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Kerry Burnett Writer

@kerryburnetty.bsky.social
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She/her #Author of pox-and-all #histfic women's fiction, repd by www.greeneheaton.co.uk Bath Novel Award LL Specialist Tutor in FE and HE. Hypnotherapist. Poet '5of9' Potty-mouthed lover of 📚 🐈‍⬛ #Trekkie 🖖 #writingcommunity writehead.medium.com

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
The pressure to publish more and faster was one of the most frustrating things about working in publishing. If I could say ONE thing to the publishing industry about how to make things better, it would be this: do not publish anything you are not going to support well with marketing.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
At Daunt Books in Marylebone, London, just named the most popular bookshop in the world www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... @headofzeus.bsky.social
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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 22/03/2025
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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Rebecca Weber 🙂🐈‍⬛📰 @rweberwrites.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I'm not an agent. I know very little about selling books. But I AM a lifelong #reader, and I know a heck of a lot about what makes a good story. 📖 Readers are the end goal and you know them (because you are one). Stop doubting yourself! You can do this writing thing! 😘 #writers #authors #books
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Jamie West | Crime Fiction Author @jamiewestauthor.co.uk · 22/03/2025
All Rights Reserved. It couldn’t be clearer. Book piracy is theft. Training your AI models on stolen books is theft.
All Rights Reserved.
Those three words have appeared in the front pages of every book you've ever read.
It couldn't be clearer.
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Kerry Burnett Writer @kerryburnetty.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Nerds to the rescue. Saving important data from being 'disappeared'. Digital #book burning is ongoing. Once again, archivists and #librarians are the heroes. www.datarescueproject.org/resources/
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There are many individuals, organizations, and community-based resources that document and assist with rescuing efforts. Below is the list of tools, data sources, library guides, and articles we are a...
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
A publisher saying ‘we’re going to have to borrow author royalties’ to cover costs is really not okay?? Authors are entitled to royalties for their books. Why is this even a conversation? It’s a business CONTRACT. That is not your money. It’s AUTHOR royalties.
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Michael Livingston @michaellivingston.com · 20/03/2025
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Confuse a british person by saying "brian cox" and watching them try to work out which one from context clues.
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Kerry Burnett Writer @kerryburnetty.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Nerds to the rescue. Saving important data from being 'disappeared'. Digital #book burning is ongoing. Once again, archivists and #librarians are the heroes. www.datarescueproject.org/resources/
datarescueproject.org
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There are many individuals, organizations, and community-based resources that document and assist with rescuing efforts. Below is the list of tools, data sources, library guides, and articles we are a...
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Peter C. Bradbury @petercbradbury.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Are you a fan of thrillers and murder mysteries?🔍🔪📖 From classic whodunits to mind-bending psychological thrillers, these reads will keep you guessing and entertained for hours.😱 #MurderMysteryMadness #Bookworm #PageTurner 🕵️‍♀️🔎📚 www.petercbradbury.com
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Jen🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ @jen.sheshed.rocks · 09/03/2025
I think that’s fair 🤭🤣 #SheShed
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Kerry Burnett Writer @kerryburnetty.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Anyone who would like to add the DEI international days and months removed from Google calendars, there's one you can add on www.cooleaf.com/blog/workpla...
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Workplace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Holiday Calendar for 2024 | Cooleaf
Looking to build a more inclusive workplace in 2024 and beyond? Use this list of holidays and national events to plan your Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion engagement calendar.
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Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What an excellent longlist of books for the @womensprize.bsky.social for Fiction 2025 - congratulations to all the writers🥂 We have a page featuring all 16 books plus a code to receive ⭐️15% off⭐️ Please support an indie (we are also a woman-owned indie ) 🧡🦊📙 www.foxlanebooks.co.uk/women-s-priz...
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 02/03/2025
I’m still in the phase of seeing references to “King Charles III” and thinking “Who?”
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
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Dianna Gunn Does (Fictional) Murders 🇨🇦 @diannalgunn.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
If someone does this for my funeral I will haunt them forever and I will NOT be a friendly ghost
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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
The extreme loop between "I am a monster for talking about my art right now" and "People need art to get through these times."
