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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m not on BookTok at all. I wrote what I hope is literature. But TikTok is just not something I’m on…

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

I’m in Europe. I live in Estonia though my Amazon account may still be German

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

And I figured I’d buy it, but, “Not available in your country” on Amazon. :( You do have lots of reviews so that’s good! But crikey it’s very hard to actually get to read any of it ;)

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Also the blogs posts from Pi day to the two next are radically different in tone. Pi Day sounded and felt real. But the other feel like analyses, and felt Claude-ish (not saying they are). Could that turn some people off? I feel each could be a quarter the length, easier to read, and “sell” more.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I looked at your site and like the book premise. But asking someone to buy without reading even a sample is an ask. Free chapter, even online?

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Cool! Maybe below the links? I agree it’s great to have the covers and series there. Or even just something I can tap to expand. Anyway thanks for the reply. Count me as an interested reader in that I want to know more!

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This might be just on mobile — but the links to each book on your site contain no info other than the cover (and purchase links), eg: www.alankdell.co.uk/tfa Being a prospective reader I’d find knowing more very useful! And if there’s a shared universe / series seeing that info too?

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 29/04/2026

My best craft advice is "Put a giant worm in it." You can never go wrong with a giant worm. Sci-fi: Giant worm on an alien planet Fantasy: Giant worm in mountain sitting on a pile of gold Horror: Giant worm (eats people) Romance: Giant worm causes third-act breakup Mystery: Giant worm investigates

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Can I ask what sort of books (and genres etc) you typically edit and which books / authors?

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Good writing! I’m curious, why are solar panels (or the futuristic equivalent) illegal?

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Hi. MSWL is for agents seeking manuscripts and posting there can get you blocked (it’s spam to those who read it looking for agents posting what they’re looking for.) Try AmQuerying, which is the one for a writer looking for an agent. Good luck!

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

What are the answers to those questions?

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

‘Written by an actual person’ — that tag alone just got you a follow :) Good luck with the series!

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

That might be ‘amquerying’… thing is, MSWL is for agents and you’ll risk blocks if you use it to seek a publisher or agent instead.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Please don’t spam the MSWL tag.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

You should use ‘amseeking’ as your hashtag here. That said, wow, and best wishes.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

And from what I’ve heard of the Twitter backstory it could be worth including. I find it quite a strange part of the Twitter story.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Please don’t delete! I struggled with some of it (I am tech-y but not in this area) but found it very interesting. First I’d heard of BlackSky and I loved the non-provability of the recorded video and chat at the end. Request: more explanations / background :) Otherwise fantastic.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Same. I don’t know enough and I thought ATProto was a net positive. Part of the social network federation movement.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Not sure I can ‘like’ that answer, but, got it. Did they do anything like preserve the headstones?

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I admire this. Thankyou. If I can ask a practical question: how did the graveyard wall shrink? And could it be restored to its original location, or could the space at least be protected from use for gas pipes etc and be excluded and marked on modern maps?

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Could you expand why it’s bad please? I would think access for those who can’t gain it is good. It is a real issue - another post of yours used “theoretical” but it’s genuinely not. That’s why the existence of these shadow libraries is such a complex issue… You’re right. So are others.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Back in the 2000s when OS X was cooler than Windows, one major thing it did was not allow focus stealing. App icons bounced but that was it. Somewhere, along with all the other UI mess it has today, that got lost. I don’t know of a way to stop it.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

That was a good read! Do you have a family background in Slavic villages? Or was it a suitably fairytale-like setting?

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This prevents the Elastic issue, but it also prevents someone making a genuinely useful fork and providing that. Ie the terms are as restrictive as commercial licenses. I’ve seen many companies rest on their laurels because there’s no competition: doesn’t this create the same under a FOSS guise?

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Things move fast online but in practice we’re 1/3 through the game. So the real world may be slower for some folk :) I am one person only but I’d love to see your analysis. I’m incredibly struck by the art and rendering, including lighting, personally. Far more than (slightly tedious?) gameplay.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Not sure if I explained the question well. I get the effort someone went to and “killing” the coin or face is fascinating. Is it okay when I infer things like the emotional reason (I used the word vindictiveness, erasure)? I feel like if I saw someone today deface like that, it would be personal.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Compared to this photo the original one you posted looks incredibly thorough. Hard not to read into it some kind of vindictiveness, thoroughness, absolute erasure. Do archeologists speculate like that? I don’t know how valid it truly is to draw comparisons.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Was there a face there originally? I did some googling which said this was Celtic and common practice but was full of speculation on why.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Read this a couple of days ago. kotaku.com/roblox-new-y... Read that subtitle. You don’t even need to read the article. I had thought Roblox was a safe space where kids built things, a kind of electronic construction set. The thread you posted (and others! I saw this on HN) are horrifying.

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Roblox CEO Makes A Fool Of Himself In Car-Crash Interview

David Baszucki spoke to the New York Times' Hard Fork podcast about the app's pedophile problem

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Yeah. I stopped. It became too much

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I felt they were so gratuitously violent, with a trapped protagonist (forced to perform acts, remember the foot?) that there was a sense of meta-horror: a question about what issues our society and readers have where the books resonate. Are they catharsis?

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

I love this. Says so eloquently what it is hard to explain. There’s a horror in subversion, in seeing something meant for one message used for its opposite.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Goodreads summary looks great. What are your thoughts on it?

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Yeah, I am, thanks! Hope you are too! Definitely think the privacy and personal info laws are there for a reason and to be wielded when appropriate. Fight the big corps. Go for it.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Today I learned about Rebecca Heinemann. What a shame to learn of someone only when they pass. Read this: an amazing interview, and she was truly impressive, both in abilities and strength through personal life. corecursive.com/doomed-to-fa...

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DOOMed to Fail: A Horror Story - CoRecursive Podcast

Today Rebecca Burger Becky Heineman shares the tale of porting Doom to the 3DO console under extreme conditions. There is an engine to tweak, deadlines to hit, hardware acceleration to get working, an...

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Someone made downdetectorsdowndetector.com Swiftly followed by downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com

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DownDetector’s Down Detector

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Google Antigravity: when I saw the headline I genuinely thought, for just a hopeful moment, that a research lab in an admittedly evil corporation had made a world-changing breakthrough. But no. It’s another AI-focused VSCode clone.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Just read this today too: bsky.app/profile/dgka... via @annerallen.bsky.social

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

You showed integrity and solidarity. I respect that and I think many, many others do too. I empathise with the exhaustion from it. But I hope in a sense it _is_ worth it because you publicly did the right thing and stood up for everyone else too.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Time for some kind of GDPR-ish request?

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

What was your thought on it? Did (or could) the AI deliver it? The soul of what his lyrics were trying to say? The emphasis?

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Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

The cover letter to my first submission:

August 12, 1971
1381 East 72nd Street
Brooklyn NY 11234

Edward L. Ferman
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fistion
347 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022

Dear Mr. Ferman,

I am submitting for possible publication the enclosed story, "Gem of the Gods". Too long has Sword and sorcery been dead. I hope this may help revive it.

A stamped self-addressed envelope is enclosed in case of rejection.

Sincerely yours,
Scott Edelman

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

You can play it on Switch 1! Though if you want a 2 maybe I shouldn’t have told you that ;)

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I’ve seen agents advertising here on 🦋 who don’t seem to have sold a lot of books and I worry about their effort. Finding an agent is hard. I’ve been selective; doesn’t make it easier. No acceptance yet (in a whole month :))

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I think it was hopeful, but in an internal sense… characters had their own small areas of resistance. So not a story of escapist hope. Ursula Le Guin recommended it, FWIW. I totally get the OP not wanting a ‘nazis win’ book btw — too much risk in 2025 it would be read as positive not as horror.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

It didn’t re-fight the war so much as showed the psychological impact of Axis ideology, maybe? I found the book haunting, and its sense of isolation and chance / fate was something I’ve never quite got over. The bad guys winning led to a feeling of fear, dissociation, seeking spirituality.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Conflicted here — the lyrics are her own. She’s using AI to sing them. So half of it (the most original half, the singing voice sounds generic) is human. I read one comment that she should be a songwriter… but writers don’t get public credit the way a singer does. I understand trying to be direct.

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David Millington @vintagedave.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

One of my favourites too. You were kind to him about State of Fear; I read it as strongly anti-environmentalist. And I remember Rising Sun made me feel very uncomfortable in its portrayal of the Japanese. So a flawed writer? You’re spot on with his strengths!

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