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Please excuse this random break into sports news... Wow. Brad Marchand heading to the Florida Panthers after 16 years with the Bruins. He hasn't been the same since Patrice Bergeron retired, but I'm still stunned. And now, back to your regularly scheduled writer stuff...

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Just did an author interview for "The Stuff Legends are Made of" and RARE: A Dark Anthology of Unusual Secrets, coming out next month! I'm not sure when or where it will be made public, but I'm sure I'll get that info before it does 😅

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What a day! After this morning's cover reveal, I got a phone call from my co-writer/director/producer on the horror web series adaptation. He called to give me an update on an upcoming budget meeting, and told me he wants to work with me again on a future project he has in mind!

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The wait is over! Gas Giant Gambit's cover has been revealed! #booksky #readingcommunity #writingcommunity #sciencefiction esraye.com/2025/03/06/g...

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Gas Giant Gambit's cover is official! #booksky #books #read #reading #readersofbluesky #reader #sciencefiction #scifi #sff #spacewestern

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One more day until Gas Giant Gambit's cover is revealed! #booksky #read #reading #readersobluesky #readersky #sciencefiction #scifi #sff #spacewestern

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My novel is coming out in a few months. So I'd like to get the community's opinion on something before I accidentally start marketing it or myself as something we're not. It's being traditionally published, but by a tiny new indie press. Does that make me an indie author? #writingcommunity

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2 more days until Gas Giant Gambit's cover reveal! #booksky #books #reading #readers #readersofbluesky #sciencefiction #scifi #spacewestern #scififan #firefly

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Gas Giant Gambit cover reveal in 3 days! #coverreveal #sciencefiction #books #novel #sciencefiction #scifi #spacewestern #read #readersofblusky #readers #readingcommunity

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Ha! With Rare: A Dark Anthology of Unusual Secrets coming out April 22nd, I officially have an Author Page on Goodreads! #writersky #writingcommunity

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I did it! Finished Gas Giant Gambit's dev edits on schedule. Just in time to receive the copy edits for "The Stuff Legends Are Made of." Busy, busy, busy.

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And a very happy snowy election day to you, Ontario. #onpoli

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And, does it matter? #writersky #writingcommunity #skywriter esraye.com/2025/02/25/c...

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These dev edits for Gas Giant Gambit represent the 9th (maybe 10th?) pass at the manuscript. I've been through it so many times there were moments on this go-through when I struggled to do the work. But now, at the 3rd plot point, the story has heated to boiling and I don't want to stop! #writersky

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A lot of my stories take place in the same universe. I half-jokingly call it the Delilah-verse because the thing the stories all have in common is Delilah the raygun. 1/4🧵

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I've had my head down as I power through the Gas Giant Gambit developmental edits, but I have resurfaced to say: - I have a finalized cover I can't wait to share. - Map design is underway, and looks better than I dreamed. - I'm more than halfway through my edits and right on schedule! #writersky

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Between work, pushing through developmental edits, and fighting a cold that JUST WON'T GO AWAY, I've been a little AWOL lately, but I just got news I had to share! The cover for Gas Giant Gambit has been finalized, and it is beautiful! #CoverReveal to come in the next few weeks! #writingcommunity

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Keeping it simple, but also aspirational, this week with my writing career bucket list! #writersky #writingcommunity #skywriter esraye.com/2025/02/10/m...

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I can't begin to count the number of times I've watched #Firefly, but this is the first time I've noticed that the Enterprise is one of the ships leaving Earth-that-was in the shadow play in ep 13, Heart of Gold.

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I'm falling behind on my book reading goal already. But I'll likely have to read Gas Giant Gambut 5 or 6 times before it comes out in September. Can I count those?

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I'm one week into, and about a quarter of the way through, the Gas Giant Gambit developmental edits. My biggest takeaway so far? 80% of dev editing is getting rid of the word "was." #writingcommunity #writersky #skywriter

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It's time for #FreeStoryFriday! Drop link to any free stories, articles, or poetry you've got floating out there on the internets. I'll kick things off...

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Yesterday was my first day of dev edits and it was more of a slog than I expected! I generally only have 3 days a week to work on it, and I have to do 2 2/3 chapters a day to meet my deadline. I'm already 2/3 of a chapter behind! Gotta do some catching up today 😵‍💫 #writingcommunity #writersky

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I worked late the last few days, and it had paid off. I have officially freed up the rest of the week to get started on those Gas Giant Gambit developmental edits. It's been a while since I've visited Gus's world, and I'm eager to return! #writingcommunity #sciencefiction #scifi

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Got some exciting 𝘎𝘢𝘴 𝘎𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘵 updates to share! esraye.com/2025/02/04/g... #sciencefiction #writersky #skywriter #writingcommunity

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Holy crap, I just got cover samples!

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Since I'm returning to the space-western world of Gas Giant Gambit this week for developmental edits (hopefully tomorrow, more likely Wednesday), now feels like a good time to revisit one of its inspirations, and one of my all-time favorite space-westerns: #Firefly

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I've been through my editor/publisher's chapter by chapter dev edit notes for Gas Giant Gambit 3 times now, and I can't get over how overwhelmingly positive they are! 1/🧵

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Remember, we're open for submissions until end-of-day Monday! Check the Submissions page at the link in our bio to see what we're looking for! #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #writers #writerky #writingcommunity

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Another great Ray Bradbury quote to add to my collection! #writingcommunity

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Holy shit. Just got the developmental edits for Gas Giant Gambit. No major structural or plot changes, just some stuff to "show" more where I "tell" and deepening character connections. This just got very real! (And I guess it proves the madness of my outlines works! For me anyway 😅) #writersky

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Second short story of the day edited and ready for one final proofread tomorrow before submitting to the @nycmidnight.bsky.social #ShortStoryChallenge2025. And to top it off, I just got word I'm getting developmental edits on Gas Giant Gambit in the next 24 hours. Whew, I'm about to get busy!

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Here's a interesting piece of lore about my stories I don't think I've ever shared before: Much of my work (including both my upcoming 𝘎𝘢𝘴 𝘎𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘵, and 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘛𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴, 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘚𝘬𝘪𝘦𝘴, which I'm outlining now) take place in the same universe, which I half-jokingly call "The Delilah-verse." 1/🧵

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One short story edited and sent back to the publisher. Now, lunch. Next, editing a second short story for a contest before tomorrow night's deadline. Too busy today to let a head cold slow me down. #writingcommunity #writersky #skywriter #sciencefiction #scifi

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Sore throat seems to have passed, but now it's all up in my head--especially my left sinus. I swear this happens every winter. Oh well, gotta try to ignore it and get through as many of the dev edits on "The Stuff Legends are Made of" as I can today! #writingcommunity #writersky #skywriters

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