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

I swear I have some of the most bizarre commutes these days. For once traffic was great, but after I stopped at a gas station, I got stuck in the parking lot bc of the full on brawl blocking the exit. Two chicks were fighting over this scrawny skuzzy dude who was just LOVING it and egging them on.1/

Welp I just passed someone using their cyber truck to advertise their FIRE PROTECTION COMPANY. 😬😬😬

Some FAQs that have come up in 2025 for the new #DVpit on Bluesky! We Discourage the use of Agent Guides, Pitches or Excerpts as attached graphics to pitches. It bogs down the feed & doesn't allow agents to get through as many pitches. We'd like to allow everyone a fair shot at making an impression

For BCS, very much this. We're seeing a lot more gen AI and especially part AI/part human 'hybrid' subs this summer, we've gotten better at spotting them, and we're noting who has sent them.

I had worked VERY HARD to avoid knowing anything about the labubu thing. So, of course, the husbeast got our toddler daughter one of the cursed things. And she LOVES it. Send help. Ick ick ick. And I thought furbees were disturbing.

I’m not cheating on my owned #tbr; I’m doing ‘market research’ and supporting a small town #library. Yeah. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it 😉 #amreading #booksky #bookstacks #libraryhaul #librarybooks

It's day two of the "just got to hold on until the book check hits" sale! (A very publishing vibes sale indeed. LOL) We have 25% off everything in the shop as long as supplies last (I already emergency reprinted the clicky dumpsters!) Visit http://thebrokencirc...

whoa october is around the corner! reminder that we'll be open again for novellas soon. more info here: www.neonhemlock.com/submissions

No YOU just spent your lunch break wishlisting every book on your physical #tbr that has an #audiobook available on @libro.fm to make it easier to see at a glance which of the books you need copies of are available under the current sale prices. ... I may have an audiobook problem lolsob #booksky

Was reading Susan Dennard’s newsletter this morning about tricks for jumping between projects easily (since I am forever working on like 3 at a time), and I realized I use one of the tricks to EDIT but never thought to use it during the drafting phase: using different fonts for each project! 1/

Happy #BiVisibilityMonth to me and Mel, my disaster bi property manager of the supernatural trailer park in 13 COUNTY ROAD 666! Please don't stare as we hate to be perceived. Please DO pick up a copy this month from @falstaffbooks.bsky.social! falstaffbooks.myshopify.com/products/13-... #booksky

Well, I’ve officially added a new book (or well trilogy) to my top 10 fave books of all time. The Scholomance series really is just THAT good. Naomi Novik stuck the landing better than I think any other trilogy I’ve ever read - or at least in a long LONG time. *swoons in writer admiration* #booksky

Lady of September's collection 🧵 arrives! A Lady of Duality who grants us reflection on our dark & light selves. She holds a lens for us to judge our worst & best traits so we can emerge renewed. - Prints -> angelicshades.etsy.com - Original Available! (DM me) #artnouveau #goddessart #fineart #art

Me: Yay time to gear up for that Autumn Feeling™️ complete with setting the litRPG thing in the fall season! Also Me: Sees it was 100 degrees again today in late September. *Agressively Autumn Feeling™️ Intensifies* Time for a short story too maybe lolsob

Just one week left on my contract with Blizzard! I'll soon be open to freelance and fulltime work in games and games-adjacent media.

The equinox is in two hours and two minutes Happy Mabon, witches

the @folger.edu opens their long-term and short-term fellowship scheme for 2026. Includes book in progress fellowships, artistic research fellowships, and public humanities fellowships www.folger.edu/research/the...

Okay, because life is awful but my mentions have NOT been this week, I think I'm going to start an official thread of all the people who send me gorgeous looking focaccia! This is the book I have mind controlled everyone into getting apparently, but mostly b/c EASY BREAD IS FUN BREAD! 💓

... Damn it brain, Sundays are for SLEEPING IN. They are NOT for being wide awake at 6am. Grr and arg. Oh well, I tried to go back to sleep but no dice, so here I am up and about at 7:15. Guess I'll try to get some writing done while the husbeast and toddler are both still asleep. *pouts* #amwriting

Since this whole debate is still happening, and since we are still not listening I will summarize what I understand the argument to be in the Lingua Franca of white nerds: Lord of the Rings analogies.

I love seeing people supporting PBS with their newly loosened up Disney+ dollars.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: STOP. GIVING. YOUR. ENEMIES. YOUR. MONEY.

For once I’m glad I’m years behind on my #tbr because it means that when I SLAMMED into the cliffhanger at the end of THE LAST GRADUATE, I only needed a moment of ‘damn you @naominovik.bsky.social!!’ before opening THE GOLDEN ENCLAVES and diving back in. #amreading #booksky #readersky

SCAM ALERT: If by chance you get contacted by a group advertising themselves as the “Crazy Old Bats Book Club” who would like to charge you for reading your book in their book club, and who claim I am one of the Satisfied Authors, and furthermore give you an email address for me—it’s not me.

