Scam alert! A company called SayPro Publishers has my book Elemental featured on their website and seems to be claiming I worked with them. This is a scam and a lie! I have updated my Scam Alert blog post to include them: whitneyhillwrites.com/writing-upda...

NEW: A major AI copyright legal showdown just took a huge twist today. Facing a class action on behalf of book authors that could've seen it pay over a TRILLION in damages for alleged piracy, Anthropic has agreed to settle instead: www.wired.com/story/anthro...

From the SFWA (I'm a member) This is the link they included; 13 of my books are listed: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

This song is so absurdly Troy-coded I almost can't bear it 😩 youtu.be/vk_xq1P7vIU?...

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

5 years ago, I self-published my debut urban fantasy novel, Elemental Since then it's won several awards and I published over a dozen more books set in the world of Otherside 🤯 Thanks to the readers who gave Arden a chance, and kept on reading 💙 whitneyhillwrites.com/original-fic...

WTF? I was quoted in this story but I have never spoken to the reporter nor would I have said those things. Is everything just generated by LLMs these days? cosmosmagazine.com/earth/oceans...

Every scene needs: Obstacle + discomfort + action + consequences That’s how you create a story with personal stakes, a plot intrinsically linked to your protagonist, and a character arc that gives the protagonist the internal resources they need to overcome the final obstacle. #writingcommunity

Just a little something to celebrate having a book ready to go to the next stage for the first time this year 🙌🏾 This one is a paranormal romance with a succubus who gets tangled up in desire and a human hunter of supernatural beings who falls for her 😘

5 years ago, I self-published my debut urban fantasy novel, Elemental Since then it's won several awards and I published over a dozen more books set in the world of Otherside 🤯 Thanks to the readers who gave Arden a chance, and kept on reading 💙 whitneyhillwrites.com/original-fic...

The Otherside Heat series will be out as a box set next week! Pre-order to get all three books on June 26: whwrites.com/otherside-he...

[doing my daily affirmations in the mirror] i am the horror and i will be persisting

Which is how I came to be an author, really Writing the stories I wish I had at age 10/11 so someone who looks like me could be the hero of the story instead of the sassy sidekick or disposable cannon fodder (when there was someone who looked like me at all) whitneyhillwrites.com/original-fic...

Oooh I figured it out This was the time when I really started looking for representation of people who looked like me in games, film, media, etc I only had anything near a chance in RPGs, or if I wrote my own stories and drew my own characters

Starting to think that bombarding people with content designed to make them ill-informed, angry, and antisocial for hours upon hours a day has been a real disaster for society and possibly not one we can come back from in our lifetimes

Everything about this is a tragedy, every level, from cheated freelancers to authors obscured to readers who don’t get served either.

The AI book list and general enshittification reminded me that I've been credited as blurbing hundreds of books I never have, including books by Patti Smith, Amy Tan, Sidney Sheldon, Joyce Maynard, and Elmore Leonard? And I can't get these fake blurbs taken off publisher and bookstore websites?

All set up at the Write Now! Conference in Raleigh 📚 Looking forward to greeting folks!

For anyone interested in what I believe is the original/constructive use of the phrase "Black fatigue" and not the racist bullshit exposed/quoted in the video: bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

Excited to be presenting on fantasy worldbuilding at the Write Now! conference in Raleigh next weekend! You can still get tickets to join us: tafnc.com/writenow/

Thank you to the person who supported both me and the lovely team at @flyleafbooks.bsky.social with your order 💙

Facial recognition in smart glasses to dox people? Yeah, a bunch of us warned shit like this was going to happen, and it's going to enable some really bad shit. We need to fundamentally reconsider what constitutes "public" and "private" in our society, and we need to have done it several years ago.

Somehow, I knew I'd be using the word 'motherfuckers' again today...

Disability is not a moral failing. It can’t be prevented with healthy living, prayer, or wellness culture. It’s a natural part of life. If you live long enough, you will more than likely experience disability. We should all be fighting for better social supports, inclusion and accommodation.

