Apparently it’s #portfolioday… Hello! I love to illustrate spooky atmospheric scenes and places. Sometime I write stories too.

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I'm reposting as I'm interested in the answers too!

Here's a great example of how a collage can attract an audience. This popped up in my feed and caught my eye. The story kept its promise of wild girls and luscious prose

I'm planning to self publish a collection of my short stories but I'm very concerned by my UK government's proposal to allow AI to use even copyrighted materials for training. Anyone able to point me to advice over this? I don't know if publishing by KDP, for example, means my writing is open to AI.

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.

More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):

1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇

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Schools and families, check this out. I thoroughly enjoyed the one on the right. I must read the rest!

I'm going to try a Bluesky giveaway.
Don't know how it's going to go - but I'm giving all three of these books to a school or a family. Cozy crime for 9 - 13 year olds.
One winner, UK only.
To enter tell me something about Christmas that makes you happy.
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To celebrate the writing community here, I'm offering a free critique to unagented children's writers. I was helped by kind @amysparkes.bsky.social who mentored me. Like, share & follow with a gif that represents your ms. I'll crit a PB or chapter one of CB or MG. #kidsbooks
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Lullaby for the King is a beautifully illustrated, lyrical #picturebook that follows a variety of birds & animals as they travel to #Bethlehem with gifts for a newborn king 👑
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It’s time for Giveaway 28: #SpreadTheJoy - Today from Stephanie Gibeault is a PB MS critique. To win just comment below, and give this a repost.
All #giveaways will be open for a min of 24hrs
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It’s Giveaway 27: #SpreadTheJoy - Tonight from Analesa Fisher is a three chapter critique. To win just comment below and give this a repost.
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Get ready for Giveaway 15: #SpreadTheJoy - Tonight from Cynthia Timoti is a query and 10 page critique. To win just follow @cynthiatimoti.bsky.social, comment below, and give this a repost.
All #giveaways will be open for a min of 24hrs
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Hookland posts are always wonderfully eerie and imaginative.

Teapots or blankets?

In the summer I started thinking about a children's story in which a teapot flies round the world dispensing help and tea. But maybe a teapot means more to an adult than a child? Should I write about a flying blanket instead? A nice, fluffy one.

So I've finished a first draft novelette about someone spending lockdown in a haunted smallholding and reconnecting with her own creativity. No idea what to do with it next! I've written something I want to read rather than something that fits with what I do read.