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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Almost missed backing @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social's 2026 Sword & Sorcery novella roster, and what a same that would have been!

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Buster Keaton Blows a Kiss

ALT: Buster Keaton Blows a Kiss

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I'm renewing mine in case we need to get the hell out of Alberta and head to... I dunno, the UK, maybe?

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Pals, I keep forgetting my writing is on the Hugo Awards ballot this year (as part of On Spec's 2026 run in the Best Semi-Pro Magazine category). It's weird and cool.

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

For real, those Robotech novels were far better than they had any right to be (though I'm recalling them through 14yr old me's eyes).

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Radio edits" of songs were the thin edge of the wedge which led us to this AI hellscape. In this paper, I will (For real, though, the fact that some goofball decided for us all that six minutes was an impossibly long duration to expect to hold a person's attention, so let's chop songs in half...)

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Read that as "This is England" and was like, "Yes, I can see the resemblance."

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Farmers Market Vendors: You do not need to use AI to create an image of a pie for your booth banner. You baked a pie. Many pies! You can take a photo of a real pie. Don't try to sell me a pie by showing me a garish cartoon rendering of a theoretical pie when you have actual pies readily at hand.

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

My kingdom for a new Netflix series that hasn't been cancelled before I've had time to watch the first episode.

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Today I learned Don Bluth had planned an animated adaptation of @robertjsawyer.com's Quintaglio Ascension novel series, and now I'm fascinated by what might have been... and wondering if filmgoers would have thought it was some sort of sequel to The Land Before Time.

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The Land Before Time: Dinosaur Friends Hugging

ALT: The Land Before Time: Dinosaur Friends Hugging

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Not yet! I'm ordering some copies of The Nightshade Cabal for When Words Collide and a few other upcoming in-person events.

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I just ordered some copies of my novel from my US-based publisher and, oh boy (a) that exchange rate, and (b) ugh the import fees I'll probably end up paying

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

When she hears this mixtape I made for her, she'll forget about all those other losers.

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

When she hears this mixtape I made for her, she'll forget about all those other losers.

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I feel like these comments could all be about the same publisher, and I feel like they could be about the publisher I walked away from when I saw their contract offer.

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Meanwhile I'm over here trying (and largely succeeding) in keeping my kid's world more or less Potterless.

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Rebecca does a lot for the indie and small press writing community!

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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 12/06/2026

My sophomore novel comes out at the end of this month! It's queer, political, magical, and the great @johnlangan.bsky.social compared it to Thomas Pynchon. bsky.app/profile/carr...

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Thanks for another #FridayReads, Gabino! Technomancers vs Necromancers in 1880s Nova Scotia! Walking corpses! Rogue automatons! Bad breakfasts! Craig DiLouie sez: "a powerful Victorian adventure, rich in detail and set in a fully realized world... A stunning debut!" LINK: books2read.com/u/490zOw

Image shows the cover of The Nightshade Cabal against a chalkboard background with a light blue skull. Captions read: "Victorian Era Mayhem and Mystery, Thrilling Inventions, Reanimated Corpses, Found Family, Dueling Spellcasters, Canadian Setting, Surly Fae, and Award Nominated."

The first page of The Nightshade Cabal. Text Reads:

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, 1881

"I’m telling you, Jonathon, these so-called stage magicians are nothing more than charlatans and hucksters of the highest order.” Isaac Barrow said, raising his voice to be heard over the din of the crowded Theatre Royale. "The act is nothing but mirrors and wires and other trickery making you think you've seen something you haven’t.”

Inspector Jonathon Eddings chuckled heartily, shaking his head. "And I keep telling you, Barrow, being fooled is the whole point of the bloody show!” Fifteen years in Halifax had done little to blunt the edge of his thick Mancunian brogue.

His friend’s retort failed to quell Barrow's annoyance. The inspector's
invitation had had all the cordiality of a press gang. Eddings had bought the tickets to thank Barrow for his help with a recent investigation. He hadn’t skimped, either; they sat just three rows back of the orchestra pit. The notion of putting down hard-earned coin with the express intention of being hoodwinked by some sham of a magician struck Barrow as inordinately foolish. He knew of the occult and the dangers of flirting with its deadly secrets. Real magic being
his stock-in-trade, he considered the pretend variety, popular on stage, mildly offensive at best. It was only on his friend's repeated insistence that he had finally, against his own better judgement, agreed to attend the performance.

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

It's on my shelf! It should also be on yours! Go! Swarm! Obtain!

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

My favourite thing about Elon becoming the world's first trillionaire is that he's still both a massive dork and an absolutely miserable stain. Oh, and he's still a Nazi. Let's not forget that.

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Not sure if they'd be exactly what you're looking for in the sphere of dino books, but have you read the Quintaglio Ascension Trilogy by @robertjsawyer.com?

Cover art for the novel Far-Seer by Robert J Sawyer shows a dinosaur-like character holding a telescope and navigation tools.

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Well, this post just sold me a copy of Mackenzi Lee's Masters of the Universe book!

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

AI Fucks Up Everything it Touches (Season 1, Episode Eleventy-Thousand)

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

There are no pictures yet, so it's not like it's ready to put into the world or anything... but it's still something that didn't exist a week ago, so that's nice.

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Guys, I've actually just written my first children's picture book. It was inspired by a bedtime conversation with my 6yr old about two weeks ago, and it really all just fit into place. And... I think it's good?

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Facebook is down? Now where will I go for Reels showing me how I can easily make $5000/week reselling thriftstore paperbacks on Amazon or refinishing thriftstore cabinets and dressers to sell on Facebook Marketplace?

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Them: So what's the WIP you really want to clear your schedule to work on? Me: It's kinda... well, it's half Space Adventure Cobra, half Sherlock Holmes, half David Bowie.

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Space Adventure Cobra Anime

Alt: Space Adventure Cobra anime. Cobra wears a white coat and lights a cigar.

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Me: *spends two minutes online* Y'know, maybe I dodged a bullet by not getting into Marketing during my last career pivot (2022-23).

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I mean, if you've ever seen an industrial fan get clogged up with leaves, you don't question this one anymore.

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Dr. Wily from Mega Man

ALT: Dr. Wily from Mega Man

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Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @cpcwrites.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Home renovation and landscaping companies using AI images in your marketing, what the fuck are you thinking? Clients want to see actual work you've done, not some grotesque cartoon rendering of what it might look like.

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