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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 12h

My new author gremlin marketing move...shouting out my non-AI books on AI authors' book posts. Follow for more tips!

Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Person claims they are a writer and uses Claude to "help" edit. After the first paragraph it becomes an entire rewrite. Garbage in, garbage out. Please support actual authors (Hi!) and avoid stuff like this.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

WTF did I just read? Is this how AI "authors" "write"? As in, not at all? Meanwhile some readers wonder why non-AI writers like me get mad my work doesn't get read. HELLO?! Don't you want to read a book from someone who can make at least 1 proper sentence?

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I do not understand why people take anything recreationally. I took some Sudafed for a runny nose and am as high a flipping kite right now. THIS IS NOT FUN!!!

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My KDP earnings went up 5 Canadian cents since the start of this month thanks to... The exchange rate! Woo! 🇨🇦

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Guys...girls...people...err...aliens? What did I do? No, seriously. What is this?

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am a LGBT author and writer who isn't neurdivergent. My hair is dyed raven blue/black. For those who color their hair in non-hair colors... Who are you? I have a theory.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Don't write a thinker book with a whiny character who doesn't like their Twilight Zone reality. You will get a lot of 1 stars like my Thin novel did and wonder why you didn't write something less difficult.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Google "Dutch Angle" and get Dutch Angle. Neck is sore.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why do I have 900 followers on TikTok? All I do is bash the romantasy genre like it owes me money, which it does. ACOTAR existing is trauma and I and my 900 followers need therapy.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Found a dumb author on Reddit "I am an old, mediocre white guy who self-published a dreck thriller novel that no one read and now an agent wants to represent me! They also say I need to pay their editor friend." Dude, you are a loser and your book sucks. It's a scam!

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Someone managed to out me for one of my fibs yesterday. Respect.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

F entitled dog owners. I was in a park that is not off-leash. Someone lets their "precious" Shitsu off leash, around a sand box with babies in it, and then the dog pees on a stroller, the whole while the owner gets yelled at by some parents and does nothing but look indignant.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Anyway, my general beef with the sci-fi + fantasy romance hybrid books is that they use space or things like time travel as a backdrop but can't understand that Earth is not a fixed point in the expanding universe.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A lot of romance sci-fi/fantasy writers are dumb, or at least not creative. Somehow, I made space facts into plot. Planet X? Flung out of the solar system by a lonely sun trying to smash Theia and Gaia (proto Earths) together so it could feed Jupiter and maybe make it a star.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Just found out books are about the only Canadian good not slapped with a 50% tariff. So, for those Americans who want some signed hardcovers and have money to burn and not use it to burn down your corrupt institutions and overthrow autocracy... Hint Hint!

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Post a joke, make someone laugh, someone buys my book. Great! Except, problem. I am not funny haha more like funny hah-huh?.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The statue is a 9' tall 525 lbs black patina bronze statue of my character, Mewblade. Black since it is closest to her color and looks rather bespoke in my house. However...social media had other ideas. Short and stupid comic, but, the comments I've seen made me laugh. Tada!

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am one of those writers who isn't too worried about accidentally copying someone else's book ideas. All my book reviews say my work is weird. If I find something similar, I will hunt down that author and rail their brains out.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sigh. Can't post my latest artwork because social media wouldn't like it. Here is some art you'd actually like. A North American House Hippo that I made to help promo my parodh short story in Gore 3: A Halloween Anthology

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sigh...can't post my latest picture because it has some semblance of stuff on it.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

When you get excited when the estimated royalties on KDP Reports change...and it is just the currency exchange rate adjustment.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

IBS gut pain. Deploy heat pack. Get thermal burns. Now gut pain and burn pain in the same spot. I am just impressed I can differentiate between the two...at the same time... Oww...

