Tom Mock

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You’ll be amazed at the lengths we have to go to stretch a buck for healthcare in the Use-uS-A

Cover of THE LONG NIGHTS by Tom Mock

Thanks for 40 ratings from readers in the US ✌️

The President could fire Noem. If the President will not fire Noem, and Tillis feels so strongly that she should be removed, Tillis can help to impeach and remove the President.

Tillis will not do this, however, because Tillis does not care about these things. This is about his image.

It’s always extremely boring to see a white man complaining yet again about people disagreeing with him online.

Imagine the soft, coddled life to be so outraged when faced with the modest accountability. 🤦‍♀️

I don’t actually expect there’s anything I can do - it’s cholesterol related, but I have a family history of really high cholesterol despite lots of dietary intervention. I just won a genetic lottery 🙌

TAEMIN 태민 'Criminal' MV YouTube video by SMTOWN

I will soothe myself

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timeline cleanse

My cover for #4 of The Peril of the Brutal Dark! The first issue is out TOMORROW so make sure you pick up a copy

Sensational work!

Saturated fat 😞
For some people it may just be they’re lactose intolerant

Sad kitten

The nutritionist wants to take my cheese away

All my novels will be included as part of the @Smashwords Read an Ebook Week March sale.

Including this one.

(Thanks again for the beautiful encouraging mini-review)

This was an instant favorite from everyone on the journal 🙌

In The Mood For Love tribute poster

Happy Valetines to my fellow
In The Mood For Love girlies!

A screenshot from reddit depicting the question "What is the difference between being a writer and being unemployed" and answer "You wouldn't be unemployed. You would be self employed with no income".

i have never been this accurately disrespected.

5 more days until this #itchbundle of SFF Friendship books (and, unfortunately, the concept of friendship) are gone forever!

Sounds great to me. Anything that fits the genre is fun.

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SPFBOX Opening Reads Day 72 (Covers with Cassidy) Landbringer | Sigils & Sushi | Of Wind And Lightning | To Dance With Dragons | I wanted to read more of a voice-driven dystopian steampunk. 3 other openings didn’t quite grab me.(From Cov…

you can read more about the 3 books i passed on from today on my blog:
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Landbringer Sade has always lived in the shadows of the Society, su…

The prose is competent and engaging, the voice is terrific, and the dystopian steampunk setting comes alive. It’s done enough for me to read on. I’m in.
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I want to know more about our MC and this world, and I’m curious about how she’s gotten out of the terrible situation she ended ch1 in (if she did get out), not to mention my anticipation of the queer romance turn (always welcome).

My critique here can only be as pointed as they may seem because there is so much working so well in this opening that I'm taking every detail in and seriously thinking about it.

While a more concise, active start with more pointed establishing details would have made this an out and out triumph for me, it’s still an engaging beginning with a compelling, flawed MC who has been through a great deal in her short life.

Our MC has been with this group a while, we learn, but not everyone survives long, and that’s reason to dissociate from any newcomers, but still, something to add more context to these people would have been nice for me.

Character details are hard to come by. There are almost no names to speak of, and the other vagabonds are reduced to a “girl” or a “boy” whether or not we hear about their expressions.

These things are just barely hinted at. I feel I understand more about the establishment magic users with their white flashes of deadly magic, perhaps because they seem straightforward enough.

Our vagabond gang are all young, most much younger than 20. I don’t know why they’re all so young, but it’s interesting. I would have liked to understand more about them and why they’re driven to this deadly peril.