Friends, I have got to do better at social media than disappearing for two weeks every month 😭Does anyone want to be social media accountability buddies? 🤣

I *was* going to write my next/last two anthology submissions this month, but now I'm doing so much adulting this week and early next that I don't have the spare brain power to do much writing this week at all 😅 Ask again next week Wednesday? #writingfantasy

#FantasyIndiesFebruary Day 3: Esta doesn't believe in soul mates. She is very in love with a certain vampire, but she doesn't believe they were 'meant' to be together or anything like that. She isn't really a romantic at heart.

#QueerPrompts Day 3: in Book 4, my MC Esta sees a female therapist about *wildly gestures at Books 1-3 but especially 3*, who is a dream guide-turned-human and therefore uniquely qualified to help Esta with her worries.

Ever wondered if Dracula seduced Renfield into become his familiar? No, just me? Oh… Well, anyway. Read “Life Before Blood.” It’s short! It’s free. It’s gay! No HEA here. A prequel to Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” Get it here! zekecaliban.itch.io/life-before-... #BookSky #MMBooks #DarkRomance

#QueerPrompts February 1: Intro 🙋🏼‍♂️ I'm CJ, queer romantasy author and artist! I love writing romantasies, character art, dollhouse miniatures and crafts, cats, positive queer fiction, BL shows, and my partner of course! 👨‍❤️‍👨 I'll be talking about Gravity's Fire again this month. 📗

#QueerPrompts Feb 1 - Intro: Hi I’m Bev your local ace author. One of the wips I’m working on is a Cinderella story featuring drag queens.

Hi #QueerPrompts! I’m Rick, a genderqueer SFFH writer and poet. My WIP is an adult sci-fi novel mixing kids-on-bikes, the early 1990s, queer identity and yearning, and dinosaurs. I’m about 57k words in, hoping to finish the first draft this spring.

#FantasyIndiesFebruary Feb 1 - Intro: Hi I’m Bev and I’m currently working on Dystopian WIP. It features Sapphire Zanetti as the MC.

#FantasyIndiesFebruary 1 I'm Nicholas. I'm working on a fantasy trilogy, The Burning Veil, a story of magic, monsters, found family, and fighting back against those who would oppress you to reclaim your agency. #writing #amwriting #writingcommunity #writesky

#FantasyIndiesFebruary Day 2: There are many romances in Esta's series! Anton and Saif are a gay vampire couple, Bonnie has it bad for a beautiful mermaid, & Esta, my demisexual MC, falls in love rarely but hard when she does, and she's ✨very✨ awkward. There's heat eventually, but not until Book 3.

#QueerPrompts Day 2: Esta has racked up a few regrets over the first three books, but there's one day in particular she wishes she could take back involving a sylph and a loss of control over her magic. She's currently in therapy for it.

#QueerPrompts & #FantasyIndiesFebruary Day 1: Hello, folks! I'm Sarina & I'll be talking about my Chaos of Esta Anderson series! As much as I want to talk about the new epic fantasy (SO MUCH), I've barely started on that whereas Esta has 3 books out, so I can actually answer the prompts on that one.

I am home in time to celebrate my husband's birthday, and you can too by getting to know the character he helped inspire! TTMH is a high heat seafaring romantasy with cozy vibes and polyamory done right. Join the crew today and say Happy Birthday in a fun way for everyone!

So I'm trying to name this character and am trying to find a female name meaning 'hunter', and this one baby name website suggests - as three separate options - Chace, Chase, and Chacen. -.- So I might go with Orla. (which doesn't mean 'hunter', to my knowledge) #writingcommunity

Good morning, BlueSky! How was your weekend? What are you working on this week? :) I'll continue plotting the epic fantasy, and I have an anthology submission to write, too. Fortunately, they fit well around each other.

WELL, I've adulted rather a lot today and now my energy is gone, so see you next week. Have a good weekend, folks 👋

Howdy! My name is Annie Laurie! I'm an aroace/agender writer of action/adventure fiction w/ LGBTQ+ characters. Querying: #Shield&Scalpel WIP: #WOTV (Wardens of the Veil) Rewriting: Unbreakable Series Website: HolfelderWrites.com CoWriter: S. B. Watson Buy me a coffee: ko-fi.com/holfelderwri...

Create something today. The weirder, the queerer, the angrier, the better. Create something. It matters.

I had a lot of fun recording this podcast with The Funky Writer! Robert did a great job of making space for me to share honestly, so if you want an open glimpse of who I am as a writer and a person, give it a listen! At 28:22, I read from my on-sub sci-fi book! www.podbean.com/media/share/...

Art is political. Creating is political. Books are political. Reading is political. Writing is political. All of it IS POLITICAL.

You are not an author if you use AI to write your book; you're a fraud and a thief. You are not an artist if you use AI to create; you're a fraud and a thief. And if you use disability as an excuse for using AI, you're an ableist dickhead who needs a real person to help you deal and grow.

I don't want to excite anyone, but I've just written the first scene of the new epic fantasy 👀 #writingcommunity #writingfantasy

Sorry I wasn't around much yesterday, I was busy levelling up to 36 and eating cake ^-^

I've decided to make a spreadsheet for my worldbuilding to have all important details available at a quick glance. It's now at 30 rows and 10 columns, I'm not convinced it's done, and I'm not seeing *anything* at a glance without searching for the right box first. #writingfantasy #writingcommunity

This sounds SO GOOD, folks! Go read the blurb and let it convince you like it convinced me.

