Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."

I have a new novelette here! You can read it now if you buy/subscribe, but it’ll be on the website too next month. It’s a secondary world dark fantasy w/ body horror elements, set in a wartime factory where the workers’ memories get wiped out every night via giant hounds licking their bodies. 🩸🐕‍🦺

Anything to make our lives just a little harder, they will do

Saw Joan Jett at the luggage carousel in the Tulsa airport. Remarkably tiny woman.

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

SFWA is doing a survey on LLM use in the industry. You don't need to be a member to submit. Writers/artists/humans need all the advocates we can get, and I hope we can encourage SFWA to take a strong stance. www.sfwa.org/sfwa-survey-...

How can sharing truth be treachery? Fucking seriously- get your shit together, Mainstream Media

It is about this: because so many people do not give a shit about romance, shit gets tried in romance first. You should pay attention to romance publishing news and care about it, because they will try that shit here first.

My cover artist has driven me batshit crazy since Sept by ignoring small details I specifically requested, but it didn't turn out terrible. (Great at premade, difficult with custom). eBook COVER REVEAL!! Me + You by Mallory Glass, a college romance with an older student and a young genius.

If you wouldn't mind... Tell your friends and family to drop your name in the hat at [email protected] for these categories: BEST SHORT STORY: GALEN GOWER Body and Blood BEST ANTHOLOGY: The Best of Carnage House Year Two. #splatterpunk #writing #meetcuteandeateachother

Thanks to @sfwa.org for being so responsive to concerns around the Nebula Awards and LLM use. The Nebula should honor human creativity, as the revised rules now state. However, we also don't want to see writers tripped up on eligibility or hit by witch hunts over minor LLM usage like spell check. 1/

I was excited until I remembered Raiders of the Lost Ark was full of Nazis 😭😭😭

Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...

I have a new prose poetry piece, "Subway Surfing," out today at the lovely @lostballoon.bsky.social. Thank you to Chelsea and the editors for giving this one a home.

FFS. just, no

I read this & can’t shake the hubris of AI dude bros. They really can’t stop the enshittification of every single thing. But more worrying is how strongly they desire to make AI sentient & how they believe they are. How is this not then enslavement? Their intentions are grotesque to me.

Fellow #publishers: I realize there's nothing fool-proof about this, but it's a minimum step we must take to protect our authors' words from being fed through a generative AI tool willy nilly. Switch off Google's default-on smart features. #publishing #whisperhousepress youtu.be/mH0PNLnZCEw

c.org/5tZd6bYPPJ The enshittification continues Petition to Amazon to stop their plans to add AI summaries inside Kindle eBooks

I'd like to enthusiastically recommend @tadethompson.bsky.social's "Liberation." IMHO should be a frontrunner for award nominations. reactormag.com/liberation-t...

My position on taking action. And on the important space between everything and nothing.

Another writing friend with a Pushcart nom! Been great watching friends grow so much in their writing the past 3 years!

So here's what I wish for us: * we give books as holiday gifts * we get them from our local indie bookstores * we spend time reading with the people and pets we love * when we feel the call, we write * we get enough sun, nutrients, movement, and sleep * we bloom again in springtime & kick ass. 11/11

It's the season to appreciate the names of Scottish road gritters ❄️ #Scotland #Christmas

Writing buddy win!

GRRRRR. Got an email that claimed we had signed up to beta test some AI-powered beta feature involving OpenAI. No, we fucking did NOT. Block sender.

Plush #Smiski is just here for the cuddles.

slothandenvy.itch.io/stone-heart/... #booksky #writing #itch #indie

Whole state!

Plows are out, vroom vroom!

So it’s snowing and all these purple ! are crashes. 10:17am SLOW DOWN and drive smart

Boozy Book Fair! What could possibly go wrong? 🍻 Heads up #wisconsin ! Can’t wait to meet your enthusiastic book lovers on Saturday 🦥

Given the events of the last 36 hours, we’re rolling this out even faster. Please sign up to be a hub or help print whistles!

Last chance in 2025!

Furious Furred Judgement.

#Booksky So this event is quite slow and it’s Small Biz Saturday, so what follows is a thread about our books and authors. Queen of Swords Press is a small press focused on fantasy, horror and science fiction with LGBTQ+ protagonists. Read the rainbow! #1

Stone Heart by Mallory Glass is 99 cents this weekend! The linktree will also lead to the 99 cent sale for A Machine for Hugs by Galen Gower 📚💙 📚🌶️

Are you an author? Do you have a #BookSale going on for Black Friday? Share it in the replies and we'll give it a boost! As always, we're especially eager to boost indie & queer books Please add alt text to any images and DO NOT SHARE AI BULLSHIT

Black Friday romance book sale! landof10kromances.carrd.co

Black Friday sale from the Land of 10,000 Romances! Minnesota romance authors (16) ebooks, 99 cents each (one is even free!). #booksky #romancelandia landof10kromances.carrd.co

The Payback is one of @electricliterature.com’s best novels of the year!

some personal news: tomhomanisabitch.com

There are so many great local owned coffee shops in Twin Cities. Support small business!

Ever feel like the gargantuan ceiling fan at IKEA might end up being your Final Destination death?

Fables & Flames! #booksky #minnesota #fablesandflames

The great people at Carnage House included me in their Best of Year Two anthology. My story in this one made someone want to throw up a little, they said. Mine might be one of the tamer stories in the collection. Check it out! a.co/d/ivVcj59

And the press table is next to this gorgeous one. Meet my event neighbor, Israh Azizi, YA fantasy/romance writer.

Ready for Fables & Flames in Minneapolis this weekend! This is the photo wall. I want to steal one of those butterfly lamps, but I won’t. That’s right. I set my table up tonight and forgot to take a picture.

My ChatGPT-loving engineering professor neighbor stopped speaking to me for 3 months because of our dust up over my anti-AI stance…

Behold, my favorite stone! Plucked from the shores of Inishmaan, the middle Island of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland, and most magical place. It is wonderfully rounded from decades, if not centuries, of North Atlantic waves.

"That policy benefits those of us who have been around for awhile, are knowledgeable, and strong willed, while taking advantage of newer writers and those who don’t know any better." Writers, you should read this too. It's a long read, but you will find it edifying.