Bleh that feeling when you return to a short story you think is just about done and realize it needs a full rewrite instead of just major edits

Check out my book, Soul Piece 🧩 There's even a review up on Goodreads now!!! ❤️❤️❤️ All options for purchase are on my personal site, plus more fun facts about my book and its characters: lapislove.ca#books

Sooooo how soon is too soon to post fanfic for my own book that's been out for three days

Happy pride month everyone!!! I'm so excited to say that in honour of my ace main character, I've set today as the release for my book! Get it here books2read.com/soulpiece or purchase the Ebook directly from my kofi here ko-fi.com/s/e642cd3303 ❤️❤️❤️ #writesky #newnovel #romancenovel #indieauthor

Happy pride month everyone!!! I'm so excited to say that in honour of my ace main character, I've set today as the release for my book! Get it here books2read.com/soulpiece or purchase the Ebook directly from my kofi here ko-fi.com/s/e642cd3303 ❤️❤️❤️ #writesky #newnovel #romancenovel #indieauthor

Soul Piece comes out tomorrow!!!!

My book releases in a week!! Let's see if I can gather up enough energy to promote it 💪 (Been bedbound this past week 🥲)

The inspiration to write hit me today, so have a snippet from my m/m #omegaverse #WIP tentatively called Two Bros and a Baby that I just busted out like 2.5 chapters for #lapiswrites

Absolutely WILD to be going through old stories I've written (and hardly ever completed) and seeing like how much my writing has evolved. Like, I'm sure I've made this kind of post before, but like I spent 20 mins on that DND story just trying to get the opening paragraph to the impact level I want

Rereading a DND character story I'll be reworking and came across my favourite part I forgot about: My druid has a suitor that is painfully persistent, so she turns into a panther and charges at him to send the message to fuck off. Would LOVE to be able to do that irl

Links and listed stores have been updated! Only 18 more days until the official release ❤️❤️❤️

It's come to my attention that I *can* in fact publish on Kindle as well, and as skeptical as I am (plus I do not like Amazon!!) I know everyone loves their Kindle so... Setting up for this one serious book lol

Hehehe realized there's nothing stopping me from starting other ebooks on my publishing site. After Soul Piece comes out, it's free game! Short stories (esp omegaverse) will mostly be directed towards Smashwords and possibly Kobo

Cats, tea, and pop tarts in the morning ❤️

I got my physical proof copy in!!!!!! I'm so excited to hold this in my hands after all this time ❤️❤️❤️ #writesky #indienovel #indiewriter #mybook

I got my physical proof copy in!!!!!! I'm so excited to hold this in my hands after all this time ❤️❤️❤️ #writesky #indienovel #indiewriter #mybook

The thing about being an indie writer is even when your book is written, edited a thousand times, beta read, edited more, formatted, and submitted to be published... That's not the end of the work, and there are little things to do nearly every day

How paranoid about being scammed am I? I will message strangers featured in a 'service's' testimonials to ask if they really worked with them. How correct am I to do it? Always 100%. Follow your gut and always ask questions, everyone!

You'll enjoy Soul Piece if you love reading about: ❤️ Ace main characters ❤️ Queer characters ❤️ Chaotic and supportive friends ❤️ Sweet and interesting love interests ❤️ Familial bonds ❤️ Strong female characters ❤️ Wholesome male characters ❤️ Cute animals ❤️ A splash of supernatural #writesky #mybook

You'll enjoy Soul Piece if you love reading about: ❤️ Ace main characters ❤️ Queer characters ❤️ Chaotic and supportive friends ❤️ Sweet and interesting love interests ❤️ Familial bonds ❤️ Strong female characters ❤️ Wholesome male characters ❤️ Cute animals ❤️ A splash of supernatural #writesky #mybook

IT'S TIMEEEEEEEEEEEEE Day 1: Marriage of Convenience

My name is Jen; Hello! Tatter and Shine - bookshop.org/p/books/tatt... The Dealmaker's Gambit - bookshop.org/p/books/the-... books2read.com/u/bxBPpJ *New* In Purusit of M. Lachance - bookshop.org/p/books/in-p... books2read.com/u/3JzAMe The Urban Dragon Series - bookshop.org/p/books/urba...

Me: "man, I love all this space stuff recently, maybe I should learn how to write about it" Me: *suddenly remembers I've got 10ish interstellar novels in progress and many are journeys from Earth into further space* Me: "man, this is the perfect inspirational time to work on my space wips!"

Now that Soul Piece is on pre-order, a weight is off my shoulders and I'm writing a bit of one of my other stories, Sugar Sweet Contract. I really *should* be working on some fanfic since it's been ages, but I wanted something light that was still being grown rather than press play in the middle lol

My book is now available for preorder here: books2read.com/soulpiece #indiewriter #writersofbsky #originalnovel #novelrelease #lgbtqnovel #queercharacters

I'm thinking of also making my book available through a direct exchange through ko-fi for the e-pub if there are people who don't like the platforms they can get it through or want it for a specific e-reader. Idk if it would be a popular pick but it's nice to have options

Loving the new tomodachi life, the endgame ships of my book are all either married or falling in love at this point ❤️❤️❤️

I've read an early copy of this and can say it is a really fun romance novel that I want to recommend to anyone who wants a good book to read as they relax of an evening. Lovely characters and a sweet story! Also it was written by my friend who is wonderful 💜

The Dealmaker's Gambit 🔥Shapeshifters 🔥Found Family 🔥Revenge 🔥Original Magic System 🔥Fire Magic 🔥WLW Romance 🔥Women's Wrongs 🔥Disability Rep 🔥Nonbinary Major Characters available at books2read.com/u/bxBPpJ #booksky

My book is now available for preorder here: books2read.com/soulpiece #indiewriter #writersofbsky #originalnovel #novelrelease #lgbtqnovel #queercharacters

Two days after hitting publish for preorders, 6/14 suppliers still don't have it in their sites... Starting to wonder if maybe they just don't have the ability to have something for preorder and will just go live the day it's available Physical proof book is being shipped to me though already!!

Introducing the pets that appear in my upcoming book, #SoulPiece!! I love animals so much and so they absolutely had to be a part of the story ❤️ #indiewriter #writersofbsky #animalcharacters

Looks like formatting finally worked with me, and I might be posting my book for pre-sale in the next few days!!! Holding myself back from hitting that button tonight, but it's 9 pm and I know there's no way I won't stay up all night giddy about it hehe #writersofbsky

Back from the dead (a week-long crash) Time to format!

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How I feel: fuck gen-AI

So dangerous to casually know a writer. They might use your name to commit atrocities in their book. Naming characters directly after friends is too close, and coming up with names is a hassle... I apologize to my old regular customer who's a sweetheart but I named an antagonist after 😅

Website is LIVE! lapislove.ca

Exploring new coding things!! I can't code myself much but I found out I *can* understand editing certain elements in it hehe

Not gonna edit it but thinking about how Soul Piece would be reallllly good with the main character having been reborn, if I knew about that concept 10 years ago the first version might have had an understandable rather than way-too-intense beginning

Adding a written playlist of character songs for my book and uhhhhhh how do I have this much Ed Sheeran when I've never listened to him casually outside of recommended songs about content pining? Also found out I have a couple artists a couple of times, never noticed in the last 6 years of this list

Sure I can make all my OC's houses in Sims but can I do it in Webkinz,,,

Making website, making making website, take an embed and I load in in the website, (This post might also show up on the website lmao)

Whether you’re a parent, a child, or a book-loving citizen, we all agree: the government has no right telling us what we and our children are permitted to read. HR 7661 is on the move through the US Congress. Grab this script - action.everylibrary.org/callhr7661 - and call your rep today!

Not sure what to do with myself while beta reading is in progress so I'm setting up my website! After a week of research, I figured out what to do and how to do it. Now it just takes time.... and a domain once they stop lying that the ones I want are available lol

Editing done, Soul Piece has been sent to beta! I'm trying my hardest not to jump around from being so excited! Release date will be June 1st~

Fun fact about my book: I rewrote it 3 times, and a character that only appeared the 3rd time as a result of me liking him from an AU of mine ended up bringing with him a giant plot point and many opportunities for the main ship to get closer

Wrist do not start acting up now

Spent half the day looking at website building sites, only to be mostly disappointed. The options were full of AI, coding, or made my computer crash. "Why can't I find one like Carrd? I like Carrd," I kept saying. In the end I realized: just update Carrd and use it as my official author page 😅

That feeling when you make some placeholder names that are only alright and then after a while you're like "fuck, those are their names now" because there's too much association at that point,,,