Marion Taffe

I'm proud to say that my debut novel, By Her Hand, will be out in March 2025. Huge thanks to my publisher Catherine Milne for picking this story up. And to designer Sandy Cull for this utterly beautiful artwork. @harpercollinsaustralia instagram.com/reel/DBpMDvVvC…

🚨BREAKING: If you've used ChatGPT for writing or brainstorming in the last 6 months, your creative ability may already be permanently damaged. A controlled experiment just proved the effect doesn't reverse when you stop using it. 3,302 creative ideas. 61 people. 30 days of tracking. Researchers split students into two groups. Half used ChatGPT for creative tasks. Half worked alone. For five days, the ChatGPT group outperformed on every metric. Higher scores. More ideas. Better output. AI was making them better. Then day 7. ChatGPT removed. Every creativity gain vanished overnight. Crashed to baseline. Zero lasting improvement. But that's not the bad part. ChatGPT users' ideas became increasingly identical to each other over time. Same content. Same structure. Same phrasing. The researchers called it homogenization. Everyone using ChatGPT started producing the same ideas wearing different clothes. When ChatGPT was removed, the creativity boost disappeared -- but the homogenization stayed. 30 days later, same result. Their creative range had been permanently compressed. Five days of use. Permanent damage 30 days later. A separate trial confirmed it. 120 students. 45-day surprise test. ChatGPT users scored 57.5%. Traditional learners scored 68.5%. AI reduces cognitive effort. Less effort means weaker encoding. Weaker encoding means less creative raw material. You're not renting a productivity boost. You're financing it with your originality. The interest rate is permanent.

🤩Here are My Top 5 Books of 2025: 🤩 - Dunstan by #ConnIggulden - The Names by #FlorenceKnapp tx to @HachetteAus - All The Way to the River by Elizabeth Gilbert tx to @BloomsburySyd - Raising Hare by @chloedaltonuk - By Her Hand by @TaffeMarion carpelibrum.net/2026/01/my-top…

I recently reviewed By Her Hand by Marion Taffe @TaffeMarion and gave it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ carpelibrum.net/2025/11/review… #aussieauthor #HistoricalFiction #histficreadingchallenge @MargReads #ausbookbloggers @AusBookBloggers

Don’t miss our May Salon, featuring readings from Alison J Barton, Eva Birch, Luke Horton, Madeleine Ryan and Marion Taffe. When: 6pm Tuesday 6th May Where: downstairs at Bard’s Apothecary RSVP to paperbackbookshop.events@gmail.com Can’t wait to see you there! 💙

Media release: The @MelbSymphony has again overstepped the mark by declaring that a concert stage is not an appropriate forum for political comment. meaa.io/4fEWd6p

Imagine being a tax payer funded cultural institution, one that houses wisdom and art and history inside its walls, and being terrified that young poets and writers are condemning genocide. Fucking *****pathetic***** @Library_Vic

@1KarenWyld Congratulations Karen! It sounds epic and no doubt will be phenomenal. Enjoy that writing joy!

@kmjgardiner I really feel for the library staff who are always so wonderful. They (and us and the library itself) have been let down so badly by this terrible management.

Amazing!

@danielle_binks @AlboMP @AlboMP - sit down, they know. Also - it doesn't matter if they didn't, because they don't need a map to see the slaughter and the oppression, or to see that your government is complicit in it. They just need a shred of humanity and a beating heart, two things you have lost.

Love this! Amazing work from @yvanspijk This is why babies are 'bearns' in my manuscript.

@1KarenWyld @asauthors I only found it because I saved the link at the time. I thought it could've gone harder but was happy to see something. Feb was a while ago though. More visible support for writers and pressure on public institutions (hi @StateLibraryVic) not to cave like wet lettuce is lacking.

@1KarenWyld @asauthors This is really disappointing esp without a decent apology. In Feb ASA wrote: 'We deplore...(then lists some of the shitty unethical and harmful stuff the whatsapp doxxing group did).' Letter here: tinyurl.com/bdfe82rs

@LisaOz6 Thank you Lisa! And congratulations on The Engraver's Secret. It looks and sounds delectable. I cannot wait to read it.

@TaffeMarion Wow! FREIDA sounds amazing. I look forward to following your publication journey and reading FREIDA when it's published. Wishing you a wonderful ride on the publishing rollercoaster.

So so so happy to share this news!

@AmyMantravadi Gosh! So many things! Mostly an interest in devout women of the time (my Mum was a nun once), how they survived in a land at war. Also love the stories & really interested in Aethelflaed as martial leader and peace weaver in one, and what she might have meant for Mercian women.

@TaffeMarion Awesome! I see you focus on late Anglo-Saxon England. What drew you to that period?

So good. Please give Amy all the church/history PhDs.

@AmyMantravadi I am!

@TaffeMarion Oh, are you a fiction writer as well?

@danielle_binks They really told that strike how condemned it is.