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Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · 1d

Links:

First Boy free on Kindle:
www.amazon.com/First-Boy-De...

The Living Fears all four episodes free:
www.unbrandablemedia.com/thelivingfea...
(or your podcast provider of choice)

First Boy: Descent NEW RELEASE on Kindle:
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTZ59QDJ

#Booksky

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Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · 2d

New Horror for Spooky Season!

First Boy: Descent
At Monumental Cave, ten-year-old Ryan is forced to run to survive rising floodwaters, a cave, and a monstrous fate pursuing him though the dark.

#booksky #newrelease #spookyseason #KindleUnlimited #kindleunlimitedreads #ebook

First Boy: Descent

Amazon.com: First Boy: Descent eBook : Sharpe, Dennis, Harris, Pam Elise: Kindle Store

www.amazon.com

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Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · 5d

I'm pleased to announce that Vacation Realities & Holiday Dreams will be my first Audiobook release! The amazingly talented Claire Coyle narrated! I'm super excited! This is the "retail audio sample." Think of it as a preview. It's short... you shoud check it out!

youtu.be/g9JXcfqKTzs

Vacation Realities & Holiday Dreams - Audiobook Retail Sample

YouTube video by Dennis Sharpe

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Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · 5d

@thatjackanapes.bsky.social

Great engagement from the co-host of a brilliant podcast.

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Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · 15d

I never know what to say on social media. Generally, I only post something if I feel it's important, or to announce something, and I usually feel like I'm wasting time or begging for attention when I post. With the state of the world, there more important facts or opinions than mine. Am I alone?

Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · Aug 21

New Sci-Fi release... for anyone that might read Sci-Fi, or might be interested.

#booksky #NewRelease #Sci-Fi #ScienceFiction #Reading

Vacation Realities & Holiday Dreams

Amazon.com: Vacation Realities & Holiday Dreams eBook : Sharpe, Dennis, Harris, Pam Elise: Kindle Store

www.amazon.com

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Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · Aug 20

This new Sci-Fi short... a novelette, really... is almost over the finsh line, and my Horror novella just went to my editor... So, two new releases coming soon... one in the next few days.

Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · Jun 16

I saw this and immediately thought of @acollierastro.bsky.social

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · May 20

I'm afraid I've confirmed that The Philadelphia Inquirer ran the same "Heat Index" supplement that the Chicago Sun-Times did

Cover page of The Philadelphia Inquirer's "Heat Index" section, with a photo of a kid in a bathing suit and goggles underwater in a swimming pool.

Summer Reading List for 2025 with various erroneous entries that look like AI hallucinations, as published in The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · May 20

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

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Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · May 18

Work, work, work... This time in horror.

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Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · May 15

The bizarre, wild swings from the worlds I'm writing, the lives I'm creating... and the world, and the times, that we're living in.

Shifting from world to world—sci-fi, dystopian, or horror—I find that the world we all share is by far the most frightening to me.

Positivity is at a premium.

Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · May 14

For me...

I can write poems at any time.

I can only write worthwhile poems when I'm sad.

Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · May 14

How much exposure do you have to rural "good christian folks?"

My milage?

I'd say 1 in 4 would only be upset by any damage to their vehicle, and would proudly stand ten toes down in court suing the decesed shoplifter's (or protestor's) family for the money to repair their vehicle's damage.

Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · May 13

I've read similar Facebook comments on local news station's posts covering protests. No shortage of politically right leaning crazies who think the solution to ANYTHING they don't condone or agree with is vehiclular homicide. Absolutely no value placed on human life at all.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · May 13

The @scalzifamily.foundation is matching donations to the Lexington Writers Room!

Gwenda Bond @gwenda.bsky.social · May 13

KLAXONS! Our wonderful friends at the @scalzi.com Family Foundation are matching up to $1,000! Go spend Scalzi's money for a great cause! www.kygives.org/organization...

Support your favorite Kentucky nonprofits

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EROCY @erocy.world · May 7

Reminds me of this eternal Ted Chiang banger-

Highlighted text form THE NEW YORKER

The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write
anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning. It reduces the amount of intention in the world.

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Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · May 4

Does anyone still read serialized fiction releases?

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Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · May 3

Writing and rewriting... Always the best Saturdays...

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Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · May 3

Looks like I'm headed to the theater. Thanks.

Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · May 3

On a scale of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania to Avengers: Endgame... where does it sit?

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Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · May 2

It's short... just under 15k words... but only 99 cents.

Link to the title: www.amazon.com/Summer-Pond-...

www.amazon.com

Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · May 2

It was all new to me, writing in my own voice, telling my own story...

I'm glad it's already sold fairly well, here's hoping more people pick it up, and maybe even like it. 😉

Link below.

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Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · May 2

@brucemccorkindale.bsky.social posted this on July 9th 2018.
Reposted, because of my appreciation.

MAD magazine's "The Mad Primer of Bigots, Extremists and Other Loose Ends" from 1969 holds up pretty well. Sadly. Art by Jack Davis.

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Dennis Sharpe @witlesslackey.bsky.social · May 1

I really did grow up in a strange place at a strange time...

People React To DUI Laws(1980s News Report)

YouTube video by Cut The Shorts

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