Melanie Dusseau
Creative writing & lit prof, querying romance author, AI refuser, lover of books & poet of the ginger life. www.melaniedusseau.com
Associate Professor of English, U Findlay (she/her), MFA, analog researcher, dog-loving, traveling teller of love stories. 💗
- This is so Toledo. 😂❄️🍆
- Reposted by Melanie DusseauJeffrey Epstein did not stop raping children after his 2008 conviction. Jeffrey Epstein did not stop facilitating the rape of children after his 2008 conviction. He kept doing it. That is the context of people treating him as a normal person after his conviction. /1 www.cnn.com/2020/01/15/u...
- Reposted by Melanie DusseauPeter Attia is in the Epstein files and I read a bunch of the emails so you don’t have to. I can’t imagine taking the first call or email. But longevity is about proximity to wealth and power. substack.com/@vajenda/not...
- When silicon valley's incel bro culture meets the longevity manosphere quackery. Of course these pervs admired a known pedo. They all dream of hacking immorality on Mars with AGI, raw milk, & teenaged concubines. Everyone in Epstein's orbit knew what he was and deserve the consequences.
- This is the Toledo Zoo's new baby giraffe. I can't even with that hair. His name is EUGENE. I ❤️ him. @toledozoo.bsky.social
- From the petition: "Recent polling shows that CSU students share these concerns, with the majority of students expressing that they are worried about the negative impacts of generative AI on human creativity & the environment." LLMs are not ed tech tools. #EduSky actionnetwork.org/petitions/ca...
- In health news, Dr. Brain Worms endorses whole milk instead of vaccines. Dr. Oz agrees, but advises adding raspberry keytones (or butter) because that's how Paleo Jesus ©️ drank his milk.* *NB: Paleo Jesus ©️ is white. Just like whole milk and Santa. #IsThisTheRealLife #IsThisJustFantasy #AI=MAGA
- I could use a little bit of Frog and Toad in my life. Right. About. Now. ❤️🐸🍄 #amquerying #newyear #teaching #writinglife #kindness #hippie
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- Sigh.❤️ 🇮🇪 youtu.be/rQ-UItNBoMw?...
- Chuck Wendig's response to Underwood & SFWA is an f-bomb balm to my writer's soul. Writing about AI resistance in academia can feel charged with phoney civility. We need to stop pretending that LLM implementation is reasonable & inevitable. #EduSky #publishing #AI terribleminds.com/ramble/2025/...
- The Head of Preparedness holds the collective memories of all safety & ethics folks who quit Federation Broligarchy. Funds for a new sleeve if your longevity protocol was a bust and you're aging like some kind of plebe will be deducted from your first paycheck. techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/o...
- An excellent piece by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social and Christopher Nygren, and I thank the authors for linking our open letter in their call for collective action against AI in education. If you center compassion in your classrooms, you need to read this. #EduSky www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...
- Reposted by Melanie DusseauI’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
- Students deserve a voice and an understanding of the "whys" of teachers' opposition to unethical technology. We need to understand their whys, too. This article bridges many audiences, and I think it could be a primer to kick off that dialogue. #EduSky www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
- Krampus wants you to love my cozy-but-fierce paranormal romance. Don't make me get witchy. #amquerying #writingcommunity #writesky #paranormalromance
- Happy last week of classes! Remind me not to teach overload in the same semester as my search for a literary agent. My hair may be shiny AF, but inside my witchy soul is unraveling. #amquerying #writingprof #writingcommunity #poet #romancelandia #witches #solstice #redheadedmagic
- Stop calling poetry a "soft" skill, mofos. Ain't nothing soft about it.
