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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!)

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Writer of dystopia while living in a dystopia. CLIPPED: https://books2read.com/Clippednovel GOODREADS: www.goodreads.com/book/show/225861123-clipped WIP: Elf Thing https://kqwatson.carrd.co

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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · Sep 2

Fun fact:
CLIPPED is now wide!
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books2read.com/Clippednovel

"There's nothing to repent for..."

Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

#booksky #readersky #indieauthors #speculativefiction #SFF #indieauthor #books #kobo #smashwords #applebooks #paperback #scifi #dystopia #ebooks 📚💙

The cover of Clipped by KQ Watson with buy link logos for various online book retailers.

The covers of the epub and paperback editions of Clipped by K.Q. Watson. Bloody red wings on a white background. the text "A divine being who chose to give up his wings. A girl with demons in her head. Faith-healers, drug dealers, cult-leaders & gun-toting angel hunters. A road trip through a god-fearing dystopian world."

An abstract image of splattered black wings on a white background.

The text reads:
Heaven was perfect, until they came for his son.

When angel engineer Zak's infant son is cast down for being born without wings, he faces Heaven's cruel mandate: forget, or fall. Clipped, Zak plummets to a broken Earth, where false prophets exploit the faithful, drug lords rule dead cities, and every truth comes with a price.

Pursued by ruthless angel hunters through decaying urban wastelands and corrupted mega-churches, Zak uncovers a conspiracy that reaches from Earth's grimmest gutters to Heaven's highest chambers. What begins as a father's desperate search becomes a brutal quest for vengeance that will expose Heaven's most devastating lies - and make them remember his son's name.

Cover for Clipped by KQ Watson with text and arrows pointing out various tropes.

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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 14h

No, I get it.
The very corner of that notepad is right in my periphery and it's DISTRACTING.

KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 1d

Pepe the frog: Tired.
Portland Frog: Wired

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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 1d

Waiting with baited breath.

N.J. Gallegos @drspookyer.bsky.social · 1d

Watched “Fire in the Sky” for the podcast. Thoughts incoming.

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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 2d

We did home made ouija boards with a pen, a drinking glass and scrap paper.

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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 3d

My Skull of Cthulhu. Made in 2011. Still my favourite art I've ever done.

#Skeleton #artshare #antiai

A skull with tentacles for teeth and a galaxy in its eye. Made in the early 2010s, not made with AI.

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buy my book @nmamatas.bsky.social · 3d

Trevor Goodchild, is that you?

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 4d

“Ready-to-wear?” I am ready to wear this, but I don’t know if the world is ready for me to do so

A dude in a long-sleeve V-neck French cut bodysuit with shoulder pads and sandals

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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 3d

AN AEON FLUX REFERENCE OUT IN THE WILD!

a drawing of a woman with the words liquid television on the bottom right

ALT: a drawing of a woman with the words liquid television on the bottom right

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 3d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 3d

My book was self published this year.
It has 4 reviews on Goodreads.
It took me over a decade to write. AI never touched it.

I tick 3 of those 4 boxes, so please use discretion.

Man, this is just as annoying as the "Look at the fingers, its AI!" when I have a natural limb difference...

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3d

“When you get a suspicious book, “you look it up to see what else the [author] has written. And you see there's 30 things, and none of them have any reviews, and they were all written in the last two years,” DeMeester-Lane says.”

How Local Librarians Keep AI Slop Off the Shelves

AI is being used to create nonsensical, sometimes dangerously inaccurate books. Local librarians are tasked with keeping these volumes out of their collections.

www.governing.com

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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 4d

"Your dog doesn't love you"

CNBC @cnbc.com · 4d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

cnb.cx

KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 4d

I have officially entered my doing jigsaw puzzles while listening to an audiobook old lady era.

KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 4d

He has 90 followers. I think we'll be ok.

KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 4d

I haven't seen the Big Famous Movies Everyone's Seen like Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Scarface, Dirty Harry and only know them through cultural osmosis.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 5d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 7d

Wheelchair Seating for the Apocalypse is a short story I wrote years ago that was traditionally published twice. Now is living it's 2nd life on KU. It's about a disabled woman who decides to skip the whole zombie infestation thing.

books2read.com/wheelchairse...

zombiebookclub.io/2025/08/17/w...

The cover of Wheelchair seating for the Apocalypse on a background of paper with text that reads "when someone would ask me what I would do in case of zombies, my immediate answer had always been "shoot myself in the head"

Grey text on black background. An excerpt from Wheelchair seating for the Apocalypse

Promo image for Zombie Book Club Podcast on which I was a guest.

KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 7d

Well, there ya go. Sowing the seeds early.

KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 7d

I dunno why but this actually made me laugh. The dick joke, obviously but the turning the bug over, it had "Am I a parent now?" energy.

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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 7d

Love a good demon! Nicely done.

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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 7d

I love the character names and I love the title.

I also like the waterfall of filthy water. Good imagery.

KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 7d

Since t'is the season for spookycreepy, have you read my very short, 2,500 word zombie story, Wheelchair Seating for the Apocalypse? It's about a woman in a wheelchair taking matters into her own hands during a zombie apocalypse.
TW: Self-termination.
Free on KU!
books2read.com/wheelchairseating

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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 7d

#SFFChat Q4:
A little panic attack moment in Wheelchair Seating For the Apocalypse.

Grey text on a black background that reads "I wasn’t ready for the panic when it started to set in.
What if they get in here before I’m dead? What if they pull my arms off first and I feel the limbs rip from their sockets and tear from my body? What if I die and turn into one of them anyway, bite or no bite? And what if then, I have my old memories? What if my consciousness is still aware? What if I have a sense of self but my mind is imprisoned in a shambling body that’s falling apart? What if all they know is hunger and pain? What if the rotting hurts? What if eating people is the only way to kill the pain? What if their dull moaning is just them screaming “help me!“. What if I become one of them, and I’m stuck wearing a grody old shirt with a cola stain on it for the rest of my un-life until someone puts me out of my misery?"

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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 7d

#SFFChat Q3
Max Brooks did great things with both World War Z and Devolution, but there's a specific passage early on in HOUSE of Leaves that never left my memory. I don't want to spoil it, but we can discuss it in the comments below if you want.

SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · 7d

#SFFChat Q3: What SFF or speculative horror author do you think does creepy scenes esp. well? Maybe there's an author who you don't read because they scared you so much, or a fantasy writer whose prose raises the hair on your arms (because it's creepy, not because it's bad, ahaha).

A spooky person with a sheet over them that's tinted orange.

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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 7d

#SFFChat Q2

Bird skulls, animal skulls and plague doctor masks. Also, bats.
Very simple but honest answer.

SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · 7d

#SFFChat Q2: Is there any spooky imagery you're especially fond of?

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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 7d

#SFFChat Q1

I think genre blends can be fun, creative and unique. Horror within SFF can do anything from give texture to the world, to raise the stakes, to completely flip the genre the work is in. More often than not, there's usually a little bit of horror sprinkled in to SFF.

SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · 7d

#SFFChat Q1: What role does horror play in SFF? (or replace "horror" with fear, spookiness, or another similar thing!)

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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 7d

#SFFChat

Ohh I'm early for once.

Hi, I'm Kyew, I wrote dystopia and horror. And if you don't know my irrational fear of grey aliens by now, you will never, never, never know me.

SFFChat @sffchat.bsky.social · 7d

#SFFChat Intro: Introduce yourself and share a fear you have! Could be a traditional fear such as a phobia, or maybe it's a writing-related fear.

A spooky person with a sheet over them that's tinted orange. Photo by Kevin Escate!

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KQ Watson🇨🇦 - Clipped (Out now!) @kqwatson.bsky.social · 8d

Is this close enough?

The hardcover novel adaptation of Jim Henson's The Dar Crystal