Kal Spriggs

SF & Fantasy Author, US Military Vet, Gamer, Husband, & Father

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@EllieJayWrites I just installed a country block on my website, 44 visitors blocked so far in 12 hours. 2 from Nigeria, 12 from Hong Kong, and 30 from China. Weirdly enough, no scam messages today... huh, I wonder why?

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@SarahAHoyt I might have read it over my wife's shoulder. It was perfect.

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Don't panic for #42... I'm dying, lol

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Two minutes!!

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https://t.co/LmJk7ojW4p

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So, my friends, this is really, really cool (and practically in time for Veteran's Day). My wife has edited an anthology. Not just any anthology, it is one written about mothers who serve.

My Momma Wore Combat Boots. Available now for Preorder

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@ShadesWolfhaven I found a way to do it through the platform, we'll see if it works

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Lots of traffic to my website, 1100 visits from one country: China. Followed by a huge uptick in spam emails and messages. Weird coincidence, that. I'm about to invest in backend services that block IPs from certain countries as a quality of life effort.

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@bill63014 It would have been a different story and far less tragic. Half the interest in the character is the tragedy of how she was robbed of her childhood.

The scene where she covers her teddy bears eyes before she does violence still haunts me.

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On the "Men don't read books with female leads" and "Men don't write books with strong female characters."

Bullshit. John Ringo and David Weber have been doing it for decades. I've done it, too.

Here's the fun part. You get attacked from the left for being a man writing female characters. You get attacked by some on the right for "selling out" and having a female lead. You get reviews saying it's "men with tits," generally speaking from people who don't write, don't understand women, and miss obvious character and relationship arcs. Most of these "critics" don't even read the books.

If you write it well, people love your story regardless of your character's physical and mental traits. Because writing a good story trumps pretty much anything else.

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@DeclanFinnBooks Give it time, my friend.

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@rowlands_laws Yeah, politics has become so inextricably linked with all things at this point, you can't order a coffee without someone making an assumption about your politics and what kind of statement you're making.

Me, I'm just here trying to write stuff that's fun to read.

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@theXinhabitant I liked her better in SG-1, but different stories for different people.

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@jtalyon I gave 3 examples of authors.

Of those authors, specifically:

The Honor Harrington series (Weber)
In Fury Born (Weber)
Black Tide Rising Series (Ringo)
Callie's War (Ringo)
Valor's Child (Kal Spriggs)

There are dozens of other authors whose works I could go into.

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@Spearman_Burke Mix a little napatha with some phosphorus while keeping the phosphorus submerged, put it in a clay pot, and get yourself some Greek Fire going my friend.

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@ShadesWolfhaven Congrats!

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https://t.co/bL2IlZcAvM

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@spotlightfic My book Get Wreckt is borderline satire, I need to get it loaded.

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@TerryMaggert Going to go home and binge Farscape even harder, now!