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Kerry Burnett Writer @kerryburnetty.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I'm still stunned that some people have no inner voice for their thoughts. What, not even 'Anxiety Monkey?', 'Lord Doubtness, The Underminer?', 'Random cheerleader who shouts 'do it!' Or 'F@(< them all!', not even Morgan Freeman narrator'? 📚 #Writers #ND
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Never feel bad about reposting your stuff on here because for the first year of this website we had an entirety of 20 daily posts that we all had to share and reheat like a communal soup
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Somebody yelled at me for posting about Ganymede instead of /the state of things/ last night. I know we’re (almost) all on the same page here, but a Bluesky without cute cats, science facts, and dumb jokes would be bad for everyone.
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Jill 💙📚👀 Book Blogger (Books_in_wales) 🏳️‍🌈 @booksinwales.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Great to see BookSky now has several sub-genres and you can sandwich the book emoji between two others to combine two groups 🙌 📚💙
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
CAT IN TESCO, THERE IS A CAT IN TESCO, THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE
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Laura Shepherd-Robinson @laurasrobinson.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
The beautiful cover of my new novel THE ART OF A LIE 💚🍍🍦 Abir Mukherjee @radiomukhers.bsky.social: 'A breathtaking, tension-filled, kaleidoscopic whirl . . . This book has it all. Masterful' PREORDER here: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/laur... More info below & more exciting news to follow soon...
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FastrThanYou @fastr.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Not a writer but if you want a good first sentence listen to the podcast "death by a thousand cuts" he really focuses on helping writers with that opening.
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Gemma Amor @manylittlewords.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Authors! Submitting your story to an open call? As someone reading through 400+ submissions for an anthology, some tips: Opening paragraph/sentence: I can tell within the first few sentences if a story is a 'no.' 'Maybes' turn to 'no's' by the end of the first paragraph. Brutal, but it's true.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 12/01/2025
YES THIS HAPPENED. Also in a general sense if ASL interpreters are working one of my events and there is time, I try to give them access to any prepared materials and generally go over things that I suspect will present an issue for them. The idea they're not needed or useful is shitty ableist BS.
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
It's weird how some people get mad about pizza toppings on pizzas they aren't eating.
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Peretsky @peretsky.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
These people are your enemies
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13/01/2025
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you’re doomscrolling right now for no reason and you’re ignoring a good book you’ve been reading, you can just stop doomscrolling and read the book instead. I’m sure gonna.
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catherine hellens 🪷 @lapisleaves.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
🎭 THE NIGHT CIRCUS x HOUSE OF LEAVES 🎭 A tailor joins a phantasmagorical theater beyond his wildest dreams, only for things to take a turn for the worse (and the weird) when someone starts to sabotage the interdimensional portal in the stage. #A #F and soon to be #OS 🎉 #BluePit
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Zed Prospero @zprospero.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER X ANTLERS Kayla Dantes, an adopted Louisiana heiress, sets out West to track down her mother's killer, an outlaw called The Jackal. When she arrives in Prosperity, she finds the townsfolk may be the real evil. Until the wind blows. #BluePit 📖 #W #A #F #D #Western #WriteSky
A 2x3 grid of images with the title “Heart Of The Jackal” and subtitle of “the price of vengeance is high”.

Images: 1 - A hand holding up a cow skull. 2 - A red rose above a pool of water on an all black background. The rose is reflected in the water below it, looking like blood. 3 - A noose for hanging on a dark background. 4 - A cowboy on his horse in silhouette riding away from a blood red sunset. 5 - In silhouette two men fight in a large bowl on a blood red background. 6 - A person in shadow covering their eyes but a coal like glow is coming from between their fingers.
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Charlotte Francis @cfranciswrites.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
The Last Of Us x 1984 x Firefly An alcoholic ex-soldier, haunted by his role in empowering a deadly regime, gets a shot at redemption by protecting a mute girl from turning into the galaxy's greatest weapon—one of the gods who killed his son. #BluePit #Q #A #SF
Mood board for 'The Last Sky', a sci-fi novel. Grid of nine images. Top row: 1) close-up on a man's hand holding a little girl's hand; 2) shock troopers moving through smoke with rifles drawn; 3) a girl's face in profile with glowing scientific and mathematical symbols superimposed over her head. Middle row: 4) An epic shot of a spaceship flying past a solar eclipse through clouds; 5) The book's title 'The Last Sky'; 6) A planet burning and crumbling apart. Bottom row: 7) A man's silhouette hunched over, holding a bottle of alcohol; 8) A silhouette image of a man playfully holding a little boy on his shoulders at sunset; 9) a close up of a man's face in profile, tears rolling over his cheeks as he appears to stare at the image of the boy in the sunset.
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MJ Huntsgood @mjhuntsgood.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
"You know, I'm actually glad I missed it. Everyone says the end of the world was, overall, kind of a shit show." THE TRUTH THE DEAD KNOW Zan Anderson by @hebkid-art.bsky.social
Woman with Chicago skyline in her hair holding a revolver and smoking a cigarette I didn't say it made sense I said it was awesome
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 06/01/2025
This pup is so good at wagging his tail that he broke the space-time continuum. 12/10 honest mistake
a little white pup with a few big brown spots on his head and back stands on a black tile floor and looks up at you with wide eyes in a slightly grainy photo. his tail is wagging so fast it’s just one big blurry arch, like a peacock’s triumphant plumage or an actively flying aircraft. one of his front paws is lifted slightly, so we’re gonna err on the side of aircraft and he’s already puppared for takeoff.
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Weatherglass Books @weatherglassbooks.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
We have just joined. Took a while, but very pleased to be away from X. Hope all is good out there. Neil & Damian
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Public Defendering @foddery.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
A gentle reminder that new year resolutions don’t have to be about positive changes. You can commit to be more petty, seek revenge, and disrespect your enemies.
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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
#BluePitHype Tip 1: Finding Photos for Moodboards Finding good free stock images is hard, especially with AI images flooding Google. Unsplash.com & Pexels.com both do not accept AI images and have large free libraries Pixibay.com does have AI images but you can exclude them in search #WriteSky
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Beautiful Free Images & Pictures | Unsplash
Beautiful, free images and photos that you can download and use for any project. Better than any royalty free or stock photos.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Seriously, though. Shit like this makes it VERY hard to write sci-fi satire.
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Daniel Rolph Author @danielrolphauthor.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Here’s a New Year’s Resolution: Stand with the readers, not the book banners. Choose knowledge, stories, and freedom of thought.
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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain
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Steve Lieber --> Bedrock City Comic Con @stevelieberart.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Sending love out to every author who learned that their publisher’s marketing plan for their new book was to have an intern visit a remote woodland in winter, dig a hole in the frozen earth, and whisper their book’s title once, ‘neath the crescent moon.
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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 30/12/2024
The reason shelf talkers work is because they are written by human booksellers who have read and enjoyed books, which is why readers (and writers) appreciate them and find them useful. They didn't just appear magically on shelves, and replacing them with AI slop instantly turns them into garbage
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Run Away It’s The Womble @runalongwomble.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Challenge time! You’ve got too many unread books? Let me help you! It’s time for the 2025 BookTempter’s TBR Challenge - are you ready? www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/12...
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The 2025 Booktempter's TBR Challenge — Runalong The Shelves
Hellllooooo and so we reach another year! I am sure that like many readers there may has been an accumulation of reading material on your shelves. Personally, I always blame the authors, the publishe...
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Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
[friend reading over my Netflix script] FRIEND: ugh those executives. They want people who are barely watching to still be able to follow along, so they've forced you to make your characters talk so unnaturally and state their motivations without subtext ME: [sweating] yes. It was the executives.
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The AI industry’s seizure of other people’s property, declaring it to be worthless, then pricing it at a premium once “processed” through them, has a historical precedent, and it’s not a good look. Yup. It’s good old colonialism. open.substack.com/pub/joelmorr...
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If all this stuff is worthless, mind if we just take it?
How 21st Century tech is doing the old colonial grift all over again.
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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/12/2024
UK WRITERS: You need to fill in this consulation. Govt is very clearly looking to an opt-out model of rights licensing that puts all the burden on creators instead of profiteers. It's long and boring but this is important. www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.
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Kerry Burnett Writer @kerryburnetty.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
So, this Christmas, I am hoping to be suitably whelmed.
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