Elly Blake
@ellyblake.bsky.social
🇨🇦 NYT bestselling author of the Frostblood Saga. ❄️THE FOREST KING’S DAUGHTER, the first book in the Thirstwood series, is out now! 🍂
The bots are not ok
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The bots are not ok
I have to share something that made my week. 😊 The Cursed Queen’s Daughter is getting a special edition with sprayed edges! 🦋
Available for pre-order www.bookishsignsandmore.com
“A forest princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.” 🦋
Available for pre-order www.bookishsignsandmore.com
“A forest princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.” 🦋
October 4, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I have to share something that made my week. 😊 The Cursed Queen’s Daughter is getting a special edition with sprayed edges! 🦋
Available for pre-order www.bookishsignsandmore.com
“A forest princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.” 🦋
Available for pre-order www.bookishsignsandmore.com
“A forest princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.” 🦋
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Is now a good time to remind folk of the "Three Sentence Review"? #BookSky
We used this on the little shelfcards in the bookstore when my booksellers were stuck—they could hand-sell like mad, but writing a review often stalled them out. This worked.
(Any tropes are a great answer to #1, btw.)
We used this on the little shelfcards in the bookstore when my booksellers were stuck—they could hand-sell like mad, but writing a review often stalled them out. This worked.
(Any tropes are a great answer to #1, btw.)
September 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Is now a good time to remind folk of the "Three Sentence Review"? #BookSky
We used this on the little shelfcards in the bookstore when my booksellers were stuck—they could hand-sell like mad, but writing a review often stalled them out. This worked.
(Any tropes are a great answer to #1, btw.)
We used this on the little shelfcards in the bookstore when my booksellers were stuck—they could hand-sell like mad, but writing a review often stalled them out. This worked.
(Any tropes are a great answer to #1, btw.)
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In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about lead poisoning, the less likely they are eat paint chips for a snack.
July 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about lead poisoning, the less likely they are eat paint chips for a snack.
If you've been thinking of pre-ordering The Cursed Queen's Daughter, now is a great time!
BN pre-order sale from July 8-11. 25% off any preorder!
A warrior princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cursed...
BN pre-order sale from July 8-11. 25% off any preorder!
A warrior princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cursed...
July 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
If you've been thinking of pre-ordering The Cursed Queen's Daughter, now is a great time!
BN pre-order sale from July 8-11. 25% off any preorder!
A warrior princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cursed...
BN pre-order sale from July 8-11. 25% off any preorder!
A warrior princess falls for a shadow prince in this darkly romantic companion to The Forest King’s Daughter.
www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-cursed...
There is a site obviously created by AI that is pretending to be a continuation of Pitch Wars. It is not, has nothing to do with anyone involved in #pitchwars, and looks quite scammy. Please beware & tell your friends.
@brendadrake.bsky.social @kellyekell.bsky.social @authorsoniahartl.bsky.social
@brendadrake.bsky.social @kellyekell.bsky.social @authorsoniahartl.bsky.social
June 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
June 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.
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once again I must tap my own sign
June 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
once again I must tap my own sign
If you’re up for some YA fantasy with romance, Indigo has a 20% off sale on their picks for Best of the Year So Far, and they’ve included The Forest King’s Daughter!🍂
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-fo...
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-fo...
June 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
If you’re up for some YA fantasy with romance, Indigo has a 20% off sale on their picks for Best of the Year So Far, and they’ve included The Forest King’s Daughter!🍂
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-fo...
www.indigo.ca/en-ca/the-fo...
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If I created an investment fund and promised 300% returns but instead spent your money buying yachts, I'd go to jail.
Yet there are so many dudebros telling me that when ChatGPT spouts total bullshit the problem isn't OpenAI marketing it as a knowledge engine, it's the users who believe it.
Yet there are so many dudebros telling me that when ChatGPT spouts total bullshit the problem isn't OpenAI marketing it as a knowledge engine, it's the users who believe it.
