Christine Eriksen
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The extroverted @Devon_Eriksen_ wife. Sorry if I goosepoast too much! OMG OMG OMG https://t.co/F1KdKBHcbq
Joined June 2023
I'm too close to eloquently summarize Theft of Fire. All I can say is, if you liked the The Martian, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Expanse Series, Red Rising, and the thoughtful storytelling of Brandon Sanderson. you NEED to order this book
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I don't understand how MS Paint has not yet been sued out of existence
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Something I love about Le Creuset is the way it allows the rich to subsidize the modest. Let's be honest. The ONLY thing you need from them is an enameled Dutch oven. But a company cannot live off one, high quality product which, once purchased, lasts decades.
took me ages to realize — Le Creuset sells kitchenware, yes, but what they're *really* selling is colour
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@ReporterJoseph @TSA @Reagan_Airport @nbcwashington Why are you giving potential bombs to the homeless?!.
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My unhinged libertarian opinion is that a lot more bookkeeping should be done by 14 year old girls. The boys yearn for the mines. The girls yearn for the repetitive, detail oriented classification.
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@JoePostingg Not just forums, but people's passion websites. Some dude who loves dishwashers would have Mike's Dishwasher World, where he'd have in depth reviews and repair articles, and a web ring to his favorite other home appliance websites. Gone are the individual hobbiest sites.
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"why does the Right have no culture?!" is a very played out question but one reason that our taxes support only one side of the culture war. Nobody is reading White Fragility. Contracts for ebooks last a year. But this ONE library system is funneling THOU$ANDS to DiAngelo
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@pronounced_kyle It's crazy that you haven't updated the picture of you & your son simply because he's too large to be captured by cameras now.
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They have paper, non bending straws in the hospital. Sara can't sit up past a 30° incline. Locked in bed by tubes and wires she spilled water all over herself trying to use this bullshit "green" straw outside of visitor hours . I'm going to hunt this 9 year old down and punch him.
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@theSPSFC I have read the Code of Conduct. Devon has had 0 interactions with fellow authors or any of the judges of the SPSFC, and it explicitly states that personal blogs unrelated to the competition are irrelevant and not grounds for disqualification. What is his violation?.
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@pronounced_kyle All laws which cannot be engraved on a basalt stele ought to be declared illegitimate
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The replies to this post are ABSOLUTELY DERANGED
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@Devon_Eriksen_ Wow, compelling prose! . Although, not quite up to the literary standards set by your debut scifi novel Theft of Fire
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@Devon_Eriksen_ Damn that's some extemely thoughtful views towards human social dynamics, you should write a boo—oh! You did! And readers say the characterization is amazing, especially for the scifi genre?!
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Medical equipment is absolutely deranged. If you ignore the beeping, it doesn't need to beep! It's an anti pattern. You're just disturbing the patient & training medical practitioners to ignore medical beeps!.
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After Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1's warm reception (the only Strong Yes in its initial judging batch), I'm sorry to see Devon, who broke none of the rules spelled out in the CoC, removed from the SPSFC. This is straining my personal policy to never engage in "author drama".
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Visiting her profile explains why we haven't been back to the moon.
I GOT THE JOB AT NASA GUYSSSSSSS.
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So how much would you guys hate me if I allowed myself one little mean vindictive chuckle? As a treat 😇
I was walking down the sidewalk the other day, relishing how warm weather comes early in Tennessee, when a weird little goblin with big eyes and floppy green ears jumped out of the bushes in front of me. "You're banned from the competition!" he proclaimed, with a self-satisfied
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🥺 G. S. Jennsen, author of The Thief, a quarter-finalist alongside Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1, would have been a sho-in as a semi-finalist with Devon's removal. She has, instead, chosen to withdraw from the SPSFC. I greatly appreciate this gesture & encourage reader support
In light of recent events, I am withdrawing THE THIEF, which is currently a Quarterfinalist in @theSPSFC , from further consideration in the competition. More below. #SPSFC
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@jack24dd30 I just wanna pat the saluting Microsoft guy on the head. "You tried, buddy. You tried, and that's what matters!".
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@elonmusk MISINFORMATION this is a defense mechanism Santa deploys to avoid modern technology from finding him.
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@NASASun This is why Elon is eating your lunch, and their entire program to lift the equivalent of a 40-story building into space cost LESS than 15% of your annual budget.
I have a very simple message for everyone who complained that I included the real-world company, SpaceX, in Theft of Fire. For everyone who complained that this was too topical, too on-the-nose, too current-year. Shut your statist pie hole. You didn't complain when I mentioned.
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@ylecun @Josh_XT Meta literally made it impossible to search for the words "Kyle Rittenhouse" until he was found not guilty. There were very simple, material facts to the case that Meta could have shared to prevent misinformation. Instead you let both misinformation and censorship run rampant lol.
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Cancelations are ✨C A N C E L E D✨. A big thank you to everyone who's shown support for @Devon_Eriksen_'s unfair treatment in this. I was excited to submit Theft of Fire to a fun little competition, but when they created a CoC explicity to appease a mob and kick him out? 😭
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@sdamico A ton of this "Cow pasture" can perhaps more adequately described as "uneven scrubland with poor soil we can't do much with, so we let cows wander on it".
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I, for one, am grateful for people buying $360 pumpkin shaped braisers. Because that means 10 years from now, when we replace our already-aging enameled Dutch oven, we'll still have a legacy brand that hasn't been sold off for scapro private equity
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@Devon_Eriksen_ Most of you don't know Sara Eriksen. We try to keep her name off Twitter for privacy reasons, because we don't want some derange loony hunting her down for something Devon has written. Maybe you've seen allusion to the Elusive Eriksen Wife, maybe you've even found.
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What is it that one politician said? "When they go low, we go high?". HIGH IN THE RANKINGS, THAT IS. A big continued THANK YOU to those of you who are supporting the authors who are, for all their myriad of reasons, distancing themselves from the SPSFC
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Neurosurgery: done!.Radiation: DONE!.Immunotherapy: started!. After @acrobatichobbit's basically-side-effect-free radiation therapy (to mop up cancer cells the surgery may have missed), we're to the next stage: ipi/nivo, to fight the melanoma in her lungs. Wish her luck!!
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@thechosenberg This is why I don't "identify as poly". Like these people construct these weird elaborate structures as an excuse to hurt people they claim to love!. "Primary" "secondary" what is this bullshit just make them both your WIFE (or rather, don't, he doesn't have the EQ for it).
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When the SPSFC caved to a woke mob (who sought out tweets unrelated to the contest, and became Enraged) and created a CoC specifically to give "cause" to remove Devon from the competition. do you imagine they predicted their actions would make him sell better than DUNE?
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@lindynap Saw this at a used bookstore a while back. Can you IMAGINE such a work getting published today?
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@coldhealing "Maybe if I get these ladies jobs I'll have a chance with their friend the surf instructor". Employment wingwomaning!.
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@XEng 👎. - Browsing an interesting person's likes is an easy way to find interesting posts/new people to follow. - Checking post likes is an easy way to check for bot engagement. - Looking at likes on an interesting, under-the-radar banger post is a way to find new people to follow.
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MANY ARE ASKING
the timeline has become too anxious and frazzled at this point. im literally tweeting exactly what i mean and people are like “what did roon mean by this vague post”.
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Eragon, written by a 17 yo, was the first book I never finished. I didn't have the language to explain what I didn't like. But it was worse, far worse, than my favorite series Redwall. Redwall, which was written by a man who lived through war, was a boxer, longshoreman, truck.
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I am fundamentally incapable of understanding the difference between tactics & strategy do I use the term interchangeably and live in fear of my ignorance someday being Found Out.
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@arabelladevine Gonna disagree. Yes I have strong rapport with a lot of people but that doesn't make any of them less special to me.
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I keep a supply of bendy straws at home and already brought a pack to her hospital room.
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All of my marketing plans centered around Devon being a finalist (at least!) in the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition, so I've gotta pivot. Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1 is amazing. If you enjoyed it. well, now is a good time to tell people to read it :)
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I am comparing this, of course, to the Insta Pot, a victim of its own success. An engineer founded company, he just wanted to make the best damn product he could. And he did!! But. you must give people who want More an opportunity to subsidize people who want One Good Product
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@Molson_Hart Mid 30s, of the 6 women in my year for my sorority, I'm not sure any of us have had children. Similar median starting salary (inflation adjusted).
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I have been informed that Moe Lane, author of Ghosts on an Alien Wind has, in solidarity with Devon, asked to be removed from the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition. This denies him reviews, the lifeblood of book sales. Check him out
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@TheMiddleborne For those that don't know; Elijah makes wooden swords and bookmarks. I don't know what kind of medical insurance they have, or if it covers the helivac his son got to the hospital, but I suspect his family would REALLY appreciate your purchases
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@Devon_Eriksen_ If you guys think Devon wrote this well. well, you are in for a treat with his novel Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1. His take on heroism is. wow. I don't want to spoil anything. But for a book that truly speak to you, check out:
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The Washington Post needs @Devon_Eriksen_ as an opinion writer. Can any of you people make that remotely plausible.
JUST IN - Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos has reportedly given the newspaper a mandate to add more conservative opinion writers at the paper — NY Post.
