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Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge

@turquoisefloyd.bsky.social

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- Neurodivergent. She/her. - Writes SF & a little light Horror - One of life's great pedestrians, sometimes has the Elephant of Surprise in tow - Daiquiri drinker - Occasionally mistaken for an Australian - https://linktr.ee/leoniemsmithstrawbridge

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Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · Aug 15

Break out the fireworks and champagne: IT'S HERE! Fair Wind To A Steel Breeze is up and available on Amazon! Or I'll sell a reasonably priced PDF or ePub to you direct if you're not into feeding the Amazon beast. Bezos-east. Bezeast. Something. *shrug* amzn.eu/d/h5WDKUh

Fair Wind To A Steel Breeze eBook : Smith, Leonie M.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

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Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 2d

New post on the Substack about my third novelette, and second in the Vespertine series. open.substack.com/pub/turquois...

Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 3d

What a cracking evening: brilliant Bugle Live show AND Gian Van Veen winning the European Darts Championships!

Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 3d

Double screening the Darts European Championships and The Bugle 18th Anniversary Live Show @thebugle.bsky.social @podchris.bsky.social ! What a time to be alive!

Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 3d

Double screening the Darts European Championships and The Bugle 18th Anniversary Live Show @thebugle.bsky.social @podchris.bsky.social ! What a time to be alive!

Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 4d

Your teenager is a Skutter and I claim my five pounds.

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Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 5d

When I got married two years ago I went from a 5 letter surname to an 11 letter surname (as you can see above. I only use my maiden name for my writing). I've developed a squiggle of my initials that saves me and the postie time.

Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 7d

By contrast, I had a wonderful GP quite a few years ago called Tom Penistan, really lovely chap who died in his early 50s in a car crash. The funeral was packed. Holy Trinity Long Melford is not a small church and it was rammed. They don't make GPs like him, anymore. RIP.

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eyglo @eyglo.bsky.social · 10d

I tested AI and the outcome was scarier than I expected
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AI and Cosmic Horror: A Conversation

Know thy enemy I told myself and asked it a question. I was not quite prepared for the answer. "No malice, no motive, no reason"

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Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 13d

My granddad swore blind his eldest brother was saved from a bullet piercing his heart in WW2 by a tobacco tin in his breast pocket. He showed me a paragraph in a book talking about it, but the book disappeared when his house was cleared so don't have details to check it out.

Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 14d

New post on the Substack: where the writer explains! turquoisefloyd.substack.com/p/being-for-...

Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 15d

Is squeezy Nutella a thing?

Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 15d

I entirely take your point, and now I've read my reply back, I realise that I came across as a bit patronising. Sorry about that.

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Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 15d

I firmly believe it's not too late until you're pushing up daisies. My great-uncle was in his 50s when he met the love of his life.

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Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 15d

Absolutely. I was 33 and he was 32 before we found each other, and it was worth the wait.

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Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you! It was the line "don't message me if your profile is all in block caps because it grates" that really drew me in.

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Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 16d

I know a chap who was in total despair over not meeting any women who were interested in him, in RL and on dating sites. And then I read his profile and had to message him. We've been together 17 years.

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Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 18d

Definitely written by someone who knows nothing about horses. Disappointing as "hangs up its horseshoes" has better flow!

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Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 20d

I apologise for the stumbles and the squinting. I had to take my glasses off as they were reflecting the light of the screen, then I struggled to read the words off it. Gah!

Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 20d

It's so hard to get people to look at anything you post, isn't it? I thought I'd try doing a video of a post I wrote, to move with the times. It got three views yesterday, so here it is on BSky. Two minutes of your time to watch my whimsical noodling, if you'll indulge me.

(Please indulge me)

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Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 21d

New post at the Substack! This one has a video! turquoisefloyd.substack.com/p/id-settle-...
#silliness #ludicrousdreams #funnies

Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 22d

Superb interview of Lord Heseltine by Victoria Derbyshire on Newsnight, just now. Seek it out, if you can. He doesn't mince words!

Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 22d

I'm finally catching up with season 3 of The Orville, now subtitled "New Horizons". Is it just me or is Dr Finn is the Meg Griffin of the show, what with the emotional beatings she's taken in the first two shows of the season?

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Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 23d

Currently reading. I love World SF.

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Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 23d

Afrofuturism is awesome. I'm currently reading volume one of The Best of World SF anthology series and there are some cracking African authors included in both this and volume two (which I inadvertently read first).

Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 23d

Come here, ya little bugger! #silliness #funnies #idiot #ideas turquoisefloyd.substack.com/p/faster-tha...

Leonie M.Smith Strawbridge @turquoisefloyd.bsky.social · 24d

My pleasure. Hope you like them! I've got some other fiction pods lined up to try once I've gone through all of We Fix Space Junk. I'll let you know how I get on!