"The tip of his tongue ran across his lower lip like a shy pink animal." Well now

I wrote a #halloween short story about corporate greed, hospitals, and vampires It will be published at Physician's Weekly around Halloween, and will be free to read and require no registration A 2,000-year-old vampire runs a Women’s Health clinic—but the real monsters aren’t in the basement […]

Hey @autolycos, clinical Halloween question please. Say My Dude the CEO makes a big guffaw, but when he breathes in, a wraith dives into his mouth and fully occupies his lungs and airway. She is cold, so breathing her in is like taking a big ole suck on pure nitrogen at -15C. Assume she […]

Currently reading the third book in the Game of Thrones series (never managed to stick with the TV production) Good read, even if it is overly complicated and way too many characters to my taste. But the thing that really sticks out is the amount of gratuitous violence against women in the book […]

So you sinners and wastrels and fornicators are still here, eh? That's good #rapture

Hey @alice would you like to be in a Halloween story about Lillith the vampire?

What is the most annoying corporate team-building exercise you have seen or can imagine? I'm writing a Halloween story, and Lillith the vampire is contemplating boiling Steve, the office director, in oil for suggesting this thing

I do not object when my dog pees on the MAGA neighbor's Wall Street Journal I mean, the dude has a point

I wrote a thing. You can read it for free and with no registration at all, at Physician's Weekly. It's a story about #knitting, and #zombies, and #murder https://www.physiciansweekly.com/post/hospital-porter-credits-zombie-reflex-for-fast-knitting-faster-stabbing

#writerscoffeeclub Sep 23. How ‘self-reliant’ are you as a writer? Not at all I need constant help from experts and people with lived experience. Like framing a lesbian first kiss is absolutely not within my experience and utterly outside my knowledge, so I get a lot of help from actual […]

#writerscoffeeclub 9/22. What have you discovered about yourself through your writing? Discovered, nothing that I can put my finger on, but it has certainly highlighted that stories and scenarios and plots just keep bubbling up into my head, and writing is a very enjoyable way to let them out […]

I wrote a thing. You can read it for free and with no registration at all, at Physician's Weekly. It's a story about #knitting, and #zombies, and #murder https://www.physiciansweekly.com/post/hospital-porter-credits-zombie-reflex-for-fast-knitting-faster-stabbing

#writerscoffeeclub day 19: Talk about how you’ve fixed a mistake in your work. There is always some gremlin that creeps though the editing and gets published. Usually a beta reader reaches out and flags it for me, and then I go back and edit. This is easy for the eContent I put on a blog or […]

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime BERLIN, Feb. 3, 1939 — Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the […]

#scribesandmakers Sep 18 If you write novels, do you strive to have your chapters a consistent length? Heck, no. That seems like an enormous waste of time and attention. The chapter is as long as it needs to be.

#writerscoffeeclub 18, Have you written something blasphemous? I am pretty sure many uptight people think so. Like I have lesbian heroines, strong trans characters, and at least one pastor's remotely-operated chastity belt catches fire

I wrote a thing, and you might enjoy it. If you like the free chapters, please consider reviewing it. Meet Joy: a sweet-faced girl with a dark gift and purple ribbons in her pigtails. She slips through life unseen—protecting her sister, outsmarting predators, and leaving bodies behind. A […]

#scribesandmakers 17 If you have creative parents, do you read what they write/appreciate their art or craft, or keep out of it altogether? Mom was an artist - pen, pencil, watercolor, etc. and some sculpture. She wrote great letters Dad was a plutocrat I have no drawing skills, and no […]

#writerscoffeeclub for Day 17: Should modern writers worry about proving their work is not generated by an LLM? Who am I to tell people what they should or shouldn't be worried about. A big chunk of literary fiction is people writing their worries, so there's that. OTOH, there is really no way […]

Ok, all my print titles are uploaded to IngramSpark and now waiting on cover art to be refreshed and uploaded. At that point, it will be seeing what fields their clunky UI will have forgotten, and ordering proofs

Hey @alice @h3mmy @autolycos @koalou Just a note that I am #greatfulforyou Thanks for helping to add interesting fiction to the world @_elena @sylvia

What is it with IngramSpark forgetting info? I have now seen a half dozen times where I go back to a previous setup page of a title and now some fields are empty when I know 100% that I filled them in and continued that page.

