Author Steaphan Kay

Live to write. Write to live. I tell SciFi stories, usually with a good splash of romance. Delivering something beautiful to my readers is the goal. #amwriting

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"Thou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain, / Who after birth did'st by my side remain, / Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true, / Who thee abroad, expos'd to public view." | Anne Bradstreet, "The Author to Her Book," in *Several…

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And when you think today's book reviewers / critics are tough...

Jenner, Charles. Bell and CO.'s Pocket Novelist, Placid Man, &c. .... United Kingdom: Bell, 1770.

#BookReview #Bookstodon

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I really, really am going to start doing audiobooks and the market is only getting better! 💯

#Audiobook

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Wow! It's getting worse yet. Rakuten Kobo says they rejected 45 percent of submissions last year because of a massive surge in AI-generated books. 😞…

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@kiragriffoo this is the only thing you do every day--ask authors to say hi? What's the angle?

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The new 4.6 Masto update added a feature where members can allow people to subscribe to their toots in and be emailed.

This has to be enabled server-wide, so I am curious: how many users would be interested in this feature?

#IAS
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that require membership requests to join your instances: have you noticed a sharp rise in AI BOTs requesting membership and with obscure email domains?

#FediAdmin #Fediverse
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@kiragriffoo Hi, it's Steaphan from Indie Authors . Social !

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I wonder if being stuck in the past makes for good fiction writing. Hanging on to loves lost. Potential loves pushed aside. Unnurtured friendships faded. Family mistreated, Dreams never accomplished. Mistakes made.…
#writing #author #indieAuthor
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Poll for Patreon supporters.

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I like creative creativity. Just saying...

#creativity #creative #creativeToots #creativeWriting
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@kiragriffoo Hello there. Author and bringer of beautiful creativity (hopefully). What do you like to read?

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Just because a reader, viewer, or listener may not be able to tell that content was AI-generated. doesn't make it okay to push it upon them without a disclosing this fact.

It's…
#Ai #noAI #creator #author #indieAuthor #indieauthors
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Authors, if you knew you were 100% publishing an audio book, would you ever consider AI-generated narration?

#author #audiobook #indieAuthor #indieAuthors #selfpublishing
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RE: https://

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#IndieAuthor #IndieAuthors #Selfpublishing #IndieAuthorNews
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"Pope Leo XIV tells priests not to use AI to write homilies or seek likes on TikTok"

Now this strikes at the heart of where the use of AI goes wrong---matters of the soul (and the intersection of…
#AI #NoAI #Writing #NoSoulAI
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IndieAuthors.Social--why so strict?

#IAS #IndieAuthor #IndieAuthors #Selfpublishing
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I always find this interesting: how we can best reach readers looking for the next good read.

Source: Written Word Media’s “Reader Survey 2026” (published Feb 2, 2026).
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#Reading #Books #Bookstodon #Author #IndieAuthor
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All around artistic awe...

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