Dr Lindz McLeod - THE MISEDUCATION OF CAROLINE BINGLEY out now!

@lindzmcleod.bsky.social

Scottish writer/editor. Queer AF. Terrible workaholic.
PhD in Creative Writing. Cinema Worms podcast co-host. She/they

Repped: @lzats.bsky.social (literary) Kim Yau at Echo Lake (film/TV)
Wife: @pegasusunder.bsky.social
www.lindzmcleod.co.uk

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NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

wired.comBook Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are RevoltingWorkers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.
@espiers.bsky.socialReposted by @lindzmcleod.bsky.social

Okay, I am looking at this gendered reading piece by Ross Barkan and I have many thoughts and questions. Part of the thesis is this:

A more challenging question can be asked: If more books were published by men with explicitly masculine themes, would there actually be a wider male readership? It’s the old chicken-and-egg dilemma. The audience won’t emerge because the product isn’t there, and the product isn’t there because the audience is elsewhere. Men, obviously, can read and enjoy books by women, but there is the sticky biological reality that, on balance, women will probably prefer reading women, and men may prefer reading men. Boys, especially, seem to long for male teachers and role models in the classroom. As they age, and if they want to read, they might be drawn to the fiction of writers like Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, and McMurtry. They might want literature that, at the bare minimum, seems masculine.
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Join the Cinema Worms for our short review of VERITY 🩸👩‍🦽📚 a film in which a comatose Anne Hathaway outacts a non-comatose Dakota Johnson in every single scene, even ones she's not in. I saw this the night before my PhD viva because apparently I wasn't already suffering enough.

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In which we review VERITY! Hear Lindz's thoughts on the latest Colleen Hoover adaptation, along with an ongoing vendetta against Dakota Johnson 😂

Me and Lindz staring at each other, me a black woman with my hair pulled back, Lindz a white person with curly blond hair, both wearing glasses, superimposed over a poster of VERITY film, with Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett
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Join the Cinema Worms for our short review of VERITY 🩸👩‍🦽📚 a film in which a comatose Anne Hathaway outacts a non-comatose Dakota Johnson in every single scene, even ones she's not in. I saw this the night before my PhD viva because apparently I wasn't already suffering enough.

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Now that I have a 'Sheila Ferguson' (three degrees—and yes, my dad made that joke yesterday) I feel mostly-qualified to say that if you're interested in developing your craft as a writer, or even a reader curious about the behind-the-scenes process of creating a story, my craft anthology is great!

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Ooooo! I am entranced by this one. It makes me think about how if you take apart almost any sentence you'll find that almost EVERYTHING in it is abstract. Language is endlessly fascinating.

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I learned another new word this week! Polysemy is a single word capable of meaning multiple distinct but related things (a human foot, the foot of a mountain, etc). This is different from a homonym, where two words sound identical but refer to different things (eg, a vampire bat, a baseball bat).

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Having just finished a PhD thesis and novel which (partly) discuss the spectacle of public executions... I didn't imagine seeing this headline today and yet it doesn't surprise me at all.

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