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As a writer, you're going to do things that are a waste of time. Do them anyway. Send that pitch, write that piece outside your niche, research that crazy obscure subject. It will probably come to nothing, but you'll learn something and it might be amazing. #writingcommunity

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It's a real honor that Lou Ferrante endorsed my book! When a former mobster and bestselling author likes your book, it really means something! amzn.eu/d/h1tPRU1 #booksky #histbookchat 🗃️ #kent #sussex #smuggling.

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

Still time to get the book delivered for Christmas!

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I get it, you don't know what to buy your dad/uncle/grandpa for Christmas. Get him my book if he likes crime!* *Reading about crime, not doing crime. Actually, get it for him if he likes doing crime too. www.amazon.co.uk/Hawkhurst-Co... 🗃️ #histbookchat #smuggling #kent #sussex

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My book is in an archive. The historian circle of life is complete. Really great to see it stocked so close to where it takes place! #booksky #histbookchat #authorsky

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My stupid fan theory: #tropico is the Anno game that can't be made because none of the years in the 20th century add up to 9.

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I was in the UK ten years before I realized the Pudsey had nothing to do with Remembrance Day. Like I thought he was some sort of friendly cartoon war wounded.

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Anyone in the #writingcommunity know of a good lit mag that takes historical fiction submissions? I've got a story: 3500 words, takes place in 1910s, book-club fiction. Long-listed for the Dorothy Dunnet award. Not necessarily looking to get paid, just to get a clip. #historicalfiction #writing

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Starting a #tropico game and playing a leader where I try to make people's lives better, even though I don't have to, feels like an act of rebellion right now.

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I did a straw poll on my other account on where people found their last history book. The takeaway for me is: A book finds you, you don't find a book. Marketing is important for authors. Who knew? #booksky #authorsky

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Lukewarm take on the War on Drugs is also a bad take on the Hawkhurst Gang... www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/2462744...

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Two satellite images of Eastern Ukraine: August, 2022 and August 2024 The brown streak in the second picture is the front. The war's destruction is visible from space. #ukraine 🇺🇦 from the NOAA JSTAR mapper. www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/mapper/

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My short story, Purity, got long-listed in the HWA Dorothy Dunnet Short Story Competition Really honored to be there with some great #histfic writers! #HWADDSS24 www.historiamag.com/hwa-dd-ss-20...

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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #409,951!

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Jenkins' Quality Barbecue, Jacksonville, FL 1979 I kinda want to eat there just for the cool building. LOC flic.kr/p/2225vgm

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Bracelet Bay, Wales. We got there at low tide which revealed an array of miniature landscapes among the rocks. 📸 More in 🧵

submitted 195 days ago • 2 comments

IYKYK...

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The backup dancers at the closing ceremony have strong Power Rangers putty vibes. #olympics #paris2024

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I'm thinking about applying to be a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Are there any current fellows out there willing to sponsor an independent scholar who's recently published a book (i.e. me)? 🗃️ #c18th

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"All those public service cuts will be lost in time, like tears in the rain..."

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These aren't the snacks I would choose while reading my book, but if my readers enjoy them, I'm not going to judge...

submitted 306 days ago • 4 comments

I've been reading a bunch of short stories researching a project and I know that I'm almost 30 years late for this but... The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven is an amazing collection!

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I'm writing an article about the 80s and I lost a whole evening trying to solve my daughter's rubik's cube. It's not procrastination, its method #writing!

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I love it when a news article references EP Thompson and food riots. Great article in The Economist on #inflation www.economist.com/finance-and-...

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I really wish that people would stop claiming to have statistically derived universal human experience... www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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Question for the intellectual historians out there: Do we see anything similar to the idea of authenticity (similar to that expressed by Sartre and Adorno, and practiced by music cultures like punk and hip hop) pre 20th century? 🗃️

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The account of the smuggler's murders in the 1740s has been print for centuries. Joanna Davies is selling the latest reprint in her ebay shop! www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12560600...

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Sell your truck, get gas money! This is a spam message I got on LinkedIn today. Don't think you can pay me enough to do this...

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Somehow, this guy's parents knew he was an elite cyclist...

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Great Blog post from the National Archives about a little island that appeared and disappeared in the 14th century. Really interesting to see how the British coastline is constantly changing. 🗃️ beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

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Any historians out there have any advice for conducting a phone interview with a source? I'm talking to a person about something that happened in the mid 1980s. 🗃️

submitted 385 days ago • 2 comments

Me at the start of a #Stellaris game vs. Me at the end of a Stellaris game.

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Most of your ideas are bad. So have lots of them, and try to pick the good ones.

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