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<p>WayWORD Festival 2025<br>1–5 October, Aberdeen</p><p>The programme for WayWORD 2025, the University of Aberdeen’s cross-arts literary festival, is now online.</p><p><a href="https://waywordfestival.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>waywordfestival.com</a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/creativewriting/" rel="tag">#creativewriting</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a></p>

<p>“Writing isn’t about what you already know but what you find out you know once you’ve written it” (Siri Hustvedt, ‘Ghost Stories,’ p. 238).</p><p><a href="/tags/sundaysentence/" rel="tag">#SundaySentence</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a></p>

<p>He will outlast us, churning out his books,<br>advocate and historian, his prose<br>earning him Abbotsford with its borrowed gates,<br>its cheap mementos from the land he made…</p><p>—Iain Crichton Smith, “At the Scott Exhibition, Edinburgh Festival”<br>published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS (Carcanet, 2021)</p><p><a href="https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170940/deer-on-the-high-hills/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170940/deer-on-the-high-hills/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.carcanet.co.uk/97818001709</span><span class="invisible">40/deer-on-the-high-hills/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/poem/" rel="tag">#poem</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/walterscott/" rel="tag">#WalterScott</a> <a href="/tags/iaincrichtonsmith/" rel="tag">#IainCrichtonSmith</a> <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#writers</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a></p>

