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Looking for something to read over the weekend?
Something hot & naughty? Something with mature characters?
Then check out : https://www.evernightpublishing.com/suzy-shearer/
https://www.amazon.com/stores/Suzy-Shearer/author/B00KOEP2W8?
And all online bookstores worldwide.

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16 book covers set on a black background.
All books by Suzy Shearer & published by Evernight Publishing.

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Okay, I've read Les Miserables so I feel that I'm now entiteled to know what else Victor Hugo got up to 😁

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My favourite thing to do is to tell my friends about the wild things victor hugo did and see the look of shock and horror in their faces bc they only know him as the great author who wrote les mis and hunchback and not as the man who gave his fiancee a live bat in an envelope.

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He what now?

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A class action lawsuit is being prepared against Anthropic over their downloading of copyrighted material from pirate websites.

If you're an author, and your books have been registered with the US Copyright Office, you may be eligible to be included, and thus receive damages.

The plaintiff's lawyers are collecting contact information so that they can ensure eligible authors receive formal notice of the class action.

More information and the form are here: https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/

#PleaseBoost and pass on to any authors you know not on the fediverse.

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177d

In an updated writing version of this meme I vividly hallucinate 1s and 0s onto liquid crystals.

The future is now! 😂

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Painting of a woman lying in bed reading a book.

Caption: Have you ever realized how surreal reading a book actually is? You stare at marked slices of tree for hours hallucinating vividly.

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I hate using Word for any sort of creative writing. I wrote a short story in Obsidian then put it in Word because that's one of the accepted formats for the place to which I might like to submit it.

Instantly dozens of blue underlines, exactly two of which are simple spelling errors. The rest are all style suggestions which, while they would not fundamentally change the thing I wrote, would rob me of my unique voice.

This isn't even AI slop. It's just the helpful little suggestions like verb tense and comma usage which I had already carefully considered. It's also straight up wrong 3/4 of the time. In a few cases, it wants to change the wording entirely.

I used to write like this. I used to use Word all the time. How much of my voice was lost to blue and red squiggly underlines?

I know I can go turn all those features off if I really wanted to, but I'd rather they be opt-in, just like I'd rather any genAI features be opt-in. The point is, even before genAI, Word was already tailoring and softening everybody's individuality toward a perceived ideal.

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We've recently set up a service called the Indie Ad Network, or IAN for short. The idea is that authors can display ads for each other's books, with no popups, cookies, tracking, data harvesting, or all the other things that make most online ads awful.

Just a picture of the book and a link to where to buy it.

And it's all free.

You can see an example of an advert at the bottom of the sidebar on Robin's author website (https://russellphillips.uk).

Any self-published or small press author can submit a book ad and we'll run it for six months. If you're also showing our ads, your ad will run indefinitely.

You can add a book to be advertised (one per author name, for now) here: https://ian.authorhelp.uk/info/submit/

If you have a website and you'd like to display adverts for other author's books, go here: https://ian.authorhelp.uk/info/installation/

The service is currently in a limited beta. Authors of the Fediverse are welcome to join, but we'll close the forms if it gets too busy.

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116211809285100124

This is the kind of love story I like around here, shut up I'm not crying, you're crying... 😊

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In other news, anybody know how I preserve the hyperlinks for endnotes when converting from docx to epub?
(I'm doing the conversion via Draft2Digital, if that matters.)

I'm trying to fix this for the 2nd edition of APPETITE FOR ANTITHESIS. I've been fighting with it for days now, and no online FAQs or forum posts have gotten me anywhere.

Help me, Fedi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.

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Hi All, I had a busy day yesterday. Been querying writers on Mastodon about the best platforms for self-publishing. gwendolenau pointed me in the direction of Smashwords (thanks again) and I ended up joining Draft2Digital.
The eBook edition of How to Succeed as a Supervillain by Following the Evil Overlord List, is now available on 6 different platforms (including Apple) with more to come. Seems to be a really useful tool.

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I wonder if I function executively down the stairs? 🤔 I hope I do, it sounds fancy 😜

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Post by Loukas Christodoulou

Autistic authors writing neurotypical characters:

"They were the kind of person who read between the lines without even knowing the lines were there.

A natural smile played on the face of their un-headphoned head, and they functioned executively down the stairs."

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127d

The struggle is real! 😜😂

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There panel meme of Joel for The Last of Us looking like he's having a panic/heart attack.

Caption: Writers realising the only way their book will be written is if they write it...

