Ye gods, this came out a bit JD Salinger, a bit Janet Frame. Maudlin memoir much. But, yeah, my childhood in a place by the sea. open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Killoch sought immortality. Others would pay the price, unless Bea and Owen can stop him. A short story for our AI obsessed age. Art by me. 💙📚 open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Little tech-horror to liven your weekend. Art & words by me. #Short 💙📚 open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Bloxham is sent by Whitehall to fix problems. But he finds himself piloting an experimental submersible alongside an enigmatic scientist, to take on an enemy of the British empire in the most dangerous of places: the ocean floor. 💙📚 My latest short. Art by me. open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

The AI 10x coding lie. open.substack.com/pub/totallya... #Tech #AI

The very last chapter is now complete. Will Hilde be able to convince the Brehon to rule against a crusading bishop & free her mother from the witch-burning pyre? 💙📚 open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Weekends are for Wandering! How about a walk at Derrigimlagh Bog in Connemara? This haunting landscape of blanket bog is full of stories. It was also the site where pioneering aviators Alcock and Brown crash-landed, successfully completing the world's first non-stop transatlantic flight. #Ireland

It’s done. Revision and publication ready process will start in a month or so. For now rest. 💙📚 sarah-jane-smith.gumroad.com/l/witches-da...

open.substack.com/pub/authenti... 💙📚 Presale ebook is available here: sarah-jane-smith.gumroad.com/l/witches-da...

Following the “Gen AI is a Mugs Game” post - here I look at Stargate and the nuclear power/AI data center nexus. Unprofitable con now to be taxpayer funded mothball site. Oh, and no regulation, because who would want to regulate nuclear power. open.substack.com/pub/totallya...

open.substack.com/pub/totallya... Unmasking the AGI lie - when will decision makers stop spending $$ on this scam?

Bent on revenge a group of the most feared Norman invaders enters Duncormac #HistoricalFiction open.substack.com/pub/authenti... 💙📚

JB wins the Internet and perfectly captures the grasping self-entitled lust for power of these AI fascists. open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...

A turn in the dramatic battle of Duncormac Bridge gives Hilde and friends a chance to lick their wounds. But the vicious de Prendergast is now at the head of the Norman army. And doom is upon the villagers. 💙📚 open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Latest chapter of “The Witch’s Daughter” is out! open.substack.com/pub/authenti... 💙📚

Latest chapter is out. Giffard, a knight & mercenary from the Languedoc, is one answer to why I write. Characters like that come alive, howl at me to be let on to the page. 🪓 ⚔️ open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

1169. Ships sail west. Murderous sell-swords aboard, at the behest of a dethroned king. But Ostmen from a small village gave those soldiers pause. A skirmish… …from which I’ve woven a tantalising tale that fits the facts and make a ripping yarn to boot. 💙📚 open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Arrows fly into the dawn, from Norman bowmen. Hilde, her uncle and the chief wait in the mists. It is certain death, at the bridge into Duncormac. But history will mark the momentous day that happens for millennia hence. 💙📚 open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Battle is nigh, the sun rising on a clear day as Hilde walks through the early mists. Donegal’s resolve in doubt, will the chief stand alone against the foreigners? #BookSky 💙📚 #HistoricalFiction open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

The AI promoters are back claiming victim-hood. Tell me Im going to be sacked and replaced by someone using AI? Definitely time to re-raise this one. substack.com/@sarahsmith1...

Bitch, my eye-liner is running like hell, my AI boobs ache! And you want me to analyse a stack of papers from 1962? Pt2 of my “Dumb AI Agent Marketing Pic Hall of Shame” is up! #AiAgent #SlopTakedown open.substack.com/pub/totallya...

Dumb AI Agent Image Hall of Shame Pt 1 open.substack.com/pub/totallya... AI is slop. And the agent thing is a flop. But they're hyping it with more fake images of "AI agents" every day. Join me in shredding some of the worst and most fake of these marketing screw ups.

AI agents are not autonomous bi-pedal units that are going to come into your workplace and sit in chairs. AI slop is so dumb it's just hilarious. #TechSky open.substack.com/pub/totallya...

Hilde awakes at the Dire Goose Inn, and is pursued as a devil. Donegal’s will is tested and he is drawn back there. But what they both find may change the course of the war. #HistoricalFiction #BookSky open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

The author has the germ of a whodunnit - maybe I’ll write it if no one else does. inside.org.au/keen-as-must...

