#bookvember I'm copying the host and saying The Locked Tomb trilogy by Tamsyn Muir. These are such an absolutely wild ride that I want to read again and again. I love how Tamsyn wasn't afraid to take chances.

Spencer, Bruce, and Molly interrogate an interloper. From book 2 of my romantasy wip about a priest of the dead and a thief with a heart of gold. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity #Wrencer

Danbi considers what she knows and what she still needs to know. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmQuerying 📚💙

Introducing Daemrin, the MMC of THE CRUCIBLE OF THE BROKEN MOON, my space opera romantasy. In this snip from Ch 2, he butts heads with Belenos' Minister of Foreign Affairs, Wellay. "Moonie" is a pejorative referencing the Katorgan emblem/symbol, the broken moon. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity

Happy #WIPSnips 8 - Little! From RETURN TO BLUDEYE BEACH. Edie's voice teacher Will Zangari is trying to help her with stage fright ❤️

Crucial preparations for an underworld visit involve making sure the spotter is also comfy. 🙂‍↕️ #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity

Danbi having a conversation with her best friend’s grandfather, one of the few adults in her life who cares to give her advice. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmQuerying 📚💙

#Bookvember THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood. This book has stuck with me since I first read it 20 years ago. The themes of bodily autonomy and government control can resonate with many women but truly extend to everyone. “Nolite te Bastardes Carborundorum” 🩷

#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky When Mem & Light first meet, she doesn't pick up on the red flags that he might have some... Luigi tendencies. (And I don't mean the Mario brother 😅) From #Charagma, my SFF dystopia where all people are marked saved or damned from birth.

Happy #WIPSnips 7 - Movement! Teenagers being teenagers, amiright?

Reposting is not enough. You guys need to hear this.

From the first chapter of THE CRUCIBLE OF THE BROKEN MOON, my space opera romantasy. The FMC, Lex, is eating dinner with her family (father Marcas, uncle Hendry, cousin Malina) and about to get herself in trouble by interjecting with a pesky topic. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity

#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky Constance Blake is dreaming/reminiscing about her husband, who's currently away on a dangerous mission. From my new WIP #Charagma, a SFF dystopia where all people are born saved or damned, & the Elect have a holy mark on their forehead.

commission: sybil & jeph for @khonri.com 💖 [ #art #artcommission #OCart #OCsky ]

Little worldbuilding thread on Cructics (will add more as brain permits!). But first some show and tell. I have two characters in generation one gang that are of Cructic descent: Sybil is full-blooded and Zola is mixed (Cructic mother, Genhokuan father).

#Bookvember Pizza Hut was the only one monitoring my reading. I spent a lot of time at the library or reading in my room so no one else had any idea what I was reading. I did enjoy the freedom it gave me, though. 🩷

comm for @carska36.bsky.social 💜💜 ur the best ilyyy

#NovemberWorldbuilders Let's go with where white hair came from. The now "long dead" people of Rhir Sief the origin for this trait. Like how we'd tone bleached hair in real life to produce this look, this comes from a purple pigment protein in the hair shaft that is perceived as white. 🧵1/4

#Bookvember 6 #WIPSsnips today got me thinking about Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. I always loved the Very Fine Drawings by Brett Helquist! The style is so unique & they have just the right gothic vibes. The cover image of The Wide Window was what first enticed me to read them ❤️

#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #writers #writesky Well now I'm tempted to replace one of these "second-to-lasts" with "penultimate" 😂 It's the return of Redacted Hunk Lady, yay! 🥳🥳🥳 A slightly spoilery snip, but it's fine. From the tournament arc of Book 1 of my #Atlantis trilogy.

#bookvember This was one I couldn't stop looking at as a kid. The sketchy quality of the drawings, muted colors, and the fact that the monsters weren't depicted as scary really appealed to me.

This is my favorite "trail" for today's #WIPSnips, from the sensory overload at the October ball.

Required viewing for me today 🩷

The crew attend a funeral, and Sophie's thoughts are clouded by anger and grief. 😠😔😣 Today's snippet is a bit more serious than usual. From an action-comedy novel about a girl, a robot, and the heist crew they call family. #WIPSnips #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WriteSky 💙📖

#currentreads I'm really enjoying THE DEVIL SHE KNOWS by Alexandria Bellefleur. It's pretty much a sapphic version of the 2000's movie BEDAZZLED and I'm loving the humor.

Happy #WIPSnips 5 - Trail! In EYES SHINE SILVER IN MOONLIGHT, all my trails turn real NSFW real quick 😂 this is the least explicit one, putting more of a romance into this werewolf romantasy. (And then they get real NSFW again real quick after this.)

