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239

Account age

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I think I've successfully matched modern images of Dunrobin Castle to the 1813 sketch by the Countess of Sutherland. It's not a pretty graphic, but it's good enough for fiction 🙃 The Sutherlands are famous for their castle and infamous for the brutal Highland clearances ~1813, the year Pride and Prejudice was published.

1 views I think I've successfully matched modern images of Dunrobin Castle to the 1813 sketch by the Countess of Sutherland. It's not a pretty graphic, but it's good enough for fiction 🙃 The Sutherlands are famous for their castle and infamous for the brutal Highland clearances ~1813, the year Pride and Prejudice was published.

May 30 is our 31st wedding anniversary. I always give my beautiful wife roses, but yesterday I somehow miscounted 😄 and gave her 34.
Henceforth 34 roses shall be known as a trumpviction of roses

1 views May 30 is our 31st wedding anniversary. I always give my beautiful wife roses, but yesterday I somehow miscounted 😄 and gave her 34. Henceforth 34 roses shall be known as a trumpviction of roses

📊 Post engagement

Avg engagement / post

0.8%

Engagement vs followers

Oct 2022

On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: According to Brandon Sanderson, there are improvements coming to · 8 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.49 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly images

Recent: 5 text · 7 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

1.7×

Follows 142 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post According to Brandon Sanderson, there are improvements coming to Audible/ACX's royalty rates and transparency. He's NDA-ed so he doesn't get into specifics, but I agree with him that any motion is a breakthrough. Audible has been completely obscure for as long as I remember #amw… ★ 8

A fun author interview and deep dive into the characters and writing of Miss Bennet’s Dragon https://beforewegoblog.com/spfbox-interview-with-m-verant/ #fantasy “Mary Bennet is brilliant, on the spectrum, and a raging social activist” ★ 2 This perfectly captures the fabulous strategic change I've been loving since Kamala: “The fascists depend on fear,” as Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz put it over the weekend. “The fascists depend on us going back. But we are not afraid of weird p… Note to self: Pitch COCAINE SHARK! #amwriting https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/23/science/cocaine-sharks-brazil-scli-intl-scn/index.html ★ 1

I think I've successfully matched modern images of Dunrobin Castle to the 1813 sketch by the Countess of Sutherland. It's not a pretty graphic, but it's good enough for fiction 🙃 The Sutherlands are famous for their castle and infamous for… ★ 1

Check out the IPPY award medals! These things are gorgeous ❤️ I admit I had a moment of indie imposter syndrome -- do we deserve nice things? -- but... heck yeah! 😃 Bring on the bling! #amwriting This is the bronze for EMMA'S DRAGON. Cong…

May 30 is our 31st wedding anniversary. I always give my beautiful wife roses, but yesterday I somehow miscounted 😄 and gave her 34. Henceforth 34 roses shall be known as a trumpviction of roses ★ 1

GLORY AND HALLELUJAH! Word finally added Ctrl-Shift-V to paste unformatted!!!! It only took them 20 years

🐉 Miss Bennet’s Dragon is this month's Fantasy Fellowship Indie buddy read! Today and Sunday it's 0.99 on Amazon US & UK

Sure, it's a colossal waste of time that I should be using to write, but check out my NEW FREECELL RECORD WOOHOO 🎉 🥳 #amwriting

SF and Fantasy writers: Early bird registration for the Nebulas ends Mar 14. ONE DAY LEFT to get the reduced rate! https://events.sfwa.org/ #amwriting Scalzi's blog is scathing re: the #Hugo awards fiasco: "...eligible people and works were kept off the Hugo ballot, not because the Chinese government or the Chinese principals of the Chengdu Worldcon overtly demanded it, but because Amer… ★ 1

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writing.exchange

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On Mastodon since

Oct 2022

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 2 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.5× per week.

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Estimated

75/100

Good Credibility score

92%

Real Real audience

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Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
Engagement (~0.8% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
Verified account.
Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

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About

Fantasy #novelist, #writer, techie, liberal, musicophile. I've won some awards. If your big complaint about Jane Austen is too few dragons, my latest book is EMMA'S DRAGON https://geni.us/ED-kindle (M = Mike)