@alankdell
Sci-Fi Author, SFINCS 1 Finalist, Book Blogger, Husband, Father, Photographer, Archer, Videogamer. He/Him. No AI ❌ No unsolicited DMs ❌ Website & Blog: www.alankdell.co.uk All Book Links: bio.site/alankdell
#AmWriting progress: Over 1800 words today on Legacy of the Gods, taking the total to just under 137,500. I have miscalculated. There is more book. Why the fuck is there more book? 😩
Basically the bits I have in ending outline are turning out longer than I anticipated. Onto Ch.32!
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Innit, bizarre mentality
Paperback mock-ups of the four books of the Augment Saga and a tablet mock-up of The God Sun on a Mars background with book retailer logos below
New month, new books! Spring into adventure! ... and all those other advertising clichés, blah blah blah. 🌼 🌱
You know what's good to do in March? Read sci-fi books. Specifically these ones. Go go go
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Oh god I did this on a couple of reviews. Just utterly eviscerated them.
I don't feel remotely qualified to talk about the classic and influential books I read.
I felt like a fraud the first time I reviewed Le Guin.
I hesitated posting my recent Beowulf review because what business do I have wading into that space?
Clearly I've still not shaken it.
Good to hear the wise and articulate @tracychevalier.bsky.social standing up for authors against AI on the Today programme this morning...
You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.
Now the largest ever quantum object is not much smaller than a virus or an antibody.
I vote we skip the next couple of steps and test a cat.
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A trope map graphic for Song of the Wolf by TC Smith on a dark orange night sky background. Starting in the top left corner and going clockwise, the tropes listed are: epic fantasy, slow burn romance, bodyguard x royal, female MC, queer & ND rep, low magic setting, high stakes battles, and political intrigue.
Low effort marketing post woo
- buy book
- read book
- experience dopamine and also some angst
- actually there's quite a bit of angst we don't do false advertising here
- ???
- profit (literally and figuratively)
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book 3 comes out this year at some point idk yet
#BookSky
What a weird thing to do
Like I saw on Threads the other day someone blocking a person who helped them with a tech problem because they didn't like people who knew more than them 🥴🤣
an image of Eve Astrid Andersson (now a Google Senior Director) posing with a rifle aimed at vintage computers on a wooden desk in a dimly lit room with white painted walls.
writer's block? okay. block this.
A knight in plate armour with a handgun saying Parry this you filthy casual
Gotta hit that writer's block with the old
#AmWriting progress: Just about a thousand words today on Legacy of the Gods, bringing the total up to 135,600.
The end draws near. I've got my scenes here carefully mapped out in detail and it might end up as two chapters. No bad thing, it's worth it.
💙📚🪐 #SFF
Book review banner for Beowulf by Seamus Heaney with the cover front and centre on a starry background
New #BookReview!
Today on the blog I have Seamus Heaney's excellent translation (and first ever read) of Beowulf: A fortuitous find at a National Trust used bookshop!
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And comparative religion really sucked all the uniqueness out of Christianity. When almost every religion experiences the same set of phenomena regardless of the supposedly exclusive deity, the common factor is more about human psychology than the supernatural
I've only recently (in the last couple of years) deconstructed and deconverted, and it came about accidentally by wanting to learn more about the Bible to strengthen my faith. Finding out the reality destroyed it instead.
LET’S BEAT THE SUNDAY SCARIES TOGETHER with my new recurring series highlighting old reviews that deserve another go around in the limelight!
Every Sunday a new review of mine from FanFiAddict
I'll have to see if I can do something for a book trailer 🤔
But that's effort. Just thinking about it makes me feel tired haha
A white 3D printed spaceship with red engines and shield generator held in my hand
A white 3D printed spaceship with two-pronged forward hull held in my hand
Book cover for The Re-Emergence
Tonight my dad gave me this really cool little test print of the Qesh'kal, the hero ship from The Re-Emergence!
Feels amazing to be holding my own ship design in my hand. This one's a little smaller than the one that will hopefully go on my shelf (and a different colour lol)
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#AmWriting progress: 650 words on Legacy of the Gods today, getting into the last chapter with lots of stuff to tie up. Total up to 134,400.
Shouldn't be too much longer now! 🤞🏻😅
💙📚🪐 #SFF
Photo of Pokémon Alpha Sapphire on the 3DS top screen, showing the character standing in front of a tree, which is next to another tree with 3 berries on it (each tree is the same). The text reads "Harvested 2 berries from the Sitrus Berry tree!"
I love this game but this one thing gets on my nerves.
There's clearly 3 berries on that tree. 😂
#Pokemon
Nervous and distracted, I failed that mission miserably with a score of just 513.
Thankfully, Little Miss 8 defended the honour of the Dell clan, and won the competition!
It was the power of the delicious looking tree star that pulled us through.
How the heck did they make grass look so appetising?
Omg thank you! Enjoy 😁
Book cover for The God Sun with an angry looking red dwarf star, the title superimposed over it and a silhouette spaceship.
✨Spooky short fiction perfect for fans of Event Horizon✨
🚀 Stranded starship
🛟 Doomed rescue mission
🌌 Malevolent cosmic entity
🔪 Grisly murders
⚡ Quick read (43 pages)
THE GOD SUN: A Cosmic Horror Sci-fi Novelette
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#AmWriting progress: 1650 words so far today on Legacy of the Gods, bringing chapter 30, and the final battle, to an end! Total up to 133,600 words.
Just one chapter(ish) left for dénouement.
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He absolutely can
Artwork of the Pokémon Slaking, a burly sloth/bigfoot-like creature lazing on its side, resting on its elbow and scratching its tummy.
TIL this motherfucker's name is pronounced like "slacking" because that's what he's doing. 🤦🏻♂️
My dumb ass been calling him "slay king" this entire time 😂 But, I mean... He is living his best life, so... Slay, king 👑
#PokemonAlphaSapphire
