Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

for those who don't know, it's @racheline.bsky.social who coined the liberation wing vs. compliance wing framing, btw. avian30.com/2020/12/05/a...

This. I've had death threats and I work in the niche area of horse racing journalism (day job when I'm not writing queer romance). Proper journalists who cover stuff more important than sports get all sorts of violence thrown their way. Look at the number of dead journos in Gaza... It's horrific.

#TBBChat Q2: What tools do you use to help you write? What tools didn’t work for you? Laptop, word doc, my brain. That's it. I do have a template set up based on Romancing The Beat which I use for all my first drafts, but it's more a guideline than anything to remind me of where I'm supposed to be.

#TBBChat Q1: How do I prepare my space for writing time? Lol, what? I usually write as soon as I wake up, in bed with my laptop on a pillow to keep my wrists at the right angle for longevity. Sometimes I write in a cafe, or at my day job desk. I don't have time to 'prepare', I just get stuck in.

Oh my god. We’ve reached the stage “everyone hates AI shit so much that there’s a tool to try to disguise that it’s AI shit”.

#QueerWritersChat My latest release is A Duke's Wager. What happens when a Duke has a wager with Prinny to win a horse for his stablemaster? books2read.com/DahliaADukes... Join my mm mailing list here: dl.bookfunnel.com/o03d1p6bpt Sapphic mailing list: bookhip.com/XZWBWK

#QueerWritersChat From my wip: “What on earth are you doing?” A petite woman glided into the room with the most impervious of expressions, and everyone in the room stopped and stared at her.

#QueerWritersChat Themes of working with horses frequent many of my books. My latest release, A Duke's Wager, is set on a horse stud in the regency period with lots of connection to horses and farm life.

#QueerWritersChat So far, all of my 60+ books have been set on Earth. Some are historical (mostly regency, victorian, and one WWI series), and some are contemporary. Some are set in Australia, some in other countries.

#QueerWritersChat I'm Renee Dahlia for fiction and Renee Geelen for non-fiction. I'm 40/50k into a sapphic regency romance with a murder mystery side plot. It's the second book in a letter writing scam series.

Today (April 25) marks the 110th anniversay of ANZAC Day, named in honour of the Australia and New Zealand Army Corp. One of the great battle wins was in Palestine with the charge of the Light Brigrade to beat the Ottomans and move them out of Gaza.

I've been watching a series with my teen called the Brokenwood Mysteries. It's based in NZ and over each series has become more comic murder with each episode. It's so fun to watch as it feels like the writers are having fun with all the characters.

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Want a free marriage in trouble sapphic short story? dl.bookfunnel.com/wklirzpiau Bonus - you'll sign up for my newsletter and I'll ramble about something or other in your inbox once a month or so.

My existence as a bisexual person is political, so yes, writing about queer people means I am including politics. Do I include actual politicians? Not often, but 'politics' is a broad range, and even white straight books set in small towns are political, especially when everyone votes the same way.

#queerwriters He was not accustomed to being treated like this; like he was nobody and like Sebastian could decide his fate. It made his skin prickly, as if hot and cold winds were circulating around him in unusual patterns. A Duke's Wager

No one laughs at God in a hospital

Internet in Australia is rapidly becoming unusable without a VPN due to age verification. You need to verify your age to use some weather and calculator apps now. Scam apps and phishing sites are starting to realise they can just ask for your ID straight up and people will give it up. Insane shit.

Release Day (or near enough): A Duke's Wager How does a wager with Prinny over a horse end with a stable master kissing a Duke? mm Regency romance books2read.com/DahliaADukes...

I went to watch a friend's drag show last night & after she was introducing me to some people, and she said I was an author. Someone asked what I wrote and I showed them the cover of Show Up (because I had a promo graphic in my phone for it) and they said "Spottify recommended that to me yesterday!"

At horse sales, rich people invest in fillies not colts. Colts represent high risk (high reward), while fillies are a longer term investment who can go to stud even if they are slow on track.

As someone who has escaped financial abuse, it was the lack of job that did me in more than anything. It was a slow erosion of my ability to work over several years. When we met he said "I'll never put you in a cage" and it took me 15 years to discover that it he'd always thought about the cage.

I had too much fun making graphics for the 'describe your book like a hater would' challenge.

Now do the military? How much money do they "lose"? Governments are supposed to pay for services - that's what tax income is for.

