Boosting this goal again, because just when I thought I couldn’t get any lower, my car’s starter is dying and family’s made it perfectly clear that they are sick of helping me with transportation. ko-fi.com/theeldervamp...

I believe the newest characters were probably Cordelia, Taryn, Esmé, & Daelan for my upcoming Seven Years' Love! Or maybe Wilhelmina Nightingale & Branwell Haddock for the Regency Romance WIP I haven't really talked much about yet! #AwesomeCharacters

#NewRelease! The world would make her a survivor... Destiny would make her a Queen. In Darkness Born Book One of The Breaking Wheel The Story of Katherine Parr $4.99 or #Free #KindleUnlimited! #Tudor #Histfic #booksky #indieauthor #historicalfiction 📚💙📚💙📚 bit.ly/4u08lFe

Any hint of fondness dissipated & what was left in its wake was an uncomfortable quiet that hung thick & heavy like humidity before a rainstorm. Rowan’s mouth remained shut tight as he stared into the distance, as if weighing his words. - When Morning Comes #WIPSnips

Going to bed, where I will dream of ✨ enough bundle sales to hit our goal✨

Here's a #WIPSnip game! Show a snippet of your MC being afraid or struggling with fear. I'll start...

In one week this incredible culmination of a story that has changed my life will be out in the world. I started working for the McElroys just a few months before the first book came out, and holding this beast in my hands is making me teary eyed, which I know will only get worse as I read it.

Most recent properly designed and developed character is Faustine Bellange, the primary villain of Blood Price (TaMB 4)! She's a 300y.o. French vampire, who runs a mercenary and information broker shadow business out of Paris, France. She's also one of Sulaf's exes XD 🧵 #AwesomeCharacters

Who is my newest character? Not certain. Are we talking MCs or do walk ons count? I think the newest are the vampire: Scarlet Winterburn, and her ghostly wife: Ember Danse. They are on a quest to resurrect Ember, a vampire hunter killed by her own family when she wed Scarlet and became a vampire.

From Talia: Heir to the Fairy Realm A little foreshadowing. The children of Fairies, Humans, and Elenites becomes a bigger part of the story as the series goes along.

Day 7. Clothes worn dor special occasions. Fancy dresses. Colorful for balls. Black for funerals. #JulyWorldbuilders. #WritingCommunity. @kiraofthewind.com.

Day 7. Plotter/ Pantser. I'm in between. #WritingCommunity. #SummerOfStories. @kayleighdiaz.com.

I've got banned books, health issues, an old house that keeps its hands in my pocket, & am still reeling from the loss of a friend. But I'm giddy! 7 of my books (these four included) are in the Obama Presidential Center Library!Thanks Edith Campbell for giving me the heads up. Grinning like crazy!

So, Republicans think dead people are voting but aren't concerned about a possibly braindead senator? 🤷🏻‍♀️

#FantasyIndiesJuly Unlikely friendship Rose and Chana never really became friends, but there is a respect on both sides.

I’d say I’m a plantser! I plot out the major milestones, and then my characters woozily make their way from one to the next, occasionally stopping at a zoo along the way. (Bonus zoo snippet in comments😁⬇️) #SummerOfStories

#fantasyindiesjuly Day 6 Writing Pet Peeves My least favorite is when you're writing and you can almost picture the word you want, you know it starts with a certain letter, and what the word means, and you spend 10 minutes trying to come up with it 😂

"There is a Santa figure, but it's the goddess Xerfer." "The goddess of greed?" I raised an eyebrow. www.patreon.com/posts/161790...

DAILY DISABLED AUTHOR FEATURE, DAY 17: Steve Hugh Westenra's The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle is a horror comedy fantasy novel. #indieauthors #writingcommunity

Authors! We're building Nothing About Us Without Us, a Disability Pride Month bundle on itch.io. Your story fits if you're a disabled author (any genre, any subject) or if it centers disabled characters. Submit by July 17th. 👉 tinyurl.com/mr2xvaym #DisabilityPride #BookSky #📚📦 #IndieAuthors #itchio

Planning an Asian Fantasy and Sci-Fi Itch.Io book bundle! The focus of this bundle will be Asian authors and their stories; it doesn't necessarily have to be about one's local culture/place of origin in a fantasy setting. Please comment if interested. Will send the form via DMs. 📚📦📚🪐📚🩸📚💙📚🌈📚🧡🦄📚

Do you love Sweet & Wild or The Need for Dandelions? Do you want to support the Trans Empowerment Project? Both books have custom book boxes with items inspired by the books up for auction! (Including a crocheted Muffin the Blink Fox for Dandelions!) Bid today!: tiltify.com/@shadowfaeri...

#SummerOfStories 7. I'm a plotter, but not a very rigid one. Before I start writing, I need to have my characters, my world-building, and my chapter-by-chapter plot outline (which develops from a beat sketch). This outline, however, is more loose, as I note down the most important things that (1/3)

Blair has a toy sword she's kept since she was six. It was a gift from her grandmother. Nadia has nothing. She was sent across the sea to capture a husband, and was allowed no *unnecessary* belongings in her luggage.

... details of this, but this was the first campaign where Ashrah wielded her Mystic Arts against another mystic, and she remembers this after her less-than-friendly meeting with Innamall. So yeah, Asush is a side character created to complement Ashrah's ever-growing backstory. (2/2)

#AwesomeCharacters The last character I created was yesterday! A devil named Asush who ruled over Nibh’za, the Misty Citadel, and became a target after they started launching spiritual assaults against Azzer’fir’s kingdom. I'm still working out the finer (1/2) #ChroniclesOfTheRealms #SayaAshrah

The newest character I am working on is someone from the Anthropomorphic universe. Ray's getting a therapist! (Honestly probably past due) I am working on making sure they are the right level of beleaguered 😂 But, they should also match her well and call her out on things others might not.

#FantasyIndiesJuly Sports Not being a sports person, I don't have any sports in my books. But I should. Maybe aerial soccer or hockey for the Fairies. In the Exile Forest, maybe something that focus on running and dodging, both skills very useful in the thorn forest.

#WIPSnips Being concerned about delays for Quarterly Reports at the *start* of a business quarter is a massive red flag. Virgil keeps the accounting lemures happy. They *literally* keep the lights on. 😆 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Navigations series After her father's death, Elvynn claims captaincy of his ship . How will the crew react? Can she fight off a challenge? #dystopian #ShortStories #adventure www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCNHFJJ...

Evening boost

Right now, THE REANIMATOR'S HEART is in a Disability Pride bundle along with 32 other disabled authors. You can grab the whole thing for $33 for a limited time!

In case you'd like some fantasy novels about the power of friendship and musical theatre right now. Currently 25% off at Smashwords! www.smashwords.com/books/byseri...

#NewRelease! The world would make her a survivor... Destiny would make her a Queen. In Darkness Born Book One of The Breaking Wheel The Story of Katherine Parr $4.99 or #Free #KindleUnlimited! #Tudor #Histfic #booksky #indieauthor #historicalfiction 📚💙📚💙📚 bit.ly/4u08lFe

Fellow authors: Without any context, what's the first line of your current WIP? Magic spoke to me, whispering promises of fortune and fame.

I just updated the blurb for my recently published #spicy #scifi short story: Kranlian Exhbition Tour to indicate it's a #sports themed work. itch: simonwolfeauthor.itch.io/kranlian-exh... UBL: books2read.com/u/mVo8Ar Zon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0H4WYGXXB It's #free now at Smashwords 💙📚🌶️🚀⚽

It was easy to guess what upset him. And, in the bright moonlight, the luminance of the fire, it was easier to see than the shadows of the servant's quarters. She wore her history on her skin, like lines on a map. - my WIP, When Morning Comes #WIPSnips

Microsoft is laying off 4,800 workers today. Its CEO made $96.5M in 2025, a 22% increase from the previous year. Microsoft made $101B in net income last year — and raked in up to $12.5B in tax breaks from Trump's Big Ugly Bill. This is what a rigged system looks like.

🚀 spaceships 🌡️ dark conspiracies 🎭 brotherhood ❌ no romance 🐛 strange creatures 🤖 futuristic 🪐 other worlds 🐈 a rescue cat 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/schU 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/dust-lightning 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56... [ #booksky ]

✨ FANTASY SHORT STORY ✨ 🐉 a dragon (with a princess) 🗡️ a knight (with a plan) 👑 a palace (with a cruel king) 🏰 second pov 🔖 universal link: mybook.to/eJsBfU 💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/the-knight-s... 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... [ #booksky ]

#SummerOfStories 5 Oh this is really hard! I would say I am a character-focused writer (this will shock many) so my prose usually centers on dialog between characters or their internality/actions. Banter is my favorite thing to write! I try to keep my action beats short and punchy. 🧵1/3

#AwesomeCharacters The first character I remember writing was a Hamtaro OC named Moon. He had pure white fur except for a crescent moon on his forehead. Oh, and of course he had magical powers despite the fact that he was a Hamtaro OC 😂 I do not write him anymore, but he's a fun piece of history!

This depends. The first character I ever imagined was Dictionary Jones. No relation to Encyclopedia Brown 😅... who had the skill to solve crime by turning into King Kong. By sheer coincidence, my mother was reading us Encyclopedia Brown for bedtime stories and I'd just watched the OG King Kong...

We're launching an e-zine, and to celebrate, we're doing something we've never done before: letting YOU into the Weeknight Writers Discord for a FREE brainstorming session TONIGHT from 7-8PM EST! Join us to chat about our upcoming issue's theme, Growth, and build your story idea! 1/2

I am participating in the @smashwords.bsky.social Summer Sale. Everything of mine there is 75% off, which means both of my #spicy #scifi novels: Alien Exploration and Kranlian Rendezvous are $1.24, and everything else is #free including my brand new story!!! www.smashwords.com/profile/view... 💙📚

It was a StarWars OC named Cirus Mervin XD He'd be described as a Gray Knight now. He used the dark side against evil, and had a black lightsaber (yes, I was always an edgelord). Keep in mind, this was back in '97/'98. I've reused a bunch of names and inspirations from-- (1/2) 🧵 #AwesomeCharacters

#AwesomeCharacters I know I wrote characters before this, but one who I remember having more of a shape and development was Belladona, a noble-turned-warrior from my Game of Thrones + Bloodborne story. I remember she was blonde and had her castle attacked by these monstrosities that started (1/4)

#WIPSnips -Silverwolf (TaMB 2)- CW: foul language, violence No direct use of 'stadium'-like words in the book, so I just pulled 'fight.' This is a key part of Dominika's confrontation with the man she's been hunting for years. Missing alt text is 'charging body.' My Books: pjccahill.carrd.co

"Don't tell the master he's done a good job," said Searle. "That is for Miss Maedlynn to decide." Darren already knew that Maedlynn was happy. Her satisfaction and pleasance had rushed on him, the crest of the wine-dark waves grazing twilight.