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Award-winning writer and game designer. Author of the New York Times bestselling Rogue Squadron and I, Jedi (among 60+ others). https://ko-fi.com/michaelastackpole and https://linktr.ee/michaelastackpole

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · Jul 19

I don't often plug stuff here, but...

1) I do have to eat
2) I'm really proud of a set of stories and characters I started with *brand new* at the beginning of the year.

This is the first story: ko-fi.com/s/ef5a7b7880

The Mad King - Michael A Stackpole's Ko-fi Shop

The Mad King is a sword & sorcery fantasy novella featuring Neryon, a warlock whose life is governed by the whims of fate. In this first story he enco...

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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 12h

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 2h

Those are gorgeous images. I especially like the gorgon's dynamism. Very impressive work.

Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 2h

MY BattleTech books being the obvious exception to this very sound advice.

(And the reason I've returned to writing new material.)

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Bryan Young @swankmotron.com · 11h

I get this in BattleTech, too. But I find telling someone to go back to the beginning of a 40 year old series is way too daunting and most will never do it.

Start with the new stuff and backfill with stuff you’ve got an interest in! Same with SF/F in general.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11h

It's interesting to me that when I and other authors suggest starting people new to SF/F on contemporary titles as an easier step-in to the genre, there are people who seem to think this means we think no one should read anything in SF/F that's more than 20 years old, EVER. This is, uh, very silly.

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 2h

If you want an easy, one stop page to check out all the fiction in the Chain Story so far, we got you.

(Please repost this so others can enjoy, too. Thank you.)
www.chainstorycore.com/blog/thus-fa...

Thus Far in our Story… — The Chain Story

Just to make it easy for you so you don’t have to dig through a ton of old posts, below we have a gallery of the Chain Story Project’s offerings so far. Just click on the images to head off to the web...

www.chainstorycore.com

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Bryan Young @swankmotron.com · 9h

Oh no! According to his instagram, Drew Struzan has passed away. He defined the look of movie posters for decades.

I own so many posters of his work and he was an incredible artist without compare.

A picture of Drew Struzan’s instagram, announcing his death

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 2h

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Kat Alderson 🎉 @klaybourne.bsky.social · 5h

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ChefBoo-so🎃🥧👻 @brusowrites.bsky.social · 5h

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 7h

That's a really good question.

@lawandchaospod.bsky.social would be where I'd be looking for the implications of all this.

Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 7h

I really not much for wishing death on anyone; but I understand the sentiment. I'd say that I hope he feels all of the pain he's inflicted, but not sure he's capable of doing that. So perhaps a dose of abject poverty, ridicule and crotch rot, in equal measure, will have to do.

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Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 7h

Thank you very much. I had great fun with that series, and I'm glad you found the books entertaining. I think back on them and smile quite a bit, and knowing others have enjoyed them warms my heart.

Michael A. Stackpole 🇺🇦 @michaelastackpole.bsky.social · 9h

Her: Alex Jones is a plague upon humanity.

Me: You need to apologize to plagues.

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Supreme Court rejects Alex Jones' appeal of $1.4 billion defamation judgment in Sandy Hook shooting

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and left in place the $1.4 billion judgment against him over his description of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shoot...

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Christine Hallquist @christinehallquist.bsky.social · 10h

October in Cabot Vermont

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[Sic] Burns @sicburns2.bsky.social · 9h

Whatcha gonna do when they’re chum for you

Discontinued FOoOoOoOods! 🎃🍫👻🍬 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 12h

Day #139: Fish Police (1992)

A teal lunchbox with a white handle, with an undersea tableau of a city skyline and taxi, with sea creatures dressed in 1940's/50's film noir outfits, including a fish in a trench coat, and devious-looking squid. Next to it is a white thermos with a teal lid, and image of a smirking fish in a fedora and trenchcoat next to the words "Fish Police"

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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 1d

Episodic novels and connected short stories should be far more popular than they are.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Jeremy Szal @jeremyszal.bsky.social · 21h

Writers should be able to write and publish in any genre, or change genre, at will.

The idea, often held by publishing sales teams, that an author must stay in one genre lane for the duration of their career, is the height of lunacy.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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Weremuskrat John @muskratjohn.bsky.social · 1d

This is a tough one.

My friend - heck, *everybody’s* friend - Rob Weiland (@robowieland.bsky.social) passed away suddenly, yesterday morning.

The shock within and without Wisconsin’s TTRPG community has been palpable, as so many of us were looking forward to hanging with Rob at Gamehole Con.

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Effekt Publishing @effektpodcast.org · 1d

One of the things we announced in today’s episode is our free Made in the Old West license. We made the system, but the stories are yours. If you want to publish adventures for Tales of the Old West, to share, or to sell, we want to let you

Details and logo: www.effektpublishing.com/home/made-in...

Effekt Publishing - Made in the Old West license

Made in the Old West licence agreement

www.effektpublishing.com

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Evgeniy Shvets @bizarremetaphysics.bsky.social · 1d

"Depths of mind"
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#surrealism #surreal #contemporaryart #collage #collageart #art #graphicdesign

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FEISTY😈 @crzyfkinworld.bsky.social · 10h

‘Where do bad rainbows go? To prism. It's a light sentence, but it gives them time to reflect.’

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Bryan Young @swankmotron.com · 1d

Nobody knows anything. Traditional publishing is just as hard as indie, and you can pick up a book that’s absolutely garbage that came through either route.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com · 1d

Publishers should be invested in promoting the books they publish.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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BIG_RED_40TECH @bigred40tech.bsky.social · 23h

Unit videos are on the way. Starting late this year with the #LoneWolves.

I've also got plans for the #Kellhounds and #FoxPatrol too.

#Battletech

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Carrie Leilani @rosalei.bsky.social · 10h

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Famous monkey-face ‘Dracula’ orchids are vanishing in the wild

How the threatened monkey-face orchids could become icons for plant conservation.

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Bishop Steiner @bishopsteiner.bsky.social · 11h

Fox Patrol (Unseen) Marauder

Realized AFTER I did it that the Unseen version was not realyl "usable" for CGL stuff, which stinks, as it chibis well, but also makes it the one Fox Patrol piece from my Patreon I can share.

www.patreon.com/c/BishopStei...
help my ER Bills?
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Fox Patrol [Unseen] Chibi Marauder Battlemech in Orange and Cream paint colors.

One of my Patreon Pieces for Bryan Young's Fox Patrol, and the only one I will be sharing for a while, being as after I did the Marauder, I realized that the Unseen version wouldn't be usable for any official stuff... but was too adorable as a chibi to ditch.
So I still need to redo the Marauder using the newer "Classic NuSeen" version. Problem being all the hard angles and greebles don't really chibi near as well/easily, so that might take a little longer to do up satisfactorily.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10h

I have blocked this person, but I keep seeing people say things like this, and I’m begging people to understand two things.

(1) Just because peaceful protest may not be sufficient to win this moment does not mean that it is not necessary.

It is.

From: Olde Stuffe @annalsofwarren.bsky.social

i appreciate your words very often
Germans were very angry at their own government for not being truthful about the fierce nature of their enemy in WWI
this betrayal by leaders and mouthpieces led directly to Hitler and NSDAP
we're telling Americans peaceful protest will solve this
it won't

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