I don't know what to tell you. You can't sit at a piano for the first time ever and play a sonata. You can't pick up a tennis racket for the first time and serve a 110MPH Ace. You have to fuck up. You have to be able to handle failing. You have to love it enough to not get it right and keep on.

Our live event this year is FREE to attend. To make this possible, we rely on amazing sponsors and supporters. If you'd like to get involved, we're launching our Patreon on February 20th. Bonus content for you + support for us = more indie author events! #indieauthors #writingcommunity #authorevent

The TBB Press Edition of The Shadow Gate is on general sale now!! The Iron Crown TBB Press Edition blew me away, and book two is somehow even more epic!! If you weren't on early access, now's your chance to grab it! 🤩🤩🔥🔥🔥 thebrokenbindingsub.com/products/the...

Hey! If you're a short story reader, please check out the Unavowed anthology. It was published by Grim Oak Press and features a whole bunch of incredible indie authors... and somehow I snuck in amongst them. My story is called "My Soul Has Teeth". It's weird. Check it out! a.co/d/0a3LGmyX

A conversation I had with my massage therapist the other day: “Well, you’re never boring,” she says. My response: “I would LOVE to have a boring few months.” I mean, let’s be realistic, that’s probably not true. Maybe I just attract this level of chaos as a defence mechanism against boredom, lol.

One week left until my long-delayed house move... I hope. After the absolute ridiculous mess of the last few months, I'm half expecting a giant rock to fall out of the sky on moving day and land on my roof or something. 😆

Indie authors using Draft2Digital, this does indeed work, and your self pubs can now be sold on bookshop.org

COPPER SKIN, OAKEN LUNGS is available NOW! 🎉 You can read my new post-apocalyptic fantasy novel wherever you enjoy eBooks or paperbacks. 📚💙 🔗 www.adamcbassett.com/copper-ash

2025 FFA AWARDS! Sponsored by @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social The categories are: Best Traditionally Published Novel of 2025 Best Self-Published Novel of 2025 Best Traditionally Published Debut Novel of 2025 Best Self-Published Debut Novel of 2025 TIME TO ANNOUNCE THE WINNERS!

My first Patreon update of the year is now live! My Patreon supporters also get early copies of all my self-published books, audiobooks, and more: www.patreon.com/emmaladams

I'm not saying the past few months of renovation chaos have caused me to come completely unhinged, but I just told my phone to go away and let me read my book in peace...

Apparently a book club called "Cosy Silent Reads" is considering featuring my dark epic fantasy book which features human sacrifice and an undead dragon as their book of the month. Clearly the right choice for a cosy book club. 😂

Honestly, the kind of stuff that happens to me in real life is too ridiculous to put in fiction.

Every time I have to get the bus somewhere, I remember why I avoid it. Today's highlights included the guy having a nap on the floor (and forcing everyone to step over him) and the other guy on crutches who apparently hit himself with a baseball bat. You can't make this shit up...

Well, um, I have a Bookbub deal going on this week, if you'd like to take a break with a short prequel novel to Fortune's Fool, in which Kyrra teams up with her mercenary friends to cause maximum chaos and take a little revenge in the process... 💙🪐📚 #BookSky www.bookbub.com/books/smuggl...

I was starting to think the book I'm editing was light on dismemberment compared to my last series, and then I somehow added a scene with an exploding shark, so I guess not.

Death Hymns of Homara, a standalone medieval horror fantasy novel, has officially launched and is now available! Link is in the comment below👇

Right, I think it's time to take a break from the internet to listen to a podcast about historical tyrants.

The world is an unrepentant shit show. I'm under more stress than I've ever been in my adult life. And yet having to spend my Sunday dealing with Amazon's customer service might be the thing that finally causes me to lose my mind...

Readers... this AI shit in Amazon ebooks is something authors can't opt out of and it's frankly illegal, but when did that stop tech companies? The only thing they respond to (sometimes) is customer backlash — don't use this feature and tell Amazon you hate it. kindlepreneur.com/amazon-ask-t...

The Price of Fear is an absolute master stroke of a debut. Lyon has some of the most polished prose & engaging characters of any book, let alone debut, I’ve ever read. Perfect for fans of @misterkristoff.bsky.social & @zbsteele.bsky.social, & honestly, any grimdark piece of literature pubbed to date

Happy book day to me! The theocratic once-masters of the alien half of Chimera's people have taken the system by storm. Mars has a plan to liberate them, but it will take time. Time the Chimerans may not have. Time Mage-Captain Roslyn Chambers isn't prepared to wait... mybook.to/SM18Shadow

Eight hours spent working on the event page for Spotlight Indie Live 2026. Well worth it to see how epic this event is going to be. Who fancies a trip to Shrewsbury in May? #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors #WriterEvents #AuthorEvents #ShrewsburyEvents #BookSky spotlightindie.co.uk/spotlight-in...