June 4, 2025 at 5:56 AM
If I created an investment fund and promised 300% returns but instead spent your money buying yachts, I'd go to jail.
Yet there are so many dudebros telling me that when ChatGPT spouts total bullshit the problem isn't OpenAI marketing it as a knowledge engine, it's the users who believe it.
Yet there are so many dudebros telling me that when ChatGPT spouts total bullshit the problem isn't OpenAI marketing it as a knowledge engine, it's the users who believe it.
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Said some more stuff about AI, particularly that whole "hey we let it make up a bunch of fake books and then we published that list of fake books in the real world as part of a newspaper" thing. At the blog. Enjoy! Or don't! I'm not your boss.
Repeat After Me: AI Doesn’t Know Anything
Yesterday, the Chicago Sun-Times (and then also the Philly Inquirer) published an issue of their newspaper that included an insert about fun summer things, and in that was a list of fifteen great s…
terribleminds.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Said some more stuff about AI, particularly that whole "hey we let it make up a bunch of fake books and then we published that list of fake books in the real world as part of a newspaper" thing. At the blog. Enjoy! Or don't! I'm not your boss.
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In breaking news, books are the must-have accessory this season*.
*and every season 😍
*and every season 😍
May 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
In breaking news, books are the must-have accessory this season*.
*and every season 😍
*and every season 😍
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It would be wildly foolish it is to rely on any sort of AI to make decisions in tense international situations.
But using an LLM to do so is terrifyingly stupid. It's a category error to think that a machine designed to generate plausible text would be good at reasoning about existential risk.
But using an LLM to do so is terrifyingly stupid. It's a category error to think that a machine designed to generate plausible text would be good at reasoning about existential risk.
Is AI the future of America's foreign policy? Some experts think so
Large language models like ChatGPT and DeepSeek are increasingly being looked at for their potential to help make decisions in high-stakes situations.
www.npr.org
May 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It would be wildly foolish it is to rely on any sort of AI to make decisions in tense international situations.
But using an LLM to do so is terrifyingly stupid. It's a category error to think that a machine designed to generate plausible text would be good at reasoning about existential risk.
But using an LLM to do so is terrifyingly stupid. It's a category error to think that a machine designed to generate plausible text would be good at reasoning about existential risk.
This cute pup is my companion as I write, but if I spend too much time writing she makes noises at me until I take a break to cuddle her. Then she falls asleep on me and it feels too good to move and I don’t get any more writing done.
Not complaining though. 🐶🫶
Not complaining though. 🐶🫶
May 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
This cute pup is my companion as I write, but if I spend too much time writing she makes noises at me until I take a break to cuddle her. Then she falls asleep on me and it feels too good to move and I don’t get any more writing done.
Not complaining though. 🐶🫶
Not complaining though. 🐶🫶
I’m in love with this crown I bought at Grimsby Books in Grimsby, Ontario. 😍 Looks so pretty on a book stack!
May 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I’m in love with this crown I bought at Grimsby Books in Grimsby, Ontario. 😍 Looks so pretty on a book stack!
We’ve had our new rescue dog Betsy for 8 months now, and it’s still so fulfilling to see her run. I don’t think she had the opportunity to run or even walk much in her previous life. Makes me so happy that she’s happy. 🥹
May 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
We’ve had our new rescue dog Betsy for 8 months now, and it’s still so fulfilling to see her run. I don’t think she had the opportunity to run or even walk much in her previous life. Makes me so happy that she’s happy. 🥹
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On a recent flight my seatmates learned I was a writer and asked my opinion on AI. They didn't understand genAI is based on work stolen from authors, and they DEFINITELY didn't know about the energy costs. Both shocked them. People just don't know.
Info on its energy gobbling should be in every news story about AI. It is newsworthy. It is inseparable from the tech itself.
