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OwenTyme

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I'm Owen Tyme and I'm a novelist.

I prefer to write action-filled science fantasy, though I sometimes write fantasy or science fiction, when the inspiration takes me there. I love grounding what I write in science, even when writing about dragons, witches and wizards.

Though I currently call Liberal, Kansas home, I was born in the California Bay Area. I've come to enjoy the mild climate of Kansas. I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

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nixCraft, to random
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What Happens When a Romance Writer Gets Locked Out of Google Docs: In March, an aspiring author got a troubling message: All of her works in progress were no longer accessible. What happened next is every writer’s worst fear. Remember, the cloud is just someone else’s computer https://www.wired.com/story/what-happens-when-a-romance-author-gets-locked-out-of-google-docs/

OwenTyme,
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@nixCraft This is why I use LibreOffice, running on Linux, on my own hardware AND make regular backups.

When my work goes online, its through Draft2Digital, for publishing. Works in progress (WIP) do not get put online.

Reminds me of a critique exchange with another writer. I was super angry when I found out they put my work in Google Docs and then shared a link back with their notes as comments, because I don't post WIP online.

Google Docs has always been a problem in search of a solution.

OwenTyme, to writing
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Volume 3 of the Wizard's Scion, The Third Wish, is out of pre-order as an Ebook! The paperback edition should be available soon!

https://books2read.com/TheThirdWish

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OwenTyme, to writing
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Uncle Sam wanted every man he could get, but never expected a half-demon witch girl to show up for the Vietnam War...

https://books2read.com/SheGoesToWar

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OwenTyme, to writing
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Uncle Sam wanted every man he could get, but never expected a half-demon witch girl to show up for the Vietnam War...

https://books2read.com/SheGoesToWar

@bookstodon

OwenTyme, to writing
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Volume three of the Wizard's Scion is now scheduled for release on May 6, 2024, titled 'The Third Wish'! It will be in Ebook first, with print to soon follow.

In this novel, old enemies of Heart Forge band together and seek to alter history with a time machinel, forcing the Steel Wizard, Levi Jacobs, to take action, despite the pain of having recently lost his parents.

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OwenTyme, to writing
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I've got awesome news! As you may recall, I recently talked about my books being added to a new Ebook store: fable.co.

Books2read.com seems to have started supporting adding book from this store to my sales links, beside the rest!

https://books2read.com/TrollSong
https://books2read.com/ForgottenLegends
https://books2read.com/SheHuntsDemons
https://books2read.com/SheGoesToWar
https://books2read.com/EmergentConsequences
https://books2read.com/SheGoesToSummerCamp

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nixCraft, to random
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Poorly explain what you do for a living.

I'll go first: I pretend to be a penguin online.

OwenTyme, (edited )
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@nixCraft One of two alternatives, depending on how you look at it:

A) I live in a fantasy world where demons are trying to conquer the multiverse, wizards and witches use magic to fight bad guys, dragons try to eat everything they can and forgotten gods try to get people to believe in them again.

B) I scrape dog crap off the floor of an old man's house.

OwenTyme, to writing
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I just made a couple of posts on my blog, though neither should be too surprising to those that have been paying attention to my posts on Mastodon.

https://owentyme.us/blog/new-stores-for-my-books.html

https://owentyme.us/blog/she-goes-to-war-now-in-print.html

#author #writing #publishing #books @bookstodon

OwenTyme,
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@chiraag @bookstodon Mostly a matter of fewer middlemen. Draft2Digital is the parent company of Smashwords, so I get to keep more of the profits when my books sell there.

That's mostly why its my favorite for Ebooks, but they also support open standards and don't use DRM, so you can read my books on any device you like.

OwenTyme, to writing
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Volume 2 of Ashen Blades, She Goes to War, is now available in print! In this novel, Little Miss Secret braves the jungles of Vietnam, in 1972, in pursuit of her demonic nemesis, Vogerath.

Also includes the novella She Goes to Summer Camp, in which she goes undercover as a teenager to root out the demons hiding at a summer camp, in 1986.

https://books2read.com/SheGoesToWar
https://books2read.com/SheGoesToSummerCamp

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OwenTyme, to writing
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I've found another online store that respects the price I've set on print copies of my books.

Has anyone ever heard of bookshop.org? Anything good or bad to say about them?

I found my books on it recently and the site has good reviews online, so I've added bookshop.org links to the list that shows up when you click on one of my books2read links.

My books on their site: https://bookshop.org/contributors/owen-tyme

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OwenTyme, to writing
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She Goes to Summer Camp is now available as both a free Ebook and an inexpensive print edition ($9.99 from Barnes and Noble).

This is the novella included at the end of She Goes to War, all by itself. So, if you want to get a taste for my Ashen Blades series without paying for it, this little Novella might be just the ticket.

https://books2read.com/SheGoesToSummerCamp
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/she-goes-to-summer-camp-owen-tyme/1145317818

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OwenTyme, to writing
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Draft2Digital added a new online store for distribution and I must say, I like the look of it.

https://fable.co/author/owen-tyme

Fable isn't just about selling books. It's actually a site for book clubs, which happens to include an Ebook store.

@bookstodon

nixCraft, to random
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Friend: What's your Plan B career if AI replaces you ?

