Btw, indie authors in the UK, if you update your prices on Ingramspark, they won't update on Waterstones. I completely forgot Waterstones uses the cover + price etc from the Nielsen database, so they've been sat with my old price and cover.

So apparently editing a book description on Nielsen Title Editor doesn't work in Firefox. *opens Edge* 😭

New scene in Avengers: Endgame This is canon now and ties into Doomsday.

Wow. I asked my kids schools to send an email to parents reminding them not to park across tactile drop kerbs (ie accessible pedestrian crossings) and their response was, to paraphrase, “we sympathise but can’t do anything.” Can’t send an email?? Wow. Just wow. #ableist

Any other autistic people go through a phase of realising you were about to fact dump and stopping yourself? I wish I wasn't so self-aware and could just be myself instead of assuming it would be weird/boring to share cool in slightly unneeded facts.

Voting for the British Fantasy Awards has opened, so go vote for your fav stuff from 2025! If you happen to have read my stuff, I'm eligible for 3 categories this year! - Newcomer - Fantasy Novel (Reborn in Ash) - Short Story (Dance of the Sun, BFS Horizons #18) 💙📚🪐 #BookSky

A question at @easterconuk.bsky.social had @davidgreenwriter.bsky.social pondering why neurodivergent creatives seek out other neurodivergent creatives: It’s all about acceptance. britishfantasysociety.org/searching-fo...

Now I've seen genAI images being used to advertise a photoshoot business. Facebook is such a cesspool but I need to be there to network and find events >_>

Weird. I just got a load of thumbs down DMs from accounts that then blocked me. What did I do? 😂

When jeweller-turned-thief Ada Renwick enacts her long-planned revenge, she learns the gems she's stolen are far from ordinary. Torn between learning more and running, Ada makes a leathal mistake. - found family - sapphic romance subplot - elemental magic books.thellian.com/reborn 💙📚🪐

Just saw a genAI ad for an ART CLASS. And it's good enough most people won't realise. What a scam >_>

If you haven't got your ticket for Fantasycon yet, here's a little enticement for you. Yes, this is how much we love Fantasycon... and you! youtu.be/_AE7huECbiY Seriously, get a ticket, or we'll just keep going! #Fantasycon #BritishFantasySociety

I am totally serious and wondering if like there's someone who would want me to edit their novel in exchange for making social media images for me. Because that is something I really struggle with.....

Working in a coffee shop this morning because I can’t get distracted by TikTok or kdramas here. Probably.

This is the plan, anyway. #BookSky 💙📚🪐

I really need to find places to sell books that have a younger demographic who might actually like fantasy 😅

Ready to shift some books!

Just experienced having to stop on a slip lane for the first time. Glad my husband was driving because he dealt with it very well. Someone accelerated into the clear spot Husband was going to pull into. 😡

The sun woke me up at 6am and my efforts to go back to sleep failed, so if you’re in the Chelmsford area and want to come meet a very sleepy author who’s propped up by coffee, come say hi!!

Book fair tomorrow! If you’re in the #Chelmsford #Essex area please come say hi! I’ll be selling my old cover stock basically at cost + I’ll sign them! Paperbacks £6.99 ~420 pages Hardbacks £9.99 ~380 pages I also have bookish bookmarks + notebooks I designed! Bookmarks 3 for £1 Notebooks £4.99

ARC readers wanted for Tiger Cowers, Dragon Falls! I'm looking for readers who love (grim)dark Asian fantasy with: 🩶morally grey characters 😥hard-earned redemption arcs ❤️slow burn tension ⛺found family that gets ripped apart 🔥forbidden elemental magic charlotte-saulter.com/arcsignup/ #booksky

Why have I woken up with Phantom of the Opera stuck in my head? And only the “sing for me” part.

I missed my sleep window and now I have the crazy night time brain going on. Rather than a "let's write" or "let's watch kdrama" night hyper, it's "let's stare through the laptop screen and slowly sway" zone-out. Gods damn it brain.

Want to support an indie book shop? Scribe & Sign has some copies of the Reborn in Ash paperback (new cover) for £11.99, which is £1 less than places like the ‘zon. Tamsin works her butt off running this company so check out her TikTok too! So many deals. 💙📚🪐 #BookSky

I have a problem.

