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
Concerns about the novel coronavirus continue to spread. We’ve seen China, Italy and other countries impose widespread quarantines and lockdowns in an effort to contain the new coronavirus. In the US and elsewhere, schools and universities are closing, events are being cancelled, and people are cancelling travel plans and skipping… Read more »
The romance world is up in arms over RWA’s secretive (and inappropriate) handling of ethics complaints against Courtney Milan. The complaints were lodged by several author/editors whom Milan had called out for racism. RWA responded by Requesting that Milan resign from her position as chair of the Ethics Committee, rather… Read more »
Challenge Update through Aug. 31, 2019 I’ve read or reread 149 books this year so far, putting me 23 books ahead for my Goodreads Reading Challenge. I’ve read 13 of 20 books for the Backlist Reader Challenge, but only reviewed two of them so far. For the Audiobook Challenge 2019, I’ve listened… Read more »
This week saw exciting casting announcements for two projects I’ve been looking forward to: Disney’s live-action Little Mermaid remake, and the adaptation of Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series. Both shows cast Black actors* in lead roles: 19-year-old Halle Bailey (of R&B duo Chloe x Halle) as Ariel, and a number of actors in… Read more »