<p>Meet the people behind the books</p><p>Today I’m introducing new pages for people and other authors on <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/" rel="nofollow">The Online Books Page.</a> The new pages combine and augment information that’s been on <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/authors.html" rel="nofollow">author listings</a> and <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/subjects.html" rel="nofollow">subject pages</a>. They let readers see in one place books both about and by particular people. They also show let readers quickly see who the authors are and learn more about them. And they encourage readers to explore to find related authors and books online and in their local libraries. They draw on information resources created by librarians, Wikipedians, and other people online who care about spreading knowledge freely. I plan to improve on them over time, but I think they’re developed enough now to be useful to readers. Below I’ll briefly explain my intentions for these pages, and I hope to hear from you if you find them useful, or have suggestions for improvement.</p><p>Who is this person?</p><p>Readers often want to know about more about the people who created the books they’re interested in. If they like an author, they might want to learn more about them and their works– for instance, finding out what <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/who/Twain,%20Mark,%201835-1910" rel="nofollow">Mark Twain</a> did besides creating <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/who/Sawyer%2c%20Tom%20%28Fictitious%20character%29" rel="nofollow">Tom Sawyer</a> and <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/who/Finn%2c%20Huckleberry%20%28Fictitious%20character%29" rel="nofollow">Huckleberry Finn</a>. For less familiar authors, it helps to know what background, expertise, and perspectives the author has to write about a particular subject. For instance, <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/who/Fisher,%20Irving,%201867-1947" rel="nofollow">Irving Fisher</a>, a famous economist in the early 20th century, wrote about various subjects, not just ones dealing with economics, but also with health and public policy. One might treat his writings on these various topics in different ways if one knows what areas he was trained in and in what areas he was an interested amateur. (And one might also reassess his predictive abilities even in economics after learning from his biography that he’d famously failed to anticipate the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_crash_of_1929" rel="nofollow">1929 stock market crash</a> just before it happened.)</p><p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a> and the <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">Wikimedia Commons</a> communities have created many articles, and uploaded many images, of the authors mentioned in the Online Books collection, and they make them freely reusable. We’re happy to include their content on our pages, with attribution, when it helps readers better understand the people whose works they’re reading. Wikipedia is of course not the last word on any person, but it’s often a useful starting point, and many of its articles include links to more authoritative and in-depth sources. We also link to other useful free references in many cases. For example, <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/who/Du%20Bois,%20W.%20E.%20B.%20(William%20Edward%20Burghardt),%201868-1963" rel="nofollow">our page on W. E. B. Du Bois</a> includes links to articles on Du Bois from the <a href="https://sf-encyclopedia.com/" rel="nofollow">Encyclopedia of Science Fiction</a>, the <a href="https://iep.utm.edu/" rel="nofollow">Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy</a>, <a href="https://www.blackpast.org/" rel="nofollow">BlackPast</a>, and the <a href="https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biographies/" rel="nofollow">Archives and Records center at the University of Pennsylvania</a>, each of which describes him from a different perspective. Our goal in including these links on the page is not to exhaustively present all the information we can about an author, but to give readers enough context and links to understand who they are reading or reading about, and to encourage them to find out more. </p><p>Find more books and authors</p><p>Part of encouraging readers to find out more is to give them ways of exploring books and authors beyond the ones they initially find. Our page on <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/who/Carson,%20Rachel,%201907-1964" rel="nofollow">Rachel Carson</a>, for example, includes a number of works she co-wrote as an employee of the <a href="https://www.fws.gov/" rel="nofollow">US Fish and Wildlife Service</a>, as well as a public domain booklet on her prepared by the US Department of State. But it doesn’t include her most famous works like Silent Spring and the Sea Around Us, which are still under copyright without authorized free online editions, as are many recent biographies and studies of Carson. But you can find many of these books in libraries near you. Links we have on the left of her page will search library catalogs for works about her, and links on the bottom right will search them for work by her, via our <a href="https://everybodyslibraries.com/2013/02/11/from-my-library-to-yours/" rel="nofollow">Forward to Libraries</a> service.</p><p>Readers might also be interested in Carson’s colleagues. The “Associated authors” links on the left side of Carson’s page go to other pages about people that Carson collaborated with who are also represented in our collection, like <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/who/Hines%2c%20Bob" rel="nofollow">Bob Hines</a> and <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/who/Briggs%2c%20Shirley%20A%2e%20%28Shirley%20Ann%29%2c%201918%2d2004" rel="nofollow">Shirley Briggs</a>. Under the “Example of” heading, you can also follow links to other biologists and naturalists, doing similar work to Carson.</p><p>Metadata created with care by people, processed with care by code</p><p>I didn’t create, and couldn’t have created (let alone maintained), all of the links you see on these pages. They’re the work of many other people. Besides the people who wrote the linked books, collaborated on the linked reference articles, and created the catalog and <a href="https://authorities.loc.gov/" rel="nofollow">authority</a> metadata records for the books, there are lots of folks who created the <a href="https://guides.library.upenn.edu/linked-data" rel="nofollow">linked data</a> technology and data that I use to automatically pull together these resources on The Online Books Page. I owe a lot to the community that has created and populated <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/" rel="nofollow">Wikidata</a>, which much of what you see on these pages depends on, and to the <a href="https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/ld4-community-site/home" rel="nofollow">LD4 library linked data community</a>, which has researched, developed, and discussed much of the technology used. (Some community members have themselves produced services and demonstrations similar to the ones I’ve put on Online Books.) Other crucial parts of my services’ data infrastructure come from the <a href="https://id.loc.gov/" rel="nofollow">Library of Congress Linked Data Service</a> and the people that create the records that go into that. The international <a href="https://viaf.org/en" rel="nofollow">VIAF</a> collaboration has also been both a foundation and inspiration for some of this work.</p><p>These days, you might expect a new service like this to use or tout artificial intelligence somehow. I’m happy to say that the service does not use any generative AI to produce what readers see, either directly, or (as far as I’m aware) indirectly. There’s quite a bit of automation and coding behind the scenes, to be sure, but it’s all built by humans, using data produced in the main by humans, who I try to credit and cite appropriately. We don’t include <a href="https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender/stochasticparrots/" rel="nofollow">statistically plausible generated text</a> that <a href="https://www.psypost.org/scholars-ai-isnt-hallucinating-its-bullshitting/" rel="nofollow">hasn’t actually been checked for truth</a>, or that appropriates other people’s work without permission or credit. We don’t have to worry about <a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-5-power-consumption-could-be-as-much-as-eight-times-higher-than-gpt-4-research-institute-estimates-medium-sized-gpt-5-response-can-consume-up-to-40-watt-hours-of-electricity" rel="nofollow">unknown and possibly unprecedented levels of power and water consumption</a> to power our pages, or depend on <a href="https://www.glamelab.org/products/are-ai-bots-knocking-cultural-heritage-offline/" rel="nofollow">crawlers for AI training so aggressive</a> that they’re knocking library and other cultural sites offline. (I haven’t yet had to resort to the sorts of measures that <a href="https://2025.code4lib.org/talks/bots-behaving-badly-how-we-learned-to-tolerate-crawlers-without-losing-our-minds" rel="nofollow">some other libraries</a> have taken to defend themselves against aggressive crawling, but I’ve noticed the new breed of crawlers seriously degrading my site’s performance, to the point of making it temporarily unusable, on more than one occasion.) With this and my other services, I aim to develop and use code that serves people (rather than selfishly or unthinkingly exploiting them), and that centers human readers and authors.</p><p>Work in progress</p><p>I hope readers find the new “people” pages on The Online Books Page useful in discovering and finding out more about books and authors of interest to them. I’ve thought of a number of ways we can potentially extend and build on what we’re providing with these new pages, and you’ll likely see some of them in future revisions of the service. I’ll be rolling the new pages out gradually, and plan to take some time to consider what features improve readers’ experience, and don’t excessively get in their way. The older-style “books by” and “books about” people pages will also continue to be available on the site for a while, though these new integrated views of people may eventually replace them. </p><p>If you enjoy the new pages, or have thoughts on how they could be improved, I’d enjoy hearing from you! And as always, I’m also interested in your <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/suggest.html" rel="nofollow">suggestions</a> for more books and serials — and people! — we can add to the Online Books collection.</p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#Books</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#reading</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a></p>

