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@davemorris.bsky.social
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Writer, game designer, omnicurious.

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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
"Britain will need brilliant engineers, electricians and cybersecurity experts more than ever before." Burnham surely means electrical engineers, not electricians, but we're in the District 9 future now. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Schools to offer technical subjects to pupils from age 14, Burnham says
The government wants pupils to take courses like AI and manufacturing which are linked to local jobs.
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Want a free few million quid at the expense of rich twits? Just pitch a cold fusion project. It's the apple cider vinegar of tech startups. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vifp...
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I Looked at the New Cold Fusion Breakthroughs. It's Complicated.
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I fixed that headline for the Pope: "5 ways AI could warp humanity *more than it already is*" www.axios.com/2026/05/25/p...
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5 ways Pope Leo says AI could warp humanity
Why the Pope wants to slow down AI development.
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Direction of movement in comics/movies -- like most things on the internet, not as cut-&-dried as you've been led to believe. (TL;DR the viewer may come with prior assumptions, but those are quickly reset by the director's chosen image system.) mirabilis-yearofwonders.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-li...
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A little learning
It's good to have learning at our fingertips, and all the better now we can converse with it, but the internet does mean that a lot of half-...
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
In my headcanon version of The Boroughs, "Sam Cooper" is a pseudonym and we're actually watching how Otto Octavius spends his retirement years.
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Maybe the solution is to change the exams, then, if they're that easy to beat. "How do we dragon-proof our fortress?" "Well, we could ban dragons..."
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Oliver Johnson and I worked on Questworld (a non-Glorantha #RuneQuest book) for Games Workshop at the start of the '80s. Here's one scenario and some of the world background, converted to #DragonWarriors #TTRPG, and less than half a century late. amzn.to/4nKJ8wR
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One Night in Deliverance: a classic adventure by the creators of Dragon Warriors (Fabled Lands Chapbooks)
Amazon.com: One Night in Deliverance: a classic adventure by the creators of Dragon Warriors (Fabled Lands Chapbooks) eBook : Morris, Dave, Johnson, Oliver: Kindle Store
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
All the ways into the underworld in Fabled Lands. Unless I missed one. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/05/pit-...
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Pit stop
In the library you find the first volume of How to Enter the Underworld . This book is the work of a man called Agrash the Explorer. You lea...
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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Heads up! The Ludonarrative Dissidents monthly livestream is in a few hours (22:00 UK, 5pm Eastern, 4pm Central), where we'll be discussing all manner of RPG malarky, and we'd be delighted if you can join us. It's on Twitch, so only a click away. www.twitch.tv/rosspaytonrppr
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
A complete #TTRPG conceived, written and illustrated by Codex #AI -- and even the bits it misjudges are misjudged in interesting ways. (The brainwave was Ethan Mollick's.) drive.google.com/file/d/10QKn...
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Bellwater_Core_Set.pdf
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
In fifty years, will anybody remember that the term "trumped-up charges" long predated POTUS's spurious lawsuits against all the people he dislikes?
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The most interesting characters in fiction aren't the ones with the combat skills. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/04/punc...
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Punch drunk
"Fifteen years since I had to take out a Green Beret..." Oh, just fuck right off, Frank Miller. Why stop there? How about: "It's been fiftee...
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Come, friendly bombs... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Heated Rivalry, The Housemaid and Fourth Wing: TikTok launches BookTok bestseller list
The inaugural top 20 is entirely made up of female authors, with Chloe Walsh appearing most frequently.
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I wonder if @anthropic.com's Claude Mythos could suggest ways to defend human minds from the kind of exploit being used here. www.economist.com/culture/2026...
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How Vladimir Putin’s propaganda works
Russia has been driven mad. Could other countries suffer the same fate?
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Before #AI art, most indie creators of #gamebooks & #ttrpgs had to use public domain illustrations or else their own drawings. Tiny, self-funded projects don't have the money to hire any of these pro artists who are supposedly being put out of work by AI. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2024/07/here...
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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
"Horse riding must be great for creative work," people say. "Like staring through a train window." Not if you’re riding a prey animal who hears every rustle. Here I’m reflecting on Planet Val, the physics of bell towers, and the mindsets for writing memoir and fiction. mailchi.mp/0d2fab1da872...
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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This post is good for both memoir and fiction: how to understand your main character. @JessicaHandler at @dintywmoore.bsky.social brevity.wordpress.com/2026/04/09/m... #writingcommunity #writingtips #authorlife #memoir
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Main Character Energy: How Desire Makes Memorable Memoir
By Jessica Handler Photo by Royce Soble “We all like ourselves pretty well,” I say when I’m leading a writing workshop (hoping that everyone in the workshop does indeed like themselves pretty well)…
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
For investigators who don't want to use the #DragonWarriors rules, I've included #CallofCthulhu stats for this Depression-era #Cthulhu adventure. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/03/abno...
