I've checked into my hotel, and I'm flying back home to Dublin tomorrow. The actual luxury of staying in a hotel the night before flying can not be understated.
Welcome to Stars and Sabers Publishing! We are led by @jendiagammon.bsky.social as Editor-in-Chief and @garethlpowell.bsky.social as Managing Editor. We can't wait to share more with you; our website launches on Friday, as does our cover reveal for our cross-genre anthology. Ad Astra per Fabulas!
Blackwell's is a chain. So, the university never had its own store to begin with. Students mostly use the library. And there are other bookshops around if they need to buy anything.
It's so sad that Blackwell's Liverpool has closed. It's weird to think that Liverpool University no longer has a campus bookshop!
I have fond memories of it from my student days and my book launch.
Transferring everything from my macbook to a USB so that I finally have enough memory to update the poor thing (it is about a decade old). Let's all pray for her, please.
I am going to preserve this for all time though, because if you didn't realize being bad at video games is hilarious, I don't know what to tell you.
Nothing has been as amazing as the time I couldn't figure out how to get off the horse.
What are you reading this weekend? I'm reading Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Boookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum. It is perfect. Philosophical, joyful, plenty of chatter about books and bookselling.
I talked to someone a few weeks ago who insisted that AI was good because it allowed poor, uneducated, and disabled people "to tell their own stories!"
And I was just like, they can already do that
None of the barriers to inclusion marginalized people face are helped by AI
We can already write
It particularly drives me mad when they claim AI allows disabled people into the industry...a large % of the arts industry (like me) ARE disabled, and work as freelance creatives in large part because we aren't accommodated in 'regular' work environments.
AI is taking away our only available income.
