IT'S CONFERENCE DAY!! I tried to get a full 7 hours of sleep but I woke up an hour early & couldn't pass back out because I'm too excited Oh well, that just gives me one final chance to tell you that you CAN still grab tickets for another two hours!

My most recent release is The Need for Dandelions! I think what I love the most about it is how the relationship between Galen and Sasha forms and how the support they have for each other helps them overcome hardship. Cover by @nooskadraws.bsky.social

#WeeknightWriters I ran out of spoons for interacting halfway through the responses to question 4, sorry. My self-pub debut releases Jun 2, next week😶 Joel, the MC, is hypermobile, deals w/chronic pain/fatigue & suffers from severe anxiety/PTSD. He uses mobility aids & occasionally goes nonverbal

Line Editing of Commercial Fiction: Advanced with #EFA instructor Amber Helt starts June 10. This six-week course will help you apply your skills to meet readers' expectations of genre fiction on a line and word level. Register today: https://bit.ly/46F4ww1

If you like Grimm fairytales with a dark twist, check out "Found," which I published last week! ✨ Amazon: www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B... Itchio: clarislamauthor.itch.io/found #WeeknightWriters #booksky #YAfanasy #fantasy

#WeeknightWriters Q6 My most recent publication is The Need for Dandelions! Uni link: books2read.com/u/meYkPE Itch: bit.ly/3N1RDWk Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur... Cover by: @nooskadraws.bsky.social

#WeeknightWriters Fairy Seasons is open for pre-orders until the end of June! Buuuuut....There's a big thing happening. It's the Summer Bonanza! There's a lot of books in it! www.backerkit.com/c/collection...

TIME’S UP! Thanks so much for joining tonight’s #WeeknightWriters chat! Be sure to sign up for Storycrafting Sessions: Disability in Writing, our upcoming virtual conference about how to build disabled characters into your fictional worlds & the stories within them

#WeeknightWriters I just announced today that I am in the official process of releasing a novel, but I did also post a blog post today www.aspenrayne.com/post/what-i-...

SPEAKING OF ACCESSIBILITY 👀 I finally have The Dragon Next Door available as an audiobook! It won't be on Spotify or Audible but should be everywhere else 🎉 #WeeknightWriters books2read.com/u/bpVEQ6

#WeeknightWriters Q6 New blog post up this weekend! It's about why editing can take a long time. As an editor with neurodivergence/chronic illness editing takes me a long time, perhaps longer than others. You can have blog in your inbox for free! storyotters.com

#WeeknightWriters I'm hoping to get a blog post out soon for my editing website about bad writing advice and blanket rules. It's drafted. I just need to refine it. It's titled: "You must write everyday" and other nonsense.

#WeeknightWriters That's a great question that's forcing me to dive deeper into my worldbuilding. I suppose it makes sense for the people in power to accommodate disability rather than devalue it because they don't have that big a pool of magic wielders. 🧵

Disability is neutral. The series is all about marginalisation and how people in power create narratives to serve their goals, but I didn't want to replicate the marginalisations of our world. We get enough here, and it's a fantasy world. Discrimination comes from fantasy elements. #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters I'm still working on a lot of it, but it's going to be an important component since there's no discrimination around disability, so it makes sense that the different societies would dedicate more time and energy into building better accommodations and disability aids. 🧵

#WeeknightWriters Both Seven Devils and Godkiller have a bit of worldbuilding around mobility aids (for amputees in both, and also for wheelchairs in Godkiller), with different levels of quality. The sequel for Seven Devils compared these in two civilisations, which was interesting.

All my attention and energy is currently consumed by the heat 🥲 I'm just glad I've still managed to get some work done.

Hello #WeeknightWriters! I'm Jesse (he/him) and I'm both a writer and editor. I'm currently working on a queer fantasy romance series. I've planned most of my writing time toward the end of the week, but I've managed to get a bit of drafting done already 🎉

TODAY IS THE DAY! Our Common Bonds 3 campaign is officially launched, alongside the Summer Book Bazaar! Lovers of queer SFFH, come help us make this anthology a reality (and check out the other cool projects) ! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Join us TONIGHT at 7-9PM EST for a very special #WeeknightWriters chat about disability in worldbuilding!

I'm halfway through The Priory of the Orange Tree! I was starting to doubt I'd get there. The more I read, the more interesting it gets. #queerfantasy

Sweet & Wild is in Bundle 4!! Check it out!!

#WIPSnips - "Unknown" Part of one of my megalomaniacal mayor's speeches from The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle! Such a fun character to write--intentionally campy and yet genuinely mysterious!

I've been making slow progress on my TBR, but I'm loving the books I'm reading. The second #queerbook I finished is Spirit World from DC comics, and it was absolutely wonderful! I loved the artwork, and the story was interesting. And it's always good to see enby rep! 🧵1/3

ACES member @carolinavonkampen.com launched #StetChat on Bluesky, a live conversation series for editors built around editing-related discussions, connection, and community.  Join the chat:

Storycrafting Sessions: Disability in Writing is FREE. However, there are hosting costs & a lot of work goes into this event. Please consider joining our Weeknight Writers Pro Community to help us keep running these events & gain access to year-round writing support 7/7

Romance While Disabled: Writing Disabled Love Interests will feature moderator Jade Benjamin + panelists @caitgauthor.bsky.social, @aebrossbooks.bsky.social, @jayeviner.bsky.social, and @flynnbulwinter.bsky.social talking about the ways love can look different when you’re disabled 5/?

