@v8sheppard.bsky.social
Award-winning author of KING OF DIRT out 3 Jun 2025 (Pantera Press). INVISIBLE BOYS TV series out now on Stan Australia. Bodybuilder 💪 | Rough trade ♂️ | Loose unit 🤙 www.holdensheppard.com
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06.08.2025 13:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am fkn RAGING. 🤬🤬
Australia's productivity commission wants to steal all Aussie writers' books for free to train AI. No consent. No compensation. This is outrageous! It is outright theft. It is completely morally bankrupt. Leave copyright alone. We need it to survive.
Here's my fkn feedback.🖕
Date night with my husband 😘💪 @raphaelfarmer.bsky.social
05.08.2025 23:08 — 👍 26 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Feelin tank 💪💪
05.08.2025 09:26 — 👍 27 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"[KING OF DIRT] cries out to be adapted into a movie or TV series." 🤩🤩
So chuffed with this new review of KING OF DIRT in the Aug issue of Good Reading Magazine. Not just the suggestion it'd be great on screen, it really *gets* who Jack Brolo is.
Cheers to Russell Thomson for the review🙏🙏
Considering quitting writing to become a bouncer 😎💪
04.08.2025 12:13 — 👍 30 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
Traps outta control bro 💪
04.08.2025 05:43 — 👍 31 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Feelin focused 👊
03.08.2025 04:01 — 👍 30 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0😏
02.08.2025 13:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Watching the other three quarters
02.08.2025 12:20 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Watching Collingwood's first quarter be like 😬
02.08.2025 10:25 — 👍 20 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Something something leg day 🦵
02.08.2025 06:19 — 👍 74 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0
Hack squats 🍑
02.08.2025 05:42 — 👍 27 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0It's good meaningful work and I'm happy to do something small to support them. I'll drop their details below for anyone interested in learning more. 💪💪
www.footpathlibrary.org
Yesterday I donated signed copies of my books to The Footpath Library - the only org in Aus that provides mobile library outreach services to people experiencing homelessness.
They have a mobile library in Perth where homeless people can access free books, reading glasses, a cuppa & a conversation.
I know I post excessive shirtless selfies, so in the interests of modesty, here's a photo of me wearing a singlet instead 😇
01.08.2025 10:42 — 👍 53 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
Friday vibes 😎🤙
01.08.2025 09:57 — 👍 26 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Sorry to post something wholesome but my Year 6 teacher from St Lawrence's Primary School in Gero (Mrs Kelly) attended my author talk in Bayswater last night and came up to say g'day after. Throwback 25 years. Was a bit cool. 😄
01.08.2025 00:23 — 👍 32 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Hopefully international stuff ahead!
30.07.2025 12:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0thank you Malcolm
30.07.2025 09:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0yeah it's quite funny how many people are extremely classist and elitist snobs about a bogan narrator
30.07.2025 08:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0haha I promise I am not desperate for attention enough to do something unhinged like that. I usually ignore trolls ... but every now and then, one is funny enough to clap back at.
30.07.2025 08:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😂😂👌👌
30.07.2025 08:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0hahahahhaha ... right?!!?
30.07.2025 06:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Gun show pew pew 💪💪
30.07.2025 05:27 — 👍 51 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0I'm still like ... what did he *mean* by this?!
30.07.2025 04:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you *did* like KOD, please do leave a review on Goodreads to balance out the nutters. 🙏
I am of course aghast to learn that my uni degree in creative writing was money wasted. I will have to console myself by having a dip in the giant swimming pool of Stan money in my backyard. 😎👑💎
Don't hate me cos you ain't me, Joshua S. 😂
Can't stop laughing cos this nasty review of KOD has the opposite effect of what he hoped: it advertises everything readers like in my books - that they're real & honest about the gay male experience. That offends the prudes.
Thanx for the free promo 😂
Back day done 💪
29.07.2025 05:54 — 👍 23 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
New jacket goes hard
29.07.2025 04:30 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
