My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is now up free on Substack
Counting The Cost
https://open.substack.com/pub/maureencrisp/p/counting-the-cost?r=8opd8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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If you are a published writer & object to Anthropic slurping up your writing for AI, you have until Aug 15 to sign up to help defend your copyright. First, check this database from The Atlantic to see whether they have taken your writing (you might want to check regardless):
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/
Then go here to sign up to be considered as part of a class action lawsuit:
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/
It’s easy & self-explanatory.
Please boost to help get the word out.
By popular request, it's here!
FORBIDDEN QUEERIES, my new Question & Response blog is live!
https://hachyderm.io/@mallory_sinn/115029605920637964
I'll be publishing it under my pseudonym, Mallie Sinn, to keep it separate from my career and make it clear what I offer there is personal opinion and not therapy or counseling. You can read it by following @mallory_sinn or on the blog site itself: https://forbidden-queeries.ghost.io/
I am currently taking open questions from everyone at forbiddenqueeries@gmail.com or in private mentions to @mallory_sinn
If you want to support this effort or get top priority for your own question, please subscribe on the blog itself at https://forbidden-queeries.ghost.io/ or on my patreon for projects under my pseudonym https://patreon.com/MallorySinn
My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is up. Trying Not To Be Political.
https://buff.ly/0EtyBEC
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"Honing your discernment, exercising your brain, wracking your vocabulary to find the right phrase to express your inner world. These are not things that are supposed to be easy."
https://www.theverge.com/analysis/764519/ai-gemini-pixel-journal-app
Newest #Substack: READ THE REST & DON'T FORGET TO SUBSCRIBE! https://blueamp.substack.com/p/dems-search-for-identity-psst-sherrod - "As #Democrats search for identity, #culture & policies to reinforce the values the first 2 communicate to voters, they must lean into the roadmap Sherrod provided for yrs to win handily in OH.
Even ignoring the dingos of the rw echoes-phere & corporate #media click bait ladies of the night, doesn't mean there’s not a problem. B/c there is, it’s a major & it’s one some of us have been screaming about for yrs"
#news #politics #trump #russia #usa #ukraine #us #unitedstates #eu #ai #writing #tech #senate #tariffs #ICE #economy #nato #donaldtrump
New in The Medium Blog: Our CEO @coachtony shares how our position on #AI has evolved, and asks for your feedback on how #writers can use AI tools to tell human stories.
My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #Bookmarketing links is up.
This Crazy Thing We Do
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/08/this-crazy-thing-we-do.html
Long and Short Reviews is looking for guest bloggers for their Winter Blogfest: https://www.longandshortreviews.com/miscellaneous-musings/calling-all-authors-free-author-promo/
They would like a 250-500 word guest post about winter or any winter holiday you celebrate.
The submission deadline is December 19. Click on the link above for more information.
#WritingCommunity #Blogging #Writing #Books #GuestPost #Holidays #Christmas #Hanukkah #WinterSolstice #NewYearsEve #NewYearsDay
The Art of Myth-DirectionAvailable Now & On Kindle Unlimited #KUa.co/d/8B50deF🎭 Comedy / Satire👧 Kid Heroes💪 Coming of Age😻 Animal Companion🍳 Talking Magical Item😈 Good Vs Evil🐉 Subverted Tropes👩❤️💋👩 No Romance#booksky💙📚 #debutnovel #fantasy #satire #comedy #humor #writing #kindleunlimited
When is a book finished? When you are done writing. After 50 revisions over 6 editions things feel right here. It is the story I want to tell. https://www.amazon.com/Some-Books-Are-Not-Sale/dp/B0B6XQB9BF #writing #books #florida
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My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is now up for free on Substack
Is It A Trend?
https://open.substack.com/pub/maureencrisp/p/is-it-a-trend?r=8opd8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
"𝐇𝐨𝐰 #𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐎𝐮𝐫 #𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐈𝐧 𝟐 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 #𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬"
𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉, 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝑹𝒐𝒃 𝑹𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 #𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 & 𝒇𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 #𝒇𝒂𝒔𝒄𝒊𝒔m / #𝑴𝑨𝑮𝑨, 𝒊𝒇 𝒘𝒆'𝒍𝒍 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏:
https://www.blueamp.co/p/how-rob-reiner-decoded-our-politics-fa0 #politics #news #culture #military #BAM #film #ai #venezuela #usa #america #unitedstates #russia #tv #economy #tariffs #nato #us #writing #pr #narrative #ukraine #europe
The #FediArt52 weekly art challenge starts Jan 1!
