Lisa Maxwell
@lisamaxwell.bsky.social
NY Times best-selling author of THE LAST MAGICIAN series. I like, pasta, coffee, rock & roll, and, like, 3 people. Upcoming: KEEPER OF THE REND
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Gus and Glory is on Audible! Sophie Amoss, who also narrated Nowhere Better Than Here, does such a good job bringing this story to life!
June 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Gus and Glory is on Audible! Sophie Amoss, who also narrated Nowhere Better Than Here, does such a good job bringing this story to life!
Isn’t it like SUPER bad luck to rename a boat?
The documents...also show other vessels named after prominent leaders are also on the Navy's renaming "recommended list."
Among them are the USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez and USNS Medgar Evers.
Among them are the USNS Thurgood Marshall, USNS Ruth Bader Ginsburg, USNS Harriet Tubman, USNS Dolores Huerta, USNS Lucy Stone, USNS Cesar Chavez and USNS Medgar Evers.
It's not just Harvey Milk.
The Navy is considering renaming ships named after Harriet Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, among others.
The Navy is considering renaming ships named after Harriet Tubman, Thurgood Marshall, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, among others.
June 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Isn’t it like SUPER bad luck to rename a boat?
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The Trump administration is violating the Constitution, but understanding this theory can help fight back.
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
The Trump Admin Wants to Confuse You About What Is and Isn’t Constitutional
But you don’t need to be a lawyer to know they're full of it.
www.teenvogue.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The Trump administration is violating the Constitution, but understanding this theory can help fight back.
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
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Open AI’s valuation is at $400 billion. They used about 190,000 books to train their plagiarism bot. Randomly saying 25% of their value comes from that stolen dataset, I think they owe the authors about $526,000 per stolen book.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Open AI’s valuation is at $400 billion. They used about 190,000 books to train their plagiarism bot. Randomly saying 25% of their value comes from that stolen dataset, I think they owe the authors about $526,000 per stolen book.
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The Red Rising Series #PierceBrown
The Last Magician Series @lisamaxwell.bsky.social
The Darker Shades of Magic series #VESchwab
The Caravel Series #StephanieGarber
Just posting some book series I want to read!
#BookSeries #AuthorsandWriters #BookSky #Bibliophile #AuthorsCommunity
The Last Magician Series @lisamaxwell.bsky.social
The Darker Shades of Magic series #VESchwab
The Caravel Series #StephanieGarber
Just posting some book series I want to read!
#BookSeries #AuthorsandWriters #BookSky #Bibliophile #AuthorsCommunity
May 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The Red Rising Series #PierceBrown
The Last Magician Series @lisamaxwell.bsky.social
The Darker Shades of Magic series #VESchwab
The Caravel Series #StephanieGarber
Just posting some book series I want to read!
#BookSeries #AuthorsandWriters #BookSky #Bibliophile #AuthorsCommunity
The Last Magician Series @lisamaxwell.bsky.social
The Darker Shades of Magic series #VESchwab
The Caravel Series #StephanieGarber
Just posting some book series I want to read!
#BookSeries #AuthorsandWriters #BookSky #Bibliophile #AuthorsCommunity
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I'm starting to think that a lot of writers who come into the book world don't know that almost all of the living authors on the shelf at the bookstore have some other source of income.
Expecting to make your living writing books and only writing books is almost certainly going to fail.
1/3
Expecting to make your living writing books and only writing books is almost certainly going to fail.
1/3
May 15, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I'm starting to think that a lot of writers who come into the book world don't know that almost all of the living authors on the shelf at the bookstore have some other source of income.
Expecting to make your living writing books and only writing books is almost certainly going to fail.
1/3
Expecting to make your living writing books and only writing books is almost certainly going to fail.
1/3
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I might be rambling, and I might be caught in a doom cycle, but here is the important part: If you're in publishing and you feel like you can't catch up and you don't know how to break out, you are not alone. This game is rigged. All we can do is love the work and try to maintain our sanity. 12/
May 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I might be rambling, and I might be caught in a doom cycle, but here is the important part: If you're in publishing and you feel like you can't catch up and you don't know how to break out, you are not alone. This game is rigged. All we can do is love the work and try to maintain our sanity. 12/
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It's especially difficult to release a book when a dynamo like Silver Elite is dominating the space. An IP book by an anonymous bestseller that got millions in PR budget rules over all while we salivate over the sprayed edges? Oof. I feel like a mule watching a billion dollar horse win the derby. 3/
May 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It's especially difficult to release a book when a dynamo like Silver Elite is dominating the space. An IP book by an anonymous bestseller that got millions in PR budget rules over all while we salivate over the sprayed edges? Oof. I feel like a mule watching a billion dollar horse win the derby. 3/
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Imagine being Jeff Bezos and you’re like, “my legacy is that I killed the independent bookstore and also destroyed one of the most important American institutions in the Washington Post, but I DID get to send my girlfriend to space for 10 minutes."
May 12, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Imagine being Jeff Bezos and you’re like, “my legacy is that I killed the independent bookstore and also destroyed one of the most important American institutions in the Washington Post, but I DID get to send my girlfriend to space for 10 minutes."
