My port removal has been scheduled!! Looking forward to getting rid of it. (It's like a large button under my skin.)
Jackie Lau
@jackielaubooks.bsky.social
Romance reader/writer. She/her. jackielaubooks.com
I'll be drawing birds for donations again this year in addition to my weekly running miles! Details on how to donate for bird illustrations will come later this month. Looking forward to doing this again with you all, the kids need the help more than ever!
Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins@ajcousins.bsky.social · 5h agoWanna help? Become a Waymaker! We're running, walking, cycling 20,000 miles in September to raise money to get immigrant kids out of detention and back with family. Someone who kayaks to work is dedicating his miles to Waymakers! A salsa dance class is counting steps! It all counts! #BeAWaymaker
looking up the word on Amazon to see what other people have done with it on covers is rather interesting. Some whole words, some split (both with and without hyphen)
Jackie Lau@jackielaubooks.bsky.social · 5h agoWould you split up a word on a cover? What if that word was "heartbreaker"?
Would you split up a word on a cover? What if that word was "heartbreaker"?
Miss you, George 🩷 My nephew would have turned 9 this week.
I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.
Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · yesterday❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”
Zoe Shen is determined to get revenge on her cheating ex. Will his stern older brother agree to her ridiculous plan? Revenge of the Sunshine will be out on September 22! jackielaubooks.com/books/reveng...
My dad saw this recently and said it was pretty good. Like a Crazy Rich Asians spin on an English play from 300+ years.
The Tao of the World | Stratford Festival Official Website
In this world première, Singapore’s wealthy elite hatch schemes to bed other people’s partners and swindle one another out of dynastic fortunes. This inventive mash-up of Restoration comedy and the mo...
stratfordfestival.ca
I accidentally brought my list of words for Blossom instead of my grocery list to the store a few days ago, but fortunately, I didn't forget to buy anything 😂
Need to find some scientific research fields and/or interests for some characters. Will be mostly based on what I find intriguing and who wants to talk to me 😂 Just started reading Ed Yong's An Immense World. Have mainly been interested in weird facts about animals recently.
Meet the characters in Revenge of the Sunshine! Coming September 22. All images were drawn without the use of AI, I promise. jackielaubooks.com/books/reveng...
Canadian Tire is where you go to buy clippers before sky diving from the CN Tower.
Jackie Lau@jackielaubooks.bsky.social · 3d agoLots of non-Canadians learning about Canadian Tire today thanks to the Heated Rivalry stars 😂
Lots of non-Canadians learning about Canadian Tire today thanks to the Heated Rivalry stars 😂
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea is $2.99 right now in US/Canada. (I have been meaning to read it for a while.)
Meet the characters in Revenge of the Sunshine! Coming September 22. All images were drawn without the use of AI, I promise. jackielaubooks.com/books/reveng...
simply love a sentence that improves exponentially word by word
matt demon@ayshaufarah.bsky.social · 4d agoWe were in the sex panel and there was a tornado so we had to move across the hall to the improv panel.
I kinda like my hair at this length (an inch-ish?) So much better than having no hair, and it's very low maintenance. A part of me is sad that I didn't get chemo curls, though.
Some years ago a good friend asked me to paint a trompe l’œil mouse hole at his cottage. I may have gotten carried away. Several more mouse metro stations planned, and possibly a Wuppertal-style monorail on a ceiling beam…
Coming Sept 22! When Zoe’s boyfriend sleeps with her roommate, she wants revenge. Her best idea? Pretending to date his stern older brother, who also has a spare room. But once she moves in with Bennett and horrifies him with her good cheer, she starts wishing for more than a temporary arrangement.
Not sure I would have suggested we watch Togetherness (TV show from 10 years ago) if it weren't for Melanie Lynskey 😂
tbh, the way I write (not true of all authors) makes it easy to "prove" that I wrote my books. eg. I have multiple drafts pre-editing per book. When revising, I use track changes. I would rather send this stuff to a publisher than have them run any of my work through some "detector." But...
Coming Sept 22! When Zoe’s boyfriend sleeps with her roommate, she wants revenge. Her best idea? Pretending to date his stern older brother, who also has a spare room. But once she moves in with Bennett and horrifies him with her good cheer, she starts wishing for more than a temporary arrangement.
I was just thinking about how "you need to become an influencer to sell books" is ruining everything
Delilah S. Dawson@delilahsdawson.bsky.social · 5d agoI hate how what I need to do is write books, and yet I keep thinking, "Maybe if I wore increasingly weird glasses and sat in front of my taxidermy with a bubble pipe and did unhinged houseplant reviews I could go viral and sell some books." Doing the work doesn't feel like enough, some days.