J. Kathleen Cheney

Intro: My name is J. Kathleen Cheney, although I usually use Jeannette. I'm a #writer of #sff mostly #fantasy either historical or second world. (Also writing as Anna St. VIncent ) I have 2 big #dogs so I'll post about them a lot.

Accidentally wrote "Instagran" instead of "Instagram" and now I'm imagining a service where, when you need it, a kindly older lady appears, teaches you lifehacks and tells you stories about the old days.

Target has added an AI to their app, and now the dang thing takes forever to load. Ugh. (Yes, I'm slowly switching over to HEB, but there are something HEB doesn't carry.)

I shut down my author page on FB today (AI scraping thing), and announced it on my personal page, and suspect that there were people who saw that thinking 'she had an author page?' (I haven't used it much in the last few years, so no one will miss it.)

My review of the July issue of @clarkesworldmagazine.com for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online! locusmag.com/review/clark...

worth a read

The Informant: A Gavin Rownt Medieval Mystery When a wealthy merchant is found dead in the garden of one of King Henry III’s counsellors, Gavin Rownt is summoned to investigate the murder. But the victim is not merely a merchant, and Rownt finds himself in the murky world of 13th-century politics...

Libby now has an option to filter out all AI content. Go to settings Content Controls AI Contributions Select Human authors only for every category Turn off Deep Search Only filter so that it applies to your library catalog 📚Happy Reading!📚

Up bright and early, ready to go. Not super excited, but at least I don't have to fix brekky on Sundays. (We go out.) I have pizza fixings for lunch, if the cranky oven will cooperate, it might work. That's really not exciting either, though.

And the Josephine is on the blocking mat. I'll come back with a yardstick and fine-tune it a bit later (once it's stretched some), but I'm really happy with this version.

Only 2 more days until my cozy-spooky romantasy novella A Waltz of Sinister Import arrives to complete The Supernatural Adventures of Lady & Lord Riven! Preorder now: books2read.com/waltzSinister #romancelandia

"Your Honour, I wasn't the one who robbed that bank — it was my evil sockpuppet, Pierre! Just look at the footage, how he holds the gun while I turn away in disgust. Look at those googly eyes, Your Honour, and you will see pure evil, as dark as the void of space. I am the true victim in all this."

In light of some magazines pulling scummy things on creators lately, I’m doing a little thread on short story rights. I don't want anybody getting taken advantage of. Also, if you're new, this stuff can be confusing!

NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

This is one reason why you shouldn’t upload work into LLMs during the peer review and grading processes. That work is confidential, and you have no right to share it without permission. You are taking someone’s intellectual property and giving it to the entire world without their consent.

Got Mandala 1 on the hoop, and will let it stretch for a day or two, then futz with the attachment and tie it off. On the whole, I'm pretty happy with the 'scrap yarn' project. #crochet

Living with chronic disabling health is like permanently working with the most ornery , dislikable person in your office. The person who thinks musk is a genius , and Trump is 'quite funny, really'. You have to work together but it's impossible to relax or take pleasure in their company.

Looking for witchy shit? Check out my Harmswood Academy trilogy - YA paranormal romantic comedies set in a town that pretends it's Halloween 24/7. Also fabulously available on audio! 🖤🍁🎃 aletheakontis.com/bibliography... #fantasy #halloween #nocturnefallsuniverse #witch #booksky

Finally got around (prompted by a forum post and an email) to cancelling all my stuff on Patreon. Sorry if I had subscribed to your stuff. This was not a decision about the worth of your content, but being exhausted with the platform. (I closed my own page months ago.)

Now mandala 2 is on the mat. (Amethyst Mandala pattern). So much easier to make the second time around. It's tighter and cleaner. Now waiting for hoop.

Mandala 1 is done blocking, and now just waiting for a hoop. I started # 2 yesterday, and have only 3 rows to go. Will likely finish it tonight. It's a lot easier to do a complicated pattern the second time around. #crochet

This glorious, furious poem! @jenniferhudak.bsky.social hits it out of the park!

First attempt at a #crochet mandala. Unblocked measure is 14", but hoop should be 16", so I need to stretch it a bit. Pattern is the Amethyst Mandala by Jordan Wantuch, in scraps of yarnart flowers leftover from the Josephine shawl. Will post a pic again once blocked and mounted. (May be a while)

I'm almost done with my trial mandala (crocheted) but am looking at the prices of buying a hoop for it. (No point in purchasing that until I'm actually 100% done because I don't know if I'm on gauge or not.) Weirdly, it seems like I can get 20 or 2, about the same price.

Sorghum can handle dry conditions better than many crops. Now growers and chefs are trying to answer another question: Can they persuade more Americans to eat it? buff.ly/QsR8i2G

Few fake their death. Many fake their life.

I give up. I’m moving into a cave.

I just finished copyedits for A Waltz of Sinister Import! Join my Patreon as a Dragon Ruler to read it on Friday (& scoop up all the other ebooks already available there): patreon.com/stephanieburgis Or preorder the ebook to get it in just over 2 weeks: books2read.com/waltzSinister #romancelandia

Wow. Really amazing writeup on my collection The Astronaut Among the Flowers in The Horror Review. Check it out: www.horrorreview.com/book-review-... @starsandsabers.bsky.social

Transferred a couple of K words off the Alphasmart Neo this morning, some old file and some work from last night. I'm glad that my handy little device still works!!!

This has been a dismal month for book sales, making me 1/20th of what I got in August. ::sighs:: Not sure why, but this just seems to happen sometimes.

NEVER DRIVE OR WALK THROUGH FLOODWATER. Not only is drowning a real, heightened risk, but that floodwater is now a soup of shrapnel, everything soaked into the ground, and worse. Stay clear.

I'm getting a couple a day now (have a recent book). It means, among other things, that if I get an email from a legit source, I'll probably spam it by reflex...