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simonsfolly.bsky.social
Late post for the 7th.

Here's that first line from book6 #4000yearsofsummer

The next line is better, i swear lol
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Hayley saw the bread fly from her basket, chased by a myriad of other groceries loosened by the collision with the strange man she didn't see.
January 9, 2026 at 5:43 AM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
Plotting for book6 #4000yearsofsummer #romance #slowburn #timetravel #scifi

"Its like a video game, but in writing" - @datchubbybtch.bsky.social
December 30, 2025 at 8:39 PM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
Late post for the 1st!

Simons Folly, working on getting all my old works to publusj as well as writing book6 aka #4000yearsofsummer.

It's a #timetravel #romance #slowburn #scifi that I'm hoping to release chapter by chapter, free online, instead of as a paid novel.
January 5, 2026 at 4:23 AM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
#4000yearsofsummer starting to read like this lol
March 27, 2026 at 8:41 PM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
I think imma steal this for book 6 #4000yearsofsummer
January 16, 2026 at 4:17 PM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
I just realized,

If my book6 idea is #scifi #au in the later 1800s or early 1900s..

... then it's fucking #steampunk.

Book6 is now #gears, #ophats and #airships

I was gonna title it #4000yearsofsummer , cuz the #timetravel to #sumer aka #mesopotamia
December 6, 2025 at 1:11 AM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
I got so caught up querying #WarpDriveIntoLove during the #MSWL event that I nearly forgot to post ch3 of #4000yearsofsummer

#scifi #timetravel #romance #slowburn #scifiauthor

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Ch. 03: fate, all but decided - 4000 Years of Summer
Hayley felt her corset crushing her lungs, choking away her breathing. The actual garment was destroyed sometime millions of years prior, but the feeling persisted beyond her ability to endure. The m...
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February 27, 2026 at 2:45 AM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
I know y'all thankfully didn't notice, but I def forgot to post Ch4 of #4000yearsofsummer .. I'm very bad at making routine posts.

#scifi #timetravel #romance #slowburn #scifiauthor

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Ch. 04: Angel's little trees - 4000 Years of Summer
“I’m sending her in,” the professor announced. Hayley's back was to the pair as they performed maintenance on the autorobota in the warehouse. Her attention was fixed, or rather, appeared to be fixe...
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March 7, 2026 at 6:11 PM
datchubbybtch.bsky.social
Omg you guysss
This specific blurb from hubby's newest book made my heart pitter patter. I remember the days l would smell his shirts he left behind when we were long distance.

Im Hella picky about.. err everything.. and these books just keep getting better
#4000yearsofsummer #mustread #booksky
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January 17, 2026 at 11:07 PM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
I feel this.

I could've typed this post lol (except im on book6 #4000yearsofsummer)
January 7, 2026 at 7:52 PM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
11. The bad guy in this most recent book(6 #4000yearsofsummer) , and most books, comes from a bad guy the players keep trying to kill using FTL/Gates. Most recent, they sabotaged the WMD the bad guy was using, scattering and destroying all her clones across the multiverse.
January 11, 2026 at 11:49 PM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
Couldn't be bothered to wait - Here's the second chapter of #4000yearsofsummer !!

#scifi #timetravel #romance #slowburn #scifiauthor

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Ch. 02: More than can be chewed - 4000 Years of Summer
Hayley couldn't hold it any longer. She had to go when he took out an unnatural and reactive green sand that he shoveled onto the bodies. The mist, the smell, the hissing; something made her want to ...
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February 19, 2026 at 1:43 AM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
I appreciate whichever one of y'all left that comment on #4000yearsofsummer , so I posted two chapters today! Double post!!

I would really appreciate y'all read, 'followed', 'favorited', and reviewed too <3

#scifi #timetravel #romance #slowburn #scifiauthor

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4000 Years of Summer
Hayley is the only daughter of a greedy cobbler, worried about her pending contract marriage with the butcher's son when she runs into, literally, a man unlike anyone from Nova Yorkshire, the Columbic...
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March 12, 2026 at 6:13 PM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
This!

#4000yearsofsummer needs more follows and likes and reviews on #royalroad too! Ive had the fire and #wrote ch16 yesterday from the feedback ive got so far!
March 18, 2026 at 3:52 PM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
Im thinking im gonna havta start #outlining #4000yearsofsummer

Might dabble with that to get back in the saddle tomorrow.

Ch2 os published, ch11 is written. The rest are.. gotta discover the status of each.
February 23, 2026 at 4:34 AM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
Hayley puts on a fashion show, that ends in bloodshed. I'm not saying it's Zoolander out here, but Hayley should have turned left lol

Ch9 of #4000yearsofsummer is out a day early, as I was working on getting a few chapters ahead.

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Ch. 09: pretty women, silhouetted - 4000 Years of Summer
Hayley jerked awake at the feeling of Jerah’s cool hand on her face. The sun was shining too low in her room, she had slept too long. Her friend smiled at her, seemingly in no hurry. “We have to fin...
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April 1, 2026 at 7:26 PM
datchubbybtch.bsky.social
Omg! Guyssss! I NEED someone(s) to talk to about this book with! I have read a few chapters (wife privledges) and im dying to gossip and theorize about Hayley's adventures and possible romances.
Read the 1st chapter and Hmu friends!!

