KM Avery
@kmavery.bsky.social
Queer author of M/M and LGBTQ romance. You can find my books on the 'zon: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dbs_mng_calw_a_3?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=KM+Avery&search-alias=digital-text
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Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!
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"Death of the artist" means when Amy Tan says "I did not intentionally put numerological symbolism in Joy Luck Club" you can go "ok but unconscious-you is very clever and it's in there anyhow."
It does not mean "it doesn't matter if JKR is a terrible person."
It does not mean "it doesn't matter if JKR is a terrible person."
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"Death of the artist" means when Amy Tan says "I did not intentionally put numerological symbolism in Joy Luck Club" you can go "ok but unconscious-you is very clever and it's in there anyhow."
It does not mean "it doesn't matter if JKR is a terrible person."
It does not mean "it doesn't matter if JKR is a terrible person."
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What if, and i know this is wild, we ✨️tax billionaires out of existence✨️ instead
November 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
What if, and i know this is wild, we ✨️tax billionaires out of existence✨️ instead
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
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Woop! I have been "selected to participate in Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)'s Kindle Translate beta" which is Amazon's new AI-powered translation service, and apparently they'd "love to hear" what I think about this!
Well, they're going to hear it. Whether they will love it...
Well, they're going to hear it. Whether they will love it...
a man standing next to a car with the trunk open and #raydonovan #showtime written on the bottom
ALT: a man standing next to a car with the trunk open and #raydonovan #showtime written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Woop! I have been "selected to participate in Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP)'s Kindle Translate beta" which is Amazon's new AI-powered translation service, and apparently they'd "love to hear" what I think about this!
Well, they're going to hear it. Whether they will love it...
Well, they're going to hear it. Whether they will love it...
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Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix.
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!
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Pay editors.
Pay artists.
Learn how to self edit if you can’t afford an editor.
Use a photo editor (without ai) and make a stock photo look nice!!
AI is lazy and *most* people will appreciate the effort you’ve put into your book and cover!!
Pay artists.
Learn how to self edit if you can’t afford an editor.
Use a photo editor (without ai) and make a stock photo look nice!!
AI is lazy and *most* people will appreciate the effort you’ve put into your book and cover!!
I will never use AI for my covers, editing, translation, or anything else. It is not only useless to me as an author, it is actively hostile and harms every skill related to book production.
If you're an author against AI used to generate writing, you better back everyone else in the chain too.
If you're an author against AI used to generate writing, you better back everyone else in the chain too.
November 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Pay editors.
Pay artists.
Learn how to self edit if you can’t afford an editor.
Use a photo editor (without ai) and make a stock photo look nice!!
AI is lazy and *most* people will appreciate the effort you’ve put into your book and cover!!
Pay artists.
Learn how to self edit if you can’t afford an editor.
Use a photo editor (without ai) and make a stock photo look nice!!
AI is lazy and *most* people will appreciate the effort you’ve put into your book and cover!!
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Again, in America we do not have enough fascists to fascism.
We do have enough nice white people who would like those people gone as long as they don't know them.
We do have enough nice white people who will abandon *anyone* rather than risk any bit of what they have.
This understanding is vital.
We do have enough nice white people who would like those people gone as long as they don't know them.
We do have enough nice white people who will abandon *anyone* rather than risk any bit of what they have.
This understanding is vital.
November 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Again, in America we do not have enough fascists to fascism.
We do have enough nice white people who would like those people gone as long as they don't know them.
We do have enough nice white people who will abandon *anyone* rather than risk any bit of what they have.
This understanding is vital.
We do have enough nice white people who would like those people gone as long as they don't know them.
We do have enough nice white people who will abandon *anyone* rather than risk any bit of what they have.
This understanding is vital.
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Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
August 18, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
Now through the end of November, *The Bones in the Yard* is discounted 70% in audio format on audiobooks .com: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
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I . . . have issues.
I know. Who'd have thought that a jaded ex-cop elf would have problems with emotional commitment and self-esteem?
Yeah, me, too.
I'm trying to work on that. I&#...
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November 8, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Now through the end of November, *The Bones in the Yard* is discounted 70% in audio format on audiobooks .com: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
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🧵 This is trending on Korean socials
November 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
🧵 This is trending on Korean socials
Happy Halloween! (And almost Dia de Muertos...)
Need a spooky read? Ward's story covers both, and then some.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTV2GVZL
Need a spooky read? Ward's story covers both, and then some.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTV2GVZL
Ward's Story: A Beyond the Veil Trilogy
Ward's Story: A Beyond the Veil Trilogy - Kindle edition by Avery, KM. Paranormal Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Happy Halloween! (And almost Dia de Muertos...)
Need a spooky read? Ward's story covers both, and then some.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTV2GVZL
Need a spooky read? Ward's story covers both, and then some.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTV2GVZL
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Shout out to the top 5 kings in the world, Martin Luther, Larry, Don, Stephen and Americans don't have a motherfuckin'.
October 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Shout out to the top 5 kings in the world, Martin Luther, Larry, Don, Stephen and Americans don't have a motherfuckin'.
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I made this meme for all of you.
You know what to do.
You know what to do.
October 18, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I made this meme for all of you.
You know what to do.
You know what to do.
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I love this interview. Read Michael Twitty's books, they are so good!
October 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I love this interview. Read Michael Twitty's books, they are so good!
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Lmao, got added to a BlueSky list of accounts who hate AI.
YEAH I DO. Take your planet-killing, author-robbing tech and shove it up your ass.
YEAH I DO. Take your planet-killing, author-robbing tech and shove it up your ass.
October 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Lmao, got added to a BlueSky list of accounts who hate AI.