*peeks in* Shockingly... I think I missed the Con Crud this time round? BRB I need to go toss salt over my shoulder and knock on all the wood in the house!

Author friends: let's share some good things for a spot of sunshine in all the bleakness right now. Tell me about a book of yours that you wish more people knew about (human-created books only, no AI) and share your book cover and link! ✨ 💙📚⏰ #BookSky #ReaderSky #WritingCommunity #WhatToReadNext

Happy #BiVisibilityMonth to me and Mel, my disaster bi property manager of the supernatural trailer park in 13 COUNTY ROAD 666! Please don't stare as we hate to be perceived. Please DO pick up a copy this month from @falstaffbooks.bsky.social! falstaffbooks.myshopify.com/products/13-... #booksky

For Latin American Heritage month give the gift of a review! Reviews sell books. If you liked a book, review it. Even a sentence. If you can't do the one sentence maybe upvote a good review you agree with. In the age of the algorithm we gotta work the system. Upvote, click or share. Thnx.

I sure did!

Less than a month until #DVpit, a pitch event for marginalized creators looking to find an agent & get traditionally published! Here's a reminder of the rules! For more guidelines & info go to dvpit.carrd.co See you all at DVpit on October 8th, 2025! #writersky #booksky

Periodic reminder that if you want to contact your elected officials but don't know quite what to say, 5 Calls has scripts: 5calls.org

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

If you heard me say I wasn't buying any new books @armadillocon.bsky.social before I finished some of the ones I already owned, 1) No, you didn't, and 2) How DARE you say something so hurtful. RIP my bank account AND my #TBR is all I'm saying. #booksky #readersky #sffcon

A #WriterBeware thread! 🧵 1. Have you just received an email like the one below from Excalibre Writers' Hub, touting itself as a "learning platform" with webinars, workshops, and author services, inviting you to become a member? Here are some thoughts. www.excalibrewritershub.com

Just putting this out there as a courtesy for folks at ArmadilloCon. No covid for me! (I don’t have symptoms or anything- I just always try to test before big events like this.) Stay healthy out there, y’all!

I think since I lost my teaching job there is a good chance I will be kicked off my cheap health insurance soon. I have also decided I can't keep doing freelance work after my current spate of jobs. If anyone knows any full time art director or illustrator positions opening next year im all ears

If you want something to work on/donate to, there are still 3 special elections for House Reps (AZ, TX , & TN) before the end of the year. After some research, these are the candidates I'd want to vote for. AZ 7 www.adelitaforcongress.com TX 18 www.jolandajones.com TN 7 www.dixie4tn.com

Author love languages no one warns us about: My husbeast just printed off the ArmadilloCon schedule for me, AND THEN that asshole hole-punched it and put it in a binder so it would be easier for me to flip through and add notes. *swoons* Once again proving the reason my queer ass is still bi 😆

Not me looking at the @armadillocon.bsky.social schedule and getting overwhelmed trying to figure out which panels to attend! But Austin folks, sound off if you’ll be there! I’m just attending this year, but I will have a signed copy of 13 COUNTY ROAD 666 on hand for the 1st person to ask for it! 😁

Someone had Opinions™️ regarding her mother ignoring her for a WHOLE DAY with such a measly excuse as a mere stomach flu. Recompense is demanded immediately in the form of pets.

Oof I should NOT be left unsupervised with a @libro.fm sale going on. But hey, I was sick this week, so self care amirite? Besides 2 are on my physical TBR so I can now listen in the car and read at home, so that's progress on my bookshelves, right? *hides the 3 other titles* #booksky

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

So I want to briefly mention what next steps look like for people who are left out of the loop on this settlement. There are many of you.

Decided on a rewatch of The Saint’s Magic is Omnipotent. And it really is SUCH a soft comfort show for an isekai with monsters & some fantasy chauvinism, but otherwise it’s so stinking sweet &requires ZERO mental effort. Much thanks to @ilonaandrews.bsky.social originally reccing it on their blog.

Not me searching ‘when do I need to go to the ER for a stomach bug or food poisoning’ this morning. I’m running on maybe 1 hour of sleep since midnight and I am not thrilled about it.

I think that if you are trying to understand the Anthropic book settlement, and you are not doing it in light of the (extremely) failed Google book settlement from 2011, you will never be able to understand what is happening.

Love how construction, school traffic, & 2 bonus wrecks = an extra hour to my commute. And I at least am hybrid & ‘only’ have to make this drive 2 days a week. ‘But working in an office is so much better and much more efficient!’ … when we’re mentally exhausted just GETTING to the damn office??

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

FINAL DAY is today! Get your discounted pretties while you can.😘