I'm really disappointed in the Guardian for publishing this crap, but it is heartening to see him getting skewered with the red-hot poker of common sense in the comment section.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines.

Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

From the fantasyromance community on Reddit: Harlequin to Co-Produce AI-Generated ‘Microdramas’ Explore this post and more from the fantasyromance community

So Harlequin closes the HR line and starts producing AI slop. This is so fucking enraging.

Quit calling yourself a publisher if you're using software that *literally* runs on stolen copyrighted works. Be honest and say you're a garbage word vomit seller.

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I fully applaud anyone taking any initiative to resist against the awfulness of tech being imposed on us. I need to type to get in a proper flow, but I've been on Linux & LibreOffice for years and also use FocusWriter. No default AI bullshit, no data scraping. Every step away from it helps.

Watched the two first episodes of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and I love everything about it. Beautiful and heart-warming and just so darn fun. My husband had to convince me to try because GoT scarred me, and as always he was spot on.

Love it! Very swoony and sexy. Where did you find the vintage illustrations you're using?

Same! It's heartening to see the pushback in bookish circles on BlueSky at least, it does give me hope.

I really sympathize with what you're going through. It's tough when you feel like you're the only voice of reason and everyone around you is falling for smokes and mirrors. Hang in there 🙏

why the hell would you use chatgpt or ai to brainstorm? Or for anything else for that matter, but really? The easiest most fun part? Using your brain meat to conjure up something totally new that only you could think up? okay dude. rob yourself of the joy and process, I guess. Loser ass behaviour.

An open letter to Grammarly and other plagiarists, thieves and slop merchants To everyone at Grammarly, I am writing a book right now, a really challenging endeavor that no doubt someone in Silicon Valley will think it’s fine to steal the day it’s published. I’ve been a profes...

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...

It is super scary that people are literally outsourcing the most basic uncomplicated decisions to a machine. Do you get any reaction from them when you tell them the resources they're taking up, notably in water, when they ask ChatGPT what they should have for dinner?

I need to know if Cave-Man Kisses is one of those stories where there's a frozen caveman who defrosts and discovers the modern world because I love that trope. Bonus if the heroine is a plucky scientist. (Now I kind of want to write that story tbh.)

I wish I was a serious author so I could master the fine art of posting rage-bait online then following up with a "hahaha you all are so dumb I was just being ironic" post.

That's a good way to go about it, and it's true that what he wrote is way better than anything I've read in French mainstream media. A few years back Le Monde published an article that boiled down to "the girls who post about romance books on bookstagram are dumb and need to get laid" so... yeah.

Thankfully I'm not in it to make money. I truly don't care if I make five euros from my next book. At this point I've considered posting my work for free on Wattpad, or sending the ebook file to whoever wants it. I just want a genuine connection with readers and other authors. I just want to write.

And I *know* I'm shooting myself in the foot as an author. I had a tiny amount of visibility and now I have none. Posting on BS is mostly shouting into the void. Not publishing on Amazon will probably cut me off from the handful of readers I might have had.

Secondly, this is the same reason why I cannot use Meta products anymore. I just can't. I can't give data and money and precious time to people who are actively working against every single one of my core values. AI is just another layer of festering turds added to the anti-human shit pile.

First of all, the numbers are telling. We chose not to publish our hockey romance on KU (I have a Kobo reader, I can't imagine not being able to buy my own damn book). With little to no promo, we sold zilch on Amz and much more on Apple Books. I'm guessing Amz buries books that aren't on KU.

Amazon pulls sponsorship from Paris book festival after booksellers’ association boycott Syndicat de la Librairie Française accused online retailer of trying to ‘flood the market with fake AI-generated books’

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m... fully backing the SLF's hostility to Amz here, they're 100% correct in their accusations. After talking about this with my co-author / long-time beta reader, I'm almost certain I won't self-pub my next book on Amz.

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Interesting read. It is, however, extremely biased against historical romance. "A gooey parlor drama with bursting corsets and lacy gowns written entirely in third-person omniscient" is not a fair description of an entire genre, and it also incorrectly implies that said genre no longer exists.

I have the same problem. In the early days I had real hopes that a part of Romancelandia would migrate here, at least for short posts (because it can't really replace IG) but it seems everyone stayed on Threads.

Wow, that's quite a giveaway! I already have a copy of this legendary book but I hope whoever wins enjoys this!

Also thanks for continuing to post vintage clinch covers on BlueSky. I truly miss seeing them on my feed since I quit Instagram, I wish there were more of us active here.

Spin-off idea: Violet and Mrs Wilson team up to solve mysteries and fight crime.

Also I need Eloise, Cressida and Posy to become a girl gang, they're all lovable dorks in their own way.

Absolutely loved s4 of #Bridgerton. The best season by a mile, all the plots were engaging but didn't distract from the swoony perfection of Sophie and Benedict, and the acting was top notch, especially in episode 7.

Cover for "Blue Heaven, Black Night" by Shannon Drake.

I have a huuuuuge collection of vintage romances and I miss posting them on IG, so I may as well post them here. You can expect a lot more.

Stepback for "Blue Heaven, Black Night" by Shannon Drake representing a lady in a blue gown leaning against a man dressed like a knight.

Timeline cleanse with a vintage #stepback. I used this as a cover picture for my first blog post. From "Blue Heaven, Black Night" by Shannon Drake (cover below).

#romancelandia #vintagebooks #clinchcover

Fun fact, my great-grandmother was a maid in the household of the lady in the first painting.

"Triple Portrait of Yvonne Lerolle" by Maurice Denis, 1897 (Musée d'Orsay)

"Woman with an Orchid" by Egdard Maxence, 1900 (Musée d'Orsay)

"Three Women with Sunshades" by Marie Bracquemond (Musée d'Orsay)

"The Wheel of Fortune" by Edward Burne-Jones, 1875-1883 (Musée d'Orsay)

Took a trip to my favorite museum today.

Thanks for sharing!