New SciFi Video on TikTok

Futuristic Music - Space Music Atmosphere. #BookTok video for #SonsOfTaldra. An Iroquois family battles shapeshifting aliens. #ScienceFiction

@dsimolke Sons of Taldra: A Science Fiction Adventure #booktok #booktoker #LGBTQbooks #fictionbooks #shortstories #fictionauthor #fictionwriter #lgbtqwriter #lgbtqauthor💙💚💛🧡❤️💜 #sciencefictionadventure #sciencefictionauthor #sciencefictionwriters #sciencefiction #reading #writing #bookrecs #bookrecs📚 ♬ Futuristic Music - Space Music Atmosphere

Flip, Turn on TikTok/BookTok

“Flip, Turn”: A different scene from the narrator's amusing but unproductive life comes to him every time he turns to swim in the opposite direction.

@dsimolke The Acorn Stories #booktok #booktoker #LGBTQbooks #fictionbooks #shortstories #fictionauthor #fictionwriter #lgbtqwriter #lgbtqauthor💙💚💛🧡❤️💜 #reading #writing #bookrecs #bookrecs📚 ♬ Love You So - The King Khan & BBQ Show

Promote Your Original Characters and/or Favorite Characters on Twitter Thread

#IndieAuthors, #IndieComic creators, #Screenwriters, please share images, videos, interviews, etc., involving your original characters, or just characters you love. #BookBlog @feed_my_reads hosted this interview with Taldra, Leader of the human home world. https://t.co/gmrbi0KLbD pic.twitter.com/Mo28DznF3u

— BookTWT and SciFi Geek (@DuaneSimolke) September 19, 2022

Looking Back at Indie Writing and Publishing

Please read my guest book blog entry Approaching 25 Years of The Acorn Stories.

Book quote and book review

One of my favorite #quotes from The Acorn Stories by Duane Simolke @DuaneSimolke.

Read the 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 #BookReview here: https://t.co/5Q4ZEpBfeR#BookRecommendation #shortstories #fiction #Texas #BookTwitter #booktwt #theredheadnotes #indieauthor #WritingCommunity pic.twitter.com/IPDZvWrOg6

— Jennie Griffin, Book Reviewer & Promoter (@TheRedHeadNotes) August 19, 2022

Featured Author at The RedHead Notes Book Blog

I am the August 2022 featured author at The RedHead Notes #BookBlog, with a review of The Acorn Stories as well as an interview about my books and #IndiePublishing. Watch there for my upcoming guest blog post.

Blogger Jennie Griffin of The RedHead Notes Book Blog posted a review of The Acorn Stories, saying “Simolke shares life’s beautiful and humorous moments side by side with the devastating and painful ones, and the contrast is palpable.”

Advice for Indie Writers and More in New Interview

In a new interview for The Redhead Notes book blog, Jennie Griffin asks me to share about my characters, The Acorn Stories, advice for indie authors, and much more. I enjoyed the interview, and you can find a lot more of interest at that blog.

Keywords: book promotion, book interviews, author interviews, book talk, book bloggers.

The Acorn Stories Book Review at The RedHead Notes Book Blog

Blogger Jennie Griffin of The RedHead Notes Book Blog posted a review of The Acorn Stories, saying “Simolke shares life’s beautiful and humorous moments side by side with the devastating and painful ones, and the contrast is palpable.”

Love, love, love this #book!!! 😍

The Acorn Stories by Duane Simolke @DuaneSimolke!

In just 16 #shortstories, Simolke depicts the ups and downs of life in a small Texas town. I felt ALL the emotions! 🙂😢😡🤣🥰#BookReview at https://t.co/5Q4ZEpBfeR#BookTwitter #booktwt pic.twitter.com/MIaKsYH72w

— Jennie Griffin, Book Reviewer & Promoter (@TheRedHeadNotes) August 5, 2022

Book blog recommends a book with diversity and Star Trek influences.

N. N. Light’s Book Heaven reviewed Sons of Taldra: A Science Fiction Adventure, giving it five out of five stars and calling it, “An explosive book that will mean different things to each reader. The familial love and romantic love that shine make it even a deeper read.”

The full review appears at N. N. Light’s Book Heaven.

The Acorn Stories in Beach Reads Event

The Acorn Stories turns 25 next year, but right now it’s a Beach Reads Event pick. #beachread #shortstories. Details and #BookExcerpt: https://www.nnlightsbookheaven.com/post/the-acorn-stories-brbe