YEAH I DO. Take your planet-killing, author-robbing tech and shove it up your ass.
YEAH I DO. Take your planet-killing, author-robbing tech and shove it up your ass.
Starting TODAY (Oct. 13) and lasting through November 3rd, the first annual Lore & Tale Halloween Witch Book Hunt!!!! (Featuring, among other works, *The Ghost in the Hall*).
Check out the list for fun, spicy, and spooky Halloween reads!
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Check out the list for fun, spicy, and spooky Halloween reads!
subscribepage.io/witchbookhunt
Discover Your Halloween Reads at the Witch Book Hunt
Join Lore & Tale's Halloween Witch Book Hunt! Fantasy books, witch lore, and hidden grimoires await you. Are you ready to cast the spell?
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October 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Starting TODAY (Oct. 13) and lasting through November 3rd, the first annual Lore & Tale Halloween Witch Book Hunt!!!! (Featuring, among other works, *The Ghost in the Hall*).
Check out the list for fun, spicy, and spooky Halloween reads!
subscribepage.io/witchbookhunt
Check out the list for fun, spicy, and spooky Halloween reads!
subscribepage.io/witchbookhunt
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I loved the heck out of this series, and this is a fantastic deal. This is the first trilogy of an ongoing series of trilogies, with a different couple the focus of each trilogy. Also, these definitely aren't horror books, they're m/m paranormal mysteries/romances with fabulous queer rep throughout.
Just in time for Halloween (and available for preorder now), *Ward's Story* contains Ward's three novels (*The Ghost in the Hall*, *The Boy in the Locked Room*, and *The Skeleton Under the Stairs*) and a bonus short story at the end.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTV2GVZL
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTV2GVZL
Ward's Story: A Beyond the Veil Trilogy
Ward's Story: A Beyond the Veil Trilogy - Kindle edition by Avery, KM. Paranormal Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
www.amazon.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I loved the heck out of this series, and this is a fantastic deal. This is the first trilogy of an ongoing series of trilogies, with a different couple the focus of each trilogy. Also, these definitely aren't horror books, they're m/m paranormal mysteries/romances with fabulous queer rep throughout.
Just in time for Halloween (and available for preorder now), *Ward's Story* contains Ward's three novels (*The Ghost in the Hall*, *The Boy in the Locked Room*, and *The Skeleton Under the Stairs*) and a bonus short story at the end.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTV2GVZL
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTV2GVZL
Ward's Story: A Beyond the Veil Trilogy
Ward's Story: A Beyond the Veil Trilogy - Kindle edition by Avery, KM. Paranormal Romance Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
www.amazon.com
October 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Just in time for Halloween (and available for preorder now), *Ward's Story* contains Ward's three novels (*The Ghost in the Hall*, *The Boy in the Locked Room*, and *The Skeleton Under the Stairs*) and a bonus short story at the end.
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTV2GVZL
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTV2GVZL
Now through November 2nd (just in time to celebrate the original release date of *The Ghost in the Hall*), you can get the audiobook of *The Boy in the Locked Room* for half off here: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
50% OFF The Boy in the Locked Room
Sometimes dreams aren't just dreams . . .
The boy begging for help in my nightmares is very real. He's trapped, and it's up to me and Mason to get him out. The trouble is, we have to...
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October 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Now through November 2nd (just in time to celebrate the original release date of *The Ghost in the Hall*), you can get the audiobook of *The Boy in the Locked Room* for half off here: www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...
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One, that's not how copyright works and there will be an entire battalion of IP lawyers who will be happy to correct Open AI of this misapprehension, likely to the tune of billions of dollars, and two, fuck this shitty thieving waste of proteins and lipids
Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.
OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out
Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.
on.wsj.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:07 AM
One, that's not how copyright works and there will be an entire battalion of IP lawyers who will be happy to correct Open AI of this misapprehension, likely to the tune of billions of dollars, and two, fuck this shitty thieving waste of proteins and lipids
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Especially when some of the moderation will be automated and they already have a history of racism and transphobia
While I am generally not the target market for any sort of nonconsensual sexual content, there is absolutely no world in which you can trust to the discretion of moderators in judging this sort of thing. It will always end badly, and in a different place from where YOU thought the line was.
Romancelandia: even if you don't read dark romance, the new Bsky guidelines should concern you.
Disallowed: "Illustrated or animated" depictions of nonconsensual adult content.
Why ban fictional depictions of anything? And how will consent be determined from an illustration?
Disallowed: "Illustrated or animated" depictions of nonconsensual adult content.
Why ban fictional depictions of anything? And how will consent be determined from an illustration?
September 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Especially when some of the moderation will be automated and they already have a history of racism and transphobia
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We should not care or reward Disney for this. We must make their bottom line hurt for even considering doing something like this. Don't let up. Other companies need to see that bowing to fascism is not something you can do without consequence.
!!!
*DISNEY SAYS JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE SHOW TO RETURN ON TUESDAY
*DISNEY SAYS JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE SHOW TO RETURN ON TUESDAY
September 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
We should not care or reward Disney for this. We must make their bottom line hurt for even considering doing something like this. Don't let up. Other companies need to see that bowing to fascism is not something you can do without consequence.
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We've been hearing from so many of you this year, asking us the question we're asking each other and anyone else who will listen--some version of "OMG WHAT DO WE DO?!"
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We've been hearing from so many of you this year, asking us the question we're asking each other and anyone else who will listen--some version ...
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September 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
We've been hearing from so many of you this year, asking us the question we're asking each other and anyone else who will listen--some version of "OMG WHAT DO WE DO?!"