Recent Reads: Tear Down Heaven by Rachel Aaron eeeeeasy 5⭐ I was so looking forward to this, I've loved this series ever since I found it a couple years ago. Such a fun conclusion, love these characters and all the shit they get up to. I'd read 5 more of these

Two college-age girls interrogate a sword about many things, including its gender

Recent reads: Eyrie by K Vale Nagle 4⭐ Easily some of the most worldbuilding work I've seen in a long time, the world is rich and dense. Speaking of dense, so is the story. The cast is endearing and expansive. I found myself wanting more time with some of them. Good thing we have sequels!

HOT TAKE (not a hot take) I finished book 1 of this series two days ago and it was GOOD And I'm BUYING BOOK 2

Happy Friday the 13th from Toast! #catsky #cats

"What are you like in bed?" "Not to brag but I consider myself an

Now that this draft is done, I: A. Don't know what to do with myself until I'm ready for edits B. Finally have an accurate handle. Joe has written BOOKS instead of One Book and Three Half-Assed Starts

And with a brief wrap-up chapter complete, that's draft 1 of my second book DONE Here I wrote my first romantic subplot (is it good? time will tell), my first horror novel, all in a 55k manuscript that needs to be fleshed out a bit in edits Very happy with the work I've done though #writersky

Wrote the climax today, got about 3200 words in one sitting I think I've fired every Chekov gun, there were at least 4 in this chapter. But inevitably there'll be one I forgot That's what the edit is for 🫠 #amwriting #writingcommunity #horror #books

Book checkpoint! Last read: Dust and Lightning by Rebecca Crunden Current: Eyrie by K. Vale Nagle Next (and newest) on TBR: Mercy by Ian Haramaki I scrolled bsky and snap bought a bunch of the stuff I saw so the TBR is all indie rn #booksky #amreading #TBR

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Mostly when I post about writing it's just little jokes, so here's half a second of me being serious. I've been out of work since before Christmas. I've got good prospects but no offers yet. And in the time I haven't been working, I've been writing. I've put down 20,000 words since the new year 🎉

I go to the effort to google this phrase and docs shows up and tells me I should say "spent the day away" No, docs, that means something else entirely

Working on the ol WIP and realizing today I get to name the undertaker And fighting the urge to name him Dampe

The funniest part of this WIP is how I introduced Millie's two kids (1 and 3 years) in chapter 2 and very intentionally didn't put them in a position to talk or interact with anyone until chapter 19 At which point I had to figure out how tf to write kids #writingcommunity #writesky #horror #books

Me: "Look I made a WIP playlist, just like you told me to" Hypothetical agent/publicist: "This is just both of The Last Dinner Party's albums, plus the acoustic versions, with no skips" "Yes."

In one of my shelved WIPs, I wrote in a board/card game that the MCs play with their roommates, while getting blackout drunk (the story starts in college) It involves a gameboard for moving the pieces around, power-ups, and explosions Tamla finishes the game by blowing her pieces up with a grenade

Recent reads: New Year! They Who Bring the Light by Jessica Conwell: Damn she did it again. Beautiful, heartbreaking, READ THIS AUTHOR, easy 5⭐ Brigands and Breadknives by Travis Baldree: Takes a big story turn I didn't expect, but keeps the emotional stakes and heart we expect from the series, 5⭐

The south is normal pseudo-medieval faire: padded gambesons, chainmail, helmets The north has indigenous armorams, whose wool when woven is much stronger than any other textile. That and the silversteel, which can only be worked by their most skilled mage-smiths, and can be either stretched thin /

I know "a breath he didn't know he was holding" is a cliche, but how about "a sob that she didn't know she had left?" We're all about subversion in this house #writers #writesky #writingcommunity

As I work on this book that doesn't even have a name yet, it occurs to me that I also have no clue on this planet what genre it is It's... horror adjacent? Is it funny enough to be a horror-comedy? It's got vampires but doesn't have the trappings of epic fantasy Betas can tell me later #writesky

Sometimes as I write I ask myself, "Is this too much? Is this overdramatic?" The answer has yet to be "yes," but it's for the best that I ask.

A brief accounting of writerly things I did this year: 1. Read a lot, finished 26(?) books 2. Sent a lot of queries 3. Got to 30k on my 2nd novel 4. Played a shit ton of DnD with my writer friends 5. Started playing music again (creative hobby so close enough)

My writer's mind is an ouroboros of "this DnD backstory would make a great book" and "this book I'm writing would make a great DnD campaign"

“Come on,” Tilda said, and Varmint skittered out, finding her a path down the pier. Featuring our intrepid hero and Varmint the undead possum

One of the best parts of being a writer is getting to sow chaos whenever you like "Would this scene be better if I started a fire?" Hell yeah it would #writers #writersky

