Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Author, Editor, Hovercraft Enthusiast. THE NIGHTSHADE CABAL released 2020 by @ParliamentBooks, finalist for Best First Novel by @CrimeWritersCan. (He/Him)

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Dueling spellcasters. Reanimated corpses. High-speed steamcarriage chases. Bad breakfasts. At least one demon and four puns. And so much more.

THE NIGHTSHADE CABAL from @parliamentbooks
#Steampunk #SteampunkReads
https://t.co/wD0Qx3pFfh

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@ThatEricAlper There are no actual bands in the Top 10 of this week's Billboard Hot 100.

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@andrewphung @runtheburbs @hulu Happy to hear the show will end up in front of more eyeballs!

I just heard last week there won’t be a S4. Gonna miss the Pham, and I need to know what Andrew’s campaign would’ve looked like!

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@TheDebbieMia As much as I want to read some of the DarkLit Sails (now Dark Sails) titles, I can’t in good conscience funnel money toward this venture at this point.

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@jiggykies

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My Dryer: plays a cheery little song to let me know it’s done.

Me: Nice, my clothes are dry.

Dryer: I didn’t say they were dry. I said they were DONE.

Me: …

Dryer: Here, I twisted everything into a sopping wet rope for you.

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@JennRahn Don’t we all? 😎

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In which the DarkLit debacle continues to drag. I feel for the authors hung up in this purgatorial slog.

[Steve Stred @stevestred]

After discussing within our former DarkLit authors chat, and confirming where we sat with legal options, I'm sharing a longer post today regarding the behind the scenes issues with DarkLit and Marceau.

https://t.co/k3vusPIYZv

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@MichaelcAyles2 @CPC_HQ @RobMoore_CPC @MatKaminski_CPC Why the hell would you tag me in this? I wouldn’t trust the Conservatives to take my dirty undies to the cleaners, much less run the country.

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@ThatEricAlper The Be Sharps.

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Maybe one day I’ll be able to hear the name Alfred Bester without “What about Ray Bradbury?” blaring inside my skull, but today was not that day.

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“Whatever, the next person will probably wipe it down before they use it” is the “The shampoo lather runoff will clean my balls when I rinse my hair” of the workout world.

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At this point I just assume the people who don’t wipe down the equipment they use at the gym are the same people who don’t actively wash their privates in the shower.

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No one will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy” you were
- how many hours you worked

People will remember:
- that time the waitress said “Enjoy your meal” and you replied “Thanks, you too!”

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@HNTurtledove @henryrollins @RobertJSawyer Situation update! The Wall of Inspiration now has quotes from @HNTurtledove, @henryrollins, and @RobertJSawyer. The RJS is a paraphrase from his Masterclass Workshop at When Words Collide @alexwriters last weekend.

(Prior to this, one colleague asked if these were my uncles.)

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My “Wall of Inspiration” in my office is taking shape.

@HNTurtledove, whose work first made me sit up and say “I want to do this one day!”

@HenryRollins for inspiring me to “Show up and do the work!”

@RobertJSawyer for proving to this kid that a Canadian can make a go of it.

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Favourite quotes from each will be added when I have a chance to pick up some hanging hooks. We’re not allowed to use nails because asbestos! Until then, here’s my Bowie section (also a work in progress).

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@crumbedup I’m still seeing the DarkLit edition of @stevestred ‘s “When I Look at the Sky…” on Amazon, too, and I know he pulled the book weeks ago (and already has a new version available through Black Void).

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@SkoochXC Ok, that was a good one

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A visit to a small town used bookstore turned up a @HNTurtledove short fiction collection paperback I’ve never seen (and never heard of) before. Sure to be some gems in here!

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Would you rather watch a trained falcon fly a loop during the day, or kestrel manoeuvres in the dark?