Frances Pauli
@francestypes.bsky.social
Author of the Serpentia and Sunrunner series. Typewriter nut, tea addict, mother, furry, snake wrangler, and sometimes artist. francespauli.com linkree: https://linktr.ee/francespauli
I feel this in my cockles.
January 4, 2026 at 5:42 PM
I feel this in my cockles.
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ATTN EDITORS & AUTHORS: If you published original short SF/F/H this year that engages with themes of nature, climate & animals (pets included!), send it our way for consideration in The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction ✨
We also accept collections & anthos (stories are considered individually).
We also accept collections & anthos (stories are considered individually).
Nominations for ECO25 are OPEN 🌍🌱✨ We look forward to reading your best 2025 ecofiction!
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Submission Portal: apexbookcompany.moksha.io/publication/...
Nominations for ECO25 Now Open!
ECO: The Year’s Best Speculative Ecofiction is an annual showcase of some of the most compelling and thought-provoking ecofiction published every year. If you published speculative ecofiction in 2025 ...
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December 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
ATTN EDITORS & AUTHORS: If you published original short SF/F/H this year that engages with themes of nature, climate & animals (pets included!), send it our way for consideration in The Year's Best Speculative Ecofiction ✨
We also accept collections & anthos (stories are considered individually).
We also accept collections & anthos (stories are considered individually).
"...the touch of magic in the world (at Christmas) is amplified by the collective consciousness focusing on quiet beauty, kindness, and generosity."
December 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
"...the touch of magic in the world (at Christmas) is amplified by the collective consciousness focusing on quiet beauty, kindness, and generosity."
They did a lovely job with this frame story and so many good stories inside too. <3 Have a listen.
If you like a holiday with some mystery, some ritual, some ceremony, and of course reuniting of old friends--and I do--you might try "Fireside Meeting After the Holiday Feast" with stories by @rcarterhall.bsky.social, Thomas "Faux" Steele, @francestypes.bsky.social, @nenekiribookwyrm.bsky.social...
The Voice of Dog: “Fireside Meeting After the Holiday Feast” by Friends of the Fireplace (part 1 of 2)
Today’s story is the first of two parts of a collaborative piece, with contributions by Renee Carter Hall, Thomas “Faux” Steele, Frances Pauli, Nenekiri Bookwyrm, Ziegenbock, K.C. Shaw, Vincenzo Pasqu...
thevoice.dog
December 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
They did a lovely job with this frame story and so many good stories inside too. <3 Have a listen.
We should all be enraged by this, because there is literally nothing to stop it from happening to all of us now. Anything is fair game to the magic insta-gratification machines.
Fire the principal involved here and, honestly? Investigate the devices of the school board members.
Society is failing these children.
December 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
We should all be enraged by this, because there is literally nothing to stop it from happening to all of us now. Anything is fair game to the magic insta-gratification machines.
Add your voice to the AI conversation.
If you write, or even you just prefer to read SFF that wasn't made by energy-devouring Plagiarism Bot, definitely fill out this survey on GenAI.
Depending on what you want to say, you can do it pretty quickly. Every bit of our voices helps this.
Depending on what you want to say, you can do it pretty quickly. Every bit of our voices helps this.
SFWA members and general SFF community:
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
In this press release, our Board of Directors apologizes for recent events.
Feedback from writers is strongly welcomed in the survey.
SFWA Members: Write to [email protected] to support our Emerging Tech Committee.
www.sfwa.org/2025/12/22/p...
December 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Add your voice to the AI conversation.
Reposted by Frances Pauli
I'll just ditto this and say that I also don't use AI to generate any of my cover images. I use stock photos and hire human artists. Because the stock photo sites have been inundated by AI 'art' if you see an image on one of my books you suspect involves AI please tell me so I can investigate.
In case it doesn't go without saying: I have not used gen AI to create text in any of my books. I have not used Grammarly etc to "clean up" the text. I have not used it to research any of my books, except where it might be built into search engines under the hood (I do not use labelled AI results).
December 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I'll just ditto this and say that I also don't use AI to generate any of my cover images. I use stock photos and hire human artists. Because the stock photo sites have been inundated by AI 'art' if you see an image on one of my books you suspect involves AI please tell me so I can investigate.
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📚🐻Junebug remembered, she was not a kelpie either. Not unicorn anymore nor fully kelpie. She was, as General had been, a creature with both natures. She still had her horn, even if her teeth, her coat, her belly had been born anew.
She had magic.
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She had magic.
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Kelpiecorn: Twenty-two | Frances Pauli
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December 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
📚🐻Junebug remembered, she was not a kelpie either. Not unicorn anymore nor fully kelpie. She was, as General had been, a creature with both natures. She still had her horn, even if her teeth, her coat, her belly had been born anew.
She had magic.
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She had magic.
www.patreon.com/posts/kelpie...
"Wet Rat Winter" shall be the name of my grunge band. Toilet Rats is a close second. The king of disaster headlines.
Today on Band Name Or Plague Vector?
King County warns of toilet rats after record flooding
December 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"Wet Rat Winter" shall be the name of my grunge band. Toilet Rats is a close second. The king of disaster headlines.