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"Abnormal Growth" (a Cthulhu Mythos investigative scenario)
Almost exactly 89 years ago, on March 15, H P Lovecraft died. That's my pretext for posting this scenario, which ties in with the rules for...
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
A traveller's guide to the #Vulcanverse, one companion at a time. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/04/fell...
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Fellow travellers in the Vulcanverse
As you explore the Vulcanverse you can acquire various companions to accompany you on your quests. The companion you travel with can make a ...
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
What Gene Colan had that other comics artists lacked: they’d dress a scene wonderfully, like a movie set, but Colan clothed it in reality. mirabilis-yearofwonders.blogspot.com/2011/06/fare...
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Farewell to Genial Gene
The first new comic I bought had a classic Gene Colan cover: a dramatic up angle with just enough architectural detail to establish a sense ...
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Seyed P. Razavi (aka Syd) @monkeyx.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
My first title is now live on DriveThruRPG! Last Dance in Shoreditch is a modern-day Call of Cthulhu scenario set in London, where a missing friend, the city’s nightlife, and something far worse collide after dark. Very excited to finally put this out there. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
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Last Dance in Shoreditch - Chaosium | Miskatonic Repository | DriveThruRPG
A night out. A missing friend. A city that won’t look the same by morning.Last Dance in Shoreditch is a modern-day Call of Cthulhu scenario set in London’s after-hours underworld, where investigators ...
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Giant honeybees (Apis dorsata) synchronize thousands of abdomens in a wave to repel hornets from their nest
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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I forgot to include the link to the German review! Here it is maricopa1.wordpress.com/2026/03/30/m...
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Mein Buchtipp – Roz Morris: Turn Right at the Rainbow
Foto meines Exemplares. Von der englischen Autorin Roz Morris habe ich in meinem Blog vor etwas mehr als sieben Jahren ihr Buch „Not Quite Lost: Travels Without a Sense of Direction; a Diary&…
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Humans are going to enjoy the jobs they can hold onto in the era of AI. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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PowerWash Simulator: How a UK cleaning game became a huge hit
It's been nominated for two Bafta Games Awards - but why have mundane job games like PowerWash Simulator 2 become so popular?
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The Scholar -- a new profession for the #Cthulhu variant of #DragonWarriors #TTRPG. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/04/thin...
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Things Man Was Not Meant To Know
After the unveiling of the Dagon Warriors rules and the recent investigative scenario , Teófilo Hurtado asked me how we would represent char...
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Rebekah King @rebekahking.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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London's Mysterious Hellraiser Bus Stop Monument
For years, someone has been leaving increasingly elaborate Hellraiser-themed installations on top of a bus stop on the Old Kent Road in London.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/03/2026
NBC: Under intl law, hitting civilian infrastructure is prohibited. Why is POTUS threatening war crimes? LEAVITT: POTUS has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime their best move is to make a deal or else N: Which objectives would destroying a desalination plant help? LEAVITT: Haley, go ahead
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Victor Frankenstein crée la vie – avec votre aide. #ldvelh (Mais... le héros? Peut-être pas.) dogsandmunsters.github.io/Moi-Frankens...
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Moi, Frankenstein
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Recently came across the very first planning map I drew 34 years ago for the Virtual Reality #gamebook series (now Critical IF). Nothing's forgotten. fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/03/x-ma...
Planning map for the gamebook DOWN AMONG THE DEAD MEN.
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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 25/03/2026
The Beauty of David Lean (all DoP: Ernest Day, Freddie Young, Jack Hildyard, Guy Green, Robert Krasker & Ronald Neame)
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The Beauty Of David Lean
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Cinephilia & Beyond @cinephiliabeyond.org · 25/03/2026
Dive into David Lean’s unrealized epic Nostromo, a haunting final chapter in the master director’s legacy. Archival insights, storyboards, screenplay, TCM-produced documentary, and more. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ cinephiliabeyond.org/david-leans-...
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David Lean’s ‘Nostromo’: The Old Man and the Untold Tale of the Seaboard • Cinephilia & Beyond
By Tim Pelan David Lean, two-time Oscar-winning director of Lawrence Of Arabia and The Bridge On the River Kwai, had something of a renaissance in the 1980s after a spell in the wilderness (see the th...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 24/03/2026
FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New Jewelspider post on faerie servants. This one is free to view, as long as you ask the fays properly. www.patreon.com/posts/fairy-...
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Fairy servants | Dave Morris
Get more from Dave Morris on Patreon
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Jon at Handiwork Games @handiworkgames.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Cold City Hot War backers check your email - there's a new campaign update live AND you should have a coupon for the Cold City Hot War Digital Pack, containing The Bunker Game and a load of new Starting Situations. We'll be adding more to this Digital Pack as we go! #coldcity
A digital image showing the cover to the Cold City Hot War Digital Pack, which features several layers of imagery - maps, reel to reel tape machines, a weird sphere made of spikes...A digital image showing the Cold City Starting Situation pages from the Cold City Hot War Digital PackA digital image showing the Hot War Starting Situation pages from the Cold City Hot War Digital PackA digital image showing the cover of The Bunker Game
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
#Gamebook readers prefer physical books to ebooks by a ration of around 9:1. So we wondered why that is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pKA...
