My book Drystone – A Life Rebuilt is out in just three weeks.
I really believe in this book. It’s honest about important things, quietly subversive, funny, easy to read, and I’ve poured everything into writing it and getting it into the world as far as I can.
If you can, I’d love your help. A share, a preorder, a message to someone who might love it, it all makes a difference.
So I'm working on this hybrid audiobook/ebook setup. The page scrolls to follow the audio, keeping the section being read roughly in the middle of the page. Continuous scroll made me queasy, so instead it scrolls every few seconds.
I made a custom chapter selector rather than a dropdown box, because I'm an eejit prone to reinventing the wheel, when the wheel isn't aesthetically pleasing to me. Do you think it works? Or should I go trad on this part of the UI?
Mastoart.social is a friendly creative Mastodon server that welcomes all skill levels of visual art, crafts, music, writing and more. (AI is not allowed.)
mastoart.social is a creative space for you to share your art and be part of a friendly creative community. A Mastodon instance that's hosted in Germany and runs on 100% green energy.
This story bundle with many African scifi books, including mine, ends in 16 days. If there are any "book influencers" here, or perhaps you want to run a campaign of some sort and need to give people a gift or bonus or something, let me know and I can get you gift codes.
Anyone who is blind, or who has worked with the blind, knows how expensive our technology can be. This couldn't be more true with relation to braille displays. Even the cheapest costs at least $799, and it's already behind the newest in that line, at $899. This is the Orbit Reader 20 and 20+. Now, a student in India wants to change that by creating a display that is truly affordable (under $50)! Please pass this on, so that we can give him greater recognition within the blind community. Even if it costs a bit more than he initially suspected it would, there is no excuse for the $2,000 to $5,000 average price of such technology when cheaper alternatives can be designed! He is determined to bring this to market, so let's help him do it and show our appreciation for his hard work on this life-changing project!
Chapter 2 of my story, Phoenix Academy, is out now. The first one was just escape, the second begins to show us the strangeness: royalroad.com/fiction/109929/p…
Hey, if you, like me, are a US citizen who's had your books/stories/articles stolen by Meta to train AI, you can submit your name to the class action suit using this easy contact form for one of the law firms involved:
I wrote something a bit experimental. A story set in a world without planning, hierarchy, coercion; where decisions are made in the moment. It's a little weird, but someone may like it.
My favourite part of this interview? Hmmm...maybe this?
Vikander: What did you learn about craft while writing this, your first book?
De Garis: Craft is a conversation with your materials. It can’t be hurried. It requires attention, patience, and humility. Writing also taught me that craft resists capitalism—not just in theory but in practice. Eighteen months of work for £1250 made that point clearer than any philosophical argument.
I wanted to share with you a conversation that I had with journalist, therapist, broadcaster and editor extraordinaire Svea Vikander. I know Svea well and, like all of us, I am most compelling on any subject when I am comfortable.
Applied African Science Fiction (SF) is a project funded by Imperial College London that, together in collaboration with the University of Nairobi, the African Speculative Fiction Society, Vector a…
Their links lead people away from your site and back to Google. Because that’s definitely what you want, right? That’s why you have a blog or portal or web site or whatever. You want people to leave your site and go back to Google.
Oh, it’s not?
If you don’t like it, you can “Opt out.” Opting out is a pain in the ass. Here’s where you go to do it. You have to enter every variation of each of your domains or it won’t work. It will take up to 30 days, during which time Google will continue to pollute your work and your writing and your website with their modifications and their added links to take people away from your site and back to themselves.
For example, here’s the list of what I need to opt-out just for this one blog: solarbird.nethttp://solarbird.nethttps://solarbird.netwww.solarbird.nethttp://www.solarbird.nethttps://www.solarbird.netweb.solarbird.nethttp://web.solarbird.nethttps://web.solarbird.net Yes, you explicitly have to file no prefix, http:, and https: variants separately. They say so.
Making it difficult like this is 100% intentional and entirely designed to make it as annoying as possible, and also, to make sure you slip up if at all possible and forget one or more combinations.
(Tho’ I am just going to depreciate web. as a prefix right now, to bring down the load a little. Still gonna list ’em, though, because spite is why.)
