Mystery/UF/Horror writer of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak unless she expects to say something that will amaze the whole room. Also a cat lady.
Driven by spite, but so very tired.
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Skyla Dawn Cameron
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MY readers are out there putting sticky notes and highlights in their damn print copies, making notes in their murder journals, because they have functioning brains. I'd rather then of them than a hundred people finding me through ChatGPT. Fuck off with that.
If I could reach through the screen and stop certain people from reading my books, I would've done that WELL before LLMs, and I have only doubled down on that now that people are using genAI for "discovery". Fuck them. I don't want them as readers.
Often when someone "discovers" me with an LLM, it tells them absolute bullshit that I have to debunk. I've had readers ask me why they can't find certain books (because they don't exist) or ask about my experiences as an actor, a teacher or an Air Force pilot, and I've never been any such thing.
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Skyla Dawn Cameron
Skyla Dawn Cameron
I have long disagreed with the idea that obscurity is a writer's greatest obstacle. Is it my favourite thing? No. But I would literally rather die with my name forgotten and a hundred unpublished novels on my computer that no one will ever see than have a readership made up of genAI users.
Someone in some comments just said writers want LLMs "aware" of our work because people use them for search and discovery.
lol
The odd time a website hit pops up from someone with ChatGPT as a referrer, I permanently ban their IP address from my website.
I'm almost done, then I'll reformat and send it for proofing, but presumably by next month it'll be for sale in print again (there is, at present, one copy "in stock" at Amazon from when they damaged a box of author copies FIVE YEARS AGO and just put them back on the warehouse shelf).
The distortion that occurs in a writer's brain over time regarding the work cannot be understated, it is WILD. Publishing completely breaks us.
Haven't looked at it in five years (as of this month, actually) but this book is so good, omg. I love my girl so much and how she keeps fighting even when she's entirely unraveled.
