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Pip Hemplow

@hemplow.bsky.social

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Horror writer: author of THE INNSMOUTH SYNDROME, SARCOPHAGUS, ASHES, EXOTERIC, PSEFISATO, BLACK MILK etc. Latest book K-HOLE OF THE MI-GO! available from the usual places.

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Pip Hemplow @hemplow.bsky.social · 17d

Evening, everyone. Amazon link to my new book, a story about a ketamine-fuelled tech trillionaire who makes an unwise deal with the Mi-Go of Yuggoth. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTWG3LG6

K-Hole of the Mi-Go!

Amazon.com: K-Hole of the Mi-Go! eBook : Hemplow, Philip: Books

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Pip Hemplow @hemplow.bsky.social · 1d

soon as you pointed it out I could see it

Pip Hemplow @hemplow.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wow, you're not wrong.

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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 1d

ok but that's not how bread works

Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 1d

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.

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Pip Hemplow @hemplow.bsky.social · 1d

I am absolutely seething, ftr.

Pip Hemplow @hemplow.bsky.social · 1d

Uh, so does anyone know -why- KDP suddenly requires us all to send them a picture of our passport? Do they seriously expect us to trust them with that? How long before they're emailing us to admit a security breach and tell us those deets are out in the wild?

Pip Hemplow @hemplow.bsky.social · 2d

This story's shaping up quite nicely, I think. 5k words of scene setting but now finally getting to the Dagonian doings.

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windust @windust.bsky.social · 3d

Good. Leeches.

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 3d

Betting firm threatens to end its entire High St presence if it has to pay any more tax bit.ly/4qhaL1j yet another in the too rich and too important to pay tax series

If gambling tax rises, we’ll shut all our 1,300 shops, warns Betfred

Increased levies expected to be imposed in next month’s budget could cost the company 7,000 jobs, according to Joanne Whittaker, the chief executive

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Pip Hemplow @hemplow.bsky.social · 3d

The south definitely has its own distinct vibe. And yes, it's very picturesque.

Pip Hemplow @hemplow.bsky.social · 3d

Ostuni? Nice town, nice region, Adriatic beaches, lots to see, just be prepared to drive defensively!

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reni 🦌🫜 @reniadeb.com · 6d

a pumpkin man sits inside a pumpkin house, is the house made of flesh, or is he made of house? he smiles for he does not know

a small pumpkin with a smiley face drawn on in sharpie pen sits within a larger pumpkin carved to look like its home

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Pip Hemplow @hemplow.bsky.social · 8d

Nice! I bought one for my niece last Xmas. Glad you went with the Struzan one, it's definitely the best. Was v annoyed I didn't manage to cop one of the ltd edition lenticular ones though - they looked killer, but not easy to come by. Might get her an illuminated frame for it this year...

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Bugfrog @bugfrog.bsky.social · 8d

Somewhere, someone has a real skeleton in their yard in plain sight. They will dispose of it after Halloween and get away with the entire crime.

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The Red-Headed Strangler @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 8d

if you listen to an audiobook it's fine to say you read the book and anyone who disagrees is just being obnoxious

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 9d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Melissa Caruso @melissacaruso.bsky.social · 8d

The best thing you can do for your writing is to take good care of yourself. The work comes easier, faster, and better when you've got full bars.

Corollary: The best thing we can do to get more amazing art from our faves is to take good care of the artists.

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 8d

Tell me your most life-affirming literary opinion.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · Jan 28

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

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PJ Holden @pauljholden.com · 9d

Did… do no one vet the title of this book?

The book by The Reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie is subtitled “confessions and communions of a young priest” and is called “Touching Cloth”

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Pip Hemplow @hemplow.bsky.social · 8d

If anyone needs a cover, @bitcrush-bae.bsky.social who did my new one's commissions are open.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 10d

I am straight-up going to have nightmares about this

In the video Smith posted online, he said Neuralink engineers had started using language models including ChatGPT and Grok to serve up a selection of relevant replies to questions, as well as options for things he could say in conversations going on around him. One example that he outlined: “My friend asked me for ideas for his girlfriend who loves horses. I chose the option that told him in my voice to get her a bouquet of carrots. What a creative and funny idea.”

These aren’t really his thoughts, but they will do—since brain-clicking once in a menu of choices is much faster than typing out a complete answer, which can take minutes.

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 11d

Good man. Dont back down. Don't let these thugs intimidate you.

Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 11d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 11d

Dedication in PG Wodehouse’s autobiography, 1957

To Who
J. Alastair Frisby
Who
Told Me I Would Never Have A Book Published
And
Advised me
To
Get a job selling jellied eels
SUCKS TO YOU, FRISBY

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Pip Hemplow @hemplow.bsky.social · 12d

Okay, okay, bear with me here, but what would happen if the richest man on Earth cooked his brain with horse tranquilisers -- I know, it's a reach -- betrayed everyone on Earth, and attempted to flee to Pluto? Well, it's this. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTWG3LG6

K-Hole of the Mi-Go!

Amazon.com: K-Hole of the Mi-Go! eBook : Hemplow, Philip: Books

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max 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 15d

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Pip Hemplow @hemplow.bsky.social · 15d

Mini-giveaway cos I'm in a good mood: three free copies of the new book, 1st come, 1st served. Use code PV78P at checkout to discount it to free: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... When they're gone, they're gone - grab em before the bots do!

K-Hole of the Mi-Go!

When Levi, the world's first trillionaire, discovers he is dying, the alien Mi-Go, of Yuggoth, seem to hold the key to his survival. However, they are not interested in his money, and by the time the ...

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Jonamoose @jonamoose.bsky.social · 16d

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 16d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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