These days AI is the elephant in every writer’s room. On June 27th, Jacqueline Winspear (author most famously of the Maisie Dobbs series) weighed in on the topic on her Facebook page. She gave me permission to repost it in full here, which I do because if AI isn’t part of #thiswritinglife these days nothing…
This is why I belong to the Authors Guild in a nutshell: They go to D.C. so I don’t have to. From the AG newsletter: Authors Go to Washington: The Authors Guild Takes the AI Copyright Fight to Capitol Hill June 2, 2026 Excerpts: On May 20 and 21, Authors Guild legal staff and board members went…
“A roofer’s personal politics comes into play heavily when choosing jobs.” One of the best written scenes in film history. (h/t Smoke Signals, in a terrific post that makes me think I was born into the wrong generation.) Heh. (h/t Laughing Squid) “It’s the Internet, Stupid.” Post by Francis Fukuyama on how we got here.…
I can’t remember when I first became aware of Peter Leyden. It might have been that article in Wired all the way back in 1997. But here’s a video he made last November that is as he puts it “far from the gloom and doom of what the media are saying.” (That’s a relief.) Here’s…
Being a sometime dive down the rabbit hole of the craft and business of writing. The Great and Powerful KelseyG is the reason all my social media looks as good as it does, including the Roadhouse Report, my monthly newsletter you’re all subscribed to.* In this month’s RR I wanted to give you an update…