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Tech bros are desperate to legitimize their theft of copyrighted works by artists and writers. After the head of the US copyright office released a report questioning if fair use allowed GenAI systems to be trained on copyrighted material, Trump fired her. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
White House fires head of Copyright Office amid Library of Congress shakeup
The White House terminated U.S. Copyright Office Director Shira Perlmutter two days after firing the Librarian of Congress.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Tech bros are desperate to legitimize their theft of copyrighted works by artists and writers. After the head of the US copyright office released a report questioning if fair use allowed GenAI systems to be trained on copyrighted material, Trump fired her. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Love this.
This piece hit me somewhere deep, and I can feel it rattling my bones even now. Here's a gift link, my darling friends, my righteous punks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/o...
Opinion | Today’s Young People Need to Learn How to Be Punk
www.nytimes.com
May 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Love this.
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I’m not here very often, but I did want to make sure I announced my TENTH book! I can’t wait to share HARROW with the world.
May 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I’m not here very often, but I did want to make sure I announced my TENTH book! I can’t wait to share HARROW with the world.
This is what happens when we stop teaching people to read critically. Ffs.
The post from the White House of AI Donald Trump on May the 4th is beyond cringe.
May 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is what happens when we stop teaching people to read critically. Ffs.
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Good morning.
DOGE is fake and not a real agency.
Please quit pretending it’s real
DOGE is fake and not a real agency.
Please quit pretending it’s real
May 2, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Good morning.
DOGE is fake and not a real agency.
Please quit pretending it’s real
DOGE is fake and not a real agency.
Please quit pretending it’s real
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you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
May 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
you don't need chatGPT i am perfectly capable of drinking a bottle of water and lying to you
I would still read to mine if they would tolerate it (they’re grown). These parents are reading the wrong books🤷🏻♀️
Is this true? I feel like most parents I've known like it quite a bit. Have they been faking this whole time?!? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Most parents don’t enjoy reading to their children, survey suggests
Report from Nielsen and HarperCollins shows that parents see reading as a literacy skill, rather than something to encourage their children to love
www.theguardian.com
May 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I would still read to mine if they would tolerate it (they’re grown). These parents are reading the wrong books🤷🏻♀️
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“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
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there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...
Target gave $1M to Trump inauguration fund, a first for the company
President Donald Trump raised a record amount of cash for his inauguration, including donations from several companies with operations in Minnesota.
www.startribune.com
April 29, 2025 at 10:13 PM
there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...
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Just a reminder that my digital/printable resistance coloring book remains tariff-free ✨
Plus, if you favorite an item, Etsy will send you a sweet lil discount code 😜
🔗 www.etsy.com/listing/1847...
#coloringbook #resistanceart #protestart #arttherapy #supportartists
Plus, if you favorite an item, Etsy will send you a sweet lil discount code 😜
🔗 www.etsy.com/listing/1847...
#coloringbook #resistanceart #protestart #arttherapy #supportartists
April 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Just a reminder that my digital/printable resistance coloring book remains tariff-free ✨
Plus, if you favorite an item, Etsy will send you a sweet lil discount code 😜
🔗 www.etsy.com/listing/1847...
#coloringbook #resistanceart #protestart #arttherapy #supportartists
Plus, if you favorite an item, Etsy will send you a sweet lil discount code 😜
🔗 www.etsy.com/listing/1847...
#coloringbook #resistanceart #protestart #arttherapy #supportartists
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Christ, here we are
When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.
Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.
April 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Christ, here we are
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It’s so wacky being a creative who has to balance the interplay of being “here” (online), without succumbing to the false belief that something ALWAYS has be to shared.
Some stuff takes ages to make. Sometimes your process is just for you. I know we all know this, but it’s worth hearing again.
Some stuff takes ages to make. Sometimes your process is just for you. I know we all know this, but it’s worth hearing again.
April 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It’s so wacky being a creative who has to balance the interplay of being “here” (online), without succumbing to the false belief that something ALWAYS has be to shared.
Some stuff takes ages to make. Sometimes your process is just for you. I know we all know this, but it’s worth hearing again.
Some stuff takes ages to make. Sometimes your process is just for you. I know we all know this, but it’s worth hearing again.
I can’t imagine what this will do. The test-centered culture has already destroyed our students’ ability to deal with any sort of indeterminacy.
"The agencies would also be asked to partner with the private sector to develop relevant programs in schools."
I read this draft EO as further evidence Big Tech is poised to hasten the privatization of public education through industry-serving AI literacy and related curriculum.
I read this draft EO as further evidence Big Tech is poised to hasten the privatization of public education through industry-serving AI literacy and related curriculum.
Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools
A policy under consideration by the White House and seen by The Post instructs federal agencies on how to incorporate artificial intelligence into classrooms.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
I can’t imagine what this will do. The test-centered culture has already destroyed our students’ ability to deal with any sort of indeterminacy.
Literally all she had to do was shut up and sit on her piles of money. Ughhhhhhh
April 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Literally all she had to do was shut up and sit on her piles of money. Ughhhhhhh
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If you believe that:
1) Reading is critical to our democracy.
2) Books help us understand complex issues.
3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children.
4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books.
Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/
1) Reading is critical to our democracy.
2) Books help us understand complex issues.
3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children.
4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books.
Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/
April 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
If you believe that:
1) Reading is critical to our democracy.
2) Books help us understand complex issues.
3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children.
4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books.
Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/
1) Reading is critical to our democracy.
2) Books help us understand complex issues.
3) Parents shouldn’t make decisions for other parents’ children.
4) Youth deserve to see themselves in books.
Join the campaign to #UniteAgainstBookBans: uniteagainstbookbans.org/take-action/