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My mantra... I do the best with what I am given and it is all I can ask of myself.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't understand the bisexual discourse of, "They will cheat with the other gender!" To the one-camp lovers; you weren't their fantasy, it was a celeb. They still chose you. No one is that needy for peaches and aubergine that they will ditch you in the produce aisle at the sight of a juicy peach.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One winter. Power off. Canada could end the lives of millions of Americans. We are Canada. We wouldn't do this. We aren't Russia, Israel. But Trump would. Putin would. Netanyahu would. Why issue threats that have even the slightest chance of hurting your own people? He is evil.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The difference between a nice person and a good/kind person is stark. And I am going to go out there and say it...nice people should not be trusted.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Woke up this morning and I saw my book sales climb! By a foot! Woo. What a workout!

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Has anyone ever woke up in the morning and saw your book sales climb? Because guess what! Mine have not! Got you, didn't I? Anyway, read my books.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I am glad I didn't write smut books that I also have to audio book narrate. Reader community birdie has told me that that genre's audio book readers are more interested in the umm...qualities of the male voice in particular than anything else.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's official. I am the 0.1% ...of stationary cycling. I am going to celebrate and eat a burger.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

AI bros are so dumb and talentless that their insults need ChatGPT to come up with better comebacks. Saying I hmm..."envy their uh...talent and lifestyle" is funny when in their other comments they complain about their mind-numbing min-wage 60 hour job and eating cup noodles.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Instead of using AI to make song like some twatty fan from the Eurobeat music community, I actually commissioned a song from one of the genre's leading labels (CD on my Kofi). If you love something so much, support the creators. Do commissions. Show real love.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Use it or lose it mentality is my justification for posting some pretty umm...interesting artwork of myself every two years. Or at least, that is what I keep telling myself.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

the wolf spider...the less poisonous and frankly less bad Canadian cousin to the monster spiders they have down in Australia, but I still don't want to accidentally pick one up at 12 am.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I should've been working on my audio book. Instead, I was finish working on basically a dark romance picture with one of my resident monsters and yup... I don't know what's worse...listening to ones self talk for hours or posting pinups with your abusive fantasy boyfriend.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

When the only comment you get is that your MC isn't weird...they are very weird. I am too weird for the weirdos!

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The one nice thing about having a weird-looking main character in my book series is that AI will struggle to replicate her for a while at least.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

For those who keep hinting at the universe that they no longer want a certain 80-ish-year-old to live in it... SPELL IT OUT! It's TRUMP! Clearly, the universe is dumb, illiterate, and can't do math. Peter Cullen was 85. Stop being cute. We don't want TRUMP!!!

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I should have looked harder. Okay everyone, the jig is up! "AI Creator." They're not a real person, and not a real author. Their entire book is AI!!! The cover, the profile, the author itself, the author interview...IT IS ALL AI!!! #books #author

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Sigh... As an author, why can't my book posts get 1.1k likes? Why is it a topic that somehow Americans made into a flipping controversy? And also...the 401k, Social Security, and Medicaid comments. There are other nationalities on Threads. *Speaking in Canadian, from Vancouver*

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just found out my parents have less in retirement savings combined than I do individually. They are 70, and my mom comes from a family of centenarians. I am horrified.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Little late on my birthday donation this year; I know people in the Summerland and Spokane fire evacuation zones, so was holding onto it in case I needed to help. I am glad they're okay now. It makes me happy to donate to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Death bed epiphanies just aren't a thing. Someone I know is in the process of losing a (very toxic) loved one. And the loved one double-downed on all their hateful rhetoric before slipping under. They're now in a coma and actively dying. And that is how they chose to go. Spewing bile.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

To the Americans who got in their book, CD, and figurine purchases before the USA tariffs came into affect...thank you! And to the others who wanted to...I'm sorry, but also, you had the time before my shop had to close due to this injustice to Canada.

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sigh... As a Canadian writer and artist who has physical merch on my Kofi... the Trump administration sucks. Now I get to turn off the USA shipping options...again!

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Vanessa L Krauss the Bubbly Brain @bubbleybrain.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Is there any way to block by location...like most of the writer scam bots are from Nigeria and Pakistan.

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