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Every writer I know, and for my sins I know a lot of them, is absolutely 100% delighted for you to get their book out from your local library.

THIS. People educated enough in the specific subject to pull the data together don’t need LLMs; people without the knowledge to weed data from the bullshit are at the mercy of the LLM. They’re obsequious Dunning-Kruger machines. Designed to flatter midwits and the technologically obsolete.

I've written a longer piece on the book that's been pulled due to "AI" use allegations, what that means particularly for newer authors, and what, if anything writers can do in the "AI" era to prove their work is their own: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/07/31/a...

Another Reason Not to Use “AI” For Your WritingBack in February I did a long post about “AI” and why I wouldn’t use it for my own writing, and one of the reasons I gave was “the fact that ‘AI’-generated text …whatever.scalzi.com

this owl has just about had it with the bullshit and me too

wait...is this a meditation on how fictional men are better than real ones?

Not only is he a smoking hot abolitionist who was assassinated for refusing orders to massacre indigenous folks, he "befriended Walt Whitman" according to his Wikipedia page which ABSOLUTELY means they fucked

Crunchyroll uploaded the full Yuri on Ice series for free on Youtube for 30 days in all dubs and subs because of the 10th anniversary! youtu.be/RHcNvcqX024?...

Yuri!!! on ICE Full Series 10th Anniversary Marathon | Available for 30 DaysYouTube video by Crunchyrollyoutu.be

WRITER FRIENDS: if you distribute books using INGRAM SPARK you *need* to fill out this opt-out form so they don't sell your books to AI corps to rip apart and feed to their machine for training AI.

neon hemlock's novella kickstarter is like $4 away from the 50% mark SOMEONE GET IN THERE www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

The Neon Hemlock Novella Series | Volume SevenNovellas and a short story collection from “the apex of queer speculative fiction publishing” —Publishers Weeklywww.kickstarter.com

It's paperback day! You can now get my melancholy medieval book in a more pocket sized format!

Circling right back around to my thread from the other day about how you can't really write consent until you have unpacked it so completely you know which parts of which tropes are the actual problem, and aren't just doing clumsy wholesale subversion that bumbles into other issues.

My gastroenterologist's office is admirably accommodating to time travelers from the Middle Ages, many of whom probably do have gastroenterological issues

✣ Medieval Jimothy ✣

Dalí could never.

New release day! 💙📚🌈 If Oli chooses to stay in his tiny hometown he can’t be unhappy, right? Even if nobody knows he’s gay, and he has to sneak to the city for hookups. But a disastrous reunion with Flynn, the childhood best friend who left Oli behind, starts a love affair neither may be ready for.

"All That History" by Alex Pendragon - Alex PendragonAll That History Oli could leave his tiny, claustrophobic home town any time he wants. So if he stays, he can’t be unhappy, right? Even though nobody knows he’s gay, not even his family.Even though th...alexpendragon.com

Hi, SFF Apex, Bona Books, Agita Publishing, And all the others who have gotten tricked by AI, Let's have a nice talk.

A Little Chat: Genre Fic in the Age of Slop | Dorian DawesThere is a scene in Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V For Vendetta that is very different from how it was adapted in the 2005 film. Our eponymowww.patreon.com

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when life gives you lemons (massive $700 return from Ingram), you make lemonade (put the books up on etsy to recoup the loss)

This thread was my exact experience as a buyer for an indie bookstore as well. One preorder was "huh, interesting." Two preorders meant I was definitely going to order it in for general stock, possibly enough to put on the front table or to have faced out on the shelf.