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Janny Wurts

@jannywurts.bsky.social

Fantasy author/illustrator, Wars of Light and Shadow series. https://paravia.com/JannyWurts/

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Janny Wurts@jannywurts.bsky.social · 16h ago

Well, SURPRISE! Apparently, I way overshot the 'official Hugo rules' length for a novella by - 20,500 words. THE GUARDIAN IS A NOVEL. Felt like it, too, the ground it covers is astonishing. Now clocking 60,500 words, before final cut and polish. Holy heck, Verrain!

Janny Wurts@jannywurts.bsky.social · 2d ago

Author community: Does anyone know the upper limit for the word count to qualify as a Novella? Maybe I just completed a short novel....? The Guardian after fourth pass, undergoing polish.

Kameron Hurley@kameronhurley.com · 5d ago

Solar reactor that eats plastic! www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2026/07/scie... A Trade in Blood is out today!! amzn.to/45F6FH0 LinkedIn has decided to remove their "draft with AI" feature and revert it to... a proofreading function 😆 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Scientists built a solar reactor that eats plastic bottles and burps out clean hydrogen . . .at scale.

A Cambridge University team made the device with simple materials using a paint sprayer—offering a possible dual fix for plastic pollution and dirty hydrogen production

anthropocenemagazine.org

Lisa No Thank You@ohseafarer.bsky.social · 5d ago

Did I miss any good news today?

Janny Wurts@jannywurts.bsky.social · 2w ago

Thanks to MAJOR help from two friends, patience by Apple Support and fifteen days of pre-testing stuff could break on an upgrade.... I have MSWord working again. Holy hell, that was a lot of peoples' time, I am beyond grateful, could not navigate this on my own, it was a hot mess to unbork.

Janny Wurts@jannywurts.bsky.social · 2w ago

I will say this again. It does not MATTER how history will view this moment. What matters is what we do IN this moment. Posterity does not exist yet. It has no power. Neither does wishful thinking. We who are living this moment, do, as we are alive and enabled to respond.

Janny Wurts@jannywurts.bsky.social · 3w ago

Question, writing community: Does anyone know when the later versions of PAGES on MAC stopped allowing a save to legacy (compatible) versions of Microsoft? Or was the contact who said you can't just not looking in the right spot for the feature? I have some very old files, active still.

Cat Kimbriel@catkimbriel.bsky.social · 3w ago

I suggest some hibernation this weekend, away from air quality, weather, news, and so on. I'm off to Hookland for now. I can also recommend visiting with Alfreda. You are promised a hopeful ending, and the cat lives. (A few people and demons, not so much.) bsky.app/profile/catk...

Cat Kimbriel@catkimbriel.bsky.social · 2y ago

Maybe you need to run away for a while. You can visit a alternate early America, where magic seeps from every plant & the land chooses its own. I wrote neurodiverse before we said ND. Meet Alfreda. She hears werewolves & Death talks to her. At the usual places. bookviewcafe.com/product-tag/...

Covers for the three NIGHT CALLS series trade paperbacks/ebooks by Katharine Eliska Kimbriel. ALT TEXT: NIGHT CALLS, A Tale of Dark Magic, KINDRED RITES, A Tale of Wild Magic, and SPIRAL PATH, A Tale of Ritual Magic. LINK IN COMMENTS She’s broken the rules and mixed Ritual magic with Wild Magic. Now she’s hunted. Can she survive the coming darkness and walk the labyrinth between Ritual and The Wind. . .before it’s too late? ~ ~ ~ Background behind the covers includes a winter forest, and stars against polar lights.
Janny Wurts@jannywurts.bsky.social · 4w ago

Microsoft Office 2021 HEADS UP, writing community: Not only did MSWord disable ability to alter files because my Mac OS system is 'not supported' as of July 13th, a little digging into their emailed link about nonupgrading: THEY ARE GONNA STOP SUPPORTING MS OFFICE 2021 IN OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR!

Janny Wurts@jannywurts.bsky.social · 4w ago

Sum up: MSWord license is still valid, but deactived likely cause my OS is not supported by MSW starting July 13th. I can upgrade this machine, but: it is all hard connections, no cordless. My printer/keyboard and peripherals do not support wireless and a fkton of other stuff will 'break.'

Janny Wurts@jannywurts.bsky.social · 4w ago

To everybody miffed that Lucas goes to the dark side and uses AI - whelp. MOST movies steal from SF/F artists anyhow. Visit a studio, ALL our peoples' art books are all over their production depts, dog eared, marked, thumbed over until they are worn. The rip off continues in a different format.

Janny Wurts@jannywurts.bsky.social · 4w ago

WTF, microsoft: I work in an older version, bought software (not subscription) that saves to my computer. MSword just LOCKED THE FILE unless I 'activate' their 365 version. Writing community: does this mean the file 'saves to the cloud' and does it shift TOS to allow AI scraping of all work done?

Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 4w ago

Huge new class action lawsuit filed by big publishers and authors against Google this week over AI training. It accuses Google of taking millions of books / articles provided to them for use only in Google Books, Google Play Books, and Google Scholar, and secretly using them to train LLMs. 🧵 1/4

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Janny Wurts@jannywurts.bsky.social · last mo.

Help request if you are a GoodReads librarian: Somebody altered the title to my novel, To Ride Hell's Chasm, and appended a plot description to the title line. I am concerned this tweak, which is recent, may redirect readers to a wrong outlet - might someone assist? Thanks!

Janny Wurts@jannywurts.bsky.social · last mo.

Finishing touches ongoing with the third pass on a new short story, due in the next few weeks. If you read the recent short, Front Man Fallen out from Grimdark Magazine, you'll have a clue. It is a sequel.