Leanne Leeds
@leanneleeds.com
Full-time #author (Paranormal/Fantasy/Midlife Cozy) since 2016 | #ai-assisted #fiction since 2021 | #F1 fan (LH44 & AA23) | ☼ she/her ☼ | https://leanneleeds.com
Running Claude on auto and crossing my fingers. 🤞 This is either going to save me 10 hours this week or teach me a very expensive lesson about trust. Place your bets! ☕
Officially off WordPress and onto a static site. My book pages now load faster than my cats can knock a coffee mug off the desk. ☕ Why did I wait so long? 😅
Me, refreshing Anthropic's release notes every 4 minutes like a raccoon checking a trash can that isn't there yet. Fable? Anyone? Bueller? ☕
"My ghost dog has been staring at a vault that shouldn't exist, the coven's founding symbol has one point too many, and someone just tried to exile my vampire husband to keep me from looking. Cool. " Book 6 is out today. leanneleeds.com/books/crysta...
Fable: exists, is amazing, fixes my plot holes Me: 🥰 Commerce Department: "Not on MY watch." Me: 😭 Imagine being a cozy mystery writer who finally found the perfect series-bible tool and losing it to an export control dispute. I am not a foreign adversary, I just need to remember Astra's eye color.
Today's coffee is being enjoyed alongside a Garden State Tortoise video, as nature intended. Who knew that watching tortoises live their best lives would be the calmest part of my day? 🐢☕
Albino Baby Turtle Is 1 in 100,000 in the Wild. Surprise Delivery at Garden State Tortoise
YouTube video by Garden State Tortoise
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The "AI writing is unreadable trash" crowd and the "AI is sneaking into prize-winning books" crowd appear to be the same crowd. (No idea where the "AI sabotaged my book deliberately with sneaky intent" hangs. He's kinda confusing.)
AI-Writing Scandals Are Getting Very Confusing
What counts as an acceptable use of AI has never been fuzzier.
theatlantic.com
In 2007, Stephen Colbert and his staff granted my kid a Make-A-Wish. They were warm, gracious, and made my kid feel like the most important person in the room — then kept in touch every few years until my kid was grown. As his show ends this week: thank you. Truly amazing people.
3 days. That's it. From May 21-23, you can download FREE paranormal cozy mystery book SETS—not just single titles, but full binge-worthy series. (The Owl Star Books 1-8 included!) After Saturday night, they all go back to full price. Don't sleep on this one! books.bookfunnel.com/freecozymyst...
A wellness retreat for the magically exhausted. A guru in a sensory tank. A “relaxing” weekend that’s anything but zen. 🦉 Owl is Calm – Owl Star Witch Mysteries #22 – is OUT NOW! 📖 leanneleeds.com/books/owl-is... #cozymystery #newrelease #kindleunlimited
"FBI Director VIP Snorkels Pearl Harbor" reads less like real news and more like a rejected Dan Brown plot point. Too unrealistic, they'd say. And yet. 🤿
Kash Patel Went on 'VIP Snorkel' Adventure Around Pearl Harbor Wreckage: Report
FBI Director Kash Patel went on a "VIP snorkel" around the wreckage of the USS Arizona, bombed at Pearl Harbor in World War II.
rollingstone.com
Me, innocently exploring Google Antigravity: 🙂 Google, immediately: "New quotas! Cooldowns! Token limits!" I stared using GA and within days: quota cuts, token limits, Ultra cooldowns that didn't exist before. No one seriously using these tools needed this article to tell them any of this.
The Verge@theverge.com · 3mo agoAds, rate limits, feature restrictions, price hikes. The AI free ride is over. Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social: buff.ly/Kajy7HE
Facebook's suggested "Hi all! I just wanted to introduce myself and share a photo I took" intro for new group members is WILD. Nothing screams "trust me, I'm definitely a real person and not a scammer" like the same exact sentence everywhere. Who came up with this?
I just heard my husband tell one of our cats, "I love you. I want things to go well for you." 🥹 Thirty years together and I had no idea he was this squishy with the kitties. The cat, of course, walked away mid-sentence. Typical. 😹
Day 3 of rain. My word-count is up, my serotonin is down, and the cats have unionized against the weather. Coffee is the only thing holding this operation together. ☕
Her dead father sent a warning through a three-year-old. One word: cousins. Crystal Clear Claims — Mystwich Mindslider Mysteries Book 5 🔮 👉 leanneleeds.com/books/crysta...
"He was happy, he had a smile on his face. He didn't look stressed." That's how people reassured themselves Swalwell was innocent. Cool. Cool cool cool. Glad we're using vibes-based vetting for political leaders. 🙃
The whisper network that caught up to Eric Swalwell
Warnings about the lawmaker had long circulated privately. Then a handful of women and online creators pushed them into public view, forcing California’s political establishment to reckon with how far...
politico.com
A single white hair has appeared at the front of my eyebrow like it's planting a flag. What is the evolutionary PURPOSE of this? Did my ancestors need one reflective eyebrow hair to fool predators when they became a certain age? Who looked at this and said "yes, keep that in the genome"?🧐
"Both sides are the same" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting right now. Like, structural-engineering-on-a-condemned-building levels of heavy lifting.
Me: Time to write! My brain: But have you checked the news about Iran lately? Me: … My brain: You're welcome. Concentrating in a world gone mad is its own kind of superpower. One I do not have today. ☕
Why on earth did Texas start the THCA ban *on* the 31st? Texas starting the THCA ban *on* the 31st makes zero sense, unless the goal was to trick us olds who logically assumed the end of the month would be the last day to buy. Oops. 🤦♀️
The fun part of writing 22 books in a series is when your character walks into a room and you think "wait, did I burn this building down six books ago?" Monday mornings are for fact-checking yourself.
The absolute luxury of editing with Google Antigravity: Highlighting a line, asking "Is this true?", and watching my little AI minion scour 21 previous books to find out if I hallucinated a piece of my own lore. Having this kind of instant continuity-checking power while editing is incredible. 🦉
I'm starting to think the only version of COTA I'll ever see is the Christmas one. MotoGP is there this weekend, my hub's a vet so tickets were half off, and he still said no because they were too expensive. And yes, he's a huge fan. (Yeah, I don't even bother asking about F1. I know the answer.)
The new Costco in Liberty Hill means you can now buy 48 rolls of toilet paper AND a rotisserie chicken without ever getting close to I-35. We're living in the future.
I first read about Cynthia Plaster Caster in Pamela Des Barres' groupie memoir years ago and thought it had to be exaggerated. It was not. Her collection ended up at MoMA PS1 and the Kinsey Institute. Sometimes real life is just too weird to be fiction.
Cynthia Plaster Caster, The 'Super Groupie' Who Immortalized Rock Stars' Penises With Plaster Molds
Cynthia Albritton made dozens of plaster casts of famous rock musicians' penises
allthatsinteresting.com