I'm still working on adding Eryn's cat into Echoes of Chaos. I love him, he'll be worth it, but it's hard to balance not changing too much with not making him seem like the afterthought he is (sorry Nettle!! I should have added you sooner!) See reply for an excerpt from today! #BookSky 💙📚🪐

And so He is the Word. But the Word needs some edits.

Voting for the British Fantasy Awards has opened, so go vote for your fav stuff from 2025! If you happen to have read my stuff, I'm eligible for 3 categories this year! - Newcomer - Fantasy Novel (Reborn in Ash) - Short Story (Dance of the Sun, BFS Horizons #18) 💙📚🪐 #BookSky

Listen, birch trees, if you could stop trying to reproduce in my sinuses, that would be GREAT.

Starting to think I might be perimenopausal. Omg the mood swings and the itchy skin and the feeling too hot and the wanting to tear my own skin off to escape my body because why does living have to feel this awful???

As a mobility scooter user this is incredibly frustrating but I have other drop kerbs nearby I can use (like me is too high really and another isn’t opposite so I have to be in the road longer) But for the visually impaired this could be incredibly dangerous and prevent them from crossing.

I'm signing up to Kobo and noticed in the terms of service re AI use you allow: "enhancing the experience of a purchased book by providing recaps, reading assistance, and accessibility features." This is what people left Amazon for but I guess they didn't realise Kobo asks for those rights too?

Having bad executive dysfunction atm. I can help my husband get the kids ready for school but as soon as they leave I go completely numb and can't get myself to do anything. Hate it. I *want* to put in the work to be a successful author. But I can't. No executive dysfunction experience = no reply.

Hey, I'm Ange! I love to write about monsters, romance, and monster romance. My debut novel, THE DEVOURING, is about a husband and wife uncovering an occult conspiracy at the heart of their city—and the malevolent god lurking beyond its veil. Learn more at amshilling.com/books

Per @amybearce.bsky.social, you can check your "Account Status" on your D2D Dashboard (under account tab). She had unpublished all her books several years ago but hadn't closed her account. She still got this page (this is my screenshot, but she got the same message).

My Bluesky engagement strategy

Draft2Digital really sent out an email today that can be paraphrased as: "We love our rich authors but you know what? We HATE the small-time fucking indie authors, so on top of the very little you make, we're going to charge you for that every year! You thought just starting out was hard? HAHA!"

The $12 fee is half of what I’ve made in 6 months. I hate this. I can’t leave because it’s the only access to libraries that I know of. Plus it’s the only access to Smashwords now. Do I stay in the hope I make $100 in the future once my next book is out? 🤔 🖕 @draft2digital.bsky.social

Have you written a book about a queer disabled character? Are you a queer disabled author? Want to join my Itch co-op bundle? tinyurl.com/bundleapply #BookSky #Bookstagram #BookTwitter #DisabledWriters #QueerArtists #IndieAuthors #QueerDisabled 🌈📚

Still seeking #BetaReaders for this novelette. 16k words. Deets below. 👇 Drop a reply if interested #BookSky #WriteSky #LGBTQWriters #QueerWriters #WLW

I just tested negative for spoons

Have you got your ticket? tinyurl.com/srtpoe

I was not ready to wake up today. Motivating kids to get up for school when you want to go back to bed yourself is its own kind of torture.

Huh. I thought I'd written my first draft of Reborn in Ash in 2021 or 2022. Nope! June 2023 is when I started it. That baby isn't even 3 years old. Very different to working on Echoes of Chaos for release this year, which I drafted in 2019. It'll almost be 7 years old when it comes out!

I won't be putting books on sale for 99p often, so go grab Reborn in Ash before the Narratess sale ends today!! books.thellian.com/reborn

This #WIPSnips is an epigraph from Echoes of Chaos (coming in September). The kitari are a race very similar to humans, and the FMC, Eryn, is one of them. Soulbonds are common amongst the kitari, usually with animals but sometimes with people. You can commune across them by the sharing of emotions.

Dear guy in this kdrama, Taking your love interest to an orphanage to hand out gadgets and tablets to kids isn't a date, it's showing off. Blerg.

Folks, there are lots of indie bookshops popping up lately and that's AWESOME! But. Before you send your books to them on consignment, do some research! I was about to contact a UK indie bookshop but discovered via Companies House that in 2020 the owner had a company forcibly

This review has made me decide to buy Empress of Dust, which is in the Narratess sale. It already sounded interesting, and it's great to know there's enough LGBTQ+ rep to piss off this biggot, who has misgendered the author. What a twat!