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Edpool

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Mercenary writer monkey, author, reviewer, social commentator, collector of nicknames. He / him. My blog: http://hatboy.blog My books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B008M6BBM0

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Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · Nov 26

I've got an eight-book sci-fi dark comedy / horror series, an apocalyptic urban science fantasy trilogy, a whole mess of novellas, and some illustrated adventure for younger readers. My writing is genre fluid (and yes, there are dad jokes).

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Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · 4d

a man with his arms outstretched is wearing a black shirt that says [ hype intensifies ]

Alt: A man is sitting in a computer chair, looking quite beleaguered but nevertheless seems to be jittering in some kind of enthusiasm. The caption reads "hype intensifies".

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Patrick Samphire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @patricksamphire.bsky.social · 5d

The *vast* majority of sales come through Amazon. And when readers boycott Amazon, they don't in general shift to buying indie books elsewhere. They simply stop buying indie books.

I detest Amazon, but as a self-published author, I simply cannot have a career without publishing there.

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Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · 6d

7/8 here, but only because I'm fortunate enough not to have any relatives in care homes. I don't know many people who'd attest to my womanhood but I am genuinely honoured.

Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · 19d

(since somebody asked elsewhere already, I am of course aware that Brett "Roy Kent" Goldstein and Lee "Agent Stone" Majdoub are different guys; I just thought the similarity in their excellent facial hair and the amusing difference in their demeanors made them fun candidates for this meme)

Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · 20d

I'm morbidly curious as to whether there's anyone else in the centre of the Ted Lasso / Sonic the Hedgehog Venn diagram with me.

A meme template reading "inside you are two wolves". On the left, Roy Kent from Ted Lasso. On the right, Agent Stone from the Sonic the Hedgehog movie franchise. Two immaculate sides of a well-groomed coin.

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Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · 24d

Oh, we like a challenge around here! Thank you for all your stories 🖤

Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · 24d

I recently read "The Elitist Supremacy" by @ormakal.bsky.social, and there was a whole lot going on in there and my review ended up being about twice the length of my usual efforts.

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The Elitist Supremacy: A Review

So, I just finished reading The Elitist Supremacy, book 1 of The Elites and the Rogues series, by Niranjan. This one isn’t SPSFC related, although the author is a Friend of the Competition. I…

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Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · 25d

Couldn't you just type out the words "one" and "nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety nine" then use maths to figure out how long it would take you to type an average of those a million times, and now I write this I realise it's just a typing speed record he was after.

Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · Oct 3

a man is standing in front of a microphone and saying woooo man ..

Alt: Mike Myers, in the movie "So I Married An Ax Murderer", stands on stage and delivers his infamous "Woman" slam poem on open mic poetry night. Really makes you think. She stole his heart and his cat, you know.

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Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · Sep 26

What's happened today specifically? I pay as little attention to the USian clown parade as my mental health demands.

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Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · Sep 23

Confirmed, someone in Finland is wearing your merch and feeling pretty smug about it.

A tubby middle-aged dude with a grey beard wears a blue T-shirt with the slogan "Mark's Comics (are your comics!)" based on a fictional comic book store in a book written by Drew Melbourne. The T-shirt model may be safely considered a load-bearing customer demographic for this kind of thing.

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The Self-Published Science Fiction Competition @spsfc.bsky.social · Sep 19

With the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) taking book entries next month, we're looking for a few good volunteers to join us as judges:

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More than a few, actually. #SPSFC

A photo of the retro raygun awarded to the winner of the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition alongside a plague that notes the winner of SPSFC 4 as Saint Elspeth by Wick Welker. Next to the trophy is Welker's book, which has a cover of a hovering ovoid spacecraft above San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. The sky is orange and full of portent.

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Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · Sep 19

a man in a black turtleneck stands in front of a window with perfection written on the bottom right

Alt: A man in a black turtleneck (Magneto in the X-Men prequels) stands in front of a window with perfection written on the bottom right (the gif does, not the window). It's a meme.

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Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · Sep 18

Ooo, I do love tahini although I mostly use it for hummus. And is that a star anise? What else goes in there, come on, make with the recipe I'm not here for a haircut Aster.

Also, hi Aster.

Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · Sep 18

Arts and crafts time!

#AI #GenAI #HumanMade #SayNoToSlop

A comic panel with a cartoon kangaroo sitting in an armchair, working on something with a pencil.
A floating robot egg thing, representing "A.I.", floats next to the armchair and says "Would you like me to help with that?"
"Help how?" the kangaroo asks.
The egg steals the kangaroo's paper with a little robot arm, feeds it into a mouth slot, then makes a straining sound. It turns around, displaying a surprisingly tight pair of gymnastic buttocks.
In the final frame, the egg is looking pleased with itself and the kangaroo is sitting with a big sloppy shit in its hand, that the egg has evidently made using his stolen work. The egg looks pleased. It is a metaphor probably.

Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · Sep 18

My stupid shirt is inbound, I just paid a giant wad of tax on it because it's a fucking free-for-all out there except nothing's actually fucking free.

Anyway worth it. And the book is brilliant.

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Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · Sep 18

When people complain that The Lord of the Rings is just people walking across a country and telling random stories about its prehistory, I’m usually the one who’s like, “yeah! I know! …why are you making that face?”

Check out @chaoskirin.art's "Shadecursed" today!

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Shadecursed: A [quick(ish)] Review

Recently I picked up and read Shadecursed, book 1 of The Bestiary series, by Aeryn E. Christie. This isn’t SPSFC related, I just interacted briefly with the author on social media and decided…

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Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · Sep 17

This has big "I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve" energy and it put a smile on my face.

Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · Sep 16

Drop some eyes.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Sep 13

Yuuuuup. Also, I don't give a shit if some of the worst people in the world think I am being performative or am virtue signaling. Fuck 'em. They don't get to tell me how to be.

Anyway, trans rights are human rights, y'all. It's not complicated.

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · Sep 13

To my fellow cishet dudes: when we are quiet about supporting the trans community, the only voices anyone hears are the Charlie Kirks of the world. Don't let accusations of being "performative" or "virtue signaling" shut you up - that's their whole point. Our voices are needed now more than ever.

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Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · Sep 14

I like your enthusiasm but your (I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and say copy-pasted) messaging could use some personalisation. I liked the one you sent to the funko pop maker about their book.

A copy-pasted bluesky reply that reads "Congrats, I really enjoyed coming across your book, it has a great vibe and strong potential. Do you love hearing new ideas? From what you’re building, I thought of an idea that could complement your story and make it even more impactful. Would you be open to hearing it?"

Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · Sep 13

I don't know if I explained well, but basically I have a book to post out. If we follow each other, share a drawing or a book or whatever with me in this thread. If a bunch of people join in (hah), I'll pick one at random. If only one of you plays, you win automatically.

I told you I'm bad at this.

Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · Sep 13

I'll start!

These are the kinds of drawings I've got in the book. This big ol' girl is called an aki'Drednanth. They're a telepathic yeti type creature that can store their minds in ice and reincarnate. This one is wearing a freezer suit covered in souvenir stickers of the places she's been.

A drawing of a large alien creature known as an aki'Drednanth, a kind of large yeti or ogre species. They are very large and prefer to live in below-freezing temperatures, which is why this one is wearing a refrigerated suit. The suit is covered in an assortment of stickers from tourist destinations she has visited while exploring in space. Aki'Drednanth are telepathic and technically immortal, as they can transfer their consciousness into cometary ice when their bodies die, then "re-fleshulate" into newborn pups at a later date. As a result, the cometary ice is full of "Drednanth", the between-lives Dreamscape versions of the creatures, all waiting their turn to be aki'Drednanth again.

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Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · Sep 13

I'm way better at writing and drawing than I am at promotion and marketing.

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Edpool @edpool.bsky.social · Sep 13

"Colouring With Contro" is a sort-of-rhyming A-B-C colouring book featuring characters and creatures from my sci-fi series "The Final Fall of Man" and related tales.

The screen-capped back page of my book (it says "copyrighted material" at the top but I am the copyright holder, along with Amazon I guess, so it's fine).

The top part of the page has an author photo of me looking shaggy and disreputable, and the author text: "Andrew Hindle is an author, technical writer, husband, father and science-fiction enjoyer. You'd think as a technical writer he might have structured that sentence so it was more difficult to misinterpret in a weird way, but you'd be wrong. Terribly, terribly wrong."

Beneath this disturbing and probably sleep-deprived introduction, the book blurb reads: "Join your old pal Contro on a colouring book A-B-C of the Final Fall of Man universe and meet some familiar faces along the way. Unless you have no idea who your old pal Contro is and none of the Final Fall of Man books are familiar to you in the slightest, then it's just going to raise a lot of questions. Either way, enjoy!"

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