Gladys Byrne is an emerging writer of speculative fiction. She is a nature lover and wilderness adventurer who lives on the west coast of British Columbia.
We are heartbroken to announce that an ongoing labour dispute at our conference hotel has forced us to cancel this year's SiWC for the first time in our 33-year history. We hope to see you at next year's conference, October 23-25, 2026 with master classes on the 21st and 22nd. Reg opens June 3, 2026
August 25, 2025 at 11:36 PM
We are heartbroken to announce that an ongoing labour dispute at our conference hotel has forced us to cancel this year's SiWC for the first time in our 33-year history. We hope to see you at next year's conference, October 23-25, 2026 with master classes on the 21st and 22nd. Reg opens June 3, 2026
Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.
Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.
"This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. I go and come with a strange liberty in Nature, a part of herself." #thoreau#nature#evening#books#booksky
August 8, 2025 at 1:34 PM
"This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore. I go and come with a strange liberty in Nature, a part of herself." #thoreau#nature#evening#books#booksky
Let's avoid a world where humans hand off the 'burden' of their own cognition to a false mind in a data centre for a monthly subscription. Technocrat dollar-sign eyes mask an even deeper greed. A squishy-brained population that doesn't just refuse to think for itself but cannot. #thisisyourbrainonAI
August 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Let's avoid a world where humans hand off the 'burden' of their own cognition to a false mind in a data centre for a monthly subscription. Technocrat dollar-sign eyes mask an even deeper greed. A squishy-brained population that doesn't just refuse to think for itself but cannot. #thisisyourbrainonAI
I keep saving my drafts as '_FINAL' this and '_FINAL' that. Is this aspirational or misguided? It never seems to be the last. Take that, inner adversary! This proves I'm an optimist!
I keep saving my drafts as '_FINAL' this and '_FINAL' that. Is this aspirational or misguided? It never seems to be the last. Take that, inner adversary! This proves I'm an optimist!
I'm moving my on-demand writing classes to a new platform. In honor of the migration, I'm giving everyone 25% off the first six products on this page — www.patreon.com/c/maryrobine... — through the end of June with the discount code HELLO.
June 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I'm moving my on-demand writing classes to a new platform. In honor of the migration, I'm giving everyone 25% off the first six products on this page — www.patreon.com/c/maryrobine... — through the end of June with the discount code HELLO.
ICYMI: August Books will publish a new edition of the definitive biography of literary icon Jane Austen by Elizabeth Jenkins to mark the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth, titled Jane Austen: The Biography 👇 #BookSky
ICYMI: August Books will publish a new edition of the definitive biography of literary icon Jane Austen by Elizabeth Jenkins to mark the 250th anniversary of Austen’s birth, titled Jane Austen: The Biography 👇 #BookSky
To an archaeologist, a bonebed is an accumulation of fossils in a layer of earth. Spec fiction writers don’t just excavate from the strata of our past. Concerned with near futurism, often collapse, they place artifacts for the next generation of excavators digging in the bonebeds of the future.
March 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
To an archaeologist, a bonebed is an accumulation of fossils in a layer of earth. Spec fiction writers don’t just excavate from the strata of our past. Concerned with near futurism, often collapse, they place artifacts for the next generation of excavators digging in the bonebeds of the future.