Louie Stowell
@louiestowell.bsky.social
Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
Junior staff in publishing are forever dealing with horrors, but a horror that's theoretically aimed at destroying their jobs is additionally gross.
WIRED@wired.com · 2d agoMore than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN
Love knowing that some of the biggest pubs are willing to write off writers for suspected AI use but are allegedly letting Rumpelstiltskin write their emails Especially since Hachette is allegedly included, considering the last time 'Hachette' and 'AI' were in the same headline...
WIRED@wired.com · 2d agoMore than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN
The Chuckle Brothers are often mistaken for weather forecasters because they’re experts in MeToYouology
Thankful for NEA giving us a voice. @neatoday.bsky.social
Bethany wore a “Protect The Dolls” t-shirt during rehearsals. The BBC posted it on their socials then quietly deleted and reposted it without showing her from the front. On TV last night they actually blurred the message #Strictly
The #Fantasycon panel about pitching was really interesting. A good, pithy pitch goes a long way. Like 'Samurai Game of Thrones', or 'Pride and Predjudice and Zombies'. What's a pitch you heard that made you think, 'Yeah, I'm buying that!'
#Fantasycon isn’t just about the words. Do #artists fear the blank canvas like #authors freeze when faced with a blank page?
Now in progress at #FantasyCon: Does the World Need to Be Saved? Many plots revolve around saving the world, but what about letting it burn and rebuilding from scratch? The panelists discuss. @britfantasysoc.bsky.social
And finally, finishing out the con, I'm on the Beyond Bread and Hard Cheese panel at 3pm! Come hear us talk all about food in SFF (luckily there will be microphones because my voice is gone, too much husky Captain Hook voice yesterday 😆 )
Katie ♥️💜💙@katiebruce.bsky.social · 4w agoFantasyCon is less than a month away so here's where you can find me! On the Friday I shall be on a panel talking about one of my favourite things in the whole world: Labyrinth! (and if you're all very good, I may even wear my Jareth cosplay...)
Can you bung these lovely people a few quid? Soothing sounds and vision!
Radio Lento@radiolento.bsky.social · 2d agoCan you help keep us going with a small bit of support? > ko-fi.com/radiolento If Lento helps you sleep or switch off. Or our photos and videos give you a boost of green space. Or you just like what we do. It would really help. Thank you.
Just remembered how mad I was that BSG didn't end with the audience realising they were on our earth in the late 60s/early 70s which would have made perfect sense of why they were all hearing THAT song. And it would've been funny. Starbuck at Woodstock! Massive missed opportunity.
It was #Bookshopday yesterday but I was too busy reading the book I'd bought from @stokeybookshop.bsky.social the day before to visit any bookshops. I've only read very dry versions of Gilgamesh before that are full of gaps and symbols, so Simon Armitage's is a lovely break!
Can you please help Soad and Omar today? Conditions in Gaza are just...unimaginable if you're not living them. Seeing your son like this must be heartbreaking. Any little donations you can give really add up x
liz 🍉 ليز@lizardry.bsky.social · 2d ago🚨The child Omar's condition is very serious; he has lost 2 Killua of weight in the last few weeks He suffers from severe malnutrition; his body is deteriorating day by day, and whenever he tries to walk, he falls to the ground His life depends on your support 🙏🏼🙏🏼donate🙏🏼👇 tinyurl.com/4rdnwyzx
In the vein of "public libraries could never be created today," a pitch for a calculator would get you thrown out of the boardroom. What do you mean, it just maths? Where are the ads supposed to go? How does it send usage telemetry back if it doesn't even have wifi? There isn't even a leaderboard.
Rich Burroughs@somewhattolerable.com · 2d agoAnother massive difference is that a calculator isn’t answering your questions in a way that’s specifically designed to get you to continue using the calculator.
www.theguardian.com/environment/... I would have loved this project when I was at school. What a great idea
Wanted: children to rear harvest mice at home for wild release in Devon
Teenagers Eva Wishart and Emily Smith launch project to breed and release 250 of the tiny animals by September
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@rebeccatickell.bsky.social Thanks for the follow, I was just reading some convos you were in about education that were fascinating! A bit above my pay grade in terms of my understanding of education but fascinating nonethless!
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Please do. I think, more than at any point before, creativity deserves to be presented unhindered and unfiltered from your brain to the medium of your choice. One day, in a future not dissimilar to this present, it is easy to see that being impossible to do.
Going through my "unpublishable" list of picture book ideas and thinking I might write them anyway...
Radical publishing notion, right here: if your publishers are making a living from publishing and selling your books, then you, the author, should be making a living from writing them.
Publishing hot take: traditional publishing is really hard, and self-publishing is really hard, and everyone deserves a sandwich and a nap.
Re the Wired article revealing the extensive use of GenAI at three media corporations. A lot of publishing executives are about to learn about the Trust Thermocline the hard way.
John Bull@garius.bsky.social · last yr.Wrote a more detailed explanation of the Trust Thermocline, and how it destroys businesses and products, here: every.to/p/breaching-...
