Lisa Kenway

Meet three authors whose dream of being published was finally realised.

Join me at the @newwritersfest.bsky.social as I chat with Zahid Gamieldien, @LisaKenway.bsky.social, and Natasha Rai on the highs and lows of debut author life.

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04.04.2025 03:47 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

This is genuinely shocking, and Zuckerberg needs to be held responsible. Pure theft.

20.03.2025 22:36 — 👍 41    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 3

Piracy is bad enough, but knowing that the debut novel I poured my heart into is potentially training Zuckerberg’s AI is enraging! FYI @transitlounge.bsky.social

20.03.2025 23:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Can’t wait to talk ‘complicated characters’ with these crime fiction superstars 🤩🥳📚

13.03.2025 02:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All You Took From Me All You Took From Me eBook : Kenway, Lisa: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store

Opened my emails this morning to discover that the kindle version of my psych thriller ALL YOU TOOK FROM ME is on sale! It’s worth way more than $1.49 btw 😉 www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B...

15.02.2025 22:08 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

My small-press book was in a viral TikTok How the stars aligned to make it happen, its impact and lessons learned

A couple of weeks ago my small-press debut thriller miraculously ended up in an influencer’s viral video. This is the unlikely story of how it happened and what happened next: open.substack.com/pub/lisakenw...

01.02.2025 08:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Good to hear, I’ve been missing that community

21.01.2025 08:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great tip, thanks!

20.01.2025 08:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely. I meant rebuilding community more than anything. Otherwise it feels like shouting into the void

13.01.2025 01:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It does seem promising, just exhausted at the thought of building from nothing all over again

13.01.2025 01:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hi Bluesky folk, any tips for a platform-fatigued newby? #writers #blueskytips

13.01.2025 00:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 3    📌 0