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Share this if your feed might want an ARC of In Sekhmet's Shadow. People tell me that I need reviews -- so, here's your chance. Interested in a LGBTQ+ sci-fi thriller that's best described as #WATCHMEN meets #EVANGELION? It's very similar to #thepowerfantasy too! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Share this if your feed might want an ARC of In Sekhmet's Shadow. People tell me that I need reviews -- so, here's your chance. Interested in a LGBTQ+ sci-fi thriller that's best described as #WATCHMEN meets #EVANGELION? It's very similar to #thepowerfantasy too! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Caught up on @kierongillen.bsky.social 's incredible #powerfantasy! Had a real 'whoa' moment with Heavy's comment about the arc of justice bending how you bend it, like Blueshift's words in Wake about bending the arc of history if you have the power to do so. What is it with gravity manipulators?

August 5 (hooray, AEST.) #sffchat Tiger/Sam. A middle-aged Army Ranger lady who's maybe the toughest member of the cast, but also the voice of reason -- maybe. Everyone loves her ability to call out the rest of the cast's BS. If you can look past the blood on her hands. #booksky #writingcommunity

I know this person doesn't actually believe what they've posted here, but there's something deeply silly about this accusation. Given the saturation of AI stuff, it's galling to be accused of it when Sekhmet is all human (and 40% off!) But this also shows the importance of leaving positive reviews!

August 1. Sab: a frankly terrifying ability to hold two conflicting viewpoints without a shred of self-doubt. Jack: A gun.

IN SEKHMET'S WAKE opens with a poem. Ever since reading Hirshfield's work, I was struck by how well it resonated with Sabra's journey through the second novel: If you must be heartless to bear it, is it still right to give up your heart? Hirshfield generously allowed me to use it. #writing #poetry

In honor of releasing IN SEKHMET'S WAKE, here's something. Like SHADOW, I have a (bigger) playlist for WAKE. Not much commentary, for fear of spoilers. Posting three now in the following replies. If you've read Shadow, you can probably figure out the relevance. #music #booksky #writesky 1/?

"A pacifist haunted by visions of the apocalypse must choose between love, justice, and the fate or humanity." IN SEKHMET'S WAKE is now live. Once again, with incredible art from the one and only @tommyarnoldart.com www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9V6WF4P

I never quite know what to make of Sam Kriss but, my God, he's fascinating, and this piece is very, very funny. "As everyone knows, the most important truth rationalists have uncovered with their superior powers of induction is that the robot uprising is coming." open.substack.com/pub/samkriss...

Controversial Rhodes #Writing Opinion Time: a 14 year old's shallow take on Adam Smasher is not actually terribly helpful. There are dozens of reasons why we only see one Adam, and somehow I don't think the implications the writers didn't think it through is the most accurate one. #cyberpunk2077

been thinking about this all goddamn day

Unfortunately for everyone involved, and especially me, I fear my writing impulses are best described by that one Simpsons clip. "So, you want to write a realistic, down-to-earth story... that's completely off-the-wall and swarming with magic robots." youtu.be/Oqk_fN0NRgg #writesky #writingcommunity

Sometimes it disconcerts me out that I think the most popular thing I've ever written, beyond a now-deleted Mass Effect fanfic, is a #transformers fanfic that involves me putting far too much thought in to the Michael Bay films (which I love dearly) and having a soldier kiss a motorcycle. What?

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I... Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

IN SEKHMET'S SHADOW was selected for the Reddit RAB bookclub, and part of it involved an author QnA which has gone up today! Maybe you'll find something interesting in it! www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/co... #writesky #booksky

A conversation between Revenant and Murderbot would be pretty fascinating, ngl.

I don't always agree with Zizek (I don't think Zizek always agrees with Zizek), but I wouldn't be who I am without having read a whole bunch of his work at undergrad. And I still think about this clip an average of once a week.

Needed this reminder today.

Reposting this cool piece! #art #scifi #booksky

Controversial #transformers opinion time: the most interesting parts of the series are when the giant alien robots are hanging around on present-day Earth. Like 'em or not, but the way the Bay films sort of had humans and Cybertronians influence and corrupt each other ruled.

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So, I'm one of those people who composes big playlists for my works and the characters therein. I figured it might be fun to get into that now that Sekhmet is in the wild. We'll start with the song that, to me, feels like the 'theme' of IN SEKHMET'S SHADOW. youtu.be/S010hhJw3bY 1/? #booksky #music

And In Sekhmet's Shadow is live! I started writing this story back in 2017 and, now, it feels like it's out in the wild for real. ISS is, in the words of a writer who is much better than me, "an anticapitalist, post-superhero sci-fi thriller." Give it a look! #booksky #fiction #art a.co/d/61vudUg

Perhaps the coolest thing about writing the Sekhmet series has been working with @tommyarnoldart.com on the covers. Here is the 1st version of Shadow's cover (releasing June 30), which I adore, but got changed to better fit the tone of the series when Tommy did Wake's cover! #booksky #writing #art

The first two novels in my psychological "post-superhero" sci-fi thriller series are now up for pre-order on Amazon. Ebooks only for now. Links can be found at jdrhodes.net #writing #superheroes #sci-fi

I don't use social media much, but if you want to stay informed about any forthcoming releases, be the first to hear of anything, then you can sign up for my mailing list at jdrhodes.net

IN SEKHMET'S WAKE is online! Link: royalroad.com/fiction/7034... A pacifist haunted by visions of the apocalypse must choose between love, justice, and the fate of humanity in this super-heroic combination of THE BOYS and NEON GENESIS EVANGELION. #writing #fantasy #sciencefiction

RIP to everyone making #writing mistakes for their lack of an editor but im different. and better. maybe even better than the editors.