Lauren Taylor Bak
@laurentaylorbak.bsky.social
Speculative smut. 👉👈 Reader, writer, peddler.
https://laurentaylorbak.wordpress.com/ ♥ https://buymeacoffee.com/laurentaylorbak
https://laurentaylorbak.wordpress.com/ ♥ https://buymeacoffee.com/laurentaylorbak
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Save the Date! "Blood From Stone" is participating in the 2nd annual Sapphic Shelf Explosion with Year of Queer Lit on 2/26/26.
Over 220 sapphic (F/F) books across genres, styles, & vibes will be FREE or just $0.99 on February 26, 2026. Get ready to hulk out your TBR pile!
Over 220 sapphic (F/F) books across genres, styles, & vibes will be FREE or just $0.99 on February 26, 2026. Get ready to hulk out your TBR pile!
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#writingcommunity Everyone's championing Bookshop dot org as being different and kinder to authors... No, they're not.
Unfortunately they are blocking all erotica from distribution. Very sad to see a champion for indie bookstores take such a restrictive stance on fiction.
February 5, 2026 at 5:29 PM
#writingcommunity Everyone's championing Bookshop dot org as being different and kinder to authors... No, they're not.
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Unfortunately they are blocking all erotica from distribution. Very sad to see a champion for indie bookstores take such a restrictive stance on fiction.
February 4, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Unfortunately they are blocking all erotica from distribution. Very sad to see a champion for indie bookstores take such a restrictive stance on fiction.
Save the Date: The 2nd Annual Sapphic Shelf Explosion is on 2/26/26
One day. Hundreds of Sapphic stories. Explosions! (Maybe.) Mark your calendars! Get everything from cozy romance to dark queer horror (and everything in between) for FREE or $0.99. The shelves are stacked and the countdown…
One day. Hundreds of Sapphic stories. Explosions! (Maybe.) Mark your calendars! Get everything from cozy romance to dark queer horror (and everything in between) for FREE or $0.99. The shelves are stacked and the countdown…
Save the Date: The 2nd Annual Sapphic Shelf Explosion is on 2/26/26
One day. Hundreds of Sapphic stories. Explosions! (Maybe.) Mark your calendars! Get everything from cozy romance to dark queer horror (and everything in between) for FREE or $0.99. The shelves are stacked and the countdown has begun: The Year of Queer Lit Event, showcasing over 220 incredible Sapphic (F/F) books, is going down on February 26, 2026. My little novelette…
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January 28, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Save the Date: The 2nd Annual Sapphic Shelf Explosion is on 2/26/26
One day. Hundreds of Sapphic stories. Explosions! (Maybe.) Mark your calendars! Get everything from cozy romance to dark queer horror (and everything in between) for FREE or $0.99. The shelves are stacked and the countdown…
One day. Hundreds of Sapphic stories. Explosions! (Maybe.) Mark your calendars! Get everything from cozy romance to dark queer horror (and everything in between) for FREE or $0.99. The shelves are stacked and the countdown…
Save the Date! "Blood From Stone" is participating in the 2nd annual Sapphic Shelf Explosion with Year of Queer Lit on 2/26/26.
Over 220 sapphic (F/F) books across genres, styles, & vibes will be FREE or just $0.99 on February 26, 2026. Get ready to hulk out your TBR pile!
Over 220 sapphic (F/F) books across genres, styles, & vibes will be FREE or just $0.99 on February 26, 2026. Get ready to hulk out your TBR pile!
January 28, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Save the Date! "Blood From Stone" is participating in the 2nd annual Sapphic Shelf Explosion with Year of Queer Lit on 2/26/26.
Over 220 sapphic (F/F) books across genres, styles, & vibes will be FREE or just $0.99 on February 26, 2026. Get ready to hulk out your TBR pile!
Over 220 sapphic (F/F) books across genres, styles, & vibes will be FREE or just $0.99 on February 26, 2026. Get ready to hulk out your TBR pile!
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I like to think that most of what Miah reads can be divided into one of two categories:
The driest, most boring academic texts you can possibly imagine.
OR
Some of the raunchiest, most gratuitous kink filled smut ever written.
The driest, most boring academic texts you can possibly imagine.
OR
Some of the raunchiest, most gratuitous kink filled smut ever written.
January 14, 2026 at 6:15 PM
I like to think that most of what Miah reads can be divided into one of two categories:
The driest, most boring academic texts you can possibly imagine.
