Seth W James

It is a sad state of affairs that such a statement is necessary, but to readers and my fellow artists I declare: No AI now, no AI ever. My works are, and always will be, written by me—never with so-called AI. www.sethwjames.com/no-ai-now-no... #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

(I guess I'll take a stab at one of these Bluesky/social media things, too.) Seven musicians to get to know you: Blue Oyster Cult Wilson Pickett Soundgarden The Isley Brothers Alice in Chains Sade Aretha Franklin #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

[writing...writing...looks up] Writing-induced time absurdity continues. Working on a novel, the weeks seem to sail by, unobserved, and yet, the long-awaited day of kicking fascists in the nuts feels like it's taking its damn time. Vote. [writing...writing...] #cyberpunk #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Just three weeks until the launch of LIFE IN THE GREY, book 6 in The Cain Series, and, yeah, it's happened. I'm knee-deep in writing book 7 and time has lost all meaning. It feels as though I wrote L-i-t-G *years* ago, rather than months. Anyway, almost there. #cyberpunk #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Cover reveal! With launch only a month away, it's time to reveal the cover for LIFE IN THE GREY, book 6 in The Cain Series. Another great cover by James T. Egan of Bookfly Design. Text and cover are 100% human created: no AI now, no AI ever. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Cover reveal! With launch only a month away, it's time to reveal the cover for LIFE IN THE GREY, book 6 in The Cain Series. Another great cover by James T. Egan of Bookfly Design. Text and cover are 100% human created: no AI now, no AI ever. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Today, I kicked every fascist in the state, country, and around the world square in the nuts. I voted. I hope you'll do the same. #KeepItWoke #NewJersey #VoteNJ #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

It was an A-in-C kinda weekend. Seems like they saw the future with this one. 🎶Innocence is over... Ignorance is spoken... Confidence is broken... Sustenance is stolen... Arrogance is potent🎶 Sang the future and were ignored? It's basically cyberpunk. #cyberpunk #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

[Writing...writing...looks up] What's that hissing sound? Oh, that's the impending burst of the so-called-AI bubble. Turns out, you can't steal talent, there's no shortcut to achievement. You want to "be a writer," then write. [writing...writing] #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

The billionaires now favor having their so-called-AI regulated, development slowed down. Don't buy that shit. The grift is running out of steam. Even with stealing our copyrighted work, they can't live up to investor expectations. The bubble's about to burst. #cyberpunk #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Ah the old I-can't-be-fucking-bothered scam text. "Hello Seth W. James, I recently discovered [Logos of Cain], and there was something about it that made me want to learn more." Classic. My response: "Go [fuck yourself] and die in a fire." #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

New book alert! LIFE IN THE GREY, book 6 in The Cain Series, will launch this November, 2026. Episodic, near-future, cyberpunk science fiction. Please see the link below for the full announcement and cover copy. 100% human-written by me: NO AI! #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Well, it happened again. Writing notes for the next novel in The Cain Series, this morning, I had to decide if I should include a particularly evil plot element—or leave it out so the billionaires won't try to actually do it. It's a cyberpunk thing. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Hard to believe now, but by January or February of next year, a mere 5 or 6 months from now, there'll be a novel on these. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

With book 6's announcement coming up soon, I thought it'd run a discount for book 1 in "The Cain Series." So, the Kindle version of "Ethos of Cain" is on sale for the next week, starting at $.99. It's a great time to check out the series. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Scams, scams, and more scams: guess what this post is about? Shout out to @victoriastrauss.com and all the literary commandos at Writer Beware. If you need advice about protecting yourself, that's where you go. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚 www.sethwjames.com/scams-scams-...

Yesterday, I wrote, "The End," on the first-ish draft (with my process, kind of a second draft) of my 16th novel. And here are the mad stacks of specific notes that went into it. Hope to announce the novel in September. Now the editing begins. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

If you're interested in books—as a reader, writer, editor, reviewer—you may have seen the stories about so-called-AI companies destroying old books while digitizing them for their DBs Now who else do we know from history, famous for destroying books? #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

So, you'd like to be an author, but instead of writing a book, you steal the text using slopAI. That's like a cat burglar robbing MoMA and then claiming he painted one of Monet's Water lilies. slopAI doesn't create: it pulls content from a database. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

[writing . . . writing . . . writing . . . looks up] How the fuck is it the middle of July? Where did June go? Oh yeah, I'm finishing up another novel. [shrug . . . writing . . . writing . . . writing] #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

A prayer for authors: "May slopAI scammers receive AI-driven healthcare." #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

If you did not write it, you are not it's author: if you stole it, you are a thief. AI: the only winning move is not to play. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Haiku: Writer's Morning. The coffee glow fades, as the writing session ends, another page done. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

AI stock sell-off in the news: is that the first hissing sound before a great, big pop? Let's hope. They stole our work, thought a predictive model could plagiarize without notice—and then none of them made a cent. Fuck you, billionaires; you so have it coming #cyberpunk #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Books pub'd per year have gone up from 100k to 300k—and you just know that it's all slopAI theft. Which is why, fellow readers, it is more important than ever to rate and review new books, to vet the human-only books and help guide others to them. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

AIslop email scam number 435335: "I just read A Desperate Measure and here's where you could go with it next." That's book 2 in The Cain Series, which is up to book 5; 6 is in the works. AIslop incompetence, the wave of the future. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

The reviews are in for LOGOS OF CAIN! The Booklife/Publishers Weekly and Readers' Favorite reviews were both good. The Kirkus review, well, while I'm no expert, I'm scenting AI-slop on the wind. Last time for them #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚 www.sethwjames.com/the-reviews-...

