🎉💥🔥Congratulations!!!!!

I'm currently reading Maeve Fly by CJ Leede, and the quality of her writing has almost convinced me to give up on my own writing. 😂

Having an LLM write your query letter is bad. But unless the author has accidentally left a prompt or response in the query, you can't say for sure. By all means, reject on your suspicions, but reading it publicly is unprofessional and possibly slanderous.

3/3

And if it wasn't AI, by reading it, you just fucked over an author who is using phrases I've heard many times in query letters (and is probably why an AI OR a human could have written it.) Now, any agent with that query letter will be able to identify the author.

2/3

Sadly, yes. 😡

Seriously. Anyone who objects to block lists is probably annoyed to find themselves on one. Block lists are a great tool to slam the door on people who think Twitter is just fine.

Yes.

Dear publisher who is interested in my book: I'm talking about other publishers, not you.

aside: Losing 20% of revenue because one author didn't write a book that year is a problem of their own making. Debut and midlist authors get so little marketing, while the big-name authors whose books would sell anyway get the lion's share. Why even publish a book if you're not going to support it?

Oops, hit send too fast. Hat tip to @thecrumpet.bsky.social for the link.

Ugh. Say it isn't so. 😡

It's unfortunately real. 😬