#emojisounds
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
🖕
👩🏼🎤 Olivia Rodrigo & Lily Allen
🎵 Fuck You (2008)
🎪 Glastonbury 2022
I wouldn't normally share a video like this from an unofficial site, but it was such a perfect use for the song, and the message still stands.
I must admit I'm feeling a little seen by some of the marketing Don'ts, mainly because I'm a bit rubbish at social media in general and still haven't got into my bluesky groove.
#pretendpanel
I can tolerate most marketing tricks, although some won't actually convince me to buy anything.
The one thing I do hate, is that subset of authors who, the minute you follow them, slide into your DMs like 'Oh hi. I see you can read. Read my book!'
No. Get in the bin.
I got printed proofs of my two cover concepts so I can test them out with actual people at Carlisle Comic Con in a couple of weeks.
The map looks a bit washed out in the flesh, and the alien face is too big, but those can be fixed if the concept works.
#BookSky #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
#emojisounds
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🪩
👩🏼🎤 Blondie
🎵 Heart of Glass (1979)
💿 Parallel Lines
They say you can guess a man's age with a 90% accuracy based on his reaction to the words 'Debbie Harry'.
Them's fightin vibes for today's #WIPSnips.
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What if you were the only human *not* to get turned into a bear? What if all the bears were turned into humans too?
*opens a fresh notebook*
#pretendpanel
For me, a bonkers premise will sell a book. Eurovision Song Contest in space? Yes please! The moon suddenly turns into cheese for no obvious reason? Oh heck yes!
So I guess in marketing terms it's the elevator pitch, followed by the blurb if I'm only half way there.
QTP with a gif that pops up when you type your name!
#emojisounds
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Day 13
🍁
👨🏻🎤 Meat Loaf
🎵 California Dreamin' (2010)
💿 Hell In A Handbasket
All the leaves are brown, even when it's Meat Loaf going for a walk among them.
#SFFChat outro
Sharing the cover concepts for my next (bear-free) novel, The Rothwell Incident. All thoughts, comments, and preferences welcomed.
#SFFChat Q4:
Here's the word bear in T.Rex's origin story, from Bit#1 of The Ambivalence Chronicles.
I have no actual bears in any stories so far. Maybe next time?
#SFFChat Q3:
Lobsang from the Long Earth series comes to mind, partly for being a Tibetan genius turned AI, but mostly because he struck me as being somewhat manipulative towards Joshua.
I don't think we had those; Now! and the Hits Album/Tape/CD were the big compilations of my youth.
#SFFChat Q2:
Create them with something I can relate to, even something trivial like which is the best Cola or sharing the same first NOW... album.
That at least gives me a way into their character or a way to imagine a conversation with them.
#SFFChat Q1
One thing I do find when I'm writing is that switching perspective, even just for a single chapter or scene, can give me a fresh outlook on the story and release writer's block.
Sometimes it even stays in the final edit!
#SFFChat intro
Hi, I'm Steve, scifi and GameLit author, usually in the wrong time zone/reality for this game.
If I turned into a polar bear I'd be getting some Iorek Byrnison cosplay before the next comic con. Also drinking Coke, but I do that anyway.
#emojisounds
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Day 12
🏝️
👨🏻🎤 Daikaiju
🎵 Farewell to Monster Island (2005)
💿 Daikaiju
Is it even a music challenge without at least one 8½ minute monster surf rock instrumental?
No shimmying but I do have a knight in a dance off against a fairy, so there's that.
#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
#emojisounds
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Day 11
🍕*
👨🏻🎤 10cc
🎵 Life Is a Minestrone (1975)
💿 The Original Soundtrack
*Other Italian foods are available.
I do like a good chapter title.
Most of my #GameLit titles refer to game titles or level/room names, but I've deviated a bit in The Knight Errors.
Favourites so far:
📖 Stables and Stability
📖 My Dad went to Romford and all I got was this crappy chapter title.
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Day 10
👠
👨🏻🎤 David Bowie
🎵 Let's Dance (1983)
💿 Let's Dance
I thought this was an obvious choice but I haven't seen it come up yet... So here it is.
#emojisounds
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Day 9
🎻
👨🏻🎤 Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band
🎵 A Fifth of Beethoven (1976)
💿 Saturday Night Fever (Soundtrack)
Seamless link from poodle to St Bernard, which was mentioned by the Pet Shop Boys yesterday.
Yes, that's why it's a controversial opinion! Human would be my preference, and i certainly won't be doing anything that sounds like those terrible YouTube narrations that seem to be everywhere now.
At this point it's the only affordable way I could create audiobooks, so I certainly intend to look into it.
#ControversialOpinion:
AI narration potentially makes indie books accessible to an audience who can't read regular books.
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#AINarration #AI #Audiobooks
Wait, they didn't actually have a pet shop? Well no wonder they wanted a flippin dog!
Honestly, it's like the entire 1980s was a lie...
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Day 8
🐩
👨🏻🎤 Pet Shop Boys
🎵 I Want a Dog (1988)
💿 Introspective
Ok, so poodle is the only major dog breed not to get a mention in the lyrics, but it gets points for coming from an actual pet shop.
