Massive Attack, Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

I did not have a Massive Attack/Tom Waits collaboration on my 2026 BINGO card, but holy sh*t this is important work.

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Still working on digitizing the stuff I still have on magnetic media, but I'll let you know ASAP when I have it all.

The original Flying Pigs stuff (which was captured in one weekend, really) was definitely recorded on a boombox in the room. I took the original tape home and made copies. Beach had a Tascam 244 which Randy Hensel bought from him, and it ended up with me. Still have a bunch of masters from it.

Even as much into media as we were, there's a vanishingly small documentary record of our shenanigans.

I still have a couple Flying Pigs tracks recorded on boombox, and a bunch of Fucked Up Nobodys stuff from Beach's old Tascam 4-track (which I ended up with). Happy to share it along.

Working past the second act wall in the fantasy WIP by shaking off some screenwriting rust on a project whose time has come.

#calicokids #streamingseries #retro #80s #scifi #mystery #horror

I don't think you want our record flooding, but I'd be happy to send some precip your way when my weather wand comes back from the cleaners.

We're fine, but dang...

#atmosphericriver

It's time! Today through January 1st, 2026, all Deep7 Press ebooks (including my fiction) are 25% off from Smashwords! 🎁🎄☃️

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Raising a belated toast to Leigh Brackett on what would have been her 110th birthday (Dec 7). Brackett was the Mother of Space Opera, a gifted author, screenwriter, and one of the foundational pillars of my own retro scifi work.

#scifi #author #spaceopera #retro #raypunk

My entire fiction catalog in ebook format will be 25% off on @Smashwords as part of their End of Year Sale 2025 starting on December 8! Be sure to follow me for links to the sale when it kicks off in just a few weeks!

#indieauthor #AirshipDaedalus #CalicoKids #EoYSale25 #Smashwords

‪28K on the new #Arrowflight novel, finished with chapter 10. Ratcheting up the peril. (And anyone who's read my Airship Daedalus series knows I take my peril-ratcheting seriously.)

I've always been proud of my #TTRPG work, but the quality has seen a big jump in the past 3 to 5 years (in both prose and art).

Star Legion Expanded - Deep7 | DriveThruRPG.com SEE THE GALAXY WHILE YOU SERVE In the wake of a brutal alien siege, humankind has rallied from the brink of extinction,

A thing my brother and I have been working on for a couple of decades is finally out. #scifi #ttrpg

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25K on the new #Arrowflight novel, jumping into chapter 9. 40+ years of worldbuilding on the TTRPG, a film, a comic, and finally the first novel set in that world.

Happy Cosmic Birthday, Space Mom. ❤
(Carrie Fisher, born Oct 21, 1956)

Always nice to get the thumbs up from a fellow genre author!

Renegades of Mars is now available in paperback from Amazon and IngramSpark (and available to retailers via Ingram as well!)

10/10, no notes.

Thrilling! 🚀🔫
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Wrote this sentence in the WIP today and it made me chuckle...

But it wouldn't be a proper religion without some strange and unsettling lore.

Thanks! It's my favorite part of the process, seeing words I wrote in print, and my artwork on the cover. As an artist friend of mine is fond of saying, "It's like a real thing!"

Author copies arrived today! They look great!
Paperback available on Amazon, and coming to retail (via IngramSpark) on Oct 17th!

#indieauthor #1930s #retro #scifi #raypunk

Jane Goodall, renowned chimpanzee researcher and animal advocate, dies at 91 "Dr. Goodall's discoveries as an ethologist revolutionized science, and she was a tireless advocate for the protection and restoration of our natural world," the Jane Goodall Institute said in a Wedne...

Fair Winds, good lady. Thank you for your tireless work to help us understand our world. ❤
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Renegades of Mars Renegades of Mars (Tales of the AEGIS Space Rangers Book 1) - Kindle edition by Downing, Todd. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Renegades of Mars (Tales of the AEGIS Space Rangers Book 1).

Happy Renegades Day to those who celebrate! 🚀
Ebook & print!
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Suddenly, autumn.

Coming October 1st. www.todddowning.com
Rockets and rayguns and robots, oh my!
Also N@zi baddies, a gorilla scientist, and plenty of pew-pew!

Sitting at just over 15K words into the #Arrowflight WIP, and haven't even begun the main mission. I'm loving the process of getting to know my MC couple and their weird connection. A very different process from my usual pulp adventure material, where 15K would be a quarter through the story.