Unnamed literary agent in @thedriftmag.com's anonymous AI confessional. (love this format.)

Image: headline and subhead from the linked article, reading: "Alabama libraries face new pressure over transgender book ban. Librarians pushed back after Amy Minton's catalog searches flagged hundreds of titles, including books not shelved in youth sections." Byline: Jacob Holmes, 2026/09/18.

EveryLibrary@everylibrary.bsky.social · yesterday

Now they're trying to ban books that ARE ALREADY IN THE ADULT SECTION!! Don't say we didn't tell you so. buff.ly/0nIzZma

FML is one of the most heartfelt and original things I've read in comics in the last decade. Wonderful book by wonderful people.

Comicsbeat@comicsbeat.bsky.social · yesterday

FML series creator Kelly Sue DeConnick talks about making art and finding family in comics at Rose City

Looking for a free way to support your favorite authors?

Kass G.@anarkass.bsky.social · 2d ago

Also worth noting that like, three people requesting something at a library will get a library to buy it. And it doesn't take many holds to make it "we should buy more copies."

“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”

Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

orlandosentinel.com

The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.

New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say

A type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.

nbcnews.to

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

WTF

Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 3d ago

“Langston Hughes’ literary estate now belongs to International Literary Properties, which says a Harlem Renaissance licensing program is next on its list.”

I sat down with Delilah Dawson at Dragon Con to talk about her last ten years writing for Star Wars, and what's ahead for her in the galaxy far, far away! Check out the interview: youtu.be/rOPYlTYLZDA?...

What's Next for Delilah Dawson and Star Wars - Dragon Con Interview

YouTube video by Star Wars Explained

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It's here! I'm so excited to share the cover of SUMMER CAMP ROMANCE, a book that is so close to my heart (13-year sleepaway camp veteran here) and perfect for fans of Wet Hot American Summer: people.com/dahila-adler... (and yes, it's a companion to Soon By You!)

‘Beach Read’ Meets ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ in Dahlia Adler’s ‘Summer Camp Romance’ — See the Cover! (Exclusive)

PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of Dahlia Adler’s next novel ‘Summer Camp Romance,’ out next year. The adult romance from the ‘Soon By You’ author follows the relationship between two camp sta...

people.com

"The Brooklyn Public Library will launch its first-ever craft library on Wednesday, allowing library cardholders to borrow art supplies for a variety of activities, including screen printing, bookbinding, metal stamping and hand embroidery." gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

Brooklyn Public Library launches first ever craft library

Cardholders can borrow tools and kits.

gothamist.com

It's already September and THE VANISHED SISTER, Lady Sherlock 9 will be upon us, soon. Penguin Random House is very kindly doing a giveaway of all nine books in the series (US only, alas). Go ahead and enter and win. sites.prh.com/lady-sherloc...

It's finally happened: the improved quality of machine transcription and the greater ability to extract value from unlabelled data means "your tech is eavesdropping on you for marketing purposes" has crossed from "false conspiracy theory" to "true and concerning" www.theverge.com/tech/991190/...

LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby

Gamers Nexus comes for LG again.

theverge.com

I remember being told "UK readers just don't like YA." Also, as an American, I remember being told, "Who understands this British humor" as I consumed all in my path. Tom's great. Read his books.

Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 2w ago

2000+ Americans have bought this book on import from the UK. Many of them have told me they love it. Meanwhile, the UK publishing industry: "I am sorry. We can't sell this book to an American audience. They will find it too British." FREE worldwide delivery here: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

As thousands of authors wait for their cut of the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history from Anthropic, the tech giant that used pirated books to train its A.I. chatbot, some are accusing the publishers of their books of trying to squeeze them out of a percentage of the payout.

Authors Wrangle With Publishers Over $1.5 Billion Anthropic A.I. Settlement

The tech giant must pay $3,000 per pirated book that it used to train its chatbot. Many authors fear they could lose funds to others in the book business.

nyti.ms

Love this cover

Publishers Weekly@publisherswkly.bsky.social · 2w ago

★ “Romantic and suffused with longing,” Hooda Shawa and illustrator Nada Esmaeel’s YA debut THE NECKLACE OF SEVEN SOULS is “a luminous exploration of displacement, memory, and the Palestinian diaspora” buff.ly/CBN7pdP

This! This!