Errant Wings is in bundle #4 with such good company!!

I wanna give folks a space to yap 👀 Indie authors, tell me abt your books!!!! What are you working on right now??? Or what have you published recently???? (Bonus points for queer books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️) #writingcommunity

For today's #SundayShoutout, I'm shouting out @theeldervampire.bsky.social! Gabe released his debut novella this weekend and you should absolutely go check it out! Give him a follow!

Hi #queerwriters! This week, for my #queerfantasy WIP, I'm hoping to draft 2–3 chapters. I'll also try to revise the blog post I drafted for my editing website about harmful writing "advice" that we can't seem to get rid of. Happy writing, everyone!

FIVE DAYS until our virtual Disability in Writing conference! Join us this Saturday for a day of fun & learning so you can write better disabled characters, create unique disability aids, and learn how to build a writing process that accommodates your own disabilities!

I'm a little over 8,000 words into writing Magica Riot 3 so the queer magical girl train is keepin' on a-rollin' and you can get in on the ground floor with the first two novels (and the Jade novelette if you want some 1980s action)! Plus the first song we released! magicariot.com/buy

#QueerWritersChat Thanks for the chat! I love stories about healing, and if you do too, you could check out my books! I have two books and a short story! Sweet & Wild: books2read.com/u/bzNng9 The Need for Dandelions: books2read.com/u/meYkPE Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io

#weeknightwriters y'all already know what time it is Chaos time!!! well, chapters 1-5 but still! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A6: Have you ever wanted to die... in fiction? Hire me to write you a custom death scene of up to 500 words (or longer, as negotiated) where you die in a truly outrageous way! I've murdered over 40 people so far & every one of them has loved their death ko-fi.com/diannagunn/c... #WeeknightWriters

#WeeknightWriters Thanks for hosting! In March, I published my second book, The Need for Dandelions! Check it out! Uni link: books2read.com/u/meYkPE Itch: bit.ly/3N1RDWk Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur... Art by @annthroniche.bsky.social

#WeeknightWriters A6: Here's my upcoming video game, After Work, a narrative game about breaking into your coworkers' desks and email. I'll be demoing it at Vancouver Game Sewer in June! cornonthecob.games

#WeeknightWriters Sales on the Dracula’s Anniversary #Bundle have definitely slowed down this week. If you want to get 28 mature rated #vampire #books for $25, here’s the place! itch.io/b/3663/dracu...

#WeeknightWriters I'm having a flash sale on Amazon for Memorial Day from Fri-Mon Ebook: $5 Paperback: $10.99 www.amazon.com/dp/B0FP3MS2QP If you want to buy my novel outside of Amazon, it's available via ebook on Itch: msocampowrites.itch.io/my-ex-is-a-v...

#WeeknightWriters I managed to get my webserial (where you can find Kukali! and later Kepler and more!) up and running. It's been soft launched for a while but I'm starting to actually tell folks about it! There's 7 chapters up now and a new one every other week! sinserial.net/story/permis...

my upcoming queer cozy horror THE LORD OF THE WOOD has viewpoint characters with (a) undiagnosed autism and (b) chronic pain/fatigue plus a (c) LI with chronic knee pain who's also blind in one eye preorder or add to a TBR now: www.elizmanderson.com/the-lord-of-... #WeeknightWriters

A6, Part 1: I won the 2023 Indie Ink Award for Disability Representation by a Disabled Author for Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! You can find it at books2read.com/iatcS1 #WeeknightWriters 1/2

A6, Part 2: My multiple-nominated short story collection, Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain, has 15 tales of queer life, disability, romance, power, defiance, and resilience! You can find it at books2read.com/spec-shorts #WeeknightWriters 2/2

#WeeknightWriters I DO. I'm releasing my debut novella on Itchio Saturday! Beautiful, But Deadly is a queer monster romance about a trans man falling in love with a beast with a heart of gold + learning that he can have better. Complete with a folktale backdrop! gt-anthony.itch.io/beautiful-bu...

#WeeknightWriters this is a great resource!

The Lake Hopper is the fourth story for my Raven & Bear collection. Youtube: www.youtube.com/@thebrambler... Wattpad: www.wattpad.com/user/TheBram... It comes out in June, so please go subscribe and catch up! #WeeknightWriters #Raven+Bear #WriteSky #shortstory

#WeeknightWriters Q6 If you'd like to support a neurodivergent/disabled freelance editor by hiring me, I'd really appreciate that! Check out my website here: ottersediting.com

Just published In Pursuit of M. Lachance, a midlife vampire romance featuring a vampire with pretty severe anxiety and the soon-to-be-ex-cop who can't decide between catching him and saving him. #WeeknightWriters jwtroemner.itch.io/in-pursuit-o... bookshop.org/p/books/in-p... books2read.com/u/3JzAMe

Jevin's not disabled... he's trans, he's an assassin, and he's got a flute. And EVERY Jevin Darke story (so far!) is in this handy dandy omnibus!