NLMcLaughlin

Hard to believe my 8th book, Feral, is officially released into to the world today. Support an Indie Author and grab a copy now. Links are in my bio. Side note… my 1st book, American Nomads was released 4 years ago. 8 books published in four years. Whew! Time to revise #9 🙂

@ScottLaudati Nice! South to Roswell or on to Albuquerque?

@NL_Mclaughlin You know west Texas is my fav! We're driving to Tucumcari tomorrow!

This is what landing in Amarillo TX looks like incase youve never done that

@TAR_Kirk 😂😂😂

@NL_Mclaughlin My wife wont let me.

This is the best book review I’ve received so far. What’s yours?

@ashleyschendel Another is working on it now, looking to buy next year. The duo in the 1bd, will move to the 2bd until they buy their own. When that happens, my youngest will move into the 1bd. And the cycle repeats. When everyone is on their own we have rentals for income. Win/win. /end

@ashleyschendel We live on some acreage where we built 2 more small houses. 1 w/2 bds, 1 w/1 bd. Our kids live in them & pay rent & their utility bills. The goal is to allow them to save up $ to buy something of their own. 1 has already done this w/her husband /1

We have a two-bedroom apartment with a kitchen in our basement, and I’ve already told my daughter she can live there as long as she wants or needs to. If she goes to college, we’re not charging her rent. If she somehow chooses not to, we’d charge something low just so adulthood still feels real. I don’t think making your kid struggle unnecessarily is some higher form of parenting. If you have the ability to give them a softer landing while they build a life, why wouldn’t you?

@RDiptson @MillerDakotaJ Challenge accepted 🙂 goodreads.com/book/show/2378…

@MillerDakotaJ Oh I'm interested! I want titles please that don't lean on tropes and predictable plot lines!

Why don’t you enjoy horror?

A snippet from one of my upcoming novellas

@MissSamVee Yes. Very cunning, merciless hunters who like to taunt and play with their prey (or food)

@NL_Mclaughlin So a human that shifts into a coyote?

Indie werewolf books, where you at? Link your wolves them below so I can devour them #WritingCommunity

@ScottLaudati A lot of the ones I know, aside from you, write splatterpunk, horror and a few even write fantasy. I'm sure there's more, those are just the spaces I've run into them.

@NL_Mclaughlin I know. Im one of them. Thats my point.

This 💯. Mark edited the entire American Nomads series. By the end of the series, he was so well versed w/the characters, he even pointed out that a Cajun character of mine, “might not say it this way.” 😂 I honestly think his feedback helped me become a better writer.

@Whitedale_U Here’s the link to the CNBC article. It looks like Hatchet didn’t care, initially, but after the recent court ruling, they changed their stance because in the words of the McMillan CEO, “No one can own Ai generated work.” cnbc.com/2025/03/19/ai-…

@Whitedale_U Found this clip of a recent interview w/the CEO of McMillan. Also saw an article on CNBC from a couple of days ago where the courts recently ruled that work created through Ai, cannot be copyrighted. /1

I don't know whether or not Shy Girl was heavily written with AI. What I do know is that the author's defense is that her editor used AI. So she didn't notice that her editor was rewriting most of her book? ... That's all I really need to know. ;)

@MichelleMo28539 @Whitedale_U Ah, more clarity. Thank you. I’ll never understand how folks can release a book without reading it so many times, you could recite it word for word, blindfolded. I once published through a smaller press, even then, I read it one more time when I got my copies.

@NL_Mclaughlin @Whitedale_U She claims the editor was an online friend of hers. The book was self-published first. Lately, traditional publishers acquire popular self-published books and don't change much, unless there's a copyright issue from fan fiction, like Alchemized.

@mmdaviesostrom @jakonrath @Whitedale_U Yeah, the whole thing is weird. So many questions without real answers.

@NL_Mclaughlin @jakonrath @Whitedale_U Absolutely. That question is very relevant. I just question the author's claim that the editor rewrote it without her knowledge, given the usual back-and-forth of edits, not to mention needing author sign off on page proofs.

@Whitedale_U Makes sense, and good to know. Still begs the question how it got this far. With all those eyes reading it, someone should have flagged it early on.

@NL_Mclaughlin I don't know what the logistics of the contract are. But I've never heard of an editor/publisher having complete authority to rewrite a book. Authors, generally, keep creative rights. The accusations are that most to all of it is AI. 🤷

@mmdaviesostrom @Whitedale_U How did no one figure out the use of Ai before this? If it's glaringly obvious, it should have been flagged way sooner.

@NL_Mclaughlin @Whitedale_U In most trad pub contracts there is a clause stating that the editor will NOT make changes (beyond fixing small typos or spelling) without the author's consent. Contrary to popular opinion, trad pub doesn't remove the author's say in the final product.

@mmdaviesostrom @jakonrath @Whitedale_U I hear you. It still begs the question how it made it through editors without being flagged?

@jakonrath @NL_Mclaughlin @Whitedale_U This. I don't know why so many self-pub authors are convinced that trad pub means giving up all agency. Edits with trad pub are a negotiation. The author still gets to approve all changes!