greencoatboy.bsky.social
A dad (they/them), geek (roleplaying, wargames, boardgames, technology), writer, history, science fiction and fantasy. Explorer Scout leader in North Angus, Scotland.
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Fast forward a few centuries and we get a trading hub that's put a few more dams in to control the flow, built defences to stop raiders, and it's now a large town.
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I traced the original to place the early settlement, and then worked out how they might adapt the environment for food and to mitigate flooding. This is based on how iron age people did things.
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This looks like a great read @timmyelf.bsky.social
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I suspect they'll mostly have the newer covers on the reprints.
I may ask that question when we meet though, it's an interesting angle I wouldn't have thought of.
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That's the challenge for everything, getting the scope/boundaries right so that it makes sense and gets your core message across.
Good on you for sharing too.
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I'd agree that Lords and Ladies is a much better book than Wyrd Sisters, by then he'd got more into the flow of discworld and the folklore of the world comes out a lot more strongly.
My personal start point was The Colour of Magic, but that's because I'm fairly old and there were only two out!
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I love the Josh Kirby covers, I think they're what drew me in back when I was a teenager. The books stood out against whatever else was on the shelf in the bookshop.
If I could find out a way to get a Josh Kirby style cover for my own book I'd jump at it.
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It's a shame really, because as I'm sure you know well, S2 is the last time everyone gets it.
I enjoyed history at school, but never got to do it past S2 because I ended up on the science track. It probably saved my interest, I've certainly got enough history on my shelves to beat a school library
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They really liked Starter Villain. Our chat about Wyrd Sisters isn't for a couple of weeks, although early comments have all been positive.
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My thoughts too. I've recently had some safety training that covered this.
Best approach short term is to say hello to him next time you see him. Tell the neighbours too. Knowing he's been clocked should be deterrent enough.
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I have just introduced the book club at work to Wyrd Sisters. I was somewhat shocked when I realised that my battered paperback is nearly 36 years old, which is older than most of the book club members.
We also read Starter Villain the previous month, so I'm doing my bit for SFF!
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I've noticed that Google maps holds multiple names for things.
E.g. in English there's a town called Fort William in the Highlands, put there to keep the Jacobites from rebelling.
In Gàidhlig it's called An Gearasdan (the garrison). If you search you get the place with the name you use
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Crisis Point is a near future sci-fi thriller about a deranged US President that tries to start a nuclear war, and the attempts to stop him. Written in 2012-13. Fiction.
All my author royalties are given to charity, I write for fun, not profit.
mybook.to/CrisisPoint
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FWIW the other two in print are:
Themself - My Experience as a Creative Writing Student
mybook.to/Themself
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I'd second Lightning Source/Ingram. I've used the Ingram side (from the UK) to get my paperback more widely discoverable (and to do a proper hardback with a dust jacket).
With the Ingram and KDP paperbacks side by side (identical layouts, fonts, colours etc) the Ingram is noticeably sharper
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It's certainly better than paying full price.
I've not quite got round to it because I go to the office infrequently enough that I can't be certain that I'll have enough trips in the 3 months window.
Mostly I rely on advance tickets to keep the cost down.
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I largely agree, that period with no peak fares made it sensible to get the train.
Putting the prices up and cutting the trains made it cheaper and faster for me to drive to Glasgow from Dundee than it had been to get the train.