Elly Blake

The bots are not ok

Omg😂

Eye opening. This is such a disturbing reason for releasing technology, as if the inevitably of something means it’s somehow better to do it first. “Society will get used to it” is also not a compelling argument in favour.

The sprayed edges feature leaves, a candle, and a pixie.

I have to share something that made my week. 😊 The Cursed Queen’s Daughter is getting a special edition with sprayed edges! 🦋

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“A forest princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.” 🦋

She’s so talented!

Is now a good time to remind folk of the "Three Sentence Review"? #BookSky

We used this on the little shelfcards in the bookstore when my booksellers were stuck—they could hand-sell like mad, but writing a review often stalled them out. This worked.

(Any tropes are a great answer to #1, btw.)

This is so beautiful!

Love that shade! 😍

Sooo deprived! 😂

A Husky mix with blue eyes sitting in a living room to beg for treats.

Here is my Husky mix with her begging face. She’s not afraid to talk about what she wants!

Haha this is soooo Husky!!!

I can’t remember the later parts of the game! Makes me wish I could replay it. Sometimes I wish I’d kept an old computer just so I could still play those games.

I think I played every King’s Quest game, as well as Phantasmagoria, which was also written by Roberta Williams. I loved King’s Quest so much! The 3D King’s Quest had some bugs. (I forget what number that was.) I remember getting stuck in rocks sometimes. lol

I can’t believe this is real

I know there’s a whole faction of people who don’t like prologues but I love them and I always write them. I have no idea what the current trend is, and whether editors like them currently. Social media makes us so aware of people’s preferences that sometimes it’s hard to follow our instincts.

Ugh I’m so sorry.

In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about AI and how it works, the less likely they are to embrace it.

In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about lead poisoning, the less likely they are eat paint chips for a snack.

This is so so relatable. Hugs. ❤️

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A warrior princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.
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Also they have zero sense of irony.

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

I still sing this aloud sometimes. “If you ask any girrrrl…”

@clairewillett honestly the best marketing scheme in history is men successfully getting away with calling women the "more emotional" gender for like, EONS, because they've successfully rebranded anger as Not An Emotion 6:00 PM • Aug 12, 2020

once again I must tap my own sign

Still soon!

Oh!! I didn’t know this! Can’t wait!!!

A background of leaves, an owl, and a fox with the book cover in the centre.

If you’re up for some YA fantasy with romance, Indigo has a 20% off sale on their picks for Best of the Year So Far, and they’ve included The Forest King’s Daughter!🍂

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If I created an investment fund and promised 300% returns but instead spent your money buying yachts, I'd go to jail.

Yet there are so many dudebros telling me that when ChatGPT spouts total bullshit the problem isn't OpenAI marketing it as a knowledge engine, it's the users who believe it.

What a gorgeous cover!

Repeat After Me: AI Doesn’t Know Anything Yesterday, the Chicago Sun-Times (and then also the Philly Inquirer) published an issue of their newspaper that included an insert about fun summer things, and in that was a list of fifteen great s…

Said some more stuff about AI, particularly that whole "hey we let it make up a bunch of fake books and then we published that list of fake books in the real world as part of a newspaper" thing. At the blog. Enjoy! Or don't! I'm not your boss.