Ariell Cacciola

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hello fellow freelance editors,

have you added generative AI policies into your freelance contracts, i.e., cancelling client's that use gen AI to 'write' their manuscript and & subsequent kill fees and procedures

i have language in publishing contracts but not in my own for clients

thank you for reading the books. but i do recall how nasty you were to me in a series of emails last year. I don't forget these things and have no interest in reading your work. maybe think about how you speak to those people who you want consideration from in the future.

a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder ALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder

hello fellow freelance editors,

have you added generative AI policies into your freelance contracts, i.e., cancelling client's that use gen AI to 'write' their manuscript and & subsequent kill fees and procedures

i have language in publishing contracts but not in my own for clients

Two Stables Both Alike in Dignity: Edgar Allan Poe’s “Metzengerstein” - Reactor Maybe one *should* look a gift horse in the mouth...

Reading the Weird celebrates spooky season all year long, but now an Edgar Allen Poe deep dive feels...thematically appropriate. This week let's discuss "Metzengerstein," Poe's first published story 📖

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#writingopportunity

Keeping everyone on their toes with this wee drive by submission window

I'm open to unagented manuscripts until Sunday evening

#mswl #booksky #writingoppurtunity

Save the Cat! Writes Horror – Reedsy Live Learn to freak out your readers with the help of Save the Cat!

Haven't watched the video but I enjoyed reading this little breakdown on structuring horror novels 🐈‍⬛✍️

I'm a big proponent of save the cat especially for early writers

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teeny reminder that i re-opened recently to agent subs

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First day of cinnamon in the coffee grounds season

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Happy pub day (belatedly)! Woohoo

So delighted that Bear Season is *still* getting lots of love over a year later. A semi-finalist for the Small Spec Book Awards.

*proud editor vibes*

Read more about the book here: www.wildhuntbooks.co.uk/books/p/bear...

Summer is over... and I'm open again to agent submissions. Can you all please send me your most lush, most dark, most dreadful manuscripts?! A bit on the literary side but playing in the shadows... I'm ready for them #mswl

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Anyone else reading Fox by Joyce Carol Oates?? I'm 200 pages in and HOOKED. Francis Fox is so unnerving 😬

i feel really dumb that i knew nothing about all this before but when i read about him it's so impossible that it wasn't caught earlier

a bit disheartening to always hear that readers should support indie bookshops but many bookshops don't pay their invoices to small publishers leaving us in the hole for hundreds of £££

bless those bookshops who pay on time without a temper tantrum

something @thebookseller.com should report on

Manuscript Assessments & Developmental Editing by a professional editor, writer & reader — Ariell Cacciola Manuscript Assessment and Developmental Editing by a professional developmental editor, writer and reader help with a guided manuscript assessment. Have you finished a first draft? Wondering if your f...

Really happy to say that I've had a good run of clients this year (not always the case!). A bit booked for the next several weeks but opening up starting in October (could squeeze in a shorter manuscript in September if in a rush).

Let me know how I can help

www.ariellcacciola.com/manuscript-a...

One of the most disturbing books I've read and I couldn't look away

The Yellow Wallpaper x Shirley Jackson x Our Wives Under the Sea x The Wasp Factory

Howdy #folklore aficionados of bsky!

Can you point me in the direction of any folklore concerning vampires or other shadowy creatures in Italy or Greece (contemporary or historical)?

worked on a manuscript where I realised the person copied Gosford Park word-for-word.... it was bizarre. they didn't quite get why you don't do this.

Hahaha. I told her this and that he does a minimum of 4 edits on his own and she just continued to yell that she didn't want to be Stephen King. She just wanted her book in bookstores. I did not respond.

Totally true. Once had a client that yelled at me via 18 emails that she didn't want to edit and that she only wanted to hear nice things and...SHE JUST WANTED HER BOOK IN BOOKSTORES (actual quote)

She didn't use AI at least 😅

Oh dear, didn't see that one. I find the whole AI thing really strange. What's the point of "writing" a book if you don't actually write it?

The average reader can definitely get the vibe that something is AI written.

Sounds like a dream!

Editing enquiries are way down the last year few years. I was reading a self-pub forum where a lot of people say that they are just running their manuscripts through chatgpt to spit out "advice" and rewrite their sentences.

I ask, really what's the point then 🤷‍♀️

It's just baffling: 'we ran a company into the ground so we will start a new one with the same people and fuck everyone' 🤷‍♀️

Unbound authors will not receive unpaid royalty payments until new publisher Boundless 'is cash stable' As founder John Mitchinson leaves, Unbound authors learn they will not receive historic royalty payments for sales of their books unless Boundless "survives and thrives".

It's astounding that more publishing people aren't chattering about this. Disgraceful, the whole lot of them at Unbound.

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I absolutely adored this book One of my favourites of the year and it's safe to say she's an auto-buy from me with any new books 🖤🖤

I'm ready for my gothic summer #booksky

Books now cost more than £10 on average and expected to hit £12 in 2024 Waterstones boss James Daunt backed forthcoming price increases arguing that books are 'dramatically more expensive' in the US and Europe than in the UK

Book prices have risen in the UK in the past two years. Paper and other costs are SOARING for publishers. I don't think readers/booksellers realise that UK RRP is not inline with other countries who already made adjustments incrementally over the years

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i really wish keir starmer would stop cosplaying as nigel farage