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Tufty McTavish

@tuftymctavish.bsky.social

Gamer, Blogger, Rock Star…
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📬 Yesterday’s unexpected 🛒 notification was for my preorder of @markokloos.bsky.social’s “Descent”, 📙 of “The Palladium Wars”, which I’ve been reading in their paperback edition. How lovely are these covers, especially together? 😍 ⚔️ #FantasyBooks 📚 #SciFiBooks 🚀 #JulyBookHaul 📦
🛒 Just got a transaction notification that I didn’t recognise. Was this 🤏 close to flagging it as dodgy before my investigations found it on a transaction history. It was a pre-order I’d placed on 1st Jan & utterly forgotten about. Totally legit, what a spanner I am 🤦‍♂️ I don’t usually do preorders!
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⚡️ Well that power cut lasted all of 2s!
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📦 Struggling to decide if my parcel is delayed at the sortation facility, or out for delivery today 🤷‍♂️ The last time I got this the chap did deliver that day, but I wasn’t paying attention because it was apparently delayed and coming the next day. So I missed it 🤦‍♂️
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🎧 Got given update of Overcast podcast app, which turned out to be a major overhaul. It has problems syncing old downloads with new app. ~30 of my pods need to be redownloaded. ~15 of those redownload over and over again in loop Fix is to delete each broken episode then redownload one final time.
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📆 Mid-month TBR progress check-in… One 📗 completed, and another 📗 has been started. The rest, not so much, yet… I fear most of these will be rolling over into August, as per usual with my over-ambitious TBRs 😅 ⚔️ #FantasyBooks 📚 #SciFiBooks 🚀
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🎧 When somebody says a line on a podcast, and the rest of the cast join in to sing a tune. So I do too! 🎶
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🛒 Just got a transaction notification that I didn’t recognise. Was this 🤏 close to flagging it as dodgy before my investigations found it on a transaction history. It was a pre-order I’d placed on 1st Jan & utterly forgotten about. Totally legit, what a spanner I am 🤦‍♂️ I don’t usually do preorders!
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It's book haul time! Check out the new fantasy books I've added to my collection recently here: youtu.be/JOnlYrXDDhM Thank you to those who sent these books to me, you are incredible 🥰
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I had the best co-workers.
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🐈 Currently having a conversation with the Guest Cat about my dinner plans this evening 🍲
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📖 Started on 📗 of @thetowerofstars.bsky.social’s “The Soulfire Saga” with “The Fire Within Them”. This is a brand new release, so for once I’m actually keeping up with #BookTube folks like @nssecretbookaholic.bsky.social who get me to buy the 📚 in the first place 😜 ⚔️ #FantasyBooks 📚 #SciFiBooks 🚀
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🤔 Undecided on the plan for today… 💭
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📦 Hauled my 📚 wishlist the other day. 📺 Today I watched a #BookTube episode. 📈 Now I have two new 📚 on my wishlist. 🤦‍♂️ 😁 youtu.be/GK4AjkCDzmI ⚔️ #FantasyBooks 📚 #SciFiBooks 🚀
5 Next Level Hard Sci-Fi Books You Need To Readyoutu.be Today, we’re exploring 5 next level hard sci-fi books you need to read. Thanks for watching and don't forget to check out my sci-fi books below. #scifi #books #hardscifi 0:00 - intro 1:22 - Evolution by Stephen Baxter 3:02 - Inherit the Stars by James P. Hogan 4:59 - Quarantine by Greg Egan 6:40 - The Flight of the Aphrodite by S.J. Morden 8:50 - Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear ___________________________________________________________________ MY STUFF https://linktr.ee/scifiodyssey ____________________________________________________________________ vvv MORE vvv MY SCI-FI NOVELS https://www.amazon.co.uk/Darrel-William-Moore/e/B0754KS349/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1 DELPHINE DESCENDS After her family is killed and her homeworld occupied, young Kathreen Martin is sent to the distant world of Furoris for re-education. She will live the rest of her life as a serf – to be bought and sold as a commodity of the Imperial Network. When her only chance of escape is ruined, a chance mistaken identity offers her a new life as the orphaned daughter of a First-Citizen Senator and heiress to a vast fortune. She vows to claw her way into power to sit among the worlds’ elite. Then, with her own hands, she will reap bloody vengeance on them all. But to beat them, she must play their game. And she must play it better than them all. BLACK MILK Prometheus has the chance to bring his wife back from the dead, but doing so will mean the destruction of Earth. Spanning time, planets and dimensions, Black Milk draws to a climactic point in a post-apocalyptic future, where humanity, stranded with no planet to call home, fights to survive against a post-human digital entity that pursues them through the depths of space. Five lives separated by aeons are inextricably linked by Prometheus’s actions: Ystil.3 is an AI unit sent back in time from the distant future to investigate Prometheus’s discovery... The mysterious Lydia has devoted her life to finding a planet that the last remaining humans can call home… Tom Jones (he’s a HUGE fan!) is an AI trapped inside a digital subspace, lost and desperate to find his way back to his beloved in real-time… Dr Norma Stanwyck is a neuroscientist from 24th Century Earth whose personal choices ripple throughout time... Prometheus must learn the necessity of death or the entire universe will be swallowed by his grief. ____________________________________________________________________ GOODREADS You can stalk me on Goodreads to see what I'm currently reading. https://bit.ly/3rrcByD ____________________________________________________________________ IMAGE USE The images in my videos are mostly licensed stock photos. However, occasionally I will use images found online. I always seek to properly credit artists and offer a link back to their amazing work but sometimes it's hard to find the original source of the work. If I've used an image you own and I haven't credited you, please feel free to get in touch as I am always more than happy to do so.
