Jeff Garvin
@jeffgarvinbooks.bsky.social
📚Award-winning novelist (Symptoms of Being Human)🎙️Podcaster🤘Rocker✍🏻Writing spec fic & chasing the human condition🧠Free deep thoughts on Substack.
How a recent encounter with a professional vampire got me thinking about my own bedside manner.
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My Deaf* Sexist Phlebotomist
On being liked versus being effective
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September 4, 2025 at 3:57 PM
How a recent encounter with a professional vampire got me thinking about my own bedside manner.
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🇺🇸NEW EPISODE!🔫Gather your team, prep your subpoenas, and prepare to take on the government! This is The Hero's Journey℠ of JFK. LISTEN NOW: herosjourneypodcast.com/jfk/
The Hero's Journey℠ Podcast is a fun, insightful look at stories through the lens of Joseph Campbell’s Hero's Journey.
The Hero's Journey℠ Podcast is a fun, insightful look at stories through the lens of Joseph Campbell’s Hero's Journey.
JFK
Gather your team, prep your subpoenas, and prepare to take on the military-industrial complex. This is The Hero’s Journey℠ of JFK.
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January 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
🇺🇸NEW EPISODE!🔫Gather your team, prep your subpoenas, and prepare to take on the government! This is The Hero's Journey℠ of JFK. LISTEN NOW: herosjourneypodcast.com/jfk/
The Hero's Journey℠ Podcast is a fun, insightful look at stories through the lens of Joseph Campbell’s Hero's Journey.
The Hero's Journey℠ Podcast is a fun, insightful look at stories through the lens of Joseph Campbell’s Hero's Journey.
SHOULD WE ALL QUIT INSTAGRAM?
Navigating social media now that Zuck has kissed the ring
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January 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
“Let them drink tea.”
January 26, 2025 at 8:38 PM
“Let them drink tea.”
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January 25, 2025 at 4:18 AM
So far my favorite things about BlueSky are the absence of Nazis and the scalable font
January 24, 2025 at 11:49 PM
So far my favorite things about BlueSky are the absence of Nazis and the scalable font
My dad always said the political pendulum swings, but this feels more like a wrecking ball.
January 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
My dad always said the political pendulum swings, but this feels more like a wrecking ball.
Kinda feels like the people in charge now are those same dudes who take up two parking spaces at Walmart to accommodate their ridiculously jacked pickups.
January 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Kinda feels like the people in charge now are those same dudes who take up two parking spaces at Walmart to accommodate their ridiculously jacked pickups.
Feeling pretty disappointed in social media. All my followers are on meta platforms, and they're (probably) about to devolve into an X-style mess.
January 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Feeling pretty disappointed in social media. All my followers are on meta platforms, and they're (probably) about to devolve into an X-style mess.
👻NEW EPISODE!🎄Pour yourself a Tab & vodka, hunker down in your office, and prepare for an 80s retelling of a classic Christmas tale. This is The Hero's Journey℠ of Scrooged. herosjourneypodcast.com/scrooged
December 24, 2024 at 4:39 PM
👻NEW EPISODE!🎄Pour yourself a Tab & vodka, hunker down in your office, and prepare for an 80s retelling of a classic Christmas tale. This is The Hero's Journey℠ of Scrooged. herosjourneypodcast.com/scrooged
My latest piece on art and technology: Touching Glass open.substack.com/pub/jeffgarv...
Touching Glass
Has Tech Made Experiencing Art Worse?
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December 19, 2024 at 8:22 PM
My latest piece on art and technology: Touching Glass open.substack.com/pub/jeffgarv...
Star Wars happens A LONG TIME AGO in a galaxy far, far away. This makes it historical fiction.
December 11, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Star Wars happens A LONG TIME AGO in a galaxy far, far away. This makes it historical fiction.
