So, uh, that’s a gross ass thing for Hachette to do. Two things can absolutely be true at once and it’s this - any use of AI in books should not be accepted.
Not from authors. Not from publishing houses.
They're going after horror, we said this would happen
This is NOT what I signed up for
This 💯
It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.
If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.
Everyone give this a share after.
If you think about it, it is your moral obligation to make sure that everyone reads you write. You wrote what you needed to see in the world! Violent lesbian hunters, maladjusted brats, hounds and masters, polyamorous lesbian dragons; How dare we deprive others of finding them? Advertise your books!
A stylized image of a unicorn with the head of a playing card king skewered on its horn.
Something for Saturday 🚫👑
Hachette UK published a book with AI, and Hachette US almost did the same before they cancelled it.
Interesting article on how mainstream publishing is failing to deal with AI.
i've said this once and I'll say it again:
Creating friendships based on snark, dislikes, and mockery is the worst thing you can do to your mental health.
Makings friends who you can genuinely talk to about the things you enjoy will save you, but friendships bonded exclusively by hate will not
POV shot of Nikko looking down at her lap in cream sweatpants with her medium-hair black cat Lilly curled up on her lap. Lilly has a pretty new collar with a bow decorated in springtime flowers with a creme background. In front of them on the bed (with also creme sheets) is a blue, opened journal with a black pen with a black cat topper sitting on an open empty spread. There’s a blue ribbon bookmark between the pages.
I love my Lilly & Mommy time but she chose right when I was going to write in my journal and alternatively now I’m holding my bladder. 😭💔
"Peaking at around 30" yeah if you're a base coward. Frank Lloyd Wright had his career declared dead by critics at 50 and then at the age of 67 he designed the most famous house in the world: Fallingwater.
Don't believe this self-aggrandizing tripe. Keep making, keep creating. Until you can't.
A girl holds a neon green alien mask with 3 eyes over her face. She wears a green shirt that says “alien” & a pink crystal necklace. A yellow moon is behind her. Along the edge, it says “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft” & to the left it says “By Sage Collins”.
In 2020, 16yo Mia e-mails w/ the brother she's never met, taking his #SF references as proof he’s an 👽
So, she must be.
Then aliens arrive, offering a COVID cure. Mia’s sus. She’ll break out of her bubble & enlist bro to learn if they’re here to serve man or “To Serve Man”
#WSPit #Q #YA #Novella
I don’t know who needs to hear this but listening to an audio book absolutely counts as “reading” a book.
In fact, I’d argue that listening to an author read their own work aloud is an exceptionally magical and even holy experience.
I love it so much. Especially as my eyesight gets worse.
For those of you who were keeping up with the mass market mess, here is a more informative article.
Trade paperbacks cost only 30c more to make and are priced $18-20 now, where mass market paperbacks didn't sell at $12. So... there's your answer. It's about margins.
boingboing.net/2026/02/10/t...
Velma holding a stylus pen, crawling on the ground looking for something and saying "My video essays! I can't draw without my video essays!". On the ground are two youtube thumbnails of video essays "Line goes up -the problem with NFTs" by Dan Olson and "ROBLOX_OOF.MP3" by hbomberguy
They're a requirement
The President shit himself on live TV. Melania bombed. The Epstein files are sending shockwaves through the Alt Right. Liam and his dad are back home. A Texas district that was DEEP red for 35 years flipped blue. Pretti's killers have been identified.
Small wins, but you can feel the change coming.
When I was digging my car out from the snow and ice I stopped for a moment and stuck my shovel in the snow, thinking about how I felt like the ice farmers in the opening of Frozen. Apparently, I was not alone in this lol
Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.
what this should make clear to everyone in this country is that it does not matter who you are, there's no "it could never happen to me"
you can be a white woman who drives around with stuffed animals in her car, and they will still kill you in cold blood and call you a domestic terrorist
Watching stranger things season 4 finale while recovering from the flu was a bad idea… but at least I had tissues for Dustin & Mr. Munson’s talk.
YALL I came down with the most sickening sickness on the 30th I am still recovering from it. Full on fever, body chills, etc. I had my flu shot, masked up in public, and took vitamin c daily. What the heck??? Ty to my nurses Phoebe (cat) and Josh (bf) for taking care of me during this trying time.
I think you should get weirder and freakier about their writing next year. Expel the thoughts of "is this too much? too strange? too out there?" fuck it, we ball. Break the ancient seal cast upon ye. Unleash the inner esoteric thing within clawing, begging to wreak creative havoc.
There’s a kitten rescuer whose videos I love, but she’s clearly been rescuing kittens for so long that she’s run out of cute names
Every new video has the cutest kittens you ever seen, with a caption like, “Meet the Roofing Materials kittens: Tar Paper, Shingles, and Fiberglass!”
While I have 70,000 followers over on X, somehow I get more engagement and likes on Bsky, with not even 10% of my followers here . I dont see how one could complain about this place when they havent put in the effort of socializing with other artists. I actually think Bsky is what X should've been!
The ancestors prayed for someone like you in their bloodline. They sang about you, they told stories about who you would be.
me hitting like on this with my greasy taco bell fingers, slurping my baja blast zero
Just watched Better Watch Out from 2016… wow! Very well written; loved the characters and the way the story progressed. Scary good Christmas movie!
I wanted to read 24 books but so far am at 9. I’m 70% through How to Sell a Haunted House (love it) and about that through the second novel in the Annihilation series that I’ve been trying to finish since last year. 😅 Audiobooks have been my savior for reading this year!!
Finally watched Weapons… WOW! One of my recent favorite horror movies. Beautiful writing and visuals. 10/10!
KOSA passed out of the subcommittee in the House on 13-10 vote. Meaning that they are FINALLY listening to some opposition. But not enough to prevent the other age verification bills from passing, let alone this.
They MUST listen to opposition. Losing this fight is NOT an option.
