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LE Draig (Louise) @ledraig.bsky.social · 1h

In super exciting and surprising news, the paperback copies of Quartz Storm arrived this morning - a whole week before the estimate!! I love when a plan comes together! #booklaunch #writersky #booksky #writimgcommunity

A cardboard box and brown paper unwrapped to show multiple copies of epic fantasy Quartz Storm, a black turquoise and gold cover with ornate decoration and featuring woodland elements, flames, and daggers.

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LE Draig (Louise) @ledraig.bsky.social · 16h

It's just ONE WEEK til you can get your hands on the epic adventurous fantasy that is Quartz Storm! Any boosts (and pre-orders!) much appreciated! www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/products/qua... www.amazon.co.uk/Quartz-Storm... #BookLaunch #booksky #readersky #writersky #fantasybooks #sff

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Quartz Storm

Safiya knows that this is no natural storm. Her sister’s magic is unmistakable. And this time she is too late to save her...Caught by the guards, Tasha is condemned to a fate worse than death: to prod...

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 21h

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 19h

If you want "personalized music" made just for you pick up a fucking guitar. Or else break the heart of someone who already has.

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poorly drawn cats @poorlycatdraw.bsky.social · 17h

i can feel the spookiness in the air

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manewt.bsky.social @manewt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friend who works at meta: “Do not use the muse agent, it’s like inviting a Vampire inside”

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Davey Wilbury @daveishere.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

oh no, the scam everyone says is a scam may turn out to be a scam

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LE Draig (Louise) @ledraig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Have just realised people want actual physical copies of Quartz Storm (woohoo!) but that means I need to place an order and printing times are not fast. Fingers crossed the first batch gets to me for release on 7th Oct! #WritingCommunity #booksky #fantasybooks

Quartz Storm book cover. Words can't do this stunning art justice, but I'll try!

The colour scheme is a dark turquoise, black, and gold. The background is a mottled turquoise, fading to black at the edges. Quartz Storm is in large gold ornate letters with a stylised tree wrapped about its letters. A campfire is at the base of the tree, with fungi and daggers to either side. The tree roots and branches intertwine about the daggers to meet about half way up the illustration. Ornate gold corners and a border, along with further turquoise detailing surrounds the book edges.

At the top is written the author name, LE Draig, and at the base, book one of the Quartz Storm series

Around the book are curly arrows with the phrases: queer characters; rebellion; save the sister, save the world; reluctant heroine; epic fantasy adventure; overthrow the patriarchy!
Pre-orders available now. General release October 7th 2026

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the final pearl @pearlsnapped.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

let’s see it, cowards

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LE Draig (Louise) @ledraig.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love your use of imagery in [[book name]] it evokes exactly the sentiment that readers are looking for in modern [[genre name]]. Let's connect to discuss more. #TWPGE #WritingPrompt

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LE Draig (Louise) @ledraig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just wrote a little newsletter about my fave reads of the year so far - it's going out to readers on the weekend, so there's plenty of time to sign up before it wings its way out into the world: draigbooks.eo.page #booksky #writersky #sff #fantasy

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Dragon Post

Fantasy author LE Draig sends news, cover reveals, and freebies

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LE Draig (Louise) @ledraig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Because I'm a marketing genius who completely remembers the landmark moments for promotion... Only TWO WEEKS (from yesterday) until Quartz Storm is available!! Pre-orders available from most places, including www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/products/qua... #booksky #writersky #fantasy #sff

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Quartz Storm

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Gabrielle Steele ⚔️ Echoes of Chaos out now! @eldris.thellian.com · 24/09/2026

Echoes of Chaos is out today in ebook!! It’s set 200 years after Reborn in Ash but is a separate story. - epic fantasy - empathic bonds - animal companion - prophecies - elemental magic - romance subplot Ignore that the website says pre-order. I’ll update it when I’m properly awake 😅 #BookSky 💙📚🪐

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Echoes of Chaos - Gabrielle Steele

Echoes of Chaos, an epic fantasy book by Gabrielle Steele. After years of failing to destroy the twisted beast that was once the woman she loved, Eryn makes a costly deal with an imprisoned immortal, ...

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Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · 23/09/2026

So Draft2Digital thought it was a good idea to send out an email blast, "inviting" authors to take advantage of "Spotify's free audiobook creation offer". (Screencap below) I wonder who on their marketing team thought authors would like to steal from voice actors the way "AI"/LLMs stole *our* work.

"Spotify has an Audiobook offer for you

If you’ve dreamed of turning your stories into audiobooks, but thought production costs were out of reach, our friends at Spotify have an offer for you.

You can make up to five digitally narrated English audiobooks for free using Spotify for Author’s new Audiobook Creation Tools.

This program is currently only available to U.S.-based self-published authors through Spotify for Authors.

Why use Spotify’s Audiobook Creation Tools?

There’s no exclusivity requirement. Your audiobooks will be available to millions of listeners on Spotify and you can also distribute them everywhere else through Spotify’s integration with Voices by INaudio.
You can choose voices from leading ElevenLabs models.
You can fine-tune your pronunciations.
You can preview everything and make it just right. Your audiobook is ready when YOU say it’s ready.
Did we mention you can create five audiobooks for free?
Why consider adding digitally narrated audiobooks to your offerings?

Human audiobook narration is publishing’s gold standard. Yet not all indies have reached a point in their career where the expense of human audiobook production makes good business sense. Digital narration provides indies the opportunity to reach new readers and test market audiobooks with little to no financial risk. Some indies who are further along in their careers release both human narrated books and digitally narrated books to hit different audiences.

For readers, digitally narrated audiobooks offer a treasure trove of new books and authors to explore that may not have been affordable or accessible before. Any digitally narrated audiobooks are clearly labeled as such for listeners on the platform.

Ready to offer audiobooks to your readers? Create your Spotify for Authors account today."

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Mistress Divinity, Queen of Autism @queenofautism.myatproto.social · 07/06/2026

if an autistic person asks if you're autistic, you're no longer self-diagnosed, you're now peer-reviewed

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026

Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/

Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Everyone stop, this is important

A black and white drawing of three dachshunds arranged vertically, each holding a different optical illusion object in its mouth, and the dogs themselves drawn as if a single line optical illusion. The top dog holds a Penrose triangle, the middle dog holds a Necker cube, and the bottom dog holds a Penrose trident. The dogs’ bodies are elongated in an exaggerated cartoon style. The artwork is signed “@IndieTheIntrovert” in the bottom right corner.

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

addressing a room of male vegans: lentilmen,

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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"i have created the machine that thinks." you fucked up a perfectly good graphics card is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

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Dan Hanks @danhanks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Okay fellow authors, editors, book lovers and publishing folks, I really am going to try to build my community up again here. The world beyond these walls is nuts. I don't like it. Comes at a good time, because I'll be helping to run @octbrchallenge.bsky.social in just under two weeks!

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Gabrielle Steele ⚔️ Echoes of Chaos out now! @eldris.thellian.com · 20/09/2026

This right here is why Eryn goes on her journey. Echoes of Chaos comes out on THURSDAY!!! Desperate to destroy the twisted beast that was once the woman she loved, an outcast makes a costly deal with an imprisoned immortal. - Bi FMC - Cat companion - Empathic bonds - An ancient conflict 💙📚🪐

A graphic with text and the book cover of Echoes of Chaos by Gabrielle Steele. The header text says "Out in 4 days!" and the text below is:

Eryn’s beloved had enjoyed walking the mountain vales before dawn, where she would sit and wait until the deer she so loved crossed the meadows. Once dawn’s golden light struck the herd, she would count each deer and weep if any had fallen to wolves, despite understanding the natural order of the Lady’s creations. The Nameless she’d become was a cruel punishment that twisted her love of deer.

Front half deer, back half wolf, the Nameless beast warred with its own nature. Recent wounds covered its horse-sized body, where it had clawed and bitten itself. The beast tossed its crystal antlers in warning, and those painfully beautiful hazel eyes flitted between the urge to flee and the desire to hunt. That indecision was the only reason Eryn was able to look upon her beloved’s Nameless beast. It didn’t know whether to run from her or kill her.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

I've assembled 24 Authors to bring you Punk Spec Fic We've got Cyberpunk (+ cards), & bio☣️ or nanopunk🧬 Steam & Dreampunk Hopepunk for dark times! Ecologically sustainable Solarpunk Aetherpunk w. magic tech. Elfpunk &dragons!✨ Most have Queer Rep. All have Mini Blurbs. 🌈📚🪐 itch.io/b/3913/punk-...

Punk Spec Fic Book Bundle Graphic, bordered by 24 covers, with bright blue, purple, pink, orange background.

Text: Punk Spec Fic, 24 books for $24, Sept 20-30.

Books & Authors;
Walking the Knife's Edge (Sythe Series #1), Elise Carlson.

CyberSnow, A.E. Bross.

Memento Moreau. Conrad Altmann.

Sting of the Shore: Stories & Poems. Devan Barlow.

Visual Snow. L. B. Shimaira.

Snowstorm & Overgrowth, Claudie Arseneault.

Run With the Hunted, Jennifer R. Donohue.

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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🐣 Migi ➡️ back to the vampire mines @tdcloud.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We are just two days out from the publication of SWEET MOTHER, I CANNOT WEAVE, a silly, sweaty, sapphic historical romance novella and that means preordering is almost over! Make this is a late-addition to your #sapphicseptember board at tdcloudofficial.com/books!

