Katy Summers
@katysummersauthor.bsky.social
She/they | Over caffeinated cat butler and autistic author my RomCom debut novel “Love, Rebooted” out now on Audible. | Repped by Emily Glenister at DHH Literary | RNA NWS 2024
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I guess now's a good time to remind publishers that AI-generated material is not copyrightable. The author can use it to generate ideas, but the material must substantially be created by a human. So, good luck with making money off those 1,000 books a year.
Meet the startup, backed by big Silicon Valley investors, Macmillan's owner, and former HarperCollins and Penguin execs, that wants authors to "just spitball a few bullet points" to get AI to write books — "and then suddenly each author is writing 1,000 books." 👀 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
The Romance Publisher Dreaming of an AI-Driven Dynasty
Inkitt has influential backers and a vision for infinitely customizable on-demand content. What would be left for the human creators?
www.bloomberg.com
April 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I guess now's a good time to remind publishers that AI-generated material is not copyrightable. The author can use it to generate ideas, but the material must substantially be created by a human. So, good luck with making money off those 1,000 books a year.
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"Good #access should be the norm, not the exception.
The Inklusion Guide is here to help with that: a free, kickass guide to making literature events accessible for #disabled people" Equally relevant for all event organisers. A #MustRead: useful, clear & important
www.inklusionguide.org #Disability
The Inklusion Guide is here to help with that: a free, kickass guide to making literature events accessible for #disabled people" Equally relevant for all event organisers. A #MustRead: useful, clear & important
www.inklusionguide.org #Disability
Inklusion
www.inklusionguide.org
April 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"Good #access should be the norm, not the exception.
The Inklusion Guide is here to help with that: a free, kickass guide to making literature events accessible for #disabled people" Equally relevant for all event organisers. A #MustRead: useful, clear & important
www.inklusionguide.org #Disability
The Inklusion Guide is here to help with that: a free, kickass guide to making literature events accessible for #disabled people" Equally relevant for all event organisers. A #MustRead: useful, clear & important
www.inklusionguide.org #Disability
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Books with Autistic characters, written by Autistic authors. Published March 2025.
April 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Books with Autistic characters, written by Autistic authors. Published March 2025.
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📚 Buy a trans person a book! 📚
It's Trans Day of Visibility on the 31st but trans people don't need just visibility, they need better human rights, and nice treats. Get someone a treat, and then fight alongside them.
penfightdistro.com/product-cate...
(please share 💗)
It's Trans Day of Visibility on the 31st but trans people don't need just visibility, they need better human rights, and nice treats. Get someone a treat, and then fight alongside them.
penfightdistro.com/product-cate...
(please share 💗)
March 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM
📚 Buy a trans person a book! 📚
It's Trans Day of Visibility on the 31st but trans people don't need just visibility, they need better human rights, and nice treats. Get someone a treat, and then fight alongside them.
penfightdistro.com/product-cate...
(please share 💗)
It's Trans Day of Visibility on the 31st but trans people don't need just visibility, they need better human rights, and nice treats. Get someone a treat, and then fight alongside them.
penfightdistro.com/product-cate...
(please share 💗)
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Who knew the possibility of a US book tour could be so nerve-wracking? With shifting visa rules and authors being sent home on arrival, is it worth the risk? I’m sharing my thoughts and asking, ‘Are you still booking that flight?’
nadinematheson.substack.com/p/passport-p...
nadinematheson.substack.com/p/passport-p...
Passport Pandemonium: My Guide To U.S. Book Tours
Are you ready for your next American adventure?
nadinematheson.substack.com
March 24, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Who knew the possibility of a US book tour could be so nerve-wracking? With shifting visa rules and authors being sent home on arrival, is it worth the risk? I’m sharing my thoughts and asking, ‘Are you still booking that flight?’
nadinematheson.substack.com/p/passport-p...
nadinematheson.substack.com/p/passport-p...
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Me and countless other authors today…😂
March 22, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Me and countless other authors today…😂
I’ve received my first review on Audible for my book Love, Rebooted and I am crying. My one wish was to help even one person feel seen. There have been tears.
