@thomasdlee.bsky.social
Sunday Times bestselling author (he/him) Buy PERILOUS TIMES, it has a talking squirrel THE KNIGHT WATCH coming June 2026 Visiting Lecturer at City St George's University London Repped by Harry Illingworth at @dhhlitagency Linktree: https://t.co/psdOEXpR3h
When my students/mentees ask for advice on how to make a living from publishing, in future, I'll just tell them to go back in time and write some HP fanfic
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The solution in question being JUST WRITE IT YOURSELF FOR GOD'S SAKE, YOU'RE A HUMAN, YOU HAVE THE GIFT OF LIFE AND THOUGHT AND FEELING, USE YOUR HUMAN MIND AND HANDS AND IMAGINATION, DON'T LET THEM ATROPHY, DON'T OUTSOURCE THEM TO A MACHINE, STRIVE TO TRY AND FAIL AND LEARN AND BETTER YOURSELF
Now getting ads for AI 'Humanizers' that promise to make your AI writing seem less robotic, which seems about as logical (and environmentally conscious) as running a humidifier and dehumidifier in the same room. I feel like there's a much cheaper and easier solution to this problem.
According to Waterstones, if you like ACOTAR by Sarah J. Maas, you will love MURDER AT THE HOTEL ORIENT.
Okay they didn’t exactly say that but CLOSE ENOUGH, BABY!
I've just pre-ordered MURDER AT THE HOTEL ORIENT by my friend and agency sibling @alessandraranelli.bsky.social - a sultry and decadent thriller set at an Austrian love hotel. I'm very excited to read it, after everything I've heard about it!
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I think there's a point where all artistic pursuits become like Japan's 'Intangible Cultural Properties', supported by the state because they're understood to provide artistic and cultural value without necessarily being profitable. But we're a long way from getting that support, in the US and UK.
END THIS STUPID WAR.
REGULATE AI.
IMPEACH THE ENTIRE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION.
EPSTEIN. LET'S PROSECUTE SOME CHILD MOLESTERS.
CLEAN AIR, CLEAN WATER, CLEAN FOOD FOR ALL.
Anecdotally, was talking with a group of female author friends recently and we realised something depressing. When I write comic fantasy with a couple of sex scenes it gets marketed as epic fantasy. When *they* write epic fantasy with a couple of sex scenes it gets marketed as steamy romantasy.
My second book is set during WWII so I'm looking forward to accusations of lazy writing from people who couldn't conceive of fascism ever making a comeback.
My first book occasionally gets criticised because the bad guys are a secret cult of cartoonishly evil necromantic billionaires and I can only assume that these criticisms come from people who live a blessedly offline existence and have never once read a newspaper.
If AI developers wish to use our copyright work to build their software they can ask us for permission. If we agree, they can pay us to license it on clearly defined terms.
Tech companies ignoring copyright is theft. The UK government should uphold the existing law.
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Melissa is absolutely right. We might be traditionally published, and we might occasionally break out with a bestseller, but midlist authors are often neglected by publishers while the big titles suck up all the oxygen. There are some brave and exciting books out there that deserve a lot more hype!
I very much hope those in government will read this and understand the risk they're taking with one of the UK's most consistently successful sectors - a risk profoundly bound up in an enormous speculative bubble and tech that has horrific externalities and is terrible at nearly everything.
How I arrived on Bluesky
Happy World Book Day, one and all. The world is currently governed by people who don't have the attention span or the inner wisdom to finish reading a book, but that shouldn't stop the rest of us from enjoying them and learning from them.
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Don’t just boycott ChatGPT. Boycott all AI. There really is no moral version of AI. All those companies are corrupt.
Awesome to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social supporting the @nionwomen.bsky.social campaign of women opposed to transphobia.
notinourname.org.uk
It’s astonishing how British newspapers and Tory and Reform politicians line up behind a clearly demented American president to attack the British Prime Minister. I’m an Irishman and have no dog in the fight, but it’s really weird (treacherous?) to constantly back a foreign country ahead of your own
Way ahead of you
"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world."
#AIslop #refuseresist
14 Perilous Times by Thomas D Lee
Arthurian knights in modern day, trying to save Britain. An excellent story, absolutely hilarious at times, far, far too relevant to everything going on right now...
Also Arthur needs a good slap
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@aquedita.bsky.social pitched this series as "Terry Pratchett x Kit Rocha" and I am like *give eyes now plz, eyes need book in them, why weekend almost done?*
And it's beyond rude for the US publisher to cancel the contract bc it's "too queer"? 💢 I want MORE like this, not less!
I'm glad you enjoyed it, Agata! ☺️
note the prequel titled "The Knight Watch" is up for preorder now and I am very excited for our knights to fight Nazis and for Isolde to hopefully get a cute French girlfriend.
just finished "Perilous Times" by @thomasdlee.bsky.social and my heart is full 😭💖
Arthurian knights wake up in future Britain and a dragon is not their only problem.
there's nobody coming to save us but we can come together to fight the horrors if we hope & trust a better world is possible. #BookSky
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I decided 'I'm never voting Labour again' when they started arresting peaceful protesters and making it even harder for trans people to live their lives. Almost every day now I see something like this that utterly vindicates that decision. #VoteGreen
I hope that Labour are thoroughly ashamed of themselves this morning. They tried the same lie in Caerphilly where Plaid Cymru won. No one should believe these sort of claims ever again. Of course, what's really needed is PR, so that this ridiculous game playing stops. #MakeVotesMatter
"if a party is offering to tackle the cost of living crisis and is showing moral consistency in international human law, that's probably a party worth voting for" 💚