Hi! If we followed each other bc of a political type list, that's great. I am a boo-fascists person, so greetings to you! One thing though--I mostly talk about my books & art here. Sometimes I post things I'm hyping & I invite everyone to join my Patreon, which is mostly free

And a link to my Patreon.I'm also offering them directly through email but I am charging more bc Patreon handles processing so it's less work & lower risk for everyone. Covers don't grow on trees so I'm shaking every tree I can find Link: www.patreon.com/collection/1... #artsale #writingcommunity

I'm working my way through funding a delayed release of Hearth Saga Book 2: Path of Thorns. Part of that funding will be through the sale of very inexpensive works of art. I know this isn't for everyone, but that's okay. It's for the people it's for. #artforsale #writingcommunity #indieauthor

I'm not a horror writer, but you can bet I am an indie author booster! #booksky #writingcommunity #Inideauthors

9/8 Fun! Okie doke Warmth and light had taken their time finding the north, but the season, once arrived, clung like a golden vine. #writingprompt

Hey, I just realized it's the first of September! I can officially release the title for Hearth Saga Book 2!!! eeep Meet my newest baby...still months away from release and currently coverless, but at least she has a name!

Another month another Patreon upload. It's hard to grow a Patreon following & I know I don't use it right--don't require a paid tier for amost anything--but I'm stumped as to how to grow this base. I love Patreon, personally. It's so flexible #indiefantasywriters #writingcommunity #booksky #patreon

8/30 Day after posting about a delay in release, a storm swept through & dropped limbs from our tree into a neighbor's yard. My nose now says it's 2026 for sure. Can't keep this up for that long but I'll post new stuff & follow y'all. Hang around? #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

8/24 Took a week off of most things. Been a hard summer. I hope fall's betterl, but I dont' like the group trajectory, eh? On my end I'm realizing I may need to postpone my book release. I can't do the cover right now. Just cannot. Such is life #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

Listen, I need you to know, if you try to send money via venmo and anything glitchy goes on and the money doesn't transfer and you cancel, you're gonna be shit out of luck. They will not refund that money no matter what they say when they encourage you to cancel the transaction

8/17 Crawl is a good word--verbs are great. I struggled with this one in editing, though. Do slugs crawl? Technically no, but slither sounded so deliberate, like she'd planned out what to say. In the heat of anger, crawled hit more truly #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

8/16 How do you deal with the bodily stuff in narrative? In fantasy, journeys abound. Irl in a car on I10, I'm always in a dead panic for where we're gonna stop next. I feel compelled to at least meantion it once or twice. That just me? #FantasyIndiesAugust #FantasyIndies #booksky #writingcommunity

yes yes yes

8/15 Free Friday--can I go back to harping on the idea of overediting? What I meant when I said we've been sold the notion of brevity as the gold standard is that it always benefitted publishers. 1/? #FantasyIndiesAugust #FantasyIndies #booksky #writingcommunity

8/14 Enemy is a tricky word. At least I can say this scene does not take place in Rus--oops--Alaska. If only we had a Whinset to deal with this crap irl #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

I've no problem w adverbs. Can they get unwily? Yeah. But if everybody sounds the same because they're over edited (there, I said it, there is such a thing as OVER edited) nothing feels new or special. Just use w good sense like all other parts of speech #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

8/13 take two because the uncorrected version was driving me bananas. Or should I say the bananas? 🤣 I crack my weird self up #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy #typosrus

8/13 Thith, again, for that little whiff of cheap disillusionment. #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

Hey #WritingCommunity, New Bad Lit Friends is up! Wherein Kirk and Meagan talk about stuff and things and the dreaded second book. Also bookish drama, and yeah, it's AI. It's our second episode, y'all! 🎉🥳🥂 open.spotify.com/episode/0TIw...

8/12 It's taken me a minute here today to work myself up to post. But, funnily enough, I found this snippet and it's what I wish for us, a split between what is & what could change, so that worked to motivate me through another post, another day #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

8/11 The word of the day is appropriate enough for the real day we're having in the US #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

8/10 Double digits into less summer left! I may have used this snip before as part of something longer but it's one of my favorite bits. I can't recall & feel disinclined to look back, so here it is again. I wish you flowers in these dark days #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

8/9 Snippet day--I ❤️ stories in stories so I wrote this flashback to Valo's childhood for my Patreon to retell a folktale told by a different character in Bk 1. This is why I love Patreon--where else would this little story go to live? #FantasyIndiesAugust #FantasyIndies #booksky #writingcommunity

Going through my posts I see that a few (not the WIP posts but some others) don't have alt text & I know I typed it in there, but then flubbed the posting. Double checking takes like two secs, so I'm reminding myself to slooow down a tad

8/9 Brush the noun rather than the verb & the choice was hard today. Time is strained so I leaned into Thith because he's reliably understandable in snippet form. This excerpt is such a subtle, silly insight, though, maybe it's not so obvious #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

Hash tag amnesia strikes again #FantasyIndiesAugust #FantasyIndies #booksky #writingcommunity

8/8 Lion's Gate Dreams & Goals: Readers. Who might enjoy the nest I've made for this series. I would also love to expand the nest with loads of cool art, mine and others'. Here's a fox in honor of the character, Valo. She's learning to be wily just as I'm learning to be bold with my dreams

Okay, let's do this. #fang #whistpr #author #excerpt #booksky #writingcommunity I really wanted to find a drawing to fit, but I haven't got a fang in sight, and no time to explore that today. So an excerpt it is--not Thith, but at Thith:

8/8 Lion's Gate. Full moon. There's your update! But went with "news" because that's what I have. Thith again. I will try to move on, but he's my social media butterfly. Anyhow, happy manifesting if that's your deal #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

mmhmm...and we all feel ill taboot--the heat is antithetical to life

8/7 Grief/depression/rage--everyone paying any attention deals w these plus a heaping helping of anxiety. It's def in my writing. I try to temper it w humor/love/patience--those are also states on the inky spectrum of mental health #FantasyIndiesAugust #FantasyIndies #booksky #writingcommunity

8/7 Loads of cooler people than I are also doing this prompt but my writing isn't very cute? I wrote a kiddy book once. Very cute. Took over my brain until I'd written/drawn it. It exists in my art cabinet so airing it seemed nice today. Marker on bristol board #Cute #whistpr #art #writingcommunity

8/7 Frequent, as in these posts are a lot of Thith. You might like Valo or Whinset or Raud more but Thith hides his heart behind a barage of words so he's less transparent & scads wordier. And he has bombastic potential so he's sort of fun #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

Congratulations!!! Endings are weird and wonderful! 🎉

8/6 Don't worry, she has a rejoinder. I've removed names but this is more plot than I generally post. "Contest"" subs for "compete" here. "Fight" led to major spoilers. And if you hate this guy talking here? So do I. And I'm in charge, so... #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

I kept my writing private until the 2010s. Then I started submitting & publishing literary short stories. My CV looks great up thru 2019 but I was meh. I felt sorta empty about it. Covid came & I dug in on reading then writing fantasy, my first love. It felt like home & there's the difference

Hate to start the online portion of my day with this, but it seems kind of shareworthy. We're in a mess, y'all

8/5 Two characters talking about leadership while standing in a ditch. I went with "leader" for boss because boss frankly not a word I use very often in any sense. And anyway, right now would be a great moment in history for a true leader #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

8/4 I think I'll throw this out there, feeling salty today. This line is how I feel every single time I hear someone in "power" speak these days. Is it too salty for Bluesky, though? She certainly can be. Gods I love my girl Whinset #FantasyIndiesAugust #FantasyIndies #booksky #writingcommunity

#summerofstory (I saw y'all posting day 4 at 10pm on the 3rd btw. There's only 1 time zone & it's mine. Please synchronize your watches accordingly.) 🤣 I use fragments in Kenzie POV; she thinks the fastest and has layered thoughts. They pop up in action/panic scenes too. Tangent in the comment ⬇️

8/4 This is in fact a hard daily ritual to give up. Today, I chose happy as a synonym rather than certain because I feel like I've used certain before but I don't want to check. Are you happy today? I'm closer to "or not". Thith doesn't care. #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

8/3 Is it weird I was restless not doing this? I felt something off all day and couldn't find the what. I think it's this! This feels--yeah, it's this. Oh wow. Okay. Well, I subbed "pattern" for trend. Is this habit forming? #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

8/3 Can of worms. I couldn't afford a cover for Book 1 so my daughter (❤️!) made this red cover in ProCreate. Her drawing & design. I was & am so grateful. Fast foward she's working/in school... 1/2 #FantasyIndies #FantasyInidesAugust #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

Ah, the #FantasyIndies overlapped with the #WIPSnips today, so I claim full advantage there. Two fun things, one post. The news gave me a full on stomach ache this morning, so this quote was apt to the nth. Thith is questionable, but I relate to his chagrin #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

No more J months! I took the day off Blue to load up my Patreon. I will always hype that because I think it's the coolest thing I've gotten to do around the books. Bookssssss. I get to as that s now it's nearly edited and in prep for formatting! Happy August Sky! #Booksky #epicfantasy #indieauthor

7/31 Last day so I went big. I don't know about Aug but I'll do the #WIPSnips at least some days. Thank you folks for keeping such fun company. I'm excited for your releases & hope all the best for your gorgeous stories, may they grace many needful eyes #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

Pic for 👀. Publishing q: Is there a good reason to do a pre-order period if you don't have a big readership? Like, the world isn't terribly aware of my work & I can't afford ads or flashy covers. So is there really a reason to do a pre-order period? Open mind, would love advice #booksky #indieauthor

7/30 Street v Lane. After 3 attempts & some goofy errors I hope I stick this. Though place names don't mean much in isolation, I feel for Pomo. He's afraid & wants to wait out the big bad. I think a lot of people tell themselves that will work #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

7/29 Opposites count. Slight spoiler for Bk 1, but not too bad. I like using Thith bc he's such a wordy devil, he has entire paragraphs of introspection. In another life I like to think he would've been a writer and less...whatever that hot mess is #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy

7/28 Late start & no trash. I chose an object that resembles trash--a wadded bundle used to kindle flames, if poorly. Neev is hard to describe. The Shoan is a person & has a name. I just always feel quite bad for her. Even when she's destructive. #WIPSnips #writingcommunity #booksky #highfantasy