Me: I’m going to finish all the things during the last week of the year! My body: Here’s the worst stomach bug you’ve had in recent memory🤢

I earned a promotion and raise at my job!

Not sure who will see this with my account's current reach, but... What, if any, advertising have you found to be effective for selling your books? What platforms seem to work? #booksky #writingcommunity #indieauthor

When your main character is a thief, there tends to be a lot of "doctoring" of identities 😅 #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

A breath of winter air #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

I’d like to read some K. J. Charles in 2026. What’s a good intro book?

EMERGENCY UPDATE: We need a little help to get through the last few days of 2025. I know this is a hard ask right before Christmas, but it would mean so much if you can just share this ask. Thank you. gofund.me/5519f2684

I can't not share a snippet when it has a pun in it 😄 #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #BookSky

STOP open a blank doc/notebook write down every single indulgent, melodramatic, cliché, "I will buy a book with this thing every time" trope that you're a sucker for guess what if you can do it well you can do it WRITE what YOU want to READ, friends eat your damn dessert

The courts have ruled multiple times that AI output isn't copyrightable because it has no author meaning: 1) AI writing is public domain. You don't own any of it. 2) You can't be sure that the writing in your piece isn't stolen, because authorship be damned, you are responsible for what you sell.

I wrote almost 1,400 words today 💃

Don't let Canada go down the same road as the US and UK on trans rights. Sign this, then make sure to verify your signature via the email link so it counts.

And please also, AGAIN, never forget that they are inherently unethical to use because no one gave permission for their research or writing to be used in it. It is all stolen, and if you're using the plagiarism machine, please keep that in mind.

A snippet from an almost kiss scene! #Smutcember #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #BookSky

Fancy a post-Christmas Regency and sapphic chill reading sesh in your pjs? Like and repost this skeet (is that really what we call them?) for a chance to win one of 3 signed copies of THE UNLIKELY PURSUIT OF MARY BENNET! Open worldwide until midnight 23rd Dec, winners drawn on Christmas Eve.

a first draft snippet that might not make it to future drafts, but it exists for now #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Me: (working on novel) Brain: Hey, got a great idea for a novel. Not this novel. Me: (typing) Not now, brain. Brain: Don't you wanna know what it is? Me: NOT NOW, BRAIN Brain: I'm not gonna lie, it's SUPER cool Me: LET ME FINISH THE NOVEL IN FRONT OF ME, BRAIN Brain: Okay, I'm gonna tell you

Remember that dingus the other day scolding about how it's pointless to yell at "big companies" about their acceptance or use of AI?

Not in a box. Not with a fox. I do not want it, Sam Am I. I do not want your gen AI.

Here in Delaware we have a statue of Thomas Garrett, a white man found guilty of obstructing the recapture of fugitives from slavery – ordered to pay damages to the point of ruin for it. We don't, to my knowledge, have any statues celebrating the judges or jury members who found him guilty.

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

Ch. 33 is done! Only 4 more chapters to write until I finish this first draft😅

I hate how much I enjoyed this BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦

when the pretend duel turns spicy #Smutcember #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #QueerWriters

This whole thread but especially the point about asking your librarian instead. As I keep telling people, genAI hallucination rate: 30-80%; librarian hallucination rate: 0%

Just a reminder that ICE didn't exist until 2002. It's not some longstanding institution that must be maintained. It was created as a knee-jerk reaction to 9/11, and it could be gotten rid of as easily as it was created.

Relieved to finally get my Anthropic settlement claim filed after nudging by @mostlybree.kitrocha.com and @courtneymilan.com Get it done, everyone! Don't wait for the deadline, because things always go wrong when filing stuff electronically at the last minute. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

A beta reader left a comment on my YA fantasy book about shapeshifters which I have since shelved, but it was my first time writing a sapphic romance, so it was very validating: "Leah, I need them to kiss already like I know it's only their second interaction but the chemistry is REAL"

the best coat ever #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #BookSky #WritingPrompts

friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.

when I finish this draft, I get to commission character art. when I finish this draft, I get to commission character art. when I finish this draft, I get to commission character art. when I---

"I was going to go on the run with Vivee and Britha."

With the way the lock is connected to the box, the tumblers are primed to move in a specific pattern—the one that matches the key to open it. But if the tumblers deviate even a little, they’ll smash down onto the tube, breaking it. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrmpts

I survived the dentist so now I’m treating myself to breakfast at a restaurant 😅

Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it. So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:

Ness hooks a foot behind the spy’s ankle and shoves forward, sending her tumbling to the floor. Before Melirin can recover from the fall, Ness darts to the windowsill and climbs atop it. She doesn’t turn to see if she follows behind her. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

As an author I think it's important we push ourselves away from being horny about domineering billionaires and towards horny about intense but skilled workers.

the only public health messaging that matters ☝🏿

#smutcember 4 Oh gosh this thread is gonna go all day because I can talk about this endlessly. There are so many answers to this and they're all good and correct and part of it. 1) the characters should find something intriguing about each other, even if it's as simple as "what's their deal?" 🧵

SO excited to be able to share the US cover of THE SEA HIDES ITS DEAD! Coming July 2026, from @orbitbooks.bsky.social Trapped in an underwater cave, a group of academics searching for the cult of the mythical Leviathan learn that the only way out of her ever-changing cloister… is further in. 👀🌊🔪

To give you an idea of the ridiculous tone of my Be Gay Do Crimes WIP: the male love interest will go into the final battle wearing a comfy robe over borrowed clothes that are too small for him

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

What if Pride and Prejudice had magic? What if patriarchy prevented women from reaching their magical potential but also treated the rare magical women as prized broodmares? What if those women rebelled?

A synonym for today's #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

A kid has been coming into the library every day to ask if the latest Warriors graphic novel has arrived for him. Today, he got to check it out and he legit did a happy dance 🥺🥺🥺

Relatable Corvid

What about the folk makes it a freak, Spotify??

Ch. 32 is done and I've reached 70k!

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.