OR
Some of the raunchiest, most gratuitous kink filled smut ever written.
The driest, most boring academic texts you can possibly imagine.
OR
Some of the raunchiest, most gratuitous kink filled smut ever written.
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Disturbing but not surprising—more confirmation that LLMs are copying machines
We extracted (parts of) 12 books in experiments with 4 frontier-lab, production LLMs.
We prompted the LLMs with a short prefix of a book and asked them to complete the rest. For Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, we extracted 95.8% of the book from jailbroken Claude 3.7 Sonnet.
We prompted the LLMs with a short prefix of a book and asked them to complete the rest. For Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, we extracted 95.8% of the book from jailbroken Claude 3.7 Sonnet.
January 12, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Disturbing but not surprising—more confirmation that LLMs are copying machines
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Kaffy has a giant thread up and down. Read that first.
I wanted to just reconfirm what happened during the royalty dust up in March 2025 (in which the below screenshots from Emily are about). Regardless of what she says, here is what actually happened.
1. She posted what started it.
1/? lolsob
I wanted to just reconfirm what happened during the royalty dust up in March 2025 (in which the below screenshots from Emily are about). Regardless of what she says, here is what actually happened.
1. She posted what started it.
1/? lolsob
January 12, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Kaffy has a giant thread up and down. Read that first.
I wanted to just reconfirm what happened during the royalty dust up in March 2025 (in which the below screenshots from Emily are about). Regardless of what she says, here is what actually happened.
1. She posted what started it.
1/? lolsob
I wanted to just reconfirm what happened during the royalty dust up in March 2025 (in which the below screenshots from Emily are about). Regardless of what she says, here is what actually happened.
1. She posted what started it.
1/? lolsob
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The whole "Grok admits" "Grok apologizes" thing reminds me of the famous IBM presentation quote that evidently everyone has forgotten. And I do think representing your brand on social media counts as a "management decision".
January 2, 2026 at 11:54 PM
The whole "Grok admits" "Grok apologizes" thing reminds me of the famous IBM presentation quote that evidently everyone has forgotten. And I do think representing your brand on social media counts as a "management decision".
So long, 2025! a retrospective
On May 6, 2025, I hit “publish” on my very first post here and announced myself to the internet as a former academic turned speculative smut peddler. I had no idea what would happen next—only that I wanted to write weird, horny stories with bi wife energy.…
On May 6, 2025, I hit “publish” on my very first post here and announced myself to the internet as a former academic turned speculative smut peddler. I had no idea what would happen next—only that I wanted to write weird, horny stories with bi wife energy.…
So long, 2025! a retrospective
On May 6, 2025, I hit “publish” on my very first post here and announced myself to the internet as a former academic turned speculative smut peddler. I had no idea what would happen next—only that I wanted to write weird, horny stories with bi wife energy. Fast-forward to the end of the year, and somehow that wild impulse has turned into a debut F/F novelette, a stack of short stories in multiple crazy anthologies, a handful of private commissions, and an alarming body count of aliens, monsters, and emotionally unavailable weirdos.
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December 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
So long, 2025! a retrospective
On May 6, 2025, I hit “publish” on my very first post here and announced myself to the internet as a former academic turned speculative smut peddler. I had no idea what would happen next—only that I wanted to write weird, horny stories with bi wife energy.…
On May 6, 2025, I hit “publish” on my very first post here and announced myself to the internet as a former academic turned speculative smut peddler. I had no idea what would happen next—only that I wanted to write weird, horny stories with bi wife energy.…
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I think you should get weirder and freakier about their writing next year. Expel the thoughts of "is this too much? too strange? too out there?" fuck it, we ball. Break the ancient seal cast upon ye. Unleash the inner esoteric thing within clawing, begging to wreak creative havoc.
December 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I think you should get weirder and freakier about their writing next year. Expel the thoughts of "is this too much? too strange? too out there?" fuck it, we ball. Break the ancient seal cast upon ye. Unleash the inner esoteric thing within clawing, begging to wreak creative havoc.
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Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
December 15, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."
