Nicolette Conti Sedai
@nicoletteconti.com
“Nicolette Conti” is a wife-and-wife writing team. Author of spicy urban fantasy, fantasy, romantasy, sci-fi and romance.
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Nicolette Conti Sedai
@nicoletteconti.com
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Hi! We’re Nicolette Conti, a wife/wife writing team. We love to explore characters and worlds, writing wherever they take us.
Current WIPs in next post
Check out our website for more and updates!
www.nicoletteconti.com
Current WIPs in next post
Check out our website for more and updates!
www.nicoletteconti.com
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The Los Angeles Press Club is hosting their annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards this week, and my February piece on the HEA is nominated in the “Online Commentary/Trend, Other Arts” category! Im very proud of it! www.zocalopublicsquare.org/romance-genr...
Happily Ever After Is for Everyone | Essay
The romance genre has a single set-in-stone rule: The main characters of the story will end up happily in a relationship. The HEA (Happily Ever After) or the HFN (Happy for Now) is the expectation of ...
www.zocalopublicsquare.org
December 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The Los Angeles Press Club is hosting their annual National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards this week, and my February piece on the HEA is nominated in the “Online Commentary/Trend, Other Arts” category! Im very proud of it! www.zocalopublicsquare.org/romance-genr...
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Since it's a big weekend for consumerism, I just want to put out there that buying an indie author's book in any format is "shopping small" no matter where you choose to buy it from.
November 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Since it's a big weekend for consumerism, I just want to put out there that buying an indie author's book in any format is "shopping small" no matter where you choose to buy it from.
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Since this year of all years I think skipping the big stores and shopping small businesses is a great thing, I asked my discord community to give me links to their shops!
view.flodesk.com/emails/69274...
Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!
view.flodesk.com/emails/69274...
Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Since this year of all years I think skipping the big stores and shopping small businesses is a great thing, I asked my discord community to give me links to their shops!
view.flodesk.com/emails/69274...
Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!
view.flodesk.com/emails/69274...
Please link to your own shops in the replies, and show us some pics of your favorite items!
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I'm offering up a signed ARC of Enchanting the Fae Queen in the Bid4Sudan auction!
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I'm offering up a signed ARC of Enchanting the Fae Queen in the Bid4Sudan auction!
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
Bid now to raise money for a vital cause AND get early enemies-to-lovers fae mischief: app.galabid.com/creatives4su...
#romancelandia
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Incidentally, theft like this is why there won’t be a second Steelflower trilogy, why the Bannon & Clare series was canceled by the publisher, and why I will never do another collected SquirrelTerror book.
I did a thread a few weeks ago of "authors link your stuff" & one of my author friends who is one emergency away from being homeless had a massive spike in downloads on Anna's Archive from people *who follow me* complaining about how they are poor & should be allowed to steal from other poor people
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Incidentally, theft like this is why there won’t be a second Steelflower trilogy, why the Bannon & Clare series was canceled by the publisher, and why I will never do another collected SquirrelTerror book.
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If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
A reminder that the median book deal for a debut author in the UK is £7000, paid over 12-18 months. (from 2022 Society of Authors report). Some of your favourite writers are struggling. societyofauthors.org/2022/12/06/a....
A profession struggling to sustain itself - The Society of Authors
ALCS report on author incomes shows 60% drop in median incomes since 2006
societyofauthors.org
November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!
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I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I think it’s pretty clear at this point that one of the main impacts of LLMs is to disrupt thinking: to make it so that far too many people never properly learn how to do it, and then to control the output so there are thoughts that people never learn how to think.
I think it's imperative to have strongly held beliefs about things, but it is just as important to hear new to you information and change those beliefs if the facts change.
We have to be able to learn and grow.
We have to be able to learn and grow.
It is absolutely okay to say
“Here is my opinion with the information I have available and I will change it if that information changes … in fact it is now critical”
“Here is my opinion with the information I have available and I will change it if that information changes … in fact it is now critical”
November 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I think it's imperative to have strongly held beliefs about things, but it is just as important to hear new to you information and change those beliefs if the facts change.
We have to be able to learn and grow.
We have to be able to learn and grow.
re: pirating of books. I hate Amazon too. And $$ is beyond tight for many (including me). But I will NOT take money from those helping me make it thru this hellscape. Don't steal from authors Use libraries.
If you illegally download, I hope all your food orders are wrong for the rest of your life.
If you illegally download, I hope all your food orders are wrong for the rest of your life.
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
re: pirating of books. I hate Amazon too. And $$ is beyond tight for many (including me). But I will NOT take money from those helping me make it thru this hellscape. Don't steal from authors Use libraries.
If you illegally download, I hope all your food orders are wrong for the rest of your life.
If you illegally download, I hope all your food orders are wrong for the rest of your life.
No, I'm not going to read this click-bait article. Because men should figure out WHY they're in trouble (and sort themselves out) before having bigger families - which isn't even mentioning the huge amount of demand this put on the mother (and often children) of these bigger families
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
No, I'm not going to read this click-bait article. Because men should figure out WHY they're in trouble (and sort themselves out) before having bigger families - which isn't even mentioning the huge amount of demand this put on the mother (and often children) of these bigger families
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Every excuse everyone makes for why this is OK falls the fuck apart when everyone gets to make money on our work except for us.
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Every excuse everyone makes for why this is OK falls the fuck apart when everyone gets to make money on our work except for us.
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I pretty much ignore illegal downloading because there is nothing I can do about it, and erotic books get pirated at rates that would break your brain.
But I hope people who make collections and sell the data for profit step on Legos with every step for the rest of their lives.
But I hope people who make collections and sell the data for profit step on Legos with every step for the rest of their lives.
They also sell everything to companies building LLMs, there's a link offering their "datasets" (books, papers, etc) for tens of thousands of dollars USD. They also auto-scrape everything scanned and uploaded to Internet Archive's Open Library. So. Yeah. 🙃
November 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I pretty much ignore illegal downloading because there is nothing I can do about it, and erotic books get pirated at rates that would break your brain.
But I hope people who make collections and sell the data for profit step on Legos with every step for the rest of their lives.
But I hope people who make collections and sell the data for profit step on Legos with every step for the rest of their lives.
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Acquaint yourself with the major antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Don't automatically discount it when left Jews tell you that you've done a dogwhistle, even if you didn't intend it.
These are trencherous waters.
Oppose genocide, *and.*
Do not do the Nazis' work for them.
Don't automatically discount it when left Jews tell you that you've done a dogwhistle, even if you didn't intend it.
These are trencherous waters.
Oppose genocide, *and.*
Do not do the Nazis' work for them.
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Acquaint yourself with the major antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Don't automatically discount it when left Jews tell you that you've done a dogwhistle, even if you didn't intend it.
These are trencherous waters.
Oppose genocide, *and.*
Do not do the Nazis' work for them.
Don't automatically discount it when left Jews tell you that you've done a dogwhistle, even if you didn't intend it.
These are trencherous waters.
Oppose genocide, *and.*
Do not do the Nazis' work for them.
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Israel is engaged in genocide, it is a genocide materially assisted by the US, and AIPAC is the biggest lobby pushing for that material assistance to continue.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Israel is engaged in genocide, it is a genocide materially assisted by the US, and AIPAC is the biggest lobby pushing for that material assistance to continue.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
AND.
We need to proactively address anyone trying to exploit these realities and justified anger to advance or engage antisemitism.
Saw this elsewhere and wanted to repost so found source - why is this always so relevant?
How often do I have to keep reposting this strip?
#cloudflare
#cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Saw this elsewhere and wanted to repost so found source - why is this always so relevant?
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every author in the class action, please file the claim.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
every author in the class action, please file the claim.
Kinda wish I still lived in Wisconsin so I could vote for her (Francesca Hong for Governor). This is a very deep and comprehensive policy list.
Policy — Francesca Hong For Governor
francescahong.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Kinda wish I still lived in Wisconsin so I could vote for her (Francesca Hong for Governor). This is a very deep and comprehensive policy list.
