Erica Monroe
@ericamonroe.bsky.social
A mom writing books with lots of history, love, and murder. It's all about the coffee and the rescue pets. She/her.
Many, many moons ago I used to do 1k/1hr sprints or shorter (I prefer shorter as I have the focus of a dying snail) at that blue bird place. Do people still do that here?
November 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Many, many moons ago I used to do 1k/1hr sprints or shorter (I prefer shorter as I have the focus of a dying snail) at that blue bird place. Do people still do that here?
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History is wilder than myth. 🌊 Enter to win Fire Sword and Sea, a novel of rebellion, survival, and the true pirates of the Caribbean. buff.ly/XML5yOu @harpercollins #book #historicalfiction
September 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
History is wilder than myth. 🌊 Enter to win Fire Sword and Sea, a novel of rebellion, survival, and the true pirates of the Caribbean. buff.ly/XML5yOu @harpercollins #book #historicalfiction
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Darlings! Who wants to see the cover of Offerings for Ordinary Gods, coming July 2026 from @clashbooks.bsky.social?
Spec horror ✔️
Mythic metaphors ✔️
Haunted cottage (or castle) read ✔️
Tarot cards✔️
Cover art by @katelanfoisy.bsky.social, btw!
Spec horror ✔️
Mythic metaphors ✔️
Haunted cottage (or castle) read ✔️
Tarot cards✔️
Cover art by @katelanfoisy.bsky.social, btw!
September 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Darlings! Who wants to see the cover of Offerings for Ordinary Gods, coming July 2026 from @clashbooks.bsky.social?
Spec horror ✔️
Mythic metaphors ✔️
Haunted cottage (or castle) read ✔️
Tarot cards✔️
Cover art by @katelanfoisy.bsky.social, btw!
Spec horror ✔️
Mythic metaphors ✔️
Haunted cottage (or castle) read ✔️
Tarot cards✔️
Cover art by @katelanfoisy.bsky.social, btw!
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Who wants preorder links?
BN: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/offerings-...
@mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social :
www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9781968...
@goldennotebkbooks.bsky.social: goldennotebook.com/book/9781968...
@oblongbooks.bsky.social: www.oblongbooks.com/book/9781968...
BN: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/offerings-...
@mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social :
www.mystgalaxy.com/book/9781968...
@goldennotebkbooks.bsky.social: goldennotebook.com/book/9781968...
@oblongbooks.bsky.social: www.oblongbooks.com/book/9781968...
ICYMI, Offerings for Ordinary Gods has a COVER! I love it so, so much.
Also? You can preorder it! BN, Walmart, Bookshop.org, your local favorite bookstore! Some of mine are: @goldennotebkbooks.bsky.social , @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social, @oblongbooks.bsky.social, and Inkwood NJ, which isn't on here!
Also? You can preorder it! BN, Walmart, Bookshop.org, your local favorite bookstore! Some of mine are: @goldennotebkbooks.bsky.social , @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social, @oblongbooks.bsky.social, and Inkwood NJ, which isn't on here!
Darlings! Who wants to see the cover of Offerings for Ordinary Gods, coming July 2026 from @clashbooks.bsky.social?
Spec horror ✔️
Mythic metaphors ✔️
Haunted cottage (or castle) read ✔️
Tarot cards✔️
Cover art by @katelanfoisy.bsky.social, btw!
Spec horror ✔️
Mythic metaphors ✔️
Haunted cottage (or castle) read ✔️
Tarot cards✔️
Cover art by @katelanfoisy.bsky.social, btw!
September 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Isobel Carr has been so incredibly kind to me throughout my years of publishing. I'm so grateful I got a chance to know her - a true force of nature. Please, if you can, donate. She has done so much for so many people.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-krist...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-krist...
Donate to Help Kristie Care for Her Bestie During Cancer Treatment, organized by Kristie Raycroft
Caregiver Support Fund for Kristie Raycroft
Hello ever… Kristie Raycroft needs your support for Help Kristie Care for Her Bestie During Cancer Treatment
www.gofundme.com
September 5, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Isobel Carr has been so incredibly kind to me throughout my years of publishing. I'm so grateful I got a chance to know her - a true force of nature. Please, if you can, donate. She has done so much for so many people.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-krist...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-krist...