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Welcome to Day 6 of #TwelveDaysOfChristmas WCLF2026 reveals. @sachacoward.bsky.social is an historian who has run LGBTQ+ focused tours for museums, cemeteries, archives & cities around the world. Can't wait to hear Sacha talk about Queer As Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths & Monsters
December 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Welcome to Day 6 of #TwelveDaysOfChristmas WCLF2026 reveals. @sachacoward.bsky.social is an historian who has run LGBTQ+ focused tours for museums, cemeteries, archives & cities around the world. Can't wait to hear Sacha talk about Queer As Folklore: The Hidden Queer History of Myths & Monsters
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For Disability December, here are a collection of queer books with disabled main characters, or by disabled authors. (3/3)
December 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
For Disability December, here are a collection of queer books with disabled main characters, or by disabled authors. (3/3)
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Can I just mention that @laurentaylorbak.bsky.social is a fabulous editor. I haven't read her "speculative smut" yet, but she did wonders for my short story which needed some care and attention.
Lauren Taylor Bak (@laurentaylorbak.bsky.social)
Speculative smut. 👉👈 Reader, writer, peddler.
https://laurentaylorbak.wordpress.com/ ♥ https://buymeacoffee.com/laurentaylorbak
laurentaylorbak.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Can I just mention that @laurentaylorbak.bsky.social is a fabulous editor. I haven't read her "speculative smut" yet, but she did wonders for my short story which needed some care and attention.
Great list of indie pubs. Books make great gifts this holiday season!
I'll add two more:
@whitecitypress.bsky.social for mystery/crime books (fantastic anthologies!) whitecitypress.com/shop/
Nazca Press nazcapress.com/shop/ for horror/sci-fi.
Free worldwide shipping! Order ASAP for holidays!
I'll add two more:
@whitecitypress.bsky.social for mystery/crime books (fantastic anthologies!) whitecitypress.com/shop/
Nazca Press nazcapress.com/shop/ for horror/sci-fi.
Free worldwide shipping! Order ASAP for holidays!
December 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Great list of indie pubs. Books make great gifts this holiday season!
I'll add two more:
@whitecitypress.bsky.social for mystery/crime books (fantastic anthologies!) whitecitypress.com/shop/
Nazca Press nazcapress.com/shop/ for horror/sci-fi.
Free worldwide shipping! Order ASAP for holidays!
I'll add two more:
@whitecitypress.bsky.social for mystery/crime books (fantastic anthologies!) whitecitypress.com/shop/
Nazca Press nazcapress.com/shop/ for horror/sci-fi.
Free worldwide shipping! Order ASAP for holidays!
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We salute you, Charles Clyde Ebbets
December 12, 2025 at 4:03 AM
We salute you, Charles Clyde Ebbets
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it's not just appropriating someone's artwork (important as that is!); it's also reframing these incredibly sheltered comemierdas, who shift all the risk and consequences from their decisions onto others while hoarding the profits, into this position of casual, almost heroic precarity.
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
it's not just appropriating someone's artwork (important as that is!); it's also reframing these incredibly sheltered comemierdas, who shift all the risk and consequences from their decisions onto others while hoarding the profits, into this position of casual, almost heroic precarity.
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Reminder that there's no right or wrong way to write a book, unless you're using AI to write for you, in which case that is the wrong way.
December 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Reminder that there's no right or wrong way to write a book, unless you're using AI to write for you, in which case that is the wrong way.
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So happy & grateful!
The Best Bi Erotica #2 is reviewed in the latest issue of Bi Women Quarterly. See link below.
Also: come to @bgsqd.bsky.social on 13 December at 3pm for our book launch & signing.
@laurentaylorbak.bsky.social
@eskaykabba.bsky.social
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The Best Bi Erotica #2 is reviewed in the latest issue of Bi Women Quarterly. See link below.
Also: come to @bgsqd.bsky.social on 13 December at 3pm for our book launch & signing.
@laurentaylorbak.bsky.social
@eskaykabba.bsky.social
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4 December - review of Best Bi #2 anthology | Christian Pan Erotica
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December 4, 2025 at 4:40 PM
So happy & grateful!
The Best Bi Erotica #2 is reviewed in the latest issue of Bi Women Quarterly. See link below.
Also: come to @bgsqd.bsky.social on 13 December at 3pm for our book launch & signing.
@laurentaylorbak.bsky.social
@eskaykabba.bsky.social
www.patreon.com/posts/4-dece...
The Best Bi Erotica #2 is reviewed in the latest issue of Bi Women Quarterly. See link below.
Also: come to @bgsqd.bsky.social on 13 December at 3pm for our book launch & signing.
@laurentaylorbak.bsky.social
@eskaykabba.bsky.social
www.patreon.com/posts/4-dece...
