Practice book completed...

Tessa of Hundrfeld by @ashheardwrites.bsky.social is a Nordic-inspired secondary-world fantasy about a strong and fair female warrior who becomes a bit too popular when the evil king installs her as regent so he can go gain glory on the battlefield.

whoops i fucked up (i bought stuff to start bookbinding)

Out of town for a week: no ice rinks Back in town less than 24 hours: at an ice rink

!! great book now with an audio option :)

oh shit y'all i've got a book event next weekend i gotta prep for...

How realistic must a plot point be?

me: just finished seeing the odyssey my brother: I haven't seen it yet, so don't give it away if he gets back home

whenever i have a new book up for preorder, i anxiously watch as the preorders slowly grow - No Line Change has already beaten my total Hockey Bois preorders. next up, The Trade Deadline :/

sneaky peek inside my "hockey romance" folder...

Time to meet my favorite members of the Albuquerque Turkeys 🦃🧡🤎♥️🏒 #mmhockeyromance #HockeyRomance #sportsromance #UpcomingRelease

me: oh no! i better log onto 4thewords and keep my writing streak going-- also me: *was up until 2 am writing* me: ...... so i already have my streak for today. very good.

Freezing my ass off at an ice rink, knowing in an hour I'll be playing an outdoor game and dying from the heat

When you order books but they arrive slightly different colors.... 🥲

New notebook 😍

the saddest thing is looking at an old photo of yourself and realizing you no longer have that beloved shirt / dress / skirt / etc anymore

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Designing the Perfect Chapter I'm both an author and a reader, and I've had Opinions™ about chapters for years. I'm not going to pretend I cracked the code on what actually makes the perfect chapter - a lot of this will be genre, author, and project dependent - but here are two major…

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me, watching house of the dragon: they killed her babies :(((( my son, having watched exactly none of it: i have no emotional attachment to any of this. why are you telling me?

Thrilled to share the spectacular cover artwork done by Jinx Inks (linktr.ee/art.jinxinks) for our forthcoming anthology WILD AND FULL OF MARVELS: QUEER FANWORKS INSPIRED BY FOLKLORE AND FAIRY TALES. Kickstarting July 8! Follow our pre-launch page: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

epic fantasy shows always with their UK accents. give me a fantasy world but in one village, they all speak with a boston accent and in this one mountain town they all talk like they're from nova scotia, and there's a kingdom where they all have southern accents. gimme some north american accents!!

The queer fairytale retelling anthology I'm part of, yes the one with the pretty cover, just went live on KS! My story is a remix of "The Little Mermaid" and "The Cold Heart" Check it out!!! 📚🌈🌈🪐📚💙

No Line Change is almost here and is a chonker! #mmhockeyromance

Pick a weapon and find out which character from my Shadow Queen #fantasyseries you are ⚔️ I've been working on book 2 lately - only a few weapons have come into play so far...

guysssss someone commented on my, like, first ever destiel fics from over a decade ago i forgot i even wrote those omg 😭😭😭

a guest rec list by JD Rivers! JD has written about her five + one favorite fantasy books with m/m relationships. text version of the post: duckprintspress.com/2026/07/06/t...

okay... enough procrastinating. i should, like, actually write something today XD

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TV: tonight is baseball night in america-- me: you mean hockey night in canada?? weird that you would get both the sport and country wrong

writing a romance book is one thing. i apparently got bored of that challenge. writing a romance book that has to be a self-contained story while nodding at the other books is another. BUT THEN there's nodding at the other book WHILE ALSO hinting forward at a FUTURE book. ugh.

FIRST EDIT OFFICIALLY DONE! no line change officially clocks in at 139k and 76 chapters (plus an epilogue)

Here is me, pleading with museum shops. We do not want yet another bookmark and eraser with your logo for 11 euros. We. Want. Replicas. Of. Your. Nerdy. Stuff.

118k and 70 chapters.... (yes i write too much, and some of these chapters are short so the chapter number is crazy)

ugh i hate past me, not putting in any dates because "oh, i can just figure that out when i'm editing." what a bitch.

87k edited, 54 chapters in. making progress :)

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after my actual pass through a chapter, i get the awful task of going back through on adverb watch. my main crimes this chapter: really, hopefully, carefully, fully, slowly, finally, nearly (all used multiple times, which is why they're now on the chopping block)

you can also tell which parts i wrote on my phone using swype, because i really hope i would not confuse the words "room" and "rim" normally....

"You could've stayed, you know." Her breath blossomed as steam in the air, so damnably cold. (Battle for Yfirgardr, aka Tessa Book 2)

going through edits and learning there are words i just DO NOT know how to spell...

51k edited, 38 chapters in. lots and lots and lots of words to go. there will be no less than 9 million chapters. apologies.

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waiting for the NHL to announce the start of next season so i can plan my release date for No Line Change

New pin who dis

me: oh cool! i might have author proofs of no line change to put out at my next event if i'm fast enough on edits :) my calendar: your next event is this weekend me: .......... oh fuck

editing update: 14k words edited, 17 chapters in (there will be....... very many chapters)

Story Telling Choices Recently, I ran another poll on Tumblr. I asked people: You’re about to pick out a new romance to read - what’s MOST LIKELY to be a dealbreaker for you? So before you read on, consider what the biggest dealbreakers are for you when you go to pick up a new book. I listed some…