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dilmandila

@dilmandila@mograph.social

I Write. I make films. Transmedia artist. My blog https://www.dilmandila.com/author/dilman is about my works and life. I daydream a lot and want to be paid for it. Been creating #sff #scifi since 2001 but only recently got BSFA 2021 + Nommo Awards 2022 shortlist. PKD Awards 2024 finalist!

My films #DilmanShortFilms

#fedi22 #filmmaking #writing #writingcommunity

East Africa

Avatar: my selfie in a grey hood, in a misty freezing town, I look miserable. Header: comic page of a woman holding a baby

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dilmandila, to email
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Ever since I quit Google I've stopped receiving junk emails, used to come about 10 a day and would end up in promotions folder, or updates, or socials, which google created. Now, I get nothing. Only newsletters, some of which are industry related so I don't mind them.

dilmandila, to movies
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May the Fourth be with you as we watch the first Star Wars film, this chilly night in the outskirts of Kampala, in the compound of a film studio.

dilmandila, to movies
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Yesterday, for supporting my robot film, I rewarded patrons with a stylized wallpaper of a pied kingfisher sitting on a leafless branch (looks like a stick suspended in air). The foreground, bird and branch, is monochrome, the background is pale yellow. (Okay, alt-texting has taught me how to describe images, you get the picture?)

If you have a spare dollar, support

https://www.patreon.com/posts/103512006

dilmandila, to writing
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I have finally finished a novel that I have been writing since 2017 (I think I am now done!?) so wondering what the way forward is. Agent? Big Five/Four? But I would really prefer a reputable small press publisher (maybe Big Small Press😁), so going to knock on doors again. If there is any you know that is open for submissions, I'll appreciate the tip.

It is a science fiction/fantasy story.

dilmandila,
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@evilcookies98 I keep thinking of it but I am not good at marketing and with self-pub you have to keep marketing to make sales. I would rather someone else worries about that side of things

dilmandila, to writing
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Looks like book submissions are becoming like movie pitches, with moodboards and character sketches and all that. I guess I should stick to working with indie press and small press publishers, just for a peace of mind, because the gatekeeperism of trad publishing is going up a notch....

https://lorrainewilson.substack.com/p/is-there-a-book-submission-arms-race

dilmandila, to tech
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I'm in the process of migrating from Google Workspace to Proton Mail, but I've hit a snag that might make me stick to Google. I have several email addresses for business, and yet Proton puts all emails in one inbox, which doesn't make any sense. So I'll get emails related to my writing in the same inbox as those for film, as personal emails, and as those for other work? I expected separate logins for each email.

Anyone knows how I can work around it?

dilmandila,
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@dave I've heard its possible, and the work around, but it's not efficient. And I presume it's easy to miss emails....

dilmandila,
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@dave Looks like it, though I have staff who monitor some of the email addresses and was hoping each would have a separate login and not be able to access other emails.

Let me look more into this split addresses, and also explore using Thunderbird, but it looks like you will still need one login account.

dilmandila,
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@april This could work, but its not very efficient, and I was hoping for each email to have a separate login so that different staff could monitor different emails, it being a business.

dilmandila,
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@april It's what I signed up for...

dilmandila, to random
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I bet Hollywood scriptwriters are already plotting out stories of the traumatised Israeli soldier who goes into Gaza and shoots one armed person and saves a little girl from rubble and he has to live with the trauma of what he witnessed, but it will all be from Israeli military's point of view because, well, propaganda.

dilmandila, to random
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A drug to cure loneliness? This is some scifi film cowdung.

https://assemblag.es/@theluddite/112241188344987214

dilmandila, to random
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When is Fire Day, and Water Day, and Air Day? It seems unfair to the other nations to celebrate only Earth Day.

dilmandila, to Humor
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"Maybe if we tell people the brain is an app, they'll start using it."

