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My AI/LLM Policy and other updates

I’ll be quick on this first part. I do not use LLMs/genAI. I am 100% a Luddite in that I think this tech as it stands is irresponsibly and dangerously produced, enriches the worst people in the world, is built on stolen work (including 49 of my own works), degrades and damages critical thinking skills and your brain in general, and is destroying the planet.

So hopefully doesn’t need to be said, but I promise any book or post or email or anything I ever write is written by me. My imperfect human brain doing all the work with all the skills and knowledge I’ve worked my ass off my entire life to acquire. I will also never work with anyone who uses genAI (that I can reasonably know, let’s be real about how pervasive this shit has become, I’m out here doing my best and even learning coding to try to avoid the slop, but I don’t always have control over what people I work with do, but I will always make sure to get anti-AI clauses into my contracts etc if I can).

If you love genAI, I am not the writer for you. I am not here to argue about it. I am a hard fucking no on genAI. If you love art and writing from the heart, from one human to another… that’s me and my work. Welcome.

Anyway, I update here infrequently because I’m working on coming back from long Covid, and my energy levels are still very up and down. I am on meds that work fairly well as long as I am careful about what I do, so that is the good news. The better news is that I’m working on a new novel I’m excited about and hope to have more news about by end of year. If you want to keep up with my current works in progress and news etc, I highly recommend my Patreon. You can support me for as little as a dollar and if you like getting cool mail that isn’t bills or spam, I have a mail club too where I write a letter every month (hand-written, customized etc) and sometimes send stickers, my terrible art, and bookmarks too cause mail is fun to get! So please consider supporting there.

Anyway, that is my genAI policy and I hope it clarifies in case anyone wanted to know my stance. My official policy is NO THE FUCK NOT. Thanks!

Update and Signed Books for the Holidays!

(pic is our cats Noodles (right) and S’mores (left) sleeping on a sideboard)

I am alive! And working on a brand new epic fantasy trilogy. I’m also offering signed books for the holidays since I’ll be visiting family and able to ship from inside the US. This offer is open only to US residents, sorry. I am offering signed copies of any of my books, for $25 flat each. You can email me at anniembellet@gmail.com with your order and I’ll give instructions for payment via PayPal. If you want more details, go to my Patreon post (free post, no need to be a member to read it). I’m using this to help raise money for medication, rent, and immigration fees. Thank you!

If you do want to keep up with what I’m working on, including exclusive stories, sneak peaks of future work, and more regular updates, please consider becoming a Patreon member. You can get updates for as little as $1 a month, access to all exclusive content for $5, and there are even a couple open slots in the $20 Cute Mail tier where you get a cute letter or note from me every(ish) month including occassional goodies like stickers and bookmarks. Patreon is basically what keeps me able to write at this point, so I’d love to grow it more and I’d love to see more people join our community there. So please consider helping a writer keep writing for less than a fancy coffee every month. ❤️

I don’t expect to have a new book out for at least a year, though that could change, so again, if you want more regular updates, consider supporting my Patreon. And if you want a signed book, get in touch.

Happy Holiday season!

Annie

Quick Update Nov 2020

The release for Kira’s book has been delayed a couple times, sorry! It will absolutely be coming on Nov 25th (might be a few days later for B&N and Apple, depending, sorry!) and is still available for pre-order if you are worried about missing a release. This year has been very stressful (as I’m sure everyone can imagine/understand) and I’d had to take extra time on both this project and Harper’s Tale.

Thanks for the understanding <3

May Update

Hi. We’re here. In May. Yep. Basically the short version is: I’m still dealing with mystery back/butt injury that might be a neurological problem and living in pain isn’t fun or productive. Also developed some fun new symptoms in the last few months so I’ve been living on like 3 hours of sleep average a night. I won’t bore y’all with personal details. But 20sided book 10 is nearly done I just can’t give firm date cause I’m working whenever I’m able and I refuse to release this book without it being exactly the book I want. So I’ll say in the next couple weeks but it might be a little longer. I dunno. I’m working on it.

Meanwhile, if you are desperate for more fiction, I’ve started a Patreon (mostly to grandfather into the old rates, there’s not much happening yet) and there are some posts and stories up there for the early adopters. After I finish Balancing the Scales (and hopefully after we hit the main goal), there will be new stuff and if you join up, you can have a say in things like what I work on next, character names, etc… So check it out:

https://www.patreon.com/anniebellet (the Patreon is especially for you if you want more Gryphonpike or Pyrrh, cause the whole point of it is to see if peeps want me to finish the older, neglected series etc)

Anyway, seriously I want to thank all of you for your epic patience. Hopefully I can deliver the best birthday present (ie a finished, kick-ass book) for May (my bday is May 12th so I’m hardcore aiming for before that for release date, but we’ll see).

