Skip Rhudy
@skip-rhudy.bsky.social
Under the Gulf Coast Sun
https://www.underthegulfcoastsun.com
One Punk Summer
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736431005
https://www.underthegulfcoastsun.com
One Punk Summer
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736431005
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Skip Rhudy
@skip-rhudy.bsky.social
· Feb 23
Coming-of-Age Surfing Novel
If you enjoy the excerpt you can pre-order the book from places like Bookshop, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble:
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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.
dl.bookfunnel.com/xm9vxn4i50
#LiteraturSky #booksky
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
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@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social
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
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
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social
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
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
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What's in a book festival?
open.substack.com/pub/accident...
open.substack.com/pub/accident...
What's in a book festival?
You never know how things will turn out when authors, readers, publishers and booksellers all get together.
open.substack.com
May 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
What's in a book festival?
open.substack.com/pub/accident...
open.substack.com/pub/accident...
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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
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.
Against the barbarians:
April 21, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Against the barbarians:
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History always has a lesson.
April 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
History always has a lesson.
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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
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 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
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
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
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
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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
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.
Here's a short trailer about a little book I wrote set on the Texas Gulf Coast.
www.amazon.com/dp/1965766048/
#LiteratureSky
#booksky
#romance #beachread #surfing
www.amazon.com/dp/1965766048/
#LiteratureSky
#booksky
#romance #beachread #surfing
January 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Here's a short trailer about a little book I wrote set on the Texas Gulf Coast.
www.amazon.com/dp/1965766048/
#LiteratureSky
#booksky
#romance #beachread #surfing
www.amazon.com/dp/1965766048/
#LiteratureSky
#booksky
#romance #beachread #surfing
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.
#LiteratureSky
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.
#LiteratureSky
January 17, 2025 at 11:45 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.
#LiteratureSky
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.
#LiteratureSky
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:
#LiteratureSky #booksky
www.lonestarliterary.com/content/lone...
#LiteratureSky #booksky
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
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:
#LiteratureSky #booksky
www.lonestarliterary.com/content/lone...
#LiteratureSky #booksky
www.lonestarliterary.com/content/lone...
From the book The Origins of Totalitarianism:
January 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
From the book The Origins of Totalitarianism:
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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
This will be amazing! Why not go along if you’re local? 👀
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My statement on the Special Counsel’s final report:
January 14, 2025 at 1:43 PM
My statement on the Special Counsel’s final report:
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📚 ALL NEW IN 2025! 🤩
Visit: StoneyCreekPublishing.com
Visit: StoneyCreekPublishing.com
January 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
📚 ALL NEW IN 2025! 🤩
Visit: StoneyCreekPublishing.com
Visit: StoneyCreekPublishing.com
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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
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...
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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
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!
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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
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.
neglectedbooks.com/?...
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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:
#booksky
#LiteratureSky
unherd.com/2025/01/lost...
#booksky
#LiteratureSky
unherd.com/2025/01/lost...
The vapid world of America's top book influencer
unherd.com
January 7, 2025 at 11:09 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:
#booksky
#LiteratureSky
unherd.com/2025/01/lost...
#booksky
#LiteratureSky
unherd.com/2025/01/lost...
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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.
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.
buff.ly
January 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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.
This page from @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social is full of resources and information for everyone who knows that we must #UniteAgainstBookBans.
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:
#booksky
#LiteratureSky
bookshop.org/p/books/unde...
#booksky
#LiteratureSky
bookshop.org/p/books/unde...
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...
bookshop.org
January 7, 2025 at 7:03 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:
#booksky
#LiteratureSky
bookshop.org/p/books/unde...
#booksky
#LiteratureSky
bookshop.org/p/books/unde...
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Here is my response to Donald Trump’s latest malicious lies:
January 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Here is my response to Donald Trump’s latest malicious lies:
