TS Hottle
@tshottle.bsky.social
Author, editor, husband, corporate drone, cat herder, serial stepdad, 42ist, deconstructing, #startrek fan, #progressiverock #sciencefiction
He who dies with the most toys is still dead
He who dies with the most toys is still dead
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Nov. 10, 1975 The tradition at Mariners' Church in Detroit is to ring a bell 29 times: To remember each of the 29 men who died on the Edmund Fitzgerald: 30th time: To honor all sailors lost on the Great Lakes: 31st time Added after the death of Gordon Lightfoot in 2023 to honor the songwriter.
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Nov. 10, 1975 The tradition at Mariners' Church in Detroit is to ring a bell 29 times: To remember each of the 29 men who died on the Edmund Fitzgerald: 30th time: To honor all sailors lost on the Great Lakes: 31st time Added after the death of Gordon Lightfoot in 2023 to honor the songwriter.
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It's Wednesday, my dudes.
November 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
It's Wednesday, my dudes.
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#writingadvice #writinglife #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerscommunity inventingrealityediting.com/2...
Be careful of fee-for-publishing companies
Some authors dislike Amazon’s corporate dominance of the self-publishing market. Others find intimidating the formatting, cover design and uploading aspects of self-publishing and so seek a package…
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November 4, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Suicide's last mission. Rescue her chosen son's actual mother.
Suicide Solution - The conclusion of the Suicide Arc.
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Suicide Solution - The conclusion of the Suicide Arc.
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November 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Suicide's last mission. Rescue her chosen son's actual mother.
Suicide Solution - The conclusion of the Suicide Arc.
tshottle.com/book/suicide...
Suicide Solution - The conclusion of the Suicide Arc.
tshottle.com/book/suicide...
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I have a new novel out today, in case you need last minute costume ideas. Suicide Solution is the final novel of the Suicide Arc. I talk about it here on my substack. #bookskies #sciencefiction #writercommunity
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Tales from Hypergraphic Oceans - Halloween, 2028
Suicide Solution debuts
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October 31, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I have a new novel out today, in case you need last minute costume ideas. Suicide Solution is the final novel of the Suicide Arc. I talk about it here on my substack. #bookskies #sciencefiction #writercommunity
tshottle1.substack.com/p/tales-from...
tshottle1.substack.com/p/tales-from...
Now get out there and kick evil's ass! #therightpeoplewillgetit
October 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Now get out there and kick evil's ass! #therightpeoplewillgetit
Every day, I find something about the history of the English language that confirms I speak a gang of seven languages that lurk in back alleys and mug other languages for new words. Learned today Flemish runs with that gang. See the silent "h" in "ghost." They did that. #langauge #writercommunity
October 23, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Every day, I find something about the history of the English language that confirms I speak a gang of seven languages that lurk in back alleys and mug other languages for new words. Learned today Flemish runs with that gang. See the silent "h" in "ghost." They did that. #langauge #writercommunity
Dilly dilly!
The Epstein Ballroom it is
Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!
October 23, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Dilly dilly!
The implosion of my Facebook presence (which I believe was part of the AWS debacle) convinces me I should spend a lot more time here, on Substack, and YouTube. #facebooksucks
October 22, 2025 at 2:25 AM
The implosion of my Facebook presence (which I believe was part of the AWS debacle) convinces me I should spend a lot more time here, on Substack, and YouTube. #facebooksucks
I'm pondering replacing Messenger with Signal. Should I live stream if some dumbass at the White House accidentally invites me to a classified war planning chat? #facebooksucks
October 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I'm pondering replacing Messenger with Signal. Should I live stream if some dumbass at the White House accidentally invites me to a classified war planning chat? #facebooksucks
Kicked off Facebook because Amazon's AWS sneezed.
