Erica Peck | Editor, Writer, Reader
@shydogs.bsky.social
She/her
Romance reader 💙📚🌶️
HEA or GTFO ❤️
No AI 🚯
LGBTQ+ rights = human rights 🌈
Black Lives Matter
Freelance copyeditor (SFF & Romance): ericapeckedits.com
Short fiction: soundcheckingthevoid.com
Romance reader 💙📚🌶️
HEA or GTFO ❤️
No AI 🚯
LGBTQ+ rights = human rights 🌈
Black Lives Matter
Freelance copyeditor (SFF & Romance): ericapeckedits.com
Short fiction: soundcheckingthevoid.com
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Got a manuscript that will need editing in 2026? Book now before my rates go up next year. I have openings in March & beyond.
(Yes, it’s basically the same janky graphic. I have no patience for marketing. I don’t want to spend hours futzing with Canva. I just want to help make your book better.)
(Yes, it’s basically the same janky graphic. I have no patience for marketing. I don’t want to spend hours futzing with Canva. I just want to help make your book better.)
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Calling all writers: SUMMER IN THE CITY is now open to short story submissions!
We're looking for original dark speculative fiction stories where the city isn't just a setting, it's a character.
Guidelines here:
links.ruadanbooks.com/cfs
Send us your best.
#WriterSky #AuthorSky #writingcommunity
We're looking for original dark speculative fiction stories where the city isn't just a setting, it's a character.
Guidelines here:
links.ruadanbooks.com/cfs
Send us your best.
#WriterSky #AuthorSky #writingcommunity
December 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Calling all writers: SUMMER IN THE CITY is now open to short story submissions!
We're looking for original dark speculative fiction stories where the city isn't just a setting, it's a character.
Guidelines here:
links.ruadanbooks.com/cfs
Send us your best.
#WriterSky #AuthorSky #writingcommunity
We're looking for original dark speculative fiction stories where the city isn't just a setting, it's a character.
Guidelines here:
links.ruadanbooks.com/cfs
Send us your best.
#WriterSky #AuthorSky #writingcommunity
Update: I did indeed need more butter yesterday. Today’s crucial missing item was flour—somehow I used it all up on cookies and pie crusts yesterday. While he was at the store I realized we need milk, but it was too late. Will have to send a spawn to the corner store.
(Why am I like this?)
(Why am I like this?)
My husband and I have established a very clear-cut division of labor for the preparation of big holidays meals. My job is to go to the store 12 times in the week before and get way too much stuff, and his job is to go to the store 4 times in the 2 days before to get the 6 crucial things I forgot.
December 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Update: I did indeed need more butter yesterday. Today’s crucial missing item was flour—somehow I used it all up on cookies and pie crusts yesterday. While he was at the store I realized we need milk, but it was too late. Will have to send a spawn to the corner store.
(Why am I like this?)
(Why am I like this?)
My husband and I have established a very clear-cut division of labor for the preparation of big holidays meals. My job is to go to the store 12 times in the week before and get way too much stuff, and his job is to go to the store 4 times in the 2 days before to get the 6 crucial things I forgot.
December 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
My husband and I have established a very clear-cut division of labor for the preparation of big holidays meals. My job is to go to the store 12 times in the week before and get way too much stuff, and his job is to go to the store 4 times in the 2 days before to get the 6 crucial things I forgot.
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Sometimes the scroll is startlingly on point.
December 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Sometimes the scroll is startlingly on point.
Terrifying
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Terrifying
Grumbled in the presence of my 13yo that baking soda didn’t get all the burn marks off my enameled pot and they immediately took it to the sink and cleaned it for me, all the while delivering a lengthy explanation of how the Scrub Daddy works. I love them so much.
December 21, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Grumbled in the presence of my 13yo that baking soda didn’t get all the burn marks off my enameled pot and they immediately took it to the sink and cleaned it for me, all the while delivering a lengthy explanation of how the Scrub Daddy works. I love them so much.
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If anyone ever accuses romance authors of not being "serious" writers, I would argue that I've never met a group of people more focused on the concrete logistics of growing and maintaining their careers.
December 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
If anyone ever accuses romance authors of not being "serious" writers, I would argue that I've never met a group of people more focused on the concrete logistics of growing and maintaining their careers.
Agreed. All the software platforms I use suddenly have AI-powered backends I didn’t ask for. It’s not an improvement. I hate it.
Using the same tools I’ve used for decades (spellcheck, search engines, text to speech, etc) in the same way I’ve always used them is not the same as using generative AI.
Using the same tools I’ve used for decades (spellcheck, search engines, text to speech, etc) in the same way I’ve always used them is not the same as using generative AI.
Thanks to @sfwa.org for being so responsive to concerns around the Nebula Awards and LLM use. The Nebula should honor human creativity, as the revised rules now state. However, we also don't want to see writers tripped up on eligibility or hit by witch hunts over minor LLM usage like spell check. 1/
Thoughts on the Nebula Awards, LLM usage, and where we draw the line | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine
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December 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Agreed. All the software platforms I use suddenly have AI-powered backends I didn’t ask for. It’s not an improvement. I hate it.
Using the same tools I’ve used for decades (spellcheck, search engines, text to speech, etc) in the same way I’ve always used them is not the same as using generative AI.
Using the same tools I’ve used for decades (spellcheck, search engines, text to speech, etc) in the same way I’ve always used them is not the same as using generative AI.