#booksky #4000yearsofsummer #slowburn #gossip
February 19, 2026 at 1:19 AM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
An #agent or someone with a #mswl reads #4000yearsofsummer and says "I want that guy to write my #mswl novel". Then these agents (now theres a crowd of them) all pitch their ideas to me until one strikes a cord so I #write that novel, and I get #paid the #bigbucks too ofc. Dat #carrie money.
louiestowell.bsky.social Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · Apr 15
Authors: what's YOUR pretentious goal for your current WIP?
mediapathic.bsky.social Steen Comer @mediapathic.bsky.social · Apr 15
It is! My pretentious goal statement for this one is that I’m trying to do to the desert southwest what @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social did to the swamp in Area X.
April 17, 2026 at 5:21 PM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
I missed my Hayley post yesterday :( #thanksvibecoding

IMHO this is where #4000yearsofsummer starts spicing up.

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Ch. 11: the heat is on - 4000 Years of Summer
Sergeant Wolff stood on the bridge of the Kristalline ship, inside a heavy and overarmored space suit. The backpack on the suit, ostensibly to provide a heater to protect Hayley from the below freezin...
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April 17, 2026 at 6:31 PM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
First chapter of #4000yearsofsummer is free online now!

I have 11 total chapters, up to about 25 planned.. but if there's demand, the story wont end :)

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4000 Years of Sumer
Hayley is the only daughter of a greedy cobbler, worried about her pending contract marriage with the butcher's son when she runs into, literally, a man unlike anyone from Nova Yorkshire, the Columbic...
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February 19, 2026 at 1:07 AM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
Hayley outsmarts her bully, but is the outcome worth the victory?

Ch7 of #4000yearsofsummer is out today!

#scifi #timetravel #romance #slowburn #scifiauthor

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Ch. 07: messages of text - 4000 Years of Summer
Hayley’s hand was stinging, and she saw the sunlight through her eyelids. Her mind was moving, but her body protested. She realized she had slept through the night and the remainder of the previous d...
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March 19, 2026 at 6:47 PM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
Just writing, might be book6. It does have a title, #4000yearsofsummer , a #timetravel #romance with a dash of #alternatehistory and #steampunk thrown in.

I'm trying something new. I might release most/all of this without wasting time #pubishing
I will not be the pigman's daughter-in-law!” Hayley shouted across the table. She was already irritable from being interrupted above, moreso by not being allowed the change back into her outerwear. Her fathers frozen stare never left her. “Now now, he's a sweet boy. You hardly know him, how can you judge?” her mother said, her voice saccharine. “Boy? Boy?! He is nearly a decade my elder, a man in his own right except for his inability to do anything but be cruel and ugly.” Hayley meant in his behavior, but his porcine visage matched the description as well. Her parents seemed to take the latter. “It is decided. Would you have us thrown out into the cold? A rejection like this would kill the business.” “Business” her father echoed from behind a red nose and blushed cheeks.
December 9, 2025 at 4:09 AM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
Hayley found her way to an alien sorceress' summer camp in ancient sumeria. How will she handle the #meangirls act from the other campers? Will she forget about Lee and wifemarry her cellmate?

Ch6 of book6 #4000yearsofsummer done. 4671 #wordcount #scifi #timetravel #romance #slowburn #scifiauthor
One of the other girls made a noise, like she was trying to suck a piece of food through her teeth. “Youll stay alone here forever. The saint may take me away tonight even” “Or me,” the other girl offered. “Anyone who is friends with her is doomed to stay. They remain untaken will they learn better.” Hayley looked to the girls, then back to Jerah. “Maybe I do not seek to be taken?” The pair gasped. A few other girls had listened in on the exchange and gasped as well. “This one” the lead bully sneered, “has told you lies to protect herself. She only seeks to be wifemarried here behind the walls.” Hayley had had such ideas before, but it was far too impolite to discuss aloud. To hear it sneered, aloud, was unthinkable. Hayley stood, and threw the garment in the water hard. The boiling water splashed across the pool. “You speak with a foul tongue, like the lowmen from my home a far. You seek petty charges to hurt others, you stand not upon stone or truth, but the cracking frost of lies. May all the gods, saints and even marysson himself see you for who you are!”
January 4, 2026 at 12:12 AM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
Time-travel love letters and a creepy mysterious matron.

I'm bad at posting but good at writing

Ch8 of #4000yearsofsummer is out, yesterday! I just wrote Ch18 btw - looking to end at around Ch25.

#scifi #timetravel #romance #slowburn #scifiauthor

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Ch. 08: afterthoughts and forethoughts - 4000 Years of Summer
Hayley looked at the two parchments, comparing them. She re-wrote her first message on the blank parchment, using the provided feather quill and block of ink. While unintentional, a few very similar c...
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March 27, 2026 at 7:50 PM
simonsfolly.bsky.social
How will Hayley get Lee out of his latest bungle?

I keep writing these chapters but I forget to post about them. New one goes up tomorrow here: www.royalroad.com/fiction/1535...

Ch15 of book6 #4000yearsofsummer done. 3435 #wordcount #scifi #timetravel #romance #slowburn #scifiauthor
“I trust you!” Lee hissed, louder than a whisper should be. “I don't trust them.” he said much quieter, pointing toward the tree. The tree was alone, the pair had moved off. “Fuck! Fuck fuck fuck!” Lee said, looking around frantically. “The problem is solved, is it not?” Hayley said, her voice only lowered. “No, its worse, because now-” “Freeze!” A woman shouted from the orchard. In English.
March 11, 2026 at 7:52 PM