✨ 🌙✨ Books2Read.com/MonstersInLove7 ✨🌙✨ Monsters in Love 7: Lost in the Stars is coming out March 27th, continuing the wildly popular Monsters in Love anthology series. My story is Cy-D3R, a tale of a rule-breaking explorer and an abandoned space farm with a sordid secret. #VeraValentine

🦎 Books2Read.com/StrangeLove 🦎 Strange Love: A Non-Human Romance Charity Anthology features my Pattern Recognition, an MF cryptid monster tale. It's only available until May 13th, and supports Trinity Haven, an organization meeting needs for LGBTQ+ youth at risk for homelessness. #VeraValentine

🐺 Books2Read.com/EvilHearts 🐺 Evil Hearts: A Monster Romance Charity Anthology features Raw Dogging, my special MF werewolf co-write with Latrexa Nova. This charity romance anthology is only available until May 1st, with proceeds benefitting The Dollywood Foundation! #VeraValentine

Sharing the poorly-translated cards that came with my cheap BDSM kit that have had me CACKLING all night.

Hey friends! I've revamped my pay schedule cheat sheet (apparently I left February completely off the last one😬) for KDP authors. Find more helpful tips and resources here: 👇👇👇 www.valentineverse.com/author-resou... ☝️☝️☝️ #VeraValentine #IndieAuthor #KDPPaySchedule #AuthorPaySchedule

Hey, asking for a friend, Canva isn't allowed to cancel our subscriptions for crimes against humanity purposes right

Back on my bullshit at Barnes and Noble today, making sexy morally grey carpet monsters hot. There is a quartet of older folks at a table across the cafe that have brought their own tablecloth and are playing an intense game of mahjong and their vibes are ✨immaculate✨.

Hey, uhhh... hi to my new followers, but if you followed me just because I have author in my profile, please be aware that my bestseller title is a book about a woman fucking her front door. Yes, a literal door. So if you write kids books / YA? You might wanna rethink the follow. 😅

✨ Stowaway and Silent Song✨ 🌊 Books2Read.com/TempestTossed 🌊 Most know my #SentientObjectRomance shenanigans by now, but I actually started with #Romantasy! Stowaway and Silent Song is the FIRST BOOK I ever published, and these characters - Miranda, Ronen, and Lyric - genuinely changed my life.

In hindsight, maybe the first day I start an increased dose of my adderall *isn't* the best day to also have two cups of coffee. "Huh, wonder why my breathing's short and I have this persistent dry cough. Weird." My pulse, in the stratosphere: *smacks forehead with palm*

Listen, I don't know either. 🤷‍♀️ #VeraValentine #SeagullWithAFrenchFry #AuDHD #IndieAuthor #SexPositive #Bisexual #Polyamorous #FormerChoirKid #PastaIsLife

Pattern Recognition by Vera Valentine - Coming February 13th! (A little bird tells me it *may* be loosely linked in with my #CarnalCryptids universe ;) ) Preorder the Strange Love anthology here: ➡️ Books2Read.com/StrangeLove ⬅️

So I just got over the flu last week and woke up with food poisoning today - January is not going my way. Send treats and cozy blankets cause I got weird stories to finish.

Okay but I had a first date today and she brought me fluorescing rocks AND a blacklight to admire them and called them penguin presents??! 😭 🥰😊 You know what men bring to first dates? ✨Audacity✨

New office goals 😍

Best of 2024 2/3! All art is by me and authors are credited in the alt text.

Doing my best to turn helplessness into productivity today, rearranging my office a little bit to try and shake up the vibes. It's jazz, determination, and my lil 10mg of Adderall against the world.

I need y'all to bear witness to this monstrosity. These are the lobby bathrooms at the resort I was staying at. At first I was like, oh that's smart, you can pull out a (face) tissue's worth of TP from the center of the industrial roll if you need it. BUT(T) NO. That's ALL you can get.

It's me, knock off DayQuil, And my emotional support box of toasty Cheez-Its against the world today. Wish me luck, I'm about to drive 4 hours back to North Carolina feeling like microwaved garbage.

I am a biblical plague of discomfort at the moment. I am fairly certain a portal to a mucus dimension has opened in my sinuses. Curled up in bed with emotional support toasty Cheez-Its trying not to tired-cry. 😭🤧🤒🧀

Rented a car this morning. They did not have the vehicle I reserved (😡), but put me in a much larger, newer model SUV. I got handed a brick-like key fob, no instructions. I'm used to these things working like switchblades, right? Press a button and key-stick part pops out. This doesn't.

I am battling a cold and full of delicious Indian food and terrible story ideas. How are you, friends?

My author office trophy merch is just built different. 🩸🥤 #VeraValentine #ColdSweat #OhYeah #OhNo #SentientObjectRomance

I will be willfully breaking all of these like dishes tossed, clay pigeon-style, off the roof of a parking garage. Join me in joyful 2025 chaos! #VeraValentine #NewYearsResolution2025 #BecomeUngovernable

Oh, and a blessed Yule to everyone that celebrates! 🥰❄️🕯️

Figgy pudding from Costco, caramel apple cider from Trader Joe's. Something something 'murican Christmas.

Wasabi flavored fresh mozzarella? 🎶 Don't mind if I do 🎶

Welp. It's real.

Hey friendos! If you're just shy of your 2024 reading goals and need a few #Novellas to get over the finish line, might I suggest some of mine? 😉 (Links in next post!)

⬇️⬇️⬇️ ValentineVerse.com/Appearances ⬆️⬆️⬆️ ‍✈️3/29/2025: Strange Love Indy (Indianapolis, IN) ‍✈️5/8-5/10: Monsterotica (Baltimore, MD) ‍✈️7/5: RARE London (London, England/UK) ‍✈️7/24-26: BB4E (Vancouver, BC/Canada) ‍✈️9/5-6: Villains & Vixens (Dallas, TX) ‍✈️10/2-10/5: Book Harvest (Chicago, IL)

Up-to-date info is always available on my site, ValentineVerse.com :) ➡️ bsky.app/profile/vale... ➡️ Facebook.com/ValentineVerse ➡️ Instagram.com/VeraValAuthor ➡️ www.tiktok.com/@ValentineVe... ➡️ Amazon.com/Author/ValentineVerse ➡️ Patreon.com/ValentineVerse ➡️ www.threads.net/@veravalauthor

Heads up fellow Skyfolks - unsurprisingly, the #scammers are hard at work taking advantage of this new social platform. This is the "thing" at the moment - fake accounts made with mid to high level author names, Gen AI bots cold-DM from them once you follow.

Non book related, But I just found out that I could buy one of those rotating bowl things (a "panner" evidently) that they use to coat candy/nuts/etc and stick that sucker on my KitchenAid?? Hell yeah. I love finding out things I already own can do other stuff.

Yup.

Having a photo finish day tidying up my latest co-write in time for a 6pm upload. Everyone please send good thoughts for the muse cooperating and a minimum of fuckery from Mac in cloud / Vellum. 🤞💻☁️⬆️📚

VeraLore™ 2019: Attending a stilted holiday office party with a boss that's got such a stick up her ass she could moonlight as a scarecrow. 2024: Talking out the merits of a wrapping paper tube dick with a friend, complete with cardboard foreskin and sound effects. Books2Read.com/WrapTap

Me: God I have so much balloon animal merch because of Squeak, I literally can't add a single piece to my collection. Also me: #VeraValentine #Squeak #BalloonAnimalShifterRomance #FunnelCakeSurprise

Tfw an actual, legitimate writing peer mistakenly trips your "oh good another cis male cold DM trying to send me marketing services" the moment you sundown from Adderall and start getting punchy. Pictured: Original DM vs. what I frantically backspaced into oblivion before replying. Whew. 😅

Just a reminder, If I see generative AI covers, images, or pro-AI sentiments anywhere in your BlueSky profile, I will not be friending you. I am a "not even once" anti-GenAI author that respects and supports human-created content, properly sourced and credited. GEN AI IS THEFT. PERIOD.

Apparently pastrami hash is a thing. I had it for breakfast with a concerning amount of dill pickle spears and it was AWESOME.

If I haven't said it recently THANK YOU READERS for allowing me to do this absolutely crazy shit for a living. I am so deeply fortunate to have such amazing support from such incredible humans. Please give yourselves a hug for me, or a lil mental high five if you prefer a no touch option. <3

@rebeccarathe.bsky.social send noods (also hi)

So I just found out, via a comment thread rabbit hole, that you can actually buy a cultivated dozen of double-yolked eggs at some supermarkets. It's cool from a deviled egg perspective, but it would also be hilarious to *seriously* fuck with that one woo friend that sees omens in everything 😂

Hopping a last-minute flight to New Jersey to spend some time with my mom. 🥰✈️

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Hope you enjoy your extra book, random TikTok shop orderer from my hometown. I was tickled to death to see a zip code I knew in the queue. ❤️ Jersey girls 4 lyfe ❤️ #HowDoIPumpGas #WhatTFDoYouMeanJustTurnLeft #WawaGang

Being a child of the '90s, I was absolutely obsessed with magnetic poetry when I was younger, and it never really faded 😂 I'm finally manifesting one of my mental vision board pictures by turning part of my office walls into magnetic poetry canvases.

Spent today enjoying the last day of the Carolina Renaissance Fair! Even got to chat with a few fans, which is wild! Y'all are so lovely 🥰

If you use generative AI for writing or images, including for promo, character art, your profile pic, or any sort of social media post, I am not interested in following you.

I will never not feel like a dork when I have my ginormous gaming headphones on. Combined with my gigantic new glasses, I feel like a caricature. A cool, sexy caricature, of course, but still.