#writerscoffeeclub Sep 16: What was the hardest writerly lesson for you to learn? Or unlearn? To ignore the scolds. That realization that there is a horde of amateur (and professional) literary critics ready to tear into a stranger's work to apply conventions they neither understand nor […]

A right-wing man killed another right-wing man at a right-wing event, at a right-wing college, in a right-wing city with a right-wing mayor, in a right-wing state with a right-wing governor. That's the only headline that should be running. #MAGA

This message is for all my kids. Every year during pride, I announce that if your own father doesn’t accept you for who you are, then forget about him and I’m your father now. This message is for you: All that matters is being happy. That’s it. It doesn’t matter what career you pick, where you […]

The American take on homelessness just confounds me. You don’t have a home, so let me do everything I can to make sure you won’t ever have a home.

The MMR vaccine is perfectly safe. Measles is not. MMR vaccine- studied for more than 50 years. Less than 1 in 1,000,000 chance of allergic reaction. No chance of death or permanent injury. NO evidence of increased risk of autism. Measles- 1 in 5 will die without hospitalization. 1 in 500 will […]

#scribesandmakers September 12: If you write about craftspeople, scientists, or artists, do you ask specialists, rely on a websearch, rely on your own knowledge, or something else? Mostly, I rely on specialists. Whether that's about hoe sepsis works, what injuries a 5" stiletto heel would do […]

Busy doing the #ingramspark migration thing - all my print books are off Amazon KDP, and I am about halfway getting all nine books uploaded and configured for IngramSpark. Still need to - Update all covers - Complete uploading last four titles - View online - Order proof copies - PUBLISH!!! […]

Someone in France and someone in Australia each bought one of my eBooks on Kobo, and that is immensely pleasing

I wrote an eBook and put it on Kobo so I didn't give Uncle Bozo any money What if the most dangerous person you’ll ever meet isn’t a villain, but the heroine? From her first kill to her final reckoning, The Book of Joy follows the life of Joy — chilling, intelligent, unforgettable — from a […]

Hi @koalou What does the cover art look like on your copy of "The First Book of Joy"?

#writerscoffeeclub 9/11 Which trope would you banish for a century? Women as the default and expendable victim

New Mexico is making child care free. Beginning in November, it will be the first state in the nation to provide child care to all residents regardless of income, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced this week. The state has been working to lower child care care costs since 2019, when it […]

Ok. AI There was a professional photographer who did a Youtube on why he thinks Google's Nano Banana AI text-image is now as good as a professional photographer. He uses images of his own hotsauce as examples. True enough, the LLM now gets writing correct […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#wordweavers 11. If you had to show that a character is a good person within one scene, how would you do it? Have them murder a reply-guy in an eco-friendly and entertaining way

#scribesandmakers 11/09: You've found a device that can doodle on the moon, in a way that is visible from earth. You have 10 minutes, what do you doodle? Credit: Lydia Vvinters "Fuck TFG"

Rest in torment, motherfucker

Facts about the measles vaccine: It’s 97-99% effective. It’s a live attenuated virus. It has one of the most well evidenced safety profiles. If vaccination rates fall to under 95% of the population, we lose herd immunity. Losing herd immunity means about 1 million new cases in Florida alone.

#scribesandmakers for September 10: Do you consider reading a creative activity? If it involves rewriting scenes or substituting characters in your head, yes.

What if we crowdsource to have 7x7 witches lay a curse on RFK to shit in his pants, every full moon?

Just to illustrate something about being an author, and how prices have climbed and where that money goes. If I set a price of $9.99 US on a book, 55% goes to the reseller - B&N, Amazon, or your local bookstore. Then about $4 gets taken off for printing, and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#writerscoffeeclub 9/9. What incorrect assumptions might a reader make about you? Curious question. Readers are a pretty savvy lot, so may mostly be quite correct. Maybe they assume I'm a psychopath or a physician?

Hi @alice @h3mmy @RinaVolpina No pressure or obligation, but if you or your reading friends have the urge to write a review and rate either or both of the ebook titles of Joy, you are fabulously welcome :) https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-first-book-of-joy […]

Whoo Hoo Kobo just published my sequel to "The Book of Joy" This covers Joy as an adult and a liminal figure of menace and justice. Many LGBTQ+ and female characters, lots of murder, a tiny bit of BDSM-adjacent stuff https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-final-book-of-joy #writing

#scribesandmakers Sep 8: Have you ever viewed/read something because of effective promotion? What got your attention? Nope Actually, the slicker the promo, the more it puts me off When I am looking for a title, I search for keywords or I get a recommendation from a friend

Created an account in IngramSpark, and getting ready to put eleven of my fiction books there

I hate memes, but a pal sent this along and it's a good one.

#writerscoffeeclub Sep 6 Do you write daily? Why or why not? Almost always It's something I enjoy and need to do, and the stories that bubble up in my head 24x7 need some sort of expression