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So much of the “promise” of AI right now is saving time creating.
Let me say it from my chest: all I want is to spend *more* time creating. I’m not making content. I’m engaging in my vocation, my calling, my literal reason for existing.
Let me say it from my chest: all I want is to spend *more* time creating. I’m not making content. I’m engaging in my vocation, my calling, my literal reason for existing.
June 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
So much of the “promise” of AI right now is saving time creating.
Let me say it from my chest: all I want is to spend *more* time creating. I’m not making content. I’m engaging in my vocation, my calling, my literal reason for existing.
Let me say it from my chest: all I want is to spend *more* time creating. I’m not making content. I’m engaging in my vocation, my calling, my literal reason for existing.
Oh look, we have found me as a patient 😹😹😹😹😹😹😹
May 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Oh look, we have found me as a patient 😹😹😹😹😹😹😹
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Just a reminder that ChatGPT is AI and is draining resources.
May 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Just a reminder that ChatGPT is AI and is draining resources.
This guy fascinates me (no one is surprised 😹)
Jonathan Wild died #OTD 1725. London’s C18th crime king controlled gangs of crooks, laundered stolen goods and handed over criminals to authorities for reward. But would the authorities catch up with him? Hear the story in our Newgate Jail Podcast: tinyurl.com/e9mevfez #history #london #crime
May 24, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This guy fascinates me (no one is surprised 😹)
Jane Austen influencing everything down to how you style your bangs/fringe.
www.vogue.com/article/jane...
www.vogue.com/article/jane...
Move Over Curtain Bangs, This Spring It’s All About Jane Austen Bangs
www.vogue.com
April 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Jane Austen influencing everything down to how you style your bangs/fringe.
www.vogue.com/article/jane...
www.vogue.com/article/jane...
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Some beautiful boxing photos on The Times website today!
More on Sugar Goodson and the ALLEGED (😜) Prize Fight in A Chapel on my blog for #AThousandBlows fans, and LOTS more to come in the book... 😅👩🏻💻
grapplingwithhistory.com/2024/10/07/h...
More on Sugar Goodson and the ALLEGED (😜) Prize Fight in A Chapel on my blog for #AThousandBlows fans, and LOTS more to come in the book... 😅👩🏻💻
grapplingwithhistory.com/2024/10/07/h...
March 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Some beautiful boxing photos on The Times website today!
More on Sugar Goodson and the ALLEGED (😜) Prize Fight in A Chapel on my blog for #AThousandBlows fans, and LOTS more to come in the book... 😅👩🏻💻
grapplingwithhistory.com/2024/10/07/h...
More on Sugar Goodson and the ALLEGED (😜) Prize Fight in A Chapel on my blog for #AThousandBlows fans, and LOTS more to come in the book... 😅👩🏻💻
grapplingwithhistory.com/2024/10/07/h...
Things that make you pause when listening to a historical podcast: "he then became acquainted with a woman named Maggot." Well, okay then. 😬 Jack Sheppard was famous for his multiple successful escapes from Newgate Prison, but ultimately did meet his end at the hangman's noose.
March 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Things that make you pause when listening to a historical podcast: "he then became acquainted with a woman named Maggot." Well, okay then. 😬 Jack Sheppard was famous for his multiple successful escapes from Newgate Prison, but ultimately did meet his end at the hangman's noose.
Awwwh sweet! Congrats, Lisa ❤️
Did y’all know that @laforesta1.bsky.social has a Bookbub going on for her first book? www.amazon.com/dp/B09Z4QP2K...
The Year of Cecily (From Sunset Park, With Love Book 1)
The Year of Cecily (From Sunset Park, With Love Book 1) - Kindle edition by Lin, Lisa. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Year of Cecily (From Sunset Park, With Love Book 1).
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March 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Awwwh sweet! Congrats, Lisa ❤️
This book sounds fantastic!
Excited, thrilled, delighted, tired, sweaty etc to be asked to contribute a chapter to forthcoming book Amazons of the Arena, an anthology of essays on women's wrestling! I'll be writing on Juno May, Antonio 'The Terrible Greek' Pierri, and the reception to larger female bodies in pro-wrestling 🤼♀️
March 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This book sounds fantastic!
