Ashleigh Writes Books

Possibly. I have thoughts.
Unrelated question- how many books are in the Young Wizards series now? I am not certain if I am current in my completionist OCD. 😳

Beef is the one flesh we don’t have in our home. Long history, but in beloved spouse’s first pregnancy there was a housemate who lived on beef ramen. It was an instant morning sickness trigger for her. The association remains 44 years later. 😳

Typos. The bane of my existence. Why, when this iPhone is constantly turning predictive text back on after I disable it, is it still unable to note and remedy a simple typographical error like “U” instead of “I”?
#rhetoricalquestions

Accidental or no, it’s a marvelous idea that I would never have thought of myself. And it’s also a method that I might be able to use and actually be able to eat meat again (taste/texture issues + post roux en y.)

What U said on the other account…

The Thomson–Leng Tarot From Magazine Premium to Saturnine Instrument

Someting different on my Substack today! Not politic!!
open.substack.com/pub/ashleigh...

Diane, you provide the most interesting food preparation tips!

It’s very different from what they use today. 🤪

Accurate. Most people don’t understand that even basic spellcheck is an AI process, yet it can be disabled and/or modified by the user to be more useful in the task at hand. That’s not my objection. It’s the complete generative AI integration taking over. CoPilot’s “rewrite” for example.

Tha's an amazing piece. It makes me think of the Cwn Annwn (or "Hounds of Annwn," the spectral dogs from Welsh mythology associated with the Underworld (Annwn) and the Wild Hunt.) Except yours don't have the red ears.

(says the old lady who started with COBOL in 1967...)

Oh, come on. They're at least C++.

That's the typical MS advancement path. Stay any longer in one position/group and you are not "career-orieinted."
Quoth the spouse of a MS alumni, who was formerly in the hierachy of what used to be "Microsoft Press" until they RIF'd the entire division.

I mean, seriously, at ths point? I'm not only looking for non-AI-infected tools for writing and publishing but am actively avoiding platforms that enable it by defalt if I am unable to disable it.
(And I absolutelhy loathe that I am more or less forced to engage with Meta & Alphabet.)

Well, that drags teeth.
It's bad enough that Microsoft has shoved its AI cock down the throat of every product that used to be flagship and made them unreliable and unusable for serious professionals. Now they are sinking the only remaining useful platform remaining from the glory days.

So, which is it? The Department of Jokes? Department of Jerks? Department of Jacka****
Because it is anything but Justice.
Hmm. DOJ running out of attorneys. Like rats off a sinking ship.
Aha - it's the sinking of the Department of Juicitania?

GAH! ddamned typos. "have not been able."

Alarmingly Relevant: Holocaust Museums in an Age of Rising Holocaust Denial and Antisemitism - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum www.ushmm.org/online-calen...

Hell Yeah!
HELL YEAH!
HELL YEAH!!

How is this not a violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution?
Oh, right. The constitution does not apply to El Senor Pendejolito.

Of course, if it's Sigur Rós’s 36‑second silence on () (2002) the criics were divided - just like the performance.

That's some fantastic news. You're right. I wasn't ready for that. I stillhave been able to finish Picard! 😱 But kudos for @charliejane.bsky.social and all those making this happen.

Jacob Redman (@everythingbriefing) In an essay titled What Is Leadership?, Dwight Eisenhower wrote in 1948 that “Every leader should have enough humility to accept, publicly, the responsibility for the mistakes of the subordinates he h...

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Feeling gutted by the news of Robert Duvall's passing. So many of his film roles are iconic in my memory.
But the ones I remember best are Frank Burns and Tom Hagen.

How Math Ruins the World: PW talks with Paul Tremblay The Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award winner straddles the line between absurdity and horror in Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep.

You may either thank, or blame, @marifromky.bsky.social
It matter not. Nor will it make any difference.

Bio & Press — Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble Bio & Press

I've only just been inroduced to the music of this ensemble, and I am loving it.
Bio & Press — Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble www.kitka.org/biopress

Wise? Well, I know a lot of people call parts of me smart. Usually the parts I use for sitting... 😂

Oh, I get thatm completely. I'm a huge ebook fan as wellm all the way back to the .LIT format days. But I don't really want Jeff B & Co to own my work in the way their licensing agreement works, and it's only paranoia if they aren't actualy out to get you. 🤔😱🤣
Thanks for the answers.

Question for you, as I'm looking how best to market print for my forthcoming trilogy. How distributable is Amazon to libraries and independent booksellers? I'm currently leaning towards Draft2Digital for mine for their Ingram catalog access.

GAH! I hate it when I see the typos that slipped through after reading my post several times attempting to ensure my spelling was correct.
sigh.
It's worse when I make such a comment about typos and then the comment has them as well. 😂