Sounds creepy and compelling. "Gothic romance meets Appalachian folk horror, where the mountains are watching and the dark leaves marks."

Looks like a charming, thoughtful take on the traditional selkie story. www.underrevision.com/the-sea-glas...

Joining my TBR pile - looks like a lot of fun. Humorous contemporary fantasy.

Should authors pitch themselves for podcasts? Self-pitching often works best when the author already has a relationship with the host. Otherwise, the risk is that the author pitches the book rather than the topic or conversation inside the book, which is what podcast hosts typically care about.

Excited to have a book coming out in Q3…and to have discovered more horror titles I’ll be putting on my TBR pile before summer is over!

Please speak up. Record your objection. This is crucially important.

Interview with @mattsbooksanddrams.bsky.social Part 2 of my answer to "what scares you about AI" "Also scary, but more disappointing, is how quickly writers/artists...are rolling over, so eager to show their slack fucking bellies." mattsbooksanddrams.substack.com/p/the-dram-d...

Nuke it from orbit, and salt the earth.

Important work by the Author's Guild to establish rules of the road for AI. Impressed by the bipartisan nature of the work, particularly Senator Blackburn's framework that unauthorized AI training on copyrighted works does not qualify as fair use. authorsguild.org/news/authors... @authorsguild.org

Probably my favourite thing Ian Fleming wrote was this essay on how he wrote the Bond novels, which is vile, revealing and full of genuinely good advice and observations lithub.com/ian-fleming-...

“Adjunctification is no longer only a university labor problem; it is becoming one of the models through which modern life organizes human beings: necessary, available, temporary, and always adjustable.“

This guy gets it.

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

Open AI doesn't want to be transparent about what's in their AI training datasets - this bill would force them. If that sounds good, we REALLY NEED YOUR HELP! Please sign this petition in support of the bill, it'll take you 2 minutes: tinyurl.com/4uxbp963 1/

1/ 🧵 OMB is advancing a proposed rule that would destroy the American scientific enterprise. Randos keep disagreeing with my 'here's how to fight it' I do this for a living. So before the "how," here's the "who" --- and why you should listen to me on this one.

It is imperative to protect cows from the fairies in Irish folklore in early summer: tie golden flowers like marigolds to their horns, collect the clay they have tread upon, and do not share dairy products near Beltane to avoid the gaze of aos si. #FolkloreSunday

Seems ... bad.

And so it begins.

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Fingers crossed that it is eventually clawed back.

🧵🧵🧵 answers the questions you may be asking...

Amazing.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

"Oh but I need to use AI tools in MY WRITING because..." I'm gonna stop you right there, hoss. You don't need them. It ain't your writing. You're a plagiarist. And writing is fuckin' hard, so if you don't wanna put the hours in, don't. Just admit you're lazy and not made for it.

One of my VERY FAVORITE bookish people became a traditionally published author today!!!! Congrats, @rebeccaacarter.bsky.social!!!!!!! I couldn’t be more thrilled for you! 🎉

A rare moment captured on camera: me holding my amazing client @millieabecassis.com's extraordinary fairy tale-in-space, The Color of Time...it's my first time ever to hold a physical copy of a client book! Celebrate with me, because this is very special and there will only ever be one first time 🎉

Indie book series with obviously AI covers = auto-block. Gen AI is just as bad for artists as it is for writers.

Outsourcing editorial tasks to AI? Not great. www.realclearbooks.com/2026/04/16/o...

We’re delighted to announce we will be publishing @mollytanzer.bsky.social’s speculative historical mystery FERRY-LOUPERS! Read more about this novella inspired by the real-life destruction of the Odin Stone on 19th-century Orkney in our press release: links.ruadanbooks.com/tanzer #BookSky #SFF

For all the boosters who say "but AI can help us in science and medicine!"

*sigh* If your Kickstarter video/image is AI, I won't back it. If your book has an AI cover, I won't read it. If you're a public supporter of AI use for creative work, I will unfollow you. I cannot stress enough how offensive I find AI use in the arts. It is outright theft, it is lazy, it is gross.

If you’re in Chicago you can come by Solemn Oath Brewery from 1-6pm tomorrow and grab a signed copy. Otherwise, you can pick up a copy from ruadanbooks.com and anywhere else books are sold. #buymybooks #horrorbooks #indiebooks #bookworms

This is Nessie and Millie. Neither of them ever really learned how to dig, but Millie is pretty sure it's like giving CPR. 12/10 no one tell her (TT: millieandazula)

My favorite shirt: blue collar guy in a trucker hat and sunglasses, wearing a shirt that read "Good luck silencing my wife."

My favorite sign: "The only king I celebrate"

"But AI uses em dashes and semi-colons and figures of speech, so you can't use them in your--" Let me stop you right there. I don't give a damn what AI does. It will never impact the way I write. Ever. Nothing is less relevant to me than generative AI "writing" tendencies.

Elizabeth Banks

Was good - particularly enjoyed @inkwellmonster.bsky.social's The Cult of the Rat King.

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

Algorithmic pricing should be illegal.

States could do us all a big favor and write product liability laws that make car companies liable for self-driving accidents no matter how many "waivers" they make customers sign. If car companies don't like it, they can keep their products off the market until they are actually safe.

We're opening to novella manuscripts on 4/1/26! We're looking for dark thrillers, crime noir, & dark speculative fiction—if you've got a complete novella (25k-40k words) that fits, we want to hear from you. Submission guidelines coming soon: links.ruadanbooks.com/cfs #WriterSky #AuthorSky

@duttonbooks.bsky.social's YA imprint brings out a good YA treatment of grief's realities called LIES WE TELL ABOUT THE STARS by SUSIE NADLER tomorrow, 3 March 2026: #Booksky expendablemudge.blogspot.com/2026/03/lies...

UK chums, this is a full five-alarm fire. Write your MP, call them, whatever. The government’s own survey showed 97% of us wanted copyright strengthened, and those abject fucks are weakening it anyway to appease snake-oil grifters and thieves

On the one hand, lawless regime dragging us into more forever wars. On the other, showed my son Army of Darkness, which he dug. So, you know, real mixed bag of a day.

One family is about to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok. They’ll buy Warner Brothers with $24 billion from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. To win over Trump, they canceled Colbert, blocked a 60 Minutes CECOT investigation, and blocked Talarico. Much more will follow. Block this rotten deal.

Hire Amy! Her feed is funny.