Looking to pad your "books read in 2025" stats before the year ends? My #HistoricalFantasy novel, The Lion, full of #magic and bad gods, is a quick #read at just over 42,000 words, and is on sale at #Smashwords and #Itch this week: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... lsb337.itch.io/the-lion 💙📚

Increasingly all I want is a warm, dry, comfortable place to keep my books, and the time to read them.

I hear when it's your birthday, you can post that the first books in your #fantasy series is on sale and you can say it's pretty durn good and everybody will rub their chin and nod thoughtfully. ITCH: itch.io/s/177144/win... Smashwords: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... 💙📚 📚🪐 #amreading

Reminder that if you’re looking for indie books to check out, I’ve got a handy masterlist of my book reviews with genres included! Indie book reviews: rebeccacrunden.com/indie-book-r... All blog reviews: rebeccacrunden.com/book-reviews/ 📚💙

As there a lot of newcomers to the #WritingCommunity here, these are all accounts I enjoy interacting with here! It was hard to move away from the Bad Place, but I've become a lot more comfortable in myself and sharing my writing, and a lot of these folks are responsible for that. #WriteSky

SCROOGE: You there, boy! What day is it? BOY: It's December 26th. SCROOGE: Oh shit. Oh fuck.

Everyone gather around the tree and see which gift is yours. Remember, read the tag carefully. #WhatIsBestInLife #FeatsOfStrength #MerryChristmas

Super sloppy rain after 20cm of snow overnight. Merry Christmas to the fella next door from Eritrea who looked up to see three fellas in black hoodies with much larger shovels coming to help him with his driveway. Then my FIL stood around and smoked and asked him 200 questions, as is custom.

A hearty #Christmas welcome to one and all. Hope you all get to enjoy your favorite snacks.

A hearty #Christmas welcome to one and all. Hope you all get to enjoy your favorite snacks.

I am an old-school sort of man. I like celebrating our cherished traditions, such as: generosity to others, and crossdressing.

For some reason, in joining #Itch's Winter Sale, the books being 42% off popped up and the #sale description turned unhinged. 💙📚 🧡🚀📚 #books #reading #amreading #fantasy

What do you do when your God is bad at his job protecting your people? Protect them yourself. Nevermind that you're still a kid. It'll be fine. Honest. I promise. Really.

Called a local cleaner to inquire about their rug cleaning service, and they basically told me that they were too slow with them so people got mad at them and so they stopped offering it. I mean, I admire their candor, if not their business acumen.

On a whim, I set up Google alerts for my name and my books a couple years ago. Since then, I've had a few alerts like this. Me and my books are out there causing more mischief than I realized. #Indie #books #cutting #undersea #cables

IT'S GO TIME. #books #Booksky

All my beta reader comments regarding the state of my participles:

A lot of people remarking/complaining about people saving their posts, often like it's suspicious behavior... Honestly, I don't think people are saving your posts intentionally. When you're scrolling on your phone, the save button is right where your thumb falls. It's a UI issue. #Bluesky

Feels like a scam to have to don the hard pants just to plonk the compost bucket twenty feet outside the door on the curb.

A lot of people remarking/complaining about people saving their posts, often like it's suspicious behavior... Honestly, I don't think people are saving your posts intentionally. When you're scrolling on your phone, the save button is right where your thumb falls. It's a UI issue. #Bluesky

Today, I went to the library to look for a specific kind of book about a specific topic. On the same shelf, I found a *different* book on a *different* aspect of the same topic---an aspect I didn't even know existed. I went with the 2nd book.

I'd watch an Andy and Ollie Bob's Burgers spinoff.

Back in my day, when you're standing in the doorway holding the garbage bag when the garbage truck rolls by, it came at a walking pace, and you could hail one of the dudes. These days the claw truck zips up, zoops the whole can up with the claw, and zooms off. Damn kids and their garbage trucks.

I think I'll add this to my wishlist and hope it goes on sale for like 90% off sometime soon. 💙📚

I'd pay good money for the red one.

Wish I'd gotten by shit in gear earlier to get in on this one.

This post I made a while ago is unfortunately timeless. "Suddenly I was faced with a kind of human I hadn’t known existed until then. Yes, people yelled from cars. At me. All the time. That, I understood. What I hadn’t known was that they were a KIND of person." #indie #blog #funny #satire #books

Some wise-sounding self-editing advice I came up with yesterday: Story issues that are small are often opportunities to tie story elements together more. It's when you try to fix big problems with little opportunities that problems arise. #amediting #indie #books

I think the meanest moment in all the Fromsoft games is in Elden Ring, when you go into the forge and see the difficult golem guy petting the lava blob, and the trick to getting through the whole dungeon had been to shoot them with the darts that make them attack one another.

The Battery used to be the view from our window. In the last shot, you can see the place my missus and I got evicted from this September. This coming summer, I hope all you bright-eyed tourists enjoy the new AirBnB that was our home for ten years. #Newfoundland #tourism

I think Stephen King was totally right to let Rage fall out of print. (Please pardon the semi crosspost. And it should be "fall out of print," not let the copyright lapse.) 💙📚 #books #readers #StephenKing #amreading #TBR #currentlyreading

I haven't put my books on sale for $.99 at all this year. I get why people only buy books discounted, but after comparing sales with a friend who didn't do discounts & mostly sold print, I had far more sales but was far deeper in the hole b/c of it. #amwriting #writingcommunity #plustheyreworth299

Looking to pad your "books read in 2025" stats before the year ends? My #HistoricalFantasy novel, The Lion, full of #magic and bad gods, is a quick #read at just over 42,000 words, and is on sale at #Smashwords and #Itch this week: www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... lsb337.itch.io/the-lion 💙📚

When I finally moved into developmental editing, I didn't expect I'd be writing so many 1000+ word emails that are only tangentially related to the book in question. #amediting #writers #books

Postponed running out to do some errands when I saw a moderate dusting of snow falling. I do not trust driving around my city in winter anymore as everybody on the road seems deliberately stupid. Staying home and feeling sheepish about delayed errands feels like following OSHA regulations.

Reviews of your books aren't typically for you. They're for other readers. If you must read them, do so with a detached mindset to avoid getting your feelings hurt. Not everyone who disliked your book will be able to articulate what frustrated them in a way that helps you grow as a writer.

“Saturday began with my new boyfriend disappearing in front of my eyes. Not a good start for the day, to be honest.” Season to Be Witched is here! Find it on Az: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FSKQ19D6 Others: books2read.com/u/mqLx91 Sample: www.susannashore.com/seasontobewiched.html #urbanfantasy #booksky

Unfortunately accurate. (Especially as some new authors think their first book will make them great and powerful, but in reality they're mostly invisible.) #amediting #amwriting

Whenever I get disappointing writerly news (as is common) the impulse is always to buckle down & do more. 💙📚 Hence I say maybe enjoy this good #historicalFantasy #book this weekend. It's got everything: ➤ magic ➤ bad gods ➤ sheep ➤ tender father-son talks ➤ stabbing books2read.com/u/bWAzpY

Sounds about right.

Whenever I get disappointing writerly news (as is common) the impulse is always to buckle down & do more. 💙📚 Hence I say maybe enjoy this good #historicalFantasy #book this weekend. It's got everything: ➤ magic ➤ bad gods ➤ sheep ➤ tender father-son talks ➤ stabbing books2read.com/u/bWAzpY

Did you know it's Bandcamp Friday, that glorious day when Bandcamp waives its revenue share and gives the artists all the money? IT IS! If you've got some spare $$, go support the artists!

A remote island, a wealthy man, a missing woman, a house fire and secret graves tied to a decades old family tragedy. Can police chief Calista Gates dig deep enough to unearth it all and prevent more crimes?

"Die Hard is a Christmas movie" is the new "bacon is my personality" personality type.

Got one of those writer emails where you don't even need to open it to know what it says. I'll be like Meh, that's what I expected, but then the rest of the day still be like, Boy, find it hard to get things done today for some reason. #WeAppreciateTheTimeAnd #writingcommunity #books

Editor secret: Enthusiasm for publishing is great, but there's a point where an author's expectations can turn into a red flag.

Holy moly....read this! Note: with coffee or beverages NOWHERE near your keyboard. Chuck, I am ded.

My potential not-so-hot take on ITCH bundles is that fantasy is a fairly large blanket term, and bundles might be more attractive if they consisted of smaller numbers of books that honed in on more specific subgenres. 🧡🚀📚 #books #reading #amreading #writingcommunity