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I found The Lakota Way by Joseph M Marshall to be both accessible and empathetic. nerinedorman.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-... #bookreview

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Left my desk for half an hour and now this...

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I shouldn't have to remind authors that it's a bit gauche to nominate your own writing for an award. That is all.

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Yeesh. I am starting to worry about my non-Christian American friends.

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I have a Dutch romance author I work with who is such a honey and I think we would be besties if we lived closer. But I like that we are in the same timezone at least. And I can practise my terrible Nederlands on her.

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Anyway, it’s one of those evenings, and I’m wearing my Green Man Inn, Summerisle t-shirt, so here’s a poem I wrote an age ago. You can find it in Pissoir by Salò Press, which you should absolutely buy.

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If there is something I loathe, it's people who are not artists, writers, or musicians telling me to my face that the AI revolution is "inevitable" and I should "get over yourself and get with it" unless I want to be left behind. Firstly F*** YOU.

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Author on the FB group I run has fallen afoul of my no-AI rule in the past. Had his first post deleted with a reminder to read the group rules. Posted again today, knowingly begging forgiveness for posting with an AI pic. Just got his self banned.

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I can't stand this: don't use ChatGPT! Ever! Not even as a joke. Every prompt, line or engagement fuels it, taking away from you or someone else. It uses enormous resources to do nothing beneficial, except, on the surface, help lazy people do work they're paid for or steal from us writers.

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The #VSS365 prompt was #Echolalia. I went for a twisted Narcissus, as you do.

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My week in review – from Cape Town Comic Con and writing unlikeable characters, to a mini review of Nicholas Eames' Kings of the Wild, some rave reviews for The Company of Birds, and how to deal with the not so good views. nerinedorman.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-... #blogging

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I'm frabjous!!! Congratulations to everyone who helped make this project so awesome.

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Hijinks at Cape Town Comic Con today. 💜💜💜

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A little advice for any author who's just seen a "blah" review of their book. Go to Goodreads. Find the most recent novel you absolutely adored reading.

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in the chatgpt bildungsroman, the machine that can't count will attempt to explore the permutations of how to go from 2-30 dolls (childhood, with tariffs) to 3-15 friends (adulthood, with demand)

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you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you

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Indie author makes a bold claim on one of the largest SFF groups that 9/10 indie authors use AI so what could be wrong with it? Then whines that his posts are removed. Said indie author has just ensured that I'll never buy his books.

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Jebus. I figured out the climax, final push, and aftermath of book 4 of Scatterlings. Plotting this beast is very much a case of charging into terra incognito at this point.

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A book review to make me purr ... Always so validating when a reviewer gets what I'm doing. And thank you, as always, to Mirari Press for seeing this story's worth. mrpinkink.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/b...

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Well. Finally, after two decades in the publishing industry, I've earned an actual advance. Go me. It's enough to cover a month's worth of groceries in South Africa. Which isn't saying much at all for folks in the West, but for someone in the Global South it's a pretty big deal.

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If I see ads for homeopathy pitch up in my FB feed I'm going to report them for false information. Plain and simple.

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A moment of child-like wonder: Many years ago, I had the Storyteller tapes and books published by Marshall Cavendish, and they had an abridged version of The Lord of the Rushie River in it. Today I ordered the original book by Cicely Mary Barker.

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Who else has read Kate Elliott's Unconquerable Sun and why have more folks not been talking up this awesome epic? nerinedorman.blogspot.com/2025/04/unco... #bookreview

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My painting LOST COAST

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I'm nearly done reading Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames and it's been the kind of irreverent chaos yet also biting social commentary with lashings of absurdist humour I've been craving.

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Got a teen who's a budding author? I'm running fun, friendly & informative writing workshops for teen writers at Fish Hoek Library once a month. Even better, they're FREE. Here're the details for our next one.

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Well. That escalated. Just received the order from Emergency Services to stay in place. Roads in the far south peninsula must be kept open for emergency vehicles only.

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In which I ponder on what to do with two of my older titles that I feel may need re-envisioning, another cautionary word on AI, and a small dive into Robert Mapplethorpe's photography... #blogging nerinedorman.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...

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Sjoe! The Tokai fire is quite hectic. It looks like Mount Vesuvius erupting. (View from our balcony.)

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