Disclaimer: Apparently this was so unhinged that when I posted it last time a man blocked me for giving false weather reports😂 ANYWAY... Latest LOVE YOU LIKE A HURRICANE public advisory from the National Tropical Storm Center. #UnhingedPit #A #R #RomCom #OWN #AG #OS #Disability

I don't know how to market! I may have written a book for which I am the only target audience! But unhinged I can do! Anthropomorphic: an urban fantasy/political thriller about ace people, secret incubi/succubi crime and a vast conspiracy Robert Ludlum x The Witcher 3 #UnhingedPit #CS #F #T #LGBT

Lodge’s CHANGING PLACES x NOTES ON A SCANDAL x THE CHAIR There may be better English seminars with real boundaries, less corduroy & no optional bedroom tutorials. But this one is Gregory's. And Gregory is hot. SURFACE TENSION: when student-teacher relations go off syllabus. #UnhingedPit #A #WIP #UP

What's more unhinged than doing more than 3 posts? 😏 WAKE, a wildly reimagined BEAUTY AND THE BEAST retelling featuring a hate-hate relationship with: ~pointless fights ~bickering ~name calling ~& this kind of energy You're welcome, world 😈 #Unhingedpit #CS #YA #F #M #R #MH

UNHOLY TRINITY is what would happen if George Orwell and Margaret Atwood tripped on MK-ULTRA drugs together, watched "Real Genius" and "The Last Castle," got the plots mixed up, and then wrote dystopian AU fanfic about it. #UnhingedPit #A #SpF #Q

@kirkrafferty.com, @rytingwithcats.bsky.social and I talk about this phenomenon in last week's episode of BAD LIT FRIENDS. Since my postgrad thesis was about transformative works like fanfic, I am even (SHOCK) qualified to talk about the topic! Don't mean I make a lot of sense but listen anyway pls.

It's Saruman/Gandalf if Gandalf was a fat former actor with wandering dick syndrome and Saruman was kicked out of his hyperreligious controlling family. It's Dracula Versus the Wolfman with bad polyamory practices. It's The Temptations of Saint Anthony by Flaubert. #unhingedpit #a #f #lgbt

Since I have nothing to post for #UnhingedPit in light of recent news with Three Dragons Press I'd like to share my collection of #Hinges from my creepy house.

#UnhingedPit please (Brooklyn accent) It’s got horror, it’s got ghosts, it’s got lovers that used to hate each other but now need each other to survive 💕👻💕

MARTHA STEWART'S WEDDINGS MAGAZINE x SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY Tropical Storm Lainey is headed due south from Slaughters Falls, VT, cutting a path of destruction through the So. New England area affecting all the shitty men in her life. THIS (doesn't) END NOW #UnhingedPit #UP #A #Q

GOOD BOYS DON'T HOWL Like this, but twinks. And the sunlight just makes him ticklish and then they fuck. And instead of a cross it's an edging machine. And instead of Van Helsing it's a sexually frustrated bisexual werewolf... #UnhingedPit #P #LGBT #Erotica Get it here: books2read.com/u/47yLqA

soooo excited to finally be mutuals with my favorite characters from the pirate, the princess, and john ((who are definitely, totally, undoubtedly 100% legit and not DM bots or trolls!)) haha jk! it’s a pitch event day, of course they are #UnhingedPit #YA #F #LGBT #amquerying

Because an agent–author relationship is a partnership. Because I’m nothing if not a team player. #UnhingedPit #Q #A #R

Male fat positive is a big deal to me. That’s one of the reasons I wrote this 90s set #YA romcom. Think CLERKS written for Hallmark by Warren Miller. It’s not a memoir but it could’ve been. We need more male body shapes repped in YA lit! You don’t need great abs for skiing. #unhingedpit

🚨 ESCAPED FUGITIVES ALERT 🚨 3 high-risk fugitives vanished from Agency prison without a trace When: unknown All very powerful & dangerous If you think you see something, DO NOT ENGAGE. Report to your local Agency representative immediately #UnhingedPit #CS #YA #F #M #R #MH

AN EDUCATION x OLEANNA x YOU Please do not answer this personal ad from Dr. Gregory Shipp. I beg of you. He’s ridiculously handsome, overeducated, and will whisk you away to Cap D'Antibes, but please. Just say no and swipe left. (But swipe right on SURFACE TENSION!) #UnhingedPit #A #WIP #UP