It's all fun and games until …
"Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
"Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
April 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
On a recent flight my seatmates learned I was a writer and asked my opinion on AI. They didn't understand genAI is based on work stolen from authors, and they DEFINITELY didn't know about the energy costs. Both shocked them. People just don't know.
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Having a dog ain't hard. She just needs food, water, shelter, AND MY CONSTANT, UNDIVIDED ATTENTION AT THE COST OF MY SANITY
April 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Having a dog ain't hard. She just needs food, water, shelter, AND MY CONSTANT, UNDIVIDED ATTENTION AT THE COST OF MY SANITY
I’m sick with anger. I did not consent to my books being used to train a plagiarism machine, and yet they were. This was a violation, full stop.
For @vanityfair.com, I wrote about Meta's defense of training its AI on millions of pirated books, including: they didn't read the pirated copies, it would be annoying to license them, and they don't think the books are individually worth anything to them, anyway. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value”
As more than a dozen lawsuits churn ahead, newly unsealed case files reveal the company’s stance: The pirated books Meta used to train its AI, including ones by Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Woodson, and...
www.vanityfair.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I’m sick with anger. I did not consent to my books being used to train a plagiarism machine, and yet they were. This was a violation, full stop.
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"Those who have drank the AI Kool-Aid don't understand that all this brainstorming and iteration *is* making the game, it’s a crucial everyday part of game development (and human interaction) and is not a problem to be solved.”
Even from my perch inside gamedev, I had no idea it was already this bad. The rot is spreading. A necessary, sobering read. (gift link)
‘An Overwhelmingly Negative And Demoralizing Force’: What It’s Like Working For A Company That’s Forcing AI On Its Developers - Aftermath
'I have had conversations about AI in a professional context that make me want to walk into the sea'
aftermath.site
April 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"Those who have drank the AI Kool-Aid don't understand that all this brainstorming and iteration *is* making the game, it’s a crucial everyday part of game development (and human interaction) and is not a problem to be solved.”
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We've been writing all these futures where civilization falls because AI gets too smart and rises up, but it turns out AI is very stupid and civilization falls because we used it for important stuff anyway
the "identify how many Rs in the word strawberry" department is sitting pretty
Shopify CEO says staffers need to prove jobs can't be done by AI before asking for more headcount
Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke told employees in a memo that artificial intelligence is making its way across the company, including when it comes to hiring.
www.cnbc.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
We've been writing all these futures where civilization falls because AI gets too smart and rises up, but it turns out AI is very stupid and civilization falls because we used it for important stuff anyway
Seeing pics from the Hands Off protests is so uplifting! Thank you from Canada! ❤️
April 5, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Seeing pics from the Hands Off protests is so uplifting! Thank you from Canada! ❤️
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Good neighbours. Always. 🇨🇦🇺🇲
March 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Good neighbours. Always. 🇨🇦🇺🇲
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Apparently this needs to be very, very clear: Canadians are polite, not stupid.
Tesla reported 8,600 sales in 3 days, claiming $43 million in rebates. A single Toronto dealership listed 1,200 sales in a DAY. 🙄
www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/0...
The lies aren’t even plausible.
Tesla reported 8,600 sales in 3 days, claiming $43 million in rebates. A single Toronto dealership listed 1,200 sales in a DAY. 🙄
www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/0...
The lies aren’t even plausible.
CTV National News: A suspicious spike in Tesla sales in Canada
There was a suspicious spike in Tesla sales in Canada ahead of the deadline for a federal rebate program for EVs. Adrian Ghobrial investigates.
www.ctvnews.ca
March 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Apparently this needs to be very, very clear: Canadians are polite, not stupid.
Tesla reported 8,600 sales in 3 days, claiming $43 million in rebates. A single Toronto dealership listed 1,200 sales in a DAY. 🙄
www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/0...
The lies aren’t even plausible.
Tesla reported 8,600 sales in 3 days, claiming $43 million in rebates. A single Toronto dealership listed 1,200 sales in a DAY. 🙄
www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/0...
The lies aren’t even plausible.