Book 10 in April (I know, I know)

Yes, March is almost over. No, book 10 is not ready. But almost!

Look for it first or second week of April (will depend on things like speed of proofreaders and formatters and upload times etc). Thank you for your continued patience.

Meanwhile please enjoy these book 10 teasers done in the style of the Avengers Endgame posters. Try not to freak out too much, lol.

Book 10 still coming!

I got the flu right at the end of my holiday trip and while it seems the worst has passed me over now, I’m still behind on everything, sorry! Book 10 will still release this month (sooner than later I imagine 😉 ). Thanks for understanding.

Taking More Time

Remember how I said I was taking all the time I need? I’m taking all the time I need, which is more time. Ending a story this big that I’ve been working on for years is a little scary, I ain’t gonna lie. I want to make sure I put absolutely every last bit in that I want in there and tie things up in a satisfying way that completes my vision for Jade’s story. Which means spending extra time in edits and working on the book etc. I don’t really want to release a book in December, because with the holidays and travel etc December is probably the worst month to try to get new work launched. Plus this way I can safely (hopefully, haha) give a date for release so nobody panics.

So, officially Book 10 will be out on January 9th, 2019. That way we can all have something to look forward to in the new year!

I’ll be finishing Harper’s Tale after so that 20sided related things can truly get wrapped up, plus I’ll have more news about the new series with Alek’s sister, Kira, and a new project announcement hopefully.

I hope you all have a happy holidays surrounded by people you love. See you in the New Year!

Okay, new plan…

Which is to say, I think I’m going to release books 9 and 10 in the same week, probably around second week of September. I’ve been writing both at the same time because a lot of what happens in River of No Return is all laying the groundwork for the series finale. I suppose I can reveal the title of book 10 here (but not the cover, cause it is SPOILERS central lol). Book 10 is titled Balancing the Scales. One of the things that has been delaying release of book 9 is that I am not sure I feel comfortable saying book 9 is finalized until book 10 is also finalized because these books are so intertwined in terms of one leading into the other (book 10’s events are almost all caused by what happens in book 9, basically).

So the TLDR: You’ll get both books the same week (maybe not the same day tho, depends on upload times and how hard I work my poor copyeditors) and it will probably be 2-3 weeks out from now since I still have to write the end of the series.

Emigrating is no Joke

(TLDR: emigrating is time-consuming and tiring, book 9 within the next two weeks.)

Hey,

As some of you who follow me on Twitter etc probably know, we moved 5000 miles to the Netherlands this month. I was expecting, because I’m an idiot apparently, that I would get here and just be able to get to work asap. Instead it’s been a roller-coaster ride of discovering things about how my new country works, finding a permanent place to live, dealing with the ongoing back injury, and doing lots of appointments and paperwork for immigration.

So suddenly it is the end of July and book 9 still needs some final edits and a final copyedit (which is not done by me, but my usual peeps are pretty quick so that shouldn’t delay too much once I get done with my part), then the final final read-through, the formatting, the uploading, and then hopefully into your hands! (or Kindle, or phone, or whatever you wanna read on, I don’t judge).

I know everyone is tired of waiting, sorry. But give me like a week to two weeks (two weeks to be safe) and book 9 will be here. Book 10 also just needs a few more chapters, some edits, copyedits, final final read, etc, so I’m still planning to have book 10 out within about 3-4 weeks of book 9’s release, but obviously at the moment my total focus is on book 9 cause you gotta read that one first because I know none of you are those monsters who read series out of order, right?

Thank you all for your epic patience with my habit of thinking that I’ll magically be able to do more than I’m capable of 🙂 It is my hope that this move will enable me in the longer term to be healthier, happier, figure out this stupid mysterious back injury that has stumped multiple doctors and physical therapists, and generally be able to write like the wind, because I have a ton of kickass ideas I’ve been developing while injured and I really want to share ALL of them with you peeps.

Hope your summer is going well.

Heartache in Audio!

You can finally listen to book 5 in audio, performed by the awesome Folly Blaine!

Get it from Amazon for Audible by clicking here.

In other news, I’m still getting things set in my new country, so work has been slow, sorry. But we’ve got a place to live as of next week and so things should happen again after that. River of No Return (book 9) will by out by end of month. Just need to get some stuff sorted out before I can release it. Thank you all for you patience! Also Thicker than Blood should be out in audio sooner than later as well.

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