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Small Business Saturday seems like a good time to remind you that you can grab #ChoicesAnthology in many independent bookstores or ask them to order it if they're not already carrying it
And if you're in Toronto, there are some SIGNED copies at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social
And if you're in Toronto, there are some SIGNED copies at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social
Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror is the collective scream of people of marginalized genders as our reproductive rights are threatened and stolen from us, featuring a mix of gruesome horror, deep tragedy, and cathartic revenge books2read.com/u/3JYo9Q 5/?
November 29, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Small Business Saturday seems like a good time to remind you that you can grab #ChoicesAnthology in many independent bookstores or ask them to order it if they're not already carrying it
And if you're in Toronto, there are some SIGNED copies at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social
And if you're in Toronto, there are some SIGNED copies at @littleghostsbooks.bsky.social
Deal alert! Get $8 paperbacks or 60% off eBooks at JMS books through Sunday for #BlackFriday! That includes my #sapphic monster novelette, Blood from Stone (just $1 until Sunday!!). www.jms-books.com/lauren-taylo...
Load up your eReader before the holidays, and remember:
Books make great gifts!
Load up your eReader before the holidays, and remember:
Books make great gifts!
November 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Deal alert! Get $8 paperbacks or 60% off eBooks at JMS books through Sunday for #BlackFriday! That includes my #sapphic monster novelette, Blood from Stone (just $1 until Sunday!!). www.jms-books.com/lauren-taylo...
Load up your eReader before the holidays, and remember:
Books make great gifts!
Load up your eReader before the holidays, and remember:
Books make great gifts!
With five days left in the campaign, we're at 145% funded! Help us reach our stretch goals by preordering The Savage Aether & The Disconnected through @kickstarter.com, and get a special edition signed by @henryneilsen.bsky.social! #BookSky #indiebooks #cyberpunk
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The Savage Aether / The Disconnected
Henry Neilsen's new Cyberpunk horror novel and its companion anthology, featuring a range of exciting voices of near-future horror.
www.kickstarter.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
With five days left in the campaign, we're at 145% funded! Help us reach our stretch goals by preordering The Savage Aether & The Disconnected through @kickstarter.com, and get a special edition signed by @henryneilsen.bsky.social! #BookSky #indiebooks #cyberpunk
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hen...
www.kickstarter.com/projects/hen...
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People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
People who pirate books: “I just think art and literature should be FREE to everyone!”
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
Yes, I too would love to live in a world where art is accessible freely to all and yet artists are paid a living wage, but as this magical wagical pixie wixie land does not exist, please don’t steal from us.
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Folks, if your library doesn’t have a book you want to read, ask them to buy a copy. Most have a convenient form and will let you know when it comes in. If your library offers ILL, they can even borrow books from other libraries.
November 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Folks, if your library doesn’t have a book you want to read, ask them to buy a copy. Most have a convenient form and will let you know when it comes in. If your library offers ILL, they can even borrow books from other libraries.
The Savage Aether Funded in 3 Days!
The Savage Aether & its shared-universe companion anthology The Disconnected, feat. a range of exciting voices of cyberpunk horror, are fully funded thanks to your support on Kickstarter! Woohoo! We reached our first funding goal in just three days, but with ten…
The Savage Aether & its shared-universe companion anthology The Disconnected, feat. a range of exciting voices of cyberpunk horror, are fully funded thanks to your support on Kickstarter! Woohoo! We reached our first funding goal in just three days, but with ten…
The Savage Aether Funded in 3 Days!
The Savage Aether & its shared-universe companion anthology The Disconnected, feat. a range of exciting voices of cyberpunk horror, are fully funded thanks to your support on Kickstarter! Woohoo! We reached our first funding goal in just three days, but with ten days left in the campaign, pledges have slowed to a trickle. The books are 100% happening with their basic costs covered, but there are so many…
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November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
The Savage Aether Funded in 3 Days!
The Savage Aether & its shared-universe companion anthology The Disconnected, feat. a range of exciting voices of cyberpunk horror, are fully funded thanks to your support on Kickstarter! Woohoo! We reached our first funding goal in just three days, but with ten…
The Savage Aether & its shared-universe companion anthology The Disconnected, feat. a range of exciting voices of cyberpunk horror, are fully funded thanks to your support on Kickstarter! Woohoo! We reached our first funding goal in just three days, but with ten…