Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko

Author of the Johnny Lister mystery series, amateur photographer, perambulater of the road less traveled. No unsolicited DMs.

[Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko @firstroughdraft]

@LarryJones I am “unvaccinated.” I didn’t get the COVID shot, which isn’t reallly a vaccination. I have had COVID once (original strain, full bilateral pneumonia, five day in the hospital, two days on oxygen). Everyone I know who got the shot, without exception, has had COVID more than once.

[Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko @firstroughdraft]

@Vitus_osst @lisa_avery31597 Have you not considered that there may have been a reason for him not to put it in her mouth? Many children with various handicaps have certain idiosyncrasies that may need unconventional solutions. You have a judgmental clip with no context.

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@klhicks912 Mine is also that I will run out of ideas. I’m pretty much a single genre writer, so I’m experimenting with new genres so I have a wider base of material to pull from.

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@BookSpotlight Do people understand that there are licensed AI art programs that allow you to create AI art without pulling from copyrighted artifacts? I’m thinking no.

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@rebekah_creates @JeffSBrayAuthor I don’t use any outside editing because I simply can’t afford it. However, I was a journalism major in college, and I have learned how to edit and I have a few tricks up my sleeve. But yeah, it’s sad to see books so poorly edited,and the author doesn’t seem to care.

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@WilliamShatner Isn’t that the way it goes, lol. It seems like a lot of the best monsters have been woman.

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@JasonWMizer @WilliamShatner I had nightmares about this guy when I was a kid.

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@XennialAngel @jdmiles11 @CollinCoSO @CollinCountyGov @collincountyda @CBS If the witness is over 18, his name is public record and used in all of the documents. CBS did nothing wrong there.

[Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko @firstroughdraft]

@klhicks912 Letting someone else read my material for the first time.

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@SadviQZ @ElaineSstark He was in a production called The Tap Dance Kid when he was a child. He has been dancing most of his life.

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@AntoniaBracco @cnnbrk Who said the FBI didn’t point it out? They can advise the family how to handle things. What the family eventually decides to do will still be just that. The family’s decision.

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@AuthorGFAllen I only use middle names if it’s important to the scene. For example, one main character is looking for a pocket knife she has a a child to give to her daughter. The knives has roses on it, and you learn the daughter’s middle name is Rose. Otherwise just first and last names.

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@klhicks912 Mysteries

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@theamelia__ I have never worked at McDonalds in my life.

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@xZeroRewind @DavidBadurina Yeah, same here. I refuse to let AI dictate how I write.

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@SunnydaleDreams @HazelAppleyard_ Their doctors knows which is which. It’s just NPH who doesn’t want to know.

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@brclothwrites I haven’t had alligator, but I have had the other three. I have also had mountain lion, elk, deer, goat, sheep, shark, rabbit, ostrich, snails, squid, octopus, grouse, pheasant, buffalo, and spider crab. I’ll try almost anything at least once.

[Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko @firstroughdraft]

@PJScribbansAuth I use a name generator. It gives both a first and last name, but I rarely just use that. I scroll through the names until I find a first name that strikes me right, then I find a last name I like the same way.

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@HazelAppleyard_ RFK, Jr? JFK, Jr. hasn’t been doing much in the way of research lately.

[Kelli Heitstuman-Tomko @firstroughdraft]

My book, the 8th in a series, went live today on Amazon.