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Adele Buck@adelebuck.com |
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Author. Librarian. HQN debut - FAKE FLAME 04/2024. Rep: Katie Shea Boutillier at Donald Maass.
Books: adelebuck.com/books-3/
Newsletter: adelebuck.com/sign-up-for-my-newsletter/
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha)
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No romance author should EVER ignore this. I don't care if you think you're different from porn, throwing porn under the bus only greases its wheels so it can run you over next. If you write ANYTHING but very bland cishet romance you're first in line. But it will hit you eventually either way.
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Adele Buck
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Yvonne. You ask too much, clearly.
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Adele Buck
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It’s infuriating
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Adele Buck
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And not even the city is sufficient, promoters. (Though, as I noted, not even having that is embarrassing.) But this is what I think every time I see one:
"Oh, you say it's in Arlington? Is that Massachusetts? Texas? Virginia? Any of 18 others in the US??"
www.washingtonian.com/2016/01/14/t...
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Jarrod Baker
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imagine how much great art could have been created if we took a fraction of the money spent on getting computers to make shitty art and gave it to actual artists
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Erin Biba
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For a while now I have had this icky feeling that a lot of our use of AI is us just using it to find examples to show each other how bad AI is and TBH I think we should probably all stop doing that cause excessive energy consumption doesn't differentiate between real use and joke use. 😬
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Adele Buck
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I put an ENTIRELY groan-worthy joke in my last MS and was delighted when my editor basically said, "This is TERRIBLE and I love it."
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Adele Buck
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I don't usually find one-off "I hate that" or "I love that" statements of the kind off-putting, but an entire dataset? Yeesh. Can't do it.
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Adele Buck
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I can't even look at that. My brain will go entirely hamster wheel the next time I have to write one.
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Adele Buck
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Come on, American distributors. I will watch the shit out of this (it's being shopped outside of Canada, according to the article).
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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Adele Buck
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I'm just an author/reader/person standing in front of a book promotion event's website ASKING THEM TO PUT THE FUCKING ADDRESS OF THE EVENT SOMEWHERE WHERE A HUMAN CAN FUCKING FIND IT. Fuck. Not even the city is listed. This is EMBARRASSING.
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Adele Buck
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Hugs, friend.
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Adele Buck
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Was just going to check in on you because between the promotion and some other stuff it's been busy over here and I hadn't seen you. People. Ugh.
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Adele Buck
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Possibly suspicions.
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Adele Buck
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👀
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Adele Buck
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Wilmaaaah!!
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Adele Buck
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YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
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Romancing the Vote
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OH MY GOD Y'ALL!!!! WE DID IT!!!! Truly unbelievably grateful and emotional to see this number. This may be the best "How it Started, How It's Going" of my life. Thank you, y'all, for helping us make this happen. Under no circumstances should you fuck with romancelandia.
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Adele Buck
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It also read more like a memoir, which. Lady. Just take that shit to your therapist.
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Adele Buck
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Catcher in the Rye without the self-awareness, which is a whole helluva thing, since that wasn't Holden's leading characteristic by a mile.
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Adele Buck
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That main character had to be one of the least worthwhile characters I've ever read about. Vapid yet morally superior, a doormat and a brat. Given a much-wanted opportunity she both squanders and resents her parents for. I mean adolescence isn't pretty, but that character was a goblin.
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Adele Buck
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Ye gods, I just got through about half of the BCC for Charlotte Simmons and threw up a little.
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Adele Buck
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Prep, you mean?
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Romancing the Vote
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We want to say something about the donation that put us over the top, to a one million dollars lifetime fundraising achievement, because it was a special one. It was yours.
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Adele Buck
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Have I ever told you how much I loathed her debut? Like flames on the side of my face hated. And this was wayyy before she started slagging off romance and then profiting from it.
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Adele Buck
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I mentally refer to her as "Carcass Foldingchair."
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Adele Buck
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That. Woman.
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Adele Buck
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Aww, thank you!
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Adele Buck
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But still a lot of post-it notes. Since I never mention the titles of the books S&E talk about, I'm going to have those noted on individual post-its in the back cover, with another post-it covering them so they can guess as they read and see if they're right without spoilers.
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Adele Buck
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When I last did it, it involved a lot of post-it notes. This time, I've ordered some special pens (come on, pens) that have a fine tip on one end and a pattern roller on the other. I intend to use the pattern roller to indicate the passage I'm referring to and be brave and do marginalia more.
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Adele Buck
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Same. Now I just have to annotate a book and send out 20 BINs...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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the platform changed the GOP's position on abortion the same way i changed my position on bedtime when i told my kids they could stay up until half-past 7pm instead of 7:30pm.
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Adele Buck
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If only one could move that quickly there! Godspeed!
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Adele Buck
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I'd be tempted to do it while they were mid-sentence, in the most dramatic way possible.
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Adele Buck
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Hugs and sympathy.
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Adele Buck
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Aww, thank you, my dear! It was A STONE BITCH to draft for reasons I still can't articulate, but my editor loves it...
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Micah
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folks, watch Leverage because it’s great and because it features one of the few truly aspirational fantasies we have left: watching rich assholes get their comeuppance
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Adele Buck
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The people who don't have their boots on the ground but do have the checkbooks are constantly being told by "very serious people" that we're obsolete. It trickles down to a certain (understandably) anxious subset of those of us who do have boots on the ground. I hate it.
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Adele Buck
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This is also a good explanation of why Goldman, of all firms, doing this is serious:
bsky.app/profile/zitr...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly
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I have very little hope in a "this is wrong" face turn. But the "people hate us going on about trans people and think it's weird as fuck that we keep doing it" has been staring Tories, the GOP and Australian rightists in the face for the past ten years. Admittedly, they've still not clocked it yet!
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KJ Charles
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This is a fantastic piece on the catastrophically wasteful bullshit bubble of AI.
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Adele Buck
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A reminder that this sale runs to the end of the month - there are some amazing deals to be had!
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Adele Buck
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Heyyyo - my October release, The Anti-Social Season, is up for request on Netgalley!
www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...
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Ed Zitron
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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future.
www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/
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Rachel Esselle
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Click-bait bullshit that they KNOW folks won’t click through to see the kernel of truth buried in the bullshit. F*ck the New York Times. Seriously. Unsubscribe, y’all. It ain’t worth it to support these authoritarian-supporting assholes.
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Adele Buck
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Dammit, I thought Sarina Bowen's latest was coming out in audio the same day as print. *runs off to find something to listen to*
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Adele Buck
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Yeah, I was going to say because the lead-up time before that tiny window stretched so long.
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Adele Buck
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No period of cold shoulder? Good boy, Napoleon.
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Romancing the Vote
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We are just under $13,000 away from $1,000,000!!! Will today be the day??? 👀
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Adele Buck
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7 days into this one-month sale!
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