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Daniel Verastiqui

@danielverastiqui.com

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🤯 serving up mind-blowing cyberpunk thrillers 🔜 HOUSE OF NEPENTHE (2026) 📍 Austin, Texas 🔗 Get BARTERING NOLA for free at danielverastiqui.com

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Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · Nov 16

📌 BTW, these are my cyberpunk novels. Here's what you can expect:

• An expansive shared universe
• Celebrity hackers with thick plot armor
• Mind-bending virtual reality
• True AI
• Synthetic humans
• Gunfights, razor-sharp wit, and dark humor at every turn

🛒 danielverastiqui.com/amazon

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Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 4d

There's a moment each day when the solar tops off the batteries and starts selling electricity back to the power companies for PENNIES, and that's when the AC goes down to 70, baby. ❄️

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 4d

I've found KDP to be faster, easier, and cheaper than Ingram Spark, but I've also encountered plenty of bookstores with a strict "no amazon" policy. I totally get it, but still a bummer. Ingram is geared toward wider distribution, whereas Amazon is only interested in its own store.

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 7d

I watch my favorite #horror movie, the star-studded House on Haunted Hill, every October, and my favorite part is still watching Chris Kattan just trying to get paid and get the f out of there.

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 7d

Every time I'm cutting dialogue...

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 8d

I’ll tell you what, no one is looking forward to the end of this Texas summer more than me and this huge crack in my windshield.

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 9d

Sweet Jeebus.

Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 9d

Get it now?

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 10d

Also no! 🥹

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 10d

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Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 11d

Overheard father-son exchanges at the park this morning:

🤕 “You just bumped your head; it hurts, but you don’t have to cry about it.”

🐿️ “Don’t throw rocks at squirrels; serial killers do that.”

Dunno if these kids are headed in different or the same directions.

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 13d

There’s a scene in Tin Cup where Kevin Costner gets the yips and starts trying all these random gadgets and gimmicks to get his swing back.

As a kid, I thought “how desperate” and “have some respect for yourself” but then I grew up and became an indie author and now I see you, Kevin.

I see you.

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 14d

Man you pause for three seconds on one of those Instagram ads claiming they can teach you to sell 60k books in 6 days just daydreaming of a life that could have been and then that’s just your feed from now on.

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 16d

I've always been hesitant to put the words "A NOVEL" on my book covers because someone will inevitably write a review that begins with "The cover advertises this book as 'a novel' but when you get far enough into..." and so forth.

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 16d

All the labels will say "Only for adults 13 years or older"

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 16d

The only thing you really need to know about Pflugerville Texas is that if you want Whataburger on Thursday you better get in line on Wednesday.

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 16d

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Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 17d

🎃

#Halloween

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 17d

The airplanes in my dreams are some of the most poorly maintained aircraft known to humankind.

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 18d

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Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 18d

I think I’m going to be sad when my kids are grown up and off living their own lives because then there won’t be anyone left to sneeze directly into my eyeball.

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Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 20d

[David] would be [crazy] not to do it.

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 22d

That is pretty dope

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 22d

100% do your thing. Blurring the line between narration and the character's thoughts is awesome, and I love reading/writing it.

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 23d

I doubt it. Probably just a bug. It's working fine on my laptop with the same Microsoft account. Classic "it's broken and no one knows why or how to fix it."

Don't they know we're trying to work?! 😡

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 23d

Or how to spell "tick tock."

Might as well have been, "It's not if but when. Snapchat."

Daniel Verastiqui @danielverastiqui.com · 23d

Just saw a million dollar idea. Sure, you'll end up a political prisoner at some point, but for a while there... you're gonna be RICH! And that's what America is all about.

J. Elvis Weinstein @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social · 23d

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.