Seanan McGuire@seananmcguire.bsky.social · 2w ago

Children are people. When you have a kid, you make a person, and that person is not going to follow a script. If you think your kid is one thing and they're actually another, your job as a parent is to support them and set them up for success, not punish them for wanting different pronouns.

New #WriterBeware blog post: The process of resolving disagreements between claimants in the Anthropic copyright settlement has begun, and there are...problems. A look at what's been reported to me, and advice on what to do. Whew. It's been a busy couple of days. writerbeware.blog/2026/09/04/a...

Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Publishers Are Making Incorrect Claims on Authors' Payouts - Writer Beware

This week, many authors who are part of the Anthropic copyright class action settlement began receiving notices like this one: Upon accessing the portal (which doesn’t seem to have a formal name, so I...

writerbeware.blog

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

Updated Dragoncon schedule w highlighted book signings. Look, DC is weird. These signings = the only time that me + my purchasable books will be in the same space. Any other time, catch me like a Pokemon and I'll sign your books + give you a DRAGONCON CARPET PORG STICKER and a Monstera badge ribbon.

hey book/audiobook nerds anyone got recs for a good mystery novel series or three? - no serial killers - not cozy as in "I work in a bakery and also solve murders" - sleuth is not a cop - love histfic + urban fantasy - prefer settings other than London/NYC ~again~ example of one of my faves:

The Widows of Malabar Hill - Sujata Massey - First Perveen Mistry novel

Perveen Mistry's first case. Winner of the Agatha Award, the Mary Higgins Clark Award, and the Lefty Award for Best Historical Mystery.

sujatamassey.com

[Exit Queen.]

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · 4w ago

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

This was such a fun read! Publishes this fall, I believe. Pre-order it!

Emma Barry@authoremmabarry.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Y'all, I have been waiting impatiently for a week to share this cover with you. And at long last, I can reveal the gorgeous cover for You, Me, and the Conspiracy to the world.

Luck, timing, and a solid work ethic. Any one of them won't butter your baguette, but if you can get all three, it's time to party.

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 4w ago

I tell people all the time that I got lucky with my career and it annoys a lot of them. "No, but you're good," they will say, and I will say, yes, I am good, and also here are all these people who write as well as I do but did not get the same break, so being good isn't the issue, being lucky is.

I’M HERE TO HELP is out Oct 27, and it’s full of rage that can’t be tamped down any longer. I'll summarize it as "A therapist finally loses her shit about the toxic men in her town." victoriahelenstone.com/books/

Oh that explains a lot, actually

James Van Fleet@horrorfilms101.bsky.social · last mo.

Though you may not support the sites on account of how they’re all terrible now, important to know Screenrant, Collider, CBR, Polygon, and other companies all deteriorated because they were bought out by Valnet, a truly heinous company started by shitbags.

For those of you following along in Bartz v. Anthropic, I gave some guidance as to when we might see money, and said in that guidance that it all depended on whether there was an appeal. Semi-bad news: there is an appeal. Want to know who is appealing? Do you, do you?

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2mo ago

Timing thread. I was going to do this "later tonight" and apparently "later tonight" means "immediately, right now" because my brain also wants to know the answer.

This must be the third video of wonderful voices singing global scales I have seen, and each is mesmerising and has taught me things I didn't know. Such as: That these scales exist and how they, the bare backbone of tunes, reflect and unlock whole world regions' music. This is amazing.

Rachel Reid, who wrote the popular “Heated Rivalry” novel, has donated $300k to Annapolis Valley Regional Library, “one of the most significant private gifts” in their history. “I credit my local library for being a huge part of the reason I’m a published author today,” Reid said #Halifax #HaliSky

‘Heated Rivalry’ author donates $300,000 to Nova Scotia libraries

Several Nova Scotia libraries that faced possible closures this summer are getting a major cash boost from one of the province’s most famous authors.

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