Ten Ways to Hold On to Your Light Today If you’re fighting despair or anxiety about the the future, particularly today, you’re not alone. Today might be a good day to unplug from news and social media and focus on things that bring you joy. I’m not suggesting you tune… Read more »
Thoughts on human-pet communication, after listening to a 2-part series about Elsie the talking cat on The Allusionist.
In which I talk about how we care for ourselves and each other through whatever challenges lie ahead. (Thanks and credit to C. Milan for the newsletter that sparked this post.)
In which I wish you all a happy Thanksgiving, and share the blessings I am thankful for.
RWA files for bankruptcy — and doubles down on racism If you read romance blogs or a select few news outlets, you may seen the announcement by now: Romance Writers of America (RWA) has filed for bankruptcy, and they are blaming their financial woes on DEI instead of their own… Read more »
AI and Intellectual Property Theft In case you’ve missed the headlines, it turns out that Meta’s generative AI program was trained on Books3, a vast dataset of books, many of them pirated. It seems probable that other generative AI chatbots, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, were as well. (NOTE: Link goes… Read more »
Why you should preorder books: It’s like giving Future You a present! You preorder the book now, in whatever format you want. Then you forget about it, and when the book arrives on your doorstep or in your ereader or audiobook account, it’s a lovely surprise. And who doesn’t love… Read more »
Indie author Carrie Lomax recently tweeted about readers buying, reading, and returning her ebooks. “Nothing like seeing people go through an entire series – buy, return, buy, return – to make you never want to write again,” she said. Apparently some TikTok “book lovers” have been recommending this strategy as… May 26, 2022 Lark_Bookwyrm Musings 7
This is usually just a book blog… but the times are not usual, and I can not in conscience ignore what is going on. To be silent is to be complicit. Therefore, I must address it. The news last week and this has been horrifying and sobering. The killing of… Read more »
I reviewed The Martian — both book and movie — back in 2014. It’s a good review, if I say so myself, and I hope you’ll read it. Just this week, my husband and I watched the movie again. I chose it in large part because it seems so apt… April 6, 2020 Lark_Bookwyrm Musings 4
