IFLS is linking to this post as an example of shitty AI...

Step 4: Discover a single-serving chili in your freezer and share it with your loved one. Cheese for those who wish to live deliciously.

Step 3: Bake in oven with a temperature for a while. I didn't actually use these oven mitts for the bread. I just think they look really good on me.

Step 2: Put in pan. The secret ingredient is, uh ... love.

Author activity #8769 to do while waiting for cover design proofs: make beer bread. Step 1: Make sure you have ten minutes and a beer. Much like writing a book itself. It's that easy!

(I also bumped them up two weeks earlier) I probably shouldn't be posting about it. I've already potentially offered someone else their slot. If they show up ready to go, this post will be my canary. If it gets deleted, you'll know how it turned out.

A book must be an axe for the frozen sea within us - Kafka. (My cartoon for today’s Guardian books.)

Balked at paying the retainer, despite my impassioned email that "honesty is my only business plan," and noting my 500 previous books, and offering a contract. They might show up yet, but my schedule is tight. In another couple days I'm gonna have to ixnay them anyway to not screw up my month.

In my capacity as a freelance editor, I think -- for only the second time in 12 years -- I'm being ghosted by a client. #amNOTediting

Umberto Eco's tenet of fascism that fascists portray their enemies as both strong and weak is really mask off with the GOP this week. It's like "Look at the weak Democrats. They hate guns and have purple hair. But also they control the weather."