#FatedForHael update: I did it. FFH book 2 is currently 123,011 words. Email sent. ✅ I DID IT!!!!!!!!!! #AmEditing #WritingCommunity

#FatedForHael update: FFH book 2 MS is currently sitting at 118,985 words. 1 CHAPTER LEFT TO GO!!!!! #AmEditing #WritingCommunity

#FatedForHael update: Another new 3,880 words today. I don't have the brainpower to edit them today, but that'll be tomorrow Amy's problem. Then 3 MORE CHAPTERS!!! 🤩 #AmEditing #WritingCommunity

Gang... I have *4*, count them *FOUR* chapters left until I am finished this goddess-forsaken edit!!! 🤩 It put me through the absolute ringer in 2025, but I am NEARLY DONEEEEE!!!!!

Do any other writers have a ridiculously long list of words you've always wanted to use, and every time you get to cross one off it's like getting bingo? 😂 #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

When fancy coffee-flavoured ice cream ➡️ coffee-flavoured insomnia. 😔

#FatedForHael update: FINALLY finished the 5,792-word *beast* of a chapter that has had me stuck for ages. It's about 4k words too long for my liking, but it's also reallyyyyy good, so I'll leave that up to my editor. 😅 Not long to go now! 😭 #AmEditing #WritingCommunity

Husband just texted me to say our child (currently out wearing a Spider-Man mask) had a Spidey sense that the place he was buying coffee from would not taste nice... and was correct. 😂 This is what happens when you're a kid that's been to a billion cafés with your Aussie parents. 🤣 #CoffeeAura

‼️ Kindle Daily Deal alert! ‼️ My debut #romantasy A KISS OF HAMMER AND FLAME ❤️‍🔥 has been selected and is now on sale ✨today onlyyyyy✨ for £0.99 in the UK! Get in fast to get your dose of what The Express called ‘the perfect read for fans of Sarah J. Maas’! 📘 amzn.eu/d/fEYGo4E

✨IT'S HAPPENING!!✨ Preorders are now open for IN THE NAME OF PRIDE (January 27, 2026), the highly anticipated sequel in the award-winning adult fantasy Vows & Valor Trilogy! Be among the first to find out what happens when the Happily Ever After comes with consequences. collinsauthors.com/shop/

My latest for @thebookseller.com Thanks to everyone who helped with this one! www.thebookseller.com/news/authors...

At the local cafe out in the country yesterday as I just needed to get out, get some fresh air. Cafe kitty was a welcome sight. 😻 x

#FatedForHael update: 2,802 words today for a brand new chapter. On the last leg of this rewrite and I cannot WAIT to finally take a proper break!!! #AmEditing #WritingCommunity

Husband just came in and told me about Bondi. Jfc, we can't 'thoughts and prayers' our way out of this, Australia. Albo – what's your plan? We need answers regarding the damn guns, we didn't go through Port Arthur to have this shit make a fucking comeback. #AusPol www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Welp, kiddo was sick last week, husband was sick this week, I have finally succumbed to the super flu. 😭 At least it’s before Christmas? 🫠

My kid just called the 1980s ‘the olden times’, excuse me while I yeet myself out a window

Husband published a 45-minute video to YouTube and I told him that's clearly our Friday night family movie. 😂🍿

OMGGG my husband's little cousin just messaged me on IG to say congrats about the book! 🥰 I met this kid when he was like 8 and he's a proper teenager now, which legit breaks my brain – I'll always remember him as the lil kid that skipped down the street with us in Sydney. Life is weird 😂

Up to date on #StrangerThings and realised I had Game of Thrones PTSD in that I was paranoid they were gonna screw something up this season. 😂 So far, so AWESOME!!! 🤘

A KISS OF HAMMER AND FLAME, my debut #romantasy and Book 1 of the Fated For Hael series, PUBLISHES TODAY! ❤️‍🔥📘 GET #AKOHAF NOW: amydelaforce.com/fated-for-ha...

The preorder campaign for my debut #romantasy A KISS OF HAMMER AND FLAME ❤️‍🔥 ends TODAY!!!!! Preorder while you can: sites.prh.com/kiss-of-hamm...

Highly recommend Shiny Toucannon if you’re bi and play Pokemon Go. 😂🩷💜💙

Well, I've done nothing and gone nowhere but after Black Friday shopping for Christmas I officially need a lie down. 😴

Currently Reading: #AKissofHammerandFlame by @amydelaforce.bsky.social which is OUT NOW from @canelobooks.bsky.social. The @netgalley.bsky.social email made me think this was out July 2026 not 2025. Had to bump it up my reading schedule! #BookSky 🪐📚 #books 📚💙

✨1 WEEK✨ until my debut #romantasy A KISS OF HAMMER AND FLAME starts landing in bookstores in the US + CA! ❤️‍🔥 There’s still time to get a copy signed by me with an art print – preorder yours NOW! 🇺🇸 : sites.prh.com/kiss-of-hamm...