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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/09/2026

cops doing the drug bust photo op with a bunch of rolls of toilet paper is incredible, no notes they've even got the K9 unit in the picture, give that dog a roll to play with

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Omar Kooheji 🍉 @ohmz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Life is a bit of a roller coaster for us right now, lots going on which is raising our stress levels, one shining light on the horizon is that my wife’s book is coming out in a month, and I’m really excited that other people are going to get to experience it.

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The Void Dragon

'Truly enchanting' Trudi Canavan on The Outcast Mage 'Both classic and utterly original, this is heartfelt fantasy from a wonderful new voice' Tasha Suri ...

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Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These cuts disproportionately target the arts & humanities: the Business School loses only three courses; the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures loses 48 – many of these are joint degrees, removing the optional breadth of study which has always been one of the appeals of a Scottish degree

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And in Aus and the UK (not sure where else) we don't only sell a copy to the library, we get paid for each borrow. But more importantly than all that, our books in libraries mean more readers might find our stuff who never would have before, and that's wonderful.

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LE Draig (Louise) @ledraig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The gloss proofs of Quartz Storm arrived, and the colours pop in a way the matt just didn't. My inner magpie approves! #WritingCommunity #booksky #writersky

A copy of Quartz Storm lying on a kitchen counter. The turquoise and gold colours of the illustration are vibrant against the black background.

The back cover of Quartz Storm. Like the front, the blue-green and gold illustrations are rich and glossy.

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Anna Cale @real-meaning.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The new Bond has been announced.

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Adam Morgan @adamm0rgan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you work for a book publisher that has introduced AI at any point in the publishing process, I'm working on a story and would like you speak with you, on-record or off-. Same goes if you're an author and you've witnessed your publisher using AI at any point in the publishing process.

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LE Draig (Louise) @ledraig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Having moved from WordPress to a static site with Cloudflare, the latter is *so* much easier than I ever imagined. Highly recommend it.

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Trust Me I'm A Professional Dog

Alt: Doge-type dog in glasses and blue shirt with floral tie. Text states: trust me, I'm a professional

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LE Draig (Louise) @ledraig.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

FREE BOOK! You can still download and review the ARC of Quartz Storm - a queer-led, adventurous epic fantasy full of magic, goblins, elves, shifters...plus some obnoxious men who really need a bit of ass-kicking - if only our heroine can figure out how! #booksky #sff booksirens.com/book/XXXJU5J...

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Quartz Storm (Quartz Storm: Book 1) by LE Draig - Review Copy | BookSirens

Join the review team for Quartz Storm. Read it for free before the rest of the world does. Share your honest review. Discover hundreds of other books in your favorite genres.

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sunyi @sunyidean.com · 14/09/2026

A question posed by @franceswrites.bsky.social during a long industry discussion. Can you think of a SFF book in the past 5 years which was a breakout success, WITHOUT being a) in a crate; b) from an established author; c) an indie success ported to trad? Cause we were struggling.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Who called them marine biologists and not aquademics

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"OK, babe, you take care of all the little things around the house like cleaning, cooking, and childcare while I, the big serious man, do real work, like wrapping barbed wire around baseball bats." Anyway, I'm thinking of starting an account called "Future Divorcees." Thoughts?

Post by Ryan Visconti @ryanvisconti
The "mental load" nonsense is ridiculous. I completely reject it If you want me to help with the dishes, I will help, but you're going to have to ask and tell me where all the clean dishes go, because I've lived with my wife for years and I still don't know what goes in which cabinet.
Notice, the mental load stupidity only goes one way. You don't hear men saying that women should carry the mental load for protecting the family, providing, preparing for the family's future, fighting a zombie
apocalypse...or all the other important things men think about.
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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"fairness in women's sports" is literally just "ethics in games journalism" like this is the same thing this is part of the same playbook dawg

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LE Draig (Louise) @ledraig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's a low spoons day today so I'm gonna lie down and watch some book marketing videos/read some advice on selling books. Any recommendations? #WritingCommunity

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Battery at 30% - Triggering Low Power Mode

Alt: A spinning red alarm light. Battery at 30% - Triggering Low Power Mode

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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

“hello would you like to try the AI designed schizophrenia treatment i synthesized in my garage?”

Douglas Yao
• @DouglasYaoDY •8h
This vial contains a new drug called
PAC-3310. It was designed by ChatGPT, and I synthesized it in a chemistry lab I built in my garage.
PAC-3310 is a new selective M4 muscarinic receptor agonist for treating schizophrenia - similar to the recent breakthrough drug
Cobenfry, but improved.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Imagine if you just gave mathematicians 22 million dollars

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