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Melanie Dusseau

@melaniedusseau.bsky.social

Creative writing & literature prof, romance author, lover of books, & poet of the ginger life. www.melaniedusseau.com Associate Professor of English, U Findlay (she/her), MFA, analog researcher, dog-loving, traveling teller of love stories. Human writer.💗

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Melanie Dusseau@melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 2d ago

Unsolicited advice for a burning world: give yourself over to fantasy romance. Don't apologize. Don't be ashamed if you go see Wicker, love it to pieces, and then seek out more fantasy romance. Because there is so much more, lucky you. #fantasyromance #booksky #wicker deadline.com/2026/10/wick...

'Wicker' Review: Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Peter Dinklage

A review of 'Wicker', a fable and fairy tale with Olivia Colman as an ostracized fisherwoman who orders up wicker husband Alexander Skarsgård.

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Melanie Dusseau@melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 2w ago

Writing is a solo act, but it takes other creative humans (agents, editors, cover artists) to bring a book to its final, subjective meaning maker: the reader. I love this reader response take on the roles of writers, readers, and editors by Luiz Schwarcz. #NoAI #BookSky lithub.com/it-begins-on...

It Begins On the Page: How Relationships Between Readers and Writers Are Made

We don’t usually understand literature as a dialogue. Typically, when publishing professionals think of readers, they think they need to entice them to buy the book so they may have hours of …

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Melanie Dusseau@melaniedusseau.bsky.social · last mo.

They targeted genre fiction because that's how little these technofascist thieves think of human storytelling. LLMs don't belong in writing pedagogy, and riling teachers is one thing. Poking genre fiction authors? Buckle up, boys. #EduSky #RomanceAuthorsAgainstAI authorsguild.org/news/ag-v-op...

Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI: Top Execs Knew Their Mass Book Piracy Was Illegal And Would Put Authors Out of Work

(New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book authors’ ongoing lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally trained their p...

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Melanie Dusseau@melaniedusseau.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm over calls to "normalize" behaviors. Who wants to be normal? AI's "not going anywhere?" Until you drop kick it outta your life with no regrets. Be weird. Hang out with librarians. #EduSky #AIRefusal www.librarian.net/notoai/

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides "what is taking up all my cloud storage?") is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don't want it. ...

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Melanie Dusseau@melaniedusseau.bsky.social · last mo.

Which tech billionaire Lex Luther do you think will be named the U.S. AI czar? I think Peter Thiel is already Vance's American operator, but I'm not sure he'd give up kicking puppies all over Europe and his skull & bones anonymity. Gimme your barmy predictions in the comments. #ResistBigTech

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Benjamin Riley@benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.

SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School

What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?

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Melanie Dusseau@melaniedusseau.bsky.social · last mo.

The outsourcing of reading to automation derails learning in all disciplines. Reading isn't just cute & fun, it is foundational to all other literacies. We continue to test this unethical tech on children at our peril. #EduSky #AIrefusal #Humancreativity #NoAI www.edweek.org/leadership/3...

3 Takeaways From the Latest PISA Test of Reading, Math, and Science

The results show reading performance dropping across the world—and one uniquely troubling U.S. trend.

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Melanie Dusseau@melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Every novelist, agent, professor, editor, & imprint, trad & indie, should read this. When I talk about the disconnect between academia & publishing, this is what I mean. LLMs do not belong in the writing process OR classroom. #EduSky @ecniumata.bsky.social erinniumata.substack.com/p/the-25-mil...

The $2.5 Million Question

What the latest AI scandal tells us about publishing, trust, and the writers who are about to pay for it

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Melanie Dusseau@melaniedusseau.bsky.social · 3mo ago

AI detectors are deeply flawed. The same ethical concerns about the training corpus of most commercial chatbots applies to these punitive, unreliable, and potentially reputation-destroying detection technologies. The Atlantic owes HM Wolfe a public apology. www.thebookseller.com/news/tor-bra...

Tor Bramble backs HM Wolfe after AI-detection claims over Daggermouth

Tor Bramble has backed HM Wolfe after the Atlantic reported that the author’s dystopian romance Daggermouth returned a 60% score in an analysis using the AI-detection tool Pangram.

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