Reading Rainbow started auto playing on YouTube and my 4yo daughter came running to see. She loves that show 🥰

Hello everyone! I'm still around. The flu is still present in the home but everyone seems to be improving. I'm still a bit fatigued but that might have to do with caring for the kids too, lol. Parenting is exhausting! 😵‍💫

I've been under the weather today. Still managed to get some work done, but yikes. I think it's the flu. ☹️🤧🤒

An evil artifact. A city of brigands. A fool trying to make something of himself. A fallen princess hitting rock bottom. A family caught in the middle. Everything burns. LINKS: www.books2read.com/jinxedpirate also: m-walshwrites.itch.io/the-jinxed-p... #BookSky #ReaderSky #Fantasy #IndieBooks 📚💙⚔️

Let’s talk about Banned Books Week. 📚

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Good morning! How is everyone doing today? My plans for the day: a mix of #voiceover and #betareading work. Mostly post processing recordings from yesterday and typing up my reader report for a client. I would LOVE to squeeze in some outline work for #Baneverse, but that feels... VERY optimistic.

My 4yo daughter loved it!!

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Good morning! How are we all doing today? Today I'm focusing on doing some #voiceover for a new client. The script he sent me was very exciting! I'm playing the villain. 😈 #VoiceActing #VoiceActor #Actor #VOSky

Rosa's goals: 1. Don't die (Hard for a sorceress, aka magic 💣) 2. Don't accidentally kill anyone (Even harder) 3. Get laid before being arrested (She's basically playing life on insane difficulty with this one) #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt #Baneverse #QueerWriters #PlotTober

twice in one and with two different meanings!! #WIPSnips #WritingPrompts

This is how we feel right now!! #NelsonPotter #WritingCommunity #authorcommunity #sofrustrated #lifeisintheway #writercommunity

Who’s going to be the 10th person to download my #shortstory “The Messengers” on their Kindle? It’s an urban #fantasy and quasi-ghost story, the plot is poignant, and it’s only 99 cents! ➡️ a.co/d/e6L1wtN ⬅️ 💙📚 #booksky #writingcommunity #indieauthor #ebooks

"He was my one and only dark romance... in spite of it, or because of it, I can't seem to forget him." Getting personal on the Substack about a past relationship, breaking down the lessons for writing the genre. Link in bio. #darkromance #writingcommunity #niaforrestersubstack #SheWhoWritesHerself

I did it! I finished the manuscript I was #betareading! What a fun read!! 😍 Now onto making my reader report. 🤓

This book was delightful, sexy and intensely exciting. Elements of noir and cyberpunk mixed into an unapologetically sapphic t4t romance. Sophia Turner makes a philosophical exploration of human nature into an action-packed thriller. You *have* to read this book.

authors - this is a good time to check and see if your books were registered for copyright. publicrecords.copyright.gov keep in mind that the responsibility varies by contract, sometimes the expectation is passed to the author. if you pub in different names, it could be under a different name....

I'm back home! Time to get back to #betareading. I'm sooo excited. This part was really good!

I have to stop #betareading now. 😭 I'm excited to continue! This part of the story is really juicy... 👀

If you skip beta readers, you end up paying editors to tell you things a reader could have told you for free. #booksky #writersky #writingcommunity #betareader #betareading #writingadvice #writingtips #writing #editors

I'm squeezing in just a little more #betareading before I have to take my son to his appointment today. Busy, busy, busy! It feels good to be on the move, though. 😊🏃 Can I finish this manuscript today? Just 13k more words!

After Hunting Night, Yaffah the NB succubus has been detained along with a group of misfits all connected to Rosa, the sorceress. They await interrogation. Iggy has an idea to win Rosa's ❤️ It's... not a good one #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky #LitRPG #IndieAuthors #Baneverse

Good morning #WritingCommunity, #WriteSky! How is everyone doing today? I get to stay in this morning thanks to my husband taking the kids to school. More time to #betaread, yay! What's everyone's goals today? Mine is to read a heckin' lot. 👓📚📖 #BookSky #IndieAuthors #Writers #Authors

The one where hearts break. Maxton Hall season 2, the series based on my novel "Save You", is on Prime Video. #maxtonhallonprime #WritingCommunity #AuthorsOfTwitter

What did I do today? I read close to 9k words from a client's manuscript and left a bunch of inline comments. I REALLY enjoy #betareading. But now I think I need to get up, stretch, touch grass, spend time with the kids, etc. #Authors, good luck writing! And remember, I can #betaread for you too!🤓📖

🚫 #BannedBooksWeek 📚 4 of the top 10 most challenged books last year were targeted because of LGBTQIA+ content. Why this matters: 🧵1/8

Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. Banned books week is Oct. 5 - 11, 2025 BannedBooksWeek.org 🧵8/8

#Baneverse is my omni-kink trauma fic that explores strange fetishes, taboo desires, and radical ideas. From incest, to noncon/dubcon, to "wow, did they just graphically describe someone getting their asshole ripped out of their mouth?!" #QueerPrompts #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

In #Baneverse, I think this has to be Bruno. Bruno is a beastman, aka anthro-animal person. He's specifically a maned wolf, and he's very tall, strong, and intimidating. The truth? He's a massive softie who loves to dance and cuddle! #QueerPrompts #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Yes! Body language is such an integral part of how we communicate, and I always strive to include: gesticulations, facial expressions, unconscious ticks, body posture, etc. It's actual a common feature in my work to explicitly map this out. #QueerPrompts #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Since #Baneverse is set in an original fantasy world, no. But! I do plan on making parallels with queer history and exploring a timeline where being gay wasn't the biggest concern. (Are you kidding? There are giant monsters out there!) #QueerPrompts #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

I'm Amanda! I'm NB and writing the very queer, very strange, very "good luck getting THAT published" #Baneverse! It's a gothic erotic fantasy adventure in an 80s/90s original world where sorcerers are treated as a global threat. Guess what my MC is? 😏 #QueerPrompts #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity

I'm definitely a horrible queer 😆 I've written sex-positive aces, trans mascs, a stabby nonbinary eldritch entity, & things in the realm of experimental literary fantasy, horror, and poetry. I've also published a poetry/prose collection featuring my own dark art about CPTSD & queer/ND/disabled rage.

Oh I’m an absolutely HORRID queer!! I got gay romances, asexual himbos, scifi and horror stories. b2r: books2read.com/ap/8pprVp/Be... itch: beverlyannemichel.itch.io etsy: spilledinkcoffeebook.etsy.com

And for those of you who LOVE a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure or a Fighting Fantasy, check out the interactive novel/game I did with Choice of Games… FAERIE’S BARGAIN: THE PRICE OF BUSINESS Where YOU can play the part of a meddling merchant of the Untermarkt! www.choiceofgames.com/faeries-barg...

When musicians don’t know how to end a song, they just fade out. I think other writers should do that too. Sketch comedy, screenwriting, playwrights. Have everyone talk softer and softer as they slowly sneak off stage. Novelists can end chapters with gradually shrinking type.

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The authors below were also unfairly affected by this week’s events & still deserve love on their books! Support if you can. After much consideration, we will not be creating a new bundle as we don’t feel it would be safe for us or the authors involved. Full post on IG, inc. stabby quotes ⚔️

A single finger curls on the monkey’s paw, which means only FOUR DAYS remain until #GrimPortents releases. That’s 4 days left to pre-order a copy! Thanks for keeping track, monkey. Pre-order now! a.co/d/ibKExeV #writingcommunity #WIPSnips #WriteSky #Booksky

Rosa makes a fateful decision to help a demon--something few would do. She prepares for trouble, even as a mysterious battle gets closer and closer to her in the dark of Howlsten Bane Academy's Grand Library. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #Baneverse #LitRPG #WeirdFantasy

I'm trying a new approach, one that focuses concentric resonance around my MC, thematic orbits, and emotional topography. There are 10 central characters to #Baneverse. They each embody a theme that relates to my MC's central theme. (🧵1/11) #PlotTober #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

I really did hike up the mountain! No bot content here. Just me and my real goober self. We didn't make it to the top, but we got about halfway. Gorgeous views. 🥰

Not much writing or reading will happen today. I need to take a break from the computer screens and smart phone to get some fresh air! I will hike a mountain with my family today. 💪⛰️ On that note, I'm signing off. Good luck in your pursuits, #Authors! #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky

#Authors, do you know how you'll be publishing your work? Serialized? Self-pub? Trad-pub? #Baneverse is such a strange idea that I'm starting to think it's time to return to online serials. What platforms do you guys prefer? #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #IndieAuthors #Writers #Publishing

Morning, bitches! For years I barely got by. It is fair to say everyone in my life was against what I wanted to do with my life. But I just...kept doing it. People want a foolproof plan to get from where they are to where they want to be, but there is no such plan. Only you can make you happy.

‘Don’t write it right, just write it—and then make it right later.’ — Tara Moss writingforwellbeing.co.uk #writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

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Good morning, creatives! How are you? How's your WIP coming along? I've changed my MC's name three times now, and I'm still not completely satisfied. Here's a bit of October humor. #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity