if you are an old school historical romance reader, i am taking you ungently by the cravat and looking deeply into your eyes when i say: read this

i just think it's a skill issue if you need to use ChatGPT for *checks* help describing a potato www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...

Prolific author Anthony Horowitz admits using AI: ‘It feels like cheating’

Author and screenwriter Horowitz talks to Prudence Wade about ChatGPT and the enduring appeal of murder mysteries

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*gently pushes towards books by Ashley Poston*

Tired Pixi@pixe7ed.bsky.social · 3mo ago

over the next month or so i will spend at least over 30 hours on trains... so, anyone have some book recs? currently into romance and romcom, recently finished all game changer series novels but generally looking for anything that is hard to put down and lets time fly by

Now would be an excellent time to pre-order Chris Smalls’s forthcoming book. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724036...

When the Revolution Comes by Chris Smalls: 9780593700631 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

From one of the most electric and consequential figures to emerge from the contemporary American labor movement, the remarkable story of his battle to create the first Amazon union in the U.S. and...

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New York Magazine@nymag.com · 3mo ago

Chris Smalls, the labor organizer and activist known for his role in leading Amazon worker organization, was allegedly tackled outside of the #MetGala by security.

*gently pushes toward THE EVERLASTING and AGNES AUBERT'S MYSTICAL CAT SHELTER*

🪻🦋tater⸆⸉🦋🪻@tristynnn.swifties.social · 3mo ago

Hi besties, so my bf is taking me on a book shopping spree for my birthday in just over 2 weeks (budget is $250, I will be contributing tho) and was looking for book recs! Genres I like: Sci-fi Fantasy Thriller Horror I also wouldn't mind no spice or mild spice romantasy recs to dip my foot in!

Idk man I feel like even if AI scraped from 100% ethical sources, had zero impact on the environment, and produced gorgeous work, I’d still think you were a bitch for using it

do publishers know that every time they call books "clean" they risk manifesting me in their offices to hit them around the head with a baguette i am the first person to yell about how publishing's pursuit of adults as YA readers instead of teens is cannibalizing the age category but this ain't it!

Andrew Karre@andrewkarre.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I have been publishing YA novels for 20 years. I have seen a lot of nonsense written about the category, but this HarperCollins imprint has set a new bar. If anything is “cynical” or tailored for “shock value,” it’s this campaign, which might as well be from Moms for Liberty. This is loathsome.

*gently pushes toward THE EVERLASTING and HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE and THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR and EMILY WILDE'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF FAERIES*

Paul Ligorski@heartofarcana.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Anyone have an excellent fantasy or scifi audiobook recommendation?

My coworkers at Hachette and I are unionizing!! I am so proud of all of the work we've put into this campaign. We are the largest union in trade publishing. Please sign our open letter to show your support and urge management to voluntarily recognize our union! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Sign onto our open letter in solidarity with Hachette Workers Coalition!

To the management at Hachette Book Group, We are authors, publishing professionals, readers, and union supporters, and we are proud to express our full support for the Hachette Workers Coalition (HWC...

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I have considered Moleskine to be outrageously overpriced for quite some time but using AI to generate a sketchbook cover betrays a level of hubris that is wild even for them. Those high prices and they couldn't be bothered to pay a human? Dump 'em. cjleo.com/blog/moleski...

Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings Collection Can Only Mock

New Moleskine X The Lord of the Rings notebook collection is "imagined by Moleskine, generated by AI".

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a very easy, small thing you can do to make the world every so slightly better is just talk about art and creators you like, be vocal when you enjoy something

*gently pushes towards THE MONSTER OF ELENDHAVEN*

Keezy Young🌼@keezyyoung.bsky.social · 3mo ago

okay given this probably isn't my thing: what are some gay book recs where people dying horribly is on the table. I'm not a cozy kind of dude I'm gonna need some real uncomfortable shit to go down. I've already read summer sons and tell me I'm worthless. I don't like t kingfisher if that helps

I think everyone should be a mentor to someone about something. It’s good for you and us.

what if, in these fleeting interactions, we recognized each other's mutual humanity?? what if we allowed authors to be eccentric introverts, as god intended, rather than public celebrities with media training, flawless makeup, and infinite endurance??

finally saw the video of an author being ""rude"" at bookcon and i fear there are a lot of unanswered questions here. like: what if we didn't demand the performance of joyful intimacy from total strangers?? and what if i smash your phone with a cartoonishly large hammer???

My recommendation for independent bookstore day tomorrow is that you go to an independent bookstore (or several), be very kind to the booksellers, and buy a book on their recommendation that you previously knew nothing about. Your life will be enriched.

*gently pushes towards like every book by Alix Harrow*

Clara Benson is ✨querying✨@clarabenson.org · 4mo ago

I am doing an experiment and I am looking for book recs!! As a historical fiction writer who reads mostly historicals, contemporary romance and “upmarket fiction”, I am hoping to branch out into other genres. Details in comments!

📢 ATTENTION: We're hiring for several new positions here at the Center for Investigative Reporting! 🧵

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

*gently pushes toward WE NEED YOUR ART*

Spammalammy@spammalammy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Does anyone have art book recommendations? Looking less for specific technical books but more in the vein of exploring your creativity in new ways, embracing failure and loosening up your expectations. Doesn't even have to be about art if it's along these topics please send em my way!! <3

i think we just need less of everything. less work, less new stuff happening, less being produced, less bullshit media, less technology. everything in the world needs to be like 30-40% less. except medicine. and sex.

Hello everyone who has contributed to our whistle-making efforts. Thank you for everything you have done for us. First, we are still printing whistles: if you need whistles we will happily send you between 100-3000 for free, no questions asked. linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

*gently pushes towards books by Talia Hibbert and Kennedy Ryan*

Crispybois@crispybois.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Do you have any recommendations for books where good things happen to Black people? #Booksky I’ve been really too many civil rights activist biographies and speculative Black fiction.

I've always boggled that writers are expected to speak in public, yet get basically no support for learning to do so. So I cheer on Jackie Kessler and Emily Sachs, who are holding a free demo for a writer-specific Toastmasters club Sunday, April 19th: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

It’s almost like WE ALL SAID THIS WOULD HAPPEN fortune.com/2026/04/10/a...

Schools across America are quietly admitting that screens in classrooms made students worse off and are reversing years of tech-first policies | Fortune

Millions were spent putting laptops in every student’s hands. Now schools want them back as technology in the classroom is turning out not to be the miracle solution it was sold as.

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more pocket-sized books. more books that fit in coats like contraband and can be taken out to avoid eye contact in any situation.

Now send JD Vance to run the publicity team for the new Harry Potter series.

*gently pushes towards GIDEON THE NINTH and LUCKY RED and the upcoming THE DUKE, which comes out later this month and that i absolutely adored*

Moon🌙@sapphicschitt.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Does anyone have any sapphic book recs that are capable of dragging me out of this weird reading slump?