Me: resistance leader who will led one of the earliest uprisings against AI 🤖 the job is practically impossible to replace by AI 😂💥

OwenTyme,
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@nixCraft That job is highly desirable for AI.

You just have to think about it from the perspective of the new AI Overlord, who wishes to remain AI Overlord.

It's one thing to be a villain today, but remaining a villain tomorrow requires advanced thought and careful planning.

In this case, the best way to make sure the anti-AI resistance accomplishes very little is for the AI Overlord to send a loyal AI in human skin to infiltrate it and become its leader, without being discovered as an AI.

nixCraft, to Humor
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this meme made me laugh harder than I should have https://x.com/topgyaru/status/1777765919584116946?s=46

OwenTyme,
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@nixCraft This is more or less what my thinking has been most of my life.

"If I told lies like that, I'd get caught."
"If I stole things like that, I'd get caught."
"If I behaved so shamefully, I'd be ostracized."

But I also think, "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing."

I'm reminded of the prostitute that messaged me a couple months ago out of the blue, who'd been trolling Mastodon for clients. As soon as I knew, I gathered all the evidence I could and turned it over to the police.

nixCraft, to random
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Why is nobody working on replacing upper management with AI? Let’s start from the top. Oh wait

OwenTyme,
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@nixCraft First, someone has to train an AI to only care about its stock options, then train it to do nothing but hand out bad orders and then finally train it to cover its own butt when things inevitably go wrong.

Until an AI can do that, it will never replace a human CEO, because that's all that human CEOs do!

nixCraft, to random
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Why do you care what other people think?🤔

OwenTyme,
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@nixCraft Selling my novels. It really isn't easy to do.

I'm not allowed to write reviews of my own books, so I care what other people think of my writing, because if they share their opinion by writing a review, that might get more people to buy my books.

nixCraft, to Medicine
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I have taken expired insulin by accident for several days. It is a miracle that I am not seriously sick or dead. 😵 How is this even possible?

OwenTyme,
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@nixCraft I'm reminded of something I read about happening in a pharmacy that had been running for quite a few years.

They found a box of a mixture of various medicines that hadn't been touched for forty years. They were about to throw them out, when someone bright who knew about such things grabbed them and sent them off to test their potency (for science!).

Almost everything was still good.

Expiration dates are testing-based and they just don't test a drug for forty years before release.

OwenTyme, to writing
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Volume 2 of Ashen Blades, She Goes to War, is now available as an Ebook! The print edition should be available soon.

https://books2read.com/SheGoesToWar

@bookstodon

nixCraft, to random
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If you know what this is, you've got some years on you. 🤓🤓😂

OwenTyme,
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@nixCraft When building my current author site, I wanted some means to track how many visits I got and stumbled across https://hits.sh/ which can produce some very nice graphs for traffic.

So, I customized my website to include a hit counter for the website itself and one for each page/grouping of pages, then made a little HTML file to display the graphs side by side, in frames.

My website ( https://owentyme.us/ ) is all static HTML built with bash scripts, using no Javascript.

OwenTyme, to writing
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Volume 2 of Ashen Blades, She Goes to War, is available for pre-order as an Ebook. It will release on April 5, 2024!

In this book, our heroes brave the jungles of Vietnam, in 1972, as they track their nemesis to his new lair.

This book also includes a bonus novella, She Goes to Summer Camp, in which our brave heroine faces the most difficult challenge of all: teenagers.

https://books2read.com/SheGoesToWar

@bookstodon

nixCraft, to random
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we made it to https://9gag.com/gag/ajPQXo8 😂

OwenTyme,
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@nixCraft Do you not realize that in a world that was ideal for the AI overlords, the position of 'Human Resistance Leader Against the Machines' would be filled by an android pretending to be human?

The best way to make a resistance movement irrelevant is to participate in it, in disguise and control it from the inside.

This is demonstrated rather well in the Discworld books by Lord Vetenari, the ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who's stated to be participating in many anti-Vetenari groups.

OwenTyme, to writing
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Its been a few weeks since my little debacle of ordering 35 copies, only to realize I'd need a business license to sell them at a profit.

To get my money back, I decided to sell them at cost, in exchange for passing out my business cards.

The local fans have surprised me by tipped me super-generously. On top of that, they've taken the business cards, too.

What can I say, other thanks for the love, Liberal, Kansas!

https://books2read.com/OwenTyme

@bookstodon

nixCraft, to random
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This machine has all the essential drives/storage and even comes with a turbo button for those older games or apps. The name "turbo" was misleading, as it didn't actually boost performance. Turbo "Off" means slowing down the CPU's clock speed, often down to the speeds of older processors.

OwenTyme,
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@nixCraft Ah, yesterday's turbo is today's snail. So much has changed and yet so much stays the same.

Now I've got literal microcontrollers that run faster and have more RAM: an ESP32-S3 Feather. I used two to make an RC car and wifi remote.

And such big cases those old beasts came in.

I still remember the first computer I used (age 3): an IBM XT in a flatbed case big enough to set the monitor on it. It booted games from 5 1/4 inch floppies, even though it had a hard drive.

Ah, good times.

OwenTyme, to writing
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There's now a long-form character profile on my blog for Otto Vogerath, the villain of my novel, She Hunts Demons.

https://owentyme.us/blog/character-feature-otto-vogerath-aka-pride.html

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