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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚

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Science fiction novelist and humorist. Get my books, free stories, and writing tips at https://dnschmidt.com. Sign up for email updates so you don’t miss a thing! Read The Hole In The Wall: https://dnschmidt.com/science-fiction-stories/hole-in-the-wall/

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 13d

‪Still miss Firefly and Cowboy Bebop? Try The Chained Space Series!

In The Screaming Void, a space junk salvage crew risks their sanity searching for a lost ship.

In The Stolen Planet, an ancient weapon points to the biggest theft in history.

#booksky 📚🪐

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The Chained Space Series

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 7h

Commercials during horror movies should only be for scary things, like knives or ski masks or tentacles.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 11h

Snack food package: 30% Fewer Calories Than Eating An Entire Tube Of Raw Cookie Dough While Standing In The Kitchen At Three AM, Hungover And In Your Underwear!

Me: Oooh, eating healthy today!

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 11h

So glad our utility bills are going up for this crap.

D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 13h

Thank you for your support! 🫡

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 14h

Happy Hitchhiker’s birthday!

D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 15h

Excellent! I would submit your suggestion to the calendar people, but so far, Pope Gregory XIII hasn’t responded to my emails.

D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 16h

Instead of seven months with thirty-one days, they should take six days away to make them an even thirty. The extra days would go to October for a new week-long Halloween.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 18h

Captain Eric strutted onto the bridge in a spacesuit. “Check it out! Space Operative brass got us new, #deluxe model suits! Jets and an interstellar radio. It even has a built-in men’s room!”

Amy gasped. “What? No they don’t!”

“They don’t? Oh… Tell Koby the intern I have his new suit.”

#vss365

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 19h

Good questions to ask on a first date:

* Do you have any siblings?

* What was your major in college?

* Is that your original skin?

* Do you think the humans suspect anything?

* Do you prefer eating meat or souls?

* What kind of music do you like?

Etc.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

Might publish my own dictionary just to fix words with annoying spellings. It’s Whensday now. Deal with it.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

Oh definitely. It's always a good idea to take satisfaction in a job well done, especially when it's physical and tangible. With so much work being digital now, it's good to get that physical satisfaction when you can.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

If you feel like you need a "real grownup" to give you permission, I'm forty-whatever and have a gray beard. Consider this post your permission slip.

You did a great job. I'm proud of you. Now go eat some candy.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 1d

📝 400+ pages
🥀 urban fantasy
🌃 set in washington state
🔥 slow burn
🤍 romance and angst
🗡️ demons and vampires
📕 first in a duology

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/D3rL5
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-wish-and...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Cover for The Wish and the Demon, book one in the Half Swallowed by Shadows duology, by Rebecca Crunden. Cover shows three men's silhouettes standing in the middle of a road in winter. There's dark red trees and snow on the ground. One figure is approaching the other two, surrounded by shadows.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

Apologies to semicolon lovers, but I will... well, not die on this hill exactly, but I will argue on this hill for several minutes until I get tired, and then I will nap on this hill.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

New science fiction short story:

A man searches for his estranged mother at a casino in the Horsehead Nebula. When he runs into trouble, he finds a dangerous way to pay off his debts. An eleven-minute read.

#spaceopera #sff 📚🪐

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The Horsehead Oasis - D.N. Schmidt

In this space opera story, a man heads to a casino in the Horsehead Nebula. When he runs into trouble, he finds a dangerous way to pay off his debts.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

Sometimes adults miss being rewarded for reading books or doing their chores like when they were kids. Well, I’ll let you in on a secret: you can reward yourself now

Have some chocolate after you finish that big doorstop novel. Take a gaming break after you do the dishes. Good job! Have a treat!

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

Exactly. It’s like those Victorian writers who made every paragraph a long and winding sentence. Sure you caaaaan do that, but when you’re competing with Netflix, social media, and games, it’s probably better to make your writing easier to follow.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

I gotta stop liking pictures of pretty book covers without reading the title. One of these days, someone’s going to post “A Wife’s Guide to Smothering Your Husband in His Sleep” and I’ll be like “Nice! ❤️👍”

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

“For some reason, the Prince was alarmed whenever I examined his dimples through my spyglass.”

D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

Semicolons do not belong in fiction and do nothing to improve a story. They’re used so rarely that they’re distracting.

It’s like a film throwing in a random Dutch angle. It’s so noticeable that it takes you out of the story and makes you aware of the camera, or the page.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

“But Dorothy, we can’t fight the Wicked Witch! She can throw fireballs and I’m very flammable!” - Straw man argument

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

Sleepy cop disappointed to discover “going undercover” doesn’t involve blankets.

“Sorry, Mr. Bear, looks like nap time is canceled.”

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Pixies a/k/a Map Nerd @mcburnellauthor.bsky.social · Aug 19

We're on the cusp now, friends. Climaxes waiting in the wings.

It's time to get weird: book 7 is live.

🪐📚 🌈📚 #Booksky
books2read.com/Under-a-Sign... OR mcburnell.itch.io/under-a-sign...

7) Background is a photo of a grassland under heavy stormclouds. Picture of a book cover called Under a Sign of Butterflies by MC Burnell depicting a tall man with a sword walking through a rocky grassland in the pouring rain. Text reads: The more powerful mages grow, the more they lose control. Volume 7 of the epic fantasy The Tipping World.

Dyafer had seen something flowing up the hill but not Seen it, and the explanation for this disconnect was obvious: she had imagined it, as one often did with monsters in the dark when one was scared. Because she was a mage, what she imagined became real. They had sat here at the top of this hill for days, fearful and feeling isolated, all of them waiting for this ancient power they couldn’t fight to come for them, and come it had. But it had actually been here all along, and now their fear was running riot in response.

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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 3d

🚀 spaceships
🌡️ dark conspiracies
🎭 brotherhood
❌ no romance
🐛 strange creatures
🤖 futuristic
🪐 other worlds
🐈 a rescue cat

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/schU
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/dust-lightning
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...

kindle cover for dust & lightning by rebecca crunden; image shows a dark planet in purple lighting, a moon in the background, volcano canyons below

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

I think so, yes.

Glad you liked it. Thanks for reading! 😄