And this is rare books, Martin style. Welcome to the club, Liana! Goodbye, ebooks. Hello own website print publications from lulu only.

It is 'best week' and I love it.

Why did I think this was @michelleheller.bsky.social ?

Hey?! I’m in here. Awesome!

Martin fiction is just thinly veiled Dad core.

@elenagaillard.bsky.social here for the orchid action.

Pride and Prejudice and Sandworms? 🤔 Yup. Definitely an improvement.

Damn it. Another morning, another time I accidentally opened my dms with @chaoticauthor.online only to close them again realizing I can’t talk to my friend. Can’t delete them. Can’t seem to stop opening them. Damn it.

Another rare book hits the mail box… complete with Martin art!

Reading today about how to write adventures that don’t suck.

Seeing this never gets old!

My new year’s hope is to be half as positive as Mary. Hell. I’d settle for 5%…

I don’t say this enough, but Michelle is my soul sister and style twin. She writes fast paced and exciting stories. But the real magic is the dialogue. The characters in her stories feel real, expertly conceived, and inches away from jumping clean off the page!

@deepcuts.blog Why do our Spanish-speaking brothers and sisters get all the cool Lovecraft stuff? Asking for a friend.

Well, if you see @janedunnbooks.bsky.social know that she's not who she says she is. Might not be a bot, but clearly a liar.

Dear scammers, please stop wasting your time trying to praise me into buying your crap. I am immune to positivity. Peddle your niceties somewhere else.

Specifically, Thorn, who is my only redemption thus far. He must confront his father, and the corruption in his heart, nearly killing his own siblings in the process. #horrorwriterschat

Well, #horrorwriterschat, sorry for the random likes and reposts. Bluesky was not working right for me and I think I missed half of the postings. Please know that I love all you guys deeply. Merry Whatever! Remember, do things your favorite Martin would do. Laugh, make stupid jokes, eat cookies.

"So, you had to eat the last cookie?" *frowns at his sins* "So what if I did? My blood sugar was low." *sins tilt their head to one side.* "Huh. Yeah, I should have noticed that." "It's cool. Wanna do some crimes?" "What am I, a cat?" ... "Just kidding. Crimes it is!" #horrorwriterschat

Can they earn it? Depends. can they win over a teenager who is hellbent on ruining their life? Maybe? #HorrorWritersChat

I'm Stephanie Ellis, writer of folk horror, gothic, post-apocalyptic and a dash of historical horror. Both seem to emerge naturally when I write, I think redemption is particularly important because it shows people can change, allows for their acceptance in society. #HorrorWritersChat

I like to mirror humanity in a lot of my work. So, depicting regret comes in many forms, be it a silent apology before their demise or killing the bigger monster in the story even though they're one too. Regret shows up like scars on the faces and places of those who bare them. #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat Regret manifests in my stories as the character's perception of the world around them. I love playing with environments to make the world increasingly unsettling and twisted. Inanimate objects become menacing, and buildings warp into looming, threatening formations.

#HorrorWritersChat I'm Anna and I write cozy Fantasy/Horror. In a few of my Horror short stories they regret what they have done a lot, but most of the time it is too late for them. In my cozy stuff there's room for some regret and then redemption for characters that need it.

Hard to describe without spoilers, but I wrote a werewolf hunter who begins to regret her actions as she works with some really dark forces and adopts an "ends justifies the means" mentality in her hunt. It's all tied up in her past trauma and how she processes it. #horrorwriterschat

I'm late, #horrorwriterschat - catching up! I'm Blair, and I write and draw comics. Lots of horror ones at this point. Regret and redemption (or at least attempts at it) are a huge part of my current story. Our protags live with lies, and it eats them up, so they do what they can to counter that.

Regret in Martin fiction is deeply troubling introspection coupled with passionate attempts to correct the situation which, in turn, just make it much worse. Martin fiction is basically.. see that thing? Let's make it worse through well-meaning actions. Lather, rinse, repeat #horrorwriterschat

Hi, I'm Nate. I tend to write working-class Cosmic horror. I think redemption plays a pretty big role in my work--some people deserve it and get it. Some people very much do not, and they get what's coming to them, typically. #HorrorWritersChat

Hi, #HorrorWritersChat! I'm Trish Wilson, Media Director for The Horror Zine. I write quiet horror, horror comedy, and I conduct author interviews. Do regret & redemption play important parts in my horror stories? Not a chance. It's more like revenge and rage with a heavy dose of sarcasm.

