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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
🇺🇸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.
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
Since Zuck has kissed the ring, should we all just quit?

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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
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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
My dad always said the political pendulum swings, but this feels more like a wrecking ball.
January 24, 2025 at 11:48 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.
January 23, 2025 at 7:15 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.
January 10, 2025 at 5:33 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
December 24, 2024 at 4:39 PM
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
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
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This whole thread has me titillated and ROTFLMAO! #Narrator #Audiobooks
December 8, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Need recs. What is your favorite workout logging app? #weightlifting
December 7, 2024 at 6:10 PM
I love my new gym. I worked out 4x this week for the first time in years.
December 7, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Man, I miss playing pen-and-paper D&D.
December 7, 2024 at 6:05 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.
December 6, 2024 at 9:30 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 😡
December 5, 2024 at 6:56 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?
December 2, 2024 at 3:46 PM
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
There are two kinds of people. Those who can extrapolate from existing data
December 1, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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
WICKED is spectacular. Ariana Grande’s performance is joyful and layered. Cynthia Erivo is deservedly Oscar-bound. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
November 30, 2024 at 2:02 AM
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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
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