Becca Coffindaffer

What if there was a mindful way to steal people’s art, pollute Black neighborhoods, and raise everyone’s electric bill?

Against a background of dark violets and green leaves is shown the illustrated cover of Enchanting the Fae Queen, in which a mischievously grinning woman with long blonde curls, a moonstone crown, a pink dress and bare feet, sits perched in a tree teasing the uniformed general who stands before her, his expression determined and one of his hands around her closest leg while she pokes his strong nose with one finger. Above that cover image is this snippet of text: He could not bear a world without his nemesis in it.

This week's Monday snippet comes from Enchanting the Fae Queen, which is out in ebook, paper, and audiobook:

stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen

#romancelandia

I don’t know how to use chatgpt etc but I imagine it’s going to a website and typing “oh no what groceries do I buy please tell me false god for I am so weak I cannot go on” as your brain atrophies and leaks out of your ears from disuse and the machine is like “buy eggs milk bread and a horse”

Home | The Graveyard Writing. Publishing. Gaming. And whatever else I pick up along the way.

It's my birthday on Wednesday, and I'm going to give away a bunch of these ARCs sitting on my desk. Multiple chances for entries, including if you subscribe to my newsletter, so I'm just gonna....slide this link on over....
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He would make space for me inside that light if I let him.

But soft things die quick down in the dust.

@fiercereads.bsky.social #booksky
The Bloody and the Damned 4.7.26

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

the kind of story that already reads like a history of this moment

CRUNCHY CHILI OIL AND IT'S AMAZING

Book Bans ‘Kill Creativity,’ Sow Self-Doubt in Authors For the past few years, author Charlotte Sullivan Wild has been working on a picture book about an LGBTQ+ family who learns to cope with one member’s deployment to the military. The story is inspired…

As hard as we are fighting, book bans are having an impact on the books being written and published. To put this another way, a very small number of well-funded people who don't write books, don't teach books, don't work in libraries are trying to decide what books are available for everyone else

We are happy to throw down for this organization any day, anytime

Thank you to @authorsabb.bsky.social heroes @beccacoffindaffer.bsky.social and Ed Underhill, we have some slides that can be shared by anyone about this, with particular reps to target. Let's kill this bill in committee.

And using Compass Classroom lists for okaying book choices for classic literature is a big NOPE from me (and probably other school teachers and librarians).

How to Support Trans People in All 50 States A curated list of 100 organizations supporting trans rights and livelihood to which you can donate.

as long as folks are enthusiastically donating to state level trans orgs today, figured I'd reup this list the @them.us team and I put together a few years back: www.them.us/story/orgs-f...

(some info may be outdated, but use this as a jumping-off point!)

If you have the means, please donate to the Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate and they are overwhelmed with requests. Colorado borders Kansas, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.

tcpipeline.org

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.

They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

I think about the glue factory. When AI relieves us of our need for your labor we can transform you (horse-like) from a means into an end: glue.

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks.

lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

Tim Walz isn't declaring an eviction moratorium in Minnesota, so many families affected by ICE are at risk of eviction in a few days. Please donate to the rent funds at keepMNhoused.com if you have some scratch.

"Women adopt AI at rates 25% lower than men.

This isn’t a guess. It’s the finding of a Harvard Business School meta-analysis examining eighteen studies, over 140,000 participants, across multiple countries."

"Every AI Company Is Building a Different Wife"

abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built...

YouTube video by New York City Public Advocate "I'm the first US elected official with Tourette Syndrome and I have some thoughts about BAFTA"

I appreciate this and he hit the nail on the head.

youtu.be/FgaqKIxS4Hs?...

final part: my concluding thoughts and response to the argument that using gen AI in our books is "inevitable" #booksky

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Chicago Pope just keeps putting out bangers

Pope Leo: THERE ARE NO EM DASHES IN THE BIBLE

part 5: buckle up, buttercup, generative AI is kinda shit for society, too, because tech bros sell you on marketing fluff instead of what gen AI *actually* is

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part 4, which is actually the first of two parts discussing the issues with generative AI, and I get to share some really ridiculous hypocrisy I came across

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part 3: disclosing generative AI and why people using it for their books don't want to tell you

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Dear Universe, let us emerge from the forest every few years, drop a book, and then disappear into the shadows

my kingdom for a universe where i don't have to be on any of them 😭

What gets me about this one is how it reveals ICE‘s awareness that the people they’re targeting are *not* scary violent criminals: they’re good neighbors who will risk their safety to help others. You wouldn’t try this tactic unless you knew your justification for arresting this man was bullshit.

part 2: wherein I discuss PlotProse, Hart's AI coaching business, and it's very...interesting offerings #booksky

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