Office romances are... complicated... Do assassins even have HR? youtube.com/shorts/57IFz... The Concierge Episode 4, Written by @marykirby.bsky.social

Some lovely, and much appreciated, coverage of Malys! www.pcgamesn.com/malys/out-no...

🍂 Sharing eerie and autumnal pieces every Monday/Friday to Halloween 🎃 Facing monsters in the dark. A Grey Warden story and the start of Evka Ivo's Warden journey. You can read "The Next One" for free here: www.ea.com/en-ca/games/...

Season 1.5 continues with an exciting little update! (And some superb pinball action). "Phone Tag" written by @marykirby.bsky.social and directed by @liljbat.bsky.social Performed by Corben Kushneryk and John Battye Audio by Andrew Sutherland, Colleen Perman and Chris Scott youtu.be/BH9LMRGDTWQ

🍂 Sharing eerie and autumnal pieces every Monday/Friday to Halloween 🎃 "Each Minute Closer" throws off a daily routine as minutes count down to a convergence... Found in "Well, This is Tense: An anthology of second person present horror" from Bag of Bones Press: www.amazon.ca/WELL-THIS-TE...

Season 1.5 Episode 2 “The Concierge Post Mortem: Full Inbox”, written by @marykirby.bsky.social is out now! The Victoria Concierge makes the mistake of checking their voice mail. The Jack of Hearts gets it done… and craves donair. youtu.be/LBmpRILJIYo?...

The first of the Season 1.5 interludes, "Midnight Stroll" is now up on YouTube! Written by @sylviafeketekuty.bsky.social , performed by Lee Savage and edited by Andrew Sutherland The King of Spades calls home in this 100% Canadian Made Audio Drama youtu.be/TmEOfD2tAYw?...

💜🖤💜 Sylvia and I are writing season two of the podcast right now, too.

The thing we love about art, the connection between human beings across time and space and the sharing of emotion and expression, that's the thing the AI backers specifically hate. They just want objects to buy and sell which can't criticize or question them, or ever make them think.

Reminder: This weekend, I'm the game-dev guest of honor at the free virtual SF/F convention, @flightsoffoundry.bsky.social! I'll be on a bunch of panels, and my keynote Saturday night is called, "20 Years of Accidental Self-Inserts." You can register here! flights-of-foundry.org

Vogue, I'm sorry. You can't use this thumbnail unless the actual list is: 1. Luring men to their deaths in the bog 2. Keening on the north wind 3. Cursing your enemies 4. Haunting a moor 5. Dancing around cauldrons 6. Lounging over moss-covered bones 7. Communing with spirits 8. Amazon prime

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Season 1.5 of “The Concierge: Post Mortem” begins today! With “Midnight Stroll” written by Sylvia Feketekuty. Join the King of Spades on a walk through Edmonton’s scenic parking lots- content warning in the description. shows.acast.com/the-concierg... www.northmiststudios.com

The sun is shining, autumn is here and Season Finale, Episode 6 of "The Concierge: Post Mortem" is now up on YouTube! youtu.be/K196VnidKzo

We had some technical difficulties, but now Episode 5 of The Concierge is on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlnu...

And we’re now live! shows.acast.com/the-concierg... Huge thanks to the entire pile of supporters, talent and businesses that gave us their trust and embraced our nuttiness. Murder, Mayhem and Maple Syrup

It’s and insanely busy time at the studio for us- but never the less! Episode 6, the season 1 finale of The Concierge: Post Mortem drops tomorrow!

Rian Johnson really just woke up one day and said “that’s it, I’m single-handedly (with my large casts and crews) bringing back the whodunit and making it everyone’s problem”. Good for him!

1. Companies fire employees and replace with gen AI 2. Gen AI makes bad stuff. 3. Companies hire people to fix it (and pay less, because the employees are new/"just" editing/freelances without benefits). 4. Somehow this is hailed as job creation.

Care to take an audio tour of a mall during the zombie apocalypse? My latest short story "Welcome to Spruceway" is available to read for free at Augur: augursociety.org/welcome-to-s...

Pay attention, Canada. If Alberta is successful in this book banning, this will spread. Look around you, b/c this is how it starts. We're on the same ledge the US was on. And we either start fighting this right-wing rise now, or we follow the Americans over the edge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

P.J. is my favorite character. By which I mean I love writing him, but I also want to run him over with a bus.

Gardener and Tilda battle a treacherous server, Aaron "borrows" a Diamond, Mike changes careers (again), Hearty asks the 10 of Clubs for help and P.J. ...tries. Episode 5 of The Concierge: Post Mortem now live on ApplePodcast, Spotify and Acast! (YouTube is giving grief this morning... 🗡️)

My tinfoil hat theory: The area of space the Corporation Rim occupies is the interstellar equivalent of an artificial island. A whole galactic arm made of compacted trash.

I was not prepared for my tiny fan-trained tree to produce two pounds of fruit every couple days. Anybody have a good recipe for Greengages they want to share before I drown in plums?

"By far the biggest expense when making games is salaries." Whose salaries?

Age verification bills are bad for a lot of reasons. Check up on what your governments are doing, especially if it involves facial recognition, because that's a privacy nightmare.

*stares into the middle distance*

This is unspeakably badass.

“All the most pivotal members of the team were laid off, but don’t worry, we kept The One Very Angry Guy Who Is Singlehandedly Holding Up Production!”

Dear Albertans, see below

Me, confronted with Outside

Episode 4 of The Concierge: Post Mortem is now live! The Edmonton crew is gearing up for war- Victoria is catching wise. Gardener's quick thinking... has unintended consequences. #theconcierge #audiodrama #spy #madeincanada

Episode four is here! (I think this one's my favorite, actually.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv1d...

Please remember folks: The entire concept of "the literary canon" is propaganda. The English and American Canons existed as a way to tell people who they were *supposed* to be and what they *should* want. What's your sci-fi canon saying you're allowed to imagine? What box is it putting stories in?

Everyone talking about getting back at the crypto-bros who are throwing dildos at WNBA players mid-game: love the energy, but as someone raised inside Manland, I can tell you throwing dildos at THEM won’t shame or anger them. TAMPONS. Dudes like this can’t handle tampons. That’s the shame ticket.

Working in the games industry right now is like working in the Banana Stand, knowing that the walls of the stand are lined with $250k, and having an executive show up and burn the Banana Stand down, with you inside it, because somebody said they *might* pay them to do it.

Thrilled to have my short story "Welcome to Spruceway" in Augur's next issue. Stay tuned!

Hey, Canadian friends, you might want to sign this and/or contact your MPs. www.change.org/p/stop-bill-...

I think I still play as many games as before, but I sure as hell don't play them the same way anymore. Half of my attention goes to analysis now. How did they accomplish this thing? Why do the parts that don't work fail and why do the good parts work so well?

"Mine." #lucanis #lucanisdelamorte #rookanis #vaureliomercar #ART

I was worried about them not ranking Alberta last, but then I saw their reasoning, and you know, fair.

Lunchtime listen today is episode three of The Concierge

Episode Three is live! (apologies to everyone who, uh... gets the references and is subsequently traumatized.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Q9...

One more day until Episode Three of The Concierge! You can start from the beginning here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhI7...

Andraste's flaming knickers, this is perfect, yes.

Pink currants. I should really just bite the bullet and charge the battery for my SLR. I think these might come across better with a real polarizing filter.

🖤💜If Illario can't be there, Sam's clearly the next best thing.

Four days until the next episode of The Concierge! If you want to catch up, here's EP 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4net...