@wendysparrow.bsky.social Do you have this already? I saw it and thought of you. 😆 www.amazon.com/dp/B0CCZY2N9V

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

Important info on scams for authors here.

Dessert mode ACTIVATE: Best pie: pecan Best ice cream: chocolate moose tracks Best donut: chocolate creme-filled, chocolate frosted, yeast donut Best bar: 100Grand candy Best cake: Costco's old recipe for 7 pound All-American chocolate cake Best other: baklava Look, it's not *all* chocolate! 🤣

Hello I have a late Monday (standing friend time) and so I am just getting around to reading about the Anthropic settlement. There have been no orders filed and the transcript isn’t available so I have to go by what the reporters said.

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Even though I don't post much on any social media right now, I do lurk-read. And Bree is one of my favorite follows because she's never lost sight of the *social* aspect of social media. This thread summarizes what keeps me here even on my bad days. 👇😍

Friends, if anyone on here sneers at em dashes being used in professional writing as a sign of AI, I'm just going to beg you to read anything from the BEFORE days. The reason AI overuses em dashes is that the people it stole from overuse em dashes. It was trained on 15 of my solely-em-dash books.

Authors: If you found out that your publisher(s) failed to register with the U.S. Copyright Office, we can help. We provide ongoing legal assistance to our members and advocate for their work, particularly in the face of ongoing AI-related theft.

I am lightly horrified by how many people have now looked up their books and found out their publishers (who often were required contractually!!!!) just... didn't register the copyrights on books. Not all of them! Just sporadically! This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.

Today is the day authors are learning how many of their publishers straight up blew off registering copyright and I feel like that deserves a class action suit of its own if it costs everyone their settlement money from the Anthropic suit... 😒🤬

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Hey, I have had some questions about who is allowed to file. Here is the class certification:

As a pantser, this truth applies to my drafting process as well. 😆 Alt Text for RT'd image: "Very few writers really know what they're doing until they've done it." - Anne Lamott

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Wendy is one of my most favorite authors, and her newest book is currently free! 😍

This is me. I am bad, like *really* bad, about email, and I'm sorry. I try, but I also know myself well enough to know that any improvement I make is temporary. 🤷‍♀️

Wow, this was a fascinating read. How LLM chatbots and psychic cons convince people that they're the real deal.

The best dev editors are not trying to make your book into something they, personally, would have enjoyed more. The best dev editors see what you were trying to do and tell you where you messed up, so you can make the best version of YOUR book. It is a rare skill and, as Courtney says, SOLID GOLD.

This is a great thread, but I want to add that you need to understand dev editing BETTER if you’re self-publishing, for a number of reasons. First, you’re hiring your editor, and you NEED to be able to understand if your editor is doing a good job.

Check out these great dialogue tips!

Yes! The "require alt text for images" setting has helped me so many times, because otherwise I will not remember. 🤣

I've loved the humor in this series! I'm hoping to have time to start the latest book this weekend. 😍

Why are these all me? And I feel like I "masked" for so long by figuring out how to avoid issues. The same with my Psoriatic Arthritis diagnosis. My "Huh, and I don't even have psoriasis" turned into "Oh, I guess I learned how to avoid triggering my psoriasis when I was 8 years old." 😆

Ha! That *is* funny timing: Unbeknownst to me, Wendy released the next book in her series on the same day I talked about her series in my blog post. 😆 (I hadn't told Wendy about my post in advance either.)

It feels pretty wild that Jami and I didn't actually plan this, but I love that she mentioned this series on her blog today. It's a great article.

On my blog today, I'm sharing examples from the Love, Gaiian, and Monsters series by @wendysparrow.bsky.social for how we can keep our series fresh... and readers reading. 😁 jamigold.com/2025/06/keep... #WritingTips

Don't miss my latest Resident Writing Coach guest post with Becca and @angelackerman.bsky.social 😁 I'm sharing a bunch of tips for how to ensure readers don't quit our series! writershelpingwriters.net/2025/06/cont...

Okay, my surgery recovery has had so many setbacks that I signed up for the Finch self-care app to keep me going. 😬😆 I picked a micropet just for you! Tap this link or use my friend code FHKSC8X7TN7 to join and add me as a friend! app.befinch.com/invite_v7/vxmL

The reason generative AI is so popular with wannabe creatives is best illustrated by something every pro writer has encountered: getting pitched an idea by someone saying "You write it and we'll split the profits!" because they think the idea is what has value, not the writing. The opposite is true.

decades of cyberpunk fiction, and I don't believe a single writer fully predicted how embarrassingly stupid so much of AI was going to be

I finished this series in a week and a half, just inhaling all the addictive fun. As I'm currently laid up, trying (and failing) to recover from major surgery, I credit this series for what remains of my sanity. It's *that* enjoyable! 😍

I have this bad habit of abandoning my releases in favor of new, shiny books I'm working on. None of them have been abandoned so hard as much as my rerelease of The Teacher's Vet because I was running behind and had a Halloween release to do. It's free right now. #Ad www.amazon.com/dp/B0DHCCZPX5

I know a lot of people who could fall for this, and it might have been me if I hadn’t seen this thread.

This. But especially the bathing thing... 😬 youtu.be/1VtL3shHRns?...

Happy "A french bookstore fights Bree & then everyone else in publishing on the internet while Notre Dame burns" day to all who celebrate it.

Being a romance author means you have to occasionally look up the spelling of weird words especially if they're compound words. Anyway, you'll all be happy to know that I spelled sexcapades right the first time.

Of all the AI idiocy examples in the world...uh, this is not one of them. I've been an em-dash addict longer than AI has existed. 😆

Congratulations! I just picked up my copy. 😍

Wow, this really does describe being an author.

I'm a nobody author, and my books were stolen as part of this too. These AI structures are so short-sighted, from the power usage to the fact that they'll soon be garbage as they feed into each other. *sigh*

Stayed up to watch the lunar eclipse tonight. Chilly but not too cold, and super clear! #Arizona #LunarEclipse

I love long science or history threads, and this *long* thread with crazy hippo facts is 🤌 perfection.

Request to the Universe: I would really appreciate if you would stop sending me bizarre health issues that no one I talk to has ever heard of. Thanks. 😬🙄

The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card.
Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks 
The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/...

I currently have a cat licking the inside of my elbow. 😵‍💫 Apparently the camphor or menthol smell on my arm is really appealing. 😆 (I pinched a nerve in my bad shoulder during last night's sleep, and my entire arm was non-functional today, so put pain lotion all over it to try to sleep tonight.)

If you've ever heard that "the journey is the point," this is a phenomenal thread about the journey of learning. ❤️

This is a great account to follow to stay up to date on new features. (And these sound like good ones!)

As I've always been a slow writer, this reminder never gets old... 👇

"Things might be tough but it's great for artists! They'll create more!" You might not believe me but going through a lifetime's worth of stress Every Single Week for years and years- is actually not the optimal set of circumstances that inspires artists to create