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Photos of the author – my best one

I normally respond for inquiries about images for marketing or video appearances with “I have a face that is tailor-made for radio”. This is because, for my entire life, I have suffered from generalized social anxiety. This is, I now understand, due to a combination of being born slightly neuro-divergent, and suffering childhood trauma (see my autobiography for the details). As a result, when anybody points a camera at me, I immediately “freeze”, and my […]

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Use of time on writing – question

Somebody on Twitter asked this question today: I have wrestled with this question at intervals. I usually think about it for a short while, but then I remember that I have a finite amount of time left on the planet and I need to create something that is definably mine before I go. I have worked in I.T. for 42 years, and I do not believe that I was able to “move the needle” on

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Revealing WIP, plagiarism and theft

This morning, I found myself staring at a question that I commonly see on social media: This, in broader terms, leads to the classic worry that I think most authors have:  what if somebody else plagiarizes or steals all or part of my writing and claims it as their own? (This, by the way, applies to almost any type of writing; fiction, non-fiction, current affairs, you name it). I have done a lot of reading

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Censoriousness and business in the adult world

The entire area of what is known as “sex work” is an area where societies get into all sorts of conflicts and debates. This is not new. Sex is still seen as a taboo subject by many people in many societies. The reality that taboos tend to contribute little more than ignorance and bad decisions is often overlooked. But since sex is an essential activity, simply for the continuation of the species, it cannot really

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