Ute Orgassa
@uteorgassa.bsky.social
Author, playwright, strange human being.
https://www.uteorgassa.com/
Member of https://www.penandpier.com
https://www.uteorgassa.com/
Member of https://www.penandpier.com
I didn't expect to see Herbert Groenemeyer in an English publication this morning, but this is good news!
German court finds Open AI infringed copyright by using song lyrics for LLM training. (This news via @publisherslunch.bsky.social , which notes that this is the first court case to end in an infringement ruling against Open AI) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I didn't expect to see Herbert Groenemeyer in an English publication this morning, but this is good news!
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Heads up, writer friends. For the second time I received a cute email from an 11 year old asking if I'd read their short story and give feedback. Story Not an attachment but a link. Be safe. Delete. Do not respond. Emails virtually identical but for boy/girl name.
November 13, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Heads up, writer friends. For the second time I received a cute email from an 11 year old asking if I'd read their short story and give feedback. Story Not an attachment but a link. Be safe. Delete. Do not respond. Emails virtually identical but for boy/girl name.
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Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
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Writing with Gratitude: an Interview with Barbara Swihart Miller
What is your name/pen name/name you are comfortable giving us?
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November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Authors, Beware! There's a firm called "ClaimsHero" doing aggressive social media outreach claiming to
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
"help" you file to get $ in the Anthropic class action. In fact, it's a bait-and-switch, they are luring authors to sign up with them, then OPTING THEM OUT of the class action so they'll get zilch.
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We are happy to announce our very first anthology is coming out on November 24th! Rough Seas & Strange Yarns captures short stories, poems, and visual art of fifteen Pen & Pier members, all focusing on the theme: Ocean. You can pre-order the eBook now www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY715J2...
Rough Seas and Strange Yarns: A Pen & Pier Anthology
Amazon.com: Rough Seas and Strange Yarns: A Pen & Pier Anthology eBook : Miller, Barbara: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:04 PM
We are happy to announce our very first anthology is coming out on November 24th! Rough Seas & Strange Yarns captures short stories, poems, and visual art of fifteen Pen & Pier members, all focusing on the theme: Ocean. You can pre-order the eBook now www.amazon.com/dp/B0FY715J2...
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A Dark Mind and Rapid Finger Clicks: Interview with Fantasy Author Michelle Dornish
By Barbara Miller
substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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I am so happy to announce that my story 'How to get distracted while writing an essay' will be part of the Saturday Mourning Television Anthology by @sliceduppress.bsky.social . Can't wait for it to come out next spring!
November 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I am so happy to announce that my story 'How to get distracted while writing an essay' will be part of the Saturday Mourning Television Anthology by @sliceduppress.bsky.social . Can't wait for it to come out next spring!
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
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Only day you can post this
November 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Only day you can post this
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A lot of people are quoting this post and that's good because they should, AI sucks and robs us of something special and only mediocre uncreative piss-babies rely on it to make anything at all, fuck AI, p.s. Emma Thompson is now the president, sorry, that's just how it is
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 12:52 PM
A lot of people are quoting this post and that's good because they should, AI sucks and robs us of something special and only mediocre uncreative piss-babies rely on it to make anything at all, fuck AI, p.s. Emma Thompson is now the president, sorry, that's just how it is
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Interview with Author Kevin Carver
By Barbara Miller
substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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A band find their gigs take on a terrifying new significance when they start singing about supposedly fictional Northern gods of mishap & mayhem...
New horror/fantasy It's Not A Cult by Joey Batey (you know him as Witcher's Jaskier & The Amazing Devil band!) is out today!
💙📚🪐
#horrorsky
#NewBooks
New horror/fantasy It's Not A Cult by Joey Batey (you know him as Witcher's Jaskier & The Amazing Devil band!) is out today!
💙📚🪐
#horrorsky
#NewBooks
October 23, 2025 at 8:46 AM
A band find their gigs take on a terrifying new significance when they start singing about supposedly fictional Northern gods of mishap & mayhem...
New horror/fantasy It's Not A Cult by Joey Batey (you know him as Witcher's Jaskier & The Amazing Devil band!) is out today!
💙📚🪐
#horrorsky
#NewBooks
New horror/fantasy It's Not A Cult by Joey Batey (you know him as Witcher's Jaskier & The Amazing Devil band!) is out today!
💙📚🪐
#horrorsky
#NewBooks
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My short story, "The Perfect Mummy" is now available in a horror anthology by Dragon Soul Press! Come and check it out! www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
October 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
My short story, "The Perfect Mummy" is now available in a horror anthology by Dragon Soul Press! Come and check it out! www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...
