What are five things in your upcoming release? • post-apoc Western • pop culture avatars • coming of age • ritual MMA fight • supernatural brawls

Vex Corvine@vexcorvine.itch.io · 3d ago

What are five things in your upcoming release? • hate at first sight • murdered nightclub singer • mysterious vial • 1977 Cadillac Coupe de Ville • big werewolf woman

This got a lot of replies, and now I have to clarify that I need a *free* beta reader. Sigh. I know, I know, I should have said that the first time around.

Thom Brannan@thombrannan.bsky.social · 4d ago

Anybody know where I can find some beta readers looking for something they can sink their teeth into?

Anybody know where I can find some beta readers looking for something they can sink their teeth into?

I'm in good company here! In other news, BUY MY BOOK, lol, jk, wtflolbbqcia www.tbmhorror.com/nine-horror-...

Plagues, Blood Baths, Murder Clowns and a Megalodon: Seven Horror Books to Add to Your List

My horror TBR does not need help, yet these nine books are difficult to pass without stopping.

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Man, nothing screams FRIDAY AFTERNOON like scrolling through class-action lawsuit listings to see if there are any I missed.

The GOP is gonna hold a convention in Dallas? Huh. Trump *does* want his name on the Kennedy Center pretty badly.

Shopping around for inexpensive CD-on-demand services. If you know of something, pop it in a reply.

My friends, if you are not already inundated with people on one side of the political spectrum saying things about the 14th Amendment like "that's not what they meant when they wrote it so SCOTUS is wrong," the entire debate about what the first section means is available, starting on page 2890 of…

If these fucking people try to push a modernist rewording of the 14th Amendment, every Democrat who doesn't have the same for the 2nd READY should be voted the fuck out.

I would be delighted if this were my x-ray results.

[ B O L Z A K ]@0bolzak0.bsky.social · last mo.

It's summer...I hate summer...

Re-reading WATCHMEN, and it's so odd to stumble across Robert Deschaines in the second half. The world is set up so that Dr. Manhattan is the only person with real-live superpowers and it's extraordinary and singular…except this psychic whose head was stolen. I'm sure that won't come back later.

Gonna aside June and July to read comics, and I have been thinking about how much I think about some creators. I have historically held Mark Millar to be a one-trick pony, but then saw a series called BIG GAME, which tied all his various series together, which is something I've been thinking about.

As soon as I opened Twixter today: "Don’t lose your 50% discount on Premium" Where's my GO FUCK YOURSELF button? I seem to have misplaced it.

Ooh. OOH. —Have Gun, Will Travel —The Shield —Misfits of Science —Dai Kamikaze!

Peter Clines@peterclines.com · 4mo ago

-- ROM Spaceknight --The Wraith (1986) -- Blue Devil (classic Hollywood hijinks) -- Captain Caveman (seriously) --ROM Spaceknight

I went with "write something."

Thom Brannan@thombrannan.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I find it hypocritical to give advice, or even thoughts, on writing when I am not actually writing something, myself, so I'm faced with a choice: 1 - write something 2 - shut the fuck up This is hard. SO. Hard.

"All of a sudden liberals care about Jesus." No. They're pointing out what shitbag hypocrites you are for not caring about what he does. Yet again.

I've read this, so I'm obviously cooler than you. Catch up.

Vex Corvine@vexcorvine.itch.io · 4mo ago

Hey, cool cats & cutie pies! I'm running an #IndieApril sale on itch to fundraise getting MINTY FRESH: A Vampire Pulp Novella into print. PWYC for the ebook all week. And if you can't tip, that's OK; I hope to stoke interest in the book too, so please do grab it for free! 🔪🩸 itch.io/s/184177/an-...

I find it hypocritical to give advice, or even thoughts, on writing when I am not actually writing something, myself, so I'm faced with a choice: 1 - write something 2 - shut the fuck up This is hard. SO. Hard.

Well, the first quarter of the year is over, and my reading list sits at 22 books. Almost half of them were pretty slim (Parker and Spenser novels) but this is a definite improvement over last year's 7 books at this time. This is encouraging.

Five (5) minutes browsing in r/WritingWithAI and am struggling to comprehend the mind-numbing lack of irony and/or self-awareness.

@peterclines.com Seen in the wild on reddit.

"Show, don't tell," is the show, don't tell of critique and advice if it's not accompanied by an example. Listen here. If you feel the need to tell somebody they need to show instead of telling, then they already don't know what you mean, and just telling them that is FUCKING USELESS.

I figured out which ex-president Trump talked to who said they wish they'd done it. 45. That's the only one it could have been.

Is there a school of thought which says Paul is the antichrist? Because that would make sense to me.

Well, I finished it. I finished SANDWORMS OF DUNE. Is this how the Game of Thrones fans felt about that last season? I'm so sorry if it is. Nobody deserves this.

See, shit like this pisses me off. How old were you in 1998 when the bombs were being dropped by Clinton? How old were you EVERY YEAR of BOTH Obama's terms when he dropping bombs in the Middle East?

Tolkein was a pantser? Say it ain't so

Almost two years ago. What the fuuuuuuu youtu.be/7y_hbz6loEo?...

Geo-Strategy #8: The Iran Trap

YouTube video by Predictive History

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When I started writing NECROBREW, I had the final scene in mind within minutes of starting the first chapter. When I finished figuring out how to start the next book, SPIDERWEB, I knew how it was going to end. All that's left is the 100k in the middle, lol.

I have never thought of it this way. Not once. Huh.

Strange Horizons@strangehorizons.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians by Ada Palmer "Every world build makes choices about where agency rested in the great stages of its past, using histories as models and also practicing the historian’s craft..." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...