We hit a little milestone this week. Of course, it's never about the follower count. It's about community & connection. But, it's pretty cool to hit 10k. Some of you have been here since the first #WIPSnips in Sept 2023. Thanks for hanging out, engaging, having fun & sharing your lovely words. 💜

How about some #firstlinefriday? From my #gothic #litrpg #wip that has me by the throat in the best of ways! I can’t wait to introduce you all to Reverie and the manor. #booksky #authorsky #amwriting #writingcommunity

BRB blushing forever!

TFW the universe rewards me for taking a stupid little walk for my stupid mental health: my neighborhood #littlefreelibrary had some #blinddatewithabook goodies!! I took the #horrorbooks package of course 😉 Swipe through to see the FULL FREAKING SERIES I got. Seriously excited to read it! #bookhaul

We don't usually see each others headers. Here's mine. Quote post with yours (if you feel like it)

Happy Monday to me 🤣 So, when people say writers NEED an editor - this is what we mean, y'all. I posted this EVERYWHERE and now feel like an idiot. Please learn from my mistakes lololol (I feel a little better that NO ONE, not even the grammar trolls caught this🙃) #typo #writersky #amwriting

happy *quiet, chill* pride

Six Sentence Horror Story Challenge Writer Edition: It's time to write a synopsis. lolsob For real, though, I may not enjoy writing these, but it's SUCH an important skill. You NEVER stop needing them. What's y'all's writing horror story? #amwriting #authorsky #booksky

ANY PERSON this age group can get a card, whether or not they’re experiencing book bans. That’s powerful for queer young folks in small towns with no libraries or libraries with limited hours or collections, too.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

Happy Pride Month! If you want to help out a queer (disaster bi and demigirl) indie author this June, you should check out 13 COUNTY ROAD 666 - Trailer Park Cryptids Book 1! falstaffbooks.myshopify.com/products/13-... And as always, if you do read it, please post a review! #booksky #pridemonth

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

Someone said this last night, but if you look in the threads about "vibescession" the main thing people are talking about is the constant precarity. So what would happen if one wage-earner in your house got cancer and couldn't work?

THREE WEEKS LEFT to get in the were-creature story to the WERE-2 open call! Go to zombiesneedbrain.moksha.io to find the submissions guidelines, then get writing! Check out the #Kickstarter to late pledge! #amwriting #amwritingsff #amwritingfantasy #amwritingurbanfantasy #writingcommunity #booksky

Oh this book looks like such fun! I'm a fan of dark chocolate cake with bonus points for ganache lol

Happy #weneeddiversebookday! I love that @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social hosts this - my TBR can always use a second look to make sure I'm not only #amreading within my own viewpoint. #booksky #readersky

Just an FYI from an #antiai #author 😉 #authorsky #amwriting

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

#firstlinefriday #wip #amwriting #cozyfantasy #authorsky The (current lolsob) first line of my Cozy Familiar Thing. It will definitely be a tone and genre shift from the Trailer Park Cryptids series, but it will still be very queer and very rural, just in a fantasy world instead of our own.

Nine years with this handsome man. NINE. YEARS. How??? Anyway, Happy Anniversary love!!

A song for the #amwriting Monday morning crowd. #writermoms is anyone else thinking only in #nurseryrhymeparody lately? LOLSOB #booksky (Unhinged lyrics in the thread)

Time for a Saturday #writingsprint! I’m working on a #shortstory in my TRAILER PARK CRYPTIDS verse for an anthology, but if it doesn’t get accepted, it might end up a newsletter treat 😉 What are y’all #amwri̇ti̇ng today? #authorsky tell me about your projects! We gotta cheer each other on!

Look Mom, I got some ARCs out of the house by donating them to a small town #littlefreelibrary! Um, let's ignore that I checked out more than twice as many library books lolsob Anyone have suggestions on which of my #librarybooks I should read first? They all look so good! #fridayreads #amreading

A reminder to authors: If your book was among the many titles pirated by Anthropic to train their AI, make sure to file your claim by March 30th. Your publisher will be filing, but my publishers tell me that the only way to *ensure* payment is by submitting your own valid claim. #AcademicSky 🧵1/n

This is the secret to the output of so many prolific artists. There's someone to do all the other stuff. Fine and dandy if you can afford it, or swing it some other way, but it's so often completely invisible.