Shop small for Indie Bookstore Day! Find ebooks in my shop, including the Troy POV novella Shadows and Honor, currently only available directly from me whwrites.com/shop

I recommend subscribing to Becker's Hospital Review if you're interested in keeping up with this kind of thing, as well as general trends and news in the healthcare and hospital space www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-i...

“How the Vampires would have gotten me in Sinners” by Evensyaxo:

It'll never stop making me feel insane that writers are made to feel crazy for appropriately valuing their craft while guys who haven't written an email on their own in three years are painting themselves as essential to the future

Indie Bookstore Day is this Saturday! Don't forget that many indie authors also sell their books in their own stores—including me payhip.com/BenuMedia

...this has me ready to remove the last of my AO3 fic because wtf

A half-elven bounty hunter collides with a vampire vagabond in a Raleigh nightclub. Sparks will fly when the hunter becomes the hunted. Start the Otherside Heat paranormal romance trilogy with Secrets and Truths, now just $0.99 👇🏾 whitneyhillwrites.com/original-fic... #BookSky

⭐️10+ years working full-time as an editor ⭐️ majority of my clients are referrals from other clients ⭐️ experience working with indie authors and ⭐️ clients published by small presses and big 5 ⭐️ collaborative approach ⭐️ small, actionable steps Link in bio to book! #writingcommunity

It is never the day and I am NEVER the one to pitch with AI trash I don't want anything to do with it. I don't want my work run through any generative AI platforms. I don't want to work with scammers and frauds who use it in their process. I value HUMAN effort, skill, and creativity.

Any other Americans getting absolutely thrashed by plummeting international sales? 🫠 I get it. I'm not mad. Fight the Empire and hold the line ✊🏾 But I didn't vote for this shit and never have, and I'm one of those the Empire seeks to crush, so I'm mostly frustrated with those who did vote for it.

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Part of how I became an author 😅

"...they needed books for their quality writing, style, expression, and long-form narration and would rather steal them than ask and pay for them as they do for all of the other necessary components of their AI, such as electricity and programming." authorsguild.org/news/meta-li...

Proof is different than suspicion. And generative AI remains an obscure technology: Companies do not like to talk about how it works, or what they've taken for it to work, even as they place it into products that millions or billions of people use every day and insist it should change the world.

At this point, everyone suspects that generative AI has been built with stolen material—and in fact, since September 2023 when we published our analysis of Books3 (linked below), we've known for sure that 183,000 books had been pirated for this purpose. But LibGen dramatically increases the scale.

Meta initially considered licensing books. New legal docs show that a Llama senior manager felt it was “really important for [Meta] to get books ASAP,” as “books are actually more important than web data.” Paying and waiting wouldn't do. So they sought—and received—permission to torrent LibGen.

NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:

my tarot book, FINDING THE FOOL, was indeed pirated to help build meta’s AI. if you’re still defending AI at this point i just don’t know what to tell you — it’s theft. always has been.

If you're upset about the way things are going in the US and you're using generative AI, you're part of the reason things are going that way (because watch them sweep in and privatize with AI—that you're helping to train and create a business case for—once they've finished destroying services)

13 of my books are listed I'm a one-person indie publisher and author. When you pirate my books and use generative AI you're not Robin Hood, you're an asshole on the side of Big Tech billionaires.

Hi if you're an author who is concerned about generative AI and the theft it represents, please let BookBub know because it looks like they're the next ones thinking to try it 😡 bookbub.typeform.com/to/wj7H8oXq #BookSky

Quick note that the Elemental covers are getting barcode updates plus minor cosmetic changes (adding logo to spine, review quote to back)

I'll be presenting on fantasy worldbuilding at the Write Now! annual spring writing conference presented by the Triangle Association of Freelancers in Raleigh in May 2025 Check out the sessions and register 👇🏾 tafnc.com/write-now-20... #BookSky

There's a lot to keep track of in a 10-book series with a couple spin-offs and bonus content books, so I started putting together character profiles Here's Arden's 🌬️ whitneyhillwrites.com/writing-upda...

If you're looking for just a little treat, Elemental is only $0.99 Enter a supernatural world where a precarious balance of power gets upended by the newcomer nobody saw coming. Start the Shadows of Otherside series today: whitneyhillwrites.com/original-fic... #BookSky