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David Earl Whitaker

@davidearlwhitaker.com.bsky.social

Author, Imaginist, Creator of Worlds

181 Followers  |  200 Following  |  53 Posts  |  Joined: 26.08.2023  |  2.2018

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Sure, though it depends on the con. Worldcon, sure, but there are tons of local and regional cons that need panelists.

15.08.2025 22:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

What about con panelist?

15.08.2025 03:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hanging out at Worldcon this weekend. Anyone else here? #worldconSeattle2025

14.08.2025 01:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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zomg, Jeff, that's awesome!

11.06.2025 21:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Story Prompt:

02.06.2025 13:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I have friends everywhere.

21.05.2025 19:31 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dave's review of Shattered (Forged Series Book 1) 5/5: If you’re looking for a story about the tempest of teenage relationships, scientific overreach, and the defiance of tyranny, have I got the book for you: Shattered, book one of the Forged series,...

www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

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Is your copyright safe from AI?

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How to Write Engaging, Natural Sounding Dialogue #authorlife #writerslife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity www.amazon.com/dp/1948872226

02.04.2025 14:16 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Amen.

02.04.2025 13:47 — 👍 81    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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Meta's Massive AI Training Book Heist: What Authors Need to Know  - The Authors Guild Today, The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works are in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. This is a similar tool to the on...

authorsguild.org/news/meta-li...

21.03.2025 16:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

21.03.2025 16:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Make good art.

13.03.2025 13:59 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Snowflakes on a dark blue background overlaid with the words "Good morning! Capitalism makes it difficult to believe anything that doesn’t make money has value, but the value of art isn’t the money it makes - it’s the ways it touches the human soul and helps those who encounter it grow"

Snowflakes on a dark blue background overlaid with the words "Good morning! Capitalism makes it difficult to believe anything that doesn’t make money has value, but the value of art isn’t the money it makes - it’s the ways it touches the human soul and helps those who encounter it grow"

Good morning! Capitalism makes it difficult to believe anything that doesn’t make money has value, but the value of art isn’t the money it makes - it’s the ways it touches the human soul and helps those who encounter it grow

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6 Tips on Registering Your Self-Published Book • How to purchase an ISBN for your book• Do I need to buy a barcode when self-publishing?• Trademark registration is overkill for new writers• Why you want an LCCN for your book…

#authorlife #writerslife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity

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#writingcommunity

11.03.2025 13:47 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Good news for human content creators.

11.02.2025 21:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ugh. As if Amazon's swamp wasn't enough. :(

09.02.2025 18:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey all. I made a mistake. In my haste to migrate to BSKY, I accidentally started using this account, which is my author account, instead of a personal account. So, if you see a follow by @dave-whit, that's not some poser fake account, it's actually me.

01.02.2025 01:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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