Dr Griffin's Transparent Words

The first THREE tales in my humorous fantasy series for the paltry sum of five magic beans and and a packet of sunflower seeds. Can't say fairer'n that, Guv. amzn.eu/d/93U0zjF

@deanpb_author @jzpitts Must admit, I've had two brilliant months (March/April) after both started slowly. Back to big ol' zero today, though.

@jzpitts Welcome to the zero club. It’s been terrible

See ya indie April, won’t miss ya

@JazRignall @EngagesBrain Yeah, that's true. I forgot about trying to play Dungeon Explorer on it! 🤣

@EngagesBrain @ChrisWhyattTM Plus its tiny screen meant its games that were designed to work on a bigger TV were often unplayable because you couldn’t read the text. It was a cool machine but stupidly expensive and impractical.

A few things about this. Its launch price was today's equivalent of £234, which makes it pretty decent value. Like all color hand-helds back then, it guzzled batteries, so you had to use it sparingly on trips and generally use it plugged in at home. Still loved mine, though.

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@ineebrown51 @rebecca5key Nah, Dr Griffin was the invisible Man, and hardly anyone sees my posts on here. Tbh, I'm not on much anymore anyway.

@ChrisWhyattTM @rebecca5key You've changed your name again! I'm fine, thanks Chris. Well, recovering from catarrh or something. Still revising Alsalda but otherwise concentrating on photos. And how goes it with Dr Griffin? What inspired that name? Another of your crazy characters? Dotty Potty?

Afternoon Here’s my final choice for this month’s marathon theme #90490s 😎 From Autumn 1999, here’s Foo Fighters - ‘Learn to Fly’ youtu.be/1VQ_3sBZEm0 Volume up - it’s just perfect for a sunny day 🎶 I hope you enjoy it too 😊 90/90

@ineebrown51 @rebecca5key Hi, Crispina. It's been ages since you appeared on my TL. This algo is shot to bits. How are you?

@rebecca5key Excellent choice. Love Foo Fighters. 👍

@TheArsenalMind For whatever reasons, the players are shattered. It's painfully obvious when watching these last horrendous performances. They are all dead on their feet.

Watching PSG and Bayern makes it clear, Arsenal cannot play slow football against elite teams. The build up has to be sharper, the pressing has to be cleaner and every attack has to carry threat.

@JazRignall I have mixed feelings about Mr Hedgehog. As an avid gamer with my own mail order video game company, I took thousands of orders (partly thanks to my ad in C+VG) on the strength of a huge delivery which never came. Thanks Centresoft, I'll never forget you.

35 years ago, Sega rolled out its initial marketing campaign for its brand new mascot. It was bright and it was bold - and you really couldn't miss it. Sonic went from nobody knowing who he was to being the hottest topic of gaming conversations within just a few weeks.

Fancy grabbing a hilarious Harry Potter p***-take, sorry, Parody, for FREE? Go go go! WARNING: Those who have dedicated a huge chunk of their lives collecting plastic wands, learning all the spells and everything, may be offended. amzn.eu/d/0atMPgv6

If you would like this strange little fantasy humour book FREE go grab it now! You'll probably regret it but that's what you get for being a cheapskate. 😉 amzn.eu/d/07VWVh7C

Dedicated to my good Indian friends. They can definitely take a joke, too. New ultra low price - three tales in one! amzn.eu/d/03P383qT

@TheGrumpySensei @sarahs_sky Said all this eight years ago and was shunned by the @writingcommunity so false.

@sarahs_sky This is one of the reasons I struggle to engage with the Indie community. There's a 'you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours' vibe to it, and I can't be a part of that. I can't promote books I don't think are good and as a consequence I remain an outsider.

This is why we decided that MaT has two rules. 1) we can't DNF, and 2) we're going to be honest. People seem to have this idea that it's somehow virtuous to only be positive. But the thing is, in the consumer market, that stinks to high heaven. If all you ever see is a handful of reviews and they're all positive, it's already going to set off alarm bells. But what's worse is, if someone trusts those reviews, and they pick up a product (book), and it stinks, everyone associated with that product and those glowing reviews now stinks too. It's different if you want to call it a difference of opinion. "Yes, it had those flaws, some even substantial, I just enjoyed it probably" is fine. You're not a critic. You're not a reviewer. You're just a peer consumer. But if you're putting yourself into a place of calling yourself a reviewer or a critic, your credibility relies on you being able to be both negative and positive honestly, and in line with the tenets of good writing.

If you would like this strange little fantasy humour book FREE go grab it now! You'll probably regret it but that's what you get for being a cheapskate. 😉 amzn.eu/d/0jecP8Ov

Fancy grabbing a hilarious Harry Potter p***-take, sorry, Parody, for FREE? Go go go! WARNING: Those who have dedicated a huge chunk of their lives collecting plastic wands, learning all the spells and everything, may be offended. amzn.eu/d/02IRfiY9

@deanpb_author Whose. I've spent hours staring at it, more and more convinced it's not a real word and actually an alien Trojan.

If you could remove one word from the English language which one are you choosing? #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #writingq #bookquestions #booktok