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I’m a #polymath who gets her kicks learning and doing new things.
I started in corporate finance, then went freelance as a #writer, #author of #tech #books, articles, and #video training material. Along the way, I learned to fly #helicopters. I launched my own helicopter charter business and a popular #YouTube channel of #flying videos. Now I’m mostly #retired, a #jewelry #artist and #boat #captain, #RVing and #boating with my pups when I’m away from home.
The fact that marketing more than quality influences what becomes popular is proof that we live in an inherently unjust universe 😜😁
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Talk about unrealistic writing! No self-respecting main character would ever get up from a nap before the 9th chapter 😜😁
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A bandcamp for authors?
Here are some thoughts.
https://paulkater.com/theblog/bookcamp-the-bandcamp-for-authors.html
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Hey #Fediverse I’m an #author and #indiedev thats bounced between a few different accounts most recently on GoToSocial, but I missed feeling like I was a part of a community, which led me to join omg.lol.
I’m currently writing a massive sprawling epic fantasy told across serialized short stories that take place across eras and realities. It’s available for free to read.
I’m also working toward the release of Day Four, a contemplative fantasy about loss and power and the precarious lives of those who resist it.
On the dev side, I’m working on finishing up a soon to be released low stress task app called Cadence, and I built slowclap, a patronage platform that’s based around community support!
I’m looking forward to meeting you all out in the Fediverse! Thanks for reading!
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This year's FediBookFair will be 7th/8th November.
FediBookFair is a chance for #authors and #publishers to post about their books using the #FediBookFair hashtag.
#Readers can watch or follow the hashtag to find #books to read and authors to follow. It's an excellent chance to find #Christmas gifts.
Full details at https://AuthorHelp.uk/FediBookFair/
Boosts appreciated.
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.09.28 — Could you work without the [I]nternet? What would change?
I wrote using a computer from 1975 through 1997—though the early years were timeshare—without the aid of the Internet. Spellcheckers and grammar checkers appeared well before they became Internet-based, though I have hardcopy (remember books?) dictionaries, reverse dictionaries, spell-check books, and thesauri. I do have encyclopedias of science, engineering, and other knowledge lookup books, but realistically, research without a good librarian would be very much more difficult without the Internet, and would have taken days instead of minutes. I look up a lot of things. Writing my Mars-colonization novel would have been very difficult without being able to look up facts, photos, a discussions at the time of need. Moreover, I would not have written it at all, since the feminist story is based on a #writever month of feminist prompts—31 of them, one for each chapter—posted on Mastodon.
I am thankful for the Internet.
[Author retains copyright (c)2026 R.S.]
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Would your main character be the type to tell themselves affirmations?
That depends on what qualifies as an affirmation. Does clutching the clipboard and mumbling, ‘We can think our way out of this,’ count?
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What is your cure for getting out of a creative slump?
That's usually my brain's way of asking for a pause. I look around me: what's going on in my life? Stress? Worries? Grief? Anger? Unresolved problems soaking up the energy?
Show the ol' noggin some compassion and let it have the break it's asking for.
Just don't overdo it.
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Your editor wants you to cut a favourite chapter. How do you react?
I cut it out and save it in a folder among all the other favourite chapters. Rereads the book once my hurt pride has calmed down a bit. If I still agree with the editor, it stays out.
The chapter might find its way into something else, in one way or the other. Maybe it will be the start of a new, short story? But I'm not sacrificing the overall story for one beautiful chapter.
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Having to trust the editor, and let the book go? It's a bit like watching the kids move out. You know it's time, but you'd still want just a little more time because even though you can always see them again, once you've let them go, they've entered a new phase in their life. One where you don't get to be a part of every single little detail any more.
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I turned up at Waterstones in Worthing to sign some new stock of QUEER ORIGINS and was absolutely bowled over to be greeted by this, in prime position in the shop window! It's so uplifting when booksellers get behind one's book. 💜🌈📚🦋
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I've ways found quarries to be inherently creepy places, and that still, often lifeless water has never helped improve that perception.
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Disagree 🤔 I mean it would be easier without all that writing but it's also the only requirement for being a writer 😁
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#ScribesAndMakers – 22nd Sept. Promotion day. Self or someone else. Or both.
Damn!
It’s a day too early, the next chapter of my online serialisation of my short story collection, Tales From the Demi-monde, goes live tomorrow and I don’t have a direct link to it until then.
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Hello lovely people. I'm running an online 3 hr crash course in indie publishing in October that'll give you all the info you'll need to get a book out there.
Pay-what-you-can.
Oct 7th.
Ticket holders can access the video for 2 weeks after if you can't make the time.
This recently sold out here at Beautiful Words Festival. The pay-what-you-can is because we want it to be as accessible as possible🪻🌹
https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/a-crash-course-in-independent-publishing-tickets-1997305616866
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