Mad that I'm rendered a non-entity on Facebook. Laughing because I work for an Amazon contractor, so my employer is making Zuck miserable. #schadenfreude
Mad that I'm rendered a non-entity on Facebook. Laughing because I work for an Amazon contractor, so my employer is making Zuck miserable. #schadenfreude
October 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Kicked off Facebook because Amazon's AWS sneezed.
Mad that I'm rendered a non-entity on Facebook. Laughing because I work for an Amazon contractor, so my employer is making Zuck miserable. #schadenfreude
Mad that I'm rendered a non-entity on Facebook. Laughing because I work for an Amazon contractor, so my employer is making Zuck miserable. #schadenfreude
Here's something I've wondered about Star Trek. Are Starfleet officers required to record personal logs? It's established you need permission or a warrant to access them. What if someone doesn't want to keep a log or prefers to write a journal instead? #startrek
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Here's something I've wondered about Star Trek. Are Starfleet officers required to record personal logs? It's established you need permission or a warrant to access them. What if someone doesn't want to keep a log or prefers to write a journal instead? #startrek
Hello, my baby. Hello, my honey...
October 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Hello, my baby. Hello, my honey...
I had a friend (not my first reader and biggest fan, but someone who's followed me for years now) ask if I was going to write something outside of my current universe.
No.
#amwriting #sciencefiction #writercommunity
No.
#amwriting #sciencefiction #writercommunity
October 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I had a friend (not my first reader and biggest fan, but someone who's followed me for years now) ask if I was going to write something outside of my current universe.
No.
#amwriting #sciencefiction #writercommunity
No.
#amwriting #sciencefiction #writercommunity
Tales From Hypergraphic Oceans
Suicide Solution - An Excerpt
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September 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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"Just as a good man forgets his deed the moment he has done it, a genuine writer forgets a work as soon as he has completed it and starts to think about the next one; if he thinks about his past work at all, he is more likely to remember its faults than its virtues." — W. H. Auden
September 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"Just as a good man forgets his deed the moment he has done it, a genuine writer forgets a work as soon as he has completed it and starts to think about the next one; if he thinks about his past work at all, he is more likely to remember its faults than its virtues." — W. H. Auden
@seanferrick.bsky.social Those were Commodore Perry Porters, or as I call them, breakfast beer. Either the sound was garbled and relooped as "Guiness." (No, no, no, no! I've had both. No.) or the prop department messed up.
There. Now we just need Wil Wheaton to explain this on air.
There. Now we just need Wil Wheaton to explain this on air.
September 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
@seanferrick.bsky.social Those were Commodore Perry Porters, or as I call them, breakfast beer. Either the sound was garbled and relooped as "Guiness." (No, no, no, no! I've had both. No.) or the prop department messed up.
There. Now we just need Wil Wheaton to explain this on air.
There. Now we just need Wil Wheaton to explain this on air.
This could actually work. And really? We could use a Doctor here right now.
September 21, 2025 at 2:24 AM
This could actually work. And really? We could use a Doctor here right now.
Tales From Hypergraphic Oceans - September 14, 2025
Suicide Solution Cover!
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September 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Nuance is dead in the 21st Century. That's the root of everything else.
September 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Nuance is dead in the 21st Century. That's the root of everything else.
Novel crossed the 11,000-word mark this morning. #writercommunity #amwriting
September 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Novel crossed the 11,000-word mark this morning. #writercommunity #amwriting
I want @seanferrick.bsky.social 's TARDIS mug. My French press demands it. My inner Janeway craves it. (Yes, I have an inner Janeway. And an inner O'Brien. And unfortunately, an inner Boimler.)
September 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I want @seanferrick.bsky.social 's TARDIS mug. My French press demands it. My inner Janeway craves it. (Yes, I have an inner Janeway. And an inner O'Brien. And unfortunately, an inner Boimler.)
Erica Ortegas finds her inner Mark Watney. #strangenewworlds
September 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Erica Ortegas finds her inner Mark Watney. #strangenewworlds