KDP publishers can now one-click “AI” “translate” their books into other languages. (In beta for now.) Do you know how many shitty “translations” have already been done on the cheap by “translators” running text through Google Translate? Hey, at least now when readers mercilessly ridicule you because the “translation” of your book is nonsense, you […]
In response to a challenge to engage with readers as a reader, this is a chronicle of my recent reading, which should swiftly demonstrate why talking about what I’m reading won’t actually make me any friends. I am constitutionally incapable of lying about how much I love everything I read. Some of the things I
TL; DR: Amazon just expanded the pipeline dumping bot-voice audiobooks into Audible. Let me start by saying I have ethical objections to bot-voice audiobooks. A) Labor solidarity with actors, musicians, visual artists, and everybody else ripped off and told they’re obsolete because now Johnny NoSkills can push a button and “do” their job. B) Where
I worked in healthcare for 20 years. Half of that was in inpatient rehab and a prison clinic. I have always had a core belief that if someone is hurt, I should help them. If they called me a bitch or threw a chair at me or acquired their injury committing an act that would
One of today’s writer hashtag games involves “Show, Don’t Tell.” Since I have seen approximately zero participants demonstrate an understanding of the concept and my blood pressure is skyrocketing as a result, here’s a quick tutorial. What Telling Is NOT Dialogue, character thoughts, and narration are not what is meant by “telling.” Conveying any form
Content Warning Discourse is in the air again, which means people are showing their whole asses again, now with links to news outlets breathlessly and uncritically regurgitating anti-content-warning opinions because journalism is dead. I’ve already blown my stack about media literacy elsewhere at length, so I’ll drop the short, semi-polite version of that here, along
Wanting people to be direct and being direct myself has been “rude” all my life, and the current trend is to blame my “rudeness” on “autism.” (Not one of my diagnoses, officially or self, but it’s a handy ableist blanket for some people to throw over “every behavior that’s inconvenient for me.”) While editing a