Time to shake things up 😂 My pants have been sitting around, unloved for too long so time to deploy the vortex mixer!

Pausing my scrolling to post these guys who make me happy.

Just went back to my day job this week and everyone keeps asking me how my break was... I want to reply "Good. 30K of editing good." but that's insufficient to express my glee to non-writers. 🤣

I've got to the middle of the novel I'm currently editing and have run out of steam. As this novel only seems to possess my brain at Christmas (no idea why), will I have to wait 12 months before I work on it again? 😂 Good thing I have another WIP to work on! #amwriting 💙📚🪐

A new friend is joining me while I edit today. Not sure what her opinion on my book is but I'm glad she's here 😁

Sometimes a novel you're working on can feel like running through treacle. Enter my current WIP. Yet, when I checked, I found I was already a quarter of the way through the draft! I try not to obsess over word count, but sometimes you need to check if the treacle is an illusion. #amwriting 🪐📚💙

This same week in 2022 I was ambushed by a novel demanding to be written. Unruly things that they are! Right now, I'm editing that same novel. Because apparently this book will only show up at Xmas demanding attention. 😂 📚🪐💙 #writing #amwriting #authors

To celebrate my first year in publishing my books are available for free on Amazon until Sunday 😁

From grey plastic to fully painted! Ancient Leshan is a cool mini from one of the Witcher sets for Umatched. So much fun to paint!

After a year of no painting, I'm jumping back in! 😁

Last year I went to a gaming convention. This year I'm at a speculative fiction writer's convention. This is the life! 😁

Have arrived in Canberra for Conflux! And I do love a suite. 🙂

I got some bookmarks and business cards printed and I'm so pleased with how they've come out!

I'm excited to almost have another book out. 😁 Yes, proofing is almost done on my sci-fi noir novel! Here's a taste: "If the back of her hand hadn't worn the proud, fresh lines of a rival clan's tattoo, he might just have made her his enforcer. Instead, after a time, he'd made her a friend."

Aah proofreading, my old friend.

Sometimes I think the hardest thing about being a writer is watching "it was okay" movies and trying to love them for what they are instead of thinking up 5 far more interesting plots. And I'm totally not saying this after watching The Gorge 🤣

Quick snap of a new shelf I'm doing for my boardgame pieces. Fairly sure I'm going to open a game box at some future point and wonder where the minis are! 🤣

4 characters I write: - inventors (because who doesn't love a multi use tool?) - good people who sometimes mess up - talented people who don't realise how talented they are - zealots who do bad things because of their zealotry

You know, the biggest compliment I've gotten on Burning the Bones so far has been the sleep deprivation of readers who accidentally stayed up 'til the early hours reading it. 😁

Who are the five writers that made you? Lucy M. Boston Issac Asimov William Gibson Jane Austen Alexander Dumas

Who are the five writers that made you? Terry Pratchett Katherine Kurtz Guy Gavriel Kay Ellen Kushner Scott Lynch (Less low magic than deeply embedded / mysterious magic, lots of politics, lots of language including comedy, lots of feels.)

Updated my website just now, adding an upcoming sci fi noir novel to the existing post apocalyptic one and the new snarky sci fi adventure I just published. Guess I'm an eclectic author? 😂 Check out www.eemarkham.com if any of that is your type of sci fi!

So excited to have a second book up on Amazon! www.amazon.com/dp/B0DXKVRK8L/

Every time I see the cover of my book it makes me happy. 😏

Spent the past few days revisiting a novel I haven't touched in eight years. We'll find out how many ladders and pots of spackle I left lying around in the corners of the plot.

I was reading an old draft of my sci-fi noir novel today, and there are these sections where the dialogue gets a bit Jane Austen. I'd forgotten I was also writing an adaptation of an Austen novel at the time I wrote this! 🤣 Austen noir?

Lost both John Marsden and Michael Leunig in the same week. They'll both be missed, but what a wonderful creative legacy they leave behind.

I keep getting messages from friends who are reading my book saying "I can't believe you did that!" and I know exactly which scene they've just read. 🤣😏

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally

When I imagine a utopia, I imagine it being populated by people who look at the world the way Tim Minchin does. youtu.be/H9wRL8QLmO4?...

I know not everyone loves metal tunes, but a collab between Indian and Japanese metal bands? In Hindi, English and Japanese? Perfection! youtu.be/skXlKxjlUoo?...

This week I got my first sale to someone who found my book without having any connections to me. I hope they enjoy Burning the Bones! It's nice to know that the "blurb" I wrote spoke to them 😁

Chatting with people who share your creative passion is like how I imagine my phone feels sitting on its charger. I'd almost forgotten this & then, last weekend, I spent a couple of hours talking writing. Felt amazing! Reminded me to chat with my mini painter friends too for a hobby boost!