In slightly mad news, here's where you can find me at @laworldcon.bsky.social! This is my first ever World Con, and first time on a panel. Slightly terrified, but can't wait! If you see me around do say hi!

Speaking of the odyssey this is the best post anyone's ever made about it

Hardbacks arrived the other day! I’m so happy with how they’ve turned out! I can’t believe two years ago I was writing this book with no idea what the hell I was doing! Strange how it all works out!

Excellent piece, reminding us that texts are irrelevant if they are not expressions of the creative thoughts of living and breathing authors, written for living and breathing readers. Texts written by LLMs are simulations, lacking the essence of embodied experience.

con questi nuovi ritmi americani (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸🏳@racheledini.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

RELEASE DAY!! So happy to bring you my tenth (!!!!) book - Charms, Charts, and Conspiracies! Appreciate all the support, and enjoy the book(s) 🧙 mybook.to/magicmapsand... mybook.to/charms

Note from my notebook (2017). Still true.

Right now the world is full of people who want to code and write and paint and film stuff and people who want to play and read and look at and watch stuff and nobody is allowed to do any of that because some unrelated third guy isn't making enough money off the deal

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com · last mo.

Our games industry is people. Our studios are people. Our teams people, our games by people for people. Our games are made by people, in groups of people, in teams of people, making people things for people. The magic is people, and the people deserve so much better than all this. I am so sorry.

Writing a first draft is hard, but anyone who thinks there's a shortcut available in slop doesn't know how creating works. Doing the hard part is where the wild and unique things happen. Where the creation of an immersive experience for the reader happens. Where the soul happens. 16/17

You wanna know how dumb chatgpt is? I asked it a question about Olivia Rodrigo's 3rd album and it told me she's only released 2 albums. Her third album not only released but was #1, the singles all charting. Chatgpt can't even google shit. If you trust it's info for *anything* you are insane.

Any More Questions For The Corpse? out in the U.S. August 25th! Preorders now available: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/826815...

When a young necromancer investigates a string of deaths in the hidden magical capital of England, the dead come back to haunt him in @jjunthank.bsky.social's ANY MORE QUESTIONS FOR THE CORPSE? #ewgc #libraryreads Request on NetGalley: https://loom.ly/7Wgxfsc

One of my cats has learnt how to play fetch! By this I mean she drops her toy by my head at 5am then whines until I throw it!

Fucker Bowl

Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires. Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess. Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining. Documentarian: Exactly. Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 90981: Unhappiness is not a prerequisite for making good art. Tea as a writing medium works quite as well as blood, and comes out a lot cheaper...

I just thought everyone should see this

Throughout a career in publishing, the commonest problem I’ve found in authors trying to break into the business is their fear of taking themselves seriously. If that’s you, try this. (Little thread follows.) 1. Remove “aspiring” or “would-be writer” from your bio. Replace it with “writer.”

Almost every day this little madam comes and interrupts my work, then runs off when I go to give her rubs! Today was clearly the exception! #cat #catsofbluesky

Could you be sued for using AI? I wrote a little piece over on the blog about the legality of what AI produces, and the potential future that could be in store for us if the court decides against AI's ability to create copyrighted work! jjunthank.com/2026/01/02/c...

Could you be sued for using AI?

Here’s a scenario: You have ‘some’ writing to do, it doesn’t matter what it is, for now let’s call it a short story. You decide you don’t have the time, or can’t quite express yourself with your ow…

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Going over First Pass pages today looking for last minute typos, thought I'd read the whole book backwards (chapter-by-chapter, not word-by-word, that would be impossible)! It's completely broken my usual flow (I must of read the book like a 100 times) so it seems to be working! #amwriting #booksky

SELL IT TO WHO, BEN?? FUCKING PUMAMAN??

Oregon Zoo@oregonzoo.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Happy holidays from your furiends at the zoo ✨ Thanks to Keeper Megan and Keeper Ali for the holiday pics!

God forbid anyone suggests kindness to refugees this *checks notes* Christmas

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Telegraph highlighting - yet missing - two vital points here. 1) We're not calling for £476m to be spent. It already is - this is about diverting it to actually helping. 2) Why "cruelty" in question? The £476m we're spending is part of an operation tear gassing babies.

Many years ago (when we were dead broke) Rachel said she wanted a christmas wreath for our door, so I took a branch that had fallen off our plastic tree and some odd decorations, and made this! For some reason it's still her favourite! She insists it's the first decoration up each year!

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

Sardonicus@sardonicus.eu · 8mo ago

'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez

Been a chill two weeks, but I think it's back to work today, got some copyedits to go through! My doctors and surgeon are all happy with how it's all gone, so everything is best case scenario! The scars are pretty gnarly though, won't be posting them here until they've cleared up! #writingcommunity

Recovery reading sorted for the next few days! #booksky

Surgery all went well! Moving and not in too much pain! A lot of work still to go until the implant is working but, for now, all is good!

All good. Very drugged!

Been waiting for this day for two and a half years, and now I’m roughly three hours away from being a cyborg! Wish me luck!