Molly Murray | Seahorse Bookstore

Interesting #virginiagiuffre

It's all about power. All of the political manoeuvring and madness - it's about taking power. But so is your creative journey. Every nudge you follow takes ownership of your personal power! It's more important than ever to fully step into your power, so write that book, do that thing!

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

Leaving a bookstore with your arms full of books has big "look at these cool rocks I found" energy

Meta's 'fair use' defence for training AI with published books 'won't work in UK', says PA

The ’fair use’ legal defence used by Meta and Anthropic last week against separate allegations of copyright infringement for training AI tools on published books won’t work in UK courts, according to the Publishers Association and Society of Authors 👇

What a gorgeous day for a walk!
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Society of Authors condemns ‘appalling’ use of pirated books in AI training

ICYMI: Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI programmes, as reported in the Atlantic, provoking outcry from many writers and organisations such as the Society of Authors. 👇 #BookSky

Cutie pie! That’s the man behind the magic- Mr. Seahorse Bookstore! 📚🎉✨ #orderyourbooksthroughus #supportindie

Oh goodness, thank you so much! It’s already written… I need to publish it! 📚✨

Omg, thank you- that is the best thing to hear! ✨📚✨

They call it Artificial Intelligence but what it really is is Pretend Thinking.

All Our Hidden Gifts (Caroline O’Donoghue) meets Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Laini Taylor) in Colorado. A teen with bpd discovers hidden powers and overcomes the dark energy behind the disturbance in our current political climate. #YAfantasy #trilogy #romantasy #ownvoices #scotwriterpitch2025 #booksky

The Christmasaurus meets NinjaKid meets My Friend the Octopus. Bad vibes from meanies sent Planet Earth rolling into the path of a black hole… Sebastian Bok befriends an octopus from Neptune & saves the day with music by sharing a good beat! #MGfantasy #ownvoices #scotwriterpitch2025 #booksky #scifi

A witch is born: a teen in Colorado discovers her power using the scientific findings of Nikola Tesla, the help of an emo ghost, and a handsome changeling from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. She gives up love to battle Aleister Crowley through ley lines. #YAfantasy #trilogy #romantasy #ownvoices #scotwriterpitch2025 #booksky

All that foster-care runaway Sebastian Bok wants is a loving home – but he needs to use his musical genius to team up with Copernicus, an octopus from outer space, to save the world from The Black Hole of Zephyr before he finds it. #MGfantasy #scifi #ownvoices #scotwriterpitch2025 #booksky

Text: Croesus, King of Lydia: "No one could be so foolish as to prefer war to peace: in peace sons bury fathers; in war fathers bury sons." Herodotus 1.87.4 Translated by Andrea L. Purvis Background image is a black and white photo of a close up of chest armor from a statute of a Roman.

This quote from Herodotus comes after Cyrus saves Croesus from the pyre after the conquest of Sardis. It's in the epilogue to the King of Lydia's story where Herodotus turns the ill-fated Croesus into a brief fountain of wisdom for Cyrus and then Cambyses.
#Classics #AncientBlueSky

Thank you Vee! Crowley definitely creeps me out too!

If your favourite 12 year-old neurodiverse, street-dancing parkour act from America’s Got Talent lit up downtown Seattle and stopped Planet Earth from rolling into a black hole with an octopus from outer space, this would be his story. #MGfantasy #scifi #ownvoices #scotwriterpitch2025 #booksky

Isla, a teen in Colorado, balances life with BPD, scary politics, and Second Sight. A dashing changeling from 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 helps Isla use her energetic power against Aleister Crowley, who has risen from the past using ley lines. #YAfantasy #trilogy #romantasy #ownvoices #scotwriterpitch2025 #booksky #witchlit

Good luck to everyone doing #scotwriterpitch2025 tomorrow! Might be worth checking your chat settings, I think default for new messages is 'users I follow', change that to 'Everyone' so publishers/agents can get straight through to you.

Excited for #scotwriterpitch2025 tomorrow!

Congratulations, Karen! 💕

Exactly this… but whyyyyy?! Just can’t wait to get starmer out!!

Words have power - words are spells!

Haha! She sounds so expressive! 🤣

#nowreading for book club on Thursday… I own a bookstore and run a bookclub… but it’s been years since I read a book that is this well written! Every word is 👌💯 #chefskiss . Have you read it? What did you think?

This thread is absolutely gold. Thank you!