K.L. Noone

graphic with red hearts around larger rainbow heart; red text inside heart announces 40% off sale at JMS Books for Valentine's Day

It’s a #valentinesday sale at my publisher @jms-books.com - 40% off! Including new & upcoming releases…like mine… 🙂💕📖 #BookSky #romance

pink box containing covers for three valentine-themed stories by KL Noone: "Frost and Raine," "February Sugar," and "A Valentine for Violet".

Some of my #valentinesday stories for you - all available from @jmsbooksllc.bsky.social & 40% off for today's sale! #romance #lgbtq #BookSky #mmromance
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Gen AI doth remove commitment from art. Yf an artist ys committed to makinge somethinge trulye weirde, even shockinge, that artist doth neede to crafte the art, at everye steppe thinkinge, "Yes, Ich am drawinge a sexy C-3PO." Wyth Gen AI you kan make a sexy C-3PO wythout caringe, and that ys wrong.

Magician : JMS Books LLC, a queer small press GENRE: Gay Fantasy Spicy RomanceLENGTH: 78,756 wordsRATING: A magician in need of redemption. A loyal hero on a quest. And only one bed at the inn.Once the world’s most legendary sorcerer, Lorre fled ...

Last rec: @klnoone.bsky.social . Shorter fiction, novellas and short stories. I've loved everything so far. Lot of flavor of Patricia McKillip in the prose.
I started with "Magician" and was hooked. Additionally, @jms-books.com has great queer lit.
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Thank you!! And I do love McKillip - got to write about her during PhD exams... :-)

Dismissed because of jurisdictional confusion, it should be stressed, rather than any new revelation that would discredit the survivors of sexual assault who have come forward.

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...and a pre-order link is up! If you might like a little #mmromance short story, contemporary, with #magic and hurt/comfort...coming Feb 18... #BookSky #romance #romantasy @jms-books.com
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Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says.

The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp...

By Julianne Le

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.

The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

Close Reading Is For Everyone Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant Call for Pitches Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version that’s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: “The Gettysburg Address,” Macbeth, and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail? If you’re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing we’re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, we’ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step. We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that aren’t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it. Send your pitches—please include your name and contact info—to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.

CALL FOR PITCHES

@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.

We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.

Details below!

A musician playing a guitar in sugarcane that is somehow in the middle of a football field

First shot: sugarcane

The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times

Still used to make rum of course!

really like her!

Macbeth: SHIT

Photo of the described owl art. It looks like muddy scratch marks on a mottled brown cave wall. The head is very round with two upright lines for ears and a line in the center for a beak. Numerous parallel lines suggest plumage on the wings.

The oldest known image of an owl:

More than 30,000 years ago, someone skillfully scratched the figure of a long-eared owl (Asio otus) into the soft outer layer of the walls of Chauvet Cave, France. The owl is looking backward over their wings, head turned 180 degrees
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The thing about LLMs is that answers that are correct and answers that are wildly wrong are presented with *exactly the same level of confidence*

If you're informed enough to know the difference you don't need the answer

If you aren't you can't trust what you get

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Which Superb Owl Are You Today?

Every #SuperbOwl is from @newberrylibrary.bsky.social!

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It’s #superbowl time - but perhaps you’d like a book instead? 50% off sale at my publisher @jms-books.com today! #booksky #romance #lgbtq

Princess Celia built her tower out of glass and thorns but can’t undo her spell alone. Magician Stefan joined the quest for his brother’s sake. Together, Stef and Celia will find the key.

Fantasy romance by K.L. Noone now available from JMS Books!

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Yay!! 💜 #BookSky #romantasy

Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.

“Wuthering Heights” is not a romance.

It is a gothic novel about vengeance, cruelty, oppression and psychological obsession. It is not a “love story”.

I will die on this hill.

A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum.

Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Have you hearde the joke about a catte who doth lyve with a witch? Ich kan tell thee the punch lyne ys familiar.

OMG!

Little side story in the same universe, while I try to make The Warlock Affair behave… 😸

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Want a little cover reveal teaser? - coming Feb 18, a surprise for you... #paranormal #mmromance #magic #BookSky

A book, looking old and tatty, open so that you can see both pages. On the verso (left) is a set of poems, next to B&W drawings of eels, a frog, a goat, and a hare. On the rector (right) are colored versions of those animals. The eel is swimming with an oyster and a seal. The frog is sitting on a log reading. The goat is strutting his stuff in a maroon robe, and the hare is in a chair. Around the edges are the letters E, G, F, and H, large and orange. The goat *looks* sophisticated and classy. But that's packaging. He's absolutely showing a bit of leg to passersby. Standing by the fence, teasing his wares; that classy goat is for sale. The poems read: E is an eel that danced a round reel With a very large oyster and very fat sea. F is a frog that sat on a log and sang a nice song to his friends in the bog. G is for goat that wore a long coat that made him look quite like a wise man of note H is a hare that sat in a chair and thought of course no one would know he was there.

It's Friday. And I want you to enjoy these fabulous eels from a 19th C. children's reader, printed on cloth.

Also note the resplendent goat. That's a goat you could take home to meet your mother. Or...is it?

Have a eely good weekend, 'y'all!
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THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI