Will Kostakis

This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already

Brat of yore caught on film.

Wow really? The film where the macho alien has to embrace a softer, more nurturing side to connect with his femme son was supposed to have overt queerness in it? Get out...

"we undress the mother of all..." Yeah maybe gaming being more woke was a good thing jfc

Interesting. I didn’t notice first time that it was for middle grade only. Which would have in the past left out Mal Peet (too teen) and Jon Klassen (too young), which I regard as the best “children’s books” of the past twenty five years. Still, MG does get overlooked for other kids prizes, so…

Reminder, now the world has been reduced to ‘content’ being fed into make-believe machines run by billionaires, books are gold dust when compared to all other ‘content’. If only book publishing positioned themselves as that and believed in themselves.

Also every celebrity has a team that will weigh the pros and cons of having a fart. Pretty sure they considered this.

It’s National Coming Out Day for all the letters of the rainbow. It’s a huge risk for anyone, but if you can, we need you more than ever. And there’s an army of us here to back you up, you beauty.

We unlocked each new level of Internet by playing through the game. These kids are getting access to all the bosses and weapons from the start and they don’t have enough XP to handle it

Financial blow but festival book supplier stands with writers in protest www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/904243...

They've stolen all our work for this shit. They should be ridiculed to high heaven.

We Could Be Something, by Will Kostakis @willkostakis.bsky.social Hilarious one moment, heartbreaking the next. A romance/coming out story/family drama with alternating generational storytelling that's utterly unique. #🌈📚 #Authors #books #reviews #lgbtqromance #booksky #queerbookworms

My favourite kind of post is: company makes social media manager redundant, then advertises for a new one (comments off). A massacre.

“By far the most troubling thing I learnt while researching this story is the decline of school libraries in public schools, both in their number and standard of facilities.” www.smh.com.au/national/a-t... #Reading #Libraries

Open AI’s valuation is at $400 billion. They used about 190,000 books to train their plagiarism bot. Randomly saying 25% of their value comes from that stolen dataset, I think they owe the authors about $526,000 per stolen book.

Bye

The writing on Reacher has never been worse. I love it.

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

If the Albanese government wanted a trade policy retaliation for the Trump tariffs, I’ve got just the thing: local content requirements for American content companies. Force Netflix to carry 25% Australian content for local audiences, or pay a big levy

Well reviews are in and looks like I managed not to fuck up the finale of the None Shall Sleep series, phew 😂 You can read book 3 All Shall Mourn here: linktr.ee/allshallmour...

If you want to show your opposition to banned books, please look on lists for *living authors*, particularly queer authors and authors of colour. John Steinbeck and Harper Lee don’t need your money. Living authors do.

Unpublished Australian YA writers under 25 can now submit to The Steph Bowe Prize for Young Writers. The winner receives $1000, a 20-hour mentorship to develop their manuscript, and a professional development package worth $200! The Prize closes 15 February 2025. www.stephboweprize.com #LoveOzYA

Almost half of Australians wish they read more books. Here are 10 ways to get back into reading in a distracted age theconversation.com/almost-half-...

Are you an Australian YA writer under 25? Enter The Steph Bowe Prize for Young Writers for the chance to win $1000, a 20-hour mentorship to develop your manuscript, and a professional development package worth $200! stephboweprize.com #LoveOzYA

🌟MY BOOK IS OUT, MY BOOK IS OUT🌟 Grinning like a loon here 😄 ALL SHALL MOURN is out in the world. This book that was orphaned by my publisher, then supported by readers so much that I released it myself...It's finally arrived 😊 Hope you dig it🖤 linktr.ee/allshallmour...

We have so little books writing in AU, but sure, just use the little space to promote what the algo pushes. 😂😭 Excuse me while I sigh and title a new Word document *Horny Steelyx Trials*

When will some people stop recommending her work to kids? Like, is there a line?

This is huge - amazon to stop selling Bloomsbury's books at midnight tonight. Especially as my first two books are published by....bloomsbury... www.thebookseller.com/news/amazon-...

Sydney, come spend Mardi Gras at the library! www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/writi...

pretty wild how the second season of the biggest show ever on netflix appears to have had zero cultural impact??

This makes three Australian indies swallowed up by major houses in a year (by my count, anyway, I could well have forgotten one) which is... sure something.

How long until a gaggle of US YA authors launch a pump-and-dump meme coin and say it's revolutionising storytelling?

Dream Productions > Inside Out 2

I'm going to be spreading misinfo that this post proves they're developing a DKC game. 😏

low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.

I've deleted Facebook off my phone. That's enough. Talked to a few people on the radio this week who have completely deleted Facebook. They have no regrets and are loving life. Dare I say a few more might go that way soon...

easy for lots of people to quit facebook and twitter. harder, i think for many people i know, to quit instagram and whatsapp. competition laws! who knew!

omg people are reading ALL SHALL MOURN and I'm freaking out just a little tiny bit 😅