<p>When is a book finished? When you are done writing. After 50 revisions over 6 editions things feel right here. It is the story I want to tell. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Some-Books-Are-Not-Sale/dp/B0B6XQB9BF" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.amazon.com/Some-Books-Are-Not-Sale/dp/B0B6XQB9BF"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.amazon.com/Some-Books-Are-</span><span class="invisible">Not-Sale/dp/B0B6XQB9BF</span></a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/florida/" rel="tag">#florida</a></p>

<p>Chapter 25 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on <a href="/tags/royalroad/" rel="tag">#RoyalRoad</a>: <a href="https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.royalroad.com/fiction/1082</span><span class="invisible">34/jigsaw-city</span></a></p><p>Bevna favors speed over strength in her human form and Nicole soon finds herself outmatched, unable to keep up. The dragon uses magic to move supernaturally fast, but only for short bursts, because she&#x27;s so badly injured...</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/fairies/" rel="tag">#fairies</a> <a href="/tags/webseries/" rel="tag">#webseries</a></p>

<p>Ebook: <a href="https://books2read.com/EmergentConsequences" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="books2read.com/EmergentConsequences"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">books2read.com/EmergentConsequ</span><span class="invisible">ences</span></a></p><p>The painter of the universe, known as Life, just wanted to fulfill her reason for being, by creating a universe full of beautiful wonders and living things, but her twin brother, Death, exists solely to destroy her work, leading to an intractable argument about whose work should prevail.</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/shortstory/" rel="tag">#shortstory</a> <a href="/tags/life/" rel="tag">#life</a> <a href="/tags/death/" rel="tag">#death</a> <a href="/tags/creation/" rel="tag">#creation</a> <a href="/tags/destruction/" rel="tag">#destruction</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#humor</a> <a href="/tags/satire/" rel="tag">#satire</a> <a href="/tags/darkhumor/" rel="tag">#darkhumor</a></p>

<p>Chapter 47 of Princess of Kurg is available to read on <a href="/tags/royalroad/" rel="tag">#RoyalRoad</a>: <a href="https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.royalroad.com/fiction/108234/jigsaw-city"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.royalroad.com/fiction/1082</span><span class="invisible">34/jigsaw-city</span></a></p><p>Queen Lulu Stargazer Candleflash sees Jigsaw City approaching her world and isn&#x27;t happy, because vistors from the stars are trouble...</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span><br><a href="/tags/author/" rel="tag">#author</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthor/" rel="tag">#indieauthor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#scifi</a> <a href="/tags/sciencefiction/" rel="tag">#sciencefiction</a> <a href="/tags/sff/" rel="tag">#sff</a> <a href="/tags/actionadventure/" rel="tag">#actionadventure</a> <a href="/tags/fiction/" rel="tag">#fiction</a> <a href="/tags/fairies/" rel="tag">#fairies</a> <a href="/tags/webseries/" rel="tag">#webseries</a></p>