#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky In the #Tenement, all the teenagers of a certain age get assigned their future spouses. Though at least they are allowed to make lists of their preferences... which are *sometimes* taken into consideration 🙃 Also yeah Kazuo writes poetry 😄❤️

An updated #agentsguide to THE ICE BETWEEN US, a sapphic figure skating romance novel featuring: ⛸️ Forced Proximity ❤️ Workplace Romance ⛸️ Dislike-to-Lovers ❤️ Only One Bed ⛸️ She Carries Her ❤️ “Stop Talking” #questpit #A #R #LGBTQ #Q #amquerying

#Bookvember I love the work of Dr. Seuss but this one in particular has some special meaning to me. I obviously loved reading it as a kid but when I first entered college and took my intro to children's lit class this was the book I chose for my first reading performance. (1/2)

Context: There’s some magicky stuff happening for Danbi at this point. Oh, and there’s a lynx. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmQuerying 📚💙

#Bookvember 5 The main one that's coming to mind for me is the man himself, Dr Seuss. I owned a lot of his books as a kid, but my favorite actually was The Lorax, which I didn't own. My aunt had it & I read it every time I was at her house. Something about its grim atmosphere really got to me.

Cool cool, my snip gets to chill out and just info dump about the support staff coconut dog. 🥰 Art commissioned from @aowna.bsky.social. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity

#Lovember It's Marcie for me, my sapphic vampire who has been around for two millenia. In her own words:

BREAKING: California voters approve a new House map designed to help Democrats net 5 seats next year, NBC News projects, countering Republican redistricting in other states.

HOW TO COME HOME for #questpit! After betraying his family’s crime syndicate and spending 10 years in prison, an ex-Prohibition fixer’s plans to atone for his past sins are upended when he meets a handsome disabled shopkeeper. 🛤️ 🛤️ 🛤️ #Q #A #HF #R #HR

Is this what it's like to have hope? It's been so long

#WIPSnips | trail Lennie encountering a less-than-ideal scene after searching for meds for her friend. (Context: Micah's pretty good at tracking.) From my post-apocalyptic #WIP w/ a misfit trio of kids. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #amwriting

A late post, but I really want to share this: the opening paragraphs to THE CRUCIBLE OF THE BROKEN MOON, my space opera romantasy. It's first draft quality, but I think I've captured the mood/tone well. #WIPSnips #WritingCommunity

#Novmemeber 4 Oh boy, where do I begin? 😅 There's a running joke about how the people of Shorespine are obsessed with waffles. But there are too many references to count, lol. My favourite is a scene where Scruffy is interrogated by a guard dog in the manner of James Bond meeting Sherlock Holmes.

#Bookvember Diana Wynne Jones 💖 You know, there's so many little oddities in her books that make them ✨️✨️✨️ but I feel like the general advice to people querying today would be to drop that stuff. But that's the magic! As a young writer I looked forward to the day when a reader would say to me...

The name Danbi means “sweet rain,” so Cyrus (possible LI) of course calls her Storm Cloud the whole book. His dad is strict about cursing, so Mundy has a bunch of substitute expletives that are sort of a running joke. And here’s a line with the most direct references I have… recognize them? 😁

EVELYN A VGen commission for @carska36.bsky.social , of her seamstress OC, from a TTRPG campaign. #art #illustration #digitalart #vgencomm

Happy #WIPSnips 4 - Steel! From BLUDEYE BEACH. What in the Resident Evil --

#Bookvember I was a morbid and anxious child and would devour non-fiction books about disasters. The Hindenberg, Titanic, and Edmund Fitzgerald were my favorite specific disasters. This book in particular, was on my repeat checkout list at the local library.

#Bookvember 4 All I can think of is this one awesome astronomy book I had in elementary school. I don't even have it anymore or know what it was called, sadly, but it's the first time I remember reading about different stars & black holes, etc. It blew my mind! I still love astronomy to this day ❤️

#NovemberWorldbuilders 4 Going with the zefhond for green! Like the kuraima, these are elemental beluan that take a cutesy "inactive" form to appeal to humans. They're wind-aspected quick strikers. And unlike the kuraima, they've domesticated themselves enough that changing isn't as natural.

My warm up of the day 🪿🐥✨

#Ghibli baby announcement I designed for some good friends a few years ago. Would love to make more of these, it was a fun project! I’ve been itching to hand-paint some stuff like this, too. #art #artist #digitalart #procreate

Happy #WIPSnips 3 - Nice! From my werewolf romantasy, EYES SHINE SILVER IN MOONLIGHT. Werewolf politics and classism is tricky 😂

#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky Got a fresh new WIP for ya! Remember ("Mem") gets embarrassed by her slightly drunk twin in front of a hot guy she's been attempting to flirt with 😂❤️ From #Charagma, my SFF dystopia about a world where all people are born saved or damned.