John A. McColley is on the LitRPG bandwagon 🌊

Do you like to read? Sure you do! Do you like free books? Who doesn't? Would you like to help me grow my audience and get rich and famous so I can pay you back that $20 I owe you?* Here's a chance to help that costs you nothing! Get my book, GEODE, released last year for FREE by/

@Gabino_Iglesias You've got this!

Took me a while to process my agent’s feedback. You know, decide what to use, what to drop, how to solve issues. Also, couldn’t start because it seemed like a truly monumental task. Anyway, started today. Can I do it in ten days so I can spend residency working on the new novel?

@No_ProRelForMLS @ChrisMartin1961

@ChrisMartin1961 Take a moment to realize your comments pushed people towards MAGA. All your gaslighting has only increased the number of votes Trump received in each of the last three elections.

I have taken to just BLOCKING all MAGA who comment. I’m not even reading their garbage anymore; just block. There is no two sides to the current political divide we live in. MAGA is hell bent on destroying our way of life, or at the least complicit with Trump doing so.

@Addie1441339 @ChrisMartin1961 That would be the magat Repug way of life, or have you not heard of Epstein?

@ChrisMartin1961 What way of life ? Murdering. Raping , human trafficking , robbing ?

@DallasKing2022 @ChrisMartin1961 You have to know none of that is true, so the question is, why do you perpetuate the lies? Does it make you feel special?

Yes, because gas was higher in 2022, inflation was historically high under biden, deficit has always been through the roof & health care is still Obamacare., so according to you your way of life should have already been destroyed before Trump stepped foot into office. I’ll ask again, how is maga destroying your way of life?

@HappyApathetic @ChrisMartin1961 Is that the "tyranny" of wanting billionaires to pay their fair share of taxes? The "tyranny" of healthcare for all so no one dies for lack of care or goes bankrupt chasing health? Or the "tyranny" of wanting fair elections unencumbered by special interest $$$?

@ChrisMartin1961 Have you considered that maybe “our” way of life is not acceptable to a very many other citizens whose opinions are just as valid as your own? No, you haven’t. You’re fundamentally a self-entitled narcissist, and you don’t want to even hear any objections to your tyranny.

@1A_habit @DUlibtrkr2004 @ChrisMartin1961 What is the "logic" behind that statement? How does blocking someone make problems?

@DUlibtrkr2004 @ChrisMartin1961 correct so why block? just makes more problems. ignoring someone is the best way to curb the behavior.

@1A_habit @ChrisMartin1961 The First Amendment does not guarantee an audience.

@ChrisMartin1961 why would you block someone first amendment rights in a public square?

@TCClark551277 @ChrisMartin1961 This "the truth is in the middle" thing might have been true once, but there is no truth in MAGA. It's propaganda brainwashing BS that is a cancer on our nation. I don't want to meet cancer halfway. Do you?

@ChrisMartin1961 If you believe there's only your narrative,then YOU are the problem.Neither side tells the truth. It is always a narrative.However.The intelligent person reads both & realizes the truth is usually somewhere in the middle. If you exclude any new information you're a sheepeople

@ma79322_matthew @NeverwinterGame GTFO Captain Oblivious!

@NeverwinterGame Neverwinter Nights was one of the best games ever! However, after all the gender and homosexual nonsense pushed in BG3 I have serious doubts and reservations about this game. Make D&D great again! Stop marginalizing your main customer base to appease a few perverts.

Faerûn is waiting. Return to the Sword Coast, delve ancient ruins, and meet legends in this free D&D MMORPG

@LeannaRapier I had intended both of my current series to be 5 books. One will be, one book left to write. The other... has developed a need to be at least a couple of books longer...

@JohnAMcColley When the series are overly long, I don’t want to get stuck in them when I have so many other books I want to read and often the first book is self-contained, so I treat it as a standalone. I am more likely to finish short series (5 or less) and trilogies.

Confession: I have a bad habit of reading only the first book in a series. 😂 What is your greatest reading sin?

@AnthonyLaFauci Nice! We're shooting a horror about an author who gives everything to his work next month. It's called "Decay."

We’re so close to finishing this comic book. As soon as the coloring is finished, I’m going to jump into writing my vampire horror comedy screenplay.

@iamAtheistGirl They burned their mittens and aren't going back!

@deidrejowen We were trying to hook up the corporate listening device so the kid could listen to audiobooks last summer and the headphones kept trying to connect... to the A/C....

Just called my Dyson the Vacuum Machine. THE VACUUM MACHINE If you need me I’ll be applying for my ÅÅRP card. Gotta go repost a bunch of Al animal videos on Facebook. Maybe lecture some Gen Z’s about McDonald’s.

@truthiness4ever @micahlhoover @mcsquared34 Psst, bullshit. If the billionaires aren't billioning, the corruptors won't have any power in Congress, we could get universal healthcare, which automatically saves us all $$. The insurance vampires can find worthwhile jobs, something productive to society. That would be a start!

@JohnAMcColley @micahlhoover @mcsquared34 Psst, taxing rich people ain't going to solve that. Confiscate every penny from every billionaire in America and it wouldn't fund the bloated corrupt social welfare programs we already have for a single year.

@SDDonovan Hahahahaha, no.... I always know "now what?" I have so many ideas, so many manuscripts I've started, need to rewrite, have outlined in my meager way... I could have no more "big ideas" for the rest of my life and be good to write until I'm 100, easy.

When you finish writing a book do you sit there and think, well, now what? 🙈

@micahlhoover @mcsquared34 If by "not poor" you mean "can afford a one bedroom apartment if both spouses are working full time..."

@mcsquared34 free markets can do that

@stephenRB4 I bet they didn't demand a recasting of Reservoir Dogs... They're just being ridiculous. I've always appreciated your thoughts on my work. (Things have been hectic here, but I'm trying to get you the next thing! Oh the drama. I could write a mainstream book...)

Okay… So, I’m a white man, but my surname is Black (a fairly common name in Northern Ireland). I write and edit gothic horror and dark fantasy novels, where the colour black unsurprisingly features regularly. All part of the dark and foreboding vibe that underpins stories in these genres. I give my thoughts as a developmental editor on clients’ manuscripts. So, I thought Black Thoughts was quite an appropriate and harmless name for my company. Until a now ex client said they thought it could be construed as racist to be a white man with such a company name. They ended their arrangement with me, still owing me money, and unfollowed and blocked me across all their socials. Am i overthinking this? Did they over react? Or do they have a point? All thoughts welcome please but any inappropriate comments will be muted. Thank you.