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Hey, #Canada! If you're an author, today is the LAST DAY to sign up for Fiction Fest and join over 100 of your fellow #CanLit fiction writers from all across the country for our summer showcase event. Check out our Author FAQ for details!

➡️ https://FictionFest.ca

#writing #CanCon #CanKidLit #WritingCommunity #CanadianFiction

Posting this here in the hope we can reach a few #authors on #bookstodon ... We now have authors participating in Fiction Fest from every part of Canada except Newfoundland & Labrador, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. We're still accepting sign ups from all provinces/territories, but If you are a Canadian author living in any of those 3 places, we would especially love to have you join us in our summer showcase.

This is a completely online/virtual event and it already has a really good mix of tradpub, indie and hybrid authors signed up. It comprises of a book showcase and author gallery, plus a roster of live author readings and discussion panels.

It's free to join, you don't need to provide copies of your books, and this is a grassroots cooperative effort that has all of us working together to shout out each other's books and #CanLit in general.

We are also accepting #Canadian illustrators of graphic novels and picture books (even if the text of the book they illustrated is not written by a Canadian).

Check out our Author FAQ for more details! ** Submissions close on May 1st. **

➡️ https://FictionFest.ca

#author #Newfoundland #NL #Labrador #NWT #NorthwestTerritories #NU #Nunavut #CanLit #CanKidLit #CanCon #Canada #WritingCommunity #writing #FictionFest

If anyone is looking for an object lesson on why replacing all your programmers with AI "vibe-coding" is a spectacularly dumb idea, you just have to look at the disaster that is Bluesky today.

With a long weekend ahead, there's plenty of time for you to submit your book(s) to Fiction Fest! 😊🍁

Check out the Author FAQ page for info. We're still looking for authors from all provinces and territories. Indie, hybrid, and tradpub are all welcome (and we do already have a mix of all three!)

➡️ https://FictionFest.ca

#Canada #Canadian #CanLit #FictionFest #WritingCommunity #authors #bookstodon

If anyone uses #Kobo, Chalice of Caladriai is only $3.99 in US, CA, UK, AU, & NZ right now.

https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/chalice-of-caladriai

#bookstodon #reading

The feeling of peace when you finally figure out that there's a browser setting that blocks videos from auto-playing.

@Vanalope Mine has a thing about closed doors. Closets, bathrooms, cupboards... she takes a closed door like it's a personal insult. She has a post-breakfast morning routine where she goes and yowls for about ten minutes straight at a door that I keep closed in the basement (and have since the day we moved in) because I don't want her getting into the crawlspace behind it. Cats are weird.

Kidnapped the cat blanket because it was gross and desperately needed to be washed and now my drama queen of a cat is *screaming* at me and racing around like it's the end of the world. 😑

Hey all! #CanadaFictionFest is looking for #authors from every part of #Canada to feature in our summer book showcase and author gallery, and that includes authors from all 3 territories. If you fit the bill, please consider joining us, and if you know someone else who does, please tell them about us! (Yes, you can share any of our posts on other platforms, please copy and paste the ALT text if you do.)

Check out our Author FAQ to learn how to participate! There is no cost to submit your books, and the whole event is online, so there's no travelling or accommodations you need to worry about. It's basically a great big online book fair dedicated to #Canadian fiction for all ages, and we're trying to shine a light on all the literary talent we have here!

Indie, tradpub, and hybrid authors are all welcome (and we do currently have a mix who have already submitted!)

➡️ https://FictionFest.ca

#bookstodon #WritingCommunity #writing #author #IndieAuthor #FictionFest #SomethingBIGIsComing #CanLit #CanKidLit #authors #Fiction #Nunavut #Yukon #NWT

@kevinbowrin 41% at CRA. Like it's not already an absolute dumpster fire trying to deal with them. 😑

Sigh. I just saw two posts here pushing the "real authors don't use em dashes, that's an AI thing" myth and I am tired. 😣

Hi. Hello. "Real author" here. I have never used AI in any part of my writing or process, ever. I use em dashes all the time. So do other real authors. In fact, there'd be a fight to the death if you tried to take our em dashes away from us. Sometimes, a semicolon just won't do, and you *need* that em dash. Other times, you *must* use an em dash (when a character gets interrupted mid-sentence or mid-word, for example).

The *reason* you see em dashes in AI slop is because those LLMs were literally built on the stolen works of real authors. Who use em dashes. All the time.

#author #writing #writingCommunity #amwriting