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Scientist by day moonlighting as a Science Fantasy writer by night. … I expressly prohibit the submission of my writing or art into any AI/machine learning algorithms.

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Yes!

24.02.2026 02:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This one was an intense read. The simultaneous enhancement and loss of touch with her human lover was a bit mind bending for me.

23.02.2026 04:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I don’t think so! 😊

23.02.2026 04:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love Robin Hobb! Her Soldier Son Trilogy was particularly wild.

23.02.2026 04:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Read some of Hambly’s fantasy more recently. Very satisfying Sword & Sorcery. ❤️

23.02.2026 04:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Icecream and popcorn.

25.01.2026 04:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Alex Pretti’s last words were “Are you ok?”

25.01.2026 03:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Editing a book where my protag is struggling with being chosen as the avatar for a god of vengeful justice is… still going slow. 😞

24.01.2026 21:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Genuinely, I've forgotten how search results used to function and what finding articles easily was like. I installed the DuckDuckGo browser after that vote thing the other day and turned off all the AI and oh my gosh, search results ✨ work ✨

19.01.2026 17:49 — 👍 74    🔁 15    💬 5    📌 1
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17.01.2026 15:27 — 👍 13    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 1

Made it through 17/35 chapter edits. Onward we plod.

05.01.2026 14:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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HELLO! I WOULD LIKE TO CONNECT WITH INDIE/SELF PUB BOOK FOLKS - CALLING ALL READERS, WRITERS, REVIEWERS!

I'm judging for an indie book contest called #SPFBO and I'm looking to get the widest audience possible for this year's contest.

Follow back if you want me to chuck recommendations your way!

05.01.2026 12:38 — 👍 29    🔁 13    💬 3    📌 2

Me last night. “Are you mad at me?” “No, I’m thinking.” XD

04.01.2026 19:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Her books are so great. ❤️

02.01.2026 17:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Also, if you have not yet read and of Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee’s works yet, they are incredible. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer in particular won a Pulitzer.

02.01.2026 17:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Frostbite by Nicola Twilley about the history and future of refrigeration/food preservation was actually really really interesting. Not as funny as Mary Roach but still really good.

02.01.2026 17:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
The End of Year Sci-Fi Bundle. 18–31 December. 41 books for only $25. Book covers on a space background with the planet Mars.
Books included are:
Secondhand Origin Stories, Names in Their Blood, Wherever the Stars Call, Ungrateful, The Edge of a World, The Warm Machine, Ancient as the Stars, Cat/Mouse, Colliding Forces, Before the End (The Lost Race), Accidental Intelligence, Dust & Lightning, From the Grave of the Gods, The Shadow of Arcadia, NICEF: Neural-Interface Controlled Exo-Frame, These Violent Nights, Alien Exploration, Cosmonaut, Moral Laundry, Emergence, Fimbulvinter's Fires, Loyalty to the Max, Ship of Fools, The Courier, Clipped, The First Sin, War of the Space Dragons, Adamere in Swan, My Heart is Human, The World of Juno, Black Sails to Sunward, Insiders, Grave Cold, Memento Moreau, EverLife, To Worlds of Wonder, A Farewell to Humanity, Goodbye to the Sun, Jati's Wager, THORN: An Empire of Dragons Story, The Observers

The End of Year Sci-Fi Bundle. 18–31 December. 41 books for only $25. Book covers on a space background with the planet Mars. Books included are: Secondhand Origin Stories, Names in Their Blood, Wherever the Stars Call, Ungrateful, The Edge of a World, The Warm Machine, Ancient as the Stars, Cat/Mouse, Colliding Forces, Before the End (The Lost Race), Accidental Intelligence, Dust & Lightning, From the Grave of the Gods, The Shadow of Arcadia, NICEF: Neural-Interface Controlled Exo-Frame, These Violent Nights, Alien Exploration, Cosmonaut, Moral Laundry, Emergence, Fimbulvinter's Fires, Loyalty to the Max, Ship of Fools, The Courier, Clipped, The First Sin, War of the Space Dragons, Adamere in Swan, My Heart is Human, The World of Juno, Black Sails to Sunward, Insiders, Grave Cold, Memento Moreau, EverLife, To Worlds of Wonder, A Farewell to Humanity, Goodbye to the Sun, Jati's Wager, THORN: An Empire of Dragons Story, The Observers

Check out the end of the year #SciFi Bundle with 41 books for only $25!

All human created books from indie creators. Last day of sale!

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31.12.2025 04:13 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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28.12.2025 19:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

1/3 the way through editing this manuscript. ! I have got to figure out how to do this faster. XD I have 2.3333 more novels and a novella waiting in the queue!!! 😅

28.12.2025 19:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Cinnamon pecan rolls in oven.

Cinnamon pecan rolls in oven.

22.12.2025 21:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This printing it out on paper thing really worked. It’s slow because of main job, but I’m making some major paragraph level edits.

21.12.2025 15:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If you see this, can you please repost it?

I'm thrilled to bits that my little scifi book has been nominated for an award, and if people would be so kind to vote for it, that would mean the world to me.

#BookSky #WritingCommunity #scifi #dystopian #lgbtqia #lgbtbooks #bookrecs

19.12.2025 09:30 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Yasss! Made it through several 8.5x11 inch narrow margin single spaced pages!!11!11 XD Holy Moly, I forgot how much I liked editing on paper.

07.11.2025 04:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just say “I’m not dead yet!” Took a break from editing. Printed the manuscript out. It’s Rawr-vember writers!!!

04.11.2025 03:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Reading about the baldachin (canopy of state) on canopy beds when I come across this gem: The British state where monarchs slept the night before their coronation was sold to a couple at an auction for 100 pounds during WWII. They slept on it unaware for 30 years.

31.08.2025 13:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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How businesses are adapting to the AI chatbots' takeover of search engines Artificial intelligence chatbots are shaking up the way we use the internet, altering the search-for-clicks bargain that has shaped the landscape of the web for decades. Companies are scrambling to ad...

Any writers out there trying this with their blogs to sell their books yet? Just curious.

"Chris Andrew is CEO and cofounder of Scrunch AI. Scrunch tries to help customers' websites get noticed by AI bots so that their name or products appear in AI answers."
www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...
#writersky

08.08.2025 11:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finally feel like I broke through the funk of editing! Been hitting my ~500 words per day stride again lately instead of the carving three sentences out of silicon with a block of soft tofu that I have been managing. 😆

06.08.2025 13:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I'm definitely a morning/evening/I can't sleep writer. :) Maybe would be different if I didn't work a full time job. What about you?

06.08.2025 13:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Came here to recommend The Diamond Age as an excellent argument against this.

06.08.2025 01:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Cruel Gods: The Thirteenth Hour by Trudie Skies

28.07.2025 02:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0