SFF Fan, space opera writer, and role-playing gamer and designer. By day I work at MSFT. Follow for updates on my first space opera novel! #AmQuerying
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28 May 2024
Just finished Infinity Gate, by M.R. Carey (@michaelcarey191 ). Exciting, thought-provoking, incredibly well written. Goes into my "keep it" shelf. My favorite character: Topaz. @orbitbooks
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17 May 2024
My new blog post on role-playing games, and how they can help writers create better fiction, is out on this week's @sfwa blog! sfwa.org/2024/05/14/inspirat…
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1 Feb 2023
"Sure to make readers never want to put the book down until the last page is turned.... For someone corrupt, you can have them arrested or expose their crimes. But what do you do when the antagonist is the entire system itself?" Exciting @RoxanaArama debut!
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31 Dec 2022
My 2022 read fiction roundup: 21 novels and 2 novellas totaling 2.6 million words (😮). 4 Fantasy, 16 space-leaning SF, 1 lit. Non-fiction is a separate list.
On to 2023!
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25 Dec 2022
Leyendo sobre Francisco Quiroz, a quien en 1840 Castilla dio el monopolio de guano para comerciar con GB y Francia, y sobre la cadena de eventos que llevó al N2 de Atacama y la Guerra del Pacífico, recordé los detalles geopoliticos de Guerra en el Pacífico, juego de @fabber.
24 Dec 2022
Over the past century and a half, the need for nitrogen has started and prolonged wars, frozen economies, distorted ecosystems and polluted the world econ.st/3WBvr4i
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23 Dec 2022
No more writing distractions! Today, after weeks of effort, I finally vanquished my time-sucking archnemesis!
Today I finished #ReturnToMonkeyIsland.🥳
Now, back to writing!
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19 Dec 2022
I'm attending @futurescapes Writers' Workshop! 😯🥳Now to decide whether to focus the guidance of the amazing faculty (@LucienneDiver @kate_mckean @AliFisher @ericsmithrocks @leahbene @swindlesoiree) to polish the space opera I #AmQuerying or the one I'm currently writing!
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14 Dec 2022
What a masterful piece of advertising. And on the day in which we had a major atomic breakthrough announced, too!
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9 Dec 2022
I've always been frustrated at not having found a movie that did justice to one of the defining novels of my youth (along with LOTR and Foundation, the one I've read the most). It appears that might change. Can hardly wait for #LesTroisMousquetaires!
5 Dec 2022
Découvrez les premières images des films LES TROIS MOUSQUETAIRES !
🗡️ LES TROIS MOUSQUETAIRES - D’ARTAGNAN, le 5 avril 2023 au cinéma.
🗡️ LES TROIS MOUSQUETAIRES - MILADY, le 13 décembre 2023 au cinéma.
#LesTroisMousquetairesLesFilms #DArtagnan #Milady
Vivez-les en @IMAX !
17 Nov 2022
After 24 hours running @DuckDuckGo's App Tracking Protection beta, the results are... eye-opening😮And I have used just TWO of those eight apps in the past day, so this is background tracking. #TrackingSucks
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16 Nov 2022
Just finished reading the #EZD6 RPG rulebook. It feels like a super-light #SavageWorlds focused on fantasy, with a sprinkle of #FATECore on top (using only D6s). It may be just what I was looking for. Can wait to try it out on #FoundryVTT !
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29 Oct 2022
Just finished reading How Rory Thorne Destroyed the Multiverse. Couldn't put it down! Captivating story and gorgeous writing. Thanks, @svartjagr, for the great trip. Moving on to the sequel.
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24 Oct 2022
Can I improve my query letters using data? While I await replies to my queries (#AmQuerying) I decided to do some data analysis on checkout patterns for books similar to my SF space opera manuscript, using Seattle Public Library open data. Here's what I found (🧵opens):
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24 Oct 2022
(Also thanks to David Christensen & team and the @SPLBuzz for making this data open and available in the first place: data.seattle.gov/Community/C…)
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24 Oct 2022
Disclaimers: I don’t have industry insider knowledge, and don't even have an agent yet, so don’t assume anything above makes sense. I didn't look at variables such as writer experience, trilogy ROI, etc. SF checkout patterns of Seattleites don't prove correlation with anything.
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