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mattgemmell

@mattgemmell@mastodon.scot

Writer. Edinburgh, Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 CHANGER, TOLL, JINX, MIDDLESHADE ROAD, ONCE UPON A TIME. Husband of one, father of two.

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mattgemmell, to random
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I wrote something about finally getting my latest novel out, including some background stuff that might surprise you! https://mattgemmell.scot/jinx-is-finally-here/

mattgemmell, to random
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I’m beyond excited to announce that JINX, the 3rd novel in my KESTREL technothrillers series is (finally) OUT NOW! https://mattgemmell.scot/books/jinx/

You can get it here:

Paperbacks will be available in a couple of weeks, either via Amazon or ordered from your local bookshop (ISBN 978-1916265257).

mattgemmell, to random
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Is there a way to use iOS 17’s Personal Voice feature to read lengthy texts and record the output to an audio file yet? I ask this every couple of months.

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@c0dec0dec0de I don’t see Personal Voice as an option in the Make Spoken Audio action, unfortunately.

mattgemmell,
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@c0dec0dec0de No, it’s not there. Only the system voices for the chosen language.

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@c0dec0dec0de I’m pretty sure it’s a legal thing. They explicitly say you can only use Personal Voice for non-commercial purposes; I think they’ve blocked it to prevent people from easily making longer recordings.

mattgemmell, to eink
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Ten days with his thing, most days light usage but several multi-hour note-taking sessions and a lot of faffing around with settings, and it’s just dropped to 49% battery. It arrived here with 93%, and I’ve never charged it.

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@scottearle There’s a combined Kindle called the Scribe too!

mattgemmell,
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@ctietze I’d be interested to hear about your sync solution. I haven’t signed into Boox and don’t really want to. I don’t think I really need sync, but occasional backup would be useful.

mattgemmell, to random
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More e-ink messing around. Here’s a quick vid about the Note Air 3! https://youtu.be/OIVOOFnHrTI?si=1Ra6jGEK3sQ_u3Cz

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Sorry it’s a bit too tightly cropped at the end regarding the case. Witness the madness of it!

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mattgemmell,
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Also very much love the orange highlights.

mattgemmell,
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@chrisphin Think you can switch off labels. Probably designed for Chinese!

mattgemmell, to random
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Podcast hosts: eloquent, charming Scottish chap available for guest appearances to gently shill his new novel while ostensibly discussing whatever it is you like to discuss! I’d love to hear you via a message here, or directly. Contact info: https://mattgemmell.scot/contact/

mattgemmell, to random
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Remember: iPads are for media consumption, not creation or real work.

mattgemmell,
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@ctietze Ingram these days. The way it works is that you specify the trim size, paper stock, page count etc, and it produces a custom template with suitable guides, in the right colour-space and at the appropriate DPI. Also generates the barcode from your ISBN. You can try it here: https://myaccount.ingramspark.com/Portal/Tools/CoverTemplateGenerator

mattgemmell,
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@ctietze They’re good. They have print services locally in the EU, UK, and US (the old LightningSource facilities). The main benefit of Ingram is that they’ll also handle catalogue-insertion so that regular bookstores know about the book, and also handle Amazon, both in terms of the catalogue and supplying copies for warehousing.

mattgemmell,
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@DJDarren Must be the time of day I always use it (late morning), but I didn’t even know that Ferrite had a dark theme.

mattgemmell, to random
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I still feel nervous when my wife reads one of my books for the first time.

mattgemmell,
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@dxzdb Neither of us can remember that ever happening. She says that I’m the more romantic one, and don’t have a problem with those parts!

mattgemmell, to random
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Careful out there, Edinburgh. Pavements are an ice rink this morning. I’ve just put my neighbour into an ambulance after she fell in her own driveway and broke her shin.

mattgemmell, to random
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Here’s to what’s coming in the new year.

mattgemmell, to random
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It’s the time of year when my three-year-old barges into the bathroom while I’m in the shower and insists on singing a litany of Christmas songs back to back, concluding — as always — with a statement that he is hungry but only for biscuits.

mattgemmell, to random
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Watershed parenting moments this weekend. Son, 3, has lately been watching a kids’ entertainer on youtube whose schtick is pretty much scenarios that use what I know to be videogame mechanics. My dad brain thinks, aha, I can use this to get him into games! So I casually mention I have a game where he can also see lava, and things freezing with ice, and monsters, and so on — and I put Tears of the Kingdom on.

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Just that coincidence of him knowing what a hot air balloon was, that heat makes it rise, recognising the design in the game, and the game offering the actual mechanic to build it and make it fly, was an incredible moment for a dad. Caught him at exactly the right age and developmental stage. I (mostly accidentally) did something super incredible for my kid, thanks in large part to Zelda TOTK’s game design.

mattgemmell, to Podcast
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Nervous to announce this, but I've started a , called Matt Gemmell's Trouble With Writing! https://mattgemmell.scot/podcast/

10-15 mins per episode, covering how to plan, write, edit, and publish, with focused and actionable solutions for problems you'll run into. I hope you'll subscribe and listen!

Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/matt-gemmells-trouble-with-writing/id1681642053

RSS feed: https://mattgemmell.scot/podcast/feed.xml

mattgemmell,
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@felicitymartin Thank you! I’m trying to make the kind of thing I like to listen to myself.

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