Desiderata: chastising the candle stand for not selling anything jasmine-scented Grace: being hunted down like a dog by Sereth in the corn maze Fletcher: ten pints deep in spiked cider, trying to get punched

Pippin: yeah, I've been working on my mental health. I've limited my time looking into the Palantir of Orthanc to 3 hours a day.

I mean, Eschatological ideation often arises in moments of sociopolitical upheaval as a kind of hedge against uncertainty, even tho the referent text explicitly says "none shall know the day/hour" & basically tells you to live your life like god might call you to account any second but sure, fuck it

Putting the Complaint Tablet to Ea Nasir on my TBR ziggurat. It's a cozy coppercore clients-to-enemies-to-lovers pen pals romysterantasy.

Dessert mode ACTIVATE: Best pie: key lime Best ice cream: coffee/affogato Best donut: French cruller Best bar: lemon Best cake: red velvet Best other: black licorice

H.P. Lovecraft: Your limited human mind cannot comprehend Cthulhu Me: (comprehending easily) Squid guy

Currently vacillating between two prospective projects so fast it sounds like beetle wings. To prequel, or to sequel?

Halfway through my first week in 8 months of not working on this novel and realizing that writing really is the one thing keeping me sane

#HIGMA, part 1/? Back in July, I signed with my agent to represent my fantasy horror novel, the Barrowvine Saint. Compared to my two previous querying journeys, this one was certainly a roller coaster. Even after a couple months, it's still hard to believe this is happening! #writingcommunity

I'm in my early 30s, so one out of two ain't bad, I guess. Does it help if my occult detective is *also* a gin-soaked wreck?

My manx kitten is twice the size he should be at 4 months old and I think I'm in danger

Whoever invented the Kalita Wave is definitely going to heaven when they die ☕

After 10 solid months of writing, revising, and querying this project, I've just submitted my first round edits to my agent. The sense of accomplishment feels like I've drank 3 cups of coffee - no, wait, I think that's just the coffee 😅

hey guys check this out A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO FEMINIZING HRT (15.9k words) pghrt.diy

You read DEMON ENGINE and you loved DEMON ENGINE, but you wished you could've spent a lil more time with Sally and Mary? Author @martennorr.bsky.social has written a short supplement story you can find on the book's webpage!! 👀🐙 traumbooks.com/demon-engine/ [Scroll down to find it!]

I look at the world, at the forests and the mountains here, the sky, and it's all right, as it should be. But we aren't. People aren't. We're wrong. We do wrong. No animal does wrong. How could they? But we can, and we do. And we never stop.

oh i'm so in love with this book—so many BONES!!!! thrilled to welcome Raven to the team!!!!

I'm absolutely THRILLED to announce that I'm now represented by the one and only @allegramartsch.bsky.social at Bookends Literary. Can't wait to see where my strange little book full of sapphic undead will go! 🌿💀 #fantasy #writingcommunity #booksky

In light of an announcement coming up tomorrow I've decided to take a stab at making an #author website. It's janky and desolate but it exists! Stay tuned for more💀 #writingcommunity

Finally treating myself to some art and worldbuilding as my vague era draws to a close 🌹💀🌹 #writingcommunity #amquerying #fantasy

Big news coming soon???

Oh you sweet summer child.

In my vague era 🌿💀🌿

Just got my character portrait back from my friend, the one and only @martennorr.bsky.social. It's such a great feeling to see Grace as I imagine her!

Accuweather: here, have some some cool facts about weather! NHC NOAA: need raw data and thorough reports? No problem! The Weather Channel: we are all mere minutes away from death

If I ever meet a stranger cosplaying one of my characters I think I'll die on the spot

SAINT DEATH'S DAUGHTER X SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN A graverobber is hired to find a missing corpse. The corpse has other plans. #QuestPit #A #F #Q #H

GIDEON THE NINTH x EMBER IN THE ASHES 🗡️murderous fem bodyguard with shadow magic 👑 a butch lesbian prince 💘 who hate each other ⚔️ need to work together 🧟 to discover who's trying to kill the prince ❤️‍🔥 and... recover their trust after the tragedy that drove them apart #questpit #A #F #W

I beta read this book and I still think about the ending almost every day. Marten Norr is a mad genius.

Having read this manuscript over the last week I can say with CERTAINTY that #litagents are going to be all over this. Metal From Heaven X SYCBANI? Trans allegory? Achingly beautiful prose with a witty, voicey protagonist? Yearning sapphic love? A corpse that doesn't want to be found? Incredible.

Welp, I just sent out my first full and partial on this new manuscript I've been working on since last year. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll be out back screaming.

now this is hard hitting journalism

Oh don't mind me, I'm just over here preparing for my writing workshop pitches like they're fucking House of Leaves.

I will never not talk about the fantasy undead borg collective affectionately referred to as "Mother" if given half a chance.

Here's an article I was recently interviewed for about the recent LibGen scandal. I think these issues are super important and really showcase the need for analog, grassroots community among writers.

wHaT d0 y0u MeAn ThIs 12yo ***ACCIDENTALLY*** BuRnT d0wN tHeIr H0UsE? The kid blamed it on fairytales and actual fairies? ... ...... ......... Wait they're real? .... And THEIR world is about to crash into OUR world? .... I gotta get the number for that kid's therapist #UnhingedPit #threadbare

Anton Sugar: what's the most you've ever *won* on a coin toss? 😏

Attention, attention, non-males are now allowed to have ONE (1) negative quality. They may substitute this quality for TWO (2) quirks, such as an interest in a niche scientific subject such as taxidermy. Being brown counts as a quirk. Deviation from Christian themes remains forbidden. Thank you.

At last, I've completed my low fantasy mystery novel and answered the age old quesion: what if Agent Cooper was a snarky lesbian zombie?

New message from QueryTracker: splash some cold water on your face and name five things you can see.

So I know the cozy subgenre is pretty loosely defined, but is there a general consensus as to when a fantasy novel *stops* being cozy? I've just finished a low fantasy mystery that checks some of the cozy boxes but I'm wondering if the body horror and horde of undead might un-cozify it😅

Trying to type messages on Insta reminds me of getting pop-up ads. I don't want to imagine with a freeware AI, capisce? I want to tell all my mutuals they need to imagine some better damn memes

I'm sorry for all the subtweets today but why would posting a CHATGPT REVIEW OF YOUR NOVEL interest me?? Like, you can't get one person to read it? One human? Not even yourself?? We all want views, all want reads. It's hard out there! But copying some glorp is not gonna entice anyone

Get in the musical, Gene, or Fred Astaire will have to do it again.

New name because after removing 67k words, it's basically a new book! ROMEO & JULIET meets THE HUNGER GAMES when a fiery rebel and shy aristocrat find forbidden love amid a brutal uprising, hidden magic, and deadly monsters that could destroy them both. #LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA #NA #FR #Q

Grace Elgin didn't expect to return from the dead, much less that her new body would come with so much baggage. When an heiress' corpse goes missing, she is given a deadly ultimatum: find the body, or be cast back into oblivion forever. #LuckyPit #PopUpPit #PopUpPitA

Writers with impostor syndrome are always like "oh no, my story is so unoriginal; it's just a copy of (describes a dozen disparate inspirations which they've transformed, alchemy-like into something truly unique and beautiful)"

Drinking coffee out of a black mug is wild. Every time I take a swig, my reflection at the bottom is all: "you sure you want to do this on an empty stomach?"