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#FrankMatsura watches a Buddhist ritual that welcomes ancestral spirts and thinks of what it means, and doesn't mean, to him as a Japanese Christian convert. #WIPsnips #hope #writesky #historicalfiction #asian-american

Text image: From Continuum1: Disunion by JJ Robinson II The #WIPSnips word for October 16th is "might" Ha'k muses about the sad state of military "intelligence". [In his mind, he could picture the hordes of small vessels in hemispherical formation, with their fleetship at the zenith. They would attempt to close into the classical spherical envelopment, the “Mouth of the Lion,” to crush the opponent in their focused fire. Current and former military leaders of the Confederation–often political appointees–seldom showed much imagination or initiative. Almost every commander in any fleet would try to form the Mouth whenever he had any chance of doing so. A clever commander might bait a trap with the apparent opportunity to form the Mouth. ]

From Continuum1: Disunion
by JJ Robinson II

The #WIPSnips word for October 16th is "might"
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#ScienceFiction

Ha'k muses about the sad state of military "intelligence".

Complicated but essentially yes. He was very much associated with the Soviets. bsky.app/profile/100y...

The Expanse: A Telltale Series - Telltale Games Enter the fractured psyche of Bruce Wayne and discover the powerful and far-reaching consequences of your choices as the Dark Knight.

Game version of The Expanse arranged in episodes, from the PoV of Drummer. Recent Steam reviews are 77% positive, and it's on sale for <$10USD. Not really that interesting for me.
telltale.com/the-expanse/

Chiang Kai-shek was originally anti-Western?

🙄😬

The leaders of the German delegation, Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann and Chancellor Hans Luther, at the start of the Locarno Conference

Fresno, Calif., Republican

Oct. 15, 1925: France and Germany reach a breakthrough in security talks at Locarno, Switzerland. The onetime WWI enemies, together with Belgium, agree on a pledge not to attack each other. With Britain and Italy as guarantors, an era of peace is foreseen. 1/6

At Xitter and Facebook, scammers claiming to offer “marketing services” to writers are rampant – and like vermin sneaking aboard a ship they're following us here. Let’s stop ‘em with this handy moderation list! #authorsky bsky.app/profile/inventingrea...

A gliding spacecraft, out of fuel and low on airspeed, approaches the Edge. [My partly finished Blender model of the spacecraft, adapted from my test plane in Kerbal Space Program]

Continuum 1: Disunion by JJ Robinson II
#writingcommunity #sciencefiction #writesky

Continuum 1: Disunion by JJ Robinson II
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Yeah, got to clean up the POVs here. #wip

Text Image: From Continuum 4: Reunion #WIP by JJ Robinson II The #WIPSnips word for October 12th is "hope" Baker's professional confidence meets real-life consequences. [ “What’s your name?” Baker asked, in what she hoped was a comforting voice. “They took my name, and my father’s and uncles’, when they captured us. Not sure what to be called anymore.” Ergald didn’t miss Baker’s attempt to hide the shock on her face when the child said this, but decided not to pursue the matter. He was her employer, after all. “Um—Boy? It’s more a title.” Baker’s voice only trembled a little. “All right, I guess.”]

From Continuum 4: Reunion
#WIP by JJ Robinson II

The #WIPSnips word for October 12th is "hope"
#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Baker's professional confidence meets real-life consequences.

#WIPSnips #fantasy #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #welcome

Even a simple introduction is demeaning.

Rushak is brought to the king’s hall for the first time by his father.
POV: Chalmalch, Druid.

- Brother’s Keeper, book one of my fantasy WIP about two brothers bound by a misunderstood power.

Slow Horses (TV Series 2022– ) ⭐ 8.3 | Drama, Thriller 50m | TV-MA

Watched an episode of "Slow Horses", about a bottom of the barrel unit of MI5. It's apparently been around a while.

Best part so far is Gary Oldman as Hell's middle management.

www.imdb.com/title/tt5875...

