Incidentally, the Wiki page of predicted dates for the apocalypse is some good reading. *Flammarion predicted that the 1910 appearance of Halley's Comet 'would impregnate that atmosphere and possibly snuff out all life on the planet. Comet pills were sold to protect against toxic gases.'" #rapture

When getting feedback and letting your book sit for a couple months is successful and you come back to it and realize your final act needs a little work... #writingcommunity #amwriting #fantasy #books #iguess

Great results from the woodfiring. Porcelain with copper glaze, fired to cone 10.

I should be working on a book but instead I'm watching Gwar interviews from the 1990s. To be honest, this belongs in a museum. #musicsky

I have sent House of Magic 5 to my editor! Now I'm going to rest a couple of days and then I have to put finishing touches to the cover and handle all the publishing stuff. If you want to read more about the series, you can find book 1, Hexing the Ex here: www.susannashore.com/hexingtheex....

Have books, will sell. Will also just give said books to your literary diet, if buying isn't an option. And these days, I imagine justifying a random indie purchase is no easy task. So try before you (maybe don't) buy. Readers are priceless to me, so why not show that in the most literal sense?

Took like two hours to prepare and eat some pretty meh pasta at my 'rents house while visiting because I don't know where anything is and such, but most importantly, had to hop up immediately and wash all them dishes or my mom will sneak in behind me if I blink and start doing them for me.

Sometimes I think the trick to decent writing is mainly trying to get rid of the word "but."

Crazy how the fourth episode of Chernobyl is only around 45 minutes long.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

I've done my parents' neighborhood a disservice by giving my parents a portable Bluetooth speaker for Christmas. They used to take a radio out back on the deck & listen to the cruddy rock station. Now they take my mom's phone & stream TCRS through the portable speaker, with better clarity & bass.

Sitting here thinking about book marketing like ... trying to decide whether to target one person to buy, like, 10,000 books ... or would it be better to get one person to buy ONE book that costs the same at 10,000 books? How do other people choose? #writingcommunity #marketing #is #hard

This is how I feel about my editing website. A free site I made in 2011, it's not fancy, but it's accurate. I'm not going to "update" it, as a patina of more than a few years is a positive quality in this new trust recession. www.oceansedgeediting.com #amwriting #amediting #indiebooks

Loves me 'rents, & that I can visit and stay with them in me old hometown, but I'm also learning that I am now mentally unfortified against the mispronunciation of every movie, show, & actor, while patiently sitting thru a recounting of all my dad's favorite Jason Statham movies. #PsychicDamage+3

I've heard that @leeburton.bsky.social has the most adorable tiny intern serving up purrs of encouragement (I definitely believe you can see her pawsitive influence on his excellent writing).

Library just called to say that my out-of-province loan of David Weber's "To Challenge Heaven" arrived - the only series I'm currently reading solely as it's beautiful schlock. Also I'm frantically messaging my wife who works there to walk to that desk & get it asap b/c I think that'd be funny. 🧡🚀📚

I drew a little scene for @spookyxpickle.bsky.social, based on a photo they took a while back. I suggested a moth-slash-fairy-cat would be very cute peeping over the mushie cap, and was thereby challenged to draw a version (Machelle did one first, below!). So here's my little guys!

Feels good to get back to work on my finished book again. I should probably stick to it and stop posting so much on Bluesky. 🧡🚀📚

As I see it, this is not spontaneous, this is a smart political propaganda campaign. Most (lucky) people who aren't plugged in to online discourse don't know who he was. By threatening people away from speaking ill of him, they can set the narrative that he was killed for "speaking out."

Kinda silly, but after 10 years living on the loudest touristy corner in the province, & 2 months evicting boxes through cruise-ship loads of tourists while motorcycles farted by, yesterday I stepped out of my parents' house & saw no people, heard only birds, &, struck by it, I took a quick picture.

"HAY, THERE'S USUALLY A GUY HERE -- BEARDED, WAKES UP EASILY FOR BREAKFAST, GOT OPPOSABLE THUMBS -- HAVE YOU SEEN HIM?" w/ @jcparsons.bsky.social #HazelTheInternKitty #CatsofBluesky

How to spread the word about your favorite author: ⚬ Write a review! ⚬ Recommend their books to your friends! ⚬ Make a TikTok eating their books! ⚬ Organize a book club that definitely isn’t a cult! ⚬ Start a conspiracy theory about them! Are they a Bigfoot? Let’s steal their DNA and find out!

