the good news is I wrote 500 words of "big gay pirate/mermaid adventure book," which means it is officially a WIP and not a bucket of vibes that lives only in my head ✨

I love my job with all my heart but my god is it demoralizing to work in publishing as an author sometimes. it's less like being on the outside of a fancy restaurant looking in and more like being in the restaurant smelling everything but you can't eat it yourself 😵‍💫

this trend is perfect when you write disaster characters who have no idea how to be functioning humans 😇 GUARD YOUR BLADES is: ⛸ literally yuri on ice 💙 rivals to lovers ⛸ secrets and scandals 💙 self-discovery and found family ⛸ forced proximity 💙 true love = taking down the system together

There are so many amazing fantasy books with boats and pirates and magic quests out there that it's probably stupid to want to write yet another one, but like 😭 that's been my whole aesthetic for years

3 is not enough Olympic team spots for the Japanese ladies. So much talent 😭 #FigureSkating

Waka (and Kaori) retiring is going to do things to me that haven't been done since Yuzu 😭

Oh, hey, the B&N preorder sale is back now through the 5th. Get HIGHER MAGIC at 25% off and help me keep Max rolling in treats. #BNPreorder @barnesandnoble.com @htpbooks.bsky.social

accidentally wrote like three pages of ideas for a big gay pirate/mermaid adventure book instead of working on anything I'm supposed to today 🤸🤸🤸

I just received my commissioned art for skating girls and oh my goddddddddd I am so excited to share soon 🥺❤️ probably closer to when they'll go on sub but we'll see

after these skating books, I am never writing romance without fantasy/suspense/horror ever again, I am so serious 😵‍💫 I am meant for heists and quests and assassination attempts. figure skating romantic thriller someday, perhaps??

The cover for my debut SF sapphic romantic thriller is now out in the world! Credit for the gorgeous artwork goes to Artem Chebokha!

skating girls book™ is not even on sub yet, with no guarantee that it'll sell by itself, let alone as a 2-book deal, and here my brain goes, getting jazzed about skating boys book™ instead of anything new 💃

the extremely burned out urge to put my paycheck immediately into commissioning character art for one (1) single drop of serotonin 🥺

Oh nooooo, it's a slow day at work and I don't have any edits to do because I'm waiting on feedback and I'm so sleepy and there's a cat on me, oh nooooo, what do I dooooooooo (the answer is couch nap)

having three different window companies all coming to give us quotes today and tbh I kinda want to tell them all to come at the same time and make them have a swordfighting tournament in the backyard... whoever wins gets our business ⚔️

Guess who's once again asking for carrots and peanut butter despite having decided she hates carrots and peanut butter SEVERAL TIMES

at the part in edits where I hate every change I'm making, can no longer form a competent sentence, and want to throw the whole book in the garbage. SO, that means I'm on the right track 🤪✨

currently busting out of my skin because I have SO much to do at work this week and all I want to do is lock myself in a cafe and work on skater girls 😖 I need to share this book SO BAD

Pride month will continue through the rest of the year until morale improves

Decided to try painting men's figure skating for the first time so of course it had to be Adams Van Gogh exhibition with an impasto background

My horrible wretched daughter who hates me now accepts belly rubs and lays on my feet and doesn't *always* run when I approach her 🥺 she's come so far

happy pride from your local aroace in spicy romance publishing, because why not live a deeply ironic life 💜🤍🏳️‍🌈

"They’re not brothers, and before three days ago, they weren’t friends. But now, they’re all that’s left." 🧑‍🤝‍🧑🚀 New fiction today by @sierrabranham.bsky.social: "Things the Older Boy Understands" Read it here: www.apexbookcompany.com/a/blog/apex-...

*stumbling blindly back onto bsky* editing is hard, being on sub and getting repeatedly told "so close but no" is hard, working in publishing during the rise of AI is hard, and finding the drive to say words on the internet is hardest. but hey. news soon. ✨

Okay but how am I supposed to work on edits for a figure skating book when the season is ending this week? 😭 Can they extend it a month just for me... Can we do another Grand Prix series... Please...

Happy Neil day to all who celebrate

Starting the day off ✨right✨ with 8 cubic tons of anxiety and a milk treat in an alligator glass (giant mound of stuffed animals optional)

I can tell it's spring because I actually feel myself getting excited to read and write again after like four months of forcing myself to slog through seasonal depression quicksand 😭

It is becoming unbelievably difficult to stay both informed and sane

gorgeous gorgeous skating costumes on display at worlds 😍✨

I'm having so much fun with this series, the light, the movement, the emotion, the colours - I'm enjoying just living in it

"why do you want to write books about figure skating girls when you've always been a fantasy writer--" SHE!!!!! 🥺 thank you for your time

counting down to when I get to talk more about Skating Girls Book. 👀 in the meantime, here are some of the social media posts from skating fandom that inspired the book in the first place. this book is dedicated to you. side-by-side quad lutz who?⛸️✨

what to even say about Worlds 🥺❤️⛸️ I got to see SO MANY FAVORITES. best reward for finishing skating girls book ✨ MORE SOON

I'm back here..... I'm browsing artists on Insta.......... I leave for men's/women's free skates in Boston in like two days...................... help

The beautiful, whimsical, unfriendly wench who lives in my home 🥰💛

yeah, just give me a sec. I need to recover from the daily horrors before I write my own

small writerly horrors: I just discovered that the Shake Shack in Detroit didn't open until 2017 when I need it to exist in a scene in 2012 🥺

when you have to turn off notifications for comments on your google doc because your friends have so many sweet things to say about skating girls book and you can't be crying at work 24/7 when you have cover copy to write 🥺❤️

I keep it on me at all times

me trying to resist the urge to commission art of skating girls when I just spent an absurd amount of money buying tickets to figure skating worlds in boston at the end of the month and also have to pay the mortgage

counting down to when I get to talk more about Skating Girls Book. 👀 in the meantime, here are some of the social media posts from skating fandom that inspired the book in the first place. this book is dedicated to you. side-by-side quad lutz who?⛸️✨

not editing, not proofreading, but a secret third thing where I have to read through my whole book and make meaningless tweaks to sentence structure and joke punchlines until I calm down enough about my writing to be able to send the book to other humans for actual constructive feedback 🤪

MY AGENT SIBLING HAS SOMEHOW GOTTEN THE COOLEST COVER EVER??? 😍😍

MY MOST WONDERFUL FRIEND AND HER MOST WONDERFUL BOOK FINALLY HAVE AN AGENT HOME 🥰 y'all are not ready for this one!!

after over a year, the first draft of skater girls WIP, my love letter to my most favorite spot, is finally complete!! ⛸️✨🏳️‍🌈 open call for anyone who needs more sporty sapphic rivals to lovers, topped off with shenanigans and a hint of danger 😘

So, uh. The Charmander machine was really easy at the local money-wasting paradise. 🤯 (Yes, we gave most of these away to kids at the arcade!)

my girl thinks she's in a period drama

"Things might be tough but it's great for artists! They'll create more!" You might not believe me but going through a lifetime's worth of stress Every Single Week for years and years- is actually not the optimal set of circumstances that inspires artists to create

There is a lot currently happening in the world that is Very Bad. Here is something that is Very Good: a boozy milkshake the size of my head with an entire-ass ice cream sandwich in it.