This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

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How it's going to work: Art Sales | Kathryn Reynolds Get more from Kathryn Reynolds on Patreon

PUBLIC POST is up, explaining how sales of my art will be going forward:

A turquoise circle emblazoned with a University emblem of book, shield, and laurels. "EST 1811" can be seen underneath the book. Around the emblem reads "Proud graduate of the Jane Austen School for Unrealistic Expectations."

Oops. I did it again. New design for my shop. You know who you are, and your diploma is a weapon.

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HUGE batch of goodies for all paid levels, as well as some updates on what is in the works:

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

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The first line of BURY THE DEAD is "Going home is hard." Ollie hasn't felt like it's home since her mom and sister were murdered, but she's struggling to keep a connection to her past while moving toward her future.

#QueerWritersChat

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Maggie left for college and never went back to the place she grew up. Denny's close to his family, but he's not living in the same city anymore.

A lot of my characters leave (and not just for witness protection). Something about needing to be someone a place won't let them be.

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It's cheesy but from the heart: it's the people that make my characters have a sense of home. You have the places that locals will recognize, but you also have the comfort of MCs being able to relax and be their messiest self around certain people within those places.

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The vast majority of my characters call Michigan home because it's what I know best. My current WIP is set in Grand Rapids and Traverse City, but there's also South Range, and Marquette, and Kalamazoo ... and a town I made up in Iowa. 😆 That's for characters in witness protection.

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Hello! I'm Rebecca and I write nonfiction (true crime) and fiction (thrillers set in my home state of Michigan). This week I started drafting a novel where Maggie has the worst day of her life: she gets a cancer diagnosis on the same day her little sister is arrested for murder.

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Foxglove Fiction Candace Harper and Ceillie Simkiss are one person writing under two pen names. She is a queer, neurodivergent woman living with her family and furballs in the South.She’s known for being the overly en...

The Government has decided I owe them $247 a month for student loans starting in May, so if you had any interest in buying my books or crochet things, I would love to sell you some!

I also do custom crochet things, so feel free to reach out!

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Just as I was about to fall asleep last night I jerked awake with the realization that, while cleaning out my laptop, I’d deleted all the notes for my book that’s due in October. Luckily Past Me had saved it in two other places.

Be like Past Me. Back up your work.

Bury the Dead: 15 table of contents Ollie Clark—Wednesday, June 26, 2019 Len was in his cabin, and he turned down the music—classical, of all things—before opening the door. “Ollie. Eli.” Each name was two syllables, but they clearly didn’t taste the same in his mouth. “How can I help you?” “You don’t actually think Eli did it, but you let my dad think you do.”

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table of contents Ollie Clark—Wednesday, June 26, 2019 Len was in his cabin, and he turned down the music—classical, of all things—before opening the door. “Ollie. Eli.” Each name was two syllables, but they clearly didn’t taste the same in his mouth. “How can I help you?” “You…

The thing is, this is probably happening because AI book “authors” are uploading hundreds of books and then not selling many of them because that’s not the plan.

… no.

… yes.

Fan art of Emmrich from Dragon Age: The Veilguard, digital painting. Emmerich is divided down the middle, with his human form on the left, and his Lich form on the right.

A cute goblin digital painting, showing the goblin in armor and using a barrel lid as a shield / paint palette, while holding up a magically glowing paint brush.

A dragon that looks as if it is made from living wood, standing in a burnt out forest and regrowing it with magic.

A robed figure standing before a giant mystical elk in a snowy forest.

#PortolioDay I'm Xero. I'm an artist living in Colorado. I do neat things. Well, I think they're neat. I hope you like neat things.

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Bury the Dead: 14 table of contents Ollie Clark—Wednesday, June 26, 2019 It was amazing how much packing you could get done when you stayed in the apartment. When you left your phone on silent, face down, in another room so you didn’t have to see missed calls or messages of any sort. Including the ones from, say, the florist and the venue expressing their sorrow at the cancellation, because Ollie didn’t feel like explaining why things changed.

