Such a cool feeling to sit here next to my first born book baby while I work on book 2. Can’t believe I’m here. A published author. I’d like to think my younger self would be so proud. 🥲

The best part about living in the south and the start of gumbo season? Leftover buttered French bread with morning coffee. This is a niche thread. But iykyk.

I did it. It finally happened. I woke up today for the first time as a published author. 🖤🥹🖤😭🖤🥲🖤 I’m not able to celebrate this achievement with friends and family since they don’t know about my secret life as an author of very ġ å ŷ stories. So, will you all be my friends and family today? ☺️

Good morning writers, readers, and fellow coffee feinds. Show me your mugs.

Instead of going to therapy, I wrote a book where a closeted church tŵíņk works through his religious trauma and s*x*al repression while getting railed by an Egyptian god. 10/10 would recommend. (But I probably still need therapy tho.)

My local bookstore is going to carry my debut and I just 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹😭

You don’t learn to climb mountains by going around them. And you don’t learn to write books by letting AI do it for you. Climb the mountain. It’s hard, but it’s worth it.

Less than one week left to join the ARC team for my debut MM monster romance, THE SECRET SHAPE OF WORSHIP 🐺 Almost 100 readers have joined the team already, and I am just floored and overwhelmed and so excited by the response. Let’s get to an even hundred, what do you say? 😏

Is this a trend over here? 🫣 The summer I accidently summoned the Egyptian god of the afterlife…🐺

Hey ARC readers. Got something for you…

My parents and my sister are both going thru divorces & BOTH preached at me when I told them I was gay. Meanwhile, I've been with my husband for 12 years and we're happier and happier together each day. So, I guess what I'm really trying to say is: F*ck Kim Davis, gay marriage is the best marriage.

How do you become an author? Simple… Stare into the abyss until you see claws and teeth and then entice them out with the promise of fame and money. There won't be any, but it's ok, because soon you'll be friends, poor but happy together forever. Follow along for more unhinged writing advice 🖤 🫶🏼🖤

Sad to report that I still have not become an overnight viral sensation and did, in fact, have to show up to my corporate job this morning. ☠️☠️☠️

If this piques your interest…preorders are open - link in bio bbs 🖤🫶🏼🖤

Heyyy my book was just added to Goodreads! You should go throw it on your TBR 👀 Pretty please? 🥹 www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Hot take: if a kid is too young to have conversations about gender, then they’re too young for you to tell them they’ll go to hēłł for not committing their life to your religion… But that’s just my opinion. 💅

Check out the cover of my debut MM monster romance! The book explores themes of faith deconstruction and self-discovery as Mina, a seminary student in the middle of a faith crisis, encounters Anubis, the flail-wielding, Egyptian god of the afterlife. Swipe for more… Link in bio to preorder!

Since I have a book coming out soon, I guess I should be clear about this so you all know where I stand. *clears throat* Gen AI is theft, and if you use it to write your books, you’re not only cheating yourself, you’re stealing from those who have come before you. *shrinks back into writer hole*

I mean…😅💀

Just submitted my ebook to Am*z*n KDP for review. AHH. It's getting so real. My stomach hurts. 💀

Why did no one tell me that figuring out how to format this book for KU and KDP was going to be my ENTIRE SATURDAY?!? 😅

Just finished doing text to speech as a final editing step for my novel and … wow … I mean I’ve heard writers talk about it before, but I had no idea just how helpful that would be! I caught things I would have never caught otherwise. 10/10 recommend it.

Doing my final round of edits and I can’t decide if I need to scrap all of my em dashes. 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩

Want a free snippet of my book? I’ve started a newsletter which I’ve dubbed “THE PANTHEON” because it sounds cool & newsletters are lame. BUT they’re also incredibly valuable for indie writers. My posts will be short and infrequent, I promise, but I’d love to connect with you! Link in bio 🫶🏼

The hardest part about being a writer is that you have to actually sit down and write. The hardest part about being a writer is also being constantly obligated to do things that are not writing. I don’t make the rules I just flail like a petulant child against them.

All of a sudden I really want to write an MM book set in space as part of my Ancient Awakening series. If an MC were to encounter an ancient god of mythology in space, which god would it be? 👀

Listen 2025 is WILD and it’s totally ok to channel Ozzy Osborne and eat like 3 massive burritos in one day or drink a soup bowl full of coffee in one gulp. And you can even cry into it a little bit if that helps. No one will judge you. Well someone might but I won’t I promise. Hope this helps 🫶🏼

Seriously, you won't like it at all 😈🌶️ But in case you’re a degenerate like me, THE SECRET SHAPE OF WORSHIP, my debut MM god x human monster romance, is coming October 21st. It’s sweet and spicy and wild and you’re going to fall so hard for Mina and Anubis 🥹

Current stage of debut book release: Agonizing over endless iterations of book cover layouts and unable to make even the simplest decision HELP 💀

Readers... Do you like having an exhaustive content advisory list in the book itself or are you ok with the author including a link to a webpage with a list? I'm considering doing a link/URL purely for aesthetic purposes, but I'm totally fine to include a list if that's widely preferred.

