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By Leona - A cover for a short story collection that might or might not ever exist; ah, sweet melancholy Next week, I intend to share a shortish story based in the setting of the upcoming novel Angel @ the End of the World, listed on the Books sub-page of this website. Before I do that, though, I thought that some explanation of the setting might be in order. The front cover shown above is for a hypothetical collection of short stories set in New Rat City, my version of the

The Wasted Lands of Earth, B&W version - by Astanael - https://www.deviantart.com/astanael While working with first my publisher, and later with a severely disappointing publicist group, I have come face to face with the reality that far too many people seem absolutely convinced that generative AI - what I like to call "iteration engines," since it's much more descriptive of what they are and what they do - is the be-all and end-all to all their creative needs. No longer wil