Go support my cover artist! The art is to die for!!!!!

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly a few lines from book 2 of my series that I'm now working on.

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly How about one of my bookmark designs for when the book goes on sale? :D

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly Getting the muse to do it? I'm ADHD as heck and in and amongst my billion other hobbies and my actual job (which also requires writing!) getting the headspace to sit down and just splurge words can be elusive sometimes.

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly There's a lot of books that inspire me (and other media as well) but I think the main one that pushed me back into reading and writing still remains Roadside Picnic

📚 #WritingLifeMonthly I actually spent all day thinking about this and I think this song sums up both Sasha and Beatrix pretty well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt8I...

Ongoing To Do List - Finish World Map - City Map - Finish Typesetting and assembly - Find Proofreader - Make Website - Work out how to actually get books printed - Learn to export to Epub - Pay for cover design - Buy ISBN - Marketing Graphics and soft-relaunch this account

#WritingLifeMonthly I like and hate these areas in different ways and to different extends depending on the weather, phase of the moon, my hyperfixations, and how much of a deadline I have.

#WritingLifeMonthly Larya! We'd be weird weenie friends and could talk about art and comics together a lot.

#WritingLifeMonthly I think I'd be Beatrix. She's a feisty girl with not only a strong desire to learn but also lots she needs to learn about. I think she'd be fun to experience.

#WritingLifeMonthly Recency bias has me thinking a lot about Earthlings by Sayaka Murata (quite the incredible ride to say the least.) but overall my thoughts are almost always with Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky because that book owns my soul.

#WritingLifeMonthly A duel goal - finish the PhD revisions and get it submitted and also to finish putting together my novel for publication.

Sorry folks, I fixed the list but posted the wrong one! Updated version here. #writinglifemonthly

Blows the dust off of this account PhD goes in this month. Then we're hardcore noveling this stuff

Run Like Hell is now available on Amazon and Kindle Unlimited! www.amazon.com/dp/B0FFN365DV #writingcommunity #writerscommunity #booksky #writesky #queerwriters #cyberpunk #horrorcommunity #scifibooks #bookrelease #indiebooks 💙📚🪐📚🩸📚🌈📚

Stardust of Morgrad is back from being edited! Thanks to the amazing @willowtalksbooks.bsky.social the book is now filled with feedback and ready for my final edits and then... the real scary stuff! Time to start scouting a cover artist and making some maps! #writesky #booksky

An amazing picture of Beatrix thanks to the forever wonderful @unkledeath.bsky.social ! Thank you so much for making my girl look so so so cute!

Whilst book 1 is being edited, I have been avidly chipping away at the start of book 2! Set in the coastal city of Kiitagrad, we follow the adventures of poor Larya, who just wanted to be an artist not a guard captain...

Y'all should absolutely comm Sardo because that will mean you will then possess gorgeous artwork of your OCs to cry over daily.

Blows the dust off this account. happy pride month! Stardust of Morgrad is entirely queer norm yay!

Will start posting further updates on this soon! (Tragically PhD gotta take priority for a bit)

It's official! Stardust of Morgrad is now with an editor and is on its way to being a real book! The countdown to all the exciting steps has started! So stay tuned! I'll be posting more soon with details about lore, characters, and maybe even sneak peeks! #booksky #writersky #authorsky

Loving Mitya is the most essential part of my book. He's never done anything wrong ever.

Paffendorf behaviour...

It's official! Stardust of Morgrad is now with an editor and is on its way to being a real book! The countdown to all the exciting steps has started! So stay tuned! I'll be posting more soon with details about lore, characters, and maybe even sneak peeks! #booksky #writersky #authorsky

Just sent Morgrad off for editing! I'm so excited I could start vibrating through walls

So my current plan is that whilst book 1 is with an editor I will be crunch my PhD some more (it's progressing well! just don't wanna fall behind). I'm also going to continue to poke at Kiitagrad and perhaps a fantasy novel as well.

I am delighted to announce that I have (hopefully) found myself an editor! So book 1 will be progressing! Next steps include: Cover Typesetting Additional arts/internals (i want a good map) Finding a publisher A heck tonne of promotion

I’ve started book 2 of Morgrad. Which would be great if I were not painfully aware of my ignored PhD and the fact I need to edit book 1

Cursed concept for a long term project… cross stitch map of the Metro 2033 Moscow Metro

#writinglifemonthly Coffee, tea, and cola are usually my go to options.

#writinglifemonthly I think best in complete silence. I can't even have music or youtube.

#writinglifemonthly I write while sat on my sofa, laptop in my lap, and while screaming into the abyss.

#writinglifemonthly I wish I could write when there were people in the house and not be distracted I would get so much more done!!

#writinglifemonthly Sorry to tag you again @rtrickeybooks.bsky.social but you are inspirational unu I'm also very inspired by my memories of living in Moscow and of walking around my city and around London. There's also many books and games that I draw inspiration from as well.

#writinglifemonthly The exact amount of washi tape I own is strictly between me and god

#writinglifemonthly I've never been on one but I'd like to go to one one day... Not sure on the specifics though because I'm so bad at working when other people are in the room with me. I'm too easily distracted...

My most amazing "resource" (person who I will forever hype) is @rtrickeybooks.bsky.social who is the best ever for talking ideas to and bouncing things around! #writinglifemonthly

Trans rights are human rights. One of the most important aspects of Morgrad being a queernorm novel is that it very much includes trans and nonbinary people.

You're Reading the Wrong Books

#writinglifemonthly Pushing myself too hard through a slump and not giving myself a chance for change or a break. They're very important for long term writing health

#writinglifemonthly Get people to read it and give me feedback! There is nothing better than honest feedback on how you can improve and by getting people to comment on things and suggest things you realld do get better!

#writinglifemonthly A lot of lessons on SPAG I'd been coasting on for too long I now actually use and know properly. I've also learned a lot of new medical and historical facts!

#writingcommunity I wish I'd known that I'd get super invested and maybe planned to do it when I wasn't also juggling an entire PhD WHOOOPS!

#writingcommunity Keeping it humble, focusing on the PhD and trying to keep things steady rather than hit certain word counts.

A couple of works in progress for another series I plan to start once I’ve got a firm grip on Morgrad and such. This would be more fantasy leaning, with three standalone stories set in the same world. Murona belongs to @spiritlullaby.bsky.social <3

Cannot express enough how much I love that the audience on Bsky actually wants to engage with our OCs. We just wanna show off our little guys and share their stories, and people will actually be like "woah they're neatl!" 🥰

#ocsky #writersky #booksky Beatrix wanted answers, and her Guardian wasn't giving them. So when she goes looking and finds a strange man with amnesia? She finally sees her opportunity to get some information placed right before her...

#SFFChat I wanted Morgrad to be about the world as much as the characters, so 3rd Person gives me the room to do that. For my other noves, I'm experimenting with 1st and 2nd POV and improving writing "in a character's head" more

#SFFChat I would say I don't mind any pov as long as the story and characters are good, but I do admit that I'm falling out of love with 1st Person POV due to overdone exposure to it. It's popular right now...