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David Niall Wilson

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Author, Publisher, some awards, USA Today bestseller. Wrangler of 12 cats & chinchilla, ex-Prez HWA, trivia not fact checked. Way left. Husband & father, I'm Crossroad Press! #startrek #stargate #WoD https://www.davidniallwilson.com

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 25d

#Contest #Writing #prompts. In my novella, "When You Leave I Disappear" the protagonist wrote short stories because a strange website provided one word prompts, and a deadline. I am asking for one-word prompts to choose for another project. Those chosen get signed copies. See first comment.

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 1h

I want Marshall from How I Met Your Mother to interview all of the GOP congressmen and women. Only one question. Who do you work for. If they say Trump, he slaps them. If they say the American people... he slaps them harder.

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Goth Auntie @cupcakegoth.bsky.social · 1d

OH MY GOD, I WANT "GROK" REMOVED FROM THE VOCABULARY OF ALL SOFTWARE PEOPLE.

(I've read Stranger in a Strange Land. Grok includes sacred cannibalism, dammit.)

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2h

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 6h

A cautionary sequel to the Lorax...

They clean out the sewers, the rivers and ponds,
And invest what they earn in cheap government bonds,
They clean up the garbage in big yellow boots,
In their hazmat resistable barbaloot suits
The Swanee Swans never go swimming these days,
They once found it fun, but they’re changing their ways,
They all work in factories cranking out thneeds,
From synthesized cloth that is woven from weeds
They aren’t warm, they aren’t comfy, they scratch and they smell,
But the Thneed sellers say they are doing quite well,
When the thneeds with white beads fail, they sew on black collars,
And raise up their prices a couple of dollars
The Lorax was banished by Orange Decree
To the left-wing expanse of far fiddle-de-dee
A place that is farther than most folks will go
Just to hear the poor Lorax expound on their woe

David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 6h

So, Scam Bondi and her Department of Injustice can't find a case against James Comey no matter how badly Trump wants to go after him. He's been investigated endlessly, like Hunter Biden, all of it costing tax dollars to us while the government is shut down...

David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 7h

See, I rhymed the first skeet, a thing pretty neat, that I find I can do once and then can repeat.

David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 8h

@floregonian.com I offer up proof of my Dr. Seuss claim, You can read it, and say if I'm spot on, or lame...

The Eliphajaunt

A Boy and an elephant both went out,
One with a football, the other a snout
As long as a boa constrictor, and grey,
To the field by the river to frolic and play
The boy threw the football quite high in the air,
And he caught it again, as it fell back from there,
While the elephant wandered a little behind,
They were out for a jaunt, it was time to unwind
And again with the football clutched tight in his hand,
The boy flicked his wrist like a taut rubber band
And the ball took off flying up up, and away,
And he reached out to catch it the very same way
That he’d caught it a hundred and ten times before,
And expected to catch it just that one time more
But his hand came up empty, the air was the same,
Something was very much wrong with his game.
For a ball that goes up as we all understand,
Cannot stay, it goes upward, and then it must land
So he spun in a circle and stared at the sky,
And he asked his friend Elephant, “Do you know why?”
I have tossed up my football quite high in the air
But it did not fall down, and I’m wondering where
It could be, for you see, it is not in the sky,
And it’s not on the ground, and I’m wondering why
It is not in my hand like it landed before,
And the elephant could not stand one second more
Of his secret and lifted his long, long grey snout
And he swished it around and he twirled it about
And the boy saw his football, caught snug as can be
In the trunk of the elephant, tall as a tree
And the elephant laughed, and he tossed the ball high,
So it sailed so far up it was lost in the sky
And though it flew higher than ever before,
The ball fell back to Earth, the boy caught it once more
And the boy and the elephant went on their way,
They continued their jaunt, and enjoyed the bright day.

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 9h

Right? And it's actually pretty forgiving if you right the ship, ask for help, whatever, but that note that just went out... "No further payments will be issued" is a choice...

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 9h

Publisher's Weekly review of @gregfgifune.bsky.social's upcoming nov el PACK ANIMALS - available for pre-order now at all eBook retailers, pre-order the trade paperback on Amazon.

Pack Animals by Greg F. Gifune

Bram Stoker Award winner Gifune (God Machine) serves up a lean, mean supernatural thriller that moves at a breakneck speed and d...

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 9h

t really is this easy. You sign a contract with authors, and then, when the contract says you should pay them their share, you do that. We have not, in over fifteen years, failed to do this. The money does not all belong to the publisher, and should never be spent until authors are paid. Cats agree.

Sir Thomas, a long-haired creme colored cat with fuzzy feet and a white beard, lying on the floor and wearing a pinm hat with hearts in a concentric design where the center is white, swirling out through pink to violet. He is giving the world the side-eye

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Beau Johnson 🇨🇦 🪓 @beaujohnson44.bsky.social · 1d

Do not buy my books from Amazon or Down and Out Books directly. I will not get paid. I should get paid, as per my contract, but in an email from D&O I’ve been told ‘no further payments will be issued.’
It absolutely blows it is ending this way, but man, pay your authors what they are owed.

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 10h

So... there's a law governing back pay for people furloughed due to a government shutdown. It was suddenliy deleted from the FAQ covering the layoffs, but here's the thing you GOP numbnutz dumbasses... you can't just "delete" a law. Sorry. You're just hoping to tie it up in court. And hurt people.

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 18h

I think that there is not enough support for those of us who are awful at thumb-typing on a phone, or for those who believe (usually correctly) that a one minute phone call can solve what ten minutes of texts cannot.

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 18h

Sorry it's weird. People think I'm younger than I am also. I will never complain about that though.

David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 18h

We have several who are actually hotter than we are, but we have 11 cats so the odds were against us...

Pants, the big gray and white tuxedo cat, wearing a decorative steampunk top hat, staring intently into the camera lens.

David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 18h

That's a choice... is your dad not well, or is she projecting? I worry that my son (Trish's son, but mine from age 7) will try to take over and act like I'm not capable of handling my own life. He's a bit of a jerk.

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 18h

I love this for you. We are about to publish the second (and most popular) book by Julia Teweles, who was one of the first horror authors to be openly trans... she's fun, and a great writer. If we ever meet, I'll tell you about my friend Marty in San Diego, late 80s.

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 18h

I can write a poem or a chilren's book while channeling Dr. Seuss and pull it off. I can ALSO sleep almost any time and anywhere, like on the floor in a room full of noisy people.

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 18h

But... WHICH dance...?

David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 19h

Give or take. Sometimes I don't get the nap, sometimes the nap is longer, but it's realliy the only variable.

David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 19h

34 awake, 14 asleep. That is a one hour nap each afternoon and about 6 hours of sleep at night.

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 19h

Jerry, no

David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 19h

Whatever you do, don't think about that when you try to fall asleep

David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 19h

What if those aren't your knees... or if it isn't your heartbeat...

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David Niall Wilson @davidniallwilson.com · 20h

The cover artist is Jill Bauman... she did a lot of covers during that era.