Randy Zabel

#unhingedpit #A #Q #H The One Who Waits What if a town’s daughters disappeared into a curse that kept them young, but never safe? In 1978, the three Collins children disappeared. Forty-seven years later, Tabby Collins returns to her family’s home in Destin, Kansas, shockingly still thirteen. With Tabby’s impossible return, Police Chief Steven Washington must confront his family legacy and reckon with Destin’s secret: a supernatural contract with the one who waits. In payment for the Bleeding Kansas massacre of Mott, Kansas, parents offer their daughters to wait in purgatory, while religious and city leaders carry out the pact across generations. In the Tradition of Mexican Gothic, for readers who enjoy the gothic haunting of A House with Good Bones by T. Kingfisher, and the folklore tradition and family secrets of Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix. I write an intention that tells the reader, ‘now we have come to the truth.’ Not with a demand but with an invitation. Not with a raised voice but with a whisper, sometimes with silence even. I ask ‘Look. Do not turn away. But do not lose heart either.’ The whisper is not omniscient, but it is present, not detached but intimate, not narrator but witness. I ask the reader to live in two worlds, the real and the divine. To allow themselves to grasp fragments of both.

@TheBabylonBee I have a third cousin who has a friend that talked to Charlie in the TSA line before he got on the flight. He said Charlie warned him about Israel saying they have Teump in their pocket.

Confirmed: In His Final Days, Charlie Kirk Came To Agree With Whatever You Believe buff.ly/Qx6b9u9

@bonchieredstate Its amazing that all the cohort of a certain segment have embraced the same insanity

How does someone go from making random funny videos to being completely obsessed with one subject like this? So much so that he's quoting a *Scientologist* as a beacon of Christian theology? Just wild how the virus spreads so quickly.

@writing_show Not answering because AI allegations lol

What is the quickest time that you have written a novel?

@MaxNordau the dumb is strong in this one

WATCH: "Professor Jiang" explains that we could fix poverty by printing infinite money but we don't because we want people to be poor. I am not joking.

@azeher_may @mkallen7 @KT_Carlisle started that 20 years ago. Finally finished it a year ago.

@RandyZabel @mkallen7 @KT_Carlisle A bit unrelated but this is actually pretty good. I especially loved the line "He was tall for this now, this here." 👀

Things I still want to know re: The "Shy Girl" Scandal 👇🏻 1. How did an AI-written manuscript escape the scrutiny of an agent, editor, and Big 5 publisher? 2. What methods were used to definitively determine the book was written using AI? (And I don't want to hear, "It's obvious!" I've worked with plenty of authors whose work I was suspicious of having been written using AI, but I'd still never go so far as to flat-out accuse them of having done so without actual proof, usually in the form of a baked-in prompt—which, yes, has happened before. So, I'd really like to know how Hachette actually determined this to be AI-generated beyond public outcry. Because if all it takes is a few witch hunters to yell, "AI SLOP!" then I'm sorry, but that's equally problematic.) 3. Did the publisher think the public was too stupid to notice, or is trad pub really *that* overworked/understaffed that they were unable to catch something so obvious, even after multiple rounds of edits?

@TraceyRyniec @PauleneTurner authorsguild.org/resource/right…

@PauleneTurner If you don't own the rights, you cannot do anything with it. Your trad publisher would have to revert the rights back to you. Even if it's "out of print" they may still own the rights.

Scribes, is it true trad pubbed authors can’t upload their own work to Amazon when the publishers stop printing it? It is just ‘out of print’ Can we hear from trad authors on this? If that was the case, it’s def an advantage for the indie who can be in the game much longer.

@azeher_may @mkallen7 @KT_Carlisle So I tested an old old snippet - written in Word Perfect 2005. It tagged the highlighted as AI

@RandyZabel @mkallen7 @KT_Carlisle I put the same text on a different one, told me it was 65%. I changed a whole sentence and told me it was 89% like????

@azeher_may @mkallen7 @KT_Carlisle Sounds like it's all totally random

@RandyZabel @mkallen7 @KT_Carlisle Just tried and it also told me it was 75% ai and asked me if I want it to make it really human 🥲😭

@azeher_may @mkallen7 @KT_Carlisle Gramarly

@RandyZabel @mkallen7 @KT_Carlisle Can I know which one you used that gave you 0%? I wanna try that one and see if it's accurate

@mkallen7 @KT_Carlisle tested the same text on 3 AI detectors - 1) 0% AI. 2) 60% ai 3) 72% ai The kicker, the two that claimed (erroneously) to detect AI both presented me with a paid option to Humanize my text.

@KT_Carlisle In higher ed, we have no seriously consistent way to know if it’s AI or the student turning in papers. Those checkers are notorious for being wrong. I put my writing through it and it comes back as AI generated on some level. It’s scary and insane at this point.

@PravdaAmerican @HonestReporting @dbongino Brave to admit to both being both a racist and an idiot

@HonestReporting @dbongino Hi 👋 REAL AMERICAN HERE. I identify with Christian & White Nationalists because of my faith and heritage. I do not discriminate agaisnt anyone out of hatred. I 100% support Russia, Iran, China, Hezbollah and Hamas because I don’t by the Judeo-Bolshevik lies our media tells us

🧵 THREAD: This was coordinated. Joe Kent goes on Tucker Carlson. Within minutes, the exact same clip, same caption, same outrage floods the internet. Not organic. Not coincidence. HonestReporting.ai Labs tracked it in real time. What we found will shock you.

@awstar11 That is a laughable suggestion and reveals detachment from reality.

I almost want them to run so that there can be indisputable proof of what people really think of them

@Tim_Walz How much did you facilitate non-existent 'providers' knowingly participating in corruption?

The White House is cutting off $250 million for Minnesotans health care.

@AuthorGFAllen Yes. Currently reading The Secrets We Kept, I'm a Russian Politics PhD, now the language and have traveled extensively in Russia, so a Cold War Espionage story fits me well.

If you suddenly found yourself inside the book you’re reading, would you survive?

@JeffVanderstelt Well it actually is not the case.

Of all the learning methods, lecture is the least effective (5% retention) of them all. If this is the case why do we still do so much of it in the church?

Angry Squirrel

@gracelover712 Those who attack anyone's fauth on the grounds of Israel are the problem

I remember when I first became a Christian. I was 21. Some of my friends thought I was nuts. Some wanted nothing to do with me anymore. Some called me a holy roller and a Jesus Freak. None of those things bothered me, because I knew they were true. I was thrilled to part of the family of God. But, that has changed. Now, Christians call me the c and insult me, for standing with the Jews and Israel. I don’t belong in that family. I don’t want to. Thank you, Jesus for your love that has never changed for Jew or gentile alike. But, I cannot walk with these haters because I am not with them. I am with You. Only You!

@FortheLOVEofYAH I dont see the point of this

Please stop listening to your church and just read your Bible! 🙏🏼

@exanxc Yeah that verse is not about baptism.

> Prots: "Baptism isn't required for salvation." Jesus: “Unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." > Prots: "Eucharist is just a symbol." Jesus: "Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you."

@Kacey_Combs Im a yet to be published hopeful, so take with a grain of salt. I think insisting that anything happen in the first 10 pages of any nature is simply rubbish. If told well stories can take any number of forms.

Can we talk about the inciting incident? I hear so much talk of having it in the first 10-15 pages. What if there are other subplots and tension in the first few chapters? Can the main inciting incident occur around page 30? 40? 50? What do we love and hate about this? #Writers #Authors #WritingCommmunity #Editors #Agents