Seen on a bumper sticker on a mini-bus in Kamdini town, Northern Uganda.

stephenwhq, to bookstodon
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Hello Authors of Masto?

Short story collections. Strong theme, or just the best stories? Can a collection include nightmares and light-hearted stuff? (An experienced author says a good collection does not vary wildly in tone. But my stuff does).

what do you think as a reader, and what do you do yourself?

@bookstodon

PS I have some free on my website

https://stephencox.co.uk/?page_id=184

dilmandila,
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@stephenwhq @bookstodon Stories leaning towards a similar genre would be strongly recommended, or genres that compliment each other. If they are romance stories, then audiemce is likely to be readers of romance and may not enjoy if, say, you throw in a horror. If it is speculative fiction then you can safely throw in the sff stories, scifi fantasy horror..... I think

dilmandila, to random
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Typical US. They won't condemn Israel for the unprovoked bombing of another country's embassy, killing its staff, but will be quick to warn the victim not to retaliate. Just wow.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/05/politics/us-israel-iran-retaliation-strike?cid=ios_app

dilmandila,
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@Lizette603_23 try to replace Biden with someone more sane. Maybe Harris?

dilmandila, to random
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"DuckAssist won't always generate the correct answer, according to Weinberg. The tool might struggle to correctly answer complex questions, too."

So why roll it out, DuckDuckGo? I thought you were in the business of providing accurate search results.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/try-duckduckgos-new-ai-feature-duckassist-now-for-free/

melissabeartrix, to random
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I'm so old I remember when people liked google

Giggles

Hugz & xXx

dilmandila,
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@melissabeartrix I'm so old I used to have a geocities site.

Giggles

fireborn, to uk

so, to the and communities on Fedi.

I ordered a device called a BT Speak about a week ago. It is a PDA-like device, with an 8-dot Perkins style Braille keyboard and speech output for the visually impaired.

When I got the device, it did not boot, and I contacted the company about it.

I was able to get the device working again by myself rather quickly, however here in lies the reason for my post.

The company were so quick to respond that a replacement unit is already on the way.

After some discussion, what has been decided is that I will be donating the replacement device, brand new, to a visually impaired child who may not be able to procure assistive technology via other means.
1/

dilmandila,
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@fireborn I know of a child in Uganda who could use it....

dilmandila, to random
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They say "American democracy is facing a unique historic threat." But then, their administration, their left leaning president, refuses to listen to the public on this matter, even as he begs them to vote for him because voting for the other guy means an end to democracy.... I can't wrap my head around US politics.

US reportedly approves transfer to Israel of bombs and jets worth billions
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/29/us-approves-weapons-bombs-israel?CMP=share_btn_url

dilmandila, to writing
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The winners of the Philip K Dick Awards are announced tonight. My book, "Where Rivers Go To Die" was a finalist but didn't win.
Congrats to the winner Bethany Jacobs, "These Burning Stars", and the runner up, Rebekah Bergman, "The Museum of Human History"

Well, I've now been listed 13 times for 9 different awards, without winning any! I'm getting used to it, maybe setting some kind of record of most nominations without winning.

@bookstodon

dilmandila, to random
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Yesterday I officially tasted my first experience of a con, and I'm happy that @norwescon was my first! I had a reading, in a room full of people who had actually read my book, Where Rivers Go To Die, and we had some pretty interesting conversations (ps. The book is a finalist for the PKD Awards) and then I was on a panel where we discussed "Queering History and Legend". Quiet an exciting opening day, meeting lots of people (and fearing I won't remember their faces today 😭)

melissabeartrix, to random
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I am not injured ... I repeat I am not injured

It's beetroot mixed juice

The glass just fell off the counter ... I promise

I thought right away, it could be worse ... It's not a half dozen glasses and a full bottle of wine @sister_ratched ... Hugz

Hugz & xXx

dilmandila,
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@melissabeartrix @sister_ratched looks like a film in a horror movie

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