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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 21h

Up against some tough competition, I was glad to take home 3rd place for "The $1,300 Alphabet" at the CIPA EVVY Awards with my illustrator Nancy Anderson. There's one award left to hear back from, but I feel this book did pretty well for this cycle. #Author #WritingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 03/10/2026

Third place win for “The $1,300 Alphabet” at the CIPA EVVY awards today!

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 01/10/2026

Spooky season is upon us! What's your favorite spooky story, and can you spoil it cleverly like this? #Author #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 30/09/2026

Now that "Courier to the Stars", is out it's time to not check any of the reviews that come in...because I stopped doing that years ago for my own mental health. Good or bad, I'd rather just keep talking to new people about this book I've co-written. #Author #WritingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 29/09/2026

Went cabin camping a few weekends ago and took my DSLR on a lark. Managed to capture my best Milky Way picture because I brought it along. #Photo

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 29/09/2026

A much better gift for me today is if you go to my online storefront and pick something up for yourself or a friend, including today's release of "Courier to the Stars." bmw-the-author.square.site #Author #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 29/09/2026

🌠🌠🌠NEW RELEASE!🌠🌠🌠 "Courier to the Stars" is what happens when you take a lesser-known Jules Verne work in the public domain and fuse it with a Space Opera adventure. Get it here: author.benjamin-m-weilert.com/published-wo...

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 28/09/2026

This has brought up way more questions about where babies come from in the "Cars" universe from my kids.

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 28/09/2026

Publishing date or bust! "Courier to the Stars" releases tomorrow, so here's your last chance to pre-order: author.benjamin-m-weilert.com/pre-order/ #Author #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 24/09/2026

We're less than a week from "Courier to the Stars" releasing! While this book feels like this joke from SMBC (www.smbc-comics.com/comic/holy), the hardcover bonus material describes the process of adapting a public domain work into something new. author.benjamin-m-weilert.com/pre-order/ #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 23/09/2026

Additionally, if you don't have a community you can network with for brainstorming, editing, cover art, and marketing tips, maybe try turning to actual people instead of AI to fill those gaps in your experience? I like to do a lot by myself, but even I know my limits. #Author #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 22/09/2026

Unless you're my kids who eat asymptotically from the moment they wake up.

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 22/09/2026

I agree with the original poster here, and it's partly why I stick to the lower-stress life of being a hobbyist self-published author. But I still like y'all. You followers are great! Tell your friends! (get me published, lol) #Author #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 21/09/2026

ANNOUNCEMENT! "Courier to the Stars" doesn't have any turtles in it, but there -is- a hardcover version you can now pre-order! This was a little secret I kept until recently. Get more details here: author.benjamin-m-weilert.com/pre-order/ #Author #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 17/09/2026

Otherwise I'll have to edit them into the audiobook I'm narrating. You can get my current audiobooks here: author.benjamin-m-weilert.com/published-wo... #Author #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 16/09/2026

Just like how a thermos can keep cold things cold and hot things hot, but not at the same time.

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 16/09/2026

I think I've figured out what my next "classic" adaptation will be. For the first adaptation, pre-order here: author.benjamin-m-weilert.com/pre-order/ #Author #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 15/09/2026

I'd have to do the math for all the money it took Michael Strogoff to transport himself across the universe, but it's likely a similarly large amount. Pre-order "Courier to the Stars": author.benjamin-m-weilert.com/pre-order/ #Author #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 14/09/2026

I'd much rather have the sentient AI be quoting Marx Brothers than whatever the heck it's doing now.

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 14/09/2026

Its little changes like this that made "Courier to the Stars" a fun project (adapting a public domain work to make it sci-fi). Pre-order here: author.benjamin-m-weilert.com/pre-order/ #Author #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 10/09/2026

"No, the times of 2 and 4." "Getting picked up from preschool."

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 10/09/2026

When my deadline for "Courier to the Stars" is looming but I still need some time to decompress after work. Pre-order: author.benjamin-m-weilert.com/pre-order/ #Author #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 09/09/2026

It's an illusion. The batteries are staying in the same spot.

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 09/09/2026

Preview map for "Courier to the Stars." I've been hard at work piecing together the different planets, space stations, wormholes, and asteroids that the journey from Moscow to Irkutsk involves. Pre-order: author.benjamin-m-weilert.com/pre-order/ #Author #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 08/09/2026

Maybe I should switch to writing Russian literature when I'm not sure what to name my characters. That way I can say all these different names are the same person. #Author #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 07/09/2026

If you don't want to spend the time writing a book, why should we spend any time reading your book? #Author #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 03/09/2026

Guess I'll just be driving on the shoulder to the left of the dump truck.

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 03/09/2026

Working on final formatting for "Courier to the Stars" and I gotta say I do like those thin capital letters for a space opera. What about you? Do you like all caps or all lower case? Pre-order here: author.benjamin-m-weilert.com/pre-order/ #Author #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 02/09/2026

I have a similar thing in "Courier to the Stars" where the names of animals and certain locations are pronounced the same way but spelled differently. Audiobook listeners will (eventually) have no idea. Pre-order here: author.benjamin-m-weilert.com/pre-order/ #Author #WritingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 01/09/2026

The picture doesn't show that you have the same setup on the other hand. G E N I U S.

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 31/08/2026

I'm glad there's still room for me to make adjustments to my hermit crab short story, because I'm totally stealing this astrology line for the first scene. #Author #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 27/08/2026

My wife knows I'm terrified of butterflies, so this girlfriend needs to get caught up quick.

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Benjamin M. Weilert | 📚📷🎥⛰️ Award-winning author @benjamin-m-weilert.com · 27/08/2026

And leaving a review on your platform of choice! www.amazon.com/Benjamin-M-W... www.goodreads.com/bmwtheauthor #Author #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #BookSky

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