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Finally, these are not technically on sale, but they are books! $1 for every $5 spent on my store through the end of the year gets donated to my local food pantry. I also have physical books, crocheted things and stickers!
shop.foxglovefiction.com
shop.foxglovefiction.com
Foxglove Fiction
Candace Harper and Ceillie Simkiss are one person writing under two pen names. She is a queer, neurodivergent woman living with her family and furballs in the South.She’s known for being the overly en...
shop.foxglovefiction.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Finally, these are not technically on sale, but they are books! $1 for every $5 spent on my store through the end of the year gets donated to my local food pantry. I also have physical books, crocheted things and stickers!
shop.foxglovefiction.com
shop.foxglovefiction.com
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Everyone deserves food, healthcare, housing and an education.
They shouldn’t have to “prove they matter” to access basic support.
They shouldn’t be forced to justify their “worth” to have a chance at survival.
This shouldn’t be up for debate.
We have enough to help everyone.
They shouldn’t have to “prove they matter” to access basic support.
They shouldn’t be forced to justify their “worth” to have a chance at survival.
This shouldn’t be up for debate.
We have enough to help everyone.
October 26, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Everyone deserves food, healthcare, housing and an education.
They shouldn’t have to “prove they matter” to access basic support.
They shouldn’t be forced to justify their “worth” to have a chance at survival.
This shouldn’t be up for debate.
We have enough to help everyone.
They shouldn’t have to “prove they matter” to access basic support.
They shouldn’t be forced to justify their “worth” to have a chance at survival.
This shouldn’t be up for debate.
We have enough to help everyone.
Contracts are my day job - & have been for 20 years - please DO NOT let AI summarize any contract you are about to sign. The DETAILS matter. Read every word of any contract you are about to sign. Make sure you (or someone with your best interests at heart) understands your contract before you sign.
I just received a contract on Docusign for review and signing, and it offered to give me an AI-generated summary that I could read instead to save time.
That's AN AI-GENERATED SUMMARY ***OF A CONTRACT***, in case you need to let that sink in.
That's AN AI-GENERATED SUMMARY ***OF A CONTRACT***, in case you need to let that sink in.
October 26, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Contracts are my day job - & have been for 20 years - please DO NOT let AI summarize any contract you are about to sign. The DETAILS matter. Read every word of any contract you are about to sign. Make sure you (or someone with your best interests at heart) understands your contract before you sign.
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I’m good with my taxes subsidizing social welfare for people who can’t afford food.
I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.
I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.
October 25, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I’m good with my taxes subsidizing social welfare for people who can’t afford food.
I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.
I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.
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If your values don't apply to everyone, they're not your values. They're just a favor you do for people that you like.
"They're not supposed to do that to ME" is not a position worthy of respect.
"They should never do that to ANYONE" is.
"They should never do that to ANYONE" is.
October 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If your values don't apply to everyone, they're not your values. They're just a favor you do for people that you like.
We were all robbed of more
The Wheel of Time's Most Defining Moments | Sony Pictures Television
YouTube video by Sony Pictures Television
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
We were all robbed of more
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I really wish they would stop making the backstory of Mercenary Librarians more & more like non-fiction.
Richest man on the planet owns two-thirds of the satellites is the beginning of a not happy movie
Elon Musk now owns two thirds of satellites as 10,000th Starlink launches
October 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I really wish they would stop making the backstory of Mercenary Librarians more & more like non-fiction.
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When a poisoned newspaper columnist asks Dr. Miles Singer to find his murderer, following the trail uncovers the kind of secrets a nation can't survive.
but maybe with secrets like that, it shouldn't.
The Kingston Cycle - available wherever fine books are sold.
Audio: libro.fm/search?q=C.L...
but maybe with secrets like that, it shouldn't.
The Kingston Cycle - available wherever fine books are sold.
Audio: libro.fm/search?q=C.L...
The Kingston Cycle | Series | Macmillan
About this Series
C. L. Polk’s historical fantasy s...
us.macmillan.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
When a poisoned newspaper columnist asks Dr. Miles Singer to find his murderer, following the trail uncovers the kind of secrets a nation can't survive.
but maybe with secrets like that, it shouldn't.
The Kingston Cycle - available wherever fine books are sold.
Audio: libro.fm/search?q=C.L...
but maybe with secrets like that, it shouldn't.
The Kingston Cycle - available wherever fine books are sold.
Audio: libro.fm/search?q=C.L...