Jake Stein

LOVE LOVE LOVE your story in this, Jake!!!! I can't wait for everyone to read it!

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities

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A book shop called yesterdays books a large sign reads books will turn you on

A white tic-tac-toe graphic entitled "Writing Style Alignment" with 9 categories: Lawful Pantser, Neutral Pantser, Chaotic Pantser, Lawful Plantser, True Plantser, Chaotic Plantser, Lawful Plotter, Neutral Plotter, and Chaotic Plotter

Q1: Since we're talking about plot, we figured it would be fun to see how you plot! Based on this nifty chart, what is your plotting/writing style alignment? #WeeknightWriters

Can't wait for this anthology edited by @robinknabel.bsky.social coming in 2026! One of the creature features included is mine! :)

Cover reveal of book Of Beasts & Bones coming 2026

Of Beasts & Bones COVER REVEAL!

I can't wait for this to be in readers' hands! I'll complete edits over the next 2 weeks, then it's time to format, get blurbs, & share author info. Every story I read again during edits gets me pumped for 2026!

Love creature horror? You're going to love this book.🖤

Emergency World Naked Bike Ride planned in Portland, with blurred photi of naked bicyclists.

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

Hey there Victor, thanks so much! Appreciate the kind words, and I'll double-check that link. Thanks again!

Hey, as a librarian I have to tell you

You don't have to finish a book that doesn't interest you. Life's too short for that. Not your jam? You have my permission to move on to the next book.

the cows
are on the dark web

This is so frustratingly accurate.

We’re going to be closing to submissions from 12pm BST tomorrow (12th September). Not sure exactly how long for, until we get caught up. If you want to get something in, send it in before then.

Small Wonders will be open to original flash fiction submissions this Friday, September 12th. We'll be open through October 31st!

We'll also be closing to reprint flash fiction on Friday, September 12th.

Send us your weird, wild, wonderful little stories with big emotions!

Thanks so much! Appreciate that.

Check out my latest!! Free to read!

Sep. 2025 (Issue 184) - Lightspeed Magazine We have original science fiction by C.Z. Tacks (“The Girlfriend Experience”) and Kel Coleman (“Last Meal Aboard the Awassa”). We also have two terrific flash pieces: “The Place I Came To” from Filip H...

So unbelievably happy to have a story in the latest issue of @lightspeedmagazine.com!! Talk about dream come true!
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Space Unicorn!

PLEASE REPOST! WRITERS! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Short Story Submissions from August 25 to September 8! Uncanny Magazine will be open to Poetry Submissions from August 9 to August 26. WE WANT TO SEE YOUR SHINY WORDS! buff.ly/9AyStcb

Yes!!!

Belovéd Writers: We are putting the kibosh on the monthly submissions window, which did not at all result in a more manageable workflow. Instead, we will open a weeklong window later this fall. For now, we are now focusing on finalizing our June and July submissions. Thanks for your patience!

I feel ya, same here!

I seriously think the Social Internet is 21st century cigarettes. Complete with secondary smoke causing a lot of harm in nonusers.

David Lynch as FBI Bureau Chief Gordon Cole in Twin Peaks saying, "Fix your hearts or die" in support of trans DEA agent Denise Bryson.

There is no third option.

Line drawn comic strip by Butt Poems. Panel 1: Fig says, 'I'm telling you, this AI stuff is clutch' Panel 2: Fig continues, 'You don't even have to be good at drawing or writing' Panel 3: Other fig replies, 'But I want to be good at those things...' Panel 4: Two figs in silence

I've got a strange little experimental story out in the latest by @acoupofowls.bsky.social, check it out!! :)

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A woman endeavours to build a chair out of nothing while her son rides a dragon and learns to play the moon like an instrument…

A Story About by @jakeiswriting.bsky.social

Read now in our Summer 2025 issue
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If your industry can't survive without plagiarism, maybe it needs to die.

There are people who want/need to write and there are people who just want to call themselves writers. The one thing genAI *has* done is made that difference extremely clear.

And in an unexpected twist, it turns out the most punk rock things of all are supporting public broadcasting and patronizing your local library and not cheating on your homework with AI