Hardest: Combat scenes of any sort, I often feel I'm not showing enough or showing too much and am never sure it's as snappy and exciting as it should be. Easiest: Description, setting up a location is my favorite thing to do so it comes easier.

I feel you should be reminded that I wrote a queer fantasy romance between cephalopods who mate for life in the way that some anglerfish do where he permanently becomes part of her body (& mind in this case) & ofc human activity cock-blocks them so they have to blow shit up before they get down 🐙

My mom had me sign the books she bought of mine and is now extra nervous about reading them. Which is fun. I got to watch my son masterfully lie to her in order to get us home sooner too... I am so proud. Not a bad visit really, and yet I am shaky. How is this fair.

Seems when we are over-anxious we communicate in plural, only in online interactions though. Verbally we simply make noises and hope it sounds like words and it understood. Would someone like a very used, definitely broken brain?

The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

Bg3 has decided it's going to be a laggy bastard all of a sudden, which is ridiculous for something what sets itself to 'ultra' settings based on my specs. I even turn that down... I wanna make the conflicted little hero man fall in love with my big stupid knight. Why we gotta make this difficult.

fyi @thedeadlands.com will be open to fiction submissions from Dec 1 to Dec 31, so maybe you want to put that on your calendar and study the guidelines and ring out this horrible year making something beautiful. psychopomp.com/the-deadland...

Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based

It is 6am, I do not see my mother until close to 6pm and yet I am already paralyzed by anxiety. I think there should be a cut-off with these things, like once you've moved out of your childhood home the parental trauma no longer affects you. It stays in the house to become the next tenants problem.

After informing me she won't read some of my short stories because they're 'too gay', my mom has chosen to read the longer stories what contain either gay romance or sex or both. She's starting with #InFog. I'm visiting her later today. Beg your Gods, or horrors, to help me keep my mouth shut?

"Why do you write about this so much? It's uncomfortable." Well, you see, therapy failed to convince my brain that all the bad what happened wasn't my fault. But writing others going through it continues to assure me that monsters are real and I was around too many during my formative years.

An Angel with a big fuckin revolver rips the roof off your building and stares down the ironsights at you with many burning eyes. “FACE ANNIHILATING FLAME… OR STAY TRUE TO YOUR ART.”

HOLY SHIT ONE THOUSAND GIRLS

People specifically asking where to preorder print copies of #WealdandWen is a lovely way to sweeten my day. I may not make much from print sales but it is always a delight to learn someone wants me on their shelf <3

It's rare that I want to yell at someone in the food service industry. I've done that job. It sucks. But I ordered a thing ahead of time and was told it would be ready by the pick-up time...not that it would be put in the oven when I arrived to pick it up and I'd have to wait in my car for an hour.

The page has been updated. All individual #horror #books have had their links updated. You can find print versions here now. You can also preorder a print version of #WealdandWen now. Come get weird, sad and probably very gay with me, it'll be fun. books2read.com/AmberReinke

#Writesky is it normal for Books2Read not to add print book links for you? I seem to have to find and add these myself for everything I have in print.

Was supposed to work out encounters for this dnd session what I am running and instead I spent the last four hours working on a castle town in Enshrouded. Am adult. Do adult things. Very grown up. Very responsible.

Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free” the library bought it. which in turn means that the community bought it. In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.

Mitra of #wealdandwen speaks like she's gargling very squeaky rocks and skips pronouns in favor of species names or her own nicknames. She also has a lot of her own slang... as in she's the only one who really uses it and good luck working out what she means. She's fun to write. Less to edit.

Ahead of The Residents of James Hotel going wide in a couple of weeks, I have updated the file on Amazon, and on D2D to include the short story "Henrietta's Story" on the end. If you bought the version without, don't worry, you're not missing out. It's still on the blog and will remain there too

You may still preorder this beast here. If you enjoy trauma, adorable critters, sexy trees, creepy puppet monsters and the overwhelming desire to ask if the author is in therapy (she is not, this was the therapy, come break with me).

Brain closed until further notice. There should be words to lull you into a false sense of security before my #horror #ebooks spook or disturb you but all I have are images and links. Pick a fear. Coulrophobia: books2read.com/u/31Wa8a Thalassophobia: books2read.com/u/bwJrlO

Anyone under eighteen is a child and if you're an adult who 'dates' children, or defends those who do, you deserve to be hunted for sport.

I take one day off and my brain wants to take the week. What is this. I have shit to do, you useless ball of meat.

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Son insisted I take a day off. No writing or planning or chores or anything at all for a whole day. I don't feel I need or deserve this but he was worried about me. So I took the day off and it is 10pm and I am both too tired and too awake to sleep. I don't think I'm ever taking a day off again.

It took until the age of forty for me to become a feminine stereotype and I do not like it one fucking bit.

Upset about wasting money. Buy chocolate to feel better. Realize what you've just done...

Sad, weird and hopelessly gay... No, I wasn't talking directly to you, but if you feel called out you might enjoy these #queer #horror #ebooks Beneath the Brine: books2read.com/u/bwJrlO Got Your Nose: books2read.com/u/31Wa8a Taglines in the alt-text.

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Anyone else feel like they’re constantly getting kicked while they’re down of late? I’m so tired of unexpected, stressful and baffling levels of (usually expensive) nonsense 😭

There will be no inking today. I'm going to angrily vacuum and see if it stops the jittering. If nothing else the stupid printing trouble that makes me want to kill has resulted in a chore being completed and, I mean, that's something.

I updated the file. Again. Everything looks fine. I can't order another proof even if I wanted to, so this is the final one. The two being sent to me will be wrong...and I just have to live with that and hope the new one prints correctly for whoever buys it while I shower, ink a bookmark and cry.

Somehow my formatting broke between saving and uploading and I checked it. I downloaded it and checked it and it was fine but I checked now and it's not fine. So I have no idea which one went to print and am terrified I wasted money on a proof again and I am actually crying about it and cannot stop.

💥RELEASE DAY💥 It’s official: After 5 years of dedication & passion, Ballad’s End, the thrilling finale to The Faumen War Chronicles, is now released! Feel free to pick up a copy from your favorite retailer via the below universal link⬇️ books2read.com/u/mqJ690

What I meant to sent vs what I sent... I am going to be over here crying if anyone needs me.

Guess who sent the wrong document to print and can't cancel it. Accidentally approved the file I was editing last and not the one with properly spaced text... Which explains why it was extra big.

I committed the sin of leaving the print version left-aligned and I'm excited to see it because of how big this thing will be. I like it left-aligned, it's easier for me to read, but I know that's not standard and there's reasons for that. So it may have to change... but we'll see. >.>

Proof copy ordered, someone hug me I'm scared.

It is unfortunately time to remind you that I have a book for sale & you can find it in paperback books2read.com/mallory-glass/ OR on Amazon eBooks (but I think I will pull it off KU & go wide again). If you are financially struggling right now but need book, DM me, I have 4 eBook codes for free.

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Ooh. I might need more than one post for this one. >.> Mitra's name is a secret because names are precious to her and she'd never tell. The one she gives is of her own invention. She liked the sound of it, has 'me' in it and you can drawl the second half. *I* picked it for the same reasons.

I is sorry for spams. I must share things from others, it is how this place works. >.>

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i wrote a pay-what-you-want solo journaling rpg about death. it's a fun time. hbbisenieks.itch.io/all-our-yest...

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a few years back I got frustrated with the mix of surveillance, short-termism and incompetence in technology and started musing on who really has an incentive to fix climate change and make society and technology truly inclusive: vampires do!