Up to 19 people feared dead after Tennessee munitions factory explodes, shakes homes for miles around Accurate Energetic Systems near Bucksnort, Tennessee, suffered a catastrophic explosion on Friday morning that left multiple people dead.

notthebee.com/article/19-p...

#RevPit #10Queries Winners have been drawn at random and assigned to editors (also at random), and emails went out to those whose submissions were selected.

Join us Oct 24 to get tons of helpful querying advice. Anyone can benefit from this feedback, even if you weren't selected or didn't enter

I've been selected randomly by #RevPit #10Queries [120 Chosen Ones!] for a free editor critique of my query and the 1st 5 pages of Continuum: Disunion. The editor who will look at my submission is also picked randomly. Will be interesting to see how this works.

The gun that Shanahan was too late to draw is on display at FBI offices in Chicago

Chicago Tribune

Oct. 11, 1925: An agent of the U.S. Bureau of Investigation (later FBI) is killed in the line of duty for the first time. Edwin Shanahan is helping Chicago police stake out a garage where a tipster has told them to expect a car thief wanted for shooting several city officers. 1/2

Bible Gateway passage: Psalm 62:1 - New American Standard Bible God Alone a Refuge from Treachery and Oppression. - For the music director; according to Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. My soul waits in silence for God alone; From Him comes my salvation.

Psalm 62:1

62 My soul waits in silence for God alone;
From Him comes my salvation.

www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea... via @biblegateway [VotD]

Author Update: Publisher's Cancellation Backfires, What's Selling Now, and Did Libraries Just Die? YouTube video by Novel Marketing

Didn't watch the podcast yet.
www.youtube.com/live/FOIphPP...

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is leaking water like a 'fire hose running at full blast,' new study finds "It tells us that the ingredients for life's chemistry are not unique to our own."

🫠

www.space.com/astronomy/co...

"Author Update" reports Baker & Taylor, a major distributor of books to libraries, is shutting down.

😎

Can’t read most of the clip. What, out of morbid curiosity, did he die of?

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I'm seeing an increasing number of scams like the one below, leveraging the widespread problem of publishing scams w/ a faux service promising to fix problems author is having w/ the original scam but really to hit them up for more $$ (note the "Amazon partner agency" claim: there's no such thing)

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Text image: From "The Coin", a short story by JJ Robinson II The #WIPSnips word for October 9th is "battery" Herschel figures out how to get in the building after the robot overlords are mysteriously deactivated. “Bring up one of the manual power-loaders,” he said to the growing human crowd. His mind raced, as he tried to remember what he had seen in the shiny, hemispherical building in much earlier times. “Push one of the walkers up near that white area on the wall.” Herschel connected booster cables to the primitive >battery< of the old loader, then the other ends to studs on the head-sphere of the walker. He struck the head with his fist. Nothing. He prodded with small tools from one of his pockets at an access, but couldn’t get anything to work. The crowd murmured uncomfortably. He disconnected the cables, then reconnected them. A few lights on the head flashed briefly, then darkened. The white area on the dome vanished. “Hurry!” They pushed the walker and the dilapidated loader into the dome. A huge curved desk, apparently the work of a very unimaginative artist, loomed in the center of the outer chamber. After a time of prodding the inert walker and cycling its power, Herschel found the right combination. An image several man-heights high winked into the air in front of them. It was a visual display for the use of humans long ago, when they still worked in the central building.  Another while with his cobbled controls, and Herschel was sure he was right. “They’re cheap.” Herschel announced.  The crowd murmured. “A latent human failing,” He explained. “They rolled out two new models for our extinction event, that they didn’t have to pay for. They got more than they bargained for.”

From "The Coin", a short story by JJ Robinson II

The #WIPSnips word for October 9th is "battery"

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #ScienceFiction

Herschel figures out how to get in the building, after the Robot Overlords are mysteriously deactivated by a "latent human failing".

Are you ready? 5 days left until #10Queries is here.