this one is easy, #LGBTQWriteAThon 1) Blue Öyster Cult's 1988 album, "Imaginos" 2) John Darnielle's 2008 book, "Master of Reality" (plus a bit of real life experience playing in bands)

Obsession du jour: Ike & Tina Turner's 1969 single "I Wanna Jump," and it's wild, fuzzed-out guitar solo intro

I am not good at this game #LGBTQWriteAThon but my critique group suggested Ben Barnes for Danny, and I think Máiréad Tyers (from Extraordinary) would be a great Nykky.

Hello again #LGBTQWriteAThon I write mostly-queer / mostly-romance as A Lee Welles. And I would love to finish revising the Dread Novel and have it ready to query, but that's probably unrealistic. Maybe I can revise the first two sections of it, though.

dreamed i sat down with a big omnibus edition of a paranormal series and the first sentence was: "If you succeed in talking to me, I'll tell you if the banquet will disappear."

oh yeah, the carriers—including the ones that have been perfectly happy to move victims of ICE—are gonna fucking LOVE this

My friend Shelton was deeper in jazz than I was at the time. He introduced me to Clifford Brown and J.J. Johnson, and one of HIS favorite Sonny Rollins albums was “Plus Four.” You could do worse than to give it a spin. (I will also, predictable, stand up for “Thelonious Monk & Sonny Rollins.”

Welllll... I think I have a pretty fun spin on the “babylogue” as a device to demonstrate the solidity/long term health of the HEA. I’m sure I’m not the ONLY person to come up with it, but I haven’t read my variation anywhere else yet. I’m a little smug about it, sorry.

Well #Mememay a decade before my book, Nykky and Danny were briefly in a band together, and they recorded a cover of Pat Benatar’s “Hell is for Children” on the album they made while they were breaking up (as a band)...and breaking up (as a couple).

Aspiring artist and world-class people-pleaser, Caleb, joins an RPG group and falls for the misanthropic leader, Leo, who barely seems to notice him. But maybe Leo is the only one truly paying attention. Cute and nerdy romcom, SIDE QUEST, is out June 12! Preorder now: books2read.com/squest

Friends, foes, and readers: A whole BUNCH of my ebooks/estories can now be YOURS on Kindle for the low, low price of $2.99 - including tales that have NEVER BEFORE APPEARED outside of anthologies! So go on, click around and see if anything strikes your fancy 👇 www.cheriepriest.com/blog/adventu...

the trans agenda is literally just trans people asking to keep the rights trans people had without much issue until a few years ago, when Republicans started trying to take them away and a frightening amount of Democrats decided some of that was reasonable

I tried to do that 10 ten bands you've seen meme thing, and y'all, I just can't. I tried to do bands I'd seen MOST and even that was a massive failure. I've seen a LOT of shows.

think back to your childhood. do you remember when the anxiety started? 9th of November, 2016

Boosting for Chelsea, one of the most talented and caring people I know.

Great time to share this resource far and wide.

"casts doubt" & "raises questions" at my jury service in MA, I was instructed not to automatically accept the police narrative as truthful; I should weigh the available evidence and make my own assessment of the credibility of all testimony. why is it so hard for journalists to admit cops can lie?

I am obviously tempted to go for the low-hanging NOT NOW UNKNOWN UNDER-ICE STRUCTURES but Ran was doing important work providing insights into how and why models of climate-catastrophe ice melt rates have been inaccurate

GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

Manage not to swear when filling out my comment. Please clap.

I really need everybody to buy this book (or at least request it from your library) coz I NEED the rest of the story. (not a cliffhanger, but there's clearly more to say) RIYL reinventing noir tropes, richly weird secondary worlds, slow-burn/forced proximity arcs, characters informed by trauma

Well yeah, #QueerPrompts Danny was fired from a job for being presumed to be gay (he's bi); and he's subjected to a slur after that, at least in the current draft.

