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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's never not the right day to reshare this because F*ck AI (from me and @vallescurarule.bsky.social). Full of advice and support on writing SFF/H, plus random silly jokes. Available from @lunapress.bsky.social and from all book retailers in eBook and paperback: linktr.ee/specficforne...

The meme has four squares:
The upper left is singer Drake hiding his face behind his hand. To the right is the text "Using AI to come up with ideas and write a story because you don't know where to start."
The lower left is singer Drake smiling and pointing towards the bottom right square that contains the text "Checking out SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES to learn about the genres you want to write, find inspiration, and try them out!
Along the bottom of the image are the covers for Spec Fic for Newbies volume 1 (red), 2 (blue) and 3 (green) plus a QR code.

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E.M. Faulds / Beth or Taxes / Not em faulds @emfaulds.com · 19/05/2026

Guess I should start shouting about this! PRE-ORDERS NOW OPEN!! Official launch date is 29th of May 2026, but you can get a limited edition hardback if you're quick! This is my 2nd SF / Fantasy / Spec Fic story collection and yep, it contains the Godzilla one. www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have students write out and sign a no-AI agreement. They draw my AI policy. I tell them every class not to use it. And STILL I found a student using it in class, fucking hell, it is disheartening to teach these days. Just want to thank our institutions and politicians for abandoning us wholesale

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We're officially in the countdown to Fantasycon 2026: just SIX DAYS until we meet in Glasgow! Day and weekend tix still available. Find the full programme (including the British Fantasy Awards!) and ticketing details over on our website: britishfantasysociety.org/events-2/fan...

A graphic advertises 6 days until Fantasycon 2026, to be held from 9-11 October in Glasgow. It's illustrated with tentacles and parchment paper

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Kit Whitfield - fantasy writer @kitwhitfield.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Copy-edit gets handed in today! I have to say, I really am very pleased with this, so do check it out if you like witches, lyrical writing, dark diversions and happy endings.

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 01/10/2026

Since we have crossed over into the month of thinning veils between this world and the dead, The Shape of Monsters is the perfect read for the season. It has murder, twisted magic, fucked-up deer, dead things watching from the woods, creepy gothic mansions, and licorice jellybeans

a promo pic of the novel The Shape of Monsters by CL Hellisen - https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/cl-hellisen/the-shape-of-monsters/9781037401190

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Going to see this would’ve been not just the exhibit ticket but up to £50 for the train, and nobody should have to consider having to eat that much money on a maybe because the museum somehow didn’t know how to plan this. Its the British Museum, not the Willy Wonka experience!

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Cait Gordon ♿️ @caitgauthor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s so easy to be a rebel these days. All you have to do is think with your own mind, write using your own words, and draw your own art! Voilà!

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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We're officially in the countdown to Fantasycon 2026: just EIGHT DAYS until we meet in Glasgow! Tickets are still available for both individual days and the whole weekend. Get the details ➡️ britishfantasysociety.org/events-2/fan...

A graphic advertises 10 days until Fantasycon 2026, to be held from 9-11 October in Glasgow. It's illustrated with tentacles and parchment paper

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Remember, folks: for every author you see on here describing how they’ve filled out forms to get *some* compensation from the Anthropic AI case there are dozens, hundreds, hell THOUSANDS of us who get 0 because our books weren’t registered with the US copyright office yet have UK copyright!

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Got a request to do a book’s layout but the person used AI to help with research, for “rigor and consistency in later drafts” & as a “copyediting aid” but that the book itself is their “own work”. Sigh. No it’s not. You had a bot hold your hand, using all the stolen work it was built from. No.

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Sam Weller @samwellerauthor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is the most remarkable story Ray Bradbury ever shared with me. He told it to me late one night, sitting in his den of antiquities and mementos. Take five minutes to read this. It’s pure magic. #Writing #Living #Creativity #RayBradbury #BookSky

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AK Faulkner 🔜 NYCC @ravenswordpress.com · 30/09/2026

I've commissioned a piece of absolute filth from an artist I adore, and because this stuff isn't cheap, I'll be revealing it to Witch tier Patreon supporters before I share it anywhere else. Subscribe for smut? 🤣 www.patreon.com/AKFaulkner

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AK Faulkner — creating LGBTQ+ Urban Fantasy

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Tomorrow is the start of Spooky Season and it would actually feel like it if it would cool the fuck down enough that I could wear a hoodie and not melt. By turns enraged and sad as hell about climate change.

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Rohan O'Duill sci-fi author @rohanoduill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We need to normalise kidnapping billionaires on Christmas eve and forcing them to see all the harm they are doing in the world. And then probably throw them in a pit anyway, cos who are we kidding, they won't care.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Joanne Hall @hierath77.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Humans are messy and imperfect and emotional and funny and they pour that into their art. Why would anyone want to outsource that to the planet-killing plagarism machine?

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I hate finally being able to take a little time off after working basically every day for months… only to have to spend part of this time dealing with all the errands & life shit that I haven’t had time to do. I need a fucking vacation, yanno? Time to paint and sew and work on my own books. Sigh.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 28/09/2026

These AI companies should be responsible for everything they do, and they fact nobody is holding them accountable is driving me insane: aftermath.site/ai-agents-resp...

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Rachel Holdsworth @rmholdsworth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This Guardian article is headlined 'Fairford bomb plot', no quote marks. But the penultimate paragraph says "After the suspects’ release it emerged that no explosive material had been found.". Someone have a word with the subs?

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Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford bomb plot

The US secretary of state offered no evidence for his claims, and also said many people were ‘disturbed’ that the five suspects had been released on bail

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Nick Johnson: "While 24hrs ago it felt like some sort of major plot had been disrupted.. with the release of those men on bail it doesn't feel like the sort of major plot that maybe we initially thought it had been" Maybe we could start asking, who pushed that narrative & why?

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edeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The most popular feature Zuck’s put out in years

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Faulty Extension Cord @velvetroon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A part of me feels kind of sad that there’s a whole cult of AI users who’ve communally gaslit themselves into believing that their compulsive obsession is a “skill.”

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I spent the weekend at a book table at a local convention. When I went out to the food truck yesterday, there was a (fake obv) dinosaur, just under feet high, being radio controlled by someone. It was cute, a quadruped with a babyish face, just walking around and entertaining people. But then I

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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Best of luck to @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social members going on strike for over a month. Nobody does this willingly - it’s a last resort, unlike that enormously rich university’s slash and burn tactics.

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Calvinball Congress @emericanjezebel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

yall, ig is popping off. the girlies are doxxing every single admin they can find at cornell, plus the cornell 7 and their families. women are (correctly) going scorched earth.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

others have said this, but if you are a real person using AI to draft your messages to me, you not only sound like a scammer, you are someone i do not want to work with, scam or no scam

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Jason Haslam @jasonhaslam.ca · 27/09/2026

You know who I see using AI confidently? Plagiarists. You know who I see using it ethically? No one, because it’s the fruit of theft and it’s ruining communities.

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m heading to NorCon in Norwich! Hope to see you there!

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

When we talk about dark money infesting our politics we generally think about Reform's Russian links, or the ADF pouring overseas cash into Christian anti-abortion and anti-LGBT lawfare. But here we see dark money in the heart of the Labour movement, quietly funding transphobia and exclusion.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm catching up on waaaay too many emails, and I came acorss this gem from @charliejane.bsky.social "And I really think nerds’ craving to be seen as cool is a huge part of what’s killing us all right now. The people who created these things want to feel like genius innovators, saviors of humanity,

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

From Superheroes to Mythic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery to Spy-Fi, and Archaeologist Stories to Swashbuckling Fantasy, the multi-award finalist SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES writing guides have heroes in their sights! 3 books, 90 subgenres/tropes, unlimited stories for you to write! linktr.ee/specficforne...

Image is a still from the battle for New York in The Avengers. Over Captain America’s face is superimposed the cover from Spec Fic for Newbies volume 2 (blue); over the Hulk’s face is superimposed the cover from Spec Fic for Newbies volume 3 (green); and over Iron Man’s face is superimposed the cover from Spec Fic for Newbies volume 1 (red). On the left, in comic book font, is “It’s a Bird… it’s a Plane … Psst! Wrong Franchise!! It’s Spec Fic for Newbies Swooping in to Save the Day!

