It's upsetting that the question even has to be asked, but at least they are allowing people to tell them just how bad it is. Have at!

Hey, so, my baby cat had an unexpected trip to the vets. The vet said it's nothing to worry about, but she's still poorly and seeing the vet cost money. If you've ever wondered about buying my books, it would be a wonderful gift for me and the small girl. www.smashwords.com/profile/view...

The first chapter is free, the rest are for paid members only. Star here! www.patreon.com/posts/synthe...

Synthetic Agency, Chapter Six, is finally here! www.patreon.com/posts/146353... Summary: While pursuing a serial killer who targets androids and dissects them alive, FBI Agent Blake Hall is captured. He is not prepared for what the killer finds under his skin. #romance #scifi #lgbtq+ #indie

Whoop! Whoop! All my books are in the Smashwords sale! If you like steamy, angsty romance and erotica, check these out! 50% off: - An Unexpected Attachment - Too Hot to Handle - Ruinous Attraction Free: - Oviposition www.smashwords.com/profile/view... #EoYSale25 #Smashwords #books #romance

I write and draw SF/F/H erotica and erotic romance. I like the sexy and the strange and I like it with feeling. You can find my stories on: Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Ruby-... Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/profile/view... Patreon: patreon.com/rubyjones Medium: medium.com/@QueenRubyJo...

If you claim to be an 'academic' or a 'researcher' or similar and your position is that you should not have to read things and/or write things and you would like the plagiarism machine to do that for you then please step aside and let someone who would like to work in the field have your job.

Synthetic Agency, Chapter Six, is finally here! www.patreon.com/posts/146353... Summary: While pursuing a serial killer who targets androids and dissects them alive, FBI Agent Blake Hall is captured. He is not prepared for what the killer finds under his skin. #romance #scifi #lgbtq+ #indie

Now would be a great time to buy books from anywhere but Amazon. And hey, all my books are on sale at Smashwords! Please support indie authors right now as we contemplate 'voluntarily' cutting off our largest income stream.

I am so upset and furious and exhausted: writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k... “To ensure a consistent reading experience, the feature is always on, and there is no option for authors or publishers to opt titles out.” It looks like I'm gonna have to pull my books off Amazon. #kindle #Amazon #theft

Now would be a great time to buy books from anywhere but Amazon. And hey, all my books are on sale at Smashwords! Please support indie authors right now as we contemplate 'voluntarily' cutting off our largest income stream.

I am so upset and furious and exhausted: writerbeware.blog/2025/12/12/k... “To ensure a consistent reading experience, the feature is always on, and there is no option for authors or publishers to opt titles out.” It looks like I'm gonna have to pull my books off Amazon. #kindle #Amazon #theft

while you are making your best-SFF-books of the year lists you COULD, I'm just saying, think about which of those books are relevant to the aims of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, and which ones you might wanna nominate for the prize when nominations open in March just saying

Deep sighs, everyone.

Hey, long time no post. I've been struggling a lot this year, both mentally and physically. I'm trying to get back into the swing of things without pushing myself like I did at the start of the year. Please bear with me. I am back editing Synthetic Agency again & my books are in the Smashwords sale

Whoop! Whoop! All my books are in the Smashwords sale! If you like steamy, angsty romance and erotica, check these out! 50% off: - An Unexpected Attachment - Too Hot to Handle - Ruinous Attraction Free: - Oviposition www.smashwords.com/profile/view... #EoYSale25 #Smashwords #books #romance

Rewatching True Blood. Goddamn, they really bottled horny for this show, huh? #TrueBlood

It's now the day after my birthday, but it's never too late to make me smile! Thank you to everyone who boosted this yesterday!

It's now the day after my birthday, but it's never too late to make me smile! Thank you to everyone who boosted this yesterday!