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Hi #WritingCommunity, I'm back! I've also finally found a decent place to print hardcovers with nice ribbons and head/tail bands etc. I'd love to use it for my Kickstarter editions. Problem is, 2/3 books in the trilogy are already out without ribbons etc. Would it bother you to have one different?
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🤔 Hmmm, 12d to read 6x📚 before 🏆 announced. I suspect I’ve left it a little too late. Again! 🤦‍♂️ Too many ‘priority reads’ earlier in the year, that’ll be the excuse I go with I reckon 😆 Plan ahead in 2025, McTavish? 😚 Can still read these at my leisure though… ⚔️ #FantasyBooks 📚 #SciFiBooks 🚀
"Commencing countdown, engines on..." the latest newsletter for The Arthur C. Clarke Award is out now. Winner announced Weds 24th July! 🚀 clarkeaward.substack.com/p/commencing...
Commencing countdown, engines on, for our 2024 winner announcement!clarkeaward.substack.com Join us for our award ceremony, Wednesday 24th July.
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🚴‍♂️ “Mark Cavendish still sitting in a very good position,” calls the #TdF2024 commentator as we get a 🚁 overhead shot. How they spot and identify riders I have no idea 🤷‍♂️ I’ve been watching for years and can never pick out individual riders without more placement precision so that I can track them.
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📚 I did it, I completed my set of the Clarke Award 2024 shortlist today 🤗 Now I have just a few short weeks to find them a slot on my immediate TBR and maybe pick my own winner 🧐 ⚔️ #FantasyBooks 📚 #SciFiBooks 🚀
✨The shortlist 2024!✨ CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah THE TEN PERCENT THIEF by Lavanya Lakshminarayan IN ASCENSION by Martin MacInnes THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA by Ray Nayler SOME DESPERATE GLORY by Emily Tesh COREY FAH DOES SOCIAL MOBILITY by Isabel Waidner
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☀️ Today’s weather report says #HammockTime this evening to me 😎 🇬🇧 #UKWeather 🌤️
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📦 Package coming via Evri. My immediate reaction is 🤬 My usual guy is a drop and scarper type; no knock, no ring. I have to keep checking outside. The other guy doesn’t even bother coming down the driveway. “Looks like nobody’s in,” x3 and then the package becomes ‘lost’ 😤
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Although I'm still awaiting cover reveals for three of my latest projects, here are some of the books I've worked on recently. If you're looking for a high-quality, reliable proofreader (see my testimonials), my DMs are open and there's also a contact form on my website.
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👻 “Ghost Hunters” and “The Haunted Pencil” ✏️ on Discovery+. There’s a combo! Reckon I’ll pass on that, thanks 😬
Filming has started for a reality TV show focused on former Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg. Rees-Mogg has been filming a fly-on-the-wall documentary with the production company Optomen throughout the election. It is expected to stream on Discovery+. 🙄
Filming Starts On Jacob Rees Mogg Reality TV Showwww.politicshome.com Filming has started for a reality TV show focused on former Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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🤔 All but one of my July new book releases wishlist are already available. Trying to hold out until the end of the month to sneak that outlier into the haul at the same time. #MaximumPostalEfficiency 🤓 But it’s hard. So hard 🤗 Could leave it for August though 🧐 ⚔️ #FantasyBooks 📚 #SciFiBooks 🚀
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I very much enjoyed a little twist and a turn in this #BookTube episode, cunningly disguised 🤩 ⚔️ #FantasyBooks 📚 #SciFiBooks 🚀
The quest for a five star read continued into June with a couple of legends and a couple of young guns - check out the books I read last month here: youtu.be/TjbYBd5I84A What were your June reading highlights?
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Any self-pub authors have a new SFF book out soon, or an existing one you want to put in front of a different audience? I have a showcase video out in 3 weeks where you can do just that! Details are here: www.dominishbooks.com/authorshowcase And some previously featured cover stars here!
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🍫 Apparently it’s #WorldChocolateDay today - who knew, not I until this morning! - and my 📧 📨 is letting me know… Time to replenish the #ChocolateStash? 🤔
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🌧️ Wet 👕 situation here after I wandered outside in the rain to move the patio pots onto the lawn, so they can drain rather than sit in waterlogged trays. Soggy out! 🇬🇧 #UKWeather #WeatherStation 🌦
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🥱 I stayed up too late last night then woke up too early to find out the #GE2024 🗳️ results. So I’m yawning my brains out at 5pm!
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Me, earlier today: 💭 “I have enough cookbooks.” Also me, now: “Oh, that new book sounds interesting, I have space for one more.” 👨‍💻 🤦‍♂️ 👨‍🍳 #CookBooks 🎂
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Guidance for US people trying to understand the UK election results later: Tories under 150 seats: LOL Tories under 120 seats: LMAO Tories under 100 seats: ROFL
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📺 My SkyHD box is filling up with more “House of the Dragon”. I only watched S01E01 when it first aired, so of course that episode has long since been deleted from my box, while the rest remain to this day. Guess I need to go get it and start again? 🤔