#UnhingedPit #A #F #R #W Lionel Price from EYES SHINE SILVER IN MOONLIGHT, my werewolf romantasy. Don't let the whole "cult leader" thing stop you 😉 (jk you should ABSOLUTELY let the cult leader thing stop you) (shoutout to @carska36.bsky.social for making this picrew portrait ❤️)

BRIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN KING #UnhingedPit #A #Q #F #R #R

Heartbroken & need a new🏡to live? Boy, do we have an offer for you! Why not try an Arranged Marriage today? Comes complete with: No Love Pact Plenty of bickering Faking💘for the MIL & the all-important question of “How long before the arrangement becomes inconvenient?” #UnhingedPit #W #A #R

#UnhingedPit Need a date for Saturday night, year 1347? Are you looking for a jaw-droppingly gorgeous archer, who's larger-than-life & full of charm & swagger? Try our new app, Date the Journeys! To download: mybook.to/MyArchersSer... on #KindleUnlimited #Histfic #Romance #Adventure #P #YA

HEARTBURN x Robert Frost's MENDING WALL x THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE Who's ready for a game of Red! Flag! Bingo! THIS ENDS NOW? Uh, no. Bingo first. Second prize is Gregory Shipp out of your life. Forever. First prize? He's not going anywhere. Try not to win. #UnhingedPit #UP #A #Q

I take a day off of posting and log in to find #unhingedpit about to kick off. It's nearly midnight here and this? This is a Canva emergency I don't think I can answer this time.

September 21 #WIPsnips - "disagree” Lucas van Dorn was once Lainey’s confidante and conspirator in escaping Gregory; now he’s a Fox News personality with a so-called “intellectual” show. No one disputes he’s a hypocrite, least of all himself. A snip from “This Ends Now,” under revision. #amrevising

TFW you record a podcast about writer's block when you are only juuuuuust starting to drag yourself out of the Writer's Slough of Despond, and the next day you get a banger session like this one. @rytingwithcats.bsky.social: #unlocktheblock

September 20 #WIPsnips - "obvious” One of the (many) dark sides of a competitive streak? It just might break you. But some losses aren’t losing—they’re saving you from yourself. Another snip from “This Ends Now,” still under revision. #writesky #writingcommunity #amrevising

FREE PODCAST TIP: Recording 2 episodes back to back is a choice. You might be delirious after following a super-sekret interview (!) with 2+ hrs babbling about writer's block & performative bookishness, but it's a choice. Next ep of @badlitfriends.bsky.social drops next Weds. I make no promises.

September 19 #WIPsnips - "yard” Fanshawe House’s plum trees flourish in a specific type of yard. One last, spotless fruit clung to a branch on the day Lainey ran away from her first perfect marriage, seeking rebirth before she disappeared in love. A snip from “This Ends Now,” still under revision.

September 18 #WIPsnips - "red” I wrote this scene in 2023. This past May, I was in the same room w/the man who Gregory is partially based on. How did he let me know he was there? He walked up behind me and brushed my arm w/his thumb. Life imitates art. A snip from “This Ends Now,” under revision.

I said it before: we smell good. Come judge for yourself! Just don't get too close. Have some decorum, please.

Folks have odd ways To get off their rock-es One sicko suggestion? Just write a synopsis! Hey, I haven't claimed to be a poet since I was 17, gimme a break. Episode 7 of BAD LIT FRIENDS is here & we get down & dirty about synopses. Also I get animated about fanfic & the Teletubbies. You're welcome.

September 16 #WIPsnips - "practice” As a wedding planner, Lainey believes in lists. She calls them “life’s architecture, the beams and posts on which to fix the walls of one’s experience.” This list? The hardest one she’s ever written. A snip from “This Ends Now,” now under revision. #amrevising

No need to BYOB (Bring Your Own Bathos) when there's Bad Lit Friends around! We bring it to YOU! Just another service provided gratis by our 'umble pod for you, the listener. 💖 Also we still smell good. We've showered. Fairly recently. (Not together, don't be weird.) #writesky #writingcommunity

Write? What is write?

