A. J. Payler
@ajpayler.bsky.social
Author/musician A. J. Payler has published 5 novels, 2 short story collections, & 6 albums of original music to date as well as opened for Silkworm & Schizophonics, among others.
Available for interviews & podcast appearances.
Visit ajpayler.com for more
Available for interviews & podcast appearances.
Visit ajpayler.com for more
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A. J. Payler
@ajpayler.bsky.social
· Jan 10
I do read ebooks—and that's where most of my sales come—but there's still no feeling in the world quite like holding a book you wrote in your hands for the first time. A+++ would recommend. 📚💙 🦋
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The Dream Syndicate at Soda Bar, San Diego CA Nov 9 2025
November 10, 2025 at 5:16 AM
The Dream Syndicate at Soda Bar, San Diego CA Nov 9 2025
Stevie Wonder – Looking Back (3xLP, Motown 1977), later known as simply "Anthology"--was the title changed after someone got cognitive dissonance at the notion of a blind person 'looking' back? You gotta wonder
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky
November 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Stevie Wonder – Looking Back (3xLP, Motown 1977), later known as simply "Anthology"--was the title changed after someone got cognitive dissonance at the notion of a blind person 'looking' back? You gotta wonder
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky
Nicodemus – Spacechild Squall (1977 Zedikiah Records, 1995 reissue)
My article about Nicodemus (for which I spoke with him directly and extensively) is available in the Trapped in This World anthology: books2read.com/trappedinthi...
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #musicsky
My article about Nicodemus (for which I spoke with him directly and extensively) is available in the Trapped in This World anthology: books2read.com/trappedinthi...
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #musicsky
November 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Nicodemus – Spacechild Squall (1977 Zedikiah Records, 1995 reissue)
My article about Nicodemus (for which I spoke with him directly and extensively) is available in the Trapped in This World anthology: books2read.com/trappedinthi...
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #musicsky
My article about Nicodemus (for which I spoke with him directly and extensively) is available in the Trapped in This World anthology: books2read.com/trappedinthi...
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #musicsky
Jefferson Airplane – After Bathing At Baxter's (1971 RCA Victor)
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#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky
November 8, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Jefferson Airplane – After Bathing At Baxter's (1971 RCA Victor)
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky
Fugazi – The Argument (2001 Dischord Records, 2024 reissue)
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Fugazi – The Argument (2001 Dischord Records, 2024 reissue)
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky
The Dream Syndicate – Medicine Show & This Is Not The New Dream Syndicate Album... Live! (both 1984, A&M)
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky
November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The Dream Syndicate – Medicine Show & This Is Not The New Dream Syndicate Album... Live! (both 1984, A&M)
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky
#nowplaying #vinylrecords #nowspinning #vinylcommunity #vinylcollectors #musicsky
November 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Whoa, the Dream Syndicate Is going to be in town playing Medicine Show in its entirety in less than a week?! That snuck up on me somehow
link.dice.fm/l2e597067f7e...
#music #gigs #psych
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#music #gigs #psych
The Dream Syndicate Tickets | $35.54 | 9 Nov @ Soda Bar, San Diego | DICE
This is a 21+ event w/ valid ID at Soda Bar - San Diego.
The Dream Syndicate will perform their visceral 1984 album Medicine Show on tour in the US and Euro...
link.dice.fm
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Whoa, the Dream Syndicate Is going to be in town playing Medicine Show in its entirety in less than a week?! That snuck up on me somehow
link.dice.fm/l2e597067f7e...
#music #gigs #psych
link.dice.fm/l2e597067f7e...
#music #gigs #psych
This video's existence and my recommendation of it might seem like a joke to those not in the know-four-plus hours on Ringo and his recorded solo work??--but is very much not
youtu.be/AijcJ-Wm14A
#beatles #ringo #music
youtu.be/AijcJ-Wm14A
#beatles #ringo #music
Every Ringo Starr Album Ranked Worst to Best
YouTube video by Elliot Roberts
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October 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This video's existence and my recommendation of it might seem like a joke to those not in the know-four-plus hours on Ringo and his recorded solo work??--but is very much not
youtu.be/AijcJ-Wm14A
#beatles #ringo #music
youtu.be/AijcJ-Wm14A
#beatles #ringo #music
Obvious why they omitted "Woman Is..." from this new set (whether one agrees with this choice or not) but what was the thought behind deleting "Sisters, O Sisters" from both concerts, especially as they retained the studio version? Baffling.
superdeluxeedition.com/reviews/john...
#beatles #lennon
superdeluxeedition.com/reviews/john...
#beatles #lennon
John Lennon & Yoko Ono / Power to the People box set – reviewed – SuperDeluxeEditionHamburger MenuCombined ShapeCombined ShapeGroup 25CommentsCommentsCommentsCommentsCommentsGroup 25Group 25
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October 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Obvious why they omitted "Woman Is..." from this new set (whether one agrees with this choice or not) but what was the thought behind deleting "Sisters, O Sisters" from both concerts, especially as they retained the studio version? Baffling.
superdeluxeedition.com/reviews/john...
#beatles #lennon
superdeluxeedition.com/reviews/john...
#beatles #lennon
October 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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A must read for writers. I'm seeing same thing Jason is seeing, in form of scammers' creation of online "readers' communities" populated with bots. AI adoption by foreign scammers has been expanding since 2023 but this year has really been a watershed. They're becoming impossible to keep up with.
My new Genre Grapevine dives into the book club scams targeting authors. These scams now include creating fake Discord communities filled with AI slop and chatbots. Artificial intelligence circles every level of this scam like water down the toilet.
www.patreon.com/posts/139940...
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Genre Grapevine: Book Club Scams Are a Warning of Emerging AI Super-Scams | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine
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September 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
A must read for writers. I'm seeing same thing Jason is seeing, in form of scammers' creation of online "readers' communities" populated with bots. AI adoption by foreign scammers has been expanding since 2023 but this year has really been a watershed. They're becoming impossible to keep up with.
Out now from @hollowoakpress.bsky.social the new anthology Short(b)Reads, featuring my new story "Table for One, Folly of Two" along with a dozen more fine tales to peruse--each one paired with a recipe from the story itself. Food for the mind, soul, & body!
#shortstories #food #recipes #writing
#shortstories #food #recipes #writing
September 19, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Out now from @hollowoakpress.bsky.social the new anthology Short(b)Reads, featuring my new story "Table for One, Folly of Two" along with a dozen more fine tales to peruse--each one paired with a recipe from the story itself. Food for the mind, soul, & body!
#shortstories #food #recipes #writing
#shortstories #food #recipes #writing
Lol, Wolf spends all of six pages recounting his 16 years fronting the J. Geils Band and what he does say can be adequately summed up as "those guys were selfish assholes who threw a good thing away over inflated ego."
September 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Lol, Wolf spends all of six pages recounting his 16 years fronting the J. Geils Band and what he does say can be adequately summed up as "those guys were selfish assholes who threw a good thing away over inflated ego."
Lost count of the factual errors within this clumsily-written, badly edited book--pompous author interjects his ill-informed opinions at every opportunity. And Imelda Marcos comments without even the vaguest context of her larcenous rule? Just no.
Skip this.
archive.org/details/fabi...
#beatles
Skip this.
archive.org/details/fabi...
#beatles
Fab : an intimate life of Paul McCartney : Sounes, Howard, 1965- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
634 pages, [16] pages of plates : 24 cm
archive.org
September 2, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Lost count of the factual errors within this clumsily-written, badly edited book--pompous author interjects his ill-informed opinions at every opportunity. And Imelda Marcos comments without even the vaguest context of her larcenous rule? Just no.
Skip this.
archive.org/details/fabi...
#beatles
Skip this.
archive.org/details/fabi...
#beatles
Reposted by A. J. Payler
We urge all authors who believe their books may have been unlawfully downloaded by Anthropic to visit the website and provide the requested information.
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August 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
We urge all authors who believe their books may have been unlawfully downloaded by Anthropic to visit the website and provide the requested information.
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As authors at all levels must--MUST--understand their rights before agreeing to any publication, I was happy to be quoted in this BooksUplift piece & provide what little guidance I can in hope that even one writer might avoid losing their work.
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#publishing #writing
August 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
As authors at all levels must--MUST--understand their rights before agreeing to any publication, I was happy to be quoted in this BooksUplift piece & provide what little guidance I can in hope that even one writer might avoid losing their work.
booksuplift.com/stress-free-...
#publishing #writing
booksuplift.com/stress-free-...
#publishing #writing
Daniel's virtual summits are always worth attending, particularly since you can do so for free! I never fail to come away with a new clutch of ideas, and I bet you will too.
summit.findyournextreader.com
#authorscommunity #publishing #authorssupportingauthors #writingcommunity #selfpublishing
summit.findyournextreader.com
#authorscommunity #publishing #authorssupportingauthors #writingcommunity #selfpublishing
Find Your Readers Summit 2025
Are you a writer? We'll help you find your next reader -- today.
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August 1, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Daniel's virtual summits are always worth attending, particularly since you can do so for free! I never fail to come away with a new clutch of ideas, and I bet you will too.
summit.findyournextreader.com
#authorscommunity #publishing #authorssupportingauthors #writingcommunity #selfpublishing
summit.findyournextreader.com
#authorscommunity #publishing #authorssupportingauthors #writingcommunity #selfpublishing
ElasticStage vinyl-on-demand record unboxing & Tangible Formats lathe cut album showdown direct A/B sound quality comparison & packaging/record jacket/disc label comparison 4K video, 24bit/96kHz PCM audio
youtu.be/1HadhJZ92Ck
#vinyl #vinylrecords
youtu.be/1HadhJZ92Ck
#vinyl #vinylrecords
ElasticStage unboxing/Tangible Formats lathe cut vinyl record sound quality & packaging showdown, 4K
YouTube video by AJP
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July 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
ElasticStage vinyl-on-demand record unboxing & Tangible Formats lathe cut album showdown direct A/B sound quality comparison & packaging/record jacket/disc label comparison 4K video, 24bit/96kHz PCM audio
youtu.be/1HadhJZ92Ck
#vinyl #vinylrecords
youtu.be/1HadhJZ92Ck
#vinyl #vinylrecords
Reposted by A. J. Payler
New at #WriterBeware: In Feb, Must Read Magazines acquired 5 well-known genre magazines. A look at the concern and controversy created by the group's new contracts, & how advocacy by the SF/F community may lead to change writerbeware.blog/2025/07/25/c...
Contract Controversy (and Change) at Must Read Magazines - Writer Beware
In a surprise move this past February, a new group called Must Read Magazines acquired five genre magazines: Asimov’s Science Fiction, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, The Magazine of Fantasy & Scienc...
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July 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
New at #WriterBeware: In Feb, Must Read Magazines acquired 5 well-known genre magazines. A look at the concern and controversy created by the group's new contracts, & how advocacy by the SF/F community may lead to change writerbeware.blog/2025/07/25/c...
Hearing your own music on vinyl for the first time via ElasticStage is a pretty satisfying experience, I'd recommend it
elasticstage.com/aaronpoehler...
#vinylcommunity #vinylrecords #records #vinyladdict #nowspinning #vinylsky #musicsky
elasticstage.com/aaronpoehler...
#vinylcommunity #vinylrecords #records #vinyladdict #nowspinning #vinylsky #musicsky
July 25, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Hearing your own music on vinyl for the first time via ElasticStage is a pretty satisfying experience, I'd recommend it
elasticstage.com/aaronpoehler...
#vinylcommunity #vinylrecords #records #vinyladdict #nowspinning #vinylsky #musicsky
elasticstage.com/aaronpoehler...
#vinylcommunity #vinylrecords #records #vinyladdict #nowspinning #vinylsky #musicsky
