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P.G. Sundling

@pgsundling.bsky.social

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A genre-bending #writer with a terse cinematic style. My #sci-fi #thrillers have a dose of hilarious political #satire. 💙📚 🪐📚 #5amWritersClub #ADHD #gamer #dnd Animal lover Give me the benefit of doubt& I will too. Storygraph: pg_sundling Former coder

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P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · Nov 13

I finished the 2nd edition of my award-winning novel, The Internet President: None of the Above. Let me know if you'd like to read it before publication.

Aliens watch over the election before doomsday. A non-politician changes their name to None of the Above and runs for president.

Book cover of The Election Before Doomsday: A Sci-Fi Political Thriller (None of the Above Book 1) by P.G. Sundling

Cover has a circular opening between two ice caverns. A large vault door is open as two people walk towards the opening towards the Capital Building in the other cavern. A mysterious blue fog glows behind it.

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P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 12h

Good luck with your launch.

P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 12h

Sounds good. It's a very original book, that's for sure.

The subplot related to the bar in book 3 gets pretty crazy. 😜

It'll be years before I get there, though.

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P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 14h

Great background music for book editing.

P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 14h

After reading it, I bought The Oatmeal's Terrible Therapist card game, which looks hilarious.

P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 15h

The best I can do is send you a copy of the book. Although the bar does have a character arc of its own.

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P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 15h

I'm actually hot, and turned on the fan. 😀

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The Heat Is On (2005 Remaster)

YouTube video by The Power Station - Topic

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P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 15h

Shaking your groove thing is a treasure.
A booty, you might say. 🏴‍☠️🦜

P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 15h

Life makes sense in someone's timeline. Probably not mine.

P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 15h

Yes. Marketing, the eternal torment.

At least books you can finish, unless you're a crazy person and write a 2nd edition like me. 🙄😜

P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 15h

I have a steampunk-themed bar in my first book, and people love or hate it. 😀

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P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 15h

I wish I didn't relate AND have examples from this week. 🙄🤷

I hate the gap between what you know rationally and how it feels.

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P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 15h

Degrees of reality?
At least 720
spin doctors gotta spin 😏

Lovely painting and poetry. Great imagery.

Yong-Ju Valérie Barthélémy @yongjudancinglight.bsky.social · 20d

degrees of reality
do not polarize crisis
but open the way to
radical change eclipse

#Art #abstract #painting #eclipse #change #powertothepeople #2027 #poetry

P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 15h

#5amWritersClub Almost done editing another chapter.
9.06% shorter. I think I can hit 10%.

#writingCommunity #writerSky #authorSky

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P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 1d

I was interested in music for a while, but I barely made the cutoff to see it either. My first concert was 1988 Monsters of Rock. I still have 50 feet of "police line do not cross."

I got 15 feet from Metallica at the center of an intense mosh pit. An injury paused the set to airlift someone out.

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P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 1d

I saw them with Depeche Mode decades ago at the Universal Amphitheater. It's so random that I can look up the date I went (1 August 1990) after all this time. 😮

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World Violation Tour - Wikipedia

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P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah! You got the top post for that hashtag. 😜

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P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 1d

Yellow eyes stare back
Its mirror moves mock me. Hiss.
Yarn. I'm off to play.
#haiku #poetry #prompt

Nya 🧿 🇨🇦 @artbyseranya.bsky.social · 2d

Each morning, she avoids the bathroom mirror, which tells her she’s beautiful just the way she is…
Yet her upbringing filled with conditional acceptance for love cannot face her imperfections.
#Seranya #Writing 🦄

#Art #Prompt
#Poemsabout #ImperfectMe TY @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Oracle card via Dee on Soul Manna YouTube channel

18 - Dual Personalities

Depicting a black cat hiding in the garden plants while staring with big terrified green eyes

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P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 1d

Forgetting to sharpen his axe also makes for a dull boy. 😏

P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 1d

An ARC I read has a cover now. It was a swashbuckling adventure with well drawn characters and a bit of political intrigue. It really got going after what they find on the ghost ship.
#bookSky #writingCommunity #authorSky #writerSky

Walt Shuler (he/him) @waltshuler.substack.com · 2d

So, ADTR has a cover now :)
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ADTR Gets a Cover

The Cover Reveal: A Dread Tide Rising Is One Step Closer to Reality

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P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 1d

#5amWritersClub when you don't even get around to writing out your to-do list and still sneak in work on the book. 😏🤷‍♀️

#writingCommunity #writerSky #authorSky

Notes. Thursday with some scribbles and an empty Todo list.

P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 1d

“My Name Is Ruin” is a great song. I enjoyed the entire album quite a bit. I won a cassette tape with Cars on Friday the 13th as a kid. That's when I claimed Friday the 13th as my lucky day.

P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 2d

It's an awesome prompt, especially the framing of it.

I have a fundamental physic property getting changed as a plot point in my series. 😆 So I can talk no crap.
#sci-fi #writingCommunity #authorSky #writerSky

Nils O @nils.readindiefantasy.com · 2d

The writing prompts provided by WUtI Amsterdam are something else.

Screenshot of as n Instagram post with a Writing prompt from #DrunkWritingPrompts
Title: Delivery in 5 hours or it's free.
Prompt: the universe suddenly decided to lower the speed of light. Everything is now slower and heavier, and all of reality starts to drift apart. As a pizza chain store manager, you really don't need this on top of all your other problems.

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P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 2d

A great classic and true. Thanks for the tune. Music makes a difference. I often get what I want, but never when I want it.

I feel better about being sidetracked knowing that my health advice might help an old friend. Probably worth losing a writing session.

P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe that's what I'm not doing.

I need to tell my muse I love them.

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P.G. Sundling @pgsundling.bsky.social · 2d

#5amWritersClub Sidetracked, so not much done. A letdown after yesterday's victory. 🤷

One day at a time.
#writingCommunity #writerSky #authorSky

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