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http://kateorman.wordpress.com. she/her Three Doctor Who novels available at Penguin Books: https://www.penguin.co.uk/search-results?q=kate+orman Black Archives: The Pyramids of Mars https://obversebooks.co.uk/product/12-pyramids/

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · Jul 25

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Occasional news kateorman.wordpress.com
Doctor Who Novels www.penguin.co.uk/search-results?q=kate+orman
Black Archives: Pyramids of Mars obversebooks.co.uk/product/12-pyramids/
Read "Saltier" free at IZ Digital interzone.digital/saltier/
The Mirror Matter - 3rd Dr audio www.bigfinish.com/

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 5h

(I make an exception for whichever movie or show, involving a child taken too soon, posited heaven as an ethereal funfair.)

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 5h

I hope I don't presume to tell the Author of Nature His job, but should I reach heaven, I hope there is a little more to it than "fun".

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 14h

Delicately judged. In a drama just for grown-ups, that scene would have been harrowing.

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 18h

I think it was probably just the poor Doctor getting possessed and/or pummelled again. Rebecca described my pitch as "Kate Orman's greatest hits".

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 18h

Rebecca Levene, editor of the Doctor Who New Adventures, saved you all from "Pain's Champion". Be thankful! 🙄

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 1d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 18h

Mr Amos's sister was not available for comment

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 18h

Is it a disguised pro-life argument? Or mere madness? 🤔

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 18h

They're partly sabotaged by the suits, which make them look like kids playing dress-ups.

The question is who was doing the sabotaging. I can imagine a poker-faced photographer insisting they get the Dr Pepper in.

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 18h

"After stonewalling me at dinner last night, my mum gave the same response to the same question."

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 23h

The cast of a perpetually forthcoming fan video

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 23h

Guess I'll do my taxes online for free now 🇦🇺

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 1d

I'm taking a basic maths test for TAFE and I SUCK

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for a(n additional) job when I've been out of the market for 15 years is a bit like all those D&D games I DMed where I'd make the characters start at Level 1.

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 1d

*slaps forehead* WHY DIDN'T I --

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 1d

Nah, he ghosted them

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 1d

Haven't seen the show what the fuck is T Ocel JESUS CHRIST

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 1d

(Met my husband on Usenet! 😎)

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 1d

Got me laid

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 2d

Correct

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 2d

The lyric "Now he's doing horse – it's June" keeps going through my head

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 2d

😖

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant stuff is still happening thank God

Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 2d

See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

last Friday

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 2d

When *I* was a little girl, tinned fruit salad had halved cherries in.

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Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 2d

I got this joke in stages.

Kate Orman @kateorman.bsky.social · 2d

Since "Bette Davis" is a compound modifier, should it be "She's got Bette-Davis eyes"?