Picking names has always been hard for me. My current series has all main characters named with 'virtue' names, so Winsome, Hope, Charity, Joy, Prudence, Verity. My next series is set at Xmas, so I'm picking Xmas themed names because it's silly and fun. I have a spreadsheet so I don't reuse names.

This is one thing I've always found easy. But it's because I care deeply about a book while I'm writing it, but as soon as it's finished (post edits), I don't care anymore and I move on to caring about the next book/set of characters. Yes, this is based in neurodiversity.

This actually makes sense. When Covid first hit, readers gravitated to low stakes, comforting reads, then the dark romance trend hit and I couldn't figure it out, but this explains it.

It’s surreal to me that romance fans spent so much time in the 2010s urging folks to understand that romance novels are no longer rape culture bodice rippers, and now possessive, violent alpha heroes are wildly popular again… and if you who point out the conservative trend, you’re being judgmental.

Pre-orders are up for my next release (this one is a re-release having been part of an anthology in 2024). Cover by @torrancesene.bsky.social A Duke's Wager: mm regency romance books2read.com/DahliaADukes... When a Duke has a bet with Prinny so he can secure a horse for his stud master...

Well, I already hated this fucking dude, but holy cow, this is horrific. If you use OpenAI for anything... at all... I am judging the living shit out of you.

Five shows to get to know me: Heated Rivalry Great Australian Baking Show Great Pottery Throwdown Pride & Prejudice, the Keira Knightley version The Ashes/F1/Gr1 Racing (sports)

Or the classic example of Mary Burchell/Ida Cook, who used her Mills and Boon royalties to travel to Germany in the 30s posing as a loony elder opera fan and helped Jewish families smuggle assets out so they could flee safely? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bu...

Excellent read.

Spend Good Friday writing, maybe in a local cafe for a while. Benefit of living in a mostly Muslim suburb is that shops are open on public holidays.

Yes please, says another bi writer of ... well everything in the queer umbrella.

In response to all the rubbish discussions about the upcoming sapphic story on Bridgerton (and as this post says, the ignoring of the bisexual story), I will be writing more sapphic stories.

Waiting for the Japan F1 race this weekend? Read my mm F1 romance series, and check out the website page for it which includes a course designed by my son a few years ago (he also gave himself a designer pen name!). www.reneedahlia.com/books/gamble...

As someone else with a book with Carina Press, this choice does not surprise me. Carina Press released my WWI book 3 months into COVID, knowing that the market had shifted away from WWI towards fluffy. Guess how badly that went. If they'd postponed it 6 months, the book might have had a chance.

I checked the list and pretty quickly spotted scrapes from Rachel Reid, E. H. Lupton, and something called Fae-Ted Mates (I think we can all decode that particular algospeak)

Cricket season is over for another summer.

The thing that always gets me about "Feminist" remakes of Frankenstein is it feels insulting to Mary Shelley. The book itself is the feminist act.

My first drafts are basically dialogue and vibes. I tend to write in layers though, starting each writing session by reading the piece I wrote yesterday and adding more to the dialogue to fill it out, then writing more dialogue. I'm from a big family who talk a lot, so maybe that's why?

last read / current reads Goaltender interference Ari Baran (hot intense) The Brightest Blaze Kelly Farmer (fun), My ex-girlfriends wedding Sophie Crawford (annoying needy heroine single pov might dnf but other characters are interesting)

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The impact of the middle east war on the far side of the world. On Wed, diesel was $1.79/litre. On Thurs, $2.09. On Saturday morning I drove to cricket and it was $2.20 but after the game at 5pm it was $2.59. Australia has 30 days of reserves, we are day 10. (Americans, note litres not gallons)

Want a cool good news story. Yesterday my son was working out near a National Park, and an "old lady" walked out of the bush and asked for an ambo. She'd been missing for 2 days, but said she'd gone hiking, got lost, and found her way to the road. So saved herself, I'm guessing.

I wrote a thing about Heated Rivalry when the tv show first aired. And I've finally got around to doing a graphic to go with it. Yes, I'm a star at book marketing (ha ha ha). www.reneedahlia.com/2026/01/12/h...

Describe your plot in five words or less - if you dare. Sapphic regency letter writing scam

This. I am going to need a new laptop soon (the screen is cracked), but I don't want a laptop filled with AI slop. So I'm not buying a new laptop until I can get one without it.