In 1882, a woman claimed to be a dragon hiding in human form, looking for other dragons similarly hiding. This is that book, reprinted with copious notes. The Kickstarter ends in a few days. You should check it out. And then I can write other things, too. #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters I always catch up with the cleaner who's working when I start in the mornings. She sussed out it's my birthday next week and surprised me with some chocolates today 💛 Then *I* sussed out it's *her* birthday next Friday, and now I know what her favourite chocolate is 😎

#WeeknightWriters I published one last week! 👀 Spirit Court/Call of Six 1 is the first of my Problem Children (named with affection, mostly), and Books 2 and 3 will be out in February & March :) They're part of a shared world, which is a first for me! storyoriginapp.com/universalboo...

#WeeknightWriters This week has been quite stressful for me (and not even because of current news), so I've been making more time for reading (Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher 🤌), and I've been worldbuilding a lot which needed to happen anyway, so it's a win-win!

WELL it's actually my birthday next week, so I've booked time off work 😅 Not getting up at 5am is going to make my Monday (and Tuesday) much more pleasant!

I'm opening to queries days 1-5 of each month, starting Feb. 1. Excited to read!!! Here's my current wish list! YA: all genres MG: all genres, but upper MG only, for kids age 10-13. I'm not open to younger chapter books at the moment Keep reading for adult wish list! ⬇️

Good morning, #WeeknightWriters! I'm Sarina, and I'll be catching up with you on Friday mornings because I'm asleep when you all do this 🙃 I'm not writing yet, but I'm plotting Book... *counts* 17 (?🤔), I just finished Round 1 of research, and I think as of this morning I know all 7 POV characters!

YOU MUST TAKE YOUR MEDICATIONS TO HAVE STRENGTH TO GRIND YOUR ENEMIES' BONES TO DUST.

The first round of preliminary research for the epic fantasy WIP is done! 🥳 There are plenty of gaps to fill and rabbit holes to explore, but I know ✨something✨ about 6 out of my 7 POV characters, and story elements have started to fill in. Exciting times 😊 #fantasywriter #writingcommunity

Good morning, BlueSky! What are you up to today? :) I'm wondering if I might finish the first round of research for the new WIP today 👀 Currently researching jellyfish. #writingcommunity

Sudden craving to tidy my desk and make a spreadsheet of ALL the book promotion websites - all. of. them. Imagine if I had this energy every day. I'd be unstoppable 😳 #writingcommunity

Some days are so stressful you kinda just want to fall into bed.

Bluesky! A question: what upcoming (say 2026-2028) aspec releases are there? I've fallen off keeping track of overall releases and I'm trying to get back to that. Right now I know of, like, 14 and about half of them are my friends and myself.

Good morning, #writingcommunity! How was your weekend? What are you working on this week? I'm continuing my WIP research today with wolves and lizards, and I woke up to the first draft of the cover for something special in my inbox 🤭 #fantasywriters

Goodnight, BlueSky! Have a good weekend. I'll see you on Monday 🙌

So, the first reviews for the whole trilogy are coming in, and damn. Gods. Thank you. I can't express how worried I was about this series? Seeing the first gushing 5-star reviews has made my whole month. Thank you, and thank you again. I may be a little emotional 💛 Thank you. #fantasywriter

Also today in Author Research: Today I learned that in 1999, the lions and hyenas of Ethiopia’s Gobele wilderness went to WAR. Apparently it got so bad that the military had to step in. I'm sorry, WHAT You bet I'm gonna use that in my worldbuilding #writingcommunity

Today in 'Shit Authors Search For': which fish are friendly The worldbuilding is going well, as you can see. #writingcommunity #fantasywriters

oh gods. Do I want to read? Or do I want to worldbuild? Please, brain, choose one, we both know I can't do both at the same time 😣 #fantasywriters #writingcommunity

@weeknightwriters.bsky.social What's the latest I can join in with the prompts? It looks like they get posted around 1am my time, and I'm definitely not around then 😅

Seeking #BetaReaders for a 11k word no spice #sapphic shifter romance novelette When Dýrhildr is rescued by a Selkie in the dead of winter in Grǿnland, she promises to help get revenge on her estranged husband Email me at the email in my profile #BookSky #WriteSky #LGBTQWriters #QueerWriters #WLW

The first Problem Child is OUT TODAY 🥳 Available on KU Perfect if you like books with: ✨ death positivity ✨ Voodoo ✨ snakes ✨ magic in various forms ✨ a very slow-burn demi wlw romance ✨ a power struggle between witches and vampires storyoriginapp.com/universalboo... #booksky #fantasywriter

Good morning, Bluesky! :) What are you working on today? My research into big cats for the epic fantasy WIP continues :3 (I'm also very done with this rain. Why won't it stop 😭)

In case you're wondering what getting older is like (& bearing in mind I'm only almost 36): I once pulled a neck muscle because I yawned & stretched at the same time, I'm currently awaiting a hospital app. to diagnose a frozen shoulder, and it now hurts to turn my neck. Don't even know what I did 🤷‍♀️