A very good model to consider. I will be making a statement for the webpage shortly with this one in mind.
Just a reminder writer friends, Delilah Waan has an incredible example of an AI statement on her website breaking down her views and every area in publishing where AI could creep in and how she tries to avoid it. If you feel strongly, here's a great way to approach having a statement for readers.
Where I Stand on the Use of AI in Publishing – Delilah Waan
www.delilahwaan.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
A very good model to consider. I will be making a statement for the webpage shortly with this one in mind.
This entire thread, up and down. Why art is about process and why handing the process over to a machine will never result in your own art. Ever. Process always trumps product. <3
Our art is the culmination of our lives and experiences and our conversations with others' art and our fears and our dreams. It is imperfect and beautiful and personal and deeply human. The more you write, the more time you spend in the process, the better storyteller instincts you'll develop.
December 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This entire thread, up and down. Why art is about process and why handing the process over to a machine will never result in your own art. Ever. Process always trumps product. <3
Reposted by Frances Pauli
This is the sort of contract that if you were entertaining signing it, your friends should smash through a window, do roll on the floor, leap up in a feral pounce and slap it out of your hands
Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...
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December 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is the sort of contract that if you were entertaining signing it, your friends should smash through a window, do roll on the floor, leap up in a feral pounce and slap it out of your hands
Reposted by Frances Pauli
Publishers Weekly is sponsoring an AI for Publishing Bootcamp on their PW Learning platform. This is so disgusting and unacceptable.
There's an email on the site. I've just sent them a message urging them to cancel this workshop series immediately. You can do the same.
pwlearninglab.com
There's an email on the site. I've just sent them a message urging them to cancel this workshop series immediately. You can do the same.
pwlearninglab.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Publishers Weekly is sponsoring an AI for Publishing Bootcamp on their PW Learning platform. This is so disgusting and unacceptable.
There's an email on the site. I've just sent them a message urging them to cancel this workshop series immediately. You can do the same.
pwlearninglab.com
There's an email on the site. I've just sent them a message urging them to cancel this workshop series immediately. You can do the same.
pwlearninglab.com
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
Reposted by Frances Pauli
Life is too short to be anything other than kind to yourself
October 28, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Life is too short to be anything other than kind to yourself
Reposted by Frances Pauli
Currently reading Moby-Dick by Herman Melville for the first time. Killer line from Chapter 9: The Sermon that still resonates today: "In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
December 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Currently reading Moby-Dick by Herman Melville for the first time. Killer line from Chapter 9: The Sermon that still resonates today: "In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers."
#amwriting today for the first time in a long time and I can't believe I let it go so long. Feels amazing to make words!
December 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
#amwriting today for the first time in a long time and I can't believe I let it go so long. Feels amazing to make words!
Y'all should buy this. Like... everybody.
It’s publication day for my short story collection, The Analog Cat! ⌚🐈
If you enjoy the kind of whimsical nonsense I post to social media, my fiction is pretty much the same thing but longer and with a plot.
If you enjoy the kind of whimsical nonsense I post to social media, my fiction is pretty much the same thing but longer and with a plot.
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Y'all should buy this. Like... everybody.
Time for some free fantasy reads, including the first Changeling Race novel and the start of Kingdom's gone. Happy holiday reading! claims.prolificworks.com/gg/5H907Smp3...
Summon the Magic: Fantasy Group Giveaway
It’s time to find your new favorite author! This Group Giveaway is hosted by the Prolific Works team and features books you won’t want to miss. Claim as many as you’d like and enjoy your new reads!
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December 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Time for some free fantasy reads, including the first Changeling Race novel and the start of Kingdom's gone. Happy holiday reading! claims.prolificworks.com/gg/5H907Smp3...
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I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I finally got around to reading this. You should read it too.
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
"We are exporting the very labor of teaching and learning—the slow work of wrestling with ideas, the enduring of discomfort, doubt and confusion, the struggle of finding one’s own voice."
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
This is quite clever and, in my experience, accurate.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
December 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This is quite clever and, in my experience, accurate.
Wholesomeness. Enjoy
❄️❤️ THANK YOU!
Snow Bear has passed 85,000 views in just over a day.
I was teaching a workshop all day so I'm just catching up on all your amazing messages…
You’re incredible. 🙏🐻❄️
Watch here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xOXolSQcEb4
Snow Bear has passed 85,000 views in just over a day.
I was teaching a workshop all day so I'm just catching up on all your amazing messages…
You’re incredible. 🙏🐻❄️
Watch here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=xOXolSQcEb4
SNOW BEAR - A Hand-Drawn Animated Short Film (4K) by Aaron Blaise
🎬 *SNOW BEAR – Finally FREE For Everyone!*🐻❄️ *SNOW BEAR – THE CARD GAME (KICKSTARTER LAUNCH)* https://bit.ly/4isMd20*Snow Bear is a hand-drawn animated s...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Wholesomeness. Enjoy
This is horrific.
This is just..... Wow.
chat are we cooked
November 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
This is horrific.