I was just fucked over $1k so if you guys could like sell this bundle into the stratosphere, I'd appreciate it

Y'all follow my author account, please?? @authorkalibenson.bsky.social That's where all my writing updates will be since I apparently really am doing this publishing thing... #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #PublishingJourney #MMRomance

My bank account demands I work. My heart demands I write. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriterSky #AuthorSky #MMRomance #ShortStory #Novelette #AllTheWords

It's going to be the third week of the month before I can poke my head up. 🤔 Memoir proofread 🤔 Queer YA paranormal proofread 🤔 Thriller line/copyedit 🤔 ACES #VCON25 speaker 🤔 Story coaching client I can't complain. I thrive under pressure. (Most of the time.) #AmEditing #EditingCommunity

Doing a little thing in a few weeks. 😏 For the third year in a row, I count myself truly lucky to present a topic that drives what I do and how I do it: Theory versus Practice in Developmental Editing of Fiction #ProfessionalDevelopment #ACESVCON25 #ConferenceSpeaker #AmEditing

I don’t want to be that cranky old lady, but it’s hard seeing people excited about a celebrity’s engagement when the world is on fire. Not a peep on climate change, Palestine, 2SLGBTQIA+ rights, reproductive rights, etc. but a football player & a singer gets y’all worked up. Make it make sense. 🤷‍♀️

It's been a long couple weeks of direct labor, trying to put together website resources, working on my own fiction, and keeping my newsletter going. So what did I spend this morning doing? Signing up for submitting my Reedsy editor profile for review. 🫣 #FingersCrossed #AmEditing #Freelancer

The tenth edition goes out tomorrow! In the first of four blog pieces, I'll be talking about how to expand your flash fiction and short stories into longer pieces, starting with ways to adjust your plot. Sign up here to find out more: shorturl.at/worAQ #AmWriting #AmEditing

1,242 words tonight! First draft is done! #AmWriting #WritingJourney #PublishingJourney #WritingCommunity

Today's end-of-the-month admin work (read: bookkeeping 🥴😭), but I'm still also determined to finish my short story. I'm putting plans in place, slowly, to get my fiction out as soon as is reasonably possible. But I can't release it if I don't write it. or something like that.

Added another 1,700 words to this baby. One more night of writing should see it done. (I'm handwriting these out, by the way...) #AmWriting #WritingJourney #PublishingJourney #WritingCommunity

I just bought my author domain for my fiction works... I... I'm really doing this publishing thing, apparently... #WritingJourney #PublishingJourney #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #MMRomance #EEK

Now that I've finished up @andrews-wilson.com's Sons of Valor: War Machine, I can maybe get some writing done. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #ReadAllTheWords #WriteAllTheWords

Restarted a short story from a few weeks ago? Got in 1,823 words tonight. Hoping to reach 5,000 words before the week's out. #AmWriting #QueerRomance #WritingCommunity #QueerFiction #SoManyWords

Excited at all the writing I'm (hopefully) going to get done this week! #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #MMRomance #SapphicRomance #WritingWorkbook #MeTime

This is my lightest workweek in months. I may or may not be panicking. Literally all I have to do is end-of-month admin work and prepping my newsletter to go out tomorrow. You can sign up here, bee-tee-dubs: shorturl.at/worAQ Got a pretty sweet deal inside! #AmEditing #EntrepreneurLife

No cheating. Post the last pic of your pet.

Yesterday got away from me. I went to my first drag show in college. The outfits, makeup, swagger each Queen (and King) showed was magic. Here's to ALL the Queens and Kings slaying the stages worldwide. Keep glowing like the royalty you are! #InternationalDragDay #DragQueens #DragKings

Tomorrow's newsletter goes out at 8 a.m. Eastern. You've got until then to subscribe for early access to one hell of a service deal. Link in attached post! #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #MMRomance #QueerRomance #FFRomance #TransRomance #CrimeFiction #AmEditing

Nonbinary is a spectrum of gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine‍ —‌ identities outside the gender binary. I feel comfortable enough, finally, to say that I'm genderfluid. I'm not particularly attached to either identity on any given day. 🌈🙂 #GenderIsASocialConstruct

Hard to believe I've had my newsletter for 4 months now. This coming week is special, though. Subscribers get early access to a deal that's been in the works since I started The Editor-Author Perspective. Join the mailing list here: shorturl.at/worAQ #AmEditing #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

I wouldn’t tell anyone if I won the lottery but there would be signs.

Omnisexuality is an attraction to all genders, with an emphasis on acknowledging the nuances between them. Although one of the newer terms, omnisexuals are just as multifaceted as any other Rainbow Family member. Here's to celebrating you! #OmnisexualVisibilityDay #PrideIsEveryMonth

Over the past few weeks, I've been tossing around the idea of publishing my flash fiction in a short anthology. The idea wouldn't leave me alone. I liked to think it'd be something to do while my subconscious works at outlining my full-length novel's second half, right? 1/?

Always an honor to host these every other month. This month feels especially important for our LGBTQ+ Editors Association members. The registration link went out today, so if you still haven't registered, there's still a few hours left to go. Hopefully I'll see you there! #Pride2025 #QueerEditors

On June 12, 2016, the Pulse nightclub suffered the unnecessary evil of a domestic terrorist attack. 49 people were killed, with more than 50 others wounded. Pulse Remembrance Day honors those victims, and reminds us that living in itself is an act of rebellion. #PulseRemembranceDay #Pride2025

My Pride Month 2025 Service Giveaway is underway! ✒️ Manuscript Eval ✒️ Dev Edit ✒️ Writer Coaching Qualify: ✅ Sign up for my newsletter: shorturl.at/worAQ ✅ Email the following to [email protected]: 📃 Blurb. 📃 3–5 concerns. 📃 How the service will help. Contest winners announced in 3 weeks!

I've just had to use Urban Dictionary for the first time to look up whether "hand job" was open or closed, so...that's the highlight of my past 60 minutes of editing. #AmEditing

Representing—and celebrating—those who have lived with HIV for a decade or more brings light to their struggles as well as their victory. #PrideMonth #Pride2025 #QueerJoy #LGBTQ+Pride

Just bought flag poles to finally hang up my big ass pride flags from my front porch.

We are everywhere. We are inevitable. Even if we are silenced and suppressed, we will always be.

Happiest of Pride Months, my girls, gays, and theys. You're valued. You're worthy. You're loved. Stick around for me, alright. The sun will rise again. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #PrideMonth2025 #LGBTQIA2S #BeFree #LiveYourTruthOutLoud

To celebrate #PrideMonth2025, I'm going to be giving away three services to authors writing #queerromance or queer #detectivethriller / #crimefiction stories. • Free Novel or Novella Manuscript Evaluation • Free Basic Developmental Edit • Free Writer Story Coaching Package (4 sessions) (1/?)

Are you on the lookout for someone dedicated to making your manuscript the best it can be for your readers? I'm available starting in early June. (Get a 20% discount on your next service with a referral that results in a new client!) Website: sageediting.com #AmEditing #Testimonial #AmWriting

The disrespect... #AmWriting #ForRealThough #SometimeToday #WriterLife #WriterProblems #WritingCommunity

When I say it is a SLOW burn. It is a SLOW burn. It's close to 40% into my manuscript that both even *consider* there might be something more than friendship. I love and hate every moment of it. Going from outright adversaries to cordial to friendly to friends is... I hate them. 🙄😑🤨 #AmWriting

The third issue of The Editor–Author Perspective hits inboxes tomorrow! ✒️ Three tips on how to edit your draft as you go 📕 Review of Larry Brooks's craft book "Story Engineering" 📖 My latest flash fiction story Sign up here: shorturl.at/5XHUe #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #QueerRomance #WriterSky

I love my echo chamber where everyone values the humanity of other people and enjoys the arts.

That feeling when you get notice that you've passed the editing test of one of your dream #LGBTQRomance publishers and are invited to join their pool of freelance copyeditors/proofreaders...

First three chapters (of 53 currently written) revised for structural and plot consistency. Current word count? You don't even wanna know. 😭📝 #AmWriting #DebutNovel #QueerAuthor #MMRomance #WritingCommunity #WriterSky

A good book will make me self-examine my own writing (yeah there is a tiny bit of envy) but it makes want to up my writing game and do better. I always leave reading a book inspired and uplifted. This is one of the reason reading book so integral to my writing process.

You don't need an accredited degree to learn how to do a #DevelopmentalEdit on your own manuscript. Self-study is a powerful alternative: 📚 Writing courses 📚 Craft books 📚 Professional organizations Be willing to revise, fail, revise again, and fail better. #AmWriting #AmLearning #AuthorSky

Three projects landed in the past 24 hours, one of which has a 48-hour turnaround starting this coming Sunday. Not to mention drafting blogs and flash fiction for my May newsletters. I'm already tired. #AmEditing #NonfictionCopyedit #FictionLineEdit #NonfictionBetaRead #AmWriting

What's that? A CONSEQUENCE?! 🤯

There’s been a lot of skeeting about public libraries this week! Here are some ways you can support public libraries in these Trying Times™️. www.librariesforthepeople.org #librarysky

Do Not Comply In Advance: bossy, already a cliche, implies permission to comply later Fuck You, Make Me: leads by example, directs yelling at opposition instead of allies, easy to chant at a protest or put on a banner

Even if this doesn't turn into anything, Sourcebooks Casablanca (one of my dream #QueerRomance publisher clients) wants to give me an editing test to potentially join their roster of freelance copyeditors and proofreaders... #AmEditing #EditorSky #WriterSky #WINNING

Five days until the second issue of The Editor–Author Perspective newsletter hits inboxes! Every two weeks, you get #writingtips, #editingtips, a book review, and a #flashfiction story with the prompt for your own use. Sign up here: tiny.cc/m0wg001 #WritingCommunity #BookSky #AmWriting

hey it's also ok if you're autistic and you haven't accomplished shit