For the record, this proposal specifically targets gender identity. You have until May 22nd to submit a comment

#QueerWritersChat I am a weird who sometimes listens to music with words while I write. For my contemporary-ish projects, mostly what my characters might listen to, otherwise pretty much anything goes! although there IS some hip hop that is too narrative for me to write to.

#QueerWritersChat among the many questionable marketing decisions I’ve made, I have two (!) books where abrasive unwelcoming music is plot-important. For “When I Trust You” Derek and Jay make a mix for each other (half metal, half pop bangers) music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

(whispers: Jirel *might* have a token of appreciation for those who vow to support her cause)

I guess I shouldnt be surprised anymore that so many cis ”allies” I know don’t really give a fuck about the trans extermination project picking up speed in this country, but it still catches me off guard sometimes

Little spin on today’s #Mememay coz my MCs might have both replied to an ISO that looks a bit like this: Established heavy rock band with progressive elements seeks experienced drummer and bassist. 3 month commitment. Successful applicants are not afraid of King Crimson or embarrassed by Motorhead.

i have followed Cherie Priest's books for decades, through ghosts, and the spooky steampunk old west, and more ghosts, and my work on this earth will not be done until someone makes a (small budget, practical effects) film out of "The Family Plot"

#Mememay 10 There's a lot of music in my WIP, so a musical 2 truths/lie: I have a credit on a Ramones tribute album Someone (not me) wrote & recorded a song about how @editrixie.bsky.social and I met I once played a gig in a locale featured in a Kevin Smith movie

both my published books are romances with short timescales... a semester for one, a couple months for the other. seeing the couple after the end of the main book seemed useful to show the HEA as real/lasting (especially for the college story). also fun to write the characters in a more relaxed mode.

My WIP does! Many romance novels feature an epilogue with a wedding or a baby to show the central relationship solidified and progressing. And while those can both work for me, Nykky and Danny demanded something a little different, and it's one of my favorite things in the book.

worldcon voting membership/hugo packet is one of the best book bundle deals going, every year.

This is not going to be for everybody! But my WIP involves a fictional band, and the first time I heard "Null" by Sum of R, I thought the first half of it could almost be them (it takes a bit of a turn 4 minutes in and is less like my imaginary band after) sumofr.bandcamp.com/album/spectral

it's not like an actual problem, but the way that cookie preferences keep popping back in my face seems like a weird instance of malicious compliance. here i am, coming back to your site, of my own initiative, to give you more revenue, and you want to ask for more opportunities to get in my face?

well ok, Scyther Cross is an excellent guitar soloist an underrated composer at least half as smart as he thinks he is in his own singularly fucked-up way, deeply loyal

OF COURSE I want this but I won something from Ann pretty recently, so someone who is not me should win this one. You, perhaps?

absolutely hornswoggled to learn that "kraken" is not pronounced with a long "a."

Out today from @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, my essay reflecting on Thomas Burnett Swann's life and legacy as a fantasy writer 50 years after his death. This has been a year in the making and I'm happy there's a piece like this giving Swann some overdue attention!

TURNTABLE PARTY continues with an early Jane Siberry

the inability of the music business to understand that music is art is both tragic and hilarious

Happy May Day! Quote Post with your favorite version of "The Internationale" downtownboys.bandcamp.com/track/linter...

it’s here! it’s here! iz very excite @portersqbooks.bsky.social @blipstress.bsky.social @catfitzpatrick.net

every time i read a sentence of cogent analysis about what the ussc is doing to the country i thought i lived in, i'm on the cusp of a panic attack

Danny & Nykky blew up their band, and relationship, a decade ago. When they both sign on as the touring rhythm section for an 80s metal band they love, they know it will be messy. But as violent incidents plague the tour, their mess is only one of their problems! #QuestPit #W/#Q #A #R with a lil #H

the book that is free changed the trajectory of my life

by far the most useful thing I've seen about last night's assassination attempt. addresses many of the questions i had/have seen others asking

it is imperative to abolish ice for many reasons, and one of them is to make everyone who thinks this is a good idea afraid to open their mouths in public ever again

Me on Friday: That's Fugazi's finest album.