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Curtis Schlak

@curtis.schlak.com

“All ingenious is simple!!” — some random fake hacker that sent me an email breaking about it Gregarious introvert, certified Book Coach, novelist, new media platform designer https://curtis.schlak.com https://specficcoach.com

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Curtis Schlak@curtis.schlak.com · 2d ago

I got an email from a “hacker,” today. Supposedly, they have total control of my computer and blah blah blah. HOWEVER, the email contained what I think is my new motto. ALL INGENIOUS IS SIMPLE!!! Yep. My new motto.

Curtis Schlak@curtis.schlak.com · 5d ago

I am so very excited to have this book in my hands. I have been an ardent Thursday Next fan for over 20 years. Thank you @jasperfforde.bsky.social for sharing another (and last) story with her in it. (I look forward to the next installment in the Sahdes of Grey series. The last ending floored me.)

The book cover of DARK READING MATTER.
Curtis Schlak@curtis.schlak.com · 6d ago

I love Allan’s movies and can’t wait for HIGHWAY GOTHIC! If you haven’t seen their movie EVIL SUBLET, go watch it on Tubi or Amazon Video! www.amazon.com/eVil-Sublet-... tubitv.com/movies/10003...

Watch eVil Sublet | Prime Video

A couple finds their dream apartment in New York City. Who cares if it's haunted if the rent is cheap? But when murderous ghosts come after them, they must enlist the help of unusual friends to fight the evil.

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Allan Piper@apiper13.bsky.social · 6d ago

28 days later than today, principal photography on Highway Gothic starts

Curtis Schlak@curtis.schlak.com · 3w ago

Finished WITCHCRAFT FOR WAYWARD GIRLS by Grady Hendrix. 🫂 GH completely knocks me out with the humanity in his books, this one most. 🙏 Thanks to @stacieherrington.bsky.social for loaning her autographed copy to me. 🤩 I was bowled over by GH’s supplemental presentation about witchcraft, last year.

Curtis Schlak@curtis.schlak.com · 3w ago

Finished VILLAIN by Natalie Zina Walschots,the long-awaited sequel to HENCH. 🖖🏻👍🏻👏🏻 VILLAIN, an emotionally fulfilling novel, demands a sequel. While I could have lived with the ending of HENCH, NZW has captured my attention, and (dammit) I now am invested in The Auditor’s schemes and relations ships.

Curtis Schlak@curtis.schlak.com · 4w ago

#WriterLife #WriterSky TIP: Use NoveList Plus to find comps, a resource offered by many libraries! I hate finding comps for my unconventional mashups which satisfy my personal criteria. With NoveList, I can search by story, theme, and appeal factors like “banter-filled buddy science fantasy”!

Curtis Schlak@curtis.schlak.com · 4w ago

Just noting that I’ve never read a book by @peterclines.com that I didn’t like. Double negatives aside, read his books, y’all. I first started reading him with his Ex-Heroes series, five books I’m hoping get a sixth. For some reason, I’ve yet to read GOD’S JUNK DRAWER. Library, here I come.

Curtis Schlak@curtis.schlak.com · last mo.

Happy What-Started-As-A-Socialist-Rebuke-Of-US-Government-Overreach-(While-Overlooking-the-Plight-Of-Black-Railway-Workers)-But-Is-Now-A-Day-US-Retailers-Provide-Meaningless-Discounts Day!

Starbucks Workers United@sbworkersunited.org · 2mo ago

🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:

BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting. What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it. Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. No Contract? No Coffee.