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In the footsteps of Anthropic: a new class action (not yet certified) against Salesforce for using pirated books for AI training. There will be more of these
A new lawsuit has been filed against Salesforce over using pirated books to train its LLM.
buff.ly/nNGxVoP
buff.ly/nNGxVoP
fingfx.thomsonreuters.com
October 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
In the footsteps of Anthropic: a new class action (not yet certified) against Salesforce for using pirated books for AI training. There will be more of these
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It’s Halloween season and we haven’t seen enough mummies! If you feel the same way and want to mummify your bookshelf a little, might we recommend our Modern Mummies horror anthology? Its pretty cool and loaded with mummies. www.cateyepress.com/modern-mummies
MODERN MUMMIES — Cat Eye Press LLC
www.cateyepress.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:03 AM
It’s Halloween season and we haven’t seen enough mummies! If you feel the same way and want to mummify your bookshelf a little, might we recommend our Modern Mummies horror anthology? Its pretty cool and loaded with mummies. www.cateyepress.com/modern-mummies
Great art for a great small but mighty outfit.
October 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Great art for a great small but mighty outfit.
Fun times with fellow writers! @bsmbooks.bsky.social @mdornish.bsky.social @kevincarver.bsky.social @katherinebonn.bsky.social @katelynsweigart.bsky.social @journey-on.bsky.social , among others.
September 19 to 21, 2025. The third annual Pen & Pier retreat!
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September 19 to 21, 2025. The third annual Pen & Pier retreat!
By Ute Orgassa
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October 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Fun times with fellow writers! @bsmbooks.bsky.social @mdornish.bsky.social @kevincarver.bsky.social @katherinebonn.bsky.social @katelynsweigart.bsky.social @journey-on.bsky.social , among others.
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It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.
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Store details below!
I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more!
Store details below!
October 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
It costs 0$ to Repost a Black disabled queer small business! It could lead to my next sale.
I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more!
Store details below!
I sell pins, compression gloves, artist gloves, binders, hip braces, wrist braces, compression socks, walking sticks, elbow braces, bags, back braces & more!
Store details below!
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I'm seeing an increasing number of scams like the one below, leveraging the widespread problem of publishing scams w/ a faux service promising to fix problems author is having w/ the original scam but really to hit them up for more $$ (note the "Amazon partner agency" claim: there's no such thing)
![From: Blaire Andrews <bandrews@royaltypilots.com>
Date: Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Subject: Your royalties on Amazon
To: [redacted]
Hi [redacted]
I’m Blaire from Amazon Partners – Royalty Pilots.
We’re an Amazon agency commissioned to help authors migrate their books from third-party publishers to their own Amazon KDP accounts.
I’m reaching out because we’ve spoken with many authors who recently shared frustrations that you might also be experiencing while being published through a third-party service provider—such as:
Royalties that never seem to arrive or come with little to no explanation.
No visibility or control over how many copies have been sold or where those sales are happening.
Endless upsells and new charges every time you want to make even a small change to your book.
Through Amazon KDP, authors are now publishing their books directly with Amazon — with no middlemen involved.
This means:
Royalties are sent straight to your bank account every month.
You can track real-time sales data through your own KDP dashboard.
You have full ownership and control over your books, including the freedom to make revisions free of charge.
If you’d like to explore how this can work for you, I’d love to schedule a quick call. Please let me know your best contact number and the most convenient time to reach you.
Blaire Andrews
Senior Marketing Manager – Partners, Authors
Royalty Pilots, an Amazon partner agency
Phone: 315-325-9099
Email: bandrews@royaltypilots.com
Website: https://royaltypilots.com/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uy6mloyr37qtcdml3bq6a6o4/bafkreicgjux54fugm4ufqpsfauvymoshgn7d24rtig7vzxa7ynjhfuwoxm@jpeg)
October 9, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I'm seeing an increasing number of scams like the one below, leveraging the widespread problem of publishing scams w/ a faux service promising to fix problems author is having w/ the original scam but really to hit them up for more $$ (note the "Amazon partner agency" claim: there's no such thing)
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As we fly right past 200 submissions for our FLESH zine, I encourage folks to check out our previous horror and Weird fiction zines, all of which rule. You can get 15 of them for $15, plus shipping!
www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/zine...
www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/zine...
Zine Freak Bundle (Issues #1 through 15) | Cursed Morsels Press
The first fifteen issues of our zine for $15, including Landlord Lair, Spooky Sexy Soapbox, Florida Man, Reviews of Films That Don't Exist, Nightmare Birds, All Cops Are B____, My Morbid Childhood...
www.cursedmorselspress.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
As we fly right past 200 submissions for our FLESH zine, I encourage folks to check out our previous horror and Weird fiction zines, all of which rule. You can get 15 of them for $15, plus shipping!
www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/zine...
www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/zine...
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
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Hello! It's Pen & Pier. We finally decided to join social media. Our group's been meeting regularly for 2 years. We do things like annual retreats, critique groups, in-person & online meetings. We're just a bunch of writers helping each other out. Come check out our website and join us on Discord.
October 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Hello! It's Pen & Pier. We finally decided to join social media. Our group's been meeting regularly for 2 years. We do things like annual retreats, critique groups, in-person & online meetings. We're just a bunch of writers helping each other out. Come check out our website and join us on Discord.