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Susanna Shore, Author

@susannashore.bsky.social

Self-publishing author of P.I. Tracy Hayes mysteries, The Reed Files crime capers, House of Magic urban fantasy cozies, and Two-Natured London paranormal romances. Reader and book blogger. www.susannashore.com

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Chaucer Doth Tweet@levostregc.bsky.social · 22h ago

Do not messe wyth writers. Thei are the kyndeste and meanest and weirdest folk on Earthe. Thei kan create a person yn a second, or make a partye be rememberid for two thousande years. Thei kan stitch and unstitch worldes. Thei give names to emociouns we do not yet understande. Odd people, mightye.

Camellia Tea Ceremony@camelliakyoto.bsky.social · yesterday

🪙THE GOLDEN PAVILION🔥 True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys. -Mishima Yukio (三島由紀夫). In 1950, almost bald of gold, and having survived the Ōnin War, Kinkaku-ji was burnt to the ground by Hayashi Yōken, one of its own novice monks.

Kinkaku-ji, the 'Golden Pavilion' of Rokuon-ji.Kinkaku-ji in the snow.Autumn comes to Kinkaku-ji.A closer look at the phoenix atop the Golden Pavilion.
Marie Brennan@swantower.bsky.social · yesterday

THE WRITER'S LITTLE BOOK OF RESEARCH is out now! Get it in ebook from your retailer of choice (for just $0.99 USD), and learn new tactics for digging up sources for your stories! www.swantower.com/writing/the-...

The Writer's Little Book of Research - Swan Tower

Writers of all genres can have a dizzying array of research needs, from broad contextual information to highly specific facts. Thanks to her academic background, award-winning author Marie Brennan is ...

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Bree (half of Kit Rocha)@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · yesterday

I'm just gonna say: it somewhat baffles me that people who are understandably skeptical of opaque LLMs as legitimate sources of information will suddenly go full on "the computer KNOWS" when they are using opaque tools to "detect" AI. The computer does not know.

Susanna Kearsley@susannakearsley.bsky.social · yesterday

❤️ Gillian Green, publisher at Tor Bramble, told The Bookseller: “HM Wolfe has confirmed that Daggermouth was written entirely without AI. We stand behind our author, and we do not recognise third-party AI detection tools as a fair or reliable measure of authenticity when used on their own.”

Tobias S. Buckell@tobiasbuckell.bsky.social · yesterday

One of my kids came home and asked 'you ever read any Ray Bradbury?' 'Yeah, one of my all-time favorites.' 'We just read "There Will Come Soft Rains" in class today and I was not ready...'

Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · 2d ago

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

Susanna Shore, Author@susannashore.bsky.social · 2d ago

I'm sorry to tell you that I chose my donut poorly. Banana glazing was ok, but there was some sort of chocolate wipped cream filling that was less so, and as a whole, it left me with mild nausea for being too big. Instead of energizing me for writing for a couple of more hours, I now want to nap.

KJ Charles@kjcharleswriter.com · 2d ago

Good piece on the pulled gazillion squid crime novel. No conclusions but a good sense of how much disruption this is causing. (Why do tech companies always talk about disruption like it's a good thing. this just sucks.)

Literary agents react to major crime book deal that collapsed over suspected AI use

Literary agents have spoken with The Bookseller following news that a crime novel sold in a 14-way auction in the US for $2.4m was withdrawn by its primary agent on Friday (31st July) due to suspected...

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Susanna Shore, Author@susannashore.bsky.social · 2d ago

I was having a real good dream where several large (pizza size) but admittedly strange pies were piled in front of me (I'd purchased them, maybe, I don't know), and just as another kind of pie was about to be added to the pile, which I was really looking forward to, my alarm rang. 😭

Max Gladstone@maxgladstone.bsky.social · 3d ago

Want a deal on some books? In honor of the Craft Wars being up for the Hugo Award, these are $2.99 in ebook for a limited time, on all retailers: THREE PARTS DEAD (bookshop.org/p/books/thre...) TWO SERPENTS RISE (bookshop.org/p/books/two-...) DEAD COUNTRY (bookshop.org/p/books/dead...)

Three Parts Dead

From the author of the viral bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War..."Stunningly good. Stupefyingly good." —Patrick RothfussMax Gladstone's Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build ...

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Joanne Harris@joannechocolat.bsky.social · 4d ago

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 61: Readers don’t relate to characters because they’re attractive; they relate to them because they recognise a shared experience. So give your characters hobbies; pets; watch them eat food; make them fall in love; worry about their jobs; their kids. Make them human.