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Making Helm of Spite slipcases for a tiny #gameofshrooms story called The Tea of Ultimate Power, by Samuel Maguire.

‘May books never die.’ Beautiful, thoughtful binding.

“You can’t buy, shortcut, or sleepwalk your way to taste, friends, or respect. Eventually all those shortcuts will begin to show. It will gnaw at you. And no amount of prompting the magic word box will make that feeling go away.” www.simongroth.com/campaigns/vi...

Why editors are important.

Who told you that you have to finish every book you start?

What will happen to university presses under the Trump administration?

Congratulations to all the Aurealis Award nominees! aurealisawards.org/2025/04/15/2...

Don't forget the Never Too Late Award for writers over 60 who enter the Bridport Prize. All details in the link below. Please share :)

A good explainer re the attack on empathy and anything deemed essential to building empathy… like education etc.

#handsoff also

Wall Street bigs proving they helped vote Trump in while not understanding anything about what that would mean.

Since all the authors listed in this article are also listed in #LibGen as having has their work stolen for #AI, it’d be interesting to know what that’s adding to sales dropping off.

An excellent insight. #booksky

Painting day.

Do you think theres unrest among the vampire communities due to the degradation of the quality of human blood caused by microplastics?

Making things for Game of Shrooms.

AI reflects all the deficits systemic supremacy delivers… who could’ve predicted that.

Does anyone use GPTZero? #booksky

Other countries issuing travel warnings to the US is getting more and more likely. The negative impact on publishers and the arts is likely to increase - along with everything else.

The four stages of "Hungry for Knowledge", my book-loving Woolbeast troll sculpture at Beinart Gallery this month. Lumps -> doodle -> lumps -> "draw the rest of the owl". #artprocess #sculpting

A good discussion to have. Most publishers are for profit. The big 5 are part of much larger investment portfolios and most authors (trad & indie) want a revenue stream large enough to live well off writing alone. So where should this revenue for writers come from? And which writers should get it?

Never have so many imposters not suffered a bit from imposter syndrome.

It’s good that AI is clearly labelled artificial. And like artificial flavour, food colouring etc, whatever is produced/generated should also be labeled as such; ie artificial information, artificial research, artificial video, artificial photo etc, so consumers understand what they’re consuming.

Mirror, mirror. #wip