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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations Jenny!!!!!

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · 11d

Happy birthday 🎉

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · 15d

oh my god I love this 😅

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · 23d

I feel like we’re in the middle of a natural disaster that will only devastate specific groups while other groups complain about how inconvenient the humidity is from the comfort of their lifeboats

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · 27d

If you have a job, now is the time to hold onto it. I help employees with severance agreements, noncompetes, etc., and there's been a huge uptick in people needing that kind of legal work over the past two months. I've signed waaaaay more clients than usual. The economy is bad.

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · 29d

Congratulations! This sounds awesome!

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 29d

Fancy some #FridayFun?

Here are Solaris' recs for #SapphicSeptember! From Scifi heists & cons to alluring housekeepers & vulnerable brides in crumbling Scottish mansions, regency romantasy to anarchist fantasy, vampirates & wuxia rebels to blind space nuns, we've got it all!

Ft authors below👇
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The Authors Guild @authorsguild.org · Aug 29

Authors: If you found out that your publisher(s) failed to register with the U.S. Copyright Office, we can help. We provide ongoing legal assistance to our members and advocate for their work, particularly in the face of ongoing AI-related theft.

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · Aug 28

I am lightly horrified by how many people have now looked up their books and found out their publishers (who often were required contractually!!!!) just... didn't register the copyrights on books. Not all of them! Just sporadically!

This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.

Amy Jo (AJ) Cousins @ajcousins.bsky.social · Aug 28

Today is the day authors are learning how many of their publishers straight up blew off registering copyright and I feel like that deserves a class action suit of its own if it costs everyone their settlement money from the Anthropic suit... 😒🤬

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is wrongful death. There is no legal reason for Open AI to avoid liability here.

Whey Standard @wheystandard.bsky.social · Aug 26

Holy fucking shit

Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his
parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him
"[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · Aug 22

What's your favorite book you've read this year?

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Essa Hansen @essahansen.bsky.social · Aug 14

My hardcover copies arrived! Here's a lil tour

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · Aug 11

Congratulations!!!

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · Aug 7

How do you know when a book idea is really good.

For me, it’s literally like a lightbulb goes when I hear certain words get combined. It’s not an image, but the words themselves.

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · Aug 2

Do we really need 50+ books each season that are in the same subgenre? When we beat these trends into the ground it makes for such a confusing landscape where people stumble from one popular thing to another without developing their own tastes/preferences.

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · Aug 2

What I find strange about writing and reading habits is that we've given up on the idea of variety. Readers (and publishers) are so focused on things that feel the same instead of things that feel new. This is accelerated by the push to chase virality and trends.

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · Jul 29

Congratulations Mia!!!!

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · Jul 25

Ugh.

My doctor has requested more blood tests. My veins are really hoping this will be it, but finding final answers for my ongoing issues is taking forever.

If you could throw a few bucks my way, I'd be grateful. I'm at 95% of my goal. Thank you & please boost!

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Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · Jul 21

It's a stand alone book :)

Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · Jul 20

I think we underestimate how hard it is to write about complex topics when you know your manuscript is going to someone who may have no familiarity with that topic. How do I build this entire infrastructure for a novel when the reader has no foundation.

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · Jul 17

Apparently yesterday was #internationalsnakeday?

This seems like a perfect point to remind you of @meredithmooring.bsky.social 's REDSIGHT, a sapphic science fantasy brimming with blood magic, space-pirates, priestesses and, you guessed it, GIANT SNAKES.

Buy now: geni.us/Redsight

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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · Jul 16

I just found out that it's #WorldSnakeDay, so I *had* to pull a stack together real quick: some faves redolent with reptiles from deep space to my own backyard. I prefer a serpent to a rat, but I'm happiest when they're safe between the pages. How bout y'all? What are your favorite bookish snakes?

A stack of books (bottom to top): EXORDIA by Seth Dickinson, THE UNSPOKEN NAME by A.K. Larkwood, MOTHEATER by Lin Codega, THE TROPIC OF SERPENTS by Marie Brennan, TWO SERPENTS RISE by Max Gladstone, LET THE MOUNTAINS BE MY GRAVE by Francesca Tacchi, IF FOUND RETURN TO HELL by Em X. Liu, REDSIGHT by Meredith Mooring

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · Jul 13

It’s weird to cancel Dostoyevsky in the year 2025. Most classics were written by flawed people. That doesn’t mean their work is without all value as a piece of literature.

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · Jul 13

Congratulations 🎉

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · Jul 12

And I explained it has to be internally driven. Sometimes I forget how different this is from every other job out there.

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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · Jul 12

It’s very possible (and not unheard of) to have no idea why your agent signed you, or why your book got acquired, or to have an answer of any kind for whether your book met expectations. He asked: so how do you know if you’re improving? How do you keep going?

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