Tim Melody Pratt
@timpratt.org
Writer and editor. Loser of Nebula, World Fantasy, Dick, and Stoker Awards (won a Hugo tho). Been published in Best American Short Stories AND Best American Erotica. Genderfluid. Any pronouns I publish a new story monthly at www.patreon.com/timpratt (ooh)
Posted my mini-reviews of books read (and heard) in August! With things I liked by Jasmine Guillory, Paul Tremblay, Kristina Forest, Solvej Balle, Sofia Ajram, Rhiannon Grist, Lisa Jewell, Kate Atkinson, and Saratoga Schaefer www.patreon.com/timpratt/pos...
Booking: 8/26 | Tim Melody Pratt
I had a VERY BUSY August; I helped get my kid ready to go to college, and moved to a new apartment myself, and then we did a road trip to ta
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my child now lives in a strange land where instead of celebrating our noble Labor Day they observe a barbarous Labour Day
Finally found the perfect summer fit (Shut up, it’s not Labor Day yet)
My library didn’t have a book I was excited about reading so I bought the ebook a couple months ago but I haven’t read it because I have all these library books and THEY have a time limit and the one I bought doesn’t and I keep getting more library books oh no
Gardens by the lake are walking distance from my new place yay
Empty nest. New apartment that I don’t have to maintain to anyone’s standards but my own. Writing for my job but with no urgent deadlines I’m gonna need to build myself a structured schedule or else I’ll deliquesce into some kind of ooze But first a long weekend
First empty nest spread simple Past Present Future and lol that all tracks
She's a 10 but she necromantically lobotomized herself and has a brain hemorrhage if she hears your name
In my new apartment I have an ice maker and a dishwasher. This must be what it’s like to be god
Hi, my name is Mister Beast, and I can't read. Haha, that's why I've written this book, with another man's name on it. His name has been on LOTS of books HE didn't write either. Who knows who really wrote this one! Haha please, buy this book, and maybe even read it, but mostly buy it. It exists.
One week! September 10, 6 pm at Books Inc Opera Plaza in San Francisco! Me in conversation with author Ysabeau Wilce! www.booksinc.com/pages/events...
I am very sad about my empty nest (numb/anhedonic/affectless) but am trying to focus on all the writing I’ll get done and how I can just hang around in my house in my underwear now
I hear you—and I apologize. That mushroom was one of the poisonous ones, you’re right. That’s not just useful feedback—it’s you setting a boundary.
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Ooh I’m doing a couple of bookstore events this month and that’s a good excuse to get my nails done again!!!!
Today’s AI publishing spam scam: * Purports to be from an author I have met multiple times and once interviewed for an hour and a half * mistakes me for a self-published author who used the same byline It’s an operation so sophisticated it gives me chills
every time a dem politician who sold out trans ppl eats shit electorally I kick my little legs and clap my little hands eat shit transphobes 🥰😘
![In response to my message to Outlier saying that I was deleting my account because they openly admitted to using "AI" and then mealy-mouth rationalized it when called to account, I received this:
Greetings! I respect your point of view, and I'm publicly upfront about using AI. I'm not hiding anything. Almost all are not. It's your choice to decide which games you want to support and which you don't. All software today is using AI to code. Every business is forced to use it. Programmers are using AI to code, they don't hand code anymore. It would be impossible to compete, and the cost of programming by hand too high and too slow. I would not be feasible economically and no amount of support from players would cover that. This is a hobby of mine not a business, I do it for love of tha [sic] game and for bringing joy to people across the world. People still want to hate on it, and that's fine. If you boycott this game that's fine, but you are only kidding yourself - everything you use today is using AI whether anyone likes it or not. No hard feelings. Have a wonderful day!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v4723avs2z2wpwweptepsgxc/bafkreibiriv7b7mzawlhdod6p3g6haw7huhti6bkeiiryfgew5j77fnfha)
Fat Cat Video in Boone NC in the ‘90s. Classic college town indie shop. They had pirated BBC shows you could rent on VHS that couldn’t be seen legally in the US. And a pretty good behind-the-curtain porn section! Right next to Mellow Mushroom pizza so that was your whole night sorted
Chloe N. Clark@pintsncupcakes.bsky.social · last wk.Tell me about the video store of your past please