- If ya'll could send me a grading elf, I'd be much obliged. Oh. Bourbon, too. ❄️ #amquerying #writingcommunity #edits #writinglife #romanceauthor #queryingwriter #WhoWillGradeAllThesePapers
- Querying perseverance tip #1777: Don't let all the rejection force you to conclude that "no one likes" your fiction. That's doubt talking. No one likes your poetry, either. Now go make fauxpirational memes! #amquerying
- Dud wellness goals? Replace them with FERAL. ©️ Example: "I am kind" becomes "I am feral." Dump toxic gratitude & ask: what witchtastic balm* will set my feral heart aflame? *NB: FERAL is not an actual balm, but if it were, it would be free of sulfites & tech bros. #amquerying #cottagecore #feral
- All I want for Christmas is a literary agent, but in the meantime, I'm working on my side hustle as a Toast Influencer. ©️ I test all recipes and do not use bots. I will never ask you for financial information unless I really need a bougie facial. #amquerying
- It may be of little consequence in the burning world, but stop trying to make mushroom coffee happen, yeah? #amquerying #INeedRealCoffeeYo
- JCO trolling maga wins the internet. Her takedowns of Musk are equally sublime.
- From Samhain to the winter solstice: let darkness come. #CelticFireFestivals #Samhain #harvest #BlessedBe
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- Magic 8 Ball: Goth Edition Q: Will a literary agent love my ragetastic paranormal romance? A: "If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear." -Mary Shelley Fin. #amquerying #writesky #writersky #romancelandia #writingcommunity
- It's almost Samhain! Do you know what paranormal romance shares with monster literature and media? An appreciation of the well made brute. The world is burning and you can stop pretending not to love paranormal romance, or if you're some kinda green fool newb: lucky, lucky you. 🦇 #romancelandia
- The resistance finding a home is big, but finding each other has been life-affirming. Join us in the Library of Babel, friends. Check out what we're about at the link. #NoSurveillance #Humanity #AIRefusal #AIinEdu #EduSky #AIResistance #Luddites #WriterSky www.law.georgetown.edu/privacy-tech...
- That first incredulous "what?" made me cheer. Meanwhile, the disconnect between creatives and AI hypers grows to a chasm. #writersky #AI #edusky #writesky #AIresistance #AIrefusal
- Need an autumn-themed, swoony distraction? Grab a copy of my 5-minute romance in WW. On newsstands this week! 🍁❤️ @womansworldmag.bsky.social #romancelandia #writesky #freelance #writersky #romance #writingcommunity
- AWP members, this webinar is free for members: October 21 1:00PM ETS. Registration required. #WriteSky #WriterSky #AWP #AI awpwriter.org/AWP/AWP/Maga...
- Check out two stabby new poems in @villaineralit.bsky.social, a literary magazine of revenge. 🔪 #poetry #writesky #publishing
- Need a swoony distraction? My flash fic, "A Season for Love" will appear in WW mag, on sale Oct 10. It's a dual POV set in an apple orchard after a 5K. ✍️💙📚🍁 #freelance #publishing #romancelandia #amquerying #writerlife #writingcommunity #booksky #amwriting #writesky #romancelit #author #lovestory
- Joyful aspects of querying: ✍️ Researching agents. I love their personal, bookish stories. The manuscript wish lists that light you on fire. ✍️The little thrill of hope when you hit send. ✍️ Putting off grading to examine QT stats just long enough to conclude you might be a "maybe." #amquerying
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- I wish Query Tracker had an after hours lounge where insomniac writers in different time zones could meet to laugh and cry together. 💙📚 #AmQuerying #Authors #TradPub #WritingCommunity #WriterLife #WriteSky #SpecFic #WriterSky #ParanormalRomance #RomanceWriter #BookSky #Gingers #WritingProf #Romance
- It is a joy, privilege, and responsibility to create reading lists for my students. It's also more important than ever to stand against censorship and in solidarity with academic freedom in education. #EduSky #RightToRead #PenAmerica #anticensorship #readbannedbooks pen.org/report/the-n...
- My Weird Tales lit class is tearing through several novellas, and they are the perfect length to capture the reading attentions of college students. If you haven't read Becky Chambers, you ought to. Next up: book 1 of Murderbot by Martha Wells. *Squeals in Sci Fi* #novellas #writingprof #readmore