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table of contents Ollie Clark—Wednesday, June 26, 2019 It was amazing how much packing you could get done when you stayed in the apartment. When you left your phone on silent, face down, in another room so you didn’t have to see missed calls or messages of any sort. Including the…

“I’m really not used the heat anymore.”

“Where are you from?” Ollie tried not to show how inane she thought the cocktail party question was.

Johanna smiled. “Albuquerque. It’s a dry heat.”

#WIPSnips

Bury the Dead: 13 table of contents Interview excerpts, Len Wilcox with Terri Simmons, June 25, 2019 TS: I’m so glad you could come over. Cookie? LW: No, thank you. I’ve only got about an hour, Ms. Simmons— TS: Terri. LW:—so if we could jump right in …? TS: Right, okay. So. I told you I used to babysit the girls. That’s a polite fiction.

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table of contents Interview excerpts, Len Wilcox with Terri Simmons, June 25, 2019 TS: I’m so glad you could come over. Cookie? LW: No, thank you. I’ve only got about an hour, Ms. Simmons— TS: Terri. LW:—so if we could jump right in …? TS: Right, okay. So. I told you I used to…

Managed to spend my last few hours in Atlanta getting caught up on grading so I can relax and read @rebeccafrostwrites.com’s new novel on the train home! 🥳🥳🥳

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Bury the Dead: 12 table of contents Interview excerpts, Len Wilcox with Sara Sheldon, June 24, 2019 SS: Okay, so first thing on the record, I need to make sure everyone knows I did my duty and Len Wilcox did indeed get a breakfast pasty. LW: The local delicacy. SS: You have no idea how lucky you are. They sell out like that. LW: Is that a tourist rite of passage?

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table of contents Interview excerpts, Len Wilcox with Sara Sheldon, June 24, 2019 SS: Okay, so first thing on the record, I need to make sure everyone knows I did my duty and Len Wilcox did indeed get a breakfast pasty. LW: The local delicacy. SS: You have no idea how lucky you…

CFP: Disney Culture & Society Research Network Fourth Annual Conference @disnet.bsky.social

“Let Us Tell An Old Story Anew”: Revising / Reinventing / Reimagining Disney

10th-12th September 2026
Online

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Bury the Dead: 11 table of contents Ollie Clark—Sunday, June 23, 2019 It was clearly choreographed, but that was to be expected. After dinner—Vollwerth’s hot dogs and brats with store-bought potato salad and coleslaw—Cindy and Eli disappeared inside to do the dishes and Jared said he’d walk Len back to the cabins. They didn’t even have to cross the highway, and of course the trail went right by them.

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table of contents Ollie Clark—Sunday, June 23, 2019 It was clearly choreographed, but that was to be expected. After dinner—Vollwerth’s hot dogs and brats with store-bought potato salad and coleslaw—Cindy and Eli disappeared inside to do the dishes and Jared said he’d walk Len…

Draft of Theseus

I really don’t mind telling someone “It’s because of my cancer meds” because maybe that’ll bring them up short and make them realize hey, we need to stop putting people on the spot and making them justify why they won’t drink alcohol.

Bury the Dead: 10 table of contents Ollie Clark—Sunday, June 23, 2019 Ollie knew some church families, but she’d never really been involved with any, so Sundays weren’t for church. They were a time to generally avoid restaurants and grocery stores when the local services got out, since they’d be flooded, which made it the perfect day to hit the Keweenaw Co-Op, grab sandwiches from the deli, and head out to Calumet Waterworks for a picnic lunch.

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table of contents Ollie Clark—Sunday, June 23, 2019 Ollie knew some church families, but she’d never really been involved with any, so Sundays weren’t for church. They were a time to generally avoid restaurants and grocery stores when the local services got out, since they’d be…