Lisa Shea's Blog
May 20, 2025
Herbert West Reanimator Part 1 � From The Dark by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
The Herbert West Reanimator series by H. P. Lovecraft is six short stories which were published episode by episode in a magazine. Each one was required to have a cliff-hanger ending, drawing a person to buy the next magazine issue. Each story was required to have a recap at the beginning so that a person
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May 17, 2025
Celephaïs by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
I was doing reasonably well on a week-by-week progression of Lovecraft’s stories in the order of publication up until November 2024. Then life threw some serious challenges at me. Here it is May 2025. I finally am getting back to this project. This means that while, in previous sessions, I only read a given story
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April 10, 2025
Indeed and AI Training Jobs
Indeed, a job search site, now is showing me nearly 100% jobs to train AI or program AI. This is based on my skills as a writer, editor, and programmer. So the main thing Indeed wants me to do is to train AI to further erase all my job opportunities.
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Amazon KDP and AI Narrators
Amazon’s publishing system is now rolling out main-dashboard-page notices which push authors to use AI to instantly create audiobooks for their books. This is going to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of narrators. AI was of course built by listening in on all of those existing audiobooks � without compensation to the narrators
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March 22, 2025
LibGen Pirate Database of Books Generates Meta Facebook AI Project Illegally
In March 2025, many authors realized to their shock that their novels, novellas, short stories, and other works had been stolen by thieves for the LibGen illegal book database. And even worse, the Meta / Facebook team then used that copyright-infringing database to train their new AI program. Clearly Meta knew this was wrong. According
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February 10, 2025
Lisa Shea is Strongly Against the Use of AI / ChatGPT
Someone on Bluesky just accused me of writing my content with ChatGPT because I write so quickly. I’ve been writing this quickly all my life � DECADES before ChatGPT ever existed. Anyone can go back through my blog and social media posts to see me posting my novellas and short stories as I write them.
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February 7, 2025
How to Write your US Representative and US Senator
Did you know that many representatives and senators feel that a mere twenty messages on a topic constitutes an avalanche! It doesn’t take a lot of activity to create an impression! Be a part of that push for change. It only takes five minutes. All you have to do is go to their website, click
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December 29, 2024
Amazon Vella Episodic Stories by Lisa Shea
Now that the Amazon Vella system is shutting down, a number of you have asked about the status of my Vella episodic stories. I’m converting those Vella stories all over into Amazon Kindle ebook / paperback versions. Here’s the Vella books I have converted so far as of December 2024. I will aim to keep
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November 6, 2024
The Music of Erich Zann by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
The Music of Erich Zann by H. P. Lovecraft was written in 1921 and published in 1922. Lovecraft himself really enjoyed this story and it was republished in a number of collections. I think this is my favorite story so far, in the readings I’ve done. I’ve heard from many others that it’s their favorite
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October 25, 2024
The Tomb by H. P. Lovecraft Review and Analysis
The Tomb by H. P. Lovecraft was written by him in 1917 and published in 1922. I’m reading it ‘out of order� in that sense because I’m reading in publishing order. He was writing much better than this in 1922. So I have to be lenient with this. The Tomb is a fairly simple story.
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