sometimes you need just enough Dunning-Kruger to get up in the morning

nothing goes viral on bsky so I can say that safely

Stupid game played. Stupid prize won. Time for NG+

Ask not for whom the ring tones. Instead, turn it off, we're trying to think over here.

I thought the rapture had finally come, but it was just seven Canadian geese.

I heard a white-winged dove for the first time today. I thought Stevie Nicks made those up.

The vorpal feed went swiper-slack

I'd like to see Brendan Frasier in the role of the Crow.

Protection Racket: a scheme of organized crime where a group guarantees protection from threats in return for money. See also: Health Insurance.

Writing guides, such as the Author Training Manual, suggest you should have a platform, even as a fiction author, to get published. How does one create a platform if the reason anyone would follow an author is their writing, which, because they are unpublished, people won't know about?

Cloudflare is annoying. How many times do I have to click yes I'm human? At least there is no puzzle to solve, but what is the point, other than to discourage me from using whatever website is defended by these super hack-blocking powers.

#HorrorWritersChat This year's nano I am doing The Murderbot Diaries meets the Barbie movie. An evil doll won a tournament and became human. She is now the star attraction at a cafe where the baristas dress as sexy maids, but when she and her coworkers are mistreated, she becomes a vigilante.

One more #pitdark before it closes: Podcast the Demons Out is an origin story: Constantine meets The Good Place. When I watched Paranormal Activity, I was curious about the lore behind the haunting, so I wrote this story. Ian and hacker girlfriend Fallon uncover the lore & gain a demonic audience.

#pitdark #PNH An excommunicated divinity student starts a horror movie podcast, but it draws a demonic audience. A possessed listener contacts him for help. It's the legions of hell vs a sorcerer with no apprenticeship, an exorcist with no Church. All he has are his wits… & his wittier girlfriend.

If you are a writer, lamenting that #pitdark isn't happening here, post your pitch, even if you post elsewhere, too. It might not have an impact today, but on the next cycle… We can't overcome the network effects of twitter without a concerted effort. A little intransigence goes a long way.

It took longer than I hoped, but I have a #PitDark feed up: bsky.app/profile/did:...

I'm starting to get motivated! maybe.

#bluesky meet #greysky

Demonifuge [dih-MON-ih-fyooj] (n.) - Anything believed to give protection against or exorcize demons/evil spirits -Charm/protection against demons "If Father Karras had used a more efficacious demonifuge, the movie would have been pretty darn anticlimactic." Get my new book: amzn.to/3R05mfJ

Where has all the attention gone?

The moon in daytime always reminds me that we are in space.

One last camping trip in the smokies before they close for the season.

Create magic systems w/Latin spells? Roman empire Decimate an army, yours or another's? Roman empire Sow chaos in the Senate, galactic or otherwise? Roman empire Read a Romance novel? Roman empire. Crush the patriarchy? Roman empire Decolonize your mind? Guess who's hiding in the dark… Roman empire

baekdal.com/strategy/the... reminds me of the slate long tail article. Although this article focuses on journalism, novelists experience similar problems. The end of tyrannical scale chasing would be a positive, but what new paradigm would best serve both readers and writers?

testing a #PitDark post

So, #BlueSky doesn't support hashtags yet. That would make #PitDark kind of difficult. I'm looking into creating a custom feed.

Don't mind me. I am practicing shouting into the void.

hey

Coming soon: Nightbread, from the maker of Hellriser, Clive Baker

Horror has always been social commentary. Horror has always been queer. Horror has always been political.

Anything that has ever occurred IS science stuff. — Provisional Lieutenant, Junior Grade, T’Lyn

Spirit Halloweens on their yearly migration, a sure sign that fall is here

The Long Tail is far from dead. As with most technology, innovators focused on the pros, ignoring the cons. The long tail has another part: the fat head. What companies like Netflix have been doing is chopping off the long tail, because it is unprofitable, and feeding off the fat head.

The Crane Moon Cycle duology is on sale September 7-18! Queer phoenixes and complicated demons mixed with a pinch of half-immortality and one small noodle-loving dragon, yours for under $5! books2read.com/crane-moon-c...

Superb

me when one of my posts gets more than two likes

Welcome to Bluesky, we have rules here: 1. You lock the target 2. You bait the line 3. You slowly spread the net, and 4. You catch the man

1. I'm nobody, aspiring to be antibody 2. Pop culture and historical lore inspired supernatural horror novels 3. PodcastTheDemonsOut.com (yep, needs work, not yet published!) 4. Halloween is every day, so every candy is Halloween candy. Gimme no whey foods chocolate truffles.

And, later, Peter Cullen

I started querying my new novel.😶

Are bath thoughts deeper than shower thoughts?

I still wonder if particle man gets wet or if water gets him. Some shower thoughts have no resolution

About to live blog a watching of #MyBestFriendsExorcism from the the POV of my novel's protagonist: @[email protected]. #writer #PodcastTheDemonsOut

You've taken a step, and your foot is on its way down, and you see that pattern. Watch out! It's copperhead season

Network effects.