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@SpooksandBooks

Writer of timey-wimey-crimey stuff 😉 Ready to submit The Thin Places: Department Q meets A Discovery of Witches. Allergic to AI and all its works.

Scotland Katılım Eylül 2020
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TaylorDuncanBooks
TaylorDuncanBooks@SpooksandBooks·
@Helen_Fields Ugh. What a horrible job to have. Though it would I suspect be immensely satisfying.
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Helen S Fields
Helen S Fields@Helen_Fields·
I would pay a really substantial amount of money to be the barrister that cross-examines Russell Brand because that is going to be quite something. Currently taking bets on how many times the judge has to tell him to shut up and actually answer the damned question.
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Lindsay Buroker
Lindsay Buroker@GoblinWriter·
My beta readers assure me that there's too much adult humor and scary dragon attacks (only one!) in my new series to call it cozy fantasy. I'm apparently just writing light, snarky, and humorous fantasy with a few jokes about goblin zerg sticks. I hope you'll enjoy it anyway. :D
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Stephen Black
Stephen Black@stephenRB4·
And then there’s the literary agent who recently advised a client to cut metaphors and similes from their manuscript because publishers now see that as a sign of AI written work. Along with em dashes… And lists of three.
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TaylorDuncanBooks
TaylorDuncanBooks@SpooksandBooks·
@bannon1975 Hmm. Part of me thinks I’d like to have a go at the female mc part, but a good voice actor can do so much better and give a much more well-rounded performance overall. It’s a particular skill, and one we should celebrate more than we do.
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Kevin McLeod
Kevin McLeod@bannon1975·
Should authors read their own books for the audiobook? Readers and authors what do you think?
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Becky Tuch
Becky Tuch@BeckyLTuch·
A writer just shared with me a contract she received from Paper Dragon, a lit mag out of @DrexelUniv. I am IN SHOCK. The editor refused to negotiate.
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Helen S Fields
Helen S Fields@Helen_Fields·
Want to know where YOUR tax money is being spent? 8 printed sides of a customer satisfaction survey that came through the post with a paid return envelope, about how happy we are with the way our (obligatory) change of address on driving licences went. Trying not to curse.
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C. J. Tudor
C. J. Tudor@cjtudor·
@SpooksandBooks @Syla_Fox I save everything. Every draft. Every sentence I cut. I have outlines, edit folders. I'm a hoarder of words!
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C. J. Tudor
C. J. Tudor@cjtudor·
@Syla_Fox Most authors will have at least half a dozen drafts, notes, edits etc. that prove the work is their own. No author hands over their ms to a 'colleague' to re-write/edit and submits it without thoroughly checking it over. Sorry, but Ballard's excuses just make her look worse.
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TaylorDuncanBooks
TaylorDuncanBooks@SpooksandBooks·
@Magdaview12 @jbienkahn If true, then it’s absolutely deserved. Nothing unjust about it. If not, then I assume she’s rightly enraged and will take appropriate action.
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MaggieView
MaggieView@Magdaview12·
This is awful and unjust for the writer and the publisher. Using the help of AI does not diminish the human effort from actually writing the book. It just makes certain jobs obsolete like editors for example correcting grammar and syntax. Are these AI detector tools trustworthy anyway?
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Joseph Bien-Kahn
Joseph Bien-Kahn@jbienkahn·
This is extremely big and public and humiliating for this writer, but just know: I’m also privately cancelling each and every writer who pitches me with AI (and I’m sure many other editors are too)…
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Education Scotland
Education Scotland@EducationScot·
Simply describe the storybook you want (e.g. “Create a storybook for a 5 year old explaining people in our community who help us”) and Gemini will create a unique 10-page illustrated storybook complete with custom audio narration!👇#NationalStorytellingWeek
Glow Scot@GlowScot

🔍 You can now use Google Gemini in #GlowScot to craft personalised, illustrated storybooks about any topic with read-aloud narration. Find out more about this excellent tool 👉 ow.ly/tq7z50Y5o8T #NationalStorytellingWeek

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Helen S Fields
Helen S Fields@Helen_Fields·
What do you guys think of this? I know I have a specific viewpoint here but I think a DNF shelf is a grim idea. Not every book works for every reader. If this goes ahead I’ll have to think about taking down my ⁦@goodreads⁩ account.
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PictureThis Scotland
PictureThis Scotland@74frankfurt·
Tenement stairwell in Edinburgh. Pic: Erm Dea
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Pundamentalism
Pundamentalism@Pundamentalism·
Can’t believe they went with this title when they could have called it “The Tiger Who Came To Tee”
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Am Baile - Highland History & Culture
Dun Dornaigil, an Iron Age broch by the Strathmore River in north west Sutherland, 1920s. Brochs are drystone roundhouses found only in Scotland. This one was built at least 2,300 years ago [source: HLH Archives, D1751/2/2/11]
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Emma Grae
Emma Grae@emmagraeauthor·
Every time I log onto the internet right now, it hurts me. Today it was Education Scotland. They are encouraging TEACHERS to create AI-generated children’s books. Meanwhile, I’m sitting here as a children’s author trying to muster every bit of strength I’ve got to keep going.
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