Books in the wiiiiild! 🥰🇮🇪 #AKOHAF

2 WEEKSSSSS until my debut romantasy A KISS OF HAMMER AND FLAME publishes in the US + CA! If you're so inclined to preorder or share... 🙏 🇺🇸: sites.prh.com/kiss-of-hamm...

So Henry Cavill is clearly king of the (famous) nerds – but who is the queen? I can't think of anyone but Felicia Day. 🤔 What say you, fellow nerdos?

Husband: Back from the optometrist's, grumbling about being over 40 and having to get new frames for reading. Me: *head whips up* "I'm sorry...did you just say you need to get a pair of slutty little glasses??"

A sample of this evening's #AmEditing tunes: music.apple.com/au/album/mad...

Attention US #romantasy lovers! 🇺🇸💖📚 Enter to win 1 / 50 *exclusive* 1st-edition sprayed edge copies of my debut A KISS OF HAMMER AND FLAME ❤️‍🔥 by entering the Goodreads giveaway! Open from November 11-18, 2025. 🥰 www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

⚔️ A debut romantasy novel from @amydelaforce.bsky.social 🍳New cookbooks 💭Graphic novel series for young readers 🧪New narrative nonfiction It's all here during @dkbooks.bsky.social Spring 2026 Season Preview happening Thursday, November 13 at 2 p.m. ET / 11 a.m. PT! RSVP now: bit.ly/4ocebRy

Welp, between this morning's NetGalley email and discovering my US Goodreads giveaway has started, I'm officially too excited to focus now. 😂 (Link: www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...)

Not me opening my email and thinking, “Oooh, this looks interesting!”, and it’s my book on US @netgalley.bsky.social. 😱🤩😂 Thank you @canelobooks.bsky.social and DK for the best jump scare everrrrr!!! 🥰😘 www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

Any #MonsterRomance readers in the audience? There's an interesting study on rhetoric happening: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Kid just asked if he could get an owl. Marginally better than the PS5 he asked for yesterday. 🤣

One for the #WritingCommunity 📚: silviamoreno-garcia.com/the-ya-boom-... by @silviamg.bsky.social (thanks @sophiavahdati.bsky.social for the share!) #YA

Me to Mercury Retrograde tomorrow.

VF rebuttal to the NYT. Joke’s on you, Times-ers, I’m ruining stuff and I’m not even in the workplace any more. 🥴😈 www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

Okay, so when I was a youngin’, I was obsessed with Honda Preludes (the shape, the kits, so prettyyyyy!!! 😱😍). And THEY HAVE FREAKING REBOOTED IT 🫨🫨🫨😂

On deadline and I'm now at the stage of admin dreams and teeth clenching in my sleep. 🫠

In other news, welcome to the time of year I start banging on about Zara's seasonal candles! 😂 I wrote AKOHAF to the scent of Zara's Chimney candle, and a new one arrived yesterday (I've been out for ages), and now I feel *𝒾𝓃𝓋𝒾𝑔𝑜𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑒𝒹𝒹𝒹𝒹𝒹*! 🤣

An enormous ✨𝓣𝓗𝓐𝓝𝓚 𝓨𝓞𝓤✨ to @libraryjournal.bsky.social for the interview, and for including my debut #romantasy A KISS OF HAMMER AND FLAME in LJ’s 1st romantasy preview! 💖😍🥹🥰 The article’s behind a paywall, but a screenshot is on the last slide – be warned, it has ‼️SPOILERS‼️... 🤫 x #AKOHAF

😱 1 MONTH 😱 until A KISS OF HAMMER AND FLAME ❤️‍🔥 starts landing in bookstores in North America! PREORDER NOW: sites.prh.com/kiss-of-hamm... #AKissOfHammerAndFlame #AKOHAF

First panel of the day: Paranormal Romance to Romantasy with Ruth Frances Long, @amydelaforce.bsky.social, @nadiaelfassi.bsky.social, @anniesummerlee.bsky.social and Sophie Jarrell

Day 2 at WFC. Time for some paranormal romance & romantasy: how did we get here? Do tropes matter? And what is the expected level of spice these days, anyway? Here’s @rflong.bsky.social @amydelaforce.bsky.social @nadiaelfassi.bsky.social @anniesummerlee.bsky.social & mod Sophie Jarrell.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL: M&S have lamingtons!!!!! 😍 Do slice the jam and cream rosette off the top and smush it into your halved cakey part for maximum effect. 🥰 #ExpatLife 🇦🇺

Today’s the day, and on my way! @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social #WorldFantasyCon

These FREE BOOKS including selections from @davidmbarnett.bsky.social @amydelaforce.bsky.social @stephellis.bsky.social @clhellisen.bsky.social @bethkesh.bsky.social and more!

Heads-up to @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social attendees - I just logged into the members area of the website for the first time since I got my ticket, and there are FREE BOOKS waiting for you. This has been a public service announcement. Another follows 🧵⬇️