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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚

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Science fiction novelist and humorist. Get my books, free stories, and writing tips at https://dnschmidt.com. Sign up for email updates so you don’t miss a thing! Story editing checklist: https://dnschmidt.com/writing-advice/story-editing-checklist/

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 2d

It's release day! The Chained Space Series is here!

Thanks to everyone who preordered. Your support means the world to me.

#sff #spaceopera #booksky

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The Chained Space Series is here! - D.N. Schmidt

It's release day! The Chained Space Series is finally here! Check out this new space opera adventure series!

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 13h

When I go get a haircut, I shouldn’t have to wait in line behind some toddler. You’ve got all the time in the world! I’m forty-something. I’m basically dying.

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Steve - Teller of Tall Tales 🇺🇦 @bofferson.bsky.social · 21h

In AD 79, Jeffus Twattus began his journey to create the first ever travel guide.
It would be the greatest book the world had ever seen.
His first stop.
Pompei.
As Mount Vesuvius spewed volcanic #ash into the air, he muttered his final words.
"Oh, for fuckus saykius."
#vss365

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 14h

Sesame Street police sketch artist:

And the suspect’s eyes — were they regular or googly?

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 16h

Those t-shirt cannons might work with hotdogs? 😀

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 16h

Glad they made it across the ocean! Enjoy! 😀

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ech0reads.bsky.social @ech0reads.bsky.social · 17h

@dnschmidt.com very kindly hosted a giveaway of their books and i won!!

LOOK HOW BEAUTIFUL THEY ARE🥺🥺🥺🥺

i cannot wait to read them✨️

#booksky

photo of the screaming void and the stolen planet by d.n schmidt. both covers show a spaceship, with an astronaught in an orange spacesuit.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 16h

After the alien abduction, you wonder if they really returned you to Earth or if this is just a trick. You barge into random offices to see if the aliens are hiding in there. They never are.

You ask Brenda to check the ladies room for grays, but she refuses. Of course. Never trust HR.

#vss #sff

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 17h

They should really make leather sweatpants. Relaxpunk.

D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 18h

Genius! 😆

D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 18h

Business idea:

Packages of crackers, cheese, and deli meat that come with a little catapult to fling them into your mouth. Call it “Launchables.”

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 18h

Whenever I get new sunglasses, instead of looking like Neo, I look like “Dad’s going fishing.”

D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 19h

When do we get to the “everyone wears sunglasses and leather pants” part of this cyberpunk dystopia?

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 20h

Shoot, I should have said “divine smiting.” Perfect opportunity to use a fun word. Oh well. I’ll reword it for my website later.

D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 21h

The shepherds stared down at the valley as flames came from the sky, burning the city to #ash.

“How many apocalypses does that make?” Sam asked.

“Counting the zombies, kaiju, aliens, robots, and divine flames, that’s five,” Ruth said.

“Still mad we moved to the countryside?”

“…Shut up.”

#vss365

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 22h

Heh, I think we've got some fancy cheese in the fridge. Guess I know what I'm having for breakfast tomorrow!

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Rex Burke is SciFiRex @rexburke.bsky.social · 23h

So, this is happening... anyone interested in a complete feelgood SciFi series with bonus short story? Coming very soon to a retailer near you
#SciFi #boxset #newrelease

3D box-set image of the Odyssey Earth series by Rex Burke, featuring three books

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 23h

Happy to help!

No, can't say I have. I've had cheesy eggs with coffee, and that's pretty good.

D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 23h

Accidentally poured my coffee into a mug I used to drain bacon grease. ...Actually, not half bad.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 1d

Here's your daily dose of weirdness for today!

Altered Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.

First panel. Calvin's dad says, "what story would you like to read tonight? Anything except..."

Calvin: "The Voynich Manuscript?"

Second panel. Calvin's dad, exasperated: "No! No Voynich Manuscript tonight!"

Calvin: "I want the Voynich Manuscript !"

Third panel. Calvin's sad: "Look, you know how the story goes! You've memorized the whole thing! It's completely unreadable!"

Calvin: "I want mysterious glyphs and symbols!"

Fourth panel. Calvin: "Wow! The story was different thatvtime!"

Hobbes: indecipherable squiggles

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

Wow, there really is a gif for everything!

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

Just FYI, this screenshot is fake.

If you Google “novzilla” “Sanderson”, I’m the one that comes up.

I normally don’t care about stuff like this, but it’s a word for word copy.

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bev (indie author) 👩🏻‍💻 @beverlyannemichel.bsky.social · 1d

🐦‍⬛ THE HORRORS: a collection of short horror stories 🐦‍⬛

🕸️ small town horror
🕸️ spiders
🕸️ demons
🕸️ a loyal basset hound
🕸️ older protagonists

On Sale!! 99cents or FREE on itch!!

b2r: books2read.com/thehorrors
itch: beverlyannemichel.itch.io/the-horrors

#booksky #horrorsky 💙📚 🩸📚

The horrors of small town Nebraska. Grey background with a creepy scarecrow.

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K Lykkebo 🖤 Fantasy author @karenlykkebo.com · 3d

🤎🪱 SPOOKTOBER SALE 🪱🤎
Only 99c thru October!

Sinister toads, haunted garden-gnomes, an evil compost, weeds with a vengeance...
These gardens are not just roses and peonies.

Ko-FI: ko-fi.com/k_lykkebo/shop
Itch: klykkebo.itch.io
Other: books2read.com/karenlykkebo

📚🩸

Snippet from Dirt You Shall Become, short story in Dirt You Shall Become: The scent of rot was heavy in the shade behind the yew. Mille clutched the bucket of potato peels and coffee grinds to her chest and stared into the darkness behind the green archway of ivy twisting around a dead plumtree. Two beady eyes stared back at her.
“Is that you, Cleo? Ps-ps-ps.” She leaned forward and flicked her fingers to lure out the cat. A mosquito buzzed by her ear, and she waved it away, absentmindedly. Her heart drummed when the eyes in the dark blinked.
“Cleocatra? Come here, girl. Ps-ps.”

Mood board for Dirt You Shall Become, upcoming short story collection with a garden theme.
6 pictures. Top: earthworm, pink peonies, middle: garden gnome, weeds. Bottom: fat toad and a shovel with dirt. All with a brown hue.
Text: Dirt You Shall Become. Garden-themed horror short stories by Karen Lykkebo. Coming Spring 2025

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Gravewriter Cryptid Is Proudly Transmasc @gravewriter71.bsky.social · Jul 2

Bigotry. Greed. Corruption of government officials. Environmental destruction. Nerdy bookseller Morty learns that the solution to these problems really can be as simple as disemboweling and devouring a few humans! WENDIGOGO: horror comedy with an appetite! books2read.com/u/mv5BzX & graythornpub.com

image: cover for WENDIGOGO by KA Silva, illustration by Sally Jackson. Morty, an average white guy wearing a blue sweater & jeans, looks over his shoulder warily at the monster looming behind him. It has an elk skull with glowing red eyes, massive antlers, and sharp fangs dripping ichor. Its long arms end in wicked claws, and bones show through holes in its ragged pelt. A blizzard swirls in the night behind them. The E in the title is formed of red claw slashes.

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D.N. Schmidt, sci-fi novelist🪐📚 @dnschmidt.com · 1d

Modern vampire weaknesses:

* Can’t click the “I’m not a robot” checkbox.

* Can’t drive a stick shift.

* Gets easily tangled up in those plastic soda can holder thingies.

* Bursts into flames when exposed to work emails after hours.

* Invisible in mirrors, on film, and on social media.

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