I live in Plano and I love the fact that I have families on my street from all over the world. The smell of cooking alone is awesome.

Unseasoned meatloaf, no ketchup coating, and full of green pepper. Green pepper makes my me violently nauseated but my mom still insisted on serving this travesty of a meal..

Holy God. Typhoon Warning had gone through one round of editing and will be off to the editor tonight. 114,000 words. This thing is MASSIVE.

The USS Cabala at Seawolf Naval Park on Pelican Island.

The Cavalla’s engine room. I think.

Those are some small, small hatches.

So I went on board a submarine. Getting through those hatches was a delight. But hey, it was interesting.

They can always add it, Ma capitaine. The beauty of the internet is its mutability.

@emoontxwriter.bsky.social Ma Capitaine, Emily Bell from SFWA has been trying to contact you for Lee Martindale’s memorial. If you haven’t gotten her emails, let me know and I’ll send you her email addy.

When you mentioned a friend who was far away and failing, I wondered if it was her. I really wish I hadn't been right.

I was afraid of something like this after her fall -- something similar happened to a family member. Lee was a fierce delight, and I hope she's singing at the campfire on the other side tonight.

I can’t believe it. Lee was a force of nature.

So I binged THE PITT over the weekend and now I’m wandering around muttering, “Baby Jane DOE” in my best charge nurse accent.

Happiest of happies, ma Capitaine!

Love the shirt, sir! Have a great time!

Age verification?

I know how to use a road atlas.

I can't even mine this for useful blurb material, it's that generic and bland. Bah. Into the round file it goes.

Everything here was gleaned by an AI from my blurb and reviews. Of course, he'd love to feature Empress of Storms on a curated Goodreads Listopia list for fantasy romance and paranormal romance titles, and if I said yes I'd get a quote for said services in the mid three figures.

"The combination of high-stakes fantasy, mature romance, and strong character development makes it a perfect fit for a Listopia list focused on fantasy romance and epic love stories."

Notice how there's absolutely nothing specific about the book? Not even the FMC's name?

Just got this from Paul T: "I came across Empress of Storms while curating fantasy romance titles on Goodreads, and it really stood out. The way your heroine balances duty, love, and elemental magic, while navigating the dangers around her, creates a story that’s as thrilling as it is romantic."

Nooo! Let Colleen do her thing!

Oh, now that would be a story—the Nine, tired of the wholesale war on human creativity and the corps organizing it, decide to team up with the Harpies for a little old-style retribution.

You have added to the sum total of creativity in the world. Something Cora Hart will never understand, bless her heart.

A large stuffed folder of files with the title “Epstein” is seen with what looks, at first glance, like a red page marker sticking out of the bottom. On closer inspection it is the bottom of a Trump red neck tie. French newspapers once again showing the kind of basic journalistic integrity lacking from most US national newspapers - whose collective negligence has helped ensure a man implicated in the world’s most notorious sex trafficking ring gets to remain President. That the orange pedo felon remains in office is a plague on all their houses. Cunts, one and all.

The cartoon that appeared this week on the front page of France’s most influential national newspaper, Le Monde

Brilliant work by the cartoonist, Guffo.

Purty much.

And THAT will be an auto-buy.

Like, it's just really easy to see that I am not going to be able to keep up with the LITERAL REST OF THE WORLD in output. Even without AI.

The way people like me win is by writing memorable books that relate to the human experience.

And the thing that will have the most value for me is that people will see my name and know that a human being worked on this book and did her best to make it the best, and most meaningful, book she could.

I mean, yes, fuck her and the whole machine that sees romance as nothing but an excuse to print money. But I also kinda feel sorry for her. What a colorless soul and dull life she must have.

This woman will never experience that. She sees writing as a grift, nothing more, and she’s missing out on the incandescent, sheer blazing joy that comes with storytelling.

Is writing time-consuming? Yup. Is it frustrating at times? Oh, yeah. Is it also immensely satisfying? You bet your bippy.

I write because I want to tell stories, because it satisfies a deep need in me to create. Yes, making money is also part of it, but my goal is to create characters and worlds.

Oh, my giddy aunt.

Other people have already written (brilliantly and by themselves without the help of a LLM) about the bullshit this woman is pulling. I want to mention something else.

This woman will never experience the high of finishing a book.

Yup, I’ve been getting those, too. It’s moderately entertaining to read what the LLM said about my book.