Shannon’s Frequently Infrequent Substack
Author Shannon Delany's Substack. An often infrequent commentary on lessons learned (and taught) by an award-winning traditional author now navigating the indie space while book coaching and ghostwriting for fabulous people with intriguing tales to tell!
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Author Events, Podcast Interviews, and Book Signings: (opens the original)
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You probably thought this one would be about GenAI again since: Claude’s doing watermarking, the Anthropic class action case has moved forward to the payout stage for authors, I just realized Nightshade is OpenSource and therefore free, andsomeone new got caught with leftovers from a genAI prompt in the introduction of their travel guide to a particular walled city.Or maybe you thought it’d be about PB Sq and the uproar his (quickly removed) reel provoked regarding charging “every smaller author
Another Anthology Story Written, Another Book Signing Scheduled (opens the original)
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On AnthologiesA while ago I signed up to write a couple new short stories for charity anthologies. I figure charities can use the support, and writing shorter form fiction is good practice for me as I tend towards verbosity. Not that you noticed. ;) Thanks for reading Shannon’s Frequently Infrequent Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input class="email-input" name="email" t
Bookish Events: CNY Book Crawl, Magic & Merriment---Recent Book Releases, Pre-orders, and Postponements (opens the original)
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First…POSTPONED!A note on the postponement of Saturday, July 11th’s booksigning at Destiny USA’s Barnes & Noble. Back in March, I made arrangements to sign books at the big Syracuse mall’s B&N. I had my reasons: I tend to like Barnes & Noble stores and have been gradually working on expanding my reach into different communities’ bookstores. And who doesn’t want to be in a beautiful, spacious, and air-conditioned mall in the middle of July? Originally I had hoped an event on the 11th could be a m
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