In a fugue state Hilde walks the mists, and finds a door. It seems a place to wait for the end. 💙📚 The world beyond ours, Tir na nÓg, opens. open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Dream and the real world blend in the mists as Hilde seeks a refuge from the cold, creeps through a door she ought not. In this passage I eschew commas as she enters a fugue state. This chapter marks a grim time for our heroine. But I sense she will prevail. open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Hilde, exhausted & cold, finds herself face to face with the Norman invaders. How can she and her friends survive their onslaught? The Witch’s Daughter chapter 22. 📖 Click the guide link at the top to see the first 4 chapters for free. 🆓 open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Blood & swords, witches & silver, invaders & townsfolk. And that it happened (mostly) for real in 1169 in Ireland is magic. Game of Thrones and Vikings lovers, check the first four chapters for free of “The Witch’s Daughter”. 💙📚 #Booksky authenticwriting.substack.com/p/the-witchs...

open.substack.com/pub/authenti... Run to ground, Hilde hides out in a cave only to find the Norman soldiers are nearby. And a half mad superstitious Captain is baying for her blood at the cave’s very mouth. Love it if you’d read it. Any unwaged DM me for free access. Ebook also available.

AI is not making you a high performer. The opposite in fact. open.substack.com/pub/totallya...

Hours before the dawn Chief Caton watches on from the trees as tensions mount in the Norman camp. Chapter 19 of “The Witch’s Daughter” is here. #BookSky #Medieval 📚 Like Vikings? Game of Thrones? You might love “The Witch’s Daughter”. First 4 chapters free. open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Check out the AI and data newsletters of these folks recently added to the directory: @sarah-j-smith.bsky.social @annaloverus.com @itselisadavis.bsky.social @hollyjones1.bsky.social @ncotemunoz.bsky.social @hlntnr.bsky.social

Caught between a witch-finder bishop & and invading foreigners Hilde goes on the run to clear her family name. Set in Ireland in 1169, with hand drawn art & maps, my serial drops a new chapter every Sunday! #BookSky 💙📚 Free unlock with signup open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

The top 6 arguments on the AI shill bingo card have finally been dealt with. We can dump them in the dustbin of history now. * AI training is learning * No-one can tell the difference * What’s the harm * You cannot stop it * Its just a tool * AI's like photography open.substack.com/pub/totallya...

My NYC Midnight entry for historical fiction takes us back to when x-ray imaging was invented in 1896. And to a man whose lying leads to trouble in London’s notorious asylum. Free unlock with registration. Original art. open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

The army of exiled King Diarmait & his Norman knights draws perilously close to Hilde’s village of Duncormac. Will help for her mama, accused of witchcraft & heresy be impossible to get as the chief learns of the nearing threat? I have maps! 💙📚 #HistoricalNovel open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Seasons turn & AW is mapping out new fantastical stories lies ahead. Join me on a journey to lands faraway from the worries of today. open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Books energize our intellectual life, our thought and make us all happier. Ditching the doomscroll for a day and reading instead is good for everyone. And @asauthors.bsky.social along with other groups has a great initiative that they're taking to the politicians eager for our vote.

So @tuatha.ie - I just completed vikingsurvey.org So much I learned from my Tuatha.ie membership! In particular the talk you hosted from Dr Rebecca Boyd on the Vikings of Ireland. As a writer of fantasy, and historical fiction, the past is such a rich source of inspiration for me. 🙏

The Great Viking Survey is the most extensive study ever conducted on global perceptions of the vikings and their world. Your voice matters: no matter who or where you are, every response counts! Take the survey, spread the word, and be part of this groundbreaking project at vikingsurvey.org!

Guys, guys - I'm up to chapter 6! Drops Sundays. On Substack where I'm serialising my #historical #fiction set 1169 #Ireland - one I've been working on for ~5yrs - I get "Oh I don't want to subscribe for just one story". OK. I fixed that: sarah-jane-smith.gumroad.com/l/witches-da...

Too soon? If a Bridget Jones type was on a Pete Hegseth national secrets chat group. open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

The witchfinder came. Townsfolk with torches. Hilde hid in the pear tree but her mother was taken. The cottage saved by summer rain. open.substack.com/pub/authenti... My historical fiction & art. Serialised on Substack or pre-purchase: sarah-jane-smith.gumroad.com/l/witches-da... 📚💙 #booksky

Ever been stuck in a flaming limousine? #startup totallyathing.substack.com/p/the-flamin...

Hiding in the pear tree, Hilde can only look on as her mother is taken from the cottage as an accused witch. As the storm clouds roll in, what next? open.substack.com/pub/authenti...

Meta employees turned .. to Library Genesis, or LibGen, one of the largest of the pirated libraries ... [of] more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers .. the team at Meta got permission from ... Mark Zuckerberg—to download and use the data set. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

OpenAI, Meta and the rest of them did not have a technology advance with "AI" - they just stole work. Gen AI is theft. It's not a clever new algorithm. When you "use AI" you are using other people's work. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Doing an app startup? Maybe it's time to figure out how it's going to make money. Hint: customers. open.substack.com/pub/totallya...