Hello, everyone! How are we this afternoon? Anxious? Same, me too!

It’s just been a lot, lately. I’m relishing in whatever goods news I can.

My good news: I get to celebrate three years with my wonderful partner this weekend and I have the opportunity to do some interesting writing work in a couple weeks. I also have some really great cheese in my fridge; it has a rind washed in balsamic. Yum!

What’s your good news?

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Big thanks to Gail to sending this one over and apologies for not sharing sooner. There is a Kickstarter for a photo book, highlighting groundbreaking romance authors. The campaign is due to end in around 12 hours.

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The Trans Rights Readthon begins this Friday, March 21st!

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Diversity in historical romance discourse is making the rounds again, after a particularly disastrous set of comments surfaced in a romance-related Substack. I feel like we revisit this topic every couple years.

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Sarah: Dr. Peter J. Barclay from the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University sent me some information about their research into AI written books, and reached out based on my write-up of all the AI narrators. Dr. Barclay has a quiz to see if people can distinguish a human-written text with an AI generated text.

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Don’t forget to share what cool or interesting things you’ve seen, read, or listened to this week! And if you have anything you think we’d like to post on a future Wednesday Links, send it my way!