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When my Entangled Universe trilogy came out from Aethon books, a number of people felt the need to pop up and tell me they wouldn’t be buying it, because that publisher only sells through Amazon, and they hated Amazon more than they cared about reading my fiction.
Now people are telling me they won’t read my fiction because of my stance on AI. Okay. No big deal. Continue reading “Things You Don’t Need to Tell an Author”
You don’t want to tangle with an octopus in a snowball fight. Unless you’re an octopus too, or maybe a spider or centipede or something, there’s NO WAY you have enough arms to keep up.
As someone who loves octopi so much that my mom let me skip a day of school as a teen to go to an aquarium and stare at a sleeping one for three hours in a wind tunnel while it twitched precisely once, it really means a lot to me how much better AI is getting at drawing them. Continue reading “Always Loved Octopi”
All of my previously published books that FurPlanet cancelled should be available again on Kindle by the morning, except for Jove Deadly’s Lunar Detective Agency. I need to talk to my co-author about that one.
Wide-distribution and paperbacks will be up next. Continue reading “Picking Myself Back Up”
In the last two days, I’ve made covers for 11 of the 12 books FurPlanet dropped.
All four Otters In Space books are already back on Kindle. Continue reading “Instant Turnaround on Re-Releases”
The more I watch what’s happening and see the parallels to things that have happened in the past, the more it looks to me like the tumultuous, negative aspects of AI being introduced into the world of art and writing were unavoidable, because it’s about people fearing change. Continue reading “People Fear Change”
I haven’t posted about this much, because in the scheme of things, it’s small. But I fought for The Furry Writers’ Guild to be a democracy years ago.
But this year, they’ve enacted an anti-AI policy without a vote and kicked me out summarily because of my stance on AI. Continue reading “Partings Ways with the FWG”
We have a big announcement — Deep Sky Anchor has just taken on the entire back catalog of Mary E. Lowd’s books with FurPlanet Productions and Argyll Books. Including an upcoming book that they hadn’t gotten around to releasing yet, this means we’ll be adding 12 more books to our catalogue.
Let me take you down, Cause I’m going to…
What if a river otter happened to stroll on by… Continue reading “A River Otter Visits Strawberry Fields Forever”
I’d like to be…
It’s the same octopus. It just changed colors when its friend the otter showed up. Continue reading “A River Otter Visits an Octopus’s Garden”
But you know how if you’re wading in the ocean and then like a surprisingly big wave comes and knocks you right in the stomach and knocks you all the way over and you’re tumbling in the surf trying to get the sand out of your mouth and…
…you know you’re not actually gonna get swept out to sea and drown and that you’ll just get yourself home and dried off and it’ll all be okay but also you’re gonna flinch every time you think of the ocean again forever because it was such a hard punch that stings so bad… Continue reading “Standing Right Back Up After the Wave Knocks Me Down”