These guys 100% will make it into a story eventually. Sunbathing priests of the Lemur planet?

Some useful tidbits in here for small publishers and indie authors hoping to reach libraries. In particular distribution issues and ONIX standards for metadata. Worth a look.

Haven Spec Magazine is open this month to submissions by authors of historically marginalized backgrounds only! We want to read more works by Black writers, Indigenous writers, disabled writers, gay and lesbian and trans writers, and others whose voices must be heard! www.havenspec.com/submit/

Trying to feel positive here, but "don't use big words" is making me feel a great deal like we are simply doomed.

We're very happy this sweet story has finally found its day on Voice of Dog! It appears in the FWG's recent Tales from the Guild: Blood and Water anthology from @fenrispublishing.bsky.social, which you can find at: Physical: bewere.net/product.php?... PDF: bewere.net/product.php?...

It's been 15 years since I could say "I've got a new book for sale!" doppelfoxxpublishing.com/products/gam... Thanks to co-author @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog, whose book this really is, and brand new furry publishing house @doppelfoxxpublishing.com, thats changed :) Ebook, paperback, and audiobook!

This. The question we should ask is why aren't we celebrating the art made by disabled people without AI assistance? If we think all art has to look a certain way, we don't understand art.

This has bothered me since I saw the AI photo of a "baby peacock" and realized people actually believed they were bright blue. Stop ruining nature. It's already perfect the way it is.

Between now and October (our 20th anniversary issue), we're running a subscription drive and dedicating all new revenue toward improving pay for our staff, writers, artists, and contractors. Details on how to subscribe can be found here: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

My youngest graduates high school today. I've never felt so proud and so old at the same time.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Three $50 Sofawolf Store Gift Certificates up for grabs! Just tell us about your reading habits before June 8th and you will be entered to win. (You gotta give us your email, but we won't sign you up for anything. Honest!) tally.so/r/xXRApk

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Again and again, he proves himself the greatest.

As always #Furlandia was a fabulous time. The staff is incredible and supportive and the attendees love books <3 Great fun in the Dealer's Den, making new friends, and meeting old ones. Mind blown by how cool everyone was. THANK YOU ALL!!

Readers, if you are out at Furlandia this weekend, then go grab some books from awesome people like @francestypes.bsky.social, @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog, @kyellgold.com, and the fine fuzzy people out at @sofawolf.com.

All these fur suit parts are not going to fit in my car. Time to play travel Tetris! #furlandia

Prepping for #Furlandia this week. If you're going to be in Portland, stop by the table for animal books and literary chitchat. Would love to see you! #furrylit 📚💙🐻

"Among the most important legal issues authors need to consider are that 'AI-generated text is not copyrightable, and knowingly failing to disclose AI-generated content in a copyright registration application can constitute fraud on the Copyright Office'"

Another reason to make your art yourself. And to consume the art of others.

I am in both of these letters.

This is a good read. I get SO MANY of these, and I hate how cynical it's made me, but this is where we are now. This bingo card made me lolsob--it is exactly my mood: electricliterature.com/author-ai-sc...

Watching "Shark Cam" whilst writing today. Will this affect plot? We shall see. 📚💙🐻

Does there exist a flavored powder to add to my shaker of water that has ZERO sweeteners and is still healthy? No I don't run marathons. Don't need gobs of electrolytes. ... Maybe I'll just use fruit? But... it's kind of too sweet too.

This is ridiculously cool!

Need something else to read? Do you like unicorns? Check out @francestypes.bsky.social's book: Kelpiecorn! (the third book in the Kelpies Forever series!) www.amazon.com/Kelpiecorn-K...

A brief reminder that the Serpentia books are available wide: books2read.com/u/bW00x7 and the Earth Tigers series is now recovered and wide as well. books2read.com/u/mvYGYj Spiders and snakes from all vendors/libraries etc.

It has been my suspicion since the inception of generative AI that this would be the main difficulty with using it to write fiction of any length. Novels are not about putting words in predictable patterns. There is too much depth... or their should be.

Congrats to all the nominees!!

All of this is true and also, civilized spiders and societies of cephalopods. The BEST books.

It’s not like I’m angry at anyone who lists seemingly every publication they’ve ever had, it’s just that a better cover letter is just “Dear Magazine, I hope you like my story. My other stories have appeared in X, Y, and Z, among others. Thank you.”

💙📚🩸It's Independent Bookstore Day. There's free shipping all weekend at bookshop.org #IndependentBookstoreDay

Looking forward to Animal Farm and the Sheep Detectives making May a very furry month at the bijou.

Sounds like another win for me from my favorite author. Bring on the non-human characters please and thank you.

For any and all questions you've got about #FurryWriting you can come to the panel, Saturday at 8PM, to ask me, @roscoegbeetle.bsky.social, @skymckinnon.bsky.social, @francestypes.bsky.social, and GoH @kyellgold.com at Furlandia.

To celebrate the release of book three, the first 2 Kelpies Forever books are on sale. Once the sale is over, they'll be moving to wide distribution. Unicorns, Kelpies, a lot of vampiric shenanigans. www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZSX7DVP

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New animal fantasy you say? Sign me up.

Editing a book I wrote in a frenzy at writer's retreat and pleasantly surprised that I actually DO know how to write a battle. Not sure how much tea is behind this, but it kind of rocks. Also, how do I not remember making these words? 📚💙🐻#furrylit

I'm seeing a lot of "publishing a book shouldn't be free" posts in relation to this D2D fee. Guess what, they already take a percentage. No one expects it to be free. They already take their chunk, and now they want another chunk out of your share, calculating the threshold after they get theirs.

Okay, she says the same things, but much more eloquently than I did. I'm still debating. I'm still not happy. This WILL NOT STOP THE AI SLOP is pretty much the only for sure here.

I'm not happy about the Draft2Digital new fee announcement, as you probably figured from previous posts. I think what stuck in my craw was the wording of the email which equated books selling less than 100 copies with low quality. Anyone who plays this game should know, that the only thing...cont

Wholesome <3

She's plump. She's pink. And she has nothing left to lose... Hitting publish on the third Kelpies Forever book. A very pink cover for a very pink character.

For folks who wonder why authors books are "just on Amazon." this is currently the primary (only?) other option and they're about to push us all back to Amazon only by killing any hope of making a cent off our work. Because work that isn't selling like hotcakes is "low quality content."

Fandom and Fiber Arts. These are a few of my favorite things.