After months of disruption, I sorta have some space to breathe and sidle back over to my Speaker Timeline book I finished early in the summer. Pic semi-related, but more just wonderfully grim. #must #write #good #books

Dropped into the brand-new bookstore in my hometown and scouted around until I found a book to buy. Could maybe use fewer space spiders, but hey... #books #Newfoundland #Indiebookstores thebookshopnl.com

I mean, I ain't working, but I've spent like four hours today writing two emails. Friggin' freelance life, eh.

Loves me 'rents, and that I can visit and stay with them in me old hometown. But I'm also learning that I am now mentally unfortified against being told that I, a fella in his 40s with a wife and best cat, need a haircut while I'm still staring at the kettle first thing in the morning.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If you’re a mutual who wants to read one of my books and cash flow is an issue, hit up my DMs and I’ll email you an epub.

Took a semi-spontaneous visit to see the 'rents and now I've been without my small intern ( #HazelTheInternKitty) for two full days and every time I message @jcparsons.bsky.social I'm like...

I'm gonna hunt down whichever book marketer first noted my editing email rather than my writing email and be very stern with them. My editing email is sacrosanct. Keep your scammy robot claws off of it. #amediting #writingcommunity

I've had a few updates/additions since this post went live on the 1st! ajcalvin.net/the-indie-au... #booksky

ahhhh, nooooo. "Book Lovers Stool" found on marketplace. #books #Irony #booksky

Amazon legitimized ebooks on the backs of self-publishers, then slowly shifted their focus over to trad publishers, convincing them they could make more money if they didn't have to produce actual physical books. Trads now charge dead tree prices for ebooks & Amazon makes more royalties from them.

While her tree is currently in the kitchen because we've just moved and everything is nowhere, #HazelTheInternKitty is taking a sabbatical from her position as editing and writing assistant to explore exciting new opportunities in the hot trending field of toast inspection. #CatsOfBluesky

First draft of grant proposal for my ... "book I've been waiting until I'm good enough to write" is down on paper. It's a little weird writing a grant proposal when this time I don't have things like ... "title" or "any already completed chapters" to appeal with.

Spent an hour and a half rearranging a close client's first three pages today. I'll be sending it back like ... "Hear me out..." #amediting #books

Haven't gotten your subs in yet? 👀 We're STILL OPEN for submissions from marginalized creators until SEPT 15th! Don't self reject‼️

I've made four SFF novelettes available for "pay what you want" on ITCH, including my prehistorical vampire horror story, The Third People, which was a quarterfinalist in the Writers of the Future Contest. Four novelettes, four #SFF subgenres. Get at 'em, eh. lsb337.itch.io #books #sale 🧡🚀📚

My missus and the cat when she gets home from work.

There’s likely an organized campaign going on to incite you to say stuff that’s gonna get you suspended or banned (or worse). The right has mentioned the Bluesky reaction to this incident repeatedly. They’re here to find targets. Don’t let them rile you up and goad you into something you’ll regret.

Is there a term for the book you always knew you'd write "someday," when you were ready, when you were finally good enough? #WritingCommunity

Don't wait until you have a book coming out to write your acknowledgments page. It's not a bad little activity (especially in moments as fraught as this one) to remind yourself of the impact of other people (so many other people!) & institutions have had on your life.

My missus & I took far longer than expected to get out of our DT St. John's apartment. Our last push took 36 hours, 10AM Sun to 10PM Mon, thru the night & into the next. Landlord says otherwise, but I expect the place to be an AirBnb soon, b/c nice things are only for tourists now. #Newfoundland

Mystery thrillers set in Newfoundland and Labrador. Ready for a chill? #crimethriller #suspense #newfoundland

Yes, I understand there's irony in how I'm struggling to bring these weights I never used out to the car...

Got a "promotional" email from an EXTREMELY confused "book marketer/scammer" who seems to either BE, or is using, an extremely confused AI. He/it seems to both "think" I AM Virginia Lee Burton, who died in 1968 -- scourge of my SEO -- or I'm Barbara Elleman who wrote about Virginia Lee Burton. 🧡📚

AutoCorrect changed Wyatt Earp to Wyatt Herb. The most relaxed gun in the West.

I was gonna say that if they ever made a movie out of this book I have from 1907, Gillian Anderson would be a shoo-in for the role... 🧡📚

Only got a chair and a footrest to work on still left in our apartment we're 85% evicted from, but I got my small friend intern still on the job in the window behind me, and that's enough. #amediting

Um, autocorrect, a suggestion? If I’m writing about Beowulf and early medieval England, I probably do mean “meadhall” and not “meatball.”