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From Page to Screen: Exploring Digital Gamebooks - Dave Morris and Pawel Dziemski
YouTube video by Paweł Dziemski
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Oh, Moby. Disappointed in you, lad. That's just Kink-shaming. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...
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Kinks guitarist Dave Davies hits back at Moby for calling 1970 single Lola ‘gross and transphobic’
The band’s co-founder responded to the US musician’s comments, defending the song and saying they are ‘not transphobic’
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Textual analysis suggests Dickens may have written Barnaby Rudge with the help of the Analytic Engine.
First paragraphs of Barnaby Rudge, by Charles Dickens.
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A. M. Vincent @vincent.northsky.social · 15/03/2026
Sad to see the Ides of March becoming commercialised like this. I really feel like we're losing track of the true spirit of the holiday. It's not about how many knives you can stick in a tyrant all at once, it's about the whole community coming together to stab the tyrant as many times as possible.
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Here's the flowchart for Down Among The Dead Men. Not the original (it was 35 years ago, I hand-wrote it on A3 sheets of paper) but a reconstruction whipped up by Claude Code so that we humans could focus on the fun task of converting the book into an app. #gamebook stormweavers.com/shop/
Flowchart of the gamebook Down Among The Dead Men.
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I feel like a lemming that's just caught sight of the cliff edge.
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
1930. Prohibition. The Great Depression. And in a small town, a tragedy small in scale but devastating to those involved... #Cthulhu #TTRPG fabledlands.blogspot.com/2026/03/abno...
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"Abnormal Growth" (a Cthulhu Mythos investigative scenario)
Almost exactly 89 years ago, on March 15, H P Lovecraft died. That's my pretext for posting this scenario, which ties in with the rules for...
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Down Among The Dead Men -- now available as an app. I love the sound effects! #pirate #gamebook stormweavers.com/shop/
Screenshot from the app version of the gamebook Down Among The Dead Men.
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Ethan Siegel @startswithabang.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
A quirk of relativity is the closest thing to achieving immortality Even relativity, with all the power of time dilation, won't increase the span of your lived life. But it can take you far into the future, and even to the ends of the Universe. bigthink.com/starts-with-... #space #physics #astro
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A quirk of relativity is the closest thing to achieving immortality
Nothing lives forever, at least, not in the known Universe. But relativity allows us to get closer than ever: from a physics perspective.
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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This is hilarious, and reminds me of the Victoria Wood scene where her friend is borrowing a book from the library for her mother, which has to have “no alcohol, no sex and no reference to men whatsoever.” “What did you get?” “The Wincey Willis Book of Wholemeal Pasta.”
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Wuthering Heights uni module given content warning for students
A Cardiff University module featuring Wuthering Heights carries 'distressing content' warning
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
It's flattering how so many #gamebook readers rate Heart of Ice as their top favourite. And if you want to buy a copy then thank you. I really appreciate it. But if you don't have the money, please try it for free. woodendice.org/flamekebab/h...
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Heart of Ice - Adapted for Twine
Humanity barely clings on as the Earth freezes over. The Heart of Volent can reshape reality. Someone must find it and claim it before it's too late.
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Down Among The Dead Men -- new app version of the Elizabethan pirate #gamebook, now with the option to go back a few sections if you get killed. In the Storm Weavers store from Friday 13th. stormweavers.com/shop/
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Storm Weavers | Interactive Fiction
Step into worlds where every choice carves a path through the storm. Experience the evolution of interactive fiction.
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
'It would seem grossly improbable that a billionaire—rich from birth and repeatedly bankrupt yet still a billionaire—could lead a movement of angry “populism.” But here we are.' A bit like Nero. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Who Speaks for Us? | Marilynne Robinson
The representatives of our two-party system have made it into a weapon that works against the people.
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Dave Morris @davemorris.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Opposition to #AI may not have anything to do with rational thought. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Roz Morris @rozmorris.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Big stories from small beginnings – and how to pivot between memoir and fiction: interviewed by Mark Leslie Lefebvre What are the key differences between writing memoir and writing fiction? That's one of the questions I'm tackling today at Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing, the podcast…
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Big stories from small beginnings – and how to pivot between memoir and fiction: interviewed by Mark Leslie Lefebvre
What are the key differences between writing memoir and writing fiction? That's one of the questions I'm tackling today at Stark Reflections on Writing & Publishing, the podcast from horror/ speculative fiction author and longtime publishing guru Mark Leslie Lefebvre. I'm thrilled to be invited to Mark's show because he's one of the old-timers in the self-publishing world. We talk about that - because I guess I am too!
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