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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 30/09/2026

If they anoint his forehead, it’s gonna melt the makeup!

DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 30/09/2026

Had to buy a new robovac (after only 2.5 years 😡). Maks paid no attention to the old one. The new one is much quieter (I can have a phone conversation) but apparently needs a LOT more supervision!

A gray cat sitting in a dining chair staring out with rapt attention.

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 22/09/2026

Popping in to wish everyone a happy Equinox!

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 20/09/2026

Thankfully, my phone is too old for this BS. But bookmarking because I know I’ll have to upgrade at some point & will want to know how to disable the crap.

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 19/09/2026

2020 was the Year of Toilet Paper here, too. But this was probably being saved for TPing…typically trees in yards, statues on campus, etc. Rolls of TP in trees is a bitch to get off & clean up. (Ask me how I know…)

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 16/09/2026

Anyone else getting emails from “Maria Bartiromo?” I’ve received 5 so far-original plus 4 follow ups. I find it interesting that she went from a Faux News anchor to a “book marketing expert” in the span of a few hours. Girl’s gotta earn money somehow, I guess. 🙃 #indieauthor #writingcommunity

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 15/09/2026

My vagina is on my heel? How TF did I give birth through that?

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 15/09/2026

I’m batting 1,000 on shoes. 2 weeks ago, the sole on one of my trainers fell off…at the airport. Today, I was wondering what the mess on my car’s floorboard was & why walking felt so weird. Found out when I got home!

The soles of a pair of Dr. Scholls sandals almost completely disintegrated.

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 30/08/2026

I felt the same. Assumed it was because I don’t play RPGs so couldn’t relate.

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 30/08/2026

Friends went to that last night. Was bummed I’d already committed to something else when I heard about it.

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 29/08/2026

Wait. It that the Cheeto-in-Charge’s biopic?!? 😉

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/08/2026

HAPPY ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT EFFECTIVE DAY FOR ALL WHO CELEBRATE!!!!!

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 19/08/2026

Good going, Lola! Keep up the hard work!

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 19/08/2026

Proving a point that some of us DO actually like it! 😉

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 19/08/2026

Lindsay Buroker’s “Tales from the Dragon Diner” series comes to mind.

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 15/08/2026

Hope you’ve battened down the hatches! Do let us know you’re okay after it passes!!

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 14/08/2026

After I got over the pain (and a trip to the hospital), I was pissed for the poor horse. For *some* reason, she & I never got along.

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 14/08/2026

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: Hi, I’m your stepfather’s sister who put a burr under your horse’s saddle blanket.

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 14/08/2026

You & every other UK resident I know. This sounds a lot like a “No shit, Sherlock” alert!

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Kevin Hearne @kevinhearne.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So say we all

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Bookwyrm @phuata.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If you want to support your favourite author, but don't have the money to buy their books, most libraries have a Recommend a Purchase" link somewhere on their website. Or a "Notify me if the library purchases this title" option in their catalogue, which tells staff that there is interest.

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 13/08/2026

Truth! The genii loci of the Appalachians do not mess around!

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 12/08/2026

If I’m ever able to look at a computer screen long enough to write, I’ll have to include this in some scene. Too weird!

That was odd! Heard a weird noise out on the deck. Not quite a kerfuffle between cats but almost as loud. Looked up to see 5 turkey vultures perched on the railing. One left as soon as I went to the door but the other 4 had to be convinced. 1st time since we moved in they’ve done that. Glad there were no cats out there. There truly would have been a kerfuffle then (and probably some hurt cats).

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 11/08/2026

W00T! Just got the quarterly statement from the distributor for Reinventing Herself’s audiobook. Last quarter’s sales put me over their minimum for payout. Thank you, you wonderful people! 😘

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 11/08/2026

I’ve been watching a lot of tennis since I can’t do much on the computer & am wondering what clothing manufacturers were thinking. In the height of summer, one player is wearing a black dress, & at the current tournament, the ball kids are in dark blue. No one told them dark colors *absorb* heat?

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 10/08/2026

A friend ordered copies of one of her books to take to Dragoncon. 50, I think? They arrived in separate envelopes! The ‘Zon’s shipping dept needs retraining!

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 09/08/2026

Woke up to a burst pipe, a half-flooded basement (and stuff stacked up down there), and a wet-dry vac that died 5 minutes into sucking up water. Happy Sunday?

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 09/08/2026

Plant endangered species over the holes. Less chance of digging. 😉

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 08/08/2026

Ours was fun…with some sadness as we recognized those who are no longer with us. A scary number, to be sure.

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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

SAMMY DAVIS JR. tearing it up on the Drums and Vibraphone in 1963. He was quite simply, a phenomenon.

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 06/08/2026

I still check the back before getting into the car…locked doors or not!

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 04/08/2026

This downpour isn’t doing our washed-out driveway any good!

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 03/08/2026

And this makes today different than other days because…?

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 02/08/2026

I love pickled beets! (Cooked ones, too.) Never thought about putting them on hamburgers, though. Will try it sometime. I just noticed many of your female MCs pickle vegetables-a lot. (Read but now am listening to ‘Astray.’)

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 02/08/2026

The dressing sounds good…

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 02/08/2026

@jennyschwartz.bsky.social what is the fascination with pickled vegetables? Is this an Aussie thing? Inquiring minds want to know. 🙃

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 02/08/2026

I go on IG occasionally because my granddaughter posts there. Otherwise? I don’t use either. FB, while allowing me to keep up with friends, is becoming more unusable by the day.

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 01/08/2026

Rabbit, Rabbit! (Cat, Cat!?) Happy 1st August/Lunasadh/Lammas/Imbolc/Candlemas! Happy Caturday!

A gray cat with a rear paw draped over a black cat.

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 01/08/2026

Rabbit, Rabbit! (Cat, Cat!?) Happy 1st August/Lunasadh/Lammas/Imbolc/Candlemas! Happy Caturday!

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 30/07/2026

Hundreds of men reading that last sentence just crossed their legs. 😆

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MeowHub @dianna1993.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Cat is small but has courage like king

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DJ Martin @authordjmartin.com · 29/07/2026

I got one yesterday that mentioned a book I’d actually written. That was the first in a couple of weeks. The rest have either not mentioned a title at all (yet said “book” singular) or a book I had *not* written.

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