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 😂

#PretendPanel Essential writing critique advice: ask the person whose work you're critiquing what level of critique they are looking for. It is OK if someone only wants positive feedback and vibes - sometimes that's what you need on an early draft. Equally, if they want nitpicks, you need to know!

#WritersCoffeeClub 4 April: Sum up your current WIP in five words. Agent didn't know he was android.

Urrrgh, Draft2Digital are gonna start charging fees if you use paypal for deposits. You can change it to a direct deposit, but then they only pay out (for international payments) when you hit the £10 threshold. I made all of $1.97 last month.

Like with faced with hatred - The Labour Government can never sufficiently placate the greed of American bigtech. Ever. They can sell out the entire British creative industries and it still wouldn't be enough. The choice should be easy.

#pretendpanel not really. I've been in many over the years, but my health doesn't permit it anymore and most of the people in my last group don't want to hear my sexy stories anyway. I've had tremendous support from critique groups over the years, but when people don't like the stories you want>

Perplexed that I still get followed by people who use 'AI' art. We are not gonna be friends. You are a thief and a class traitor. And also it looks shit. It's like anti-advertising. A text post is genuinely gonna get more eyes on your writing. Always.

I’ll be asking META to #DoTheWriteThing on Thursday 3 April to protest Meta's AI theft. @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social will you do the right thing and stand up for creative industries too?

A good time to reshare this.

#writersCoffeeClub 28 March: Happy Respect Your Cat Day! (Isn't that every day?) Who or what accompanies you when you write? MY BABY!! Although it's more like 'Who is preventing you from writing by sitting on your hands because hands are for petting, not laptops?'

Mah books, let me show you them:

It's also on my Patreon, where I had to censor a butt on one of my covers 🙄 The Medium post is cleaner, but love for my Patreon is always appreciated: www.patreon.com/posts/118846...

With the news that Meta pirated vast quantities of works for their 'AI', I feel like this is relevant again. If you can't afford a cover artist, you don't have to use a theft machine! I have a guide on how to make your own cover for free or cheap: medium.com/@QueenRubyJo... #art #books #meta

#WIPSnips 22 March: polish Didn't have this one. I went with 'sheen'. Content note: this is just post sexy times and there is some reflection on what just happened. And here is my small beast enjoying the sunshine: #WriteSky #Writing #Caturday

#WritersCoffeeClub 22 March: What distracts you the most from writing? How do you deal? The chronic illness 😞 I just have to endure and not push it as it will make me worse.

#WritersCoffeeClub 22 March: What distracts you the most from writing? How do you deal? The chronic illness 😞 I just have to endure and not push it as it will make me worse.

With the news that Meta pirated vast quantities of works for their 'AI', I feel like this is relevant again. If you can't afford a cover artist, you don't have to use a theft machine! I have a guide on how to make your own cover for free or cheap: medium.com/@QueenRubyJo... #art #books #meta