<p>Does anybody have any work that needs doing that a reasonably intelligent person might be able to do while he recuperates at home? </p><p>I don’t have too many skills that aren’t music / teaching related, but I can write, proofread, and copy edit fairly capably.</p><p>I hate to ask, but I could use the occupation / part-time income.</p><p>Thanks.</p><p><a href="/tags/work/" rel="tag">#work</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/editing/" rel="tag">#editing</a> <a href="/tags/help/" rel="tag">#help</a></p>

<p>WRITERS!</p><p>Submissions are invited to NEW WRITING SCOTLAND 44! We want poetry &amp; prose in English, Gaelic, &amp; Scots from writers who are Scottish by residence, birth, or inclination. All successful contributors are paid – deadline 31 Oct!</p><p>@writingcommunity </p><p>Submit free via Submittable 👇</p><p><a href="https://nws.submittable.com/submit" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>nws.submittable.com/submit</a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/iamwriting/" rel="tag">#IAmWriting</a> <a href="/tags/poetry/" rel="tag">#poetry</a> <a href="/tags/shortfiction/" rel="tag">#shortfiction</a> <a href="/tags/shortstories/" rel="tag">#shortstories</a> <a href="/tags/scots/" rel="tag">#Scots</a> <a href="/tags/scotslanguage/" rel="tag">#Scotslanguage</a> <a href="/tags/gaelic/" rel="tag">#Gaelic</a> <a href="/tags/gaidhlig/" rel="tag">#Gaidhlig</a></p>

<p>Read Write.as is an aggregator of feeds of users of the Write.as <span class="h-card"><a href="https://writing.exchange/@write_as" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>write_as</span></a></span> blogging platform. The topics of the posts range from personal diaries and poetry to technology, introspection, society, and more. It&#x27;s a great resource for discovering independent writers and reading material.</p><p><a href="https://read.write.as" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>read.write.as</a></p><p><a href="/tags/blogs/" rel="tag">#blogs</a> <a href="/tags/blogging/" rel="tag">#blogging</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/psa/" rel="tag">#PSA</a> <a href="/tags/authors/" rel="tag">#Authors</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#Meta</a> <a href="/tags/anthropic/" rel="tag">#Anthropic</a> <a href="/tags/anthropicclassaction/" rel="tag">#AnthropicClassAction</a></p><p>Deadline to join the class action against Meta/Anthropic: Friday August 15, 2025.</p><p>&quot;Submitting your information here does not make you a member of the Class. But, if you are a member of the class, submitting your information will help us direct formal notice of the class action at the appropriate time.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropi</span><span class="invisible">c-author-contact/</span></a></p><p>Gift link to The Atlantic database search tool:<br><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/?gift=uvbqc-y7RgcozRTSY7kANHrt8LyDF9nPyN5h5Dmp4rE" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/?gift=uvbqc-y7RgcozRTSY7kANHrt8LyDF9nPyN5h5Dmp4rE"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.theatlantic.com/technology</span><span class="invisible">/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/?gift=uvbqc-y7RgcozRTSY7kANHrt8LyDF9nPyN5h5Dmp4rE</span></a></p><p>Please share widely!</p>

<p><a href="/tags/scicomm/" rel="tag">#SciComm</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#science</a> <a href="/tags/nature/" rel="tag">#nature</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/substack/" rel="tag">#Substack</a> <a href="https://grrlscientist.substack.com/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>grrlscientist.substack.com/</a></p>

<p>Are time travelers real? Which author secretly talks to ancient gods? Do people need guides to purgatory?!</p><p>These questions and more are answered in The Histories, a quirky encyclopedia of real people&#x27;s &quot;real&quot; bios!</p><p>Read it. Support it! Learn the real history! <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a></p><p><a href="https://www.shaunduke.net/thehistories/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.shaunduke.net/thehistories/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.shaunduke.net/thehistories</span><span class="invisible">/</span></a></p>

<p>The Art of Myth-DirectionAvailable Now &amp; On Kindle Unlimited <a href="/tags/ku/" rel="tag">#KU</a><a href="https://a.co/d/8B50deF" rel="nofollow">a.co/d/8B50deF</a>🎭 Comedy / Satire👧 Kid Heroes💪 Coming of Age😻 Animal Companion🍳 Talking Magical Item😈 Good Vs Evil🐉 Subverted Tropes👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩 No Romance<a href="/tags/booksky💙📚/" rel="tag">#booksky💙📚</a> <a href="/tags/debutnovel/" rel="tag">#debutnovel</a> <a href="/tags/fantasy/" rel="tag">#fantasy</a> <a href="/tags/satire/" rel="tag">#satire</a> <a href="/tags/comedy/" rel="tag">#comedy</a> <a href="/tags/humor/" rel="tag">#humor</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/kindleunlimited/" rel="tag">#kindleunlimited</a></p>

<p>RE: <a href="https://raggedfeathers.com/@lilithsaintcrow/116642953343878210" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="raggedfeathers.com/@lilithsaintcrow/116642953343878210"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">raggedfeathers.com/@lilithsain</span><span class="invisible">tcrow/116642953343878210</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a> <a href="/tags/publishing/" rel="tag">#Publishing</a> <a href="/tags/indieauthors/" rel="tag">#IndieAuthors</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

<p>For 100 followers on TheLuckyMachine.com campaign I&#x27;m sharing this playlist of songs that remind me of my lil robot blorbos! I also have em all rounded up on this YouTube playlist so you can listen and enjoy! 🤖 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCMelXzxBL8d80tfYn9BK_A2wXyUuq2rT" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCMelXzxBL8d80tfYn9BK_A2wXyUuq2rT"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.youtube.com/playlist?list=</span><span class="invisible">PLCMelXzxBL8d80tfYn9BK_A2wXyUuq2rT</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scifi/" rel="tag">#Scifi</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/tlm/" rel="tag">#TLM</a> <a href="/tags/twm/" rel="tag">#TWM</a></p>

<p>An update from the Society of Authors on licensing deals for AI training rights currently being offered by a couple of big trad publishers. </p><p>You will be unsurprised to learn these deals are wholly inadequate on many levels, including the fact the publisher gets far too much of the cash. </p><p><a href="https://societyofauthors.org/2025/08/07/bloomsbury-ai-deal/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="societyofauthors.org/2025/08/07/bloomsbury-ai-deal/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">societyofauthors.org/2025/08/0</span><span class="invisible">7/bloomsbury-ai-deal/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a></p>

<p>&quot;The whole idea of this book I find very fascinating, because it very clearly is the author looking to make a fictionalized version of something that really happened in real life, and also something that&#x27;s really close to her family.&quot;</p><p>Hosts Margaret Kelly and Katie Roarty discuss The Expert of Subtle Revisions on Women are Reading: a book club podcast. Check out the discussion here:</p><p><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/4ofo7ylnE6j8Cvip7IMDho" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="open.spotify.com/episode/4ofo7ylnE6j8Cvip7IMDho"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.spotify.com/episode/4ofo7</span><span class="invisible">ylnE6j8Cvip7IMDho</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/books/" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/writersofmastodon/" rel="tag">#writersofmastodon</a> <a href="/tags/writingcommunity/" rel="tag">#WritingCommunity</a> <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> @bookstodon@a.gup.pe <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

<p>By popular request, it&#x27;s here!</p><p>FORBIDDEN QUEERIES, my new Question &amp; Response blog is live!</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@mallory_sinn/115029605920637964" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="hachyderm.io/@mallory_sinn/115029605920637964"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hachyderm.io/@mallory_sinn/115</span><span class="invisible">029605920637964</span></a></p><p>I&#x27;ll be publishing it under my pseudonym, Mallie Sinn, to keep it separate from my career and make it clear what I offer there is personal opinion and not therapy or counseling. You can read it by following <span class="h-card"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@mallory_sinn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mallory_sinn</span></a></span> or on the blog site itself: <a href="https://forbidden-queeries.ghost.io/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>forbidden-queeries.ghost.io/</a></p><p>I am currently taking open questions from everyone at forbiddenqueeries@gmail.com or in private mentions to <span class="h-card"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@mallory_sinn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mallory_sinn</span></a></span> </p><p>If you want to support this effort or get top priority for your own question, please subscribe on the blog itself at <a href="https://forbidden-queeries.ghost.io/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>forbidden-queeries.ghost.io/</a> or on my patreon for projects under my pseudonym <a href="https://patreon.com/MallorySinn" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>patreon.com/MallorySinn</a></p><p><a href="/tags/trans/" rel="tag">#Trans</a> <a href="/tags/transgender/" rel="tag">#Transgender</a> <a href="/tags/queer/" rel="tag">#Queer</a> <a href="/tags/advice/" rel="tag">#Advice</a> <a href="/tags/questions/" rel="tag">#Questions</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a></p>

