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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 16h

I just got my grocery delivery, ready for the nor'easter!

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 16h

I mean...I might.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 17h

Apropos of nothing, just because I like to share it, my favorite book review of all time read "Every Craig Schaefer novel is like a John Carpenter movie that Carpenter never made."

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 17h

At first I wanted to point out Misery (dude gets his ankles smashed with a sledgehammer, light compared to the book), or Let The Right One In (pedophile vampire), but goddamn... THE FOG? What on fucking earth is "cozy" about The Fog? Don't disrespect John Carpenter, my inspiration, like this y'all

Rhagana Doomslayer @rhagana.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely wild that @commandersterling.bsky.social was ranting this week about how the word"cozy" has become pervasive in video games and I see this at my local library today

Poster at the library's video section advertising "cozy horror" movies; it's a collage of original posters for the films The Fog, Practical Magic, Misery, Werewolves Within, Let the Right One In, Hocus Pocus, Sleepy Hollow (Tim Burton version), Scare Me, and An American Werewolf in London.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 18h

SHE DOES NOT.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 18h

Never forget that ChatGPT was trained on thousands of authors' writing without their consent, including mine.

When you ask ChatGPT how to rizz, you're asking Harmony Black how to rizz.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 1d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 20h

He's evidently forgotten that he pardoned all of those evil car-dealership owning Jimmy-Pesto fuckers and let them off the hook. Big apologies? Motherfucker, you let them out of jail and literally don't remember doing it.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 21h

Fuck that fucker. You are NOT alone, you are adored.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 1d

Jesus wept.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 1d

Can confirm the "some of their base have no idea what antifa means" thing, btw, from a convo with a concerned family member.

Me: "It's not an organization. It just means anti-fascist. Anyone who opposes nazis is antifa. If you oppose nazis, and I know you do, YOU are antifa."

He was stunned.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 1d

It is a title of great honor.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 1d

I really enjoyed it except for the "We're being hunted by killers, let's hole up here and have sex" bit. Like goddamn, even as a teenager I was never *that* horny.

Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 1d

In hindsight, "they turned the xenomorph into a xenoMILF" was RIGHT THERE and I deeply regret not seeing it before I had my coffee.

But seriously, I want one of these on my desk.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 1d

I am ALL the envious. You're gonna have so much fun with that thing!

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Just bc a book contains a protagonist between 10 and 30, especially a female protagnoist, doesn't mean it's YA. Just bc the book is written by a woman (or someone you incorrectly assume is a woman), doesn't make it YA. Just bc a book is fun, written colloquially, or has romance doesn't make it YA.

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Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · 1d

Something to get you through the weekend.

Krista D. Ball: Canada's Snarky Potato @kristadb1.bsky.social · Nov 19

Spirit Caller (complete series)
Ghost banishing in outport Newfoundland with one's 93 year old neighbour.

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Spirit Caller series now available - 6 covers blue paranormal themed

Cover for Dead of Knight. Arrow pointing to my name: Liar Mcliarface

Krista said she was done with the spirit caller word. She lied. An all new novella with bonus stories.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 1d

oh no they made the alien hot

i mean okay the alien was always kinda hot, but this is a clear and present escalation of danger

Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 2d

bro WHAT THE FUCK

I WANT HER creations.mattel.com/products/mon...

Monster High Alien fashion doll, all in black, looking over her shoulder.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 2d

Please stop creating the torment nexus, thank you

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 2d

I wrote. A book. About this. This exact fucking thing. Right here.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

“Apple is reportedly prepping a Health+ service that will use AI to dispense advice on nutrition, exercise and more.”

Apple might launch Health+ with AI doctor, food tracking and more

Apple is reportedly prepping a Health+ service that will use AI to dispense advice on exercise and eating right.

www.cultofmac.com

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 2d

In one fell swoop they refer to the protagonist as "he" (yeah, the cast includes Colin and Dalton who are dudes, and bros, but...) and promise to capture crime fiction audiences. You know, for Firebreak, which is totally a gritty crime novel and not, say, dark-academia portal fantasy.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 2d

Oh, no. The AI promo-bots have found me.

Email: "A firebreak, the last line of defense before everything burns, that's a uniquely potent metaphor for thriller fiction."

Me: "Aw, shit, here we go."

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 3d

Oh, have to disagree. We ALL win.

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Craig Schaefer @craigschaeferbooks.com · 3d

I will never forget an editor's note for my very first novel: "Cliche, and jarringly so. You can do better than this."

Ever since that day, when I catch myself sinking into the rote and easy, I stop and tell myself, "You can do better than this." Doesn't always work, but it works a *lot*.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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