ICYMI, @kjcharles is going above and beyond: to celebrate her 10th anniversary as a published author, she's giving away glorious print and signed copies of her two Doomsday books, and not having readers do anything other than going to her website and clicking in the rafflecopter widget:
@herhandsmyhands@romancelandia I think it'd be great if ai generated work is not copyrightable and folks use it anyway so that more stuff is public domain and unmonetizeable by corpos.
Some of you may be aware of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's "The Drum" segment on August 17 2023, where the host engaged in incredible levels of ableism and misogyny (yes, she's a woman, it happens).
This is Romance Writers of Australia rebuttal to that gross bullshit:
Via @KateElliottSFF (on twitter): #BooksForMaui is a book-related fundraiser for the people recovering from the catastrophic Maui fires.
Lots of amazing items on offer. I have an Ask Me Anything up for grabs.
More info here:
The #RomanceForMaui auction is live, until 3pm EDT on Monday August 21; the original goal was a humble $5K, but the current total is siting just shy of $62K, with 281 items on offer.
An Indiana public library is moving 1300 young adult titles to the adult section--making them unavailable to the readers the books were written for, many of whom need those books to survive their lives.
The library is spending over $300,000 just to deny teens the right to read books written for and about them.