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Martin L. Shoemaker

@shoemakerspace

Programmer by day, writer by night... or maybe it's the other way around. Look for Today I Am Carey, The Last Dance, and The Last Campaign.

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Ark is adding new limited items to the Kickstarter. These items will be available for you to add to your pledge for 48 hours, and then they're gone. The first one is the shirt which will go live in about 15 minutes. After that we've got patches and mugs. Be sure to jump on these

Ark is adding new limited items to the Kickstarter. These items will be available for you to add to your pledge for 48 hours, and then they're gone. The first one is the shirt which will go live in about 15 minutes. 
After that we've got patches and mugs. Be sure to jump on these
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Check out Dave Butler's Interview with AMERICAN PALADIN: Dust Sacrifice artist Alex Wisner! When the American Paladin Kickstarter hits $235,000, we will add THREE pieces of original art by Alex to the Invictus Edition of the novel!

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Martin L. Shoemaker is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Jazz Sessions 21 - Making Story Models 3: Fortune Graphs and Beyond In our third session of Making Story Models, we'll examine classical story structures. Then we'll look at Fortune Graphs, Kurt Vonnegut's

Martin L. Shoemaker is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Jazz Sessions 21 - Making Story Models 3: Fortune Graphs and Beyond

In our third session of Making Story Models, we'll examine classical story structures. Then we'll look at Fortune Graphs, Kurt Vonnegut's
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She looks at me, and the right side of her face droops in a frown to match her left. “Don’t like metal men,” she says. “I am sorry, Mrs. Carruthers. I shall leave.” But she continues as if she hasn’t heard me. “Not natural. Metal. I had a metal dog once. Not right. Wag its

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The Jazz Sessions are free online classes for writers, hosted Sundays on Zoom at 4 p.m. Eastern (usually). This week's session is our fourth and final week of Making Story Models. We'll look at other useful modeling techniques. Message me for a link, or subscribe at

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If you're a fan of Martin L. Shoemaker, Martin L. Shoemaker and his Today I am Carey, you won't want to miss his story, Today We Escape, in Win in the End! books2read.com/u/4NOq2x

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Today’s prompt at Dorr Township Library: No time to breathe. Like thunder rolled the enemy’s next burst. My crew returned the fire, but we were lost. From my command, I saw what I feared worst: Into the void my loyal crew were tossed.   No time to breathe, and yet no time to

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In this excerpt from A Fine and Dangerous Season, the drowned dead meet their new neighbors on the ocean floor. a.co/d/d0pcm8p “This SEASON evokes every kind of Bradbury Weather - a worthy celebration of storytellers and the storms they summon.” - James A. Owen,

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In this excerpt from A Fine and Dangerous Season, an editor is attacked by the stories he reads. a.co/d/d0pcm8p “This SEASON evokes every kind of Bradbury Weather - a worthy celebration of storytellers and the storms they summon.” - James A. Owen, author of The

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FINAL 48 HOURS! You asked, we delivered! Challenge Coins now available as add-ons! (Every backer will get one coin free of charge; additional coins may be purchased.) bit.ly/46XlR2D

FINAL 48 HOURS!
You asked, we delivered!
Challenge Coins now available as add-ons!
(Every backer will get one coin free of charge; additional coins may be purchased.)

bit.ly/46XlR2D
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And it turns out another friend of mine, who also has been a huge help to my career, has a new release today, only the great D.J. Butler -- Sci-Fi / Fantasy Author and Editor was too humble to say anything to me about it. :D Today is the release for his third Cunning Man novel, which is this weird, 1930s

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Jazz Sessions #23 - A Tribute to Kevin J Anderson and Rebecca Moesta. The Jazz Sessions are free online classes for writers. This week I talked about lessons learned from two of my favorite mentors.

D.J. Butler -- Sci-Fi / Fantasy Author and Editor (@davidjohnbutler) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you are pitching your story in any context, the basics of your pitch are: - likeable character - problem the character faces - stakes for the character - the character's plan If you're missing any of those things, no amount of zany antics, cool magic system, or scary

Sandy Petersen 🪔 (@sandyofcthulhu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In my opinion, creating a character in a TTRPG should be fun. So much so that players always have one or two pregenerated in their folder. Just in case. The best example of this is Champions, where working out a hero was more fun than playing them in many cases.