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Humphrey Archer
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60+ three-time immigrant, whose life in Africa, Australia, and America, work with industrial and medical quality & safety, and obsession with mortality data […]

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ok, I need to know more about who would wear these.
Tell me something about what this person is like and what they do for a living, and whether they like coffee or tea, wine or beer
November 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Current #wip
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Hey @alice @h3mmy I have a request.

What is your take on someone who wears what you see here, and what else are they wearing? Who are they? What sort of person? What are they into? What work do they do? Coffee or tea? Beer or wine? etc.
November 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The correct setting shown here is:

1. New Year celebration
2. Christmas do
3. Halloween
4. May Day
5. Trans-inclusion week
6. Gothaday celebration
7. BDSM appreciation week
8. Wiccan celebration
9. ?
November 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
My #book sales are "undetectable", and most months I barely earn enough to buy a burger.

There are many possible reasons for this parlous state:

- maybe my #writing is just boring or bad
- maybe I've just not found my market
- maybe doing no marketing or […]

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November 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The weeks writing group prompt was "delayed messages"
October 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Dick pic
October 26, 2025 at 8:13 PM
My #writing from yesterday's #writinggroup

Three part prompt
1. "it's been trying to reach me again"
2. "I stay because you called me"
3. "You'll never throw me away"

For people with sight challenges, the text is here […]

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October 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Hey @autolycos @mcnado

I'm doing a little writing thing called an abecedarian, and I was doing "causes of death"
Do you have any suggestions for the missing letters?
October 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
1. Is is likely a psychopath would self-identify like that
2. how much injury can I expect from freshly brewed coffee in a preheated insulated mug. Let's assume she splashes ~50-75 ml into his shoe
3. ditto injury from ~250 ml in the face
4. Assume she […]

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October 10, 2025 at 7:12 PM
#wordweavers 10/1. Tell us what you’re working on now. What’s special about the project?

I recently finished writing a novel tracing the life of a woman who has high-functioning psychopathy, and now swinging back to doing karmaic schadenfreude short stories […]

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October 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Ok, all my print titles are uploaded to IngramSpark and now waiting on cover art to be refreshed and uploaded.
At that point, it will be seeing what fields their clunky UI will have forgotten, and ordering proofs
September 16, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Ok. AI

There was a professional photographer who did a Youtube on why he thinks Google's Nano Banana AI text-image is now as good as a professional photographer. He uses images of his own hotsauce as examples.

True enough, the LLM now gets writing correct […]

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September 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Just to illustrate something about being an author, and how prices have climbed and where that money goes.

If I set a price of $9.99 US on a book, 55% goes to the reseller - B&N, Amazon, or your local bookstore. Then about $4 gets taken off for printing, and […]

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September 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Someone bought one of my books this month!
This is my first since migrating from Amazon to Kobo, and it is thrilling

Ok, so I'm not retiring in luxury anytime soon, but still ...
August 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Remainder of alt text
August 8, 2025 at 4:21 AM
#amWriting about Herbert.
I probably need something to drink.
August 8, 2025 at 4:20 AM
If you like stories with a bit of grim, a touch of macabre, and a lot of fatal misadventure and murder, you might like my "The Screw Turns" or "The Book of Joy" books.

You can read a chapter or two for free at Kobo

1. Navigate to […]

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August 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Three prompts from today's writing group

Prompt 1: Keys
Prompt 2: Synesthesia
Prompt 3: Eating
August 6, 2025 at 10:50 PM
My transition from Amazon KDP to Kobo is going swimmingly so far
July 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
From today's writing group.

Prompt was "a love letter from the afterlife" in the context of Andrea Gibson's death
July 17, 2025 at 2:28 AM
How my migration from KDP to Kobo is going so far
July 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Unpublished all my books on Amazon KDP

I no longer sell my writing through KDP

I now sell my eBooks through Kobo
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/author/humphrey-archer
July 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Done!
All my fiction books are now migrated to Kobo

https://www.kobo.com/us/en/series/the-screw-turns

I wonder how many defects got included in the move
July 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Seven books completed their migration from Amazon to Kobo, and one to go.

All my short stories have already moved off Kindle, and my next two books nearing completion will go to Kobo directly
July 8, 2025 at 4:32 AM