Kaylena Radcliff

Today's AI spam marketing email is notable for the fact that the "book marketing specialist" repeated my book summary in the email no less than SIX TIMES. This cannot possibly be working for these scammers anywhere, right?

@DBecker1990 Yeah, I should have put "free"- it's not the way I want to spend my valuable time for sure!

@KaylenaRadcliff It’s not free, your time has value. The success stories I’ve seen were people that had a dedicated server with a lot of RAM and edited results. Target a micro genre and use a pseudonym. If you’re like me and have a potato laptop, it’s not an option.

Spent some time messing around with AI features today for images and voiceovers, just to see if my repugnance was valid. My takeaway: maybe it's free, but it's still a time sink for something that's just OK & not really what I want. So that's that, I guess

@Tiff_Germain @abbythelibb_ This is how I read the original poster's intent. Not doing *concerted* bookwork but getting exposure in other ways- hands on field trips and living books.

@abbythelibb_ I’m not sure what level they forgot. Here, at my home, we don’t have actual science or history curriculums until high school. We read living history books often. For science, we learn as we explore. Because of this, my kids know more history and science than I ever knew.

I'm a homeschooled homeschooling enthusiast, and this isn't ok. Take an intentional break from one subject to focus on another? Great. Take a mental health day off a subject the student is struggling in to relieve the tension and reset? Great. Spread out summer break throughout the year so you can use it when it makes the most sense for your family? Great. But **forgetting** two whole subjects for two whole months and then posting about it online like it's cute and relatable is not okay. Are we trying to drive homeschooling standards as low as public school standards? As long as they beat us in the race to the bottom, we've done right by our kids? Are we trying to convince lawmakers to push intrusive regulations? What are we doing here, people? Homeschooling should be about giving your kids the best education you can. Not whatever this is.

@MichaelFKane That hurt to read. Great article @Kristin_Fiction

Great article from Kristen, but utterly bleak lol.

The most wholesome thing you'll read on x.com today

Gritty I'm scared

@pj_kauffman @Andrew_SDG @bfcdenomination @tsrad19 Hey I know those guys

@Andrew_SDG @bfcdenomination Don’t forget the great @tsrad19 right @KaylenaRadcliff ?

A rare sighting of @pj_kauffman in the wild (at the annual @bfcdenomination conference).

Flannery O'Connor, Mary Shelley, Lois Lowry, Shirley Jackson, Madeleine L'Engle, Ayn Rand... I could go on!

@pearls4swineguy I'm afraid to see the results (said the author of a "Chronicles")

Which word is more overused in naming a fantasy series?

Gaston apologists were the ones stuffing nerds in lockers in high school

How is it that I can be pretty good at a lot of things but I am mentally and physically incapable of a simple french braid? IT SHOULD NOT BE THIS HARD

@pj_kauffman Haha but significantly less threatening

@KaylenaRadcliff So a PA version of the…..

There has been a squonk revival in PA and I'm here for it

@pj_kauffman cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Squonk Squonks are cryptids that cry because they are ugly and dissolve into a puddle of tears if you see them

@BiblicalBeauty I've written a ya dystopian fantasy series for teens and older. Readers say it's like Hunger Games meets LOTR, but without the nihilism! Check out the 1st book here: amazon.com/Mouse-Elmnas-C…

Any recommendations for a quality book series for a soon-to-be 15 year-old girl that are enjoyable to read and aren’t woke, perverse, or otherwise cruddy in content? She has enjoyed books like Nancy Drew, Wingfeather Saga, and Chronicles of Narnia in the past.

@MEC288 I have a lot of friends who love CC. When I was first considering homeschooling I visited a co op & felt so overwhelmed. I loved the idea, but actual practice seemed so onerous. Thankfully I figured out what sort of homeschoolers we were!

“Have you guys looked into using Classical Conversations?” “Yes.” “Why did you decide not to?” *points*

@iowancapreborn @RedHedgedragon The popular hardcover books with the gold foil and sprayed edges have got to run a pretty penny. People who don't actually read don't want any trade paperbacks on their shelf, it's an aesthetic

@RedHedgedragon How much do they think books cost?

1) ever heard of Goodwill? 2) I don’t want books that aren’t worth owning 3) I value books and therefore I am willing to spend money on them

Camping is so fun except for all the logistics of camping

@cirsova I can't write like this which is why I will be poor and readerless for the rest of my life

The average fantasy writer trying to write in the tradition of the old classics really has no idea what they're up against or what today's market looks like. Behold, the prose of an up-and-comer serial fiction author with ~3k regular readers dubbed a Rising Star of Royal Road: