I hate to say it, but emailing me asking why I haven't got back to you about the ACX audition is going to do the opposite of move you to the top of the pile. I have 60 auditions. I need 1 narrator. Any reason you give me to not consider you will be taken.

The final count for December was 105,956 words. 737K for all of 2025. Six novels completed + one 90% done. Couple of short stories. Not bad, if I do say so myself :)

You have been warned about the peril. 👀

Hi everybody - in honor of the “Magica Riot” audiobook winning a Transfeminine Review award, I’m putting the whole Magica Riot audio series so far - Magica Riot, Jade Evergreen and the Perils of Polybius, and Magica Riot Full Bloom - on sale for one week in an Itch bundle. itch.io/s/177864/mag...

Sounds worth exploring.

100% in line with my experience.

Happy New Year everyone! (I fell asleep at about quarter to midnight, was woken up by fireworks, and decided I didn't need to wish people an excellent 2026 exactly at 12:01 that badly)

Chinook rolled in, so the temperature jumped 20 degrees C, my wife has a migraine and I'm very, very tired. Still got 3500 words and heading to my sister's for NYE tonight, but zzzzzzz...

Ok team, we can bring these words back into usage! 💪 Overmorrow = the day after tomorrow Ereyesterday = the day before yesterday We ahould have been using such excellent words ereyesterday, but if we start now we’ll be glad overmorrow!

All three of these sound like things I'd use to mark the dungeon in D&D. Which is, of course, the problem nuclear waste sites are trying to fix.

This one, hands down. If nothing else for the artistic rendition

Between the outline for this book, an unrelated short story, and this book, my spreadsheet says I have written over 100,000 words this month. No brain, that does not mean I need to make it a round 110,000 tomorrow...

"You were never pretending to be normal, so I’ll ask you. Is his ego writing checks his abs can’t cash?” “You have seen his abs, yes?” #amwriting #thisguysfriendsaresnarky

if somehow Full Bloom sells nine more copies today it will have hit a big milestone before the end of the year 🤞 magicariot.com/fullbloom

Fix the News published 38 editions of their newsletter this year, "featuring 1,932 stories from 170 countries, and what we found was that while the headlines kept insisting on collapse, the data ... kept showing stubborn progress." buff.ly/2Jeoldi #ShareGoodNewsToo

Space battleship Captain in a thinly concealed expy of Britain fighting an even more thinly concealed expy of the second world war. (The book is decent, but the path it's following so far is very, very, obvious. I'm just waiting to see what the little ships and the miracle at Dunkirk equivalent is)

Oof. I figured "Formulas and functions for Financial Spreadsheets" would be, uh, focused on more advanced tools for the specific use case. No. We're on absolute and relative references. Gods save me, I need the verified hours, but whyyyyyyyy

I struggle to be graceful about our societal lack of masking for Reasons (TM), but this is a good reminder that yelling at people doesn't help. (In either direction, really)

Ah yes, the middle outcome of making an omelette: ugly omelette. Said outcomes are: proper omelette, ugly omelette, scrambled eggs.

Good heavens, I had a book come out yesterday and I forgot to even mention it! #booksky #romancelandia Chimera shifter Colton just wants a bit of peace & quiet after his noisy family Christmas, but fate has a snowstorm adventure planned! www.amazon.com/dp/B0G7JRQG5...

Well, I thought about trying to catch up on the last several days of Discord messages. And then I marked everything read.

Sadly, the F on my transcript is accompanied by several Ds, a couple of C-s and a polite request to go away from the Dean of Engineering. (I have... issues with how the expected process there was communicated, but, eh, I ended up going into accounting which worked better for me til a better option)

It sounds annoyingly like hard work with deadlines and unreasonable expectations. And that's without considering readers at all!

Gollum sliding off the weird stone peninsula thing with the One Ring in his hands. "Fuck"

I will not complain that it's snowing again. We need the moisture. Think of the zombie wildfires, Krista. Just think of the zombie wildfires and celebrate the snow. 🌨️ There's so much snow 😭 No Krista. Think of the zombie wildfires. Snow is good. The snow is our friend. Let it snow 😭😭😭

It's soo good y'all.

This is a complete series, available in hardcover, paperback, and ebook. Book 1 is also in audiobook!

These books are very lovable. (Tomb Raider flavored urban fantasy, the Livi Talbot series. I freaking ADORE THEM)

🚨 It’s not too late to take ACTION. Last week, the house passed H.R. 845, a bill that would strip protections for gray wolves and block the public from challenging it in court. It now heads to the Senate. Call your Senators and urge them to vote NO: www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

What the actual frigating falcon?

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! I think the cats got more presents than we did this year...

Hi there new folks! If you're just joining me, I'm a trans author from PDX who writes novels about a queer leftist Portland magical girl rock band, which is a sentence I am SO delighted I get to type. Please enjoy the ongoing adventures of Magica Riot in ebook, print, or audio: magicariot.com/buy

Somebody in the area needs this sweet guy.

Happy Today, queerly beloved, whatever today means for you I hope something nice happens for you today

Not a Christian but spent formative years as part of the Salvation Army and inherited what I hope to be the best parts of the morality. This definitely fits with that and is a heart warming reminder.

A merry and happy day to all.

Apparently my brain has decided that Christmas Eve is the time to go through boxes in the basement. I came down here to grab stockings...

I know it's Christmas Eve, but an Ontario animal sanctuary (pet pigs, horses, etc) just had their water tank system fail. It's going to cost over $3000 to fix it, and it's an emergency situation (the animals have to have water). Please donate/share if you can: www.ralphysretreat.ca

That's a weird suggestion, autocorrect. Why would you suggest "boysenberry" as a fix for "saskatoonberry?" (I mean, I'm about 60% sure it should be hyphenated, but it's not suggesting that...)

Thread!

I spent this year swamped with one thing and another and now I have 9 days left to fill out my professional development hours for my accounting designation. *closes eyes, hits checkout on a thousand dollars of excel courses* Bets on how much useful data I get out of this? I figure two new formulas

I go with moggy, which I don't think has even been current slang in the UK for twenty-plus years.

You can now hear the next installment of the closest thing that exists to a Magica Riot anime. "Magica Riot: Full Bloom," the audiobook edition, is here. Please enjoy Emma's incredible take on my characters! stormmaiden.itch.io/magica-riot-...

Played a three-game 40K tournament yesterday. The third game is always an interesting one in that setup, because you're both exhausted and making silly mistakes. The day was weirdly hard on my models, though. I managed to keep all the pieces, but I don't normally break any models let alone two!

So, I joke that I'm culturally queer, but I'm at best adjacent to trans culture For a character in my current WIP, I need something subtle she would have as a tattoo as a reminder (post literal magic sex change) to herself that she is Trans and owes that community Any suggestions?

Upon my sickle I catch the sun And by my power I cast it on Across the sky The light to bring To rouse the gods To send the spring #WinterSolstice #Solstice #Midwinter #PlaymobilInfestation

Madeleine l’Engle said: “We will hold hands as we move through the dark”. May you be held, & whole, & may all things brighten for you hereafter. Susan Cooper, firewood, & the making of this year’s Eclectic Bethlehem are today’s plans. Wherever you are, may joy find you. #Midwinter #solstice