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David Somerfleck, Author
@boldlyblue01.bsky.social
Award-winning speculative fiction author, retired digital marketing agency & nonprofit owner, Center for Progressive Leadership Fellow, Startup Mentor

🌎Website: https://Boldly.Blue
📘Books: https://Boldly.Blue/shop
🔵Links: https://Bookish.Blue
October 30, 2026 at 8:05 PM
For business owners: Church Marketing: How Houses of Worship Build Community Online #ChurchMarketing #NonprofitMarketing #Community
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October 30, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Writing from the Literary Desert: Indie Author Marketing Beyond the Coasts #IndieAuthor #AuthorMarketing #IndependentPublishing
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October 30, 2026 at 2:01 PM
For indie authors: 18 Writing Skills Every Author Needs #creativewriting #craftofwriting #writing
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October 29, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Genre guide: Punk Fiction Subgenres: A Guide to Cyberpunk, Steampunk, Solarpunk, and Beyond #CyberpunkFiction #Steampunk #Solarpunk
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October 29, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Unconventional Website Lead Magnets That Actually Convert #LeadMagnets #EmailMarketing #ConversionOptimization
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October 28, 2026 at 8:01 PM
I was searching for ways to create my own version of NaNoWriMo and simply got AI to send me inspirational and motivational videos, blog posts, and quotes every day starting November 1st. I tested it out and this is what it sent me for a trial run.

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#authors #booksky
Your elusive creative genius
Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a...
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October 28, 2026 at 4:28 PM
For business owners: Facebook Pages Are Not Websites — Here's Why That Matters #Facebook #WebDesign #SocialMedia
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October 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Ten Narrative Endings and the Plots That Lead to Them
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How a story ends is not a decoration applied to a finished structure — it is a consequence
#NarrativeEndings #PlotStructure #StorytellingCraft #Fiction #WritingCraft
Ten Narrative Endings and the Plots Leading to Them - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author
Discover ten powerful narrative endings — from circular to cliffhanger — and the outlining method each one pairs with best, from the Hero's Journey to Kishōtenketsu.
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October 28, 2026 at 1:01 PM
#Virginia #readers — borrow ONE GRAIN OF SAND free from your library on #Libby, #Hoopla, or #cloudLibrary.

A Hampton Roads author's award-winning vision of the year 2096.

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#virginialibraries
#VABookFestival #Virginia/hashtag/VirginiaBooksellers" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#VirginiaBooksellers
October 27, 2026 at 8:06 PM
For business owners: Digital Marketing: Understanding Cost, Value, and Price #DigitalMarketing #MarketingCost #Value
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October 27, 2026 at 8:01 PM
My #sciencefiction #dystopian #speculativefiction #audiobook epic extravaganza,which opens the Shards of a Shattered Sky trilogy is calling your name on #Spotify. Give it a listen & let me know what you think ought to happen in Books 2 and 3!

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#booksky #romance
October 27, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Modern #Poetry for Modern Times: https://www.rfr.bz/beb4e706c

Here's one reviewer: "....Extensive and often exquisite use of symbolism lends itself to greater introspection on the part of the reader." — Paul Zietsman, Readers' Favorite

#contemporarypoetry
October 27, 2026 at 2:05 PM
For indie authors: Building a Flow State Writing Routine #WritingCraft #WritingProcess #AuthorLife
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October 27, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Eight Types of Digital Marketing Clients You Do Not Want to Be Like #DigitalMarketing #ClientRelations
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October 26, 2026 at 8:02 PM
On the craft of writing: Unreliable Narrators: Why Readers Follow a Voice They Know They Can't Trust #UnreliableNarrator #NarrativeCraft #LiteraryDevice
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October 26, 2026 at 4:00 PM
On the craft of writing: The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell's Structure and How Writers Actually Use It #HerosJourney #JosephCampbell #NarrativeStructure
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October 26, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Literary Voice in Speculative Fiction: Why How You Write Matters as Much as What You Write
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Voice is the thing a reader recognizes before they recognize the story- here's why.
#LiteraryVoice #SpeculativeFiction #WritingCraft #Fiction #NarrativeCraft
Literary Voice in Speculative Fiction: 5 Types Every SF Writer Needs - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author
Explore the five types of literary voice in speculative fiction — when to use each, what each demands, and which SF classics prove the point.
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October 26, 2026 at 1:01 PM
SEO Trends: What's Changing in Search and What Stays the Same #SEOref="/hashtag/SEOTrends" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#SEOTrends #SEO #ContentMarketing
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October 25, 2026 at 3:04 PM
The Warnings Hidden in My 2096 World
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The #ShardsofaShatteredSky #trilogy is not a warning about the future — it is a diagnostic of the present, rendered in narrative.
#2096 #DystopianFiction #WorldBuilding #ScienceFictionauthor #sciencefiction
2096 Warnings - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author
The cautionary themes inside Shards of a Shattered Sky are not metaphors. They are documented trajectories dressed in narrative clothing. This post unpacks the 2096 warnings hiding in plain sight ...
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October 24, 2026 at 3:00 PM
One grain of sand. One spot of red. One reason to keep going.
#dystopianhashtag/dystopianfiction" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#dystopianfiction #scifi #sciencefiction #speculativefiction #literaryfiction #booklovers #bookclubs #librarybooks #librarians #thrillers #dystopian #future #climatefiction
October 24, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Save the Cat: Blake Snyder's Beat Sheet and Why It Still Works #SaveTheCat #BlakeSnyder #PlotStructure
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October 23, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Screen and story: Why the Twilight Zone Revivals Never Landed #TwilightZone #AnthologyTV #TVReview
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October 23, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Flow State and the Faithful Routine: How the Masters Sustained Daily Practice Without Burning Out
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#writers #writing #craftofwriting #novelwritinghtag/novelwriting" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#novelwriting #savethecat #outlining #novelist #novelwritinghtag/novelwriting" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#novelwriting #authors #writing"/hashtag/writingroutines" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#writingroutines #discipline #workflow #burnout
Flow State and the Faithful Routine: How the Masters Sustained Daily Practice Without Burning Out - David Somerfleck | Science Fiction Author
Writing routine deep case studies of Octavia Butler, Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel García Márquez, and N.K. Jemisin reveal how great authors built sustainable daily writing routines that ...
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October 22, 2026 at 8:17 PM