<p><a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a> <a href="/tags/authors/" rel="tag">#Authors</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="/tags/writerbeware/" rel="tag">#WriterBeware</a><br>Via Victoria Strauss (on Bluesky), a writer beware thread:<br>1. Have you just received an email like the one below from Excalibre Writers&#x27; Hub, touting itself as a &quot;learning platform&quot; with webinars, workshops, and author services, inviting you to become a member? Here are some thoughts. (thread continues in images)</p><p><a href="https://www.excalibrewritershub.com/" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.excalibrewritershub.com/</a></p>

<p>New in The Medium Blog: Our CEO <span class="h-card"><a href="https://me.dm/@coachtony" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>coachtony</span></a></span> shares how our position on <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> has evolved, and asks for your feedback on how <a href="/tags/writers/" rel="tag">#writers</a> can use AI tools to tell human stories.</p><p><a href="https://medium.com/blog/we-want-your-feedback-how-can-writers-use-ai-to-tell-human-stories-eb9dee926f2e" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="medium.com/blog/we-want-your-feedback-how-can-writers-use-ai-to-tell-human-stories-eb9dee926f2e"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">medium.com/blog/we-want-your-f</span><span class="invisible">eedback-how-can-writers-use-ai-to-tell-human-stories-eb9dee926f2e</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/medium/" rel="tag">#Medium</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/llm/" rel="tag">#LLM</a> <a href="/tags/aiforhumans/" rel="tag">#AIForHumans</a></p>

<p>So excited to see that The Barbellion Prize is returning soon after a hiatus, I’ve missed it! This UK prize shines alight on talented disabled and chronically ill writers and I’ve discovered some great books through it <a href="/tags/bookstodon/" rel="tag">#bookstodon</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/publishing/" rel="tag">#Publishing</a> <a href="/tags/barbellionprize/" rel="tag">#BarbellionPrize</a> <a href="/tags/disability/" rel="tag">#disability</a> <a href="/tags/chronicillness/" rel="tag">#ChronicIllness</a> @bookstodon @disability<br><a href="https://www.thebarbellionprize.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>www.thebarbellionprize.com</a></p>

<p>100 years of women’s lives &amp; writings workshop<br>23 Sep, online – free</p><p>The National Library of Scotland will discuss literature &amp; archives in the library that are inspired by the lives of women. The examples chosen are from the NLS’s ‘Dear Library’ centenary exhibition.</p><p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/100-years-of-womens-lives-and-writings-workshop-tickets-1003525460667" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/100-years-of-womens-lives-and-writings-workshop-tickets-1003525460667"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/100-yea</span><span class="invisible">rs-of-womens-lives-and-writings-workshop-tickets-1003525460667</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/scottish/" rel="tag">#Scottish</a> <a href="/tags/literature/" rel="tag">#literature</a> <a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#writing</a> <a href="/tags/womenwriters/" rel="tag">#womenwriters</a> <a href="/tags/archives/" rel="tag">#archives</a></p>

<p>TFW an author whose books you really like is releasing four or five titles a year, and you then go to check their publication history to reassure yourself they&#x27;ve been doing this since the early 2010s (they&#x27;re just prolific, not likely they&#x27;re using GenAI). Then you get angry you have to do this now.</p><p><a href="/tags/writing/" rel="tag">#Writing</a> <a href="/tags/reading/" rel="tag">#Reading</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedigroups.social/@bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>