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The deadline to be included in the claim against Anthropic is 30 March. If you haven't already done so, submit your claim now. The Authors Guild have a useful guide.
https://authorsguild.org/advocacy/artificial-intelligence/what-authors-need-to-know-about-the-anthropic-settlement/

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Torn from her quiet retirement of apple trees and market stalls by an awakened amulet, Dragonslayer Kadara cuts her way across Aros to face its greatest threat: the truth.
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A menacing teal dragon with golden eyes looms behind a middle-aged black woman with long salt and pepper hair. The caption reads: R.E. Lockett, Silent Orchard Rising Storm, availabel March 17th from your favorite book retailer

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I submitted my first short story to three magazines. After six months of waiting, it's been rejected twice (thrice maybe?)

It's not a nice feeling being rejected, and in today's blog I go through my thoughts as I process these rejections and what I'm going to do next.

Thing of the Whenever this time is on Anthony C Yu's translation of Journey to the West and the art of translation.

https://joshgriffiths.site/my-story-was-rejected-twice-and-thats-not-very-nice-except-maybe-it-is/

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I'm in this meme and I don't like it 😜 😂

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"The worst script is the one never written" he said to himself as he wrote the second worst script.

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Five of Indonesia’s most powerful security officials declared the country secure while malls were fenced, unfenced, and a woman was arrested for a Facebook post. Eleven days before Independence Day, the government is managing memory to protect extraction and punish warning. That same government moved fast enough to make a dictator a national hero within a year of taking office; it has never moved that fast for anyone’s survival, anywhere. Below is this week’s mutual aid roundup.Below are ten mutual aid requests, two Palestinian campaign spotlights, and verified campaigns needing direct support and sharing.

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Mutual Aid Request Roundup 6 August 2026

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#Kraa is for #mindful #longform #writing:

https://kraa.io/gyrusinczky

#Sourcefeed is for sharing daily #contemplation in a discreet, elegant way:

https://www.sourcefeed.app/feed/exceptional-day

#Sourcefeed #RSS:

https://www.sourcefeed.app/feed/exceptional-day.xml

#PencilBooth is for visual #newsletter:

https://pencilbooth.com/gyrusinczky

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If procrastinating was an olympic sport, I'd have ALL the medals 😂

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Three panel comic by Tom Gauld

MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS FOR NOVELISTS
1: Susie has written 12 chapters of a novel. Her editor asks her to cut 3 chapters and rewrite 8 chapters.
How many glasses of wine does Susie drink that night?

2: Every day Paul spends 3 hours procrastinating, 2 hours worrying, and 1 hour napping.
How long until the publisher asks Paul to repay his advance?

3: Anne writes a new novel every 6 months. 75% of Anne’s novels are bestsellers and 66% win literary prizes.
How much do you hate Anne?

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Fry: "Um... yeah, that ring's a bell."

I love the writing of the early seasons of Futurama so much 😜😂

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Two panels from the show Futurama:

Girl: "You're from the 20th century? That's incredible. I'm from the 21st century. Remember when those billionaires enslaved humanity?"
Fry: "Um.. yeah, that rings a bell."

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I feel like the dystopian techbros and super-rich aren't getting enough credit in this meme 🤔😁

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Four panel meme of Mr. Bean cheating on a test.

Then: Government (Mr. Bean) looking at dystopian scifi books and movies (his neighbours test)
Now: Dystopian fiction writers (Mr. Bean) looking at government (his neighbours test)

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Holy shit! Researchers at U. of Minnesota just made an artificial cell from purified components that will feed, grow, replicate DNA, divide, and even evolve by natural selection. I just downloaded it; I'm about to start reading it.

If you are trying to write science fiction, and there's one science research paper you should read this year, this should probably be it.

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https://biotic.org/research/spudcell/

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Okay @aanee it's not exaclty the meme that was promised but it's in the right general direction 😜😂

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Post by ely kreimendahl

When I get negative feedback: omg so true, thank you for your honesty...
When I get positive feedback: why would you lie to me like this...

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#Seattle #Typewriters #Typewriter #WritersOfMastodon

The goodwill on Dearborn has a nice collection of 1910s-20s typewriters, all in nearly impeccable condition and fully working as well (from my testing, at least), all for $25-30

Get ‘em while you can!

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Looking for something to read? Like your stories hot and sexy?
Buy direct from https://www.evernightpublishing.com/suzy-shearer
or anyone online bookstore worldwide.
PS - Finn is still only $0.99us on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GG7XKGLN?

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