I just filled this out and it was literally everything I've ever written including things not even available anymore
Authors, have you recently discovered your work was used without permission to train AI? This might not make a difference but has to be worth a try.
actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...
#authors #AI #bookpiracy #booksky #writers
actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...
#authors #AI #bookpiracy #booksky #writers
Tell AI Companies They Do Not Have the Right to Use Your Work
I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the Authors Guild's letter template to send your own.
actionnetwork.org
March 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I just filled this out and it was literally everything I've ever written including things not even available anymore
THIS. I've long catalogued as piracy as something that makes me grumpy but whatever, I'm not going to get anywhere with the battle. But seriously?! You, rich dude aplenty, had to take every single one of my books to train something intended to do my job in the worst way possible?
It's only when I realize that Meta has been using my work to train AI that I get pissed.
One of the richest men in the world needs to steal from me to make more money while training my inferior replacement?
That's precious. Really. Thanks heaps. Take my money. I don't need to eat.
#PAYTHEAUTHOR
One of the richest men in the world needs to steal from me to make more money while training my inferior replacement?
That's precious. Really. Thanks heaps. Take my money. I don't need to eat.
#PAYTHEAUTHOR
March 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
THIS. I've long catalogued as piracy as something that makes me grumpy but whatever, I'm not going to get anywhere with the battle. But seriously?! You, rich dude aplenty, had to take every single one of my books to train something intended to do my job in the worst way possible?
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Season Premiere of Mystery Files is now LIVE on YouTube! We cover perhaps the wackiest alien encounter of all time…
youtu.be/zh2D1n62G_o?...
youtu.be/zh2D1n62G_o?...
The Alien Encounter That Led To A Shootout • Mystery Files
YouTube video by Watcher
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March 21, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Season Premiere of Mystery Files is now LIVE on YouTube! We cover perhaps the wackiest alien encounter of all time…
youtu.be/zh2D1n62G_o?...
youtu.be/zh2D1n62G_o?...
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Bessie Coleman, the first Black Aviatrix, was denied entry to US flight schools. So she moved to France. Learned French and got her license there in 1922. (thx AOL.com)
March 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Bessie Coleman, the first Black Aviatrix, was denied entry to US flight schools. So she moved to France. Learned French and got her license there in 1922. (thx AOL.com)
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This week's post looks at Lambeth's interwar tenement blocks, built to house the poorer working class more cheaply and nearer to their place of work:
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March 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
This week's post looks at Lambeth's interwar tenement blocks, built to house the poorer working class more cheaply and nearer to their place of work:
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/lambeths-i...
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/lambeths-i...
Looks like every single one of my self pubbed works was used, and therefore were originally pirated to begin with. FFS.
Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions.
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Authors, search your name here:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Looks like every single one of my self pubbed works was used, and therefore were originally pirated to begin with. FFS.
Yeeeeppppp
Twits in the replies of another author going on about how we could potentially get paid when the LLM uses our work.
The writing was already STOLEN in the first place. They admit it. They also say they can't make their little plagiarism machine go brr without stealing.
The writing was already STOLEN in the first place. They admit it. They also say they can't make their little plagiarism machine go brr without stealing.
March 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Yeeeeppppp
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Between the Lines
A writer's life: a bit of this and that, but always coffee.
buttondown.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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My wish for all of us...
March 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
My wish for all of us...
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I am so sick of everything being filtered through a male lens. As a historian, I spend so much time sifting through obfuscation after obfuscation, only to see it accelerating in my own time.
March 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I am so sick of everything being filtered through a male lens. As a historian, I spend so much time sifting through obfuscation after obfuscation, only to see it accelerating in my own time.
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'Sorry, nobody down here but the FBI's most unwanted!' The words that started it all. 😍 👽 If you go by the on-screen time stamps in the Pilot, Mulder and Scully first met today March 6, 1992. buff.ly/FXf5JCK #TheXFiles
The X-Files - Scully meets Mulder for the first time [1x01 - Pilot]
The X-Files - Scully meets Mulder for the first time [1x01 - Pilot]
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March 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
'Sorry, nobody down here but the FBI's most unwanted!' The words that started it all. 😍 👽 If you go by the on-screen time stamps in the Pilot, Mulder and Scully first met today March 6, 1992. buff.ly/FXf5JCK #TheXFiles