ALSO authors, yell about your books AT MULTIPLE TIMES OF DAY! remember there is no algorithm here and people are in all different time zones, smash that repost button without shame, the three of us who are always online will forgive you

okay so AI is absolutely cratering imminently and I need all of you to PROMISE me you won't take the high road, and will laugh and rub it in their faces as much as possible. I need you to laugh and go 'WE TOLD YOU SO, BITCH" at every opportunity, PLEASE be extremely mean and ruthless

reminder when you're doing your taxes, the number patreon is putting on your 1099 is the gross and they DO NOT exclude all the money they took from you in fees. you need to deduct that yourself as business expenses. an easy ("easy") way to do that is to download your earnings by month

Why yes I'm going to be late to some fun social media trends but I figure surgery was a good excuse. So the ridiculously cute this is who baby #trend bc I am weak LOL. #amwriting #authorphotos #authorlife #booksky #authorsky

It's so funny to me when an entertainment company says "Man up." "Man up and accept shitty art!" "Man up and pay $100 for a game!" I...don't have to? www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

J.K. Rowling's anti-trans stance was exposed in 2019. Almost 8 years ago. Listen to queer folks! There is no excuse to be supporting this hateful author in 2026. 🏳️‍⚧️💙🏳️‍🌈

Why yes, fake spam Nora Roberts, I would like some insights about my niche, I have been historically insightless about it and a perennial failure in it, thank you for your offer of wisdom

✨ And that's our shortlist... What an incredible lineup of gorgeous queer literature! ✨ Come celebrate with us on June 12 at 7pm in NYC at Sony Hall - get your tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-lammy... #Lammys2026

Me realizing I'm having my total hysterectomy tomorrow on not only the Blood Moon, but a total Lunar Eclipse... in Mercury Retrograde. By complete accident. I'm not an overly dramatic little witchy babe at ALL. LOLSOB

Name a cover of a song that you love more than the original. Johnny Cash's "Hurt" breaks my heart in the best way every time. youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI?...

I’m not saying this plushie is the inspo for a character in TRAILER PARK CRYPTIDS Book 2, but I’m not saying it’s NOT 😉 I’m hard at work drafting the book, but you can get the first in the series, 13 COUNTY ROAD 666, now wherever books are sold! falstaffbooks.myshopify.com/products/13-... #booksky

Not saying I'm obsessed, just saying I #amreading the extended preview for this damned gorgeous book over and over and over until it releases on 3/31/26. Seriously @ilonaandrews.bsky.social, if just the preview is this good, this book is going to RUIN me. #fridayreads #thiskingdomwillnotkillme

Seems like some other publishing people need to see this. I write even the boring parts without chatgpt. So should you. Stop killing the planet and your peers' careers for laziness' sake.

author * first page * cover 13 COUNTRY ROAD 666, a queer trailer park urban fantasy featuring a disaster bi property manager trying to keep her supernatural tenants alive. Author photo by Carissa Rizan of Crowded Table Photography Cover by Melissa McArthur

If you ever feel like your self-promos are "cringe," just remember that Neil Gaiman used his first statement addressing the multiple credible accusations of sexual assault against him to try to get everyone hyped for his new book.

Been a while since I've seen the #FirstLineChallenge go around, so why not start it up again? ;) Here's the first line from my queer trailer park urban fantasy, 13 COUNTY ROAD 666 from Falstaff Books falstaffbooks.myshopify.com/products/13-... Drop your novel's first line in the comments! #booksky

Oh look a bandwagon! I had WAY too much fun with this trend (3 of 5) 13 COUNTY ROAD 666 is Book One of the Trailer Park Cryptids series, a queer trailer park urban fantasy romp, out now from @falstaffbooks.bsky.social. falstaffbooks.myshopify.com/products/13-... #booksky #authorsky #lgbtqbooks

Time for another #FridayReads post to give y’all a glimpse at what I #amreading this week! Lately I’ve been in a manga/graphic novel mood & this one is GORGEOUS. Seriously, between the stunning cover and color interior, I am in love. Have any of y’all checked out UNDER THE OAK TREE yet? #booksky

Today, I’m asking you NOT to buy my book. No, really. The vid won’t post here, but you can head over to my insta for expanded versions on my 3 reasons below: #booksky #strike #authorsky

TFW I finally make it to an ARC on my massive TBR backlist pile I was really looking forward to & I bounce off the MC's voice almost immediately. I think I've barely finished the 1st chapter & it's already a DNF. Le sigh. It even had epistolary sections! This should have been EXTREMELY my jam!

Fun news! I just discovered 13 COUNTY ROAD 666 was nominated for an Indie Ink Award! Judging is already in process (oops) & finalists will be announced sometime this month. But in the meantime, you can snag a copy here: falstaffbooks.myshopify.com/products/13-... #booksky #authorsky #indieauthor

Head's up my South East Asian friendos - there's a pitch event coming up in May! Mark your calendars if you'll have a novel ready to query!