An excellent piece by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social and Christopher Nygren, and I thank the authors for linking our open letter in their call for collective action against AI in education. If you center compassion in your classrooms, you need to read this. #EduSky www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

Students deserve a voice and an understanding of the "whys" of teachers' opposition to unethical technology. We need to understand their whys, too. This article bridges many audiences, and I think it could be a primer to kick off that dialogue. #EduSky www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Krampus wants you to love my cozy-but-fierce paranormal romance. Don't make me get witchy. #amquerying #writingcommunity #writesky #paranormalromance

Happy last week of classes! Remind me not to teach overload in the same semester as my search for a literary agent. My hair may be shiny AF, but inside my witchy soul is unraveling. #amquerying #writingprof #writingcommunity #poet #romancelandia #witches #solstice #redheadedmagic

Stop calling poetry a "soft" skill, mofos. Ain't nothing soft about it.

If ya'll could send me a grading elf, I'd be much obliged. Oh. Bourbon, too. ❄️ #amquerying #writingcommunity #edits #writinglife #romanceauthor #queryingwriter #WhoWillGradeAllThesePapers

Querying perseverance tip #1777: Don't let all the rejection force you to conclude that "no one likes" your fiction. That's doubt talking. No one likes your poetry, either. Now go make fauxpirational memes! #amquerying

Dud wellness goals? Replace them with FERAL. ©️ Example: "I am kind" becomes "I am feral." Dump toxic gratitude & ask: what witchtastic balm* will set my feral heart aflame? *NB: FERAL is not an actual balm, but if it were, it would be free of sulfites & tech bros. #amquerying #cottagecore #feral

All I want for Christmas is a literary agent, but in the meantime, I'm working on my side hustle as a Toast Influencer. ©️ I test all recipes and do not use bots. I will never ask you for financial information unless I really need a bougie facial. #amquerying

It may be of little consequence in the burning world, but stop trying to make mushroom coffee happen, yeah? #amquerying #INeedRealCoffeeYo

JCO trolling maga wins the internet. Her takedowns of Musk are equally sublime.

From Samhain to the winter solstice: let darkness come. #CelticFireFestivals #Samhain #harvest #BlessedBe

Are You There God? It's Me, Melanie. #amquerying #booksky #writersky #romancelandia #writinglife

That one time I wrote a really unserious book that started as a complete joke to pitch to my agent, and then everyone loved it and said it was my best yet and I had a whole identity crisis..... You can read it #writingcommunity : open.substack.com/pub/kellylbe...

Magic 8 Ball: Goth Edition Q: Will a literary agent love my ragetastic paranormal romance? A: "If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear." -Mary Shelley Fin. #amquerying #writesky #writersky #romancelandia #writingcommunity

It's almost Samhain! Do you know what paranormal romance shares with monster literature and media? An appreciation of the well made brute. The world is burning and you can stop pretending not to love paranormal romance, or if you're some kinda green fool newb: lucky, lucky you. 🦇 #romancelandia

The resistance finding a home is big, but finding each other has been life-affirming. Join us in the Library of Babel, friends. Check out what we're about at the link. #NoSurveillance #Humanity #AIRefusal #AIinEdu #EduSky #AIResistance #Luddites #WriterSky www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...

That first incredulous "what?" made me cheer. Meanwhile, the disconnect between creatives and AI hypers grows to a chasm. #writersky #AI #edusky #writesky #AIresistance #AIrefusal

Need an autumn-themed, swoony distraction? Grab a copy of my 5-minute romance in WW. On newsstands this week! 🍁❤️ @womansworldmag.bsky.social #romancelandia #writesky #freelance #writersky #romance #writingcommunity

AWP members, this webinar is free for members: October 21 1:00PM ETS. Registration required. #WriteSky #WriterSky #AWP #AI awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/Maga...

Check out two stabby new poems in @villaineralit.bsky.social, a literary magazine of revenge. 🔪 #poetry #writesky #publishing

Need a swoony distraction? My flash fic, "A Season for Love" will appear in WW mag, on sale Oct 10. It's a dual POV set in an apple orchard after a 5K. ✍️💙📚🍁 #freelance #publishing #romancelandia #amquerying #writerlife #writingcommunity #booksky #amwriting #writesky #romancelit #author #lovestory

Joyful aspects of querying: ✍️ Researching agents. I love their personal, bookish stories. The manuscript wish lists that light you on fire. ✍️The little thrill of hope when you hit send. ✍️ Putting off grading to examine QT stats just long enough to conclude you might be a "maybe." #amquerying

Book Broker: an interview with literary agent Kerry D'Agostino "It is very clear when we receive a manuscript that is an early stage of drafting." darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/b... #amquerying #mswl