Have you ever been SO close to quitting your soul-sucking corporate job with absolutely no backup plan that it actually scares you because the words “I quit” are so close to the tip of your tongue you can actually feel them about to spill out? 😅🙃

Did you know that if you’re feeling down, one thing you can do is take one of your boring old t-shirts and turn it into a sl*tty little crop top and suddenly you will feel very fun and bonita? Just do it trust me it works.

Doing a final read-through of my debut book before I start packaging it up. AHHHHHH! Cover reveal and ARC sign ups August 5. Why is this so terrifying? Someone please tell me it's normal to have a sudden urge to throw my laptop into traffic and runaway into the woods 😅

Am I just three short weeks away from starting the ARC reader process for my book? Yes. Did I also just do another chapter 1 rewrite? Also yes. It's 2025 baby ANYTHING GOES.

My timeline is Books Books Books Genocide video Books Meme Peaceful protesters being beaten De*d Palestinian child Funny meme Books My head hurts. My stomach hurts. My heart hurts. Apologies for the off-brand post but my whole g*dd*m soul hurts and idk what to do or feel anymore.

Not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn’t this 🥹 A couple early reader comments on THE SECRET SHAPE OF WORSHIP, my debut mm monster romance novel about a naive, closeted ćhürçh țŵínk who accidentally awakens the hunky, Egyptian, flail-wielding ġöd of the afterlife 🐺💁🏼‍♂️ Coming October 21st 👀

“You look happier.” Thanks I read only ġäŷ books and drink coffee until my soul leaves my body 🖤

I am very good at finding new and inventive ways of avoiding all of the writing tasks I desperately need to do and obsessing over meaningless nonsense instead. It’s my spiritual gift.

I have a confession. There’s still a big empty hole in my bookshelf where my ❌hp❌ books used to be, and I’ve decided I want to fill it with indie / self published books with lovely covers! And recs? Feel free to drop your own! Partial to mm stories but totally into any qüèēř fiction 🫶🏼

Here they are! The boys of my debut MM god x human monster romance. Mina is a cheeky shy chürćh boy who’s spent his life denying his deepest desires, and Anubis is the infinite duty-bound hunky cinnamon roll Egyptian gód of the afterlife who has a thing or two he plans to do about that 🐺💁🏼‍♂️🌶️

If you’re an author and you’re feeling silly about talking about or promoting your book with *gestures chaotically* all this going on, allow me to share the mantra I’m holding onto for myself: ART MATTERS RIGHT NOW

I think I’m going to do character art reveal next week and then just start being really loud and insufferable about my mm monster romance debut for like the next 4 months until its release. Is that cool? 🌈🐺

The fact that I’m currently making a work PowerPoint instead of finishing my MM romance short story about an elder emo and a hunky siren falling in love and getting it on is honestly so dumb. 🧜🏼‍♂️

When you think about it, it’s really not fair that we have to go to work and pay bills instead of just reading and writing our little books all day in our cute little cabins in the woods and shanties by the sea with hunky satyrs and mermen rubbing our feet and making us tea.

I really underestimated the emotional, spiritual, and psychological energy of writing a whole book and then figuring out how to be a social media marketing expert on top of also doing a day job while trying to keep my plants alive all while just trying to survive the collapse of civilization.

Where’s the fast forward button? I just wanna get to the part where the f-scists eat each other alive and the ones that are left get put on trial and imprisoned.

It’s getting so close I can taste it 😈. THE SECRET SHAPE OF WORSHIP is an mm god x human romance with high-spice and a character-driven story about a shy, closeted bible college student who encounters a hunky heathen god. 😱 I can’t wait to introduce you to Mina and Anubis 💁🏼‍♂️🐺 Fall 2025

I don’t mean to brag but I already have 5 whole followers on TikTok so yeah I’m kind of nailing this social media marketing thing 💅

Hey friends, if you’re on TikTok come find me and let’s be friends there! I just started and have no idea what I’m doing. My first video is just 17 seconds of unhinged chaos 😅😈 www.tiktok.com/@akasher.aut...

I’m about to start my journey of figuring out how to market a book on social media as someone who: ❌ Doesn’t want to put their face on camera ❌ Has never once used TikTok ❌ Trends? 🤷🏼‍♂️ ❌ Works a demanding day job with not much free time This feels harder than it was to write the actual book.