My top reads of 2025! I had a great reading year and it was hard to narrow them down to just 15! I hope everyone is having a lovely holiday and looking forward to 2026 🖤 📚 #books #booksky #readingwrapup

shall we have a celebratory drinkYA revival

(am a complete cinema philistine so genuinely mostly knew Rob Reiner as Jess's dad in New Girl and even in that daft little sitcom he was so funny and so obviously radiated love and joy, what a loss)

Having a break from my current WIP while I get some feedback from betas. Already itching to work on something else 👀

A string of rejections this week. Sigh. Not feeling very festive at all.

I DID IT. It only took me till December to finally pick it up but I read it! And I enjoyed it a lot.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

I don't usually post when I get a full request but I got my first one on my Arthurian novel today after a ton of form rejections and I'm feeling hopeful about it again 😭 #amquerying

May have started an argument on my local Facebook group. Woops. (But seriously, if you're going to try to pass your AI pictures off as "hand-drawn Christmas cards", I am going to call you out.)

THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING x SPEAR All Elaine of Astolat ever wanted was to love and serve Sir Lancelot forever. But when she wakes upon her funeral barge with lilies blooming from between her lips, she must pose as her missing twin brother to find who tried to kill her. #WIPPit #amquerying #F #LGBT

I think I've finished my edits?? Got to do one more read-through but then it's done 😱

Since I've been back on medication I've only experienced the annoying bits of hypomania, like not being able to sleep. Feels like a scam 😭

Cassian doing his best impression of a bunny #Caturday

I'm so close to the end of these edits! Let's do this!!

I write for my day job, but occasionally I do some freelance work and I've just had a piece published under my own name! This was a lot of fun to work on, though it was difficult to narrow it down to just eight characters! #LGBTQ #television www.spotlight.com/news-and-adv...

When someone replies to your post about your special Arthurian interest and they're just Wrong but you don't want to get into an Internet argument

I love social media pages for local cats that are like mini celebrities. There's one called Stella who lives near me and she was in the Pets at Home store today and a picture of her on the cash desk has nearly 300 likes. This is what the internet is for.

I've seen numerous posts about how Taylor Swift possibly confused Ophelia with the Lady of Shalott, and all I want to say about that is, if she really wrote a song about the Lady of Shalott my two special interests would collide in a nuclear fashion and I would simply pass away

I finished This Princess Kills Monsters by @ryherman.bsky.social last night and it was just excellent! Thank you @elvahills.bsky.social for the rec, I really enjoyed this funny and sweet adult spin on fairytales! #BookSky 📚

I want to write but I want to read but I want to draw but I want to sleep but I want to watch movies and TV there's not enough time!!!

You ever unpick a plot thread because you don't want it in the book anymore, and then it just starts to unravel and create 983429 more problems? 😭

Did a last re-read of my Arthurian manuscript after a few months of not looking at it and dare I say it doesn't suck? 😬

I finished How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by @djangowexler.bsky.social last night and absolutely loved it! I had to order the sequel straight away. SO funny and full of heart. I'm going to be recommending it to every fantasy fan I know 🖤

Watching TV with mama 🥰🐈‍⬛ #Caturday

On the last chapter of my rewrites, then I've got to go back and....rewrite the book again...

What's this hibernophobia now

Further to the Great News, may I offer you a Great Cover!

Taylor Acorn's new album Poster Child is just what I needed, perfect nostalgic pop rock. I haven't loved a record this much in so long. 🥰😭 open.spotify.com/album/50YroQ...

I am *this* close to being finished with this draft and I just found YET ANOTHER PLOT HOLE. I'm so done.

Writing police investigation stuff in your book when you have no idea how any of it works, and even LESS of an idea of how it would work in a fantasy context

Managed to get 10k of rewrites done since Friday night! I'm very happy with my progress lately 🥰

My baby boy Cassian being snuggly 🐈‍⬛ #Caturday

I rewrote another chapter today so I am rewarding myself with my favourite passionfruit bubble tea. 🧋

It took me long enough to start, but I've recently got into reading at least 100 pages of a book before I go to bed, and it's done wonders for how much reading I'm getting done! I've read 4 books this month including a 1000+ pager which is really good for me.

Re-wrote a whole chapter and tormented @witchymomo.bsky.social with it, what a good evening

Doing my Waterstones pre-ordering and couldn't help but notice a handful of Celtic myth-based fantasies coming in the next year (mostly adult, and yes obviously I've pre-ordered them). Anyone out there want a Celtic fantasy YA? 🥺

Feeling very smug rn because I read an early version of this and it was AMAZING!!!! I can't wait to read the final version! Congratulations @melindasalisbury.com 🖤

I've been a Swiftie since debut, but this is the first time I haven't found any songs to love on a Taylor Swift album. I like it! It's going to be good fun to dance to and it has some really catchy hooks. But for me it's missing the ~secret sauce~ that makes me want to replay it over and over.

Suspicious at how well this round of edits is going.

Editing is hard but when you make a change and it really improves the book it's like actual magic 😭🪄

How I imagine literary agents react when they see "Arthurian" in my query letter

Today I got back from an amazing weekend at my first Starfury Invasion convention, where I got to finally meet Diego Luna (who is LOVELY!!) and I will never be the same 🥹😭

Been thinking a lot lately about my Celtic YA fantasy and how I just can't let it go. I have gotten SO close! So many times! One agent even wrote me a near-ESSAY on what she loved about it. But it always comes down to "almost".

I love drafting. I hate editing, or rather, I completely forget how to edit every time I write a book. *stares blankly at document*

Opened my draft as I need to get back to work on it and it has not miraculously turned into a perfect book like I hoped. What a scam.

It's a new month, which means my break is over and it's time to get on with my new (and hopefully final) draft! ✍️

I finished my second draft. It's actual garbage but it's finished. Now to have a rest.

How is my second draft WORSE than the first

When you're two drafts into a book that is likely completely unmarketable and will be dead on arrival when querying it but you love it anyway so you keep chugging away at it