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Free excerpt of my novel Under the Gulf Coast Sun.

Kassie Hernandez has a dream: to work at NASA someday like her dad.

But during a last vacation at the beach, she finds the love of her life--and discovers that nothing is guaranteed.

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Coming-of-Age Surfing Novel
If you enjoy the excerpt you can pre-order the book from places like Bookshop, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble: https://bookshop.org/p/books/under-the-gulf-coast-sun-skip-rhudy/22184040?ean=9781965766040 h...
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First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow
July 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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July 7, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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New from @skip-rhudy.bsky.social: I’ve got a post-graduate certificate in artificial intelligence (AI). I’m also an author, and I believe writers and publishers should not use AI in publishing. But the reasons I oppose using AI are not the usual ones you hear.
AI Is Dead
A Texas author earned a certificate in AI—but there’s no way he’d ever use it to write a book.
www.texasobserver.org
April 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Against the barbarians:
April 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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History always has a lesson.
April 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Oh my gosh—look what came in the mail!!!

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March 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Free excerpt of my novel Under the Gulf Coast Sun.

Kassie Hernandez has a dream: to work at NASA someday like her dad.

But during a last vacation at the beach, she finds the love of her life--and discovers that nothing is guaranteed.

dl.bookfunnel.com/xm9vxn4i50

#LiteraturSky #booksky
Coming-of-Age Surfing Novel
If you enjoy the excerpt you can pre-order the book from places like Bookshop, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble: https://bookshop.org/p/books/under-the-gulf-coast-sun-skip-rhudy/22184040?ean=9781965766040 h...
dl.bookfunnel.com
February 23, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Trump - with his devotion to Putin, abandonment of Ukraine, and lies about history- is the antithesis of everything Ronald Reagan stood for. He is aligning America with the enemies of the very freedom that generations have fought and died to defend.
February 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Here's a short trailer about a little book I wrote set on the Texas Gulf Coast.

www.amazon.com/dp/1965766048/

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#romance #beachread #surfing
January 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
There are great applications of Generative AI, but I dislike AI used to calculate texts pretending to be art or literature.

Computers don't experience life, they add 0s and 1s.

I want to hear from humans, not blind, deaf, and dumb Turing machines.

AI text is not meaningful art.
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January 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Some (perhaps many) years ago, a new critical theory swept academia and then disappeared. It was called "Reception Theory". For me, it became the only theory about reading literature that made sense. Here's a glimpse:
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www.lonestarliterary.com/content/lone...
Lone Star Literary Critique: Speaking of Criticism: Who Owns Meaning?
Speaking of Criticism: Who Owns Meaning? So, everybody’s a critic, right? No, seriously: right. Readers invest their time, money, and imagination in everything they read.
www.lonestarliterary.com
January 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
From the book The Origins of Totalitarianism:
January 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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This will be amazing! Why not go along if you’re local? 👀
Folks in the Austin, TX area: I'll be appearing with Stephanie Ortega, the translator of Else Jerusalem's Red House Alley, our newest Recovered Book from @bhousepress.bsky.social at Alienated Majesty Books on Tuesday, 28 January at 6PM. Please join us!
January 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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My statement on the Special Counsel’s final report:
January 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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📚 ALL NEW IN 2025! 🤩
Visit: StoneyCreekPublishing.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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If you're new to Shakespeare's sonnets--or you've read them deeply--I highly recommend Stephen Booth's edition with extensive commentary that illuminates, explains, & explores. #BookSky #LiteratureSky #Shakespeare bsky.app/profile/sail...
January 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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I want to let folks in the Austin, TX area know that Stephanie Ortega, the translator of Else Jerusalem's Red House Alley, our latest Recovered Book from @bhousepress.bsky.social, will be appearing at Alienated Majesty Books on Tuesday, 28 January at 6PM to talk about rescuing lost books. Join us!
January 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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On this date in 2021, I surveyed 25 novels from the 1970s that knocked down the fences separating science fiction and literary fiction with a heedlessness that's still refreshing almost 50 years later.
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January 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I laughed. Several times. Maybe more than several times. I don't know where my favorites like Aeschylus, the three Bs (Bukowski, Burroughs, Bradbury) Hilbig, Euripides, Morrison, Wright ... where do they fit in? Well, in this future view, nowhere:
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unherd.com/2025/01/lost...
The vapid world of America's top book influencer
unherd.com
January 7, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Libraries are some of our greatest institutions and most valuable resources. They need our support.

This page from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social is full of resources and information for everyone who knows that we must #UniteAgainstBookBans.
Banned & Challenged Books
ALA compiles data on book challenges from reports filed by library professionals in the field and from news stories published throughout the United States.
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January 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
For those who love independent bookstores, here is an online retailer that supports independent bookshops. When you buy books from bookshop, some amount of money you spend gets put back into the local bookstore of your choice when you sign up:
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Under the Gulf Coast Sun a book by Skip Rhudy
The last thing on Kassie Hernandez's mind is falling in love, but when she meets surfer Connor O'Reilly at one of Port Aransas's famous Pod House parties in 1978, everything changes. Kassie and Conno...
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January 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Here is my response to Donald Trump’s latest malicious lies:
January 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Oh yeah, Freewrite? Take Remington Noiseless!
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January 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM