@tcparker
(Neuro)queer Luddite. Writin' (and publishin') dyke at Nefarious Bat Press 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ PhD, media/politics. Work in social/cultural semiotics, CDA, material culture, storytelling. Rage as deep as the abyss Fiction at: https://tinyurl.com/mr2rd9bj
Shows the book cover for Song Dogs
Nominated in horror for the 2026 Small Spec Book Awards: SONG DOGS by Brennan LaFaro (@brigidsgatepress.bsky.social). Congratulations!
#SSBA #SSBA2026
Yes I'm religious, I believe in the holy trinity
❤️ (but also: fucking *cunts*. Again)
Oh, for fuck's sake. I'm so fucking sick of this shit
Do authors have to do it themselves, or can publishers do it on their behalf? (Am wondering if we can file some sort of Bat-wide opt-out for all of us)
If you are an author or editor at *ANY* level -- from beginner to jaded old veteran like me, click through to the article Todd's posting about, take 2 minutes, and email them to let them know you opt out. Will save us all time having to mount yet a 577th class-action suit down the road.
I know nothing of Warhammer or Gundam (except the brief allusions to them I've come across at work and what @legreehy.bsky.social has told me!)... but I like the Nundam already
If you're still finalizing your reading list for Trans Rights Readathon ...
🌈📚💙📚🦇🖤🦇
I'm even cheaper than usual this week... ⬇️
If you've read STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS or any book by any author, please leave a kind review somewhere in a proper review receptacle. Leaving these reviews helps the book, helps the bookish ecosystem, and also we are sustained by them as we sit in the corner and greedily gnaw on them like squirrels.
Want to listen to Brennan chat with @annarosereads.bsky.social about THE DENIZENS?
Of course you do!
And now... you can!
(Then check out the book for yourself - we think you'll love it)
We don't sell them, just include them with the books, but we'll happily send you some :)
Here's to that ❤️
Support artists 💞
*on behalf of an organisation that just released a book called Don't Steal This Book in protest at copyright infringement*
Here's the episode, for anyone who didn't catch it earlier
You can hear her waxing lyrical about her own "AI" use at c. 1:43
Lovely that the SoA has done this, but I'm not quite sure, given the apparent mission of this book, why they sent an enthusiastic "AI" user on the Today show to talk about the many ways she uses plagiaristic LLM extruders in her fiction "research"?
Tracy: you're literally stealing our books
Good news though: they also got an enthusiastic "AI" user to go on the Today show and talk about all the ways she uses LLM extruders in her "research"!
Or do you consider academic/non-fiction work less valuable than fiction, and therefore fair game as training data for plagiarism engines?
Glad you did that - but I'm a bit more concerned about Tracy Chevalier defending her use of LLM extruders for "research" purposes on Today
I've had academic papers plagiarised for LLM training. How do you square her position with your stance on IP infringement? It feels immensely hypocritical
Singing the headline to the tune of this
Uhhh...
I too wish Erin a long, satisfying career in a field that doesn't involve her stealing and regurgitating all our work
If she persists in this one, however: I wish her nothing but failure
I have books.
every single one of these books (except for the newest, which is still in preorder) have earned out in print and ebook. I'd love to hit the list on the Feywild Job, though! That's the D&D nested heist book about how a bard and a warlock have to mend an old hurt to do one last job
Promo image for The Nine O'Clock Horses, with the book (artwork: a horse's face in closeup, its eye rendered to connote a camera lens) presented on a plate below the line: A LITTLE BOOK OF STRANGE APPETITES
Thanks for this!
I'd love more people to check out my most recent collection, The Nine O'Clock Horses
If you like The Magnus Archives or Eliza Clark, urban legends & suburban paranoia, I suspect you'll be into it
Grab it here payhip.com/b/1xHIf
Or here www.amazon.com/Nine-OClock-...
To be fair to Klein, he may well be struggling to understand why women are allowed in a lot of these rooms in the first place
Human language: famously immutable, notoriously resistant to adaptation in response to social and cultural change
Absolutely wild that the bugbears of a small university social group is getting wall to wall puff pieces in the national press when the big falling out over whether the uni am dram society was going to do Little Shop or Cabaret in the winter term of my 2nd year didn't even make local news
Might also be wise to replace Tracy "I used ChatGPT for book 'research'" Chevalier as brand ambassador
Hey, @societyofauthors.bsky.social, have you used a generated image to promote your anti-AI campaign?
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