Hey, it's my birthday! And my smutty SF&F books are in the Smashwords sale! It would be a wonderful birthday gift if you were to buy a book and share this! www.smashwords.com/profile/view... #books #erotica #romance #smut #lgbtq+ #gay #IndiePublishing #romantasy #SF #androids #robots #tentacles

Hey, it's my birthday! And my smutty SF&F books are in the Smashwords sale! It would be a wonderful birthday gift if you were to buy a book and share this! www.smashwords.com/profile/view... #books #erotica #romance #smut #lgbtq+ #gay #IndiePublishing #romantasy #SF #androids #robots #tentacles

Update: I am not at all well. My health has got worse and I'm able to do much less than I was, which includes updating my Patreon. I'm discontinuing the Unconditional Love tier - please move to a free membership. It's not the end; just a pause: www.patreon.com/posts/state-... #SyntheticAgency

I've just sent an email to Seattle Worldcon about all this, but I wanted to highlight this for everyone else: Their own Privacy Policy does NOT give them permission to share your personal data (even "just" your name) with genAI seattlein2025.org/about/privac...

Now is apparently a good time to remind people why generative-'AI' is bad and how you do not have to use it to create your book covers for free or cheap: www.patreon.com/posts/118846...

"The Supreme Court was clear that trans people should be treated with dignity and respect. Why does the EHRC's interim update published on 25 April not address this point?"

Just heard about the latest Worldcon nonsense (using ChatGPT to get panelists without their consent). Sweet. Baby. Kittens.

Worse again today. Trying to do as little as possible to recover some functionality. I am so bored and frustrated.

This is 100% wrong. The point of impeachment is to help the 35% of Americans who don’t know about all the awful stuff happening under Trump to find out. It’s TV. This isn’t complicated or legal or even political. It’s straight out campaign media.

#WIPSnips 27 April: indeed Just one use in the whole of Synthetic Agency, and it's from quite late on:

For the folks who don't know: this is my queer Gothic gaslamp fantasy serial, the story Archer, Sabbat, Viola, Fest, and Mortimer are all from, and where pretty much all my WIPSnips snippets are taken from. There's a longer intro here, as well as content notes: saranadosfiction.com/2023/12/11/a...

Ugh can authors PLEASE stop shilling for the plagiarism machine, yes even ones that don't have to do with writing. OMFG

#WIPSnips 26 April: decor No 'decor' in Synthetic Agency, but I think this description is as close as it gets.

In all seriousness, anyone outside the US, *please* do not come here for the foreseeable future.

Honestly the same as the quoted person. I really wanted to be Ariel. I would pretend to be a mermaid every time I want swimming.

A homeless person's greatest enemy - more than addiction, more than physical or mental illness - is hopelessness. #HousingFirst does the best job of alleviating that.

Sorry for disappearing off the map, folks. It's been a tough time with the old chronic illness.

#WordWeavers 11 April: Could your SC do your job? I am too sick to have a job. Ruth and Sam are able-bodied, so, no, they couldn't not have a job in the way that I do.

#WritersCoffeeClub 11. Share a favourite line of prose Mine, or someone else's?😂 Here's one from Stephen King - The first line of The Gunslinger: "The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed." It's engraved on my heart forever. It's so ominous and so simple and so powerful.

Kirkland & Ellis, Allen Overy Shearman Sterling, Simpson Thatcher, and Latham & Watkins should be viewed as administration shills now. It would be a mistake to engage them in any matter in which your interests and positions are not congruent with this administration’s.

The way I SCREAMED when he cut that woman off and said "we don't care." Rousing stuff. Delicious.

Simpson Thatcher, you fucking cowards.

Having a hard one lads.

There is, in my conception, nothing wrong with calling things disabilities. My disabilities - dyslexia, depression, anxiety, the resulting suicidality. Those in my family - Down syndrome, autism, crohns, fibro, adhd. And there's a lot wrong with saying "it's just difference." It is ALSO difference.

#WritersCoffeeClub 9 April: How much room for the fantastical is there in your work? All the room! I write SF/F/H erotica and romance. I write to be taken out of the real world and its real pains and lack of escape. The fantastic is essential!

Haha, my academic career means nothing anymore 🤣

#WritersCoffeeClub Day 8: Share a simile or metaphor that stuck with you. 'I will show you fear in a handful of dust' from t s eliot's The Wasteland but first encountered quotes in Stephen King's Dark Tower books - l The Waste Lands (which would make sense) but I'm not getting up to check. >

#WritersCoffeeClub 6 April: Do you edit while writing, or go wild and fix it later? Both is good 😂