Courtney Miller-Callihan
@millercallihan.bsky.social
Literary agent at Handspun Literary. She/her. Currently yelling about AI a lot. Every conversation comes back to crafting in some way.
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Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge).
You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
January 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Just FYI, administrative warrants (like the ones used by ICE) are not judicial warrants (used by cops, signed by a judge).
You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
You do NOT legally have to open the door for an ICE officer with an administrative warrant *no matter what the ICE officer says.*
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Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...
The Next Official #MSWL Day: February 12, 2025 – The Official Manuscript Wish List Website
manuscriptwishlist.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Hello Writing Community! We are delighted to announce our First Official Bluesky *** #MSWL Day *** February 12, 2025. 🎉🎉🎉
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...
Agents + editors can post what they ✨wish✨ they had in their inboxes; writers can find their next best fit for querying.
Learn more here: manuscriptwishlist.com/the-next-off...
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Anyone have a debut book coming out this spring? Tell me about it — it’d be nice to hear about something nice! Your first book only happens once, friend!
January 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Anyone have a debut book coming out this spring? Tell me about it — it’d be nice to hear about something nice! Your first book only happens once, friend!
today's installment: "malingering"
A fun thing about me is that even though my education is all humanities-based and I have worked a job for 20+ years where the top criterion is that you have to be good with words, I still have to look up a definition a minimum of once a day because what if I've been using it wrong this whole time.
December 12, 2024 at 9:43 PM
today's installment: "malingering"
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Alrighty, we broke. After a bunch of kicking and screaming, and the usual feet dragging that comes with joining a new form of social media, Handspun is now officially on Bluesky!
a cartoon character says hi in a dark room
ALT: a cartoon character says hi in a dark room
media.tenor.com
December 12, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Alrighty, we broke. After a bunch of kicking and screaming, and the usual feet dragging that comes with joining a new form of social media, Handspun is now officially on Bluesky!
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We love booksellers, but don’t do this.
Bookstores & sellers are the lifeblood of publishing, but this is a pretty terrible look. Folks, authors have 🅾️ control over the physical publication & distribution of our books. That's literally why we sell the rights to entities called publisher. Telling customers to direct vitriol at the author 🙄
November 2, 2023 at 12:54 PM
We love booksellers, but don’t do this.
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One thing I'm particularly pleased about re my career to date is having helped murder the rote habit of setting all non-English text in italics.
November 2, 2023 at 5:49 PM
One thing I'm particularly pleased about re my career to date is having helped murder the rote habit of setting all non-English text in italics.
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no time to explain, jump in the Haikubaru
November 1, 2023 at 3:24 PM
no time to explain, jump in the Haikubaru
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Mundane Halloween is back!
Today is the "Mundane Halloween" contest in Japan, sponsored by website
Daily Portalz
The idea is to dress up as something incredibly ordinary.
Here is a thread of some of my favorites from this year!
Today is the "Mundane Halloween" contest in Japan, sponsored by website
Daily Portalz
The idea is to dress up as something incredibly ordinary.
Here is a thread of some of my favorites from this year!
October 29, 2023 at 11:23 AM
Mundane Halloween is back!
Today is the "Mundane Halloween" contest in Japan, sponsored by website
Daily Portalz
The idea is to dress up as something incredibly ordinary.
Here is a thread of some of my favorites from this year!
Today is the "Mundane Halloween" contest in Japan, sponsored by website
Daily Portalz
The idea is to dress up as something incredibly ordinary.
Here is a thread of some of my favorites from this year!
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Here's the cover for Love Lies, and Cherry Pie! 😍🥧
Coming May 7, 2024 from Atria/Emily Bestler Books.
jackielaubooks.com/books/love-l...
Coming May 7, 2024 from Atria/Emily Bestler Books.
jackielaubooks.com/books/love-l...
October 23, 2023 at 5:51 PM
Here's the cover for Love Lies, and Cherry Pie! 😍🥧
Coming May 7, 2024 from Atria/Emily Bestler Books.
jackielaubooks.com/books/love-l...
Coming May 7, 2024 from Atria/Emily Bestler Books.
jackielaubooks.com/books/love-l...
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would love to abolish the notion that making your audience feel joy is inherently intellectually and artistically inferior to making them feel pain, a cheap and cynical attitude which poisons everything from misogynist disdain for romance to why it’s harder for comedies to win Best Picture
I saw a review of the new season that said it wasn’t good because it was too into fan service and should have taken more risks to upset fans and I was like……you deeply do not understand this show and should not be reviewing it.
October 23, 2023 at 3:35 AM
would love to abolish the notion that making your audience feel joy is inherently intellectually and artistically inferior to making them feel pain, a cheap and cynical attitude which poisons everything from misogynist disdain for romance to why it’s harder for comedies to win Best Picture
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Folks, look, Scholastic is only a billion-dollar juggernaut that dominates the children’s book industry. What are they supposed to do about fascist book banning and censorship in the face of 11 racists sending angry emails? Whatever they want because they literally can? C’mon. Be reasonable.
October 16, 2023 at 5:26 PM
Folks, look, Scholastic is only a billion-dollar juggernaut that dominates the children’s book industry. What are they supposed to do about fascist book banning and censorship in the face of 11 racists sending angry emails? Whatever they want because they literally can? C’mon. Be reasonable.