September 14 #WIPsnips – “award” Instead of tumbling into bed with a man who teaches Romantic poetry, Jenny really should have taken some advice from those fabled bards of romance, Bell Biv DeVoe: never trust a big butt and a smile. A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension.” #amwriting

Episode 7 OF BAD LIT FRIENDS (@badlitfriends.bsky.social) is wrapped! Rylan joins us as co-host, synopsis writing tips from Kirk, & my rant about how Big 5 publishing cannibalizes folk art. Plus my graduate dissertation on the Teletubbies and MOAR Anthropic settlement stuff. Dropping 9/15! #writesky

September 13 #WIPsnips – “pocket” It’s just a dress, Jenny reminds herself. A dress that costs twice as much as her college meal plan. And a girl should be practical—expensive gifts can always be resold. But is it the dress that has a price tag or is it her? A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension.”

Technical difficulties tonight in the Bad Lit Friends Los Angeles studio requires the intervention of @shaneessary.bsky.social. Much swearing chez nous, of the far stronger than zut alors variety.

September 12 #WIPsnips – “worst” It’s Sunday night and not everyone wants to talk about the July 4th weekend. Screwing the guy who graded her Keats essay is harder for Jenny to defend than Kayla hooking up with a guy whose major sin is going by “Scooter.” A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension.”

Yesterday I had dinner with one of my alphas and the first thing she said after we hugged was HOW MANY CHAPTERS OF SURFACE TENSION DID YOU BRING FOR ME BECAUSE I'M OBSESSED There's nothing like knowing your words are connecting, even when your book is still in the larval stage. #writingsky

September 10 #WIPsnips - "outside” Lainey always knew she wasn’t normal. Normal’s boring, predictable, a trap, and who wants that? But love’s different. She'd give anything to be normal when it comes to love, if only to stop the bleeding. A snip from “This Ends Now,” now under revision. #amrevising

September 8 #WIPsnips – “ability” Jenny thought the kiss Dr. Gregory Shipp stole from her on New Year’s Eve meant she’d won a seat in his Wordsworth seminar. It didn’t. She wants an explanation, not exploitation, but she might be disappointed. A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension.” #amwriting

WHAT UP PARTY PEOPLE Bad Lit Friends Episode 6 has dropped and... a trigger warning for language in our segment on the Anthropic settlement. I say the C-word again. The really, really bad one. Starts with a cap and ends with an italism. I warned you we swear a lot! #writesky

My deepest apologies to our long-suffering producer @rytingwithcats.bsky.social who (1) had to listen to @kirkrafferty.com and me natter on forEVER about query letters and then (2) spend 11 hours editing the latest ep of BAD LIT FRIENDS. But we had thoughts! Many thoughts! Some of them cogent!

Decide to elope to get out of wedding industrial complex ✔️ Begin making to-do lists (v important) ✔️ Realize wedding industrial complex makes so many handy-dandy charts for planning 💭 Subsumed by wedding industrial complex 🌊

September 6 #WIPsnips – “dust” A trip to the Strand Bookstore isn't a date but danger lurks inside for Jenny anyway. Don’t ban books—ban the predatory shits who try to convince you to give “Gravity’s Rainbow” another shot while they’re looking down your shirt. A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension.”

It's Friday: BAD LIT FRIENDS recording day! @kirkrafferty.com & I will be talking about something truly revolting: query letters (ew). Kirk says they're not as scary as you might think! (He's wrong.) And in Hot Goss we talk today's Anthropic settlement & I will try not to get too lawyerly about it.

September 4 #WIPsnips – “coffee” Coffee, tea, or… Gregory? He might smell fantastic but underneath he’s kind of rotten. It’s a sultry 4th of July evening in NYC, and Jenny should have made the coffee, no matter what he said. A snip from my #WIP “Surface Tension.” #amwriting #writingcommunity

September 3 #WIPsnips - "sane” Lainey thought she'd outgrown being afraid of Gregory, but her body remembers his terrors too well. Some men never stop believing you belong to them. A snip from “This Ends Now,” currently under revision. #amrevising

Look, I'm contractually obligated to say this, but our latest episode of BAD LIT FRIENDS is 🔥🔥🔥 Seriously, I signed a contract that requires me to use emojis when I'm talking about the pod.🎙️🙄🤺🦠🗿🧷

Listening to the rough of Ep 5 of Bad Lit Friends @badlitfriends.bsky.social: Rylan @rytingwithcats.bsky.social stepped up to cohost so it's laydeez night on the pod! Get ready to hear us blather about writing contests, what happens when you do a booboo and bad people like it, and capitalism. Again.