"Why is my computer so terrible this morning?!" (looks around, notices we're installing Windows Update) "Oh"

BOOK COVER ARTISTS QRP with your book covers #BookCovers 1. The Poppy War for Fairyloot 2. Master of Crows for Arcane Society 3. The Knight And The Moth for Fairyloot 4. When They Burned The Butterfly for Tor.

Oh my god, you stupid scene, would you just BE GOOD?!?!?!?! #amwriting

It's fall, which means every sweater/light jacket I own has migrated into my office as I wear them in the morning, take them off in the afternoon, then wake up the next day, realize I don't know where my jacket is, and get another from the closet.

#Bookmarketing thought of the morning: "For those who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they'd like" = audience. Figuring out what sort of people would like your sort of thing and then getting it in front of as many of them as possible is all of marketing in a nutshell. #writing

"I'm just not a fan of plans that involve me getting eaten by giant spiders." "Maybe we could farm them? They could be the crab legs of the land!" -- actual quotes from the same conversation #d&d

"The minimalist wizard. Sad beige spells." - #dnd out of context

"What's the cost of the bottle?" "The metaphysical cost?"

"We call this one the 'Heaven and Hell' it's holy water with a shot of demon blood." - out of context gaming #d&d quotes

"Why does this say you watch 16 hours of YouTube a day?" "Because I have a rain sound white noise addiction." "You know they sell CDs of that, right? Or you could just download the looped audio and play that without destroying our household's bandwidth."

Follow up to the surprise night visitor: "Well, I think that's a very rude way to introduce yourself." "You're right. Showing up in the middle of the night and placing your weapon on another man's chest uninvited *is* very rude."

"Wow, I didn't know you clerical types were into that." "Well, chaotic good can mean a lot of things." - #d&d quotes of the evening

(After one of our party is nearly murdered) "How come no one's waiting in *my* room when I wake up? Am I not good enough to kill in the night?!" "Don't worry, someone will come along to kill you in the night soon." - out of context D&D quotes

Books I've read this year and enjoyed 👇

Fun series! You should really give it a try.

I love this series, so this is a great opportunity to try!

I'm reading the ARC for book 4 of this series right now and I HIGHLY recommend you snag this! An absolute blast

100% worth it, even if it wasn't free

Book Club favorite HELL FOR HIRE is currently FREE! #freebook #bookclub #hellforhire #urbanfantasy #bookclubfavorite

I can't recommend this book highly enough. The whole series actually. Go for the first and be hooked like me

The first Bex book, HELL FOR HIRE is free for the next few days in ebook! If you like fun Urban Fantasy and haven't already tried my new series, this is a great chance to read the first book for $0! amzn.to/4pnGmhb

Passing witch: You're pickling the dragon balls wrong! You need more coriander! Players: We're not eating them. DM: Actually, it's not specifically stated how the reagent is actually used in the ritual, soooo.... Players:😱😱😱💀

So our characters have, for various magical reasons, collected multiple dragon balls. To keep them from decomposing and losing their potency as reagents, we needed to preserve them. TLDR: We just spent a cheerful evening pickling dragon balls. #D&D #TTRPG

"Just because it's a slippery slope doesn't mean we're going to slide down it. Have a little faith!" (very shortly later) "Oh yeah, we slid right down that sucker." - out of context conversations with my husband

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

It might be superstitious, but I always review editorial letters and changes at my gaming computer rather than my writing laptop in order to keep all the bad juju out of my creative space.

ARC emails have been sent out for the fourth Bex book HELL HATH NO FURY to all the amazing, wonderful, honestly world-saving book reviewers on my list :D Do you review indie books? Would you like an ARC of HELL HATH NO FURY or even HELL FOR HIRE? Let me know! I've got boooooks!!

"Oh no, I forgot I set memory erasing traps! How did that happen?" -out of context #D&D quotes

Our characters have spent this entire session trying to get a dragon-skin couch out of a dungeon where we blew up all the stairs. #d&d

"I'll pay you any amount of money you want... if you're willing to deal with the consequences." "We have never once considered the consequences." - out of context #D&D quote of the night

I hope y'all like chonky books, because I can already tell this is going to be the biggest doorstop I've ever written.

I don't know what's up with this new project, but these are the longest damn sentences I've written in my life. I'm really enjoying the voice I've landed on. It's charming and engaging and a ton of fun to write, but holy crap is it long winded.

Ten writers by whom I’ve read more than five books: 1. V.E. Schwab 2. Christopher Moore 3. Rachel Aaron @rachel-aaron.bsky.social 4. Charlie N. Holmberg @cnholmberg.bsky.social 5. Anne Bishop 6. Holly Black 7. Becky Chambers 8. Zoraida Cordova 9. Amanda Foody 10. Michelle Manus @michellemanus.com

Ice Dust would be a slushy!!

"So we've got Sun Dust as a magical reagent, what would Earth dust be?" ... "Wait, that's just dust." - out of context #D&D

DM: this is a new one. No one's ever disarmed a trap by peeing on it before. Other traumatized player: Yes, well, now we all get to carry that memory into the future. - #D&D

"Ha! We defeated your trap with pee! Bet you didn't see that one coming!" DM: 😰😱😭

Writing on a Saturday b/c this idea won't leave me alone. Okay, book, you win. Let's do this! #amwriting

"The real treasure is the XP we made along the way." - Second out of context #D&D quote of the night

"Will a sentient undead creature work as a sacrifice?" "No, the sacrifice requires a living creature." "I know a lot of living creatures I could sacrifice." - out of context #D&D

(My 8 charisma half-orc trying to cheer up an orphan) "Look at it this way, now your parents can never be murdered in front of you!" (Child cries) - #D&D

This is my new favorite thing of all time. youtu.be/QsLN542nvGg?...

"He doesn't know he's CR10, though. He's going to act like he's CR 20. You want to be a big deal, you gotta act like a big deal." - our DM #D&D

A moment of silence for all of those uncast spells

Today, we learned that if you take a Bag of Holding underwater, you end up holding a bag of water. RIP my scroll collection T__T. - #D&D

"I mean, we are on a schedule, but how much time would it take to get dark power?" DM: "Not *that* long." - out of context D&D quote

hello hello! I need a couple hundred to pay for upcoming convention expenses (I don't have enough to pay for my hotel lol) and have open commissions! Character bust comms are $45 each and silly cats are $35 each! Make your character or cat a sticker for $15 extra, plus $2 for each extra sticker. 💖

Starting a totally new project today, and I do mean *totally* new. It's still technically Fantasy, but I've never tried writing something like this before. I'd say 90% of new projects blow up in my face, but I've got a good feeling about this one. Fingers crossed!!

I blame everything on Windows Update. For example, I'm very tired and a little depressed this morning. Is that because I stayed up too late and didn't sleep well? No, don't be silly. It was Windows Update, the cause of all my woes.

"We've been smart, like, twice this entire campaign. I don't think we're ready to take on an aboleth. He'll trick us into being his eternal servants within three rounds." - out of context D&D quote