Dr Tiffani Angus
Multi awards-shortlisted SFFH & non-fic author. Editor & typesetter. SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 coming 2026! linktr.ee/tiffaniangusauthor Leftie, feminist, ex academic, ally, anti-AI. she/her. Now 🇬🇧 was 🇺🇸
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- During a meeting just now with a fellow writer (ok, it's @trip.bsky.social ) we have made some plans to add more writing joy to our lives and more reading joy to yours. Because the terrifying, on-fire carousel we are all on? Ain't gonna stop. So it's time to find some moments of fun inside it all.
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- And we have lift off! Spec Fic for Newbies Vol. 3 by me and @vallescurarule.bsky.social will be out from @lunapress.bsky.social at the end of March! This one is .... green! (ooh! aah!) Pre-order here: www.lunapresspublishing.com/product-page...
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- As one of the ultimate “gatekeepers” (I mean, I’ve co-authored a trilogy of awards-shortlisted guides on writing subgenres & major tropes of SFF/H), I’m going to share a secret: 🤫 She’s wrong. 😑 Read lots. 📖 Write even more. ✍️ It’s honestly the best way to get better.
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- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusHey look! A new book! Some of you may have caught The Packet serialised in ParSec magazine but this is its first outing as physical book. If you like stormy sea voyages and sci-fi, this is the one for you. Out in April, opening for pre-order now. www.newconpress.co.uk/info/book.as...
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- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusSpringfield (eating the dogs / cats) Ohio desperately needs your help with ICE. Ohio Gov Mike DeWine said it will be “the next Minneapolis” as 15,000 Haitians (1/4th of the entire city) will have their TPS status prematurely revoked Weds Feb 4th. Here are links to donate and volunteer directly: 1/
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- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusThe British Museum posted Al slop and quietly deleted it. Here's what it was and why it matters. #archaeology🏺#musuem #culture #heritage #history
- It is a universal fact that after finishing and handing in a book, one's brain is total oatmeal. I handed in a book two days ago. I now have work-work to do, but brain is not cooperating. Brain is stupid. Stupid brain!
- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusThere are only 4 spots left on the Milford Writer's Retreat, 9-16 May at @gladlib.bsky.social. Includes an en suite room, breakfast & dinner, & access to a SILENT library where you can write to your heart's content! More info here: www.milfordsf.co.uk/retreats.htm
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- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusHey folks! Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.
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- And doing it now over on Fb, saying that the term “AI slop” is “bigoted”!
- OOPS! Should've shared that there is a sneak peek at the table of contents here: www.tiffani-angus.com/spec-fic-for... (just scroll down to Vol 3 to see if after the ToCs for Vols 1 & 2)
- That's it. @vallescurarule.bsky.social and I just sent the final corrections for Spec Fic for Newbies Vol. 3 to @lunapress.bsky.social! It comes out the end of March and launches at Eastercon. We've got so much cool shit in this one and are so excited to share it with you all! So stay tuned!
- College/uni was a loooong time ago, so my memory of specific classes is a bit mushy. But the BEST thing I took: The Black Death Yep, a whole class on (mainly) the 14th-century pandemic. IT. WAS. AWESOME!
- That's it. @vallescurarule.bsky.social and I just sent the final corrections for Spec Fic for Newbies Vol. 3 to @lunapress.bsky.social! It comes out the end of March and launches at Eastercon. We've got so much cool shit in this one and are so excited to share it with you all! So stay tuned!
- Anyone who’s hit all these requirements is going to laugh their ass off at a measly fucking $40/hour. I don’t have all those and I’m STILL more expensive. Fuck the Muskrat.
- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusThis right here is the beginnings of the result of what DOGE was really up to. Not *really* slashing stuff, but getting access to as many government citizen databases and joining them to be able to target people quickly and comprehensively across all their exposure to the federal government.
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- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusAlso a great nugget for all book historians, professional vintagers worked in revolutionary America to ensure that pamphlets were stained and foxed immediately after printing to look real and „old“. They probably did this in Boston with tea.
- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusHappy to see that there is no need to worry about the historical accuracy of new 1776 AI slop because it happens in the mystical land of Λamereedd.
- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusA few things worth mentioning for those who haven't worked in publishing: * authors don't get benefits or health insurance * we are contracted, not employees, and are paid according to a contractual schedule, not regularly * most of us pay our agent 15% off the top * then we pay about 30% to taxes
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- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusICYDK, publishing is in a decline. Many authors who have had dependable contracts in the past are now scrambling to make ends meet and seeing lower advances and fewer sales than ever. If you see lots of book publicity posts, it's because we're scared and trying to keep our jobs during The Horrors.
- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusVote Reform, get criminals www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
- Because ACTORS are hard to find? Because COSTUME DESIGNERS and ART DIRECTORS and etc are hard to find? Because Peter Jackson & WETA didn’t *build a whole secondary world* that was gorgeous & believable? Because creating the past is so impossible? Aranofsky can kiss my fat white anti-AI ass.
- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusJust a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.
- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusYou don't have the be an avowed AI hater to be impressed without lifeless and unwatchable this is.
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- @lunapress.bsky.social, @vallescurarule.bsky.social, and I are putting the final touches on SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES VOLUME 3! Yes, 30 *more* SFF/H subgenres and tropes are under our microscope!
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- I can’t believe we’re here. The amount of time & energy wasted just to sign up for these infernal courses hopefully results in NOBODY learning how to further burn down the world for basically no outcome but regurgitated slop.
- I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!
- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusOk, we're into the intro video, and we've been told that "you'll learn why crafting clear, precise prompts is essential to getting accurate, helpful results from Generative AI". Which strongly implies that accurate results are possible, and if they're not, that's your fault.
- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusHow? How do you double-check the accuracy, if you're not already an expert? Ask a different GenAI? Or do you, you know... Have to go and do the research you would have done anyway, pre-AI? Because I'm buggered if I can think of how you do that in a way where the GenAI saved you time.
- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusThe course concludes by... prompting* me to sign up for a ChatGPT account. I hope Accenture got paid by ChatGPT, and the govt. got paid by Accenture, and... nobody's paying me are they? No. *see what I did there? I got ChatGPT to write that**. ** nope.
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- Reposted by Dr Tiffani Angus“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
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- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusYeah, posting up with their faces in the wall like the closing shot of Blair Witch is not exactly projecting power.
- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusI'm starting to think the Trumpist mastery of propaganda is failing them. The DHS agents posing this way makes it look like they're ashamed of themselves.
- Reposted by Dr Tiffani AngusScrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera. Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
- Good rule to follow: Writers don’t repost other writer’s AI covers or ads.
- Reposted by Dr Tiffani Angusimagine being so rotted that Bruce Springsteen writes a brand new song about how much you suck shit and announces it by saying “by the way I’m so fucking mad that I banged this out in 24 hours” how are you still up and walking around after being slammed like that
