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Account age
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📊 Post engagement
6
Avg engagement / post
1.9%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: #WritersCoffeeClub 15/7: Do you read a lot outside of your comfo · 12 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
3 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.6×
Follows 507 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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WritersCoffeeClub 28th July ~ What's something about your own work which needs some polish?
The easy answer is "everything". The more thoughtful one is the ability to evoke a scene so effectively that the reader unconsciously sees and feel…
#WritersCoffeeClub 27th July ~ What's a writerly growing pain you're experiencing right now?
The realisation that editing and polishing doesn't have an end point. It can apparently go on forever.
#writing #histfic #writingcommunity #writer…
#WritersCoffeeClub 26/7: Do you have other works waiting in the wings? How many?
Too many to count. I will have to leave my current hero behind, but as I follow the story forward I'm already imagining plots which intersect with the big na…
#WritersCoffeeClub 25/7: What are your techniques for getting out of having written yourself into a corner?
As a 'planner' I am usually able to avoid this problem. More often, I will be looking for the best plot device to move the story to…
That novel begged for a prequel, giving the hero's backstory. That became "The Blood Cross", a hero's journey taking a Castilian/Moorish boy from blighted childhood the elite Papal security service, via the Order of Santiago.
I'm now #writ…
#WritersCoffeeClub 18/7: Talk about how a work progressed from its initial inspiration. How different was it in the end?
The Cruz Espada trilogy began as an experiment. I took a character concept from a Ray Bradbury short story published i…
Although I'm still editing and revising volumes 1 & 2, vol 3 of the Cruz Espada trilogy is now properly a work in progress. It is set in the post-plague world of the early 1350's, as a new Pope goes to war. Our hero, having gone AWOL durin…
#WritersCoffeeClub July 7: How actively do you seek out criticism or critique for a WIP or a finished work?
I ask members of an online writers group for feedback on an almost weekly basis. Some are also beta readers. When you get lots of…
#WritersCoffeeClub 4th July ~ Who do you go to for constructive criticism?
I belong to an online writers group which has proved enormously helpful.
#writing #histfic #writingcommuniy #writersofmastodon
#WritersCoffeeClub 1/7: Recently, how excited have you been to sit down to write?
As a "planner" and a writer of real world historical fiction, much of my creative excitement precedes the writing process. The development of the story and m…
#WritersCoffeeClub 30/6: How did this month go for you?
Not bad. I entered two competitions, and submitted two full manuscripts to a publisher's "open submissions" event. They will probably come to nothing, but felt like steps forward. …
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
mastodon.scot
A Scotland server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
On Mastodon since
Nov 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 6 views per post.
📤Posts about 3× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
80/100
Excellent
Credibility score
97%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 97% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Strong engagement (~1.9% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Oxford - based, Pro-EU, writer and blogger. Looking for an agent to represent me and my real-world 14th-century historical fiction trilogy "Cruz Espada".
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