Today's SSP #authorspotlight goes to @kira_of_the_wind! Erika McCorkle (she/her) is an avid world-builder and consumer of all things fantasy, whether that be books, video games, or anime. She has been developing the Pentagonal Dominion since the 90s and 🪐 📚 💙

Me, listening to the wrapped playlist of all the music I listened to all year: "damn all bangers"

Recent Reads: Carl edition Currently 1/3 through book 6, will crack through book 7 before I move back to reading literally anything else. Even turned some of my irl friends onto the series This pantsless fuck and his cat got me hooked, 5⭐

Looking for a supernatural queer read? 🏳️‍🌈 F/F friends to lovers 💀 Evil cult serving a fallen god 🦅 Weird birds 👼 Queers with wings and claws 🌲 Cursed forest 🌎 Lesbians vs god for the fate of reality Ghost Flower by Jessica Conwell Ebook jessicaconwell.itch.io/ghost-flower Paperback link in replies

Who cares if you’re self-published or not published, whether anyone reads them, whether you make any money Writing books is at worst a great hobby

Movie set where you grew up: I graduated from UL, and the "Jackson's Bayou Muddogs" are a parody of our old mascot, the Bulldogs And yes, I know people who talk like they do in this movie, and yes, it's hilarious

Helfnir's powers make him effectively a waterbender BUT he spends the first several chapters trudging through swamp, getting rained on, and being thrown into shit water, so safe to say he's had his fill for a while

Military tactics There's already sort of a scene where they're overlooking an enemy camp and he explains how they set up, how to get past them, what they did that's out of the ordinary, and from that deduces their likely tactics

RICE N SHIT Cook some rice veggies of your choice (I like onions & bell peppers), saute them boys in your wok add the rice with some hoison sauce 1 can of cream of whatever soup 1 can black beans CHEESE (whatever's in the fridge) Top with protein of your choice (or don't, it works on its own)

The Plains operate under an emperor, who's supported by a series of lower lords and clan heads who govern by the consent of the people (not formal elections but still a consensus system) They're on the cusp of building themselves a functional republic

Tilda didn’t answer, just leaned against the old stained wood. Jethel grunted as if in agreement and carried poor Albiert’s head outside to reunite it with the rest of him. Tilda just swayed there for a minute, taking it in. Awfully macabre way to leave it #amwriting #writersky

Want a great, fun read for spooky season? The Tear Down Heaven series has witches, demons, and a delightful slow burn romance that also involves smashing a tyrannical dictator! Only $4.99 to buy or free if you're in KU! amzn.to/473SmO4

Recent Reads Age of Arrogance by @timwolffauthor.bsky.social This trilogy started off good and ended great. The characters were the highlight, from Zeen's goofy optimism, Serena's obsessive dedication, David's depressive spirit that never breaks. Great balance of ups and downs too 5⭐

The Soul of War fits most cleanly into the 4-act structure, and the MC begins act 1 already neck-deep in a foreign land He ends act 1 and begins act 2 in the same foreign land, but half-dead after a fight, being cared for by the enemy #writersky #amquerying #writingcommunity

I picked this one up for free, and then paid for the sequels, cause they were good as hell! And the author is cool as hell so support them 😎

One of the best feelings is picking up a book that you expect to be the conclusion to a series, realizing it's not, and also realizing "yeah I'd 100% read another of these"

Recent Reads: Dungeon Crawler Carl - fun, funny, and I really got behind our main duo. Bought the sequel, will see if I get through all 7 books 4⭐ Ghost Flower - WOW I didn't know what I expected out of Ghost Flower but it blew me away. The prose is beautiful, the romance is sweet, the themes/

If I had a nickel for every book I've read this week that referenced "Live, Laugh, Love" I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

It's almost time, y'all!! amzn.to/48F4iGU

Turns out page 25 is right where the first fight scene starts, and the first time we get to see magic used for violence instead of utility #writing #writersky #theSoulofWar #amquerying

"it must be nice to be a man and make boring music just because you can now don't get me wrong, I'm a fan you're my second favorite frontman" Such an insane line, the new Florence material is giving me life

Nameless Vampire WIP has a romance between our lead, Tilda the barmaid, and her lovely friend Millie the bookbinder. Or it will once I write it, it's just in the outline rn The vampire isn't involved in the romance because he's 200 and that's weird 🙃

Was a big AC fan back in the day, and I always thought Black Flag was where they totally lost the plot on the modern-day stuff 1-3 had a story and character throughlines. Then 3 killed Desmond for some goddamn reason, and they never knew what to do after that Black Flag is better off without it

Recent reads: Alchemy and a Cup of Tea by Rebecca Thorne - an excellent conclusion to the cozy Tomes & Tea quartet, has all the drama and wholesomeness the series excels at, 5⭐ Tears of the Maelstrom by Timothy Wolff - this trilogy started good but here it got great, already started book 3, 5⭐