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'll be at NorCon in Norwich THIS WEEKEND with copies of Spec Fic for Newbies and other books! Come see me and my fellow SFF/H author friends as part of your day at NorCon at the Norfolk Showground Arena! #writing #norcon #sff

B& W photos of 5 authors with their names and books:
Rachel Churcher: YA Dystopia, YA LGBTQ+, Children's Books, SF
Julia Blake: Fantasy, Steampunk, YA, SF
MT McGuire: Comedic Dystopian SF, LGBTQ+ SF
Tiffani Angus: Historical Fantasy, How to Write Spec Fic
Josh Winning: Contemporary Horror, Queer Vampire Romance
Plus SF and Fantasy from Philip Purser-Hallard and Bona Books
NORCON: Looking forward to NorCon at the weekend! I'll be in Artist's Alley opposite the guest signing tables with all these fantastic authors!
26th-27th September
Norfolk Showground Arena
Norwich, UK

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CL Hellisen @clhellisen.com · 24/09/2026

The Shape of Monsters is finally out in print and ebook from Tor UK! If you're here for a dark gothic fantasy with all the broken people, twisted dynamics, mages, murder and monsters then you have gone through the correct door Get it now from your favourite bookshop

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Far-right activist Danny Tommo has been arrested after filming himself slashing a migrant dinghy in the English Channel👇

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Far-right activist arrested after filming himself slashing migrant dinghy

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David Cart-writer @dcartwriter.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Coming soon! From Slab Press, Screams and Wails, an anthology of Heavy Metal Horror!

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Absolutely loving Nigella taking big ol’ bites of cake. She’s such a saucy minx with an appetite! #BakeOff #GBBO

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reason #7395 why I don't relish flying ever again.

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Writers used to be able to live comfortably off the sale of a short story or two a month. Authors like Terry Pratchett made enough money selling silly fantasy books in the 80's that they quit their day jobs. That doesn't happen any more.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

W00t! Have a story called "Dani Gets a Backstage Pass" coming out next month in a fab new antho full of horror stories inspired by rock/metal music along with some other amazing authors (I'm not worthy!) from @theslabpress.bsky.social! theslab.press/2026/09/23/s...

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Screams and Wails – Cover and ToC Reveal

I was at a rock and metal one-dayer when I had the idea for a horror anthology about music. After all, why not? From The Rocky Horror Picture Show to Studio 666 music and horror have been happy bed…

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 23/09/2026

Email from @draft2digital.bsky.social actively promoting a Spotify offer to create slop audiobooks with AI voices. I do not want offers of slop trained on stolen work from a publishing service, and particularly not in an email that carefully says "digitally narrated" throughout, rather than AI.

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Avert Your Eyes, Pamela Ganache! @pressfuturist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I am sick to death of the lie that these murderous thugs have 'legitimate concerns'.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Watching Bake Off. There was a quick shot of a guy using a hand mixer (electric) with a stand-mixer bowl. Um, dude.

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Dr Tiffani Angus @tiffaniangus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you're in East Anglia this weekend and looking for something nerdy but cool to do, come to Norcon at the Norfolk Showground Arena! I'll be there with my SFF writer friends along with boatloads of vendors and artists, stars signing autographs, and lots of cosplay! nor-con.co.uk

Image says "I'm exhibiting at Norcon 2026: Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th September"
A photo of a woman in a green hoodie and with brown hair with blonde fringe (bangs) is on the left, with a square on the right with the following text inside: Tiffani Angus: Historical Fantasy, How to Write Spec Fic, Anthologies
Love Your Local Authors

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Make any comment about the evil of AI on the internet and you will inevitably get people saying, "Ah, but you can't halt progress." You know what else people thought was progress not long after it came into common use? Asbestos.

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is still something I wish "normal" British people knew more about. Migrating here is unbelievably and unjustly expensive

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