Earthling Beta Readers

No, as per my pinned post, I will retweet anyone who is seeking beta readers.

Sorry, I somehow missed this. Congrats on completing your novel!!

🚨 Beta Seeker Alert 🚨
🚨 Beta Seeker Alert 🚨

Seeking MALE beta readers for a 60k word mystery set in small coastal town.
Already have enough female feedback.
Themes: family, hidden truths, emotional depth, small-town suspense. Comp titles: Ordinary Grace, We Begin at the End. DM me if interested!”

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 @earthlingbeta.bsky.social

Story Skeleton—Magpie Murders In a genre as established as mystery, it’s not easy to do something new.

Story Skeleton—Magpie Murders

In a genre as established as mystery, it’s not easy to do something new.

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#storystructure #writingcommunity #booksky

Exit Strategy: Your Novel’s Ending as a Structural Tool Don’t be afraid to find out that something isn’t working. It’s rare to stick the landing on your first draft.

Exit Strategy: Your Novel’s Ending as a Structural Tool

Don’t be afraid to find out that something isn’t working. It’s rare to stick the landing on your first draft.

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#writingcommunity #booksky

cuddling tabby cats, one orange and one grey

cuddling tabby cats, one orange and one grey

“Come on people now, smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to love one another right now.”

Happy #Caturday ❤️

As controversies pile up, is Spotify losing the streaming wars? | CBC News The popular listening platform Spotify has dominated the streaming industry for years. But there have been recent calls to boycott the platform over controversies surrounding issues like artist compen...

I'm happy I made the switch to Tidal a few months ago. They pay artists 3x what Spotify does, they don't run ads for ICE, and they don't invest in AI-powered murder drones.

Win-win-win.

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How (and Why) to Structure Your Memoir Like a Bestselling Novel An engaging memoir, while rooted in reality, employs the same narrative devices that make novels compelling.

How (and Why) to Structure Your Memoir Like a Bestselling Novel

An engaging memoir, while rooted in reality, employs the same narrative devices that make novels compelling.

darlingaxe.com/blogs/news/m...

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The world's ongoing response to American political news in 2025

Before I forget 7, series of 7, 40 x 40”, monoprint, ink on archival paper, 7/25

#ContemporaryArt #ArtCollector #ArtGallery #PortraitArt #DigitalArtist #DigitalArt #Procreate #AffinityPhoto2 #landscape #painting #abstractexpressionism #hyperrealism #art

#art #abstract #painting

Story Structure in The Great Gatsby, part 2 of 4 :)

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Book cover: When the Sky Breaks (sailboat under a large moon)

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"When the Sky Breaks is a vibrant biopunk science fiction novel that brings us on an incredible odyssey."

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What do you find the most difficult to write?

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Coincidences can work well at the inciting incident or if they make things worse for your protagonist, but otherwise they tend to feel cheap and mechanical.

#creativewriting
#writingtips
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#writingadvice

A writing professor once told me,"there is nothing easy or cheap about being clear."

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Where is your current manuscript taking you?

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Have you read The Secret History? What did you think?

My latest book signing! Only sold five copies, but talked to lots of people, refined my pitch, and got 20 newsletter signups 😁✌️

Attempting to make some reels!

Everyone should listen to Sparrow 😁😁😁

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

—from Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Victoria-based author writes book framing Canada-US trade war as satirical fantasy Local Victoria author Septimus Brown’s latest offering frames the ongoing US-Canada trade as a satirical fantasy quest titled We’ve Come for Your Eggs (And Other Reasons to Annex the North).

"Some early reviews of the book have called it “laugh out loud funny,” with one reviewer stating that they spat their drink out of their mouth at one point due to laughter."

Check out the article about my book on Victoria Buzz 🤩

victoriabuzz.com/2025/11/vict...

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"Juggernaut" comes from the Sanskrit "jagannatha," meaning "lord of the world."

#etymology

Seems like an appropriate quote today for our neighbours to the south:

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
— Victor Hugo

"Lonely" made its debut in Shakespeare's Coriolanus.

#etymology

digitized image of a watercolor by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (French, 1778-1846), unidentified jellyfish specimen from the Baudin Expedition to Australia (1800-1804), side view https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drawing_of_jellyfish_by_Lesueur_16.jpg

digitized image of a watercolor by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (French, 1778-1846), unidentified jellyfish specimen from the Baudin Expedition to Australia (1800-1804), side view https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drawing_of_jellyfish_by_Lesueur_17.jpg

digitized image of a watercolor by Charles-Alexandre Lesueur (French, 1778-1846), unidentified jellyfish specimen from the Baudin Expedition to Australia (1800-1804), bottom view https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drawing_of_jellyfish_by_Lesueur_3.jpg

For #WorldJellyfishDay: a sampling of Charles-Alexandre Lesueur's #sciart from his & François Péron's work conducted on the Baudin Expedition to Australia 1800-1804, which more than quadrupled the # of documented #jellyfish species. Muséum du Havre archives: museum-lehavre.fr/en/node/6

Book Cover (dragon flying across a sun and cloud) for We've Come for Your Eggs

🧐 The Surprising Power of Letting Myself Be Silly 😜

I did a guest post on Jennifer L. Gadd's blog about my new book: We've Come for Your Eggs.

Check it out:

jenniferlgadd.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/g...

Thanks @jenniferlgadd.bsky.social 🤩