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Discount Canadian store brand Green brother, fantasy author, lapsed bicycle scientist, Muppet biologist, waistcoat enthusiast, cosplayer, cat haver, he/him. I contain multitudes, sometimes they leak out. Books: https://stealingfromwizards.com
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Can Stealing from Wizards ride the coattails of reinvigorated wizard school fantasy interest coinciding with the final book in the series coming out? What portion of the proceeds should I set aside to assist the therapy bills for the child actors who will be ruined by the spotlight?

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Isopod facts

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Just got forwarded this glowing review... from four years ago. Well, thanks for the praise, anyway! I hope you liked the subsequent books.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The joys of self-publishing. The manuscript is written which means I need to schedule editors, do edits, promotion, formatting, blurbs, and also my day job all at the same time. Wheeeeeee!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Arson release date announcement! Fires start November 1st. Preorder the ebook now: www.amazon.com/dp/B0F9R2M684

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is such an obvious perspective that I'm shocked I never thought of it this way. How much of the gatekeeping around nerdery is about "preserving the masculinity" of the hobby? How much is about the fear of the horrifying taint of femininity chipping away at fragile self image as a "real man?"

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Gods I wish I had fewer cautionary tales available.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I nearly died of shame when someone found that I used "sole" instead of "soul" and it made it into print. This? The depths of disinterest in your own artistic work required to produce this is staggering.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I worry much about the engineers I teach. All the incentives are towards profit and productivity. If they could turn their brilliance towards helping the world it would be a far better place. So many, though, are trained to be cogs in the machine and are agnostic about what that machine does.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is worth listening to as it shows both reasonable insight into what AI could be used for in education: tailored lesson delivery. Also misses a major component of education: the most important thing kids are learning isn't conjugating verbs. 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Least pleasant part of writing a book: the blurb. My skill is novel length prose, not marketing copy. If I was good at writing short stuff I'd have a following here. Ugh.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

It’s World Bee Day so of course I had to work on this for my morning coffee shop pencil sketch. #wip #worldbeeday #sciart

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Do other authors get asked "How do you come up with your ideas?" all the time, too? I get it constantly and I have no idea how to answer. It sounds like they want deep and meaningful insight, but my brain just vomits up fairy stories when left unsupervised. Is that what they want to hear?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Spending a happy long weekend stitching together an Expedition 33 uniform.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The orangutans and bonobos are the first two illustrations of a series on behavior and movement of animals in their environment. #SciArt More coming soon! :) For @mpi-animalbehav.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments