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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This week I gave myself the week off editing to write. I've managed ten chapters and close to 4K per day on average. Next week I'm back to editing, but hope I can at least keep up half that pace. If so, I might finish this next Harker novel this spring.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Come see me talk about mushrooms! Not that I've done mushrooms. Because drugs are bad, m'kay? But come see me talk about shrooms!

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Don't sweat it. 15 years and 40+ books to my name and I don't have an agent, either. :)

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Wow, way to make the man want to jump overboard by reminding of my singing...just remember, John, there was plenty of room on that door!

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Happy Book Birthday to C.L. McCollum! Her first novel, 13 County Road 666 releases today - a disaster bisexual woman managing a trailer park full of cryptids solving a mystery?!? Fans of Bubba the Monster Hunter will LOVE this book. I definitely do! falstaffbooks.myshopify.com/products/13-...

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Note - This is a preorder ebook. This title will release on March 6, 2025 and ebooks will deliver then. It’s the full moon again, and that means Melanie Smithson’s job just got a lot harder. She’s go...

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Would be even better if one of them was named Bark Hamill. Just sayin'.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Reminder that I am available for developmental edits. I have openings in March, April, and June. My standard rate is 1.5 cents per word, but that is negotiable for presses or experienced, multi-published authors. Feel free to hit me up if interested.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Unfortunately the greatest problem progressives face is other progressives and an alarming tendency to devour our own. Ironically, it's the same problem facing Christianity. Plenty of people like the religion, but the people who most loudly proclaim to follow it are assholes and alienate everyone.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

it was off the CHAIN! And the story behind it getting made was great, too. Ice-T is the first thing in probably two decades that Roger Waters and David Gilmour have agreed on, because they both had to sign off on giving him permission to do the cover. And they loved his lyrics so much they were IN!

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Damn, son, that sounds like a great idea. Might substitute Leverage: Redemption for HALO, but definitely got a gummy on the menu for tonight.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Need more of this. Make them run, make them afraid for their jobs, then take their jobs.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Why didn't y'all tell me Ice-T and Body Count covered "Comfortably Numb" with David Gilmour on guitar?!?

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

And if you order the print book, you'll get the ebook delivered at no additional charge!

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

But I still think I might die before this ship is righted. Unfortunately, if I die of old age before Trump and the GOP's gutting of our nation is fixed, it means millions of others will have died before me, and not of natural causes.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This dimwitted, drug-addled fuckwit has done more to damage our nation in six weeks than foreign powers could do in six decades. It's going to take many many years to fix the damage that he's done, and I can only hope I live long enough to see it. And for the record, I'm 51, so I'm not that old.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

And told everyone I ever had a chance to speak with not to work with them. This is much bigger, but I can only think that it will have a lot of the same results. A whole bunch of foreign leaders never trusting this country to behave ethically and honorably again. And they shouldn't.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I sat there and listened to him bitch for about an hour while my boss sat next to me watching me get more and more embarrassed. Until I stopped being humiliated and got angry myself. Then I told him to take his project and shove it up his ass. Never worked with that company again.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This whole Trump/Zelensky Oval Office BS reminds me of a time I was called into a meeting with an electrical contractor to negotiate work on a project. Except I wasn't. I was called in there because the contractor waspissed off at me and wanted to yell at me face to face.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

That's cool. I ended up having three surgeries since the first of the year, and am just now back to what passes for normal around here. But I'm pretty wide open for March and April, so let's do this! :)

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I have editorial openings for March and April. Hit me up if you need a book polished. Rates are 1.5 cents per word for developmental/line editing. Negotiable for experienced authors.

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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Interested in @natania.bsky.social's interpretation of Arthurian myth in her QUEENS OF FATE series? You're in luck! Explore Carelon & Avillion, as it stood at the beginning of Book 1, in our family tree... QUEEN OF NONE geni.us/queenofnone QUEEN OF FURY geni.us/Queenoffury

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

In case you're looking for a non-Amazon place to buy ebooks, especially today, we just added a whole bunch of ebooks to our Shopify store, so you can support artists and a small business by going here - falstaffbooks.myshopify.com

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I'm back! It's been a hell of a year so far with two cataract surgeries and a "minor procedure" to correct some afib that they found during the second eyeball poking. It's always minor when it happens to somebody else, right?!? I'm recovering well and back to my normal shitposting and cat worship.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

There’s a tier at which patrons get a free chapter every week, and I’m working on an ARC tier.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

They go low, put a knee in their face. Then when they fall on their back, stomp their nuts. A lot.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

No worries. You couldn't have known. I just wish Amazon would disable that feature entirely. All books have typos. After the number of revisions a book goes through, we should just let the survivors live. They've earned it. :)

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Yeah, they don't send those to me, they just lock the book and take it off sale if they get too many of those "issues." So it's actually really hard on the writers if you report the issues. Not to mention that half the issues that get reported are either style or not really mistakes, like dialect.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

yeah, I wasn't crazy about that one, and the finish had me legit concerned for KO's health.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Logan Paul doesn’t have good heat. He has “go away” heat. Dom has good heat. We love to hate Dom. We just hate Logan Paul.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I’ve been saying his name for days. I believe. #joehendry #royalrumble

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Penta and Rey to start? If yall never watched Lucha Underground, you bout to SEE some shit. #royalrumble

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Have fun! I'll be over at the Heroes Mini Con tomorrow!

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Quote of the day - "I will de-Nazify shit. But I won't re-Nazify shit." Be like this redneck hero.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

We publish some really fucking good books. I just finished reading one - a badass heist novel that morphs into a space opera into a milSF book back into a heist novel with a spicy af sex scene in there, too. The Starlight Contingency by Kyoko M. is a kickass book! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DL3RL7CN

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The Starlight Contingency - Kindle edition by M., Kyoko. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Starlight Contingency.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It's worth it. I should know, since I think other than you, I probably know the book better than anyone. It's really fucking good.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

NC's NHL team has won more national championships than any of the state's other major pro sports teams. So I guess rednecks are better at hockey than football or basketball.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I was heading into the post office one day and passed a woman sitting at an RFK Jr. for Pres table. She asked if I was familiar with RFK Jr. I replied with "I know he's an anti-vaxx moron and a disgrace to his family name. Do I need to know anything else?" For some reason, she didn't respond...

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

That's the only Stephenson I've actually read. I liked it then. Dunno how I'd feel about it now, but I liked it when I read it a million years ago.

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

you're working on a WHAT?!? Imma need this in my life...

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John G. Hartness @johnhartness.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Had an interesting meeting and then an interesting phone call regarding film rights and adaptations today. Don't know if anything will come of either convo, but it's nice to feel like there's interest in my work by other people. :)

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Shivam Bhatt @shivambhatt.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Trans people deserve better than this. They deserve dignity, autonomy, and the same freedom as anyone else to be who they are. We as a culture have failed them, and until Trans folks are free to make their own choices, none of us are.

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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

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