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Author Steaphan Kay
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Steaphan (SHTIF-AWN) * Founder of Indie Authors Social * The author's journey is hard-fraught, painful, and sometimes lonely. It's also a wildfire of creative […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://indieauthors.social/@steaphan, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h
Is there a Romantasy trope guardrail for how many times love interests can inquire, "You okay?" or equiv? I recently read a novel, and counted (I've got issues)--and came up with 37 instances in a ~300 page book. It was a great book (thus the reason for not name dropping) so only slightly […]
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Sharing the love to all of the indie authors out there! Thank you for the tales you tell!

:boostRequest: Please boost to let them feel the love :boostRequest:

#indieauthor #indie #selfpublishing #author #bookstodon #books
A cheerful 3D illustration showing two cartoon indie authors standing beside an open book with "Indie Authors" written in gold lettering. The character on the left wears glasses and holds a quill pen, while the character on the right holds a blue notebook. Three red hearts float above them, and white sparkles dot the light blue background. Small book icons appear in the corners, symbolizing the supportive and loving community of independent authors.
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d
A new first. I searched and bought an audiobook, not because of the author, but because I enjoyed the narrator so much. Suzy Jackson is an awesome narrator! https://www.audiobooks.com/browse/narrator/26681/suzy-jackson

#audiobook #books #bookstodon #amreading #suzyjackson
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d
If your book(s) were, or are pirated on LibGen and subsequently used by Anthropic to train its AI models, the courts have ordered them to pay a minimum of $1.5B. Authors might/could/perhaps get an estimated payment of $3,000 per work (based on current estimates of the # of pirated works trained […]
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 8
My favorite time of year is soon coming upon us. Where our characters come to life and their is no shame in pretending (as if there ever should be).

🎃 :vampbite: 👻 🦹 ⚔️ :trek_ds9_sisko: 🦴

@indieauthors #amwriting #books
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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5
Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one.

-- Ursula K. LeGuin, "The Tombs of Atuan", Book #2 of #earthsea
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 20
@Aphelion nice! 🏅
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Mic(hell)e @aphelion.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · Aug 20
Salvation
Comes in
The next
Breath,
Numb hands
Reaching for
The surface.
I do not fear
Death, but
Death in life.

#poetry
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Dr. Victoria Grinberg @vicgrinberg.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 19
All the books I've read and don't remember in detail, have been firmly pressed into the foundation of who I am.

You can't tell the individual books apart under the weight of the later experience, but they are there, shaping who I am, planting the seeds of today's thoughts and decisions.

Every […]
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 19
Serious question: was this article meant to be a joke (see the X Screencaps)?

If not...%^&%@&@!!!!! […]
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Spo0000opybirb :flag_cascadia: @moira.mastodon.murkworks.net.ap.brid.gy · Aug 12
that feel when you read a near-future sf novel written like 15 years ago and holy shit did things go better in that now-AU of our reality

#sf #sff #reading
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 9
@SJHoodlet p.s. I just noticed we've had the pleasure of using the same editor (Hannah)!
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 9
Do tears ever fall as you're writing moving scenes? (It happens to me --am I am ananomoly?)

#ttmd #scribesandmakers @SJHoodlet
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 6
@wendypalmer @indieauthors

Great insights. Thanks.
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 6
What do you think the top 5 ingredients are in a sexy romance that make readers love the story?

@indieauthors #romance #romancelandia #amwriting #fantasy #author #scribesandmakers #writerscoffeeclub #wordweavers
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 2
@JL_Lycette

If only it were a fictional reality...
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NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi @naramoore.sakurajima.moe.ap.brid.gy · Aug 1
#scribesandmakers Aug 1/Alt: Word? "Mergants"

Mergants: Bat-like creatures resembling night gaunts from which they get their name. Found in the valleys of the volcanic ranges of Mercury. Dewling on Mercury, they are fire-resistant, and their mere touch will set earthly materials on fire. They […]
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 1
@NaraMoore

Love the story w/Mai-Sensei's illustrations!
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 31
"You gotta be scared to be brave"--Pete the Cat. S104 E5. https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B086VWM6C7

If you've never done it before, the idea of writing a novel can be terrifying. All of the "What if"'s and "How do I"'s can stifle the wonderful […]

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Scene from Pete that Cat, where Pete's mom is consoling grumpy toad who is hiding under their bed.
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 30
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” --Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot)

Steaphan's 2-cents: break free the chains of author stereotypes and let loose the writer within without shame or apology.

#quote #quotes #author #writers #writersofmastodon #amwriting #books
A meme with the text “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” With an image of Mary Ann Evans (George Eliot)
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 28
People of this blue rock can be so shortsighted. The great Alexandria library is believed to have held up to 700,000 scrolls. Ships docking in Alexandria were sometimes required to allow any scrolls they carried to be copied in order to drop anchor. A […]

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Statue in front of the Bibliotheca Alexandria library in Egypt Ancient scripting across the Bibliotheca Alexandria library in Egypt
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 26
I love it in Egypt. Everywhere I go here,.there are ancient stories to be told. Even picking up a handful of desert rubble: who walked upon that soil? What structures did its mortar hold together? Who's ancient flesh long eviscerated? #history #ancientegypt #historicalficton #story #amwriting
Saint Simon monetary, Cairo Egypt.
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Author Steaphan Kay @steaphan.indieauthors.social.ap.brid.gy · Jul 9
#phantastikprompts 9/7: Denkst du beim Lesen anderer "das kann ich aber besser!" (und tust es dann?)

Ich glaube nicht, dass ich jemals ein ganzes Buch besser schreiben könnte als der ursprüngliche Autor. Manchmal entdecke ich kleine „Aha-Momente“ in den Texten anderer. Meistens mache ich mir […]
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Linux Is Best @linux.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · Jul 9
Meta's AI will also see any post shared on the Fedi if it was shared on Threads.

#fediverse #activitypub #threads #ai
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Linux Is Best @linux.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · Jul 9
Every post you’ve ever made anywhere within Meta’s ecosystem. Every photo you’ve ever shared. It doesn’t matter if you thought it was “private” or shared only with yourself — the AI has access to everything.

As the old saying goes: "All your base are belong to us!"

#ai #artificialintelligence […]
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