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dknippling.bsky.social
@dknippling.bsky.social
Genre-fluid writer. https://wonderlandpress.com/
House of Masks: A Gothic Space Opera - now available wide release, post-Kickstarter.

Q: Has it got any opera in it?

A: Love! Betrayal! Death! Aliens! Mad science! Dystopia! Singing!

Q: It doesn't sound TOO boring. I'll try to stay awake.

books2read.com/house-of-masks
October 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
We are but $224 away from driving me to write something short, possibly something silly and meme based. You're effectively hiring me to be your ghostwriter for a short story, something you've always wanted to see written...

...maybe something like this.
September 4, 2025 at 5:48 PM
All right, some serious talk here. My Kickstarter is almost over. If we hit the next stretch goal, I'll write a smartass meme-based short story which might be called Slasher!!! on Ice.* The stretch goal is $2500. We're at $2019.
September 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Anyway, I had plans to get a bunch of surprise book extras done (to send out as PDFs), but I'm not gonna get there. The next actual thing I'm gonna write for the KS is a blog on Gothic musicals/operas, because that's the sort of nerdery that makes me happy.
August 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
MY KICKSTARTER IS LIVE AND IT'S DOING WELL.

AND/OR EVILLY.

DEPENDING ON HOW YOU SEE SUCH THINGS.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
August 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I'm getting ready to start the Kickstarter for my new novel, House of Masks, on Tuesday. Buhhh...nervous, of course. I have a heavy schedule of promo set up, on the theory that I need to write a bunch of this stuff anyway for long-term marketing and other use, so why not now?
August 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Yesterday went to the Puffs show at the Straz in Tampa, the end of our season tickets for the Jobsite theater company.

First we went to Dracula's Legacy (a wine bar) and had an excessive number of small plate things, all good, and silly Drac-themed cocktails.
August 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Me: The hardcover for House of Masks arrived!!! Yay!!! Wait, this book is too thin...

Also me: Uh...anyone know a Ryan Skeffington?!?

AH YES THE JOYS OF GETTING READY FOR A KICKSTARTER...

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
July 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Today's somewhat-deranged note while out walking, re: current WIP:

The Scarlet Pimpernel. Can't have the romance without Jacobin Gandalf.
July 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
THE PAPERBACKS CAME IN!!!

House of Masks: A Gothic Space Opera

It was the best of planets, it was the worst of planets...a tale of two planets and YES THERE IS ACTUAL OPERA INVOLVED.

Daaaamn the covers look good tho.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/dea...
July 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Oh honey.
June 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Got my SIGNED copy of Michael W Lucas's perfectly ridiculous Laserblasted. A good un.
June 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
no album captures the essence of who i am better than:
May 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
If you see this I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
May 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
DUN DUN DA DUNNNNNN
March 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
March 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Aldi's has succumbed to white-christofascist bullshit.

www.aldireviewer.com/aldi-removes...

And yes, this is the grocery pickup/delivery form, because that's all that came up when I looked for customer service contact info.
March 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Here's mine.
February 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
What do you want to share?

A little good news.
February 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
What do you want to share?

I'm trying to be less invested in meme culture, but I just realized I haven't posted any good "fuck off christofascist" shit on here to make my position clear.
February 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
What do you want to share today?

I had lots of things I wanted to share yesterday but I'm running a blank right now, because my brain is going, "You're promoting everyone else again and not yourself." So: SIIIIIGH.

One of my happy places is gothic horror.

books2read.com/hwos
February 10, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I did get my new phone in, but of course that was a lot of setting things up and fighting with systems. I did get pictures of the watercolor, tho.
February 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Testing...testing...

Recent marker practice session for testing purposes...
February 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM