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Here's a one minute sample of the full cast audio drama podcast of my book The Thieves Guild. I hope you like it! https://youtube.com/shorts/OjZTfrmhpYw?si=HzLnW2bv_b_DNYj_

Thieves Guild scene-of-the-week! #shorts #podcast #pulp #book #fantasyauthor #audiobook

A scene from this week's Thieves Guild podcast brought to you by @broadswordbooks.
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Radio legend Jaye Albright: My Personal Trans Hero. https://jakekerr.com/blog/2023/09/09/jaye-albright-my-personal-trans-hero/

Jaye Albright, My Personal Trans Hero

Back in the nineties, I was the Alternative Music editor for Radio & Records , an industry publication that was inluential with radio music directors and pr
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I was not expecting this level of prose from Robert E. Howard:

"His laughter was like the purr of a sword sliding from a silken sheath."

I can't be the only one that thinks all the Georgia mugshots look eerily like Death Eater mugshots from Harry Potter.

Super excited that my fantasy series The Thieves Guild is now available for pre-order in all major bookstores. https://books2read.com/thievesguild

Available now at your favorite digital store!

The Thieves Guild by Jake Kerr
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Listening to some Stevie Ray Vaughn. What an extraordinary talent. Every time I talked to legendary Texas DJ Redbeard about Vaughn, I swear Redbeard would damn near tear up. That's how I feel these days.

Debating as to whether put different types of posts on Mastodon and Bluesky for different audiences, and then I realized I don't have an audience LOL. So everybody gets everything! Cross-posting it is.

Oldest daughter now managed by Fourth Wall. Middle daughter safely ensconced in her dorm at the University of North Texas. Youngest daughter banging the shit out of the drums. Been a good week!

Congratulations to my screenwriter/director daughter Zoe, who has signed with Russell Hollander at Fourth Wall Management!

Glad I mowed the lawn in 102 degree weather yesterday, as it's 105 today. :/

I simply haven't found anything that works for me as well as Notion. I'd love to use an open source solution, but nothing is remotely as good. The good news is that, for me, Notion has been an organizational game changer.

I will never get tired of reactions to Ram Jam's "Black Betty." https://youtu.be/cjO7CMFx4Q0

Ram Jam "Black Betty" Best of Reactions Compilation

Compilation of Reactions to Black Betty by Ram JamSUPPORT THE CHANNEL HEREhttps://www.paypal.me/DBrooksEditsIf you enjoyed the video, hit the like button. If...
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Was thinking of switching this thriller to first person, but then I remembered that my friend, the sorely missed and amazing Dawn Lee McKenna, wrote hers in third person. So let's keep this in third as a tribute to her.

Still processing Sinead O'Connor's death. She was disarmingly open. Stunningly brave. Seemingly fragile. Yet ferocious. She survived the dark side and decided to let her light shine. And how it shined!

Let's test posting to both Bluesky and Mastodon at the same time. Hope this works!

A day of short fiction critiques and script notes for me. Script notes are done (LOVED the concept. Those are fun scripts to read.). On to the short fiction.

Just critiqued a feature screenplay by @zoekerr.com. She's SO good. She's already a better writer than I'll ever be.

So let's try this out. I enabled the Friendica connection to Bluesky and am posting this from Friendica. It will be really cool to unify these two social networks. For those that don't know: Friendica is built on the same platform as Mastodon (ActivityPub), so I can post to Mastodon, too. Federated unity!
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be cool if I could use Ivory to have my Masto posts also show up on Bluesky. Although Bluesky is kinda turning into a cesspool already

Oooh, thanks to @poliverso.bsky.social I learned that Friendica is (mostly) integrated with Bluesky via a plugin. So now I can incrementally at least consolidate my social media presence.

Old hard drive had nothing really new. Past Jake was smart enough to migrate past Jake files to newer storage.

Found an 11-year old hard drive in storage. Currently wondering if there is anything of interest on it. Will report back.

Have the tentative schedule for my participation at the Cascade Writers Workshop, and I'm on four panels, all of which sound extremely fun and educational. I can't wait!

This video is a fascinating deconstruction of genius. An extremely strong guitar player breaks down an Eddie Van Halen riff that is nearly impossible to play. Just when he succeeds, he looks deeper and discovers a level of virtuosity that seems unattainable to mortals.

This Van Halen Riff is IMPOSSIBLE

Snag your official SHRED TILL YOU'RE UNDEAD merch here!!!! https://vonkowen.threadless.com/collections/ben-ellerDownloadable practice tracks, bonus guitar le...
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June critique contest ends in 24 hours. A free critique of your fiction or notes on your screenplay for free. Details here: https://jakekerr.com/blog/2023/06/01/jakes-june-critique-contest-is-now-live/

Jake's June Critique Contest Is Now Live

Add your email to enter below! 1 winner Value: Priceless! Prize: A critique from Jake Jake's June Critique Giveaway A critique from Jake Priceless! A criti
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Just had an ambient track I created and went to upload to an album for distribution flagged for explicit lyrics. An instrumental track. Flagged for explicit lyrics. 🤦
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Jon Lasser is Hanging in there
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I mean, clearly the words were so dirty you couldn’t even say them. So it should be flagged! 🙃

Just tried a sample of the new Starbucks olive oil drink and it’s just as god awful as you think it is.

Adapting this novel from a biopic screenplay I wrote shouldn't be as hard as this is turning out to be. Point-of-view is the real challenge. I just can't get a handle on how to approach it in novel form for this subject.

Bluesky's user name management is pretty cool. You can link it to a domain or subdomain that you own, so my user name is now @Jake.kerr.social. I love how my Bluesky handle is *owned* by me.

Just registered for Bluesky, which is essentially a clone of Twitter's UI. It looks very sharp. I like the open source federated content model, so I'm rooting for it.

My June Critique Contest is Now Live
Whether you have a screenplay, a novel chapter, a short story, or a TV Pilot, enter this month's contest to get a free critique from me. Signup and link to the FAQ is here. #jakescritiquelab

Jake's June Critique Contest Is Now Live

Add your email to enter below! 1 winner Value: Priceless! Prize: A critique from Jake Jake's June Critique Giveaway A critique from Jake Priceless! A criti
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It's now official... I'll be teaching at the Cascade Writers Workshop this July! As a former participant, I'm so excited at being part of the group that gets to share knowledge and nurture writers. http://cascadewriters.com/2023-three-day-critique-workshop/#jake-kerr

2023 Three-Day Critique Workshop

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Frenchies have such huge ears.

After 14 years. After doing some deal connections with Ev WIlliams and Biz Stone. After being one of the earliest cheerleaders... I have deactivated my Twitter account.

How did it take me this long to discover Krita? WAY better than Gimp. I love it.
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From what I can tell, the only downside is it doesn't export to PDF. The UX is absolutely amazing.
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Hmm, that's not too bad of a downside because that could be worked around.

You have until the end of the day to enter to win a critique and notes from me. Register here: https://jakekerr.com/april-critique-contest/ #jakescritiquelab

April Critique Contest

1 winner Value: Priceless! Prize: A critique from Jake Jake's April Critique Giveaway A critique from Jake A critique of a short story, novel chapter, TV p
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"This article argues that from film to fashion and architecture to advertising, creative fields have become dominated and defined by convention and cliché. Distinctiveness has died. In every field we look at, we find that everything looks the same.

Welcome to the age of average."


The age of average

In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art.
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Final edits on the Wedding Day novel are complete. Thank you again @Sarah Grey! Next up is a feature screenplay.
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Two days left to register to win a critique or script notes from me! I do this every month. Here's the link for April: https://jakekerr.com/april-critique-contest/. #jakescritiquelab

April Critique Contest

1 winner Value: Priceless! Prize: A critique from Jake Jake's April Critique Giveaway A critique from Jake A critique of a short story, novel chapter, TV p
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This is one of those tweets you don't want to write, but it must be said. I have very clear evidence that @NGDWrites completely plagiarized his screenplay Blood Wave from my script Blood Trickle. Something needs to be done.
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Spending time with Microsoft Word for the first time in a very long time, and this is totally viable as a Scrivener replacement. Dynamic chapter numbering and drag and drop of pretty much everything (including chapters), along with the simpler UI and an outline view is doing it for me. Note: I wasn't really a Scrivener power user. I just move scenes and chapters a lot. LOL.
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