Right now it’s only in the Google app for iOS and it’s probably a test to see whether they can get away with it without complaint, and how much revenue it generates. Let’s make that a combination of no and as close to zero as possible. Because otherwise they’ll roll it out everywhere, and probably derank you if you don’t go along.
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Evidence of oldest known alphabetic unearthed in Syrian dig. The writing, which is dated to around 2400 BCE, precedes other known alphabetic scripts by roughly 500 years, upending what archaeologists know about where alphabets came from, how they are shared across societies, and what that could mean for early urban civilizations… #Writing #Language #Script #Archeology #Anthropology #CulturalGeography hub.jhu.edu/2024/11/21/ancient…
Hello #writers of the world! With #NaNoWriMo approaching, I wanted to create a space for like-minded people to gather and share ideas, progress, encouragement, and accountability. I've created a Discord server for writers of any kind, be that novelists, poets, coders, content writers, etc. Anyone is welcome to join and hang out with us. We have text channels for casual and topic-based conversation, as well as voice channels for various topics including one for body-doubling. You're even welcome to join if you aren't a writer but enjoy reading/helping others with their projects. If this sounds like a place you might like to be, please join. :) discord.gg/hYtPBcCZ33 #writing #nanowrimo2024 #amwriting
I've just launched my new BT Projects blog! Here you will find posts on a wide range of topics, from tech to other miscellaneous things I choose to write about. There is currently only one post up, but one which I have had a lot of requests for, how to make Windows work better post setup. Note however that this post is an initial draft; it could be updated in the future but I felt ready to put what I have out there! Enjoy! btprojects.samtupy.com/blog/ Note also that this is not yet set up on the home page, this will be updated shortly. #blog #tech #writing
I always said I'd ride the dictionary train until the terminus; the train will pull into the station April 30, which is my last day at dictionary.com.
What a magical and unlikely career this has been.
VocalEye Almost Live host Amy Amantea is joined by blind, gay, disabled author of fiction and non-fiction, Robert Kingett.
Robert returns to the Almost Live space to share a sampling of his own short stories from a variety of genres including romance, sci-fi and fantasy.
0:00 -- Title card intro 1:10 -- Land Acknowledgement 4:20 -- Pre-show Introduction with Amy and Fiona 13:50 -- Pointy Chances 43:39 -- A Deserving Conference 1:22:53 -- Super Date 1:49:50 -- Conversation and Q&A with Amy and Robert
I am glad to finally get the courage to share blogs! So here is mine, a blog that has two blogs. But you get it. rant.li/apple-in-bulgarian/ and rant.li/thesystem/ The system, because a reference to Blakes7 #Blakes7 It's great! The other blog is aimed primarily at Bulgarian users but if you would like to translate and read the page, go on. #blogging #blog #writing I am new to this, so bare with me, please. It is enough I decided to share. I'll be fixing the CSS soon, hopefully, but I need to get my exams out of the way first.
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Produced by WBEZ in Chicago, this clip from the Mortified event in 2021 showcases an essay Robert Kingett wrote in the second grade about how old people can save the world by paying their taxes.
Mortified is a show where people showcase their most embarrassing art on stage they made when they were children.
Robert Kingett is an author and you can find him online at robertkingett.com
[ETA: Lots of folks saying this is fake. It could be, yes. But I know many authors, especially women authors, especially romance authors, who get treated exactly this way over their "silly little books."
"Enough small biz money to pay the bills" is serious business, no matter what the business is.]
My favorite outcome so far: a student remarked (paraphrasing here) that she didn’t realize how much she had to say in her paper until she saw how wrong the AI was, how much it missed the point.
Observing her own reaction to BS about her topic made her realize she’d underestimated the extent of her own newly-forming knowledge. That…that is the sort of outcome an educator dreams of.
Italo Calvino was born today (10/15) in 1923. A good day to read some of his stuff then later name drop in your own writing! "The heavily illustrated Magical Rites from the Crystal Well was my favorite even if the numerous guided meditations did make it seem as if Italo Calvino was your Dungeon Master." #quotes #writing
Once upon a time, there was a community called Little Details on LiveJournal. It was a place where fiction writers of all kinds could ask for help with their fact-checking and research. It was a huge, amazing resource before the collapse of LiveJournal took it down.
I recently decided to try resurrecting it on Dreamwidth. It's now open and ready for questions. Come check it out, and boost if you're so inclined!