"These violent delights have violent ends." #AI #ActorsGuild #HumanRights #Shakespeare #Westworld

I wish Query Tracker had an after hours lounge where insomniac writers in different time zones could meet to laugh and cry together. 💙📚 #AmQuerying #Authors #TradPub #WritingCommunity #WriterLife #WriteSky #SpecFic #WriterSky #ParanormalRomance #RomanceWriter #BookSky #Gingers #WritingProf #Romance

It is a joy, privilege, and responsibility to create reading lists for my students. It's also more important than ever to stand against censorship and in solidarity with academic freedom in education. #EduSky #RightToRead #PenAmerica #anticensorship #readbannedbooks pen.org/report/the-n...

My Weird Tales lit class is tearing through several novellas, and they are the perfect length to capture the reading attentions of college students. If you haven't read Becky Chambers, you ought to. Next up: book 1 of Murderbot by Martha Wells. *Squeals in Sci Fi* #novellas #writingprof #readmore

Exactly what I have been telling my creative writing students. I am glad to see this kind of messaging on more and more literary agents' submission guidelines. #EduSky #creativewriting #amquerying #humancreativity #AIResistance @ecniumata.bsky.social erinniumata.substack.com/p/why-i-cann...

I feel this way about socialslop, too. Imagine that? Automation is not only unethical; it deskills with a vengeance. #AIResistance #AIRefusal #HumansDoItBetter hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

Pssst: wanna read banned books with me in a red state? Knock twice. Bring booze. Password: Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. #ALA #ReadHumanAuthoredBooks #CelebrateYourRightToRead #EduSky #writingprof #amquerying ✍️🚫🤖 bannedbooksweek.org

America, when will you be angelic?* When will you take off your clothes? *Ginsberg doesn't use a comma in a direct address, but I do. 😀🇺🇸🚫🤖 www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49305/...

Hard working writers. Creatives toiling in education, our craft hacked by unethical tech. Writers who hustle for every reader. Nobody poets. Debut novelists. Bestsellers. Indie authors. Syntax wizards in nonfiction. Cover artists. I see you. I stand with you. #Human apnews.com/article/anth...

Excellent piece in the Chronicle by Kevin Gannon about AI resistance in higher ed. #EduSky #AIResistance www.chronicle.com/article/some...

Little pep talk after hitting send on new queries.😬❤️ #amquerying #writingcommunity #romanceauthor #poetwritingprose #publishing #perseverance #writingprof #hopeful Cool news: I'm leading the Ireland & Scotland study abroad trip at my uni again in 2026! Travelling research, here I come. #inspired 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Trying to temper the bruising rejection of the querying process with bright spots. Proposal to AWP accepted. New poetry forthcoming in Villain Era; flash romance sold to Woman's World. This should be a balm, but I still feel shattered. Why are y'all such sadists, fiction writers? #amquerying

Sycophant bots don't know the law. LLMs are not research partners, oracles, or editors gifted in rhetorical analyses. They can't generate passably unbiased text. Let's not call it writing, mkay? Lawyers: if college students have to disclose their AI use, so should you. www.ijpr.org/law-and-just...

A bright spot in the bruising process of querying is noting how many literary agencies have AI disclosures and outright bans in their submission guidelines. A legion of writing profs, writers, & artists in academia stand with the publishing community in resistance. #amquerying #AIRefusal #EduSky

I've washed and reassembled the duvet cover, and I intend to submit this as the sole artifact for my mid-tenure dossier. My mom supervised and I did it wrong. What do you want from me, academia? Another heartbreaking paranormal romance? More poems written in the blood of gingers? #writingprof

My manuscript is the one in the delicious, genre-bending powder blue jumpsuit on the end. 🤩🇮🇪🩵 #amquerying #MSWL #publishing #writinglife #romance #debut #poetwritingfiction #GrumpyIrishWerelion #mountaincore #Celtic #paranormal #fantasy #WitchesFightingPatriarchy #analogresearch #folklore

QueryTracker: the manuscript. Genre: cosmic horror Vibes: obsession; darkcore meets hopepunk Wish list: commercial but make it cross-over, literary, book club, with genre flair. No vampires. If you need me, I'm overthinking if my query might be a life-affirming maybe. #amquerying #MSWL #romance

#HumanAuthor #ResistRobots #touchgrass #RedheadsDoItBetter

Wuthering Heights is the original grumpy/brain fever trope. Why is everyone dissing this adaptation? So. Many. Cheekbones. Come with me on Valentine's Day? You know you want to. And if you don't: I'll haunt you, brute. ❤️ #romance #windswept #tropey #notguilty #bronte #takemymoney

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