If you want to see all the prompts in advance, here they are. If you want to be surprised (or want a reminder), I'll post each week's prompt.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OwLXfAQwNituwwMo-J6pt9MdGpbfviy9qeeM7Orx0PQ
#drawing
#painting
#sketching
#ink
#writing
#poetry
#GameDev
#crafting
#prompts
#WritingPrompt
#DrawingPrompt
#music
#DigitalArt
#art
#illustration
#FediArt
#MastoArt
#TraditionalArt
My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is now up on Substack.
Show Me The Money.
https://open.substack.com/pub/maureencrisp/p/show-me-the-money?r=8opd8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Reading Rainbow is returning after twenty years, with the incomparable Mychal the Librarian leading the way.
This show is exactly what we need right now.
Books are being banned. Education is under attack. The fascists want to control the narrative.
This is an opportunity for kids to learn to love books, literature & libraries while also fostering a sense of compassion, diversity, inclusion and tolerance.
#readingrainbow #books #literature #writing #mychal #tolerance #compassion #libraries
My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is now up on substack. Sharing our ideas.
https://open.substack.com/pub/maureencrisp/p/sharing-our-ideas?r=8opd8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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I Must Come Clean: I Have #Trump Derangement Syndrome—And Here’s Why https://www.blueamp.co/p/i-must-come-clean-i-have-trump-derangement
"You may get TDS if you have a strong dislike for adjudicated rapists, #Jan6 insurrectionists, #Putin -suckling seditionists, and golden-showering onanists. TDS is inflamed just by encountering un-sweater’d, White Bill Cosby the Convicted Felon, or seeing him make the Oval Office look like it was decorated by Pizarro.
It must be TDS to despise the worst “human” shuffling his cankles in #America. A vile, venal, fragile, flabby, narcissistic, lazy-ass, selfish, sociopathic, soul-holed, gauche, gaudy, perpetually dumbf*ked man, woman, person, camera old coot, who looks like someone piled a burnt-ochre-colored watermelon on top of a jello-gelatin factory spill"
#news #politics #usa #donaldtrump #russia #ukraine #eu #nato #tech #ai #culture #economy #mentalhealth #health #unitedstates #media #press #tv #BAM #canada #europe #writing
Finally!
We've completed our little Haikuart-Series "Hedgehog in the four seasons"!
Haiku: @MarjoleinRotsteeg
Watercolor paintings: @KarenKasparArt
All proceeds from the sale of prints and products of this hedgehog haiku artwork will be donated to the Avolare Wildlife Hospital in the Netherlands (avolare.nl).
More infos in comments 👇
#art #haiku #haikuart #poem #poetry #writing #hedgehog #animals #cute #autumn #gifts #giftideas #christmas #support #watercolor #painting #artwork #seasons
Well, this is where it begins. A prologue, of sorts, although I know those aren't popular these days.
But if you'd like to spend 10 minutes or so in a magical library with a very odd garden, a fire-breathing dragon and flying books...
"We started with participants sharing personal technology stories—EVs as climate-guilt-free mobility, pirate radio stations as creation rather than consumption, bikes as intergenerational freedom. Then we unpacked the narratives underneath: what myths, what power structures, what economic forces shaped these experiences?"
https://m-otherboard.ghost.io/beyond-protagonists-imagining-stories-of-collective-good/
My weekly roundup of #publishing news #writing craft tips and #bookmarketing links is now up on Substack.
How to Find A New Book
https://open.substack.com/pub/maureencrisp/p/how-to-find-a-new-book?r=8opd8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Does anybody have any work that needs doing that a reasonably intelligent person might be able to do while he recuperates at home?
I don’t have too many skills that aren’t music / teaching related, but I can write, proofread, and copy edit fairly capably.
I hate to ask, but I could use the occupation / part-time income.
Thanks.