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Veena
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Veena
@MsWOCReader
Writer and Book Blogger 🇹🇹🇬🇾 IG:https://t.co/dwNs4ABkYY YT:https://t.co/snNlOHLyPJ WL:https://t.co/BvKBOeSuai… Kofi:https://t.co/5RrufDEJ9y
Присоединился Kasım 2011
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@Cherry0Reese @macheteada Lol my family when they moved here were like I finally understand why Americans aren't bathing multiple times a day.
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@macheteada They don't understand, it's sweaty crotch and armpit weather all year 😭
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@_JackPBrown The way I've seen authors fake blurbs those authors might not have even read it tbh.
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Suddenly AI fiction is so easy to detect, but dozens of early readers of Shy Girl gave it 4-5 star reviews, a Big Five editorial team didn't see anything wrong with it, and at least 3 professional, bestselling authors liked it enough to endorse and have their names on the cover!
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It's so funny that me telling people "be careful and have full evidence of AI usage before making career-ending accusations" is being read as fearmongering by some. As if pile-ons aren't thrilling pastimes for those who generally don't care about evidence before accusing.
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In 2026 is the year we explore the Caribbean attending Reading Retreats!
Come and join me 👇🏾
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Because a lot of newer YA authors write YA for adults intimidated by adult books
🐍Cherry's Savage Garden🐍🇭🇹🇯🇲@Cherry0Reese
I will say I'm very disappointed about a lot of new authors (especially those who write YA), who scoff at the idea of their books being in libraries. Books are more expensive than ever and they're wondering why a kid won't put down $25+ for your book? Of course they won't read it
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I read The Marriage Narrative so you don't have to, but if you're interested in a Claire Kann book you probably should
womenofcolorreadtoo.substack.com/p/the-marriage…
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Look what I found at Haiti Cultural Exchange today. A book centering the boom of Haitian artists.
Haiti didn’t have an arts facility until 1944, thanks to American watercolorist DeWitt Peters and local artists like Hector Hyppolite. It helped birth the Haitian Arts Movement.
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An author going the AI cover route tells me they don't respect other artists enough to pay then for their work and that they don't mind piracy and plagiarism since stealing from other artists learlt isn't a problem.
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I think that's a weird assumption to make. Writing and art/design are not the same skillset. That's why in trad publishing they have a team of designers/marketers who know exactly what they're doing. If an author can't afford to pay an artists, ai might be a decision they made to give their book a nice looking cover. I am both a designer and a writer, but I know that this is not the norm for most writers.
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@mamiwatta4ever I'm talking about self pub aka the people in charge of their own covers.
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@MsWOCReader Just be careful w this one! Many bigger traditional publishing houses do NOT give authors that much say over covers. And like in any business, new writers may not have the same ability to advocate for themselves as those w more experience
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@_JackPBrown She previously was running a fake hoodoo/spiritualist scheme.
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In the Reddit post about Shy Girl, the phrase "quiet violence" is argued to be a ChatGPT signature. Ngl this reads like something I would write. I'm glad Shy Girl was pulled (the author admitted that AI was used for editing) but I worry about LLMs' impact on style and voice.
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I side eyed it the other day alongside that convo about only Black girls from the burbs being whimsical
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See this is why I love my friends. Cuz we saw that journal on Threads and side-eyed from jump!
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@_JackPBrown And right now on Threads there's another discourse because people immediately jumped on buying an AI journal for Black women from a known scammer.
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@MsWOCReader 🫤🫤🫤 I was aware of the editor thing but not all of that. So there should have been enough controversy beforehand to give Hachette pause.
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@_JackPBrown I personally don't trust some of these author AI covered self pubbed books getting trad deals either.
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@_JackPBrown However that author it wasn't just what she wrote that got the AI accusations. She admitted to stealing covers before and using AI on a self pubbed book. Then she blamed an editor who allegedly rewrote the book.
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@MsWOCReader I hope not, because cherry picking isolated phrases and labelling them "AI" will only villainize the wrong people, esp when it could simply be clunky or clichéd writing as you've rightly said. It's disappointing that with all its resources, Hatchette didn't spot it themselves.
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