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Blood and Sand (The Pride 3) OUT NOW! Can grumpy cheetah shifter Alistair and his witch Sam navigate a war between bootleggers in magical 1920s Chicago? BUY FROM ME: jordanlhawk.com Buy from a corporation: buy.bookfunnel.com/lyrqak2v2t

Bess and I are in the Wellington (New Zealand) paper today! It's for a piece called My Wellington so I'm mostly talking about what I love about the city but I talk a bit about my books too ☺️

May’s a wonderful editor. Thoughtful, considerate, incisive, and very gentle. She’s also like that as a person but that’s beside the point.

«People surprise you sometimes, don’t they?» Something human, A.J. Demas #Quotes #Books

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent. State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

I know this is, money-wise, the absolute worst time to ask for donations, but I made a thing for Katie's treatments. They'll be rather expensive, and I don't want to not do it because she's still young and spritely and this could be almost curative.

Result! Just received from Grammarly: "Hi, Thank you for reaching out. After careful consideration, we have decided to deactivate Expert Review while we reimagine how to make it more useful for customers and more respectful of the experts whose work it surfaces." 1/ 🧪💙📚 🗃 #academicsky

I've decided that instead of wasting my own time to see if Grammarly has stolen my name and writing for use their business, I'd just email them to opt out and make them waste some time cleaning up their own goddamn mess. www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

“Now, Grammarly has finally addressed the backlash — but not by apologizing, and not by walking the feature back. For now, it will graciously give us the chance to opt-out of something we didn’t know it was doing to begin with.”

I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...

So basically the new Human Authored scheme doesn't have any verification at all. It's 100% honour based. As long as you're an SoA member you can assert that your work wasn't generated by LLM / AI and put a logo on it. AKA we're taking people's word that they aren't dishonest.

Writers take note

Blood and Sand (The Pride 3) THIS FRIDAY! The final book in The Pride series arrives, featuring grumpy cheetah familiar Alistair and his sunshine witch Sam. PREORDER FROM ME: jordanlhawk.com/products/blo... Preorder from a corporation: buy.bookfunnel.com/lyrqak2v2t

I dreamt about writing, but forgot what I wrote as soon as I woke up.

I was interviewed by @mdeblassie.bsky.social for her Historical Romance class! It's here, next to an interview with the terrific Lydia San Andres.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups! They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me #Archaeology

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Do not under any circumstances assume a link or a claimed partnership or an Instagram account or a website is proof of reality.

Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.

LIMBER UP, BETTING FOOLS!!!! You can head over to the OFMD Craft Market and start favoriting the beautiful things you intend to fight for! If you're an RTV participant who donated something, link us to it so we can boost you! 💓

I am doing an online event with the legend that is @tkingfisher.com! We'll be talking about the new book Wolf Worm, the joys of paladins, what is her deal with terrifying horses anyway, and much more. Tickets here, and UK people can get a signed hardback too!

Dan Simmons, noted racist, has died. He wrote Hyperion, which contained a good short story and then a lot of other words, which many of us read anyway because it was the Nineties and Waldenbooks had a limited science fiction section.

I have said it before & I will say it again: sometimes nothing sells a book like a 1 star review. I am certain this 1 star review will sell this book to at least one of you.

«“That’s what I think.” “Think or hope?” “It can be both, you know.”» Starfire, AJ Sherwood #Quotes #Books

«"You can always be weird with me." "That’s weirdly reassuring"». Capricorn faces Scorpio, Anyta Sunday #Quotes #Books #Weird

Going through the print proof of Blood and Sand to make sure everything looks right, and realized people might see "Christine of the Hungry Heart" and think it's a W&G ref, but no, it was a real movie about a woman with bad taste in men: www.imdb.com/title/tt0014...

I know it’s difficult right now, but I insist that you seek and enjoy beautiful things, even if it seems frivolous or irresponsible in the face of overwhelming horror. I want you to feed yourself artistically, spiritually, and literally, because you can’t Do The Work when you’re starving.

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

TODAY is the last day to get books 1-3 in the Reanimator Mysteries for $2.99 each on Chirp! 🫀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow 🫀MM historical paranormal romance 🫀An autistic necromancer 🫀His undead love 🫀And the mysteries that bring them together Grab them here: www.chirpbooks.com/series/the-r...

Play it again, Aidan Wayne #Quotes #Books 📕

«I have no gift for friendship (…) I wish I did, and I do my best, but somehow it does not happen.» Mr Collins in love, Lee Welch #Quotes #Books 😢

Hey yall this is your chance to show the trans community you really are an ally and you're not just saying it for brownie points!! -Do not support ANY of this -JK Rowling has said on numerous occasions that her income goes DIRECTLY into anti-trans legislation in the UK -Seriously. NONE. Of it.

May this year treat you kindly, little horse #lunarnewyear #yearofthehorse #digitalart

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Foxes in Snow #digitalart

If you've ever thought about picking up my books, now would be a great time because ✨vet bills✨ The audiobooks are also on sale on Chirp for $2.99 each until the 25th: www.chirpbooks.com/series/the-r...

Ramadan has started, and the World Central Kitchen has a program to distribute food aid to people in Gaza. Each kit for Ramadan contains nearly 30 pounds of halal—enough for up to 70 meals. If you have spare funds, please consider a donation of $60 to assist the people still struggling in Gaza.

Ramadan Mubarak! This month, pick up a book by a queer Muslim author.

Cleopatra lived closer in time to 'yeet' being in the dictionary than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

The Kobo sale is still on for a few more days!

Today I'm over at writer and Austenite Frances Duncan's blog talking about writing process and world-building. Check out the interview and also get a chance to win a free ebook of Mr Collins in Love, my m/m romance Pride and Prejudice retelling... francesduncandoes.com/blog/

have you ever read one of my Discworld QOTDs and thought, hey, I should really get around to reading those books? good news! the full series is back on Humble Bundle - it’s Kobo but it’s pretty easily to transfer those to your preferred e-reader you won’t regret it

FREE ON KOBO! Unhallowed (Rath & Rune 1) Can a bookbinder with a secret and a librarian stop an evil book from being unleashed on the world? DOWNLOAD HERE: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

Heads up, Waterstones is doing 25% off preorders of HOW TO FAKE IT IN SOCIETY. Enter the code FEB26 to get the deal. This lasts to the 20th so get in quick! #WPreorder

«Men do strange things in pursuit of wealth.» Hoarfrost, Jordan L. Hawk #Quotes #Books

Romancing the Gothic organises free talks every Saturday all through the year! Our talks are open to all, happen at two different times (usually) so people can join us from different time zones, and are free (though donations welcome to support the programme) This year's programme below!

Book club scams are now threatening authors who don't fall for their BS. In December, I received an email from Herry Sharp, so-called CEO of "Super Book Lover Curator" praising my novella We Who Hunt Alexanders. Totally AI-generated and a scam so I didn't respond. Now Herry is threatening me. 1/

I used to use detectors before realizing they are also basically LLMs and hallucinate answers just like any other LLM

I’m actively taking new editing clients! Whether you’re stuck on a book, want help with a project idea, or simply have a manuscript you want to make the best it can be, check out my website for info about services and fees! www.maypetersonbooks.com/editorial/