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This whole thread has me titillated and ROTFLMAO! #Narrator #Audiobooks
@caitlinkellyvo.bsky.social as audiobook Black Canary
December 8, 2024 at 1:36 PM
This whole thread has me titillated and ROTFLMAO! #Narrator #Audiobooks
Need recs. What is your favorite workout logging app? #weightlifting
December 7, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Need recs. What is your favorite workout logging app? #weightlifting
I love my new gym. I worked out 4x this week for the first time in years.
December 7, 2024 at 6:07 PM
I love my new gym. I worked out 4x this week for the first time in years.
Man, I miss playing pen-and-paper D&D.
December 7, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Man, I miss playing pen-and-paper D&D.
I almost complimented an illustration posted here, but instead, I scrolled past; I have no way of knowing whether it’s AI generated. The provenance of art is important to me. I hope it stays important to the general public, too. Maybe this means the art economy will be more localized in the future.
December 6, 2024 at 9:30 PM
I almost complimented an illustration posted here, but instead, I scrolled past; I have no way of knowing whether it’s AI generated. The provenance of art is important to me. I hope it stays important to the general public, too. Maybe this means the art economy will be more localized in the future.
I’ve been editing the same scene in my third draft for TWO WEEKS. It’s a love scene fraught with moral and philosophical complications—but, of course, those have to take a backseat to character and story. And it’s all in first person. Why do I do this to myself? Screw you, past Jeff 😡
December 5, 2024 at 6:56 PM
I’ve been editing the same scene in my third draft for TWO WEEKS. It’s a love scene fraught with moral and philosophical complications—but, of course, those have to take a backseat to character and story. And it’s all in first person. Why do I do this to myself? Screw you, past Jeff 😡
After 15 years of owning a touch screen phone, I still imagine I could type faster and more accurately on my an old physical keyboard. Is this phonestalgia?
December 2, 2024 at 3:46 PM
After 15 years of owning a touch screen phone, I still imagine I could type faster and more accurately on my an old physical keyboard. Is this phonestalgia?
I continue to be surprised how much my mood influences whether I enjoy a book/film/show. Anybody else notice that?
December 2, 2024 at 1:33 AM
I continue to be surprised how much my mood influences whether I enjoy a book/film/show. Anybody else notice that?
There are two kinds of people. Those who can extrapolate from existing data
December 1, 2024 at 12:19 AM
There are two kinds of people. Those who can extrapolate from existing data
Best part of the Hard Fork Thanksgiving 🦃episode was @caseynewton.bsky.social connecting the invention of fire DIRECTLY to podcasting with no intermediate steps. Stunning clarity of thought. Thanks for the laughs and knowledge!
November 30, 2024 at 10:55 PM
Best part of the Hard Fork Thanksgiving 🦃episode was @caseynewton.bsky.social connecting the invention of fire DIRECTLY to podcasting with no intermediate steps. Stunning clarity of thought. Thanks for the laughs and knowledge!
WICKED is spectacular. Ariana Grande’s performance is joyful and layered. Cynthia Erivo is deservedly Oscar-bound. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
November 30, 2024 at 2:02 AM
WICKED is spectacular. Ariana Grande’s performance is joyful and layered. Cynthia Erivo is deservedly Oscar-bound. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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In the US, please check out bookshop.org, which partners with local/indie bookstores. You can specify a store to support, otherwise the profit goes into a general pool distributed among participating booksellers. They're also here on Bluesky at @bookshop-org.bsky.social.
November 29, 2024 at 2:31 PM
In the US, please check out bookshop.org, which partners with local/indie bookstores. You can specify a store to support, otherwise the profit goes into a general pool distributed among participating booksellers. They're also here on Bluesky at @bookshop-org.bsky.social.
Book rec for parents, siblings, just about anyone: REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES by @shelbyvanpelt.bsky.social. A true laugh-cry-make-you-grateful kind of book. WITH AN OCTOPUS POV! My favorite book of 2024.
November 29, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Book rec for parents, siblings, just about anyone: REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES by @shelbyvanpelt.bsky.social. A true laugh-cry-make-you-grateful kind of book. WITH AN OCTOPUS POV! My favorite book of 2024.