#queerwriters check in: What a week! Very busy. Grant applications and other deadlines, then a bustling weekend with the launch party of the Rainbow Stars Unite charity anthology last night (books2read.com/RainbowStars) and then a poetry reading today. Such good busyness though!

📢 New audio reading (plus IRL storm video and my cosy recording corner) on Patreon! It's members-only, but you're very welcome to join for free. I'd love to see you there. 🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/151385... 🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky #Patreon #WritingCommunity #Writers #LGBTQWriters

Look #queerwriters: I wrote 1 poem, I started like 4 more books without finishing any and I absolutely did not look at my chapbook. I also gave myself the soul-rakes of too much stuff, so what we've learnt is...aim lower and give me more variety 😅 Here is the poem, though, cos I'm dead proud.

I don't have 'bud' #SundaySnips, but I have 'blossom' from A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ currently in third draft revisions

Good time zone, #Marchistics folks! We're starting it out simple, but please go check out my 📌 for the whole month's details! So, supply chains! Will you be working on something new or filling in some gaps you hadn't thought of? How will this be useful to you? (Underground economies welcome! 😂)

Who dat?

I know I'm not supposed to cross the streams, but as my mainstream alterego Hiria Dunning, I've spent 8 months putting this together. ALL proceeds go to OutLine Aotearoa, so you can get some good reading in and feel good about your money helping others if you buy it: books2read.com/RainbowStars

Just had some jehovahs witnesses visit my gay little ass 🤣 *puts their magazine in the recycling* *goes back to gogo dancing to love shack at top volume*

#sapphiclineshare Kallista is a bit more sunshine and Geni is a bit more grumpy. I don't tend to think of it a lot but it comes out in moments like this. This snip is from an alternate timeline story I've been working on.

#SapphicLineShare - Feb. 27 *grumpy/sunshine* From Whimsical Tigress, book 8 of the sapphic touch-her-and-die, romantic suspense Whimsical Dreams series. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompt #Writers #QueerWriters #ButchFemme

#SapphicLineShare 27. Here's the meet-cute of the grumpy/sunshine couple of #ChroniclesOfTheRealms, Askaly and Xiuying 🥰💙 #BattlemageAskaly #XiuyingCotR #LesFic #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

#sapphiclineshare Theme - Grumpy/sunshine If we are speaking about contrasting dichotomy, I share my #harlivy. Same person can be grumpy and sunshine. archiveofourown.org/works/726549...

#SapphicLineShare for 27 Feb: Grumpy/ Sunshine

#LesFicFri "excuse" from A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ currently in third draft revisions

#SapphicLineShare *grumpy/sunshine* From the opening of Remember Monsters, which you should have picked up for free yesterday. #lesfic #lesficfri #sapphic

#LesFicFri 27. "Excuse" I don't think I've shared this one in this hashtag before, and I have to: I love it so much 😂 #ChroniclesOfTheRealms #SayaAshrah #CaptainNitara #Ashtara #LesFic #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

#SapphicLineShare #lesficfri #licoriceandmint #QueerWriters #sapphic #lesfic #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts From One Bad Tuesday - Chapter 10 - We All Fall Down (1st Draft) archiveofourown.org/series/3436765

Congrats again, Anne! You can read her short stories here: 100footcrow.com/one-womans-t... www.metastellar.com/fiction/flas... #congrats #membersuccess #iloveshortstories #ilovereading #nzwriter #specficnz

Happy Thur #lesficfri Friends! 🤗 Tomorrow's theme is ****EXCUSE**** You can have an EXCUSE or someone can ask to be EXCUSED. What kinds of EXCUSING are your characters doing these days? ☂️🍸🤕✈️

Tomorrow's #SapphicLineShare focuses on the Grumpy/ Sunshine pairings in your work. Do you use this dynamic or have an interesting turn of phrase involving either of these terms or vibes? #QueerWriters #LesFic

From page 115 of Eternal Flame, Ashrah showing she would totally be the Dark Urge in BG3 if not for Datusha 😂 (Someone recently commented how they were surprised that Datusha, a weapon, acted as the voice of reason against these violent urges, and... yeah lol) #ChroniclesOfTheRealms #WriteSky

Swapping to page view got the Fann Three getting to the discussion of becoming Travelers: “Fiii… Don't tell me it was another fight with your dad,” Mana groaned as she leaned on the table and braced her chin on her palm. [It was in fact another fight with her dad.]

When Aphrodite created her post-apocalyptic world, mortals learnt the true meaning of Love. 📚 Four-book saga, two already published 🌈 Queer-normative world inspired by Greek mythology 💕 Disaster lesbians ⚔️ Olympian Cults battling for dominance ✨ Divine magic #WSPit #W #P #A #F #LGBT #R #In

After a pause on our Patreon, we're back to our BTS bonus posts! This week, Friends of Quillbert get to hear Eliwood S. Gheist's husband do a blind reading of her WIP, Eyes Shine Silver in Moonlight. This is a big NSFW one, folks! 😍 😘 #writingcommunity #writesky

ROSE OF VERSAILLES ⚔️ LEGO BATMAN In the Stuart Restoration's wake, a fifteen-year-old noble returns home as the flashy, gallant son he's always known himself to be—only to discover what the manhood he's fought tooth and nail to inhabit really entails. #WSPit #W #YA(?) #Hi #Hu #LGBT

