Clarissa's Blog

A publishing company keeps badgering me to sign a “licensing agreement” for a book I already published both in hardback and paperback.

I’m very overwhelmed right now. Tomorrow I have another live taping. I have 4 trips, 2 of them international, before New Year’s. Zero words written for the conference talks I’ll deliver. The start of the academic year is kicking my ass. I have a record number of student researchers I supervise.

In short, I have no time for the publisher who’s obsessed with the book I wrote three books ago. But finally I got tired and asked them to explain what they want from me. With a lot of hemming and hawing, the dirty rotten bastards finally confessed….

….. wait for it…..

…. that they want to use my book to train their stupid AI model.

I haven’t responded yet because every email I start begins with intricate Russian curse words. I’m trying to cool down because all I want to do right now is send these people to the place that you can only describe well with intricate Russian curse words.

Speaking of which, I have extraordinary Russian cursing skills and nobody to display them to because everybody I know is too refined for such outrageous profanity.