresser.com and @kbspangler.com ☺️ - A pug sticker. To enter, simply repost this post! Bonus: reply with a Sidequested-themed pug doodle to enter 5 more times!

"She didn’t know why he’d done it. They’d been *fighting,* for heavens’ sake, and he’d been behaving like a child, throwing the spoon like that. But something about the encounter had left an odd feeling in the vicinity of her stomach, a sort of yearning."

I have space open in my editing calendar. I work with novellas and novels in a variety of genres. Mostly developmental editing, although I do limited line edits as well. More info here: www.kathowardbooks.com/editing I'm always happy to answer questions.

HAPPY THURSDAY I don't have it in me to make a clever marketing post today. Buy my book! It has older queer characters and robots in space! Everyone is falling in love while having the worst time of their lives! books2read.com/u/mdBDo5

"The group was used to quick exits—for certain values of “quick”—and Lock barely had time to get to his wagon before the caravan lurched off down the dirt path that led from the mound to the actual road."

Hey, Gen X, let's annoy everyone and bring back "choice" as a term of approval. "It's gonna be CHOICE."

TODAY! 4pm SK time. Link in the QR code. TELL YOUR MEDIEVAL NERD FRIENDS. @transliterature.bsky.social @kzooicms.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social @medievalismist.bsky.social @uvic-medi.bsky.social @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social @crems-york.bsky.social @monashcmrs.bsky.social

Fantasy lit *is too* a valid academic subject!

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

most crucial tool: scaled tier of writer friends sometimes you have to start by discussing your writing only with the people who will gas you up no matter what, and then work up to the ones who will bounce around ideas with you, and then finally to the ones who can say "you're overusing semicolons"

Wait two partial requests in a row? Before any rejections? Is that allowed????? (Also my brain is like wait what is this sensation could it be.....optimism?)

It’s really… interesting, how a lot of “authors” who went all-in on the plagiarism machines thinking it could be an infinite-money glitch (especially if they got bot KU “readers”) are now pivoting to offer “formatting” or “submit to distributor/aggregators” services.

The latest scam email claims to be an invitation from the Capital Crime book festival. A cursory check indicates it's from a highly suspect email address. A quick line to the real contact easily found on the festival website confirms this is complete nonsense. Always verify these things these days.

I recognize that a partial request from an agent isn't that big of a deal--it certainly isn't an offer!--but man, I needed that shot of hope.

Hey #portfolioday! I'm Emily and I love everything to do with fantasy, folklore & fairytales. www.emilyhare.com