Exciting news! I just got my first art piece of Fox and Av'ry! (From @nushdeco.bsky.social ) I love it, and am very glad to finally introduce them to everyone this way! Please meet Fox and Av'ry! 🥰 #DawnsBlood

Hello, friends! Hook & Quill Press is ramping up for our second release, and we're looking for #ARCReaders. Are you ready to journey to Atalantis? If you're interested, hit that sign up link below! forms.gle/RAaaMfXWGD35... #atlantis #writingcommunity #indieauthor

#queerwriters goal share: 🎤 rehearse my readings for the weekend (anthology launch, then performance poetry the day after) 🏴‍☠️ keep on revising A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 💜 📚 SO much organising and admin: the launch, a play I'm putting in July, grant application, article due next week etc.

Curious about Hook & Quill's first release, Bludeye Beach? Here are some reasons why you might enjoy it... #indiepublishing #bludeyebeach #hqpress #writingcommunity

I love how Janeway says "tachyons" in the episode "Fury". Like, my dear captain, you've been in the delta quadrant for what, two months? If you sound that worldweary about time shenanigans now...

Hi #SundaySnips! "Sweet" shows up in the first section of the first chapter, in this bit that I think of as "Klein's prophecy":

#queerwriters line share 'shadow' from A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ currently in third draft revisions (lfg ladies 😏)

Just another day at work for Rafe in Miles From Morning, but work is killing people and he's not all that into it. 🏷️ #QueerWriters (line share day: shadow) #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers (PS The novelty of the snippet graphics from #ellipsus still hasn't worn off, in case you were wondering)

How have I not seen this prompt game before? *dives in* This snip is from Miles From Morning, which probably comes off here as way more wholesome than it actually is, but even neon-noir stories about corruption, exploitation and grief need lighter moments 🥰 🏷️ #SundaySnips #WriteSky #QueerWriters

#SundaySnips Feb 22 These bbs 💙🧡 They're talking about Toctha btw 😂 The alleged "romp" is something he claimed happened like a year ago. (He wishes, lol) I wrote this scene specifically because I hate it when male LIs get stupidly jealous ❤️ From Book 3 of my #Atlantis trilogy.

#QueerWriters Line Share: "Shadow" Something heavy collided with Ashrah, sending her crashing into a cavern. A shadow engulfed her, and dazzled, she raised Yjadzal in time to block Divi'ssim from biting her head off. #ChroniclesOfTheRealms #SayaAshrah #WriteSky

#SundaySnips 22. "Sweet" From Eternal Flame: #ChroniclesOfTheRealms #NetherTouchedSareena #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

#SundaySnips 'sweet' from A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ currently in third draft revisions

I've been editing Eternal Flame, and one of the things I've been doing is implementing the fighting styles of each character. Sareena with her style based on Kung Fu Monkey is so much fun 😂 (Yes, this is when Ashrah meets her and has... strong opinions about her 😅) #NetherTouchedSareena

#queerwriters I revised A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ 5 days out of 7. I wish I had more time! But I have/had grant applications, newsletters and articles to write and those deadlines are coming up!! So the fun stuff has to wait (wow, tell me from two years ago that I just called revision fun 😂)

📢 Sad boy cyberpunk time! No-context WIP snippets from Miles From Morning went up on my Patreon today. 🥰 The post is members-only, but you're very welcome to join for freeeeee! 🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/151239... 🏷️ #QueerWriters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #Writers #LGBTQWriters #Patreon

#SaturdaySnippet One issue some of my beta readers had was that Iona's motivations weren't coming thru clearly enough. I think the way to dig into them might be having her speak her mind more. After all, my cousin who inspired Iona would definitely do so. from A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️

#pretendpanel Yup. Turns out the reason why I kept writing so many lesbian characters is because I am one 😂 I thought I was pansexual. Then I wrote a character who thought she was pan and then realised she was a lesbian, and that made me realise whoops. It me.

He's so indignant I put the cover over the keyboard and he can't keysmash it anymore

#LesFicFri 'delicate' Omigosh, it's the sole usage of the word in A Prayer for the Pirate Queen 🏴‍☠️💜⚓️ currently in third draft revisions

#LesFicFri *delicate* From Tyton, which is on Jae's featured Hidden Gems list this week that you can see here jae-fiction.com/sapphic-mafi...

"Delicate" From WIP 2. Those gosh darn musicians are just too much for Shannon #lesficfri #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts 🌈✒️ #lesfic #sapphic #QueerWriters

#LesFicFri 20. "Delicate" Askaly learns something curious about the usually tough Xiuying. #ChroniclesOfTheRealms #BattlemageAskaly #XiuyingCotR #LesFic #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #QueerWriters

#LesFicFri for 20 Feb: Delicate This is from a still-1st-draft piece I'm writing with an astrophysicist friend. #SciFiWriters, I highly recommend world-building with someone who knows exoplanets well. It's a blast. The mechanic's name is Wisteria 💜 and she is one of my fave creations.

Happy #lesficfri friends! I've definitely shared this before, but it's been a while, so I'll share Gwen drinking in her first sight of Captain Hook, right before Hook properly registers who (or more accurately what) Gwen is... #SapphicFiction #QueerWriters #WritingPrompt