Marley; working on holiday prep and to a lesser extent on my anticapitalist werewolf book. I only recognized it recently, but one of the big concerns of my manuscript is, “What if you faced the biggest test imaginable, and you failed? What then?” #ThanksMatt #HorrorWritersChat

Hello! I’m Gary Kruse, I write supernatural thrillers and horror stories set in rural villages hiding dark secrets, sinister conspiracies and forgotten crimes… For most of my MC’s, there’s regret and sometimes they seek redemption. #HorrorWritersChat

Good evening #horrorwriterschat. I'm Daniel Lorn, creator of psychological & supernatural horror. Regret & redemption are both concepts I lean on to lend substance to my 'monsters', especially for my psychological horrors. I love contorting the emotional response into something truly terrifying!

I'm Beverley, a dark fiction writer from the UK, specialising in atmosphere and the build-up of dread. Regret and redemption often appear in my works. Regret for past decisions and the fall out. Redemption for some, but not for others if fate turns the wrong card... #HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat I'm James Ryan, and I write horror among other things. I bring up "other things" because regret and redemption figure into most of my work across all areas. I even have these themes pop up a lot in my nonfiction, when I write about a film for my column and go into its history...

Hi and thanks! I'm E. D. Jones, and I write weird and cosmic horror, along with sci-fi, urban fantasy, and, broadly, "other." Regret and redemption are key themes in my debut "werewolves & aliens" novel (titled "AWOO") and in several of my other stories. #horrorwriterschat.

I’m Clover, and I write experimental horror and dark fantasy. Regret is a HUGE theme in all of my work. There are many things I regret about my life, and I find it healing to explore it through writing. Ask me about my regret poetry sometime. #HorrorWritersChat

Good evening #HorrorWritersChat! I'm Lawrence (she/her) and I write dark fantasy and Jamesian/religious horror You might think writing horror with a religious bent means redemption features heavily, but it rarely does. I'm too cranky, and by the time my characters reach me they're beyond redeeming

#HorrorWritersChat heyo! I'm Artemis Quinn, and I write dark fantasy and paranormal horror. I'd say regret and redemption are big things in a lot of my stories, yeah. Especially the long lived immortal characters.

Hello! I'm Gree, writer of body, psychological, and religious horror for my Bloodied Rose: Verses of Midnight setting! Regret & redemption are key concepts for me. Living a very complicated, difficult life amongst others, they have become crucial for me to explore creatively. #HorrorWritersChat

Mark Guyer writes horror/fantasy fiction about pop culture and identity with lots of jokes and plot twists. He is the pseudonym of nonfiction writer Dustin Pinney and regret & redemption are massively important to his work. Like big time. #horrorwriterschat

#HorrorWritersChat My name is Rosé Black. I write horror and horror comedy. To answer the question, sometimes? It depends on whether I want a series to get serious or stuff.

Every time I hear "slush" I think of those sugar-loaded Slurpee knock-offs from my childhood... God I miss them. #horrorwriterschat

I'm Rebecca Cantrell and I write horror/mystery/thriller/comedy/whatever. Mostly dark stuff. Regret and redemption do feature in my work. They say "you regret the things you don't do most" but in fiction and life that's often not true. Things you do can haunt you...and others. #horrorwriterschat

Hi, I'm Vivian and I write horror. Regret and redemption play a part in some of my work because fiction often mirrors reality and in real life lots of us have regrets and seek redemption--well, those of us with character. Redemption is the last calling card of morality, imo. #HorrorWritersChat

Hey, #horrorwriterschat, it's your favorite Martin who writes direct to file folder horror and dark fantasy. Regret? Redemption? Sir, half my corpus is Dad-core dark fantasy about what happens when your kids grow up. It's 100% regret and redemption.

Don't get me wrong. I love #ttrpgs, but sometimes I look at starfinder and get an immediate flashback to the first time I tried to explain this to my wife. *scrunches up her face.* "This looks like math." "It's a game. It has...well.." *flips through the book* "Okay, there might be a little math."

They aren't looking for human storytellers. Store bought machine vomit is just fine.

Well if this isn't some 2025 tier bullshit I don't know what is.

The very existence of Deep Cuts makes me smile, and secretly hope there are other Deep Cuts in the world. It's fun to imagine an alternate universe where there is a Deep Cuts who specializes in tupperware, or pencils, or works by people named Martin... :)

Well, this is depressing af. I will always have fond memories of grabbing the latest dragonlance, forgotten realms, dark sun, spelljammer, etc. They were almost always mass market paperbacks. So portable. So loved. So deeply missed. Don't get old. They just take away the things you love.