The Cabbage Book Guy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥗

Cabbage Mage. Journalism. SFF Book Blogger @TheFantasyInn. Engineer at @Twitter.

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@UnDyrk This is the internet, we're not supposed to lie!

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@UnDyrk @benedictpaddy That's all I want in life.

That, and a ridiculous amount of money.

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Hey so I read book 2 of Benedict Patrick's Card Mage series yesterday.

And by "read it yesterday" I mean I devoured it in a day.

Basing a progression fantasy book on a magic card game was an amazing idea actually.

The worst part of this series is that only two books exist atm

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@UnDyrk Sure but then what would you do with it? We taste disgusting.

Honey roast carrots on the other hand are divine.

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@C_L_Clark SO good!

I love how it wasn't afraid to keep things complicated

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More people need to read The Wings Upon Her Back by Samantha Mills!

A fucking fantastic book that manages to (carefully, thoughtfully, honestly) explore the fanatic loyalty & isolation that comes with abusive relationships/causes.

All wrapped up in a steampunk revolution.

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Was a lot of fun today meeting people in their flesh-suits at WorldCon!

Thanks to everyone who adopted a cabbage for various portions of the day 😅

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@authorjla Okay so I'd hoped to stick around for this, but aye turns out I've not got the stamina for a day that long 😅

Best of luck with the panel mate, hope it goes well!

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Hello hello all, I'm en route to Glasgow to do the WorldCon thing today.

This is entirely spur of the moment and I have nothing planned whatsoever. So if anyone is around, let me know so I can say hi!

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@BethanMay Thanks Beth!

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@authorjla Jeezo mate that's some shift!

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Shit, even if I'm a normal author, that'd be the smart move in those circumstances.

If I wanted to make money, I'd buy Storywise and charge people to tell them their grade.

But then, over time, would the "preferred" style of writing become dictated by the preferences of the AI?

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The whole AI-in-publishing argument feels increasingly nuclear.

And I'm not talking in terms of intensity.

It's more the idea that anyone reading a slush pile might need an "AI deterrent" to combat AI submissions.

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If I was an AI grifter, and I knew that publishers or agent house pre-graded their slush piles using Storywise...

I would simply... Buy Storywise myself?

By catering to it, adjusting my book to improve my grade, I could guarantee I'd get close to the top of the pile.