#Romancelandia #BookSky #ActuallyAutistic #WomenInStem #Neurodivergent #autism
#Romancelandia #BookSky #ActuallyAutistic #WomenInStem #Neurodivergent #autism
March 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I’ve received my first review on Audible for my book Love, Rebooted and I am crying. My one wish was to help even one person feel seen. There have been tears.
#Romancelandia #BookSky #ActuallyAutistic #WomenInStem #Neurodivergent #autism
#Romancelandia #BookSky #ActuallyAutistic #WomenInStem #Neurodivergent #autism
The gorgeous narrators of my book, Love, Rebooted discussing it, and many other things in this video. Gosh I couldn’t be happier having Emily Atack and Stuart Martin play Liv and Finn - they are both SO PERFECT.
youtu.be/Q3d774mO4Kk?...
youtu.be/Q3d774mO4Kk?...
Emily Atack & Stuart Martin obsess over Andrew Scott, Accents & Love Rebooted 😉🥵 | Audible UK
YouTube video by Audible UK
youtu.be
March 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
The gorgeous narrators of my book, Love, Rebooted discussing it, and many other things in this video. Gosh I couldn’t be happier having Emily Atack and Stuart Martin play Liv and Finn - they are both SO PERFECT.
youtu.be/Q3d774mO4Kk?...
youtu.be/Q3d774mO4Kk?...
So happy that it’s publication day for my debut novel “Love, Rebooted” - available today as an Audible Original narrated by the gorgeous Emily Atack and Stuart Martin. This book was a joy to write
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F1NGKHN...
#Romanclandia
#AuthorSky
#WritingCommunity
#ActuallyAutistic
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F1NGKHN...
#Romanclandia
#AuthorSky
#WritingCommunity
#ActuallyAutistic
March 20, 2025 at 12:51 PM
So happy that it’s publication day for my debut novel “Love, Rebooted” - available today as an Audible Original narrated by the gorgeous Emily Atack and Stuart Martin. This book was a joy to write
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F1NGKHN...
#Romanclandia
#AuthorSky
#WritingCommunity
#ActuallyAutistic
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0F1NGKHN...
#Romanclandia
#AuthorSky
#WritingCommunity
#ActuallyAutistic
Just finished My Big Fat Fake Marriage by @charlottestein.bsky.social and what a treat it is!!! Featuring the sweetest, spiciest cinnamon roll you could ever hope to find. Wonderfully funny, so well written and a joy to read.
March 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Just finished My Big Fat Fake Marriage by @charlottestein.bsky.social and what a treat it is!!! Featuring the sweetest, spiciest cinnamon roll you could ever hope to find. Wonderfully funny, so well written and a joy to read.
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Pinterest updated their terms of use and they're going to use all of the content you saved to train their AI.
Go to options > your privacy rights > disable GenAI
Please do it 🫠
Go to options > your privacy rights > disable GenAI
Please do it 🫠
March 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Pinterest updated their terms of use and they're going to use all of the content you saved to train their AI.
Go to options > your privacy rights > disable GenAI
Please do it 🫠
Go to options > your privacy rights > disable GenAI
Please do it 🫠
The time has come to break the seal on book two in my series. Did I spend this morning creating a wholly unnecessary spreadsheet to track my progress? Yes. Am I still a ridiculous pantser who doesn’t think they can write? Yes! But I’ve done it before, so I can do it again. #Author #Romancelandia
February 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The time has come to break the seal on book two in my series. Did I spend this morning creating a wholly unnecessary spreadsheet to track my progress? Yes. Am I still a ridiculous pantser who doesn’t think they can write? Yes! But I’ve done it before, so I can do it again. #Author #Romancelandia
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Speak up for trans people every single day, especially to your shithead friends and relatives and especially when it’s awkward. Make it your business to make it awkward.
February 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Speak up for trans people every single day, especially to your shithead friends and relatives and especially when it’s awkward. Make it your business to make it awkward.
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If you're listening out for the winds of resistance, the folks at the Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social are worth following
February 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
If you're listening out for the winds of resistance, the folks at the Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social are worth following
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Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
February 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
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This bill in OK is exactly what Project 2025 threatened: to make all pornography illegal, and criminalize the people who make it, using a WILDLY broad definition of pornography, which would include any book with sex in it.
We're talking jail time for romance authors.
oksenate.gov/press-releas...
We're talking jail time for romance authors.
oksenate.gov/press-releas...
Deevers Introduces Slate of Legislation to Restore Moral Sanity in Oklahoma | Oklahoma Senate
OKLAHOMA CITY — Sen. Dusty Deevers, R-Elgin, announced on Tuesday a bold slate of eight legislative measures aimed at restoring moral sanity in Oklahoma.
oksenate.gov
February 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
This bill in OK is exactly what Project 2025 threatened: to make all pornography illegal, and criminalize the people who make it, using a WILDLY broad definition of pornography, which would include any book with sex in it.
We're talking jail time for romance authors.
oksenate.gov/press-releas...
We're talking jail time for romance authors.
oksenate.gov/press-releas...
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hey quick question does Goliath win in that story
February 2, 2025 at 6:06 PM
hey quick question does Goliath win in that story
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Where's that post about what advice you'd give to yourself if you could go back in time? Because it's "Woman, do not get rid of your CDs and DVDs. Around 15 years from now, you're going to get very cross about having to rent the things you love, assuming they're available. Save yourself the trauma."
February 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Where's that post about what advice you'd give to yourself if you could go back in time? Because it's "Woman, do not get rid of your CDs and DVDs. Around 15 years from now, you're going to get very cross about having to rent the things you love, assuming they're available. Save yourself the trauma."
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OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
January 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
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To be an autistic woman is always feeling a little bit like a Sylvanian Family hamster that's landed in Barbie World
January 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
To be an autistic woman is always feeling a little bit like a Sylvanian Family hamster that's landed in Barbie World
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"Remind yourself constantly that no one gave you your identity, truth, or power, and no one can take them away without your permission." ⤵️
Dear Trans Kids, You Don't Need the Government's Permission to Exist
Activist and journalist Raquel Willis offers crucial advice to trans and nonbinary youth.
www.teenvogue.com
January 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
"Remind yourself constantly that no one gave you your identity, truth, or power, and no one can take them away without your permission." ⤵️
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And I'll keep saying it 📣📣
January 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
And I'll keep saying it 📣📣
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This is true! They give you a "discount" for driving traffic directly to your shop vs being found organically by folks searching!
99% of my sales are direct links I posted somewhere. 😂
99% of my sales are direct links I posted somewhere. 😂
Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more
January 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This is true! They give you a "discount" for driving traffic directly to your shop vs being found organically by folks searching!
99% of my sales are direct links I posted somewhere. 😂
99% of my sales are direct links I posted somewhere. 😂
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Gonna put some more fire on this take.
Many publishers are not manually going through each and every review when they are looking at reviews to determine if they want to re-sign an author or acquire an author previously published elsewhere. They just see that Paige O'Woord's last book has a 3.5 on
Many publishers are not manually going through each and every review when they are looking at reviews to determine if they want to re-sign an author or acquire an author previously published elsewhere. They just see that Paige O'Woord's last book has a 3.5 on
I cannot emphasize how important it is to leave reviews for marginalized authors.
Fash and conservatives OFTEN leave negative reviews just to purposefully tank a book and give "validity" to their argument that "diverse books are badly written."
Fash and conservatives OFTEN leave negative reviews just to purposefully tank a book and give "validity" to their argument that "diverse books are badly written."
January 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Gonna put some more fire on this take.
Many publishers are not manually going through each and every review when they are looking at reviews to determine if they want to re-sign an author or acquire an author previously published elsewhere. They just see that Paige O'Woord's last book has a 3.5 on
Many publishers are not manually going through each and every review when they are looking at reviews to determine if they want to re-sign an author or acquire an author previously published elsewhere. They just see that Paige O'Woord's last book has a 3.5 on
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Please stop publishing on Substack.
Articles about substack’s nazi problem:
www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...
www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-a...
thehypothesis.substack.com/p/heres-why-...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
(Free link: archive.is/uyugO)
www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...
www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-a...
thehypothesis.substack.com/p/heres-why-...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
(Free link: archive.is/uyugO)
Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com
January 25, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Please stop publishing on Substack.