#shoutout to @adropofmagick.bsky.social for being an awesome counselor and always encouraging the Direwolves! Thank you for your exuberant #CampRevPit spirit!

What happened to the storm goddess who was supposed to protect her land when the empire attacked? Eh, it’s probably not important. #CampRevPit #ScavengerHunt

Kasetris prioritizes safety over taking a stand for her principles. She made a compromise to preserve her own life and the life of the girl she promised to protect in exchange for their freedom, and now she has to deal with the ramifications of that choice. #CampRevPit #CharacterFlaw

The confrontation with Atzana is a harsh awakening for Kasetris. She’s devoted her life to protecting the princess, but she hasn’t taken Atzana’s own wishes into account… #DialogueDrop #CampRevPit

He would say the protagonists are trying to destroy the divine order he worked so hard to create on Earth. He already defeated them once, so how dare they stand against him again? How shortsighted and ungrateful! #CampRevPit #VillainVoices

Kasetris’s greatest mistake defines her life, and she made it due to a critical flaw in her personality. #CampRevPit #OneLineMC

Hi #CampRevPit! I’m Erina, and I am working on an adult fantasy novel with the working title Divine Vessels. It features captive gods who choose humans to dwell in and stars not the rebellious princess but the woman who looks after her. #CRPDirewolves #CampKickoff

A cry for help convinces the widowed Kasetris her husband is alive. With the help of the god who dwells inside her, she will descend into the underworld to find him—and rekindle the failed rebellion that ended in his presumed death. #PosterPit #W #F #A

#PosterPit #Q #F #YA 18yo Vreta fears her mind magic will take her down a dark path. But when she discovers a young girl’s memories have been stolen by a ruthless duchess, her power is key to restoring what’s been lost. And she can’t help falling for the girl’s brother…

Hey, #RevPitWaiting — you wrote a whole BOOK! Know how many people want to write a book? Pretty much everybody. How many people actually go through with it? Not many. So rest on your laurels for a little bit. Then write the next one. No matter what happens you’ve learned something already.

Okay, fine, I’ll post a hero with a sword, but I’m not gonna tell anyone else what to do.

I try to plan and outline in advance but I need to be dragged into it kicking and screaming. It’s hard for me to get a feel for characters and story when I am looking at the big picture, I need to be in the scene. But once I write a couple chapters I get a better sense of where I’m going.

The difficulty for me is finding the art I haven’t already oversaturated my bluesky with! Here are a few character drawings I’ve done for Stolen Magic, more info in the alt text. #RevPitWaiting

One of my beta readers, the amazing and multi-talented @erinabecca.bsky.social, made these super cool portraits of my characters from my #RevPit novel, Anti-Charter Campaign. Check out Britt, Catherine, Susanne, and Angelo ❤️ It was so much fun to see them through her eyes! #RevPitWaiting

I do most of my writing at my day job, and I can’t share a picture of my desk there, but occasionally I do some writing at home with feline assistance. The cat is named Muppet and he was born under the back steps of my old house. He will be 19 in September. #RevPitWaiting

I said in my writing group today: Writing is hard and frustrating and sometimes it makes me hate myself but I will be COLD AND DEAD IN MY GRAVE before I use AI to do it for me.

Had a good fit for #WIPSnips today, here it is. (TW for a mention of a power imbalanced relationship involving a 16yo.)

Hope this snippet and accompanying illustration from Stolen Magic is a little bit amusing. #RevPitWaiting

New week, new requests. Manuscript Request Monday Take Some Time to Upload Tuesday Wake Up & Send a Full Wednesday Thank You For Sending a Full Thursday Full Request Friday Send Your Full Saturday Stayed Up All Night Reading, When Can We Chat? Sunday #writingcommunity #amquerying

My WIP is Divine Vessels (working title). It’s about a woman who has the god of music dwelling within her. She discovers her husband is alive and imprisoned in an underground labyrinth, sets out to rescue him, and becomes embroiled in a rebellion against the kings of gods and men. #RevPitWaiting

Pets, eh, #RevPitWaiting? I have a few furry pets, two scaly pets and three slimy pets. The cats are Milo, Muppet and Jade (not pictured); bearded dragon is Hattie; leopard gecko is Link; and the firebelly toads are named Teeny, Nozomi, and Bella.

I associate this song with one of my favorite scenes in the book. If there were ever a movie of the book, this would be on the soundtrack. youtu.be/7l8aDcG8Bqk?... Kishi Bashi - Colorful State

Was hard to choose, but I decided to go with a quote from the villain that sums up the ideology Vreta stands in opposition to: the idea that some people are superior to others by virtue of their birth and therefore entitled to decide the fate of everyone else.

I have to credit the marvelous @trutherford.bsky.social for my mood board, but I also draw my own illustrations for my books! I’m working on a drawing of Ravin (the MMC) that I hope to have done today. #RevPitWaiting #RevPit

Hi, wannabe author Erina (online)/Rebecca (real life) here. I draw, sew, and crochet, and I have cats, frogs, and lizards for pets.

I write fantasy, YA and adult. I wrote my first manuscript circa 1994 at the age of 12 but you’d have to be really generous to call it a book. Started seriously working towards publishing in 2019, after I was diagnosed with ADHD. I also draw pictures. Here’s a scene from my #RevPit entry.

Work in progress. My kid is a big Digital Circus fan and asked me to draw a picture for her. #tadc

Drew this picture of the MCs of the book I’m working on. My 10yo daughter saw it and called me a “creep” because I drew a man without a shirt.

My daughter requested “furry” macaroni and cheese for dinner. Apparently the breadcrumbs on top make it furry, and I will never look at baked mac & cheese the same way again.

I redrew a picture of the main couple from the novel I’m working on, changing the characters’ style to reflect the ancient setting of the book. I looked all over for the original picture from 2021 to see how much I have improved (or not) since then but I couldn’t find it.

Realized that I technically have the word “airport” in a fantasy regency setting where airplanes don’t exist… It just has an “F” on the front. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

18-year-old Vreta isn’t sure where she belongs in the world. But when she sets out to restore the stolen memories of her beloved’s sister, she must learn to accept, value and trust herself—or risk losing her own identity to a ruthless duchess. #BluePit #Q #YA #F #ND

The Best Kisser in Prague 🇨🇿 A crossroads in history 🇨🇿 Expats in Prague 🇨🇿 Early-90s nostalgia Mika and Dominik are trying so hard to lose themselves; can they find each other? #BluePit📖 #W #A #R #WF

Meet the characters from ANTI-CHARTER CAMPAIGN These four must band together to defeat the monsters in D&D and to save their school from a charter takeover in a speculative fiction that's Jumanji X Abbott Elementary. Querying Soon 📆 #BluePit #BluePit📖 #A #W #F

Vreta is afraid of her psychic powers— specifically, she is afraid she will misuse them. People with the same sort of mind-reading, memory-altering powers she possesses tend to be the villain of the story, and she fears she is doomed to go down the same path.

My current favorite illustration I’ve done for my completed novel, Stolen Magic, and an illustration for my WIP, which I am calling “Beneath the Valley” until I think of a better title #BluePitHype #WriteSky #AmQuerying #BluePit

Birthday card design I drew for my daughter. She requested a picture of “a unicorn and a cute fish.”

I already shared this on Instagram, but I haven’t put any of my recent artwork on Bluesky lately! This character is Oryna, the human vessel of Coria, goddess of love in my ancient-history/mythology inspired WIP. www.instagram.com/p/DSYU6uJAAI...

I tried to capture what it is like to look at your drawing and only see what’s wrong with it, the things you don’t have the skills and experience yet to fix.

HADESTOWN x HUNDRED THOUSAND KINGDOMS All Kasetris wanted was to keep her adopted daughter safe—until she discovers her missing husband is alive and imprisoned. Now she must venture into a dangerous underground labyrinth to save him, but at least she has one god on her side. #WIPPIT #A #F

Trying an experiment! I am now offering commissions of chibi character artwork through ko-fi. Please check it out! ko-fi.com/erinabecca/c...

The relationship between Kasetris and her missing husband and how they rebuild that relationship after they are reunited drives the main plot of the book, but Kasetris’s relationship with Atzana, the girl she’s been raising for several years, is also complicated and important.

There is an olm that serves as a guide for my characters in the underground cave system they are exploring.

New sticker designs in my Etsy shop: grapes and mustard greens! geckosgarden.etsy.com

My kid and I were trying to understand why AI-generated media appeals to anyone and I wonder if it has to do with a lack of empathy. If other people and their experiences are meaningless to you, it doesn’t matter whether something comes from a human or is generated by an algorithm.

Drew a picture of my 9yo daughter (because she asked me to!) and this was her response. I am devastated. I am using her drawing of me as my portrait on this app!

Hi, I am looking for a critique partner for my ancient history/mythology-inspired fantasy novel. It’s about a woman who discovers her missing husband is alive and imprisoned in an underground cave system, and sets out to rescue him. Would love to work with another fantasy author. #FiFRevPit

New sticker/magnet available in my Etsy shop! www.etsy.com/listing/4404...

At the same time I am pleased and proud to look at my drawing and I despair at how far I have to go as an artist before I can actually make the picture on the page match the vision I wish I could create. I do really like her jacket, though.