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William C Powell
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Author of TEARDOWN🌈📚 (NineStar), EXPIRATION DAY (YA/SF, Tor), also writes short SFF, long SFF/HF/Crime/contemporary.
Software engineer (retired).
Politics Green #FBPE
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William C Powell @willcampowell.bsky.social · Mar 20
When their lead singer quits 2 weeks before their Germany tour, enby drummer Kai needs to find a singer fast. Diva Dom might lead the band to stardom - but she's hiding a dark secret. And Lars? Kai's long-dormant heart is beating double-time on the road to Berlin...
🌈📚💙📚🥁🎶📚

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Now available Teardown Book cover, showing a white van and band members driving towards the Berlin skyline
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Landmark day in my Revise and Resubmit editing. Scrivener tells me that my use of the word 'just' (141 occurrences) is now below the number of uses of the forename of the FMC (142 occurrences).
#author #amediting #amrevising
November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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In breaking news, to tackle hospital overcrowding, Wes Streeting has pledged to build 40 new corridors.
November 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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The Government has revealed plans for a new mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
Reject plans for a mandatory BritCard (digital ID)
Sir Keir Starmer is considering a mandatory digital ID scheme called “BritCard” that would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives. Mandatory digital IDs give the state enor...
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November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Amazon launches new death star
Amazon Echo Dot Max - Review 2025 - PCMag UK share.google/VVJuwNilensp...
Amazon Echo Dot Max
PC Magazine is your complete guide to computers, phones, tablets, peripherals and more. We test and review the latest gadgets, products and services, report technology news and trends, and provide sho...
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November 1, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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I did not know this, but so far in 2025, Britain has wasted £1,178,475,498 switching off wind turbines and paying gas plants to switch on.
wastedwind.energy/2025-10-31
Wasted Wind
Britain wastes millions a day switching off wind turbines. See how much has been wasted today, and in 2025.
wastedwind.energy
October 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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An interesting account of how Proportional Representation works to protect against extremists. The UK needs such protection before 2029.
October 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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#pretendpanel
Always having something on the go as first draft is my little treat. Sometimes I leave it as the last thing I have to do for the day because it really is a treat just to lay 500 or so words down and revisit whatever place I've gone to, one little bite at a time.
karamoonauthor.com Kara Moon (the artist formerly known as Hiria Dunning) @karamoonauthor.com · Oct 25
#pretendpanel, I like today's question a lot 😍 Thank you again @longwaydownbook.bsky.social for writing this month's questions!

October 25th: Are there any treats you give yourself to help making the writing process easier?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
#pretendpanel a daily prompt tag hosted by @hiriadunning.bsky.social October 25th: Are there any treats you give yourself to help making the writing process easier? Please support your fellow #pretentpanel posters with replies, likes and reposts New #pretendpanel questions every Friday and Saturday. Hop in any time!
October 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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I loved this book.
#historicalfiction #booksky
October 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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If I've been silent for a while, it's because I've had a revise and resubmit for a manuscript and I've had my head down for the last month. Today I finished the 1st pass. Here's a blog post about my progress, and where it's going:
wordslayered.wordpress.com/2025/10/19/r...
#writing #editing
Revise & Resubmit “Live”
About a month ago, in response to a submission of my latest undiscovered masterpiece, I received a Revise & Resubmit from an editor at a small press. Great news, in my opinion, but there’…
wordslayered.wordpress.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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You are all right Charlies
www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
How huge London far-right march lifted the lid on a toxic transatlantic soup
Tommy Robinson’s ‘free speech’ protest attracted more than 100,000 people – and it was easy to find links to key political figures and events in the US
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Some very tempting reads here.
September 14, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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What are your favorite noels or short stories in which black holes play a major role?
#BlueskySciFiWriters #SciFiWriters #sf #scifi #specfic #sciencefiction #syfi #amwritingsf #SciFi #scifichat #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #writingcommunity
September 14, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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You can now pre-order The Best of MetaStellar Year 4 at books2read.com/u/4jdgOD - DRM-free where the platform permits.

#SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #ScienceFiction #ShortStories #Anthology #ComingSoon #MetaStellar #HumansAreMagic #HumanStoriesByHumanAuthors #Culture #Reading
Cover image of The Best of MetaStellar Year 4, listing (some) author names and with a medieval-themed graphic of an armoured foot pressing down on a wounded goblin. Nice!
September 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Microsoft Office CLASSIC subscription successfully renewed today.
Why no, I don't need Copilot's useless suggestions wasting my time when writing. It turns out that thinking for myself is good for the brain. And not using AI is good for the planet.
Win-win.
September 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Bah! Perdido Street Station has been wiped from my Audible library, I just discover. Another one gone, and a reminder that we do not buy Audible books, but only lease them for as long as it pleases Amazon, or the publisher, or whomever.
Angry face.
September 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Me again, posting about The Best of MetaStellar Year 4.
This isn't just about me. Here are some teasers for other stories in the volume.
#SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #ScienceFiction #ShortStories #Anthology
#ComingSoon #MetaStellar #HumansAreMagic #HumanStoriesByHumanAuthors
#Culture #Reading
Broken hearts can become games of shadows on the ballroom floor…. — “The Power We Give” by Larina Warnock The perfect alien planet for human life might not be all it's cracked up to be.... — “Dream Planet” by Jordan Maison Sometimes, androids will do anything for a hot cup of coffee…. — “Coffee Robot” by Bryce Paradis Front cover of 'The Best of MetaStellar Year 4' as paperback, on tablet and on smartphone, against a backdrop of a whitewashed brick wall, with a picture frame, a white mug and an artists' wooden posable mannequin.
September 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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Reform led Nottinghamshire Council has blacklisted a local paper for asking questions about what councillors were doing. Farage says he welcomes free speech, that should apply to freedom of the press too. Sign the petition to get them to reverse the decision: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
Reform: Stop hiding from press scrutiny!
Nigel Farage says he welcomes freedom of speech, even if people find it offensive. Surely that should apply to freedom of the press too? So why have Reform's Nottinghamshire councillors - who control ...
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September 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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A fascinating list, that asks the important question: do I have room on my bookshelves for another 5 books?
reactorsff.bsky.social Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · Sep 4
Last month @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social recommended 5 books set in the 1800s. But if you're looking for SFF takes on the radium girls, French spies, and the Great Depression, this list of backlist books that take place in the 20th century might be more your speed:

reactormag.com/backlist-bon...
Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books Set in an Alternate 20th Century - Reactor
Sentient robots, grumpy ghosts, and a magical Great Depression...
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September 4, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I'm scared I will draw the Wrath of the Fanboys, but... this week on my newsletter I wrote about why I think the "Golden Age of Science Fiction" writers have so little appeal to a huge swathe of today's SF/F writers & readers.

undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/this-is-why-...
this is why we don't read the Golden Age anymore.
There are so many histories of the future. Spinning through timespace, studying this apocalypse, a key part of my undercover mission is studying stories about the future. When and where and how were ...
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September 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Coming in September: The Best of MetaStellar Year Four anthology! Featuring 54 stories from #sff writers around the globe. Look for it in bookstores near the end of next month.

#sciencefiction #fantasy #shortstories #specfic #horror #books
Three copies of The Best of MetaStellar Year Four anthology stacked on a table.
August 31, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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We are less than a month away from the release of The Best of MetaStellar Year Four anthology! This compilation of 54 #sff stories hits bookstores in late September. Look for it at a store near you!

#sci-fi #fantasy #horror #specfic #shortstories #books
The Best of MetaStellar Year Four anthology standing upright on a table with a potted plant in the background.
August 29, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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The Best of MetaStellar Year Four anthology comes out next month with 54 #sff stories for all you nerdy readers! It will be available in bookstores and online for print and e-book purchases.

#sci-fi #sciencefiction #fantasy #horror #specfic #shortstories
The Best of MetaStellar Year Four anthology lying on a wooden table.
August 28, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Like #sci-fi and #fantasy? The Best of MetaStellar Year Four anthology is filled with #SFF stories you're bound to enjoy!

Release date set for September 26.

#shortstories #sciencefiction
The Best of MetaStellar Year Four anthology on tablet, smartphone, and in print.
August 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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I love working with MetaStellar - both as a writer and as a first reader - having first sold a story (The Box) to them in 2021. Their upcoming anthology "The Best Of MetaStellar Year Four" contains 54 original tales across science fiction, fantasy and horror.
Bargain, if you ask me.
3 copies of 'The Best Of MetaStellar Year Four' standing on a wooden chest.
August 31, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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#WIPSnips #fantasy #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #reptile

Drisal’s just regained his own sense of reality after being overwhelmed by another’s. It’s awkward when it happens in front of his 8-year-old son.

- Brother’s Keeper, book of my fantasy WIP about two brothers linked by a misunderstood power.
Teryl eyed him with educated suspicion. "As if it's never happened before." But Drisal had never satisfied his son's curiosity about such episodes. He frowned a warning. After a moment, Teryl's focus changed. "I saw the purple tortoise. I followed her to the blackberry tangle. Lia and her friends passed by. Rush lost, didn't he?" Drisal suppressed a sigh, but did not reprove Tëryl for omitting the honorific required before his enshála's name. "No, he did not lose, but she won. That's why we have to hurry. The celebration will be at Rälla Etania—" "Mother wants me to wear the green tunic she made of the silk Jer brought from, from ..." "Talfúrnia." "I don't have to, do I? She won't let me have any fun if I'm wearing it." Brother's Keeper A.C. Turek
August 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM