Chris Patrick Carolan 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Hi, new friends and follows! I'm Chris, and I write stuff. My book, The Nightshade Cabal, is an historical urban fantasy mystery tale set in 1880s Halifax. It was a finalist for the Crime Writers of Canada 'Best First Novel' award! From @parliamentbooks.bsky.social LINK: books2read.com/u/490zOw

Almost missed backing @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social's 2026 Sword & Sorcery novella roster, and what a same that would have been!

I refuse to do homework before watching movie.

Seppies eat sweaty undies.

Pals, I keep forgetting my writing is on the Hugo Awards ballot this year (as part of On Spec's 2026 run in the Best Semi-Pro Magazine category). It's weird and cool.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

"Radio edits" of songs were the thin edge of the wedge which led us to this AI hellscape. In this paper, I will (For real, though, the fact that some goofball decided for us all that six minutes was an impossibly long duration to expect to hold a person's attention, so let's chop songs in half...)

The first song I heard today was youtu.be/dfuUTqFw1Dg?...

Farmers Market Vendors: You do not need to use AI to create an image of a pie for your booth banner. You baked a pie. Many pies! You can take a photo of a real pie. Don't try to sell me a pie by showing me a garish cartoon rendering of a theoretical pie when you have actual pies readily at hand.

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My kingdom for a new Netflix series that hasn't been cancelled before I've had time to watch the first episode.

Today I learned Don Bluth had planned an animated adaptation of @robertjsawyer.com's Quintaglio Ascension novel series, and now I'm fascinated by what might have been... and wondering if filmgoers would have thought it was some sort of sequel to The Land Before Time.

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I just ordered some copies of my novel from my US-based publisher and, oh boy (a) that exchange rate, and (b) ugh the import fees I'll probably end up paying

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When she hears this mixtape I made for her, she'll forget about all those other losers.

Relevant to my interests thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/p...

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Rebecca does a lot for the indie and small press writing community!

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My sophomore novel comes out at the end of this month! It's queer, political, magical, and the great @johnlangan.bsky.social compared it to Thomas Pynchon. bsky.app/profile/carr...

It's on my shelf! It should also be on yours! Go! Swarm! Obtain!

AI Fucks Up Everything it Touches (Season 1, Episode Eleventy-Thousand)

Facebook is down? Now where will I go for Reels showing me how I can easily make $5000/week reselling thriftstore paperbacks on Amazon or refinishing thriftstore cabinets and dressers to sell on Facebook Marketplace?

Them: So what's the WIP you really want to clear your schedule to work on? Me: It's kinda... well, it's half Space Adventure Cobra, half Sherlock Holmes, half David Bowie.

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Me: *spends two minutes online* Y'know, maybe I dodged a bullet by not getting into Marketing during my last career pivot (2022-23).

Home renovation and landscaping companies using AI images in your marketing, what the fuck are you thinking? Clients want to see actual work you've done, not some grotesque cartoon rendering of what it might look like.

Might as well go for a soda.

Marked Safe from being invited to the Group Chat

Paging @mikethorn.bsky.social et al.

Proud to be the 201st backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Blue Fire: A Jirel of Joiry Novella! Check it out via @newedgeswordmag.bsky.social www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...

The first song I heard today was (note: the name of the song is actually Real Gone Deal, not Real Gone)

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You don't need to refer to a cartoonist as a "writer and illustrator" when they're primarily known as a cartoonist. You can just say they make comics. It's not a dirty word!

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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I have a backlog of ideas for children's books in the Notes app on my phone, so this week I am working on outlining the most promising of these. Still trying to decide if I'll be looking at traditional publishing for these (under a pen name) or finding an artist to collab with and going it indie.

The Chicken Soup people out there fighting the good fight.

Good morning to everyone except Martin Scorcese!

Today I am spending too much time thinking about the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens (Lawetlat'la to the Cowlitz people, and Loowit or Louwala-Clough to the Klickitat).

lol @ bsky adding an "Adult content" flag to this.

BREAKING: Fuck Your Yankee Blue Jeans have also withdrawn from the Freedom 250 celebration.

It’s #FridayReads time! Let’s share books and boost all signals. You like horror? Crime? Creatures from beyond the reef? Magic? Murder? Floating cow heads? Vengeance? Shady things done under the cover of darkness? Tostones? Ghosts? I got you (and it’s 51% off)! www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0316...

Choke on this horseshit. One of my favourite books as a kid in the late 1980s was The Enormous Egg, first published in 1956. It hadn't been "modernized" at all and was full of dated references, and I was fine with it. Give kids some credit.