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Writer, reader, teacher. Father of real & pretend people. Not interested in book editing or marketing services, thanks. Find my time-travel thriller MYRIAD, written with my very own OI (organic intelligence), at https://angryrobotbooks.my.canva.site/myriad
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I have a new literary agent! More information coming soon.

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Our latest puzzle. There's a missing piece, but we very cleverly replaced it. See if you can spot it!

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#TimeTravelAuthors 2/19: Miriam's mom was a psychologist before early-onset Alzheimer's robbed her of her memory. Here's a snippet from a paper of hers with the word "measure."

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#TimeTravelAuthors 2/17: In MYRIAD and "Ghost Life," people communicate mostly by texting (which they call pinging), though as the attached sample illustrates, there are some new wrinkles.

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The Trump/Musk debacle in a nutshell. www.aol.com/news/trump-a...

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#TimeTravelAuthors 2/15: A Saturday snippet from MYRIAD with the word "trouble" (actually, double trouble).

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#TimeTravelAuthors 2/13 Of courses.

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#TimeTravelAuthors 2/11: I'm not entirely sure Miriam fits in well in her own time period, much less another.

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#TimeTravelAuthors 2/5: Wednesday snippet from "Ghost Life" with the word "travel." Oh, and by the way, today's my 60th birthday.

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#TimeTravelAuthors 2/3: I think it's safe to say that regret is not only a trope in MYRIAD, but a trope of a trope.

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#TimeTravelAuthors 2/1: I'm Josh. I was part of the original TTA group way back when, and I'm also the publisher of the Accidental Time Travelers Collective series. I wrote a time-travel novel titled MYRIAD, plus a prequel story, "Ghost Life." Oh, and I turn 60 this month.

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My phone can't fully capture this, but today's sky is a bright, nearly cloudless blue, quite uncommon for Pittsburgh.

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Unsolicited writing advice, no. #1616: In a world in which the average writer earns only £7000 a year, be sure why you want to do this. If it's to make a fortune, or hang out with famous people, or to be famous yourself, forget it. It isn't a lottery. It's a slog. Only joy makes it worthwhile.

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My wife and I build a lot of puzzles. The kids are out of the house, it's cold outside, and we want to keep our brains sharp. And now, thanks to a new approach to puzzle-building I call the Bellin Fungoid Strategy (BFS for short), there's new hope for puzzle-builders worldwide. [1/6]

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#TimeTravelAuthors 1/29: A Wednesday snippet from "Ghost Life" with the word "cold."

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Trump has made his opening moves to become absolute dictator: illegally freezing all federal funds and trying to buy out millions of federal employees. The only question is whether the people will let him get away with it.

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I dreamed last night that we went to the shelter to get a new kitten and didn't realize until we got home that it was a leopard cub. I had to explain to my kids (under 10 years old in the dream, in their 20's in real life) that we couldn't keep a pet that would grow up to eat our faces off.

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"Sorry, we can't make this technology that sucks and nobody wants and that uses enough power to blow up the moon unless we *also* steal people's shit to throw into our content woodchipper in order to produce mediocre digital particleboard out of the cumulative artbarf." futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

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My wife and I are making good progress on our LOTR puzzle (art by John Howe). The part we saved for last is an enormous tree where every piece looks the same.

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MYRIAD (Kindle) is only $0.99--a perfect chance to pick up my #TimeTravelAuthors tale. www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0BB...

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It's the fall of Troy but people saw what was inside the horse, let it in anyway, and now they're surprised at everything being burned down.

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