Erika T Wurth

When Your Writer "Brand" is Buy My Book Look, though I'm closer to the millennial side of things, technically, I'm still a GenXer, and the idea of branding art still gives me the literary heebie-jeebies.

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Thanks! I plan on being more consistent with posts!

Building Words or Building Worlds? But then I went to college. And then PhD school. And then I became a creative writing professor. And I taught what I was trained. Which was that as someone who desperately wanted to be taken…

Building Words or Building Worlds?

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Erika T. Wurth Erika T. Wurth’s novel WHITE HORSE is a New York Times editors pick, a Good Morning America buzz pick, and an Indie Next, Target book of the Month, and Book of the Month Pick. She is both a Kenyon and...

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I'm on YouTube! Let's follow each other!

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Hey bloggers! I'm an indigenous horror novelist, my first novel was WHITE HORSE (NYT editors & GMA buzz pick. IndieNext. Target & BOTM). Would anyone like to interview me for my new novel, THE HAUNTING of ROOM 904?

#Blog #Blogger #Blogging

Building Words or Building Worlds? When I was a kid, if a novel didn't involve a ghost, spaceship, or elf, I wasn't interested.

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100% down with this

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#Booktok #Bookstagram there's been a glitch in the book matrix, & you might not have gotten your copy of #TheHauntingOfRoom904

If you loved #WhiteHorse &/or horror, sci-fi, fantasy books, review, & have a decent platform, please reach out. Flatiron would be happy to send you a copy!

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#ComicCon

Though I know I'm going to be paying it for weeks as my right foot is already going rogue, it has been an honor to be invited to participate in #ComicCon

And one final thought: Ozzy going out after giving an emotional final performance that raised a ton of money for charity is more spiritually uplifting and did more genuine good than anything any televangelist and religious grifter who railed against him ever did combined.

i believe that at 18 every american should be entered into a draft, not for military service, but for one year of mandatory retail or restaurant work

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6 Films Silvia Moreno-Garcia Recommends for Writers I subscribe to Alfred Hitchcock’s theory of suspense versus surprise. Mystery, he said, is when the spectator knows less than the characters in a movie. Suspense is when the spectator knows more th…

I'm at Crime Reads, talking about how films like Shadow of a Doubt and Hitchcock's theory of suspense inspired my latest novel, THE BEWITCHING. And I recommend movies writers should watch.
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2pm, not … whatever it says previously.

Oh, hey: just got a time-correction for the Sunday event in ABQ with @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social :

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

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Authors Guild Member David Baldacci Testifies Before Senate Crime Subcommittee on AI Theft - The Authors Guild On Wednesday, July 16, bestselling author David Baldacci delivered powerful testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, laying bare the devastating impact of AI c...

..."AI companies deliberately sought out piracy sites to obtain copyrighted books..."

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Authors Guild Member David Baldacci Testifies Before Senate Crime Subcommittee on AI Theft - The Authors Guild On Wednesday, July 16, bestselling author David Baldacci delivered powerful testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, laying bare the devastating impact of AI c...

..."AI companies deliberately sought out piracy sites to obtain copyrighted books..."

authorsguild.org/news/david-b... Authors Guild Member David Baldacci Testifies Before Senate Crime Subcommittee on AI Theft - The Authors Guild

there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3

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A woman with mysterious powers, called to solve a crime in the haunted hotel where her sister died, who has three weeks to solve it.

Or her mother dies.

#WhiteHorse #TheHauntingOfRoom904 #Horror #Paranormal #StrongFemaleProtagonist #Indigenous#Ghost #Haunt #Novel #BookTok #Bookstagram

Thanks @bookriot.bsky.social !!!!

Psyched to be on this list with @sgj.bsky.social

If you're a publishing professional of any kind, you should consider signing @literaryhub.bsky.social 's anti AI letter. Here's the link:https://lithub.com/against-ai-an-open-letter-from-writers-to-publishers/

AG Introduces New Publishing Agreement Clauses Concerning AI - The Authors Guild The Authors Guild is introducing four new model clauses concerning AI to its Model Trade Book Contract and Model Literary Translation Contract. In addition to the recent clause preventing the use of b...

Writers, as the battle with AI continues, the @authorsguild.bsky.social has offered a no-AI template for your contracts. As you know, the theft of so much work (mine too) has fueled AI & there are a number of writers on the legal frontlines.

Anyway, the template: authorsguild.org/news/ag-intr...