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@SultanofStorage Thoughts to your family. We are facing a similar situation (late 30s, stage 4 melanoma). Cancer treatment today isn't the cancer treatment of her dad's era. There's so many new therapies, and so many on the cusp of release, available via clinical trial. There's hope ❤️.
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@kendrictonn The same people who target paintings would blanche at the concept of book burning, but that's exactly what they are doing, except to a worse degree, because books can be re-printed.
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@ShayWoulahan I know this is a joke, but, seriously, it's because the traditional publishing industry is intentionally not writing books that they would find interesting, just as we enter an age where there's equally satisfying alternatives (video games) for them to turn to instead.
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@prairiefawkes @AbigailShrier Yep. There was a recent scandal over how much ebooks cost libraries per-unit. Trad pub is charging up to $80 per 2-year ebook license . So these 444 copies of White Fragility could cost tax payers up to $35,000. Insane.
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Enter La Creuset's other offerings. Gorgeous! Expensive! Who in their right mind would buy them!. People with deep pockets, who value quality, and want to be able to just trust a brand without doing hours of research. Thanks to them, there's re occurring revenue for the company
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If you thought that intro to Emma making the rounds the other day was bad. publishers are EXPLAINING THE BASIC CONCEPT OF FICTION in their YA books. If only you knew how bad things really are.
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@Austen Common. I think they don't want web scrapers collecting the publicly visible price?.
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Me: Do you like classic scifi?. Guy: [pointing at badge] I would think so. Me: [seeing "dare to be stupid" con-ribbon, think, oh, he likes Weird Al] Then you'll love Theft of Fire, written as a love letter to classic scifi!. Chat. He was pointing at his last name. Pournelle.
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🤭 Turns out it's not always a bad thing, to chat with reporters when they approach you. Thank you @AsheSchow for highlighting the crazy times that are afflicting the indie book community! I'm glad someone is covering this beat!
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It's so exhausting, how embedded lib propaganda is in trad pub books. "General, I think soldiering is men's work, don't you?"."In my experience, ma'am, soldiering is soldier's work.". Just stahhhp. It's ok to admit soldiering is men's work! It's fine!!.
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@PaulSkallas Half my google search history is "em dash" because I can never remember the keyboard shortcut and I'm always looking it up to copy paste 😭.
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Gods fucking damn it. My parents down in FL get the water bill for my childhood home in the Midwest, which they are slowly getting ready to sell. $400. Usually it's $13. Neighbor goes to look and uhhhhhh.
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> start thawing pot roast.> remember we're going out of town for 3 days.> brilliant plan: gift it to neighbor, as thanks for looking after kitties.> come home Sunday.> crock pot waiting in kitchen, with a hot pot roast meal. FOILED BY SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY. HOW DO I GET REVENGE.
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@sisterinferior It's abhorrent. Knowing the pub landscape, white cis males like @Devon_Eriksen_ self publish. which is great for getting amazing stories to readers, shit for the back-room deals and gaming required for GoodReads Choice Awards. So! Here's a white male!
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So, wait, is this a negative or positive book review??
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Nobody is going to see this but it's important. Capital gains tax on estates is a middle class killer. This is going to start for the "ultra wealthy" and roll down. Your grandma dies with $1000 of stock. how much did she originally pay? You have no idea. This "capital gains".
Taxes on unrealized capital gains is the most absurd galaxy brain idea ever conceived
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@Devon_Eriksen_ Wow amazing so thoughtful I wish I could read more of your words this long tweet isn't enough. OH WAIT! I CAN! Because you have a brilliant, pro-liberty tech optimist scifi book?! Wow clearly I must buy Theft of Fire now!
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Hell yeah, I love speed running the burning of the library of Alexandria. They used to PRINT internet directories. I'm not kidding. You could get a big ole honking "internet yellow pages." My grandpa would get them at Comdex?. Anyway. That's better than the internet to come.
We pulled off an SEO heist using AI. 1. Exported a competitor’s sitemap.2. Turned their list of URLs into article titles.3. Created 1,800 articles from those titles at scale using AI. 18 months later, we have stolen:. - 3.6M total traffic.- 490K monthly traffic.
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The most popular musician in the world will write a song about having her heart broken by a male feminist with a fuck the patriarchy keychain—. —and the right won't even attempt to turn it into the mildest of cultural victories. They are allergic to winning. They must remain.
Taylor Swift… A multibillionaire… gets an entire audience of mainly kids to scream “F*ck the Patriarchy.”. Grooming an entire generation to hate men.
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. ok. Wow. You guys are REALLY done with cancelation. It's only a temporary spike, but still: Theft of Fire: Orbital Space #1 is selling better than. some of my favorite scifi?!. ALL I'VE EVER WANTED IS FOR MORE PEOPLE TO GET TO ENJOY READING DEVON'S BOOK!!!! THANK YOU!!
When the SPSFC caved to a woke mob (who sought out tweets unrelated to the contest, and became Enraged) and created a CoC specifically to give "cause" to remove Devon from the competition. do you imagine they predicted their actions would make him sell better than DUNE?
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@Molson_Hart How does he have 12 kids, and he brought none of them to enjoy America's Pastime??.
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I feel sorry for my haters. Imagine never earning impressive academic accolades, as I did
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On Christmas Eve-Eve, they excised her final tumor, because it was lighting up like a Christmas tree on PET scans. Turns out! Pathology report found 90% of the cancer DEAD, and her tumor FILLED with immunotherapy-powered-up white blood cells chomping away. HELL YEAH LET'S GO.
Time for another status update. Over the last three months, through a grueling combination of surgery, radiation, and immunotherapy, Sara's cancer is under control. all visible tumors are removed or dead. She still has more drugs to take, but there a light at the end of the
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@AlexGodofsky @AlanMCole @mattyglesias @jbhenchman Two days after Christmas. Famous low-traffic time of year.
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@Slatzism Sane people don't have any desire to invite scrutiny into their lives via lifestyle videos. Plus I don't think there's much demand for "watch my 3-person family pick out a sectional" or "how having a co-wife who likes different La Croix fixes Costco variety packs" content lol.
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@kitten_beloved Humans build societies out of stone and heavy wood, which alters the terrain. The collective weight sinks the land around cities, which attracts rivers, amazing!.
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@paulg If you kill all your young men in a war, your roads become much safer, because they lack the most dangerous driving demographic.
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The fun thing about being a science fiction author is you get invited to NUCLEAR REACTOR LAUNCH PARTIES and offered TOURS OF ACTUAL ASTEROID MINING COMPANIES. The not fun thing about being a scifi author is they are far away & time consuming and you must WRITE.
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YES. YES. YES. Books like The Stranger, The Great Gatsby, Infinite Jest, Lord of the Flies, they are literal info hazards. Why are you allowing some sadsop with a tragically broken mind to spend hours inside your head. The world is actually better than that.
@AnEriksenWife @SanjayNadaraja "It's a novel about the emptiness of life!". No. It's a novel written by an egotist who found life empty. Because when you worship yourself, you soon become convinced that life is as small as you are.
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@MikeNellis Incredible. You think. the problem with young men is they haven't had an opportunity to hear the democrats message?. You people are never gonna get it.
The bugmen just don't get it. and they never will. Modern is, at its core, about envious losers externalizing the blame for their own failure onto the successful, and wanting desperately to tear them down out of petty envy and malice. Therefore, they cannot take.
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@Timodc In case you ever wonder why you think this, and why so many people disagree with you. Devon breaks it down nicely
This image doesn't mean what you think. It purports to show that conservatives have more affinity for ingroups, and less for outgroups, and the reverse is true of liberals. But that's not what it actually shows. The conservatives are answering honestly, the liberals are
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@Devon_Eriksen_ The haka performed in suits and sensible shoes, with 0 chance of getting speared in the face & eaten in a post-battle feast, really is like a child going "rawr! i'm a big mean trex!!". It's not even good entertainment. unlike your brilliant scifi!!
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Theft of Fire "goose posting" under temporary hiatus because it requires authentic cheerfulness, and all of that is being devoted to caring for family right now ❤️.
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jesus. I've been driving myself crazy on whether winning/getting canceled by the SPSFC is more valuable. Many writers (very kindly!) do granular reporting of their self-publishing journey. Last year's winner is one. I feel like I've kicked a puppy; he's not even in the black.
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Started 2 hours early, now surgery complete. Tumor is out. She is awake but we can't see her for 15 minutes or so. Next steps identify cancer type nuke it out of her lung search and destroy wherever else it is hiding. Friend is bringing us sandwiches.
Looks like things are progressing well here today, they'll be admitting her ahead of schedule, they've taken her away from us for surgery prep. Mass out of her brain today, then we'll figure out what the future holds for the rest of it.
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@Devon_Eriksen_ What a man does in the privacy of his own home with his toasters is none of my business. but what a man stocks on his bookshelf is. If you read this, think, "damn, this Devon fellow has a way with words," you owe it to yourself to check out his scifi!
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@alexalbert__ Couldn't find find "ultimate pepperoni," but 3 small pep pizzas ordered to a random residential address, with no fancy discounts beyond a "free delivery deal" is significantly cheaper direct. Plus 3 small over 2 large is silly. Outsourcing decisions to machines is crazy expensive
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@Devon_Eriksen_ @jk_rowling Men do need positive masculine role models in art and culture. Like, and I know it's going to SHOCK people that I'm about to suggest this, Marcus Warnoc from your hit scifi novel Theft of Fire!
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