THE 2025 FFA AWARDS Sponsored by @thebrokenbinding.bsky.social Voting goes LIVE next Monday, January 26th at 10am CST. Best Traditionally Published Novel of 2025 Best Self-Published Novel of 2025 Best Traditionally Published Debut Novel of 2025 Best Self-Published Debut Novel of 2025 👀👀

All of my books are now officially out of Kindle Unlimited. To celebrate, BUY MY BOOKS PLEASE I NEED MONEY uh I mean I'll be bringing them all to Itch.io soon and will also be looking into Kobo!

The sixth Changeling Chronicles audiobook is out now on my webstore! books.emmaladams.com/cuzeymi8di

Company: We have to raise our prices because the new AI features are expensive for us to maintain 🤷‍♂ Me: I never asked for those features 🤔 C: We gave them to you anyway 🤷‍♂ M: I'm not going to use them 🤨 C: Money, please 💸

Apparently, Jane Austen enjoyed my books. Lol. I swear these AI spam emails are getting more and more ridiculous by the day...

2026 is absolutely dire so far, but I just got discharged from the jaw specialist as I’m no longer in pain for the first time in two years and I’ll take any win I can get. (My knees are still screwed up, but you can’t have it all.)

Yesterday, 280 FREE copies of this dark fantasy went out to alleged humans! Today, the madness continues! Grab SMOKE AND STONE, the first novel in the completed City of Sacrifice trilogy, for FREE! www.amazon.com/dp/B07W5CV3XM

My phone updated and changed everything, boo.

Writing while renovations are going on occasionally leads to me being wrenched out of a particularly intense editing session by questions about kitchen tiles. 😆

First marathon writing day for a while! (Also… yes, I left the working title visible on purpose 😈)

By some miracle, I'm through the climactic chapters of this edit round and just have one left to go. Let's do this!

Please find my FanFiAddict #bookreview of Legacy of Brick & Bone by @krystlematar.bsky.social the second book in the Tainted Dominion - a superb #gaslamp #grimdark #romantasy below-Read it! fanfiaddict.com/review-legac...

It's one of those "I can't believe it's only Wednesday" sort of weeks.

I think it’s time for a new pinned post to start the year! I’m Emma, and I write fantasy novels. My most recent series is the dark epic fantasy Death’s Disciple quartet, which is now complete and available on all retailers, including directly from my website! 😁 www.emmaladams.com

Oh hey, I completely missed that I hit 2K followers! *waves awkwardly*

Current status: editing while waiting for deliveries in a freezing house with the water and heating turned off. I’m starting to think of 2026 as some kind of endurance sport, tbh. 🫠

First writing session in my new office while waiting for the fitters to show up to start dismantling my kitchen. (I would be more enthused about the snow if I didn’t have four deliveries scheduled for tomorrow… 😬)

If you are a self-published / indie SFFH writer or reviewer, I have exciting news. We’ve just soft launched our new site, BookMatch, a matchmaking site for reviewers and books. We’re currently recruiting reviewers to our community. Want to be part of it? Come sign up! bookmatch.co.uk

2026 really isn't pulling punches so far. Damn.

Good luck to all SPFBO entrants today!

Posted my first review of the year, for Carved Amidst the Shadows by MT Fontaine - a really strong debut epic fantasy novel! fanfiaddict.com/review-carve...

Oh yeah, and we got snow.

I have to say I hoped 2026 would give me a couple of days to breathe before it started piling stress on my head, but noooo....

Whee, my first sale for the year on my direct store just came in! I was poking around in my spreadsheets and looks like I’m close to reaching 1000 lifetime sales from my website, which is all kinds of awesome. 😁

Happy New Year! 🎉

I think the word I'd use to sum up my 2025 is "chaotic". Some good stuff I did: - Finished the Death's Disciple series with my longest book (and best Kickstarter) yet - Went to Egypt! - Started physiotherapy - Went on a bunch of hikes - Became a homeowner! ... no wonder I'm tired.

The #SPFBO contest will open to new entries at 11am GMT on January 3rd. It will remain open to entries for 24 hours. After which 300 novels will be randomly selected to go forward into the contest.