[Writing...writing...writing...looks up] Is the world still a fascist hellhole? Ah, I see that it is. putin-sucking, republican cowards are trying to steal my vote, now, huh? Motherfuckers ain't suppressing my vote. [Writing...writing...writing] #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

While I, too, lament the passing of the mass-market paperback book, I must admit that this sadness has rarely afflicted my trade paperbacks. It's like the book is self-serializing. #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

The review for LOGOS OF CAIN from Booklife by Publishers Weekly is now live. Probably the best review for any book in the series, thus far—but that A- on editing is now going drive me nuts, wondering what caused it. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚 booklife.com/project/logo...

Quandary of a cyberpunk author: include the bit in my next novel about how genAI music can be geared to include subliminal content, designed to drive listeners to buy or do certain things, or not, out of fear it will inspire the billionaire fascists? #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

No, NewYorkCrimes, this isn't even remotely new. The term is "political warfare" and it concerns controlling the narrative surrounding conflict (eg causes, benefits, goals). Read THE CENTURIONS by Jean Lartéguy for a good primer (or THE FALL, by me) #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Well, there they are, the first 5 books in The Cain Series. I had set a goal of completing this first multi-book cycle in the series by 2027—and got there a year early. Cycle 2 starts immediately with book 6, but it's nice to take a moment and look. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Man, oh, man, every time I publish a new book, the scammers come out of the woodwork, but this time they are every-damn-where. Usually, it's 1 or 2 a day: post book launch, it's up to 10! Fake radio shows, book clubs, agents, conferences, the works. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Given the sad run of posts yesterday about someone using the slopAI theft machines to defraud readers, I thought I'd repost this. That's what writing a novel looks like: months of hard work, thought, and planning before fingers touch a keyboard. Art #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Surveillance-state AIs that look the other way for a price; billionaires using war to manipulate markets; rebels in VR headsets controlling drone swarms. Nope, it's not the news, it's The Cain Series. Book 5 out now. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚 www.amazon.com/Logos-Cain-B...

Houston, we have a book launch! It's launch day for LOGOS OF CAIN, book 5 in The Cain Series. Handcrafted cyberpunk: written by a human for human readers. Cover art by fellow human James T. Egan of Bookfly Design. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚 www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

Got nothing to celebrate this morning? Yeah, me neither. No reason to let it get us down, though, not when we can get down. So, let's get down with The Isley Brothers. 🎶Take it to the next phase, baby🎶 #vinyl #music www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5-t...

Only 181 hours until LOGOS OF CAIN, book 5 in The Cain Series, goes live. What the hell am I going to do for 181 hours??? Oh yeah, continue writing book 6: about 1/3 through draft 1. Also, ETHOS OF CAIN is discounted this week and next in KDP. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

We're less than 2 weeks from the launch of LOGOS OF CAIN, book 5 in The Cain Series, and I'm feeling it! Handcrafted cyberpunk: written by a human for human readers. Accept no substitute. AI is mind death. Cover art by James T. Egan, Bookfly Design. #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Oh, is Bluesky back up? Awesome. Let's celebrate social media with a little Curtis Mayfield. #vinyl #music youtu.be/xatZALKiI8A?...

It's almost as if the universe knows that I'm three weeks out from a book launch, because, every time, life decides it needs to get real damn busy. Whatever. The cover for LOGOS OF CAIN is still badass. See you May 1 (buy after the strike, please). #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Cover reveal! It's cover reveal day for LOGOS OF CAIN, book 5 in The Cain Series, and artist James Egan of Bookfly Design has delivered. Love this cover! Launch is May 1 (buy it after the general strike, of course) #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚 www.sethwjames.com/logos-of-cai...

In this week's episode of incompetent AI-scam-bot emails: "I really like your book [Desperate measure]and the message it conveys. I would love the opportunity to speak with the author behind it. Would that be possible?" No, because AI, like Xerox machines, cannot speak. #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

A massive market manipulation involving war, artificial scarcity, and profiteering, you say? Hmm, I'm sure I've read this someplace before . . . #cyberpunk #scifibooks #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚 a.co/d/03P2VGkP

TFW you realize you're so far into your next novel (and, for me, the next cycle of novels in my ongoing series) that you struggle to recall what your last novel was about (doesn't publish until May 1). This must be what forgetting your kids' names feels like. #cyberpunk #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

The Alliance of Independent Authors has launched The Indie Author Bookstore. bookstore.allianceindependentauthors.org It's more of a curator, as the buy links take you to the author-supplied shop (e.g. Amazon, Kobo, BookShop.org). Nevertheless, if you like indies . . . #booksky #indieauthor 💙📚

Assuming the states stand up for themselves and we hold free and fair elections, #Democrats need to come with it, fight hard, because we've already lost our country: now fight to take it back. No weak leaders, nothing held back, nothing to lose. Rockin' with Fire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_-S...