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In my column above I dive into all this, but here's how I see it: if a writer uses tools like spell check, speech to text or other accessibility tools, translation programs to read sources, or search engines for research, don't hold any of that against them even if an LLM powers those tools. 2/
December 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
In my column above I dive into all this, but here's how I see it: if a writer uses tools like spell check, speech to text or other accessibility tools, translation programs to read sources, or search engines for research, don't hold any of that against them even if an LLM powers those tools. 2/
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'Tis the season for some festive science songs.
If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
December 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
'Tis the season for some festive science songs.
If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
If you've ever wanted to hear someone sing about a dimunitive tyranosaur then now is your chance
My goal was 100 books and I’m reading book #100 right now. 😀
Good morning! Did you set a reading goal for the year?
If so, what was it and how close are you to reaching your reading goal?
Bonus points for sharing books you're planning to read to help you reach your goal!
If so, what was it and how close are you to reaching your reading goal?
Bonus points for sharing books you're planning to read to help you reach your goal!
December 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
My goal was 100 books and I’m reading book #100 right now. 😀
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Hey. Whatever you finished in your book today—1 word or 1000, 1 sentence or 1 chapter—I'm proud of you.
It's okay if you're not proud of yourself. That's what I'm here for.
Keep creating 💜
It's okay if you're not proud of yourself. That's what I'm here for.
Keep creating 💜
December 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Hey. Whatever you finished in your book today—1 word or 1000, 1 sentence or 1 chapter—I'm proud of you.
It's okay if you're not proud of yourself. That's what I'm here for.
Keep creating 💜
It's okay if you're not proud of yourself. That's what I'm here for.
Keep creating 💜
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Give yourself a high five if you wrote a book this year.
You did great!
You did great!
December 5, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Give yourself a high five if you wrote a book this year.
You did great!
You did great!
Last night was Breakfast for Dinner and I discovered that banana bread pancakes are a thing and now this is the only type of pancake my family wants me to make from now on.
December 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Last night was Breakfast for Dinner and I discovered that banana bread pancakes are a thing and now this is the only type of pancake my family wants me to make from now on.
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This idea is being pushed on us because billionaires don’t want art. They want decorations that don’t question the atrocity of their existence.
If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
This idea is being pushed on us because billionaires don’t want art. They want decorations that don’t question the atrocity of their existence.
All I want for my birthday is the demise of fascism and for generative AI to implode like a dying star, but I’ll take a follow if that’s all you can manage. Some fluffy socks would also be cool.
December 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
All I want for my birthday is the demise of fascism and for generative AI to implode like a dying star, but I’ll take a follow if that’s all you can manage. Some fluffy socks would also be cool.
Jenny’s writing is top-notch, and those recaps were the whole reason I started reading romance. So if you haven’t checked out her work (also written under Abigail Barnette), maybe you should.
"Jenny, didn't you write those hilarious Fifty Shades of Grey recaps like a decade ago?"
As a matter of fact, I did! And I'm still in the hating game. Join the Jealous Patrons Book Club, and read my snarky recaps. We're currently reading Blood of Hercules.
patreon.com/jennytrout
As a matter of fact, I did! And I'm still in the hating game. Join the Jealous Patrons Book Club, and read my snarky recaps. We're currently reading Blood of Hercules.
patreon.com/jennytrout
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creating Books, blogs, videos, and other general nonsense.
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December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Jenny’s writing is top-notch, and those recaps were the whole reason I started reading romance. So if you haven’t checked out her work (also written under Abigail Barnette), maybe you should.
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Hear me out: they love each other and bang anybody they want to bang, sometimes together, sometimes separately, but it's always filthy.
That's my book HER BROTHER'S BILLIONAIRE BEST FRIEND (by Abigail Barnette).
That's my book HER BROTHER'S BILLIONAIRE BEST FRIEND (by Abigail Barnette).
December 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Hear me out: they love each other and bang anybody they want to bang, sometimes together, sometimes separately, but it's always filthy.
That's my book HER BROTHER'S BILLIONAIRE BEST FRIEND (by Abigail Barnette).
That's my book HER BROTHER'S BILLIONAIRE BEST FRIEND (by Abigail Barnette).
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LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD:
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
LONG RAMBLING EMOTIONAL THREAD:
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
It's World AIDS Day. Since the Administration has decided to keep it quiet, I'd like to share my introduction to AIDS.
I grew up in Seattle. My mom remarried a man who had a brother who was a King County Sheriff's Deputy. His name was Terry and he was gay. 1/x
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I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
The pumpkin pie came out quite good, and it goes nicely with Jameson
November 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The pumpkin pie came out quite good, and it goes nicely with Jameson
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Since it's a big weekend for consumerism, I just want to put out there that buying an indie author's book in any format is "shopping small" no matter where you choose to buy it from.
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Since it's a big weekend for consumerism, I just want to put out there that buying an indie author's book in any format is "shopping small" no matter where you choose to buy it from.
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I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I see AI slop in anything, I instantly disregard the whole thing. It's like finding a slug in your salad. If you can't write without an LLM, or you can't source art that isn't genAI, you can't be trusted to do anything. Sorry. Absolute deal-breaker.
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WHY would you guys not want Obnoxious Unreliable Omnipresent Clippy marketed to you in the exact same way innocent geese are fed to make foie gras?
November 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
WHY would you guys not want Obnoxious Unreliable Omnipresent Clippy marketed to you in the exact same way innocent geese are fed to make foie gras?