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In the hands of the biggest media corporations, the term 'diversity' has become a poison pill. A way to silo and minimize the contributions of the historically marginalized. There are *real* books and 'diverse' books, which you can safely ignore. At conferences, real panels and 'diverse' panels. Etc
Scholastic asks, "Do you want to opt out of 'diverse' books at your school's next book fair?" Your participation in white supremacy has never been easier, just uncheck the 'diverse' books box– poof, no problems. 🙄
Scholastic Under Fire for Allowing Schools to Opt Out of ‘Diverse Books’ for Book Fairs
Scholastic has been accused of bending to right-wing pressure, making having diverse books optional for school book fairs.
www.themarysue.com
October 9, 2023 at 5:28 PM
In the hands of the biggest media corporations, the term 'diversity' has become a poison pill. A way to silo and minimize the contributions of the historically marginalized. There are *real* books and 'diverse' books, which you can safely ignore. At conferences, real panels and 'diverse' panels. Etc
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Happy Indigenous People's day, the crimes of the conquistadors were known and recorded not just by their victims but by their cultural and linguistic contemporaries.
Catherine's tweet is one of the best. Bringing it over here for preservation.
October 9, 2023 at 12:58 PM
Happy Indigenous People's day, the crimes of the conquistadors were known and recorded not just by their victims but by their cultural and linguistic contemporaries.
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As WGA leaders meet today to finalize our deal, we begin a new era for writers — and for labor in our industry.
But we also begin to face the final and most insidious form of unionbusting propaganda: a years-long effort to sell the lie that our strike was not worth it.🧵
But we also begin to face the final and most insidious form of unionbusting propaganda: a years-long effort to sell the lie that our strike was not worth it.🧵
September 26, 2023 at 9:29 PM
As WGA leaders meet today to finalize our deal, we begin a new era for writers — and for labor in our industry.
But we also begin to face the final and most insidious form of unionbusting propaganda: a years-long effort to sell the lie that our strike was not worth it.🧵
But we also begin to face the final and most insidious form of unionbusting propaganda: a years-long effort to sell the lie that our strike was not worth it.🧵
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the next time an editor asks "are you sure you want [word] and not [more commonly used word in that context]?" I'm going to embellish my STET with "you wouldn't want people to think an AI wrote it, would you?" Write weird. Comprehensibly, vividly , humanly weird.
September 26, 2023 at 10:25 AM
the next time an editor asks "are you sure you want [word] and not [more commonly used word in that context]?" I'm going to embellish my STET with "you wouldn't want people to think an AI wrote it, would you?" Write weird. Comprehensibly, vividly , humanly weird.
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"But writing books all by myself is hard!"
YES. I KNOW.
YES. I KNOW.
September 26, 2023 at 5:18 PM
"But writing books all by myself is hard!"
YES. I KNOW.
YES. I KNOW.
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This is a great example of what I meant when I said "people co-opting the language of specific channels of professional or academic discussion into the public discourse" because we have AI dorks co-opting the language of social justice, of disability, of therapy to justify theft at scale.
I just saw the term 'creativity privilege' (from an AI lover, who else) and man, we're fully submerged in the era of intellectual dishonesty huh. Just, no empathy whatsoever, no thinking twice, full blown stupidity. Words don't have meanings anymore either. I'm so tired.
September 26, 2023 at 7:17 PM
This is a great example of what I meant when I said "people co-opting the language of specific channels of professional or academic discussion into the public discourse" because we have AI dorks co-opting the language of social justice, of disability, of therapy to justify theft at scale.
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I know others are also saying it, but a reminder that the WGA's tentative deal couldn't have happened without the support of other unions like SAG and IATSE. We should and will support them the same way they supported us.
September 25, 2023 at 5:00 PM
I know others are also saying it, but a reminder that the WGA's tentative deal couldn't have happened without the support of other unions like SAG and IATSE. We should and will support them the same way they supported us.
A fun thing about me is that even though my education is all humanities-based and I have worked a job for 20+ years where the top criterion is that you have to be good with words, I still have to look up a definition a minimum of once a day because what if I've been using it wrong this whole time.
September 21, 2023 at 5:57 PM
A fun thing about me is that even though my education is all humanities-based and I have worked a job for 20+ years where the top criterion is that you have to be good with words, I still have to look up a definition a minimum of once a day because what if I've been using it wrong this whole time.
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sure do feel some kind of way about the idea of writers going to work to help chatbots put other writers out of work
Most AI creative writing is… bad, so firms are on a spree hiring poets, novelists, and other humanities experts to try to fix it
Why Silicon Valley’s biggest AI developers are hiring poets
Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.
restofworld.org
September 21, 2023 at 1:35 PM
sure do feel some kind of way about the idea of writers going to work to help chatbots put other writers out of work
It used to be that I only struggled to tell the difference between real news and The Onion when I hadn't had enough sleep but
Sen. John Fetterman offers to wear a suit next week if House Republicans agree to prevent a government shutdown.
September 20, 2023 at 6:01 PM
It used to be that I only struggled to tell the difference between real news and The Onion when I hadn't had enough sleep but
YAY CHARLOTTE! I absolutely FLIPPED over just the sample pages for this-- I cannot wait till everyone gets to read this. 😍
Ok so remember how I’ve been saying for the past god knows how long that I’m working on something? And that it’s been my dream to write? And how a really exciting publishing thing happened?
Well, here it is. Yeah that’s right, I’m writing a spooky hot paranormal romance!
Well, here it is. Yeah that’s right, I’m writing a spooky hot paranormal romance!
September 20, 2023 at 5:56 PM
YAY CHARLOTTE! I absolutely FLIPPED over just the sample pages for this-- I cannot wait till everyone gets to read this. 😍