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@Helen_Fields Ugh. What a horrible job to have. Though it would I suspect be immensely satisfying.

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.

@GoblinWriter Sounds good to me!

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

@stephenRB4 What a load of … this too shall pass. Honest.

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.

@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.

Should authors read their own books for the audiobook? Readers and authors what do you think?

@BeckyLTuch @DrexelUniv And the point of publishing with them would be … what, exactly?

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.

@Helen_Fields Bloody hell.

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.

@JMSimpsonauthor I vant to be alone …

Tesco raspberries one hour after leaving the shop.

@cjtudor @Syla_Fox Glad I’m not the only one!

@SpooksandBooks @Syla_Fox I save everything. Every draft. Every sentence I cut. I have outlines, edit folders. I'm a hoarder of words!

@cjtudor @Syla_Fox This. I have a folder called Drafts. One called Old Drafts. Synopses. Etc, etc …

@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.

@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.

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?

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)…

@jbienkahn And if confirmed, a warning to others, hopefully.

@justfredimelda Always.

Will you refuse to buy a book with an AI generated cover providing that everything else is human written? #writingcommunity

@gomichild Just being himself is probably enough.

Surely your personality has achieved this already.

@EducationScot This is a truly terrible position for you as educators to take. For shame.

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

@Helen_Fields @goodreads Gave up on Goodreads a while ago. As far as I can see, it’s ‘Here Be Dragons’ for writers.

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.

I genuinely thought Mark Carney had a parrot on his shoulder.

Tenement stairwell in Edinburgh. Pic: Erm Dea

Can’t believe they went with this title when they could have called it “The Tiger Who Came To Tee”

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]

@emmagraeauthor Unbelievable 😡

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.