FINAL TALLY: #immortalityBytes: 24 accolades🏅 out of 59 category submissions —
(batting average 0.407), including 5 First Place Wins🏆, Finalist for the Hawthorne Prize for Best Debut Novel (across all genres), and "✓Editor's Pick" in Publishers Weekly's @BookLifeReviews.
I'm profoundly grateful 🙏

Watch Trump's disappearing pinky frame-by-frame on the #TheWhiteHouse YouTube video -- see link: youtu.be/-q1N6Akpz9c?...
#pinkygate #BenRichardsWasFramed

This is from the ACTUAL WHITE HOUSE YouTube channel. Watch Trump's pinky *DISAPPEAR* at 0m18s. You can debate if it's AI or other VFX, but the video has undeniably been manipulated, and yet the White House shamelessly claims it's totally real.

AI has gotten so advanced that people will think sculptors didn't spend a year making these statues of me for the museum.
OK. FINE. Here's the prompt in Gemini...

Holy Crap! My new book is an Amazon #1 Bestseller!🤯🤗😊 *(with a bunch of caveats) #AliensVenmoedMeaTrillionDollars hit:
#1 in First Contact
#1 in Cyberpunk
#1 in Hard Sci-Fi
#1 in Short Reads
#2 in all of Sci-Fi
#61 in all eBooks

Holy Crap! My new book is an Amazon #1 Bestseller!🤯🤗😊 *(with a bunch of caveats) #AliensVenmoedMeaTrillionDollars
#1 in First Contact
#1 in Cyberpunk
#1 in Hard Sci-Fi
#1 in Short Reads
#2 in all of Sci-Fi
#61 in all eBooks for
Now for the caveats...

My new, nerdy short story #AliensVenmoedMeaTrillionDollars (audiobook and ebook) is available now! 📢TAGLINE: "The truth is out there... and paying very well."

Proposed additions to the #Ikigai Venn Diagram (Ver.2b):
1) Mentoring
2) Side Hustle
3) Apprenticing
4) More Noble Job

Good Reviews for #immortalitybytes:
#ManhattanBookReview rates it 5-Stars⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐. manhattanbookreview.com/product/immo...

Good reviews for #Immortalitybytes:
“A supercharged, high-stakes cyberpunk thriller.” — VERDICT: ✓GET IT — #KirkusReviews
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Good reviews for #immortalitybytes:
“Dark humor and crisp dialogue drive the twisty storytelling” — EDITOR'S PICK — #PublishersWeekly's #BookLife Reviews
booklife.com/booklife-rev...

3rd Cut Shortlisted (SF) in #Chanticleer’s #Cygnus Award for Best Science Fiction (2025)

Triple Finalist— Categories: Best Science Fiction, Best Humor/Satire, and Best First Novel (over 80k words) in IAN's Book of the Year Awards (2024) 
www.independentauthornetwork.com/2024-winners...
#IndependentAuthorNetwork #BotY

#immortalitybytes won both Best Science Fiction and Best Political Fiction in the #AmericanWritingAwards (2024).
Plus, it was a Finalist for Best Debut Novel and Best Humor/Comedy/Satire.
americanwritingawards.com/american-wri...

Winner “Best Humor/Satire” in the #Storytrade Awards (a #Reedsy “Top Writing Contest” 2024) #immortalitybytes
2024.storytradeawards.com

In the 7th Annual AMERICAN FICTION AWARDS, IMMORTALITY BYTES won “Best Science Fiction: Cyberpunk” and was named a finalist in four additional categories — Humor/Comedy/Satire, Thriller: Techno, Cross Genre Fiction, and Visionary Fiction.
www.americanbookfest.com/2024afapress...

Current Praise/Recognition Tally for my debut novel, #immortalitybytes (Sci-Fi/Comedy/Thriller-Heist):
Earned 14 accolades (including 4 wins) from 5 of the 8 book competitions that have been announced. Shortlisted or Better 14/24 (Batting average 0.583). corpaniaproductions.com/immortality-...