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AI could never replace my authors. But, without regulation, it will ruin publishing as we know it | Jonny Geller Basic principles need to be enshrined to protect the sacred craft of storytelling from this automated onslaught, says literary agent Jonny Geller

"Good writing is not a regeneration of other people’s material." A great post from literary agent Jonny Geller: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

#magical #forest

Two trees make a doorway in a forest lit by late afternoon sun

I always love to find hidden doorways in the woods. Should I go through? #trees #nature

ETCH | Philip Gelatt | Substack We make movies and series. Animation and live-action. Documentary and fiction. Sign up now to see our documentary series "First Word on Horror.". Click to read ETCH, a Substack publication with thou...

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#etchfilm #TheSpineOfNight #morgangalenking #animation #indiefilm

Am I the only left hander who turns their page sideways to write? It gives easier flow with #fountainpens and no hand cramps. #southpaws

My face when I find out about Augur Press on Aug 31st...arghhhh! Best of luck with the submissions!

September 2025 Publishing and Other Forms of Insanity Newsletter Literary Agents, Free Writing Contests, Submission Calls & more

The September Publishing and Other Forms of Insanity newsletter is out! Literary Agents, Submission Calls (Paying markets!), Free Writing Contests, and more. (And it's free!)#writingtips #amwriting #publishing #writing #pubtip #WritingCommunity eocampaign1.com/web-version?...

We are heartbroken to announce that an ongoing labour dispute at our conference hotel has forced us to cancel this year's SiWC for the first time in our 33-year history. We hope to see you at next year's conference, October 23-25, 2026 with master classes on the 21st and 22nd. Reg opens June 3, 2026

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.

Good Old American Time Travel: 1632 by Eric Flint - Reactor Modern West Virginians find themselves in war-torn 17th-century Germany...

Our column reviewing classic sci-fi and fantasy, Frontlines and Frontiers, talked about this series back in April

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"This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. I go and come with a strange liberty in Nature, a part of herself." #thoreau #nature #evening #books #booksky

We Looked Like Giants Tribute to Death Cab for Cutie

#poetry #poem #art #love #loss
#grief
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Let's avoid a world where humans hand off the 'burden' of their own cognition to a false mind in a data centre for a monthly subscription. Technocrat dollar-sign eyes mask an even deeper greed. A squishy-brained population that doesn't just refuse to think for itself but cannot. #thisisyourbrainonAI

Sun dappled forest with moss and tall hemlock trees

Not a bad spot for getting some words in #amwriting #writersky

I keep saving my drafts as '_FINAL' this and '_FINAL' that. Is this aspirational or misguided? It never seems to be the last. Take that, inner adversary! This proves I'm an optimist!

#writersky #writingcommunity #amquerying

a woman sitting at a table with the words " one must champion oneself and say " ALT: a woman sitting at a table with the words " one must champion oneself and say "

Am I querying Monday???

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I'm moving my on-demand writing classes to a new platform. In honor of the migration, I'm giving everyone 25% off the first six products on this page — www.patreon.com/c/maryrobine... — through the end of June with the discount code HELLO.

August Books celebrates Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary with classic biography

ICYMI: August Books will publish a new edition of the definitive biography of literary icon Jane Austen by Elizabeth Jenkins to mark the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth, titled Jane Austen: The Biography 👇 #BookSky

I will!

Slightly chaotic summer reading goals #BookSky #SummerReads #Books

If you love wilderness survival and 'Mysteries of the Unknown'

Welcome to the new website! www.bonebeds.com

To an archaeologist, a bonebed is an accumulation of fossils in a layer of earth. Spec fiction writers don’t just excavate from the strata of our past. Concerned with near futurism, often collapse, they place artifacts for the next generation of excavators digging in the bonebeds of the future.