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Tell AI Companies They Do Not Have the Right to Use Your Work

I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the Authors Guild's letter template to send your own.

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Young readers in #Halifax area, register for Funny Pages Festival in April. Presentations by @authorytm.bsky.social @andytolson.bsky.social @annahumphrey.bsky.social @lesliegentile.bsky.social @micherobinson.bsky.social @paulgilligan.bsky.social canlitforlittlecanadians.blogspot.com/2025/03/funn...

Funny Pages Festival: 2025 (Halifax Public Library)

Promoting children's and YA books by Canadian authors and illustrators

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Buy any children’s book at @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social during Feb 2025 and 10% will go to @booktrust.org.uk and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social to fund early years reading support for disadvantaged and vulnerable families across the UK. #readitforward 😊 Shop: uk.bookshop.org/shop/booktrust

Dreaming, waking, saying hello. 😽 #cats

Thank you so much, Jill! 😊

Jill Bennett@jillshanti.bsky.social · 2y ago

With a spirited rhyming text @micherobinson.bsky.social and funny illustrations #tombabylon #WhenFishFingerFroze #scholasticuk is #RedReadingHub’s #picturebook of the day reviewed on the blog wp.me/p11DI5-cXe

Helpful kitty. #cats

I am very much looking forward to doing events for this one… 😁🕺

Jacqui Sydney 📚@jacquisydney.bsky.social · 2y ago

When it's time to strut his stuff at the school disco, will Fish Finger be able to overcome his anxiety to join in? Find out in brilliantly funny #PictureBook #WhenFishFingerFroze by @micherobinson.bsky.social & @tomknightdraws.bsky.social Out 16/01 from #Scholastic ❄️

Yay! Shiny new books! MUMMY’S PROMISE publishes Feb 6th with @andersenpress.bsky.social 🦕🦣🎉 Illustrated by Paddy Donnelly, who is a total smasher. 😊

Thanks so much! I’m excited for this addition to me and @tomknightdraws.bsky.social’s ‘food with feelings’ series. 😃

Jacqui Sydney 📚@jacquisydney.bsky.social · 2y ago

I love a fish finger so today's PictureBook post is hugely appealing to me! Excited to read #WhenFishFingerFroze by @micherobinson.bsky.social, illustrated by @tomknightdraws.bsky.social, which looks like the most enormous fun! Out 16/01 for 3-6 readers, huge thanks to Rosie #Scholastic ❄️

Spot the cutie. 🐿️ #walking #secretsquirrel

Ridiculous pair of heart-bummed cuties. My home and my clothing will continue to be a hairy mess in 2025. #cats

A white Christmas — and a Boxing Day bald eagle. 🦅

Hoe hoe hoe! Got to love a local parade.

I love this time of year because I get to wear cosy sweaters in an attempt to not actually freeze solid at my desk. 🥶 Here's something even warmer and cosier than my rainbow sherpa: 'MUMMY'S PROMISE' is publishing early Feb with Andersen Press, featuring adorable art by Paddy Donnelly. 🥰

Finding everyone is going to take me a while, isn't it? I'll put the kettle on and settle in.