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davedobson.bsky.social
He/him. Author, game designer, improv guy, geologist, tubist, waster of far too much time. https://davedobsonbooks.com https://planktongames.com Greatest Hits: Snood, Flames Over Frosthelm, Dr. Esker's Notebook, Daros, Kenai, Guilford Geology.
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Here's my financial report for April. A loss of about $187 on $466 in revenue, but all in service to future income, so not bad. A unique and sizable bump in audiobook sales too. #indieauthors davedobsonbooks.com/my-indie-aut...

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Unusual but very welcome book news: I have sold 29 audiobooks of Daros in the last two days connected to the free ebook promo I ran with BookBub. This is the first time I've had audiobook sales spike in response to a a giveaway. I usually sell 3-8 audiobooks a month.

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Today (Sunday May 4) is your last day to get a free copy of Daros! www.amazon.com/Daros-Dave-D...

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Do yourself a favour, this is FREE on Kindle right now. @davedobson.bsky.social gives good SciFi, that's all you need to know 💙📚🪐

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My sci-fi book Daros is available for free as an ebook until May 4. Grab a copy today! Brecca Vereen, smuggler's daughter, drops from her wounded ship to a war-torn planet while a rebel infiltrator tries to derail an alien invasion. Daros was a SPSFC #1 semifinalist!

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Łukasz at Fantasy Book Critic takes on The Glorious and Epic Tale of Lady Isovar! "It’s silly. It’s heartfelt. It’s occasionally bloody. And I very much enjoyed the ride. I’d follow these two into battle." fantasybookcritic.blogspot.com/2025/04/book...

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A big #BBNYA2025 welcome to The Glorious and Epic Tale of Lady Isovar by Dave Dobson Welcome aboard and best of luck!!

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Snood cookies, ca. 1999

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OK, women - a plot-detail gender realism question: Suppose you were the kind of woman who carried a keepsake pocketknife with you everywhere, and it had little scissors. Would you: (1) use it to trim an annoying hangnail on a regular basis, or (2) have some better tool to handle that with you?

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Review: Flames Over Frosthelm by @davedobson.bsky.social "His humor and natural way of telling a story is something that will always bring me back to his novels. A fantasy mystery that lived up to that description. " Check out Jord's full review at the 🔗 below www.sffinsiders.com/blog/review-...

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Great new review for Flames Over Frosthelm from Jord at SFF Insiders! www.sffinsiders.com/blog/review-...

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My book, Flames Over Frosthelm, is part of a massive indie book sale for the next few days. Many of the books (including mine) are free, and there's a great searchable database to find books you want. Go have a look - great stuff there. indiebook.sale

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Hey, @elaine4nc.bsky.social - I'm happy to have submitted my annual LLC filing, but you've sent me 30 copies of it in the seven and a half hours since I did, about one every 15 minutes, and they're still coming. Any chance you can, you know, stop? I've got quite enough copies now.

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Here's my March indie author business report. A month of almost pure profit, thanks to some previous investments. Still wish I could find more effective advertising pathways. davedobsonbooks.com/my-indie-aut... #indieauthor #WritingCommunity

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Really enjoying my run as hitman Todd in Unnecessary Farce at The Little Theatre of Winston-Salem. Runs through next weekend!

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The cool thing about fantasy is that you can imagine great and wonderful things.

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So, Meta and other companies have used pirated copies of my books to train their shitty AI. None of these books were available legitimately online. They're using stolen copies. A company worth $140 billion robbing authors? This is bullshit.

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There are a lot of little victories as a writer, like when you add "buttmunch" to the spellcheck library.

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Thanks for reading and reviewing, Ariana! Zapp and Gaston are great parallels here.

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Sounds like I need to do a fifth one... 🙂

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My review of #SPSFC quarterfinalist Da Vinci on the Lam by B.D. Booker: davedobsonbooks.com/spsfc4-quart...

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Tired of Wordle, Quirdle, Firdle, or Addled? Try this delightful new word game, from my friend Sandy, a brilliant puzzle designer.

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Here's my review of #SPSFC quarterfinalist Wakers of the Cryocrypt by Nathan Kuzak for Team Peripheral Prospectors: davedobsonbooks.com/spsfc4-quart...

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Here's my review of #SPSFC Quarterfinalist Transference by Ian Patterson for the Peripheral Prospectors: davedobsonbooks.com/spsfc4-quart...

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