i started this series bc i wanted to write a woman in her 30s with sciatica + a manic pixie madman in alt-Australia with lots of gothic and blood + a slightly sentient Tea House now we're at book 5/6 with book 6 to come later this year aka, the PERFECT time to jump into the Kickstarter

UPDATE: the little dog (mine) has taught the big dog (mum's) to make the cute little bark sound he makes when he wants some of my food the problem is, big dog does not have access to a "cute" bark and instead lets out a "rumbles in the pit of hell" sort of sound instead

how my day is going:

unfair that all of the dogs are still asleep and i am AWAKE

today in the life of an author: *tried to write *accidentally did my newsletter instead *tried to write *blew my nose too many times instead *tried to write *fiddled around with canva to make unhinged valentines day cards *tried to write *unloaded the dishwasher instead HELP

it’s nearly valentine’s day and the Shattered World characters are Expressing Their Emotions

me to mr google

It's not even midnight and we're already at "Deport Elmo."

me watching all the instagram alternate fashion girls doing their valentine's day outfit inspo vids even though i have no boyfriend 👁️👄👁️

hey so it turns out that there is only *just over two weeks* before the Splintered Loyalty Kickstarter begins??? so you definitely should be on the prelaunch page and clicking "notify me" so you don't miss the start of it! get your Aussie Urban Fantasy here! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrg...

there are heaps of amazing things about being a writer, but one of the best is having access to writer friends' books before publication i've been nomming on gorgeous books from both Kate Stradling & Claire Trella Hill (@tallndiabolical.bsky.social) and you guys don't (yet) know what you're missing

dante really out here sayin "yeah homer & his mates say i'm one of the blokes; just one of the greats :) so yeah now ya know :) don't forget" don't worry if you forget, tho; this is abt the 3rd time he's aggrandised and immortalised himself in the cantos and it deffo won't be the last good for him

a bit of dante with my ricebubbles is going down well; at least i'm awake now cantos 4 & 5, here we go

the quote marks are bc "accidentally" in this case means that i finished the previous book i was working on and needed somewhere to put my bookmark so that i wouldn't forget it and what better place than in chapter one (or two) of a new book???

"accidentally" started reading Middlemarch last night for the first time (have watched the series and loved it) and now i'm lowkey obsessed

so i FINALLY got the Divine Comedy (Ciardi version, because the Longfellow one is FOUL) & have dived in... ...and because i saw "the house that jack built" long before reading this, i have my FAVOURITE KIND of back-to-front context to imbibe, along with another favourite of mine: Biblical Allusions

do i REALLY need a boyfriend when my dog already listens so attentively as i tell him he’s adorable and lets me pat him on the head??

a little scribble has just unlocked a Thing… …reminding me that sometimes, you just gotta get out the pen and notepad again to shake things loose

i wanna know how the "never give your bf/gf shoes bc they'll leave" superstition crowd thinks about the "we're getting couple shoes for each other" crowd in korea and vice versa 👀 does the reciprocal part of couple shoes cancel out the superstition or will both partners leave at the same time? 👀

does this migraine have separation anxiety or smth bc i can’t get rid of it

my betas and typo hunters ALWAYS have to pull me up because of time discrepancies (eg. "good morning" instead of "good afternoon") because quite frankly i never know what time of day it is in real life, let alone my books

today i am emulating Florence and taking up space, becoming my full size, and deciding to go feral

i may not know WHY 비빔냉면 (bibimnaengmyeon) makes me feel better when i'm weakly during summer, but i know that it does and at this point it's basically medicine it's also delicious so win/win

i've been seeing the concept/in-progress art for the Magic Mountain quartet's first cover, and having heard quite a lot about my readers' preferences RE hair, i am CERTAIN they're going to swoon at his hair

burn the place down. this is no time to be chalant about stuff.

asking the questions we all need answers to

praying peeps please spend some of your praying time on the Vic bushfires in general and Suzannah’s house in particular

one of the best things about living in Australia is that you can be sitting in the waiting room at the doctor and hear one of the receptionists say “cheers big ears” on the phone as a regular thing

It is a truth universally acknowledged that ICE are a bunch of goose-stepping cowardly little bitches.

i have lost all of my emotional support tabs in a computer glitch. please respect my privacy as i mourn this loss.

one of the joys of being an urban fantasy writer who writes fantasy systems built on science and the natural world, is occasionally getting to geek out about supercritical water mid-book

goodness me, another actual summer's day?! Tassie is really putting it on for us this year!

people who think that little boys are less dramatic and emotional than little girls, i need you to understand that my eldest nevvie came to me for shelter from the youngest, who was ready to thump his brother and *BAWLING HIS EYES OUT* for why?? bc eldest nevvie had..."GIVEN ME THE THUMBS DOWN!"

oooh pretty cover!

why are the nectarine pies all gone? 🥲* *shhhhh i KNOW i ate them all i do not need your SOLUTIONS i need your LISTENING EAR in my distress

I read a transcript because I'm too pressed for time to watch a video and it's EXCELLENT. Wish Australia had a leader with this degree of vision and boldness.

Get your Aussie urban fantasy with a dash of gothic and a kick of crikeycore! found family, slow burn romance, a manic pixie madman and a sensible woman with sciatica await you! plus lots of blood, weirdness, and dangerous nightmares (oh, and tentacles) www.kickstarter.com/projects/wrg...

just got to use the word "eponymous" in a short story from the POV of a large, slow rock troll and i am LIVING

i don't exactly know what it says about me that i have a whole file of "no" memes for use on any occasion, but i do know that it doesn't mean anything good

i would really love to punch this short story in the face--but since it's POV Bazza, this would only hurt me (much like the short story itself🥲)

starting up violin practise again seriously after a 15 year gap is both humbling and encouraging. you're rusty, but you remember stuff you didn't think you would recording yourself to see where the weaknesses are is just HUMBLING because what do ya MEAN i'm sawing like a flamin' tradie?!?

the eternal struggle: stay in bed and snuggle with the dog and starve, or get up and sate my stomach before i stop getting hunger signals and forget to eat

like cinderella, i am off to the dance unlike cinderella, i am wearing converse and won’t lose a shoe without the grim determination to do so

"remember that we are ENGLISH, that we are CHRISTIANS" um Henry Henry this is not the flex you think it is 😩

Henry is now being grumpy about the phrase "faithful promise" in an entirely correct and entirely pedantic way and of COURSE he knows how to use the word "infer" correctly 🤣

fb quiz is all: "which austen heroine are you?? Lizzy? Emma? Marianne?" meanwhile i'm discovering this read-through of Northanger Abbey that i'm actually henry tilney: flirting style right down to crankypants rant on the incorrect usage of a word and his refusal to be serious AT ALL after the fact

“THERE MUST BE MURDER” ~Henry Tilney, a prince amongst men

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

yes hello i am here again to complain about Past Self, who still has not put in this manor description through two drafts, meaning that i have to do it now, in the last draft

things i hear my nephews yelling from all the way up in my bus house: “I’M NOT TRYING TO BE YELLING!”