Ran out of steam before I could post a thank you for the awesome support in UnhingedPit yesterday! That was my first Unhinged event. It was🎶awesome!🎶 Thank you, fellow writers! Best of writing and life to you each today.

Sorry. Last, last #UnhingedPit post, promise. This is for a 2nd project, my WIP, Badgerblood 2. Princess Bride X Sword of Shannara X Don Quixote...? (Maybe. But without singing and hair. Maybe. Okay, MOST POVs w/hair. 🧔) #FingerDrawing #WIP #YA #F #OutlawMMC #AdventurousFMC

y'all know the drill by now: ~kidnapped ballerina ~panic disorder ~fantasy fugitives ~their leader's magic stuck in her ~forced to live w/ them ~spying for freedom ~forced proximity ~found family ~slow burn romance blah blah etc like my book🙏 #UnhingedPit #CS #YA #F #M #R #MH

Sorry. Last, last #UnhingedPit post, promise. This is for a 2nd project, my WIP, Badgerblood 2. Princess Bride X Sword of Shannara X Don Quixote...? (Maybe. But without singing and hair. Maybe. Okay, MOST POVs w/hair. 🧔) #FingerDrawing #WIP #YA #F #OutlawMMC #AdventurousFMC

Last of my #UnhingedPit posts! SWORD OF SHANNARA X SHADOW OF THE FOX Chuck Norris doesn't cry tears, he cries badgers. #YA #F #P #SelfPublished

What's more unhinged than doing more than 3 posts? 😏 WAKE, a wildly reimagined BEAUTY AND THE BEAST retelling featuring a hate-hate relationship with: ~pointless fights ~bickering ~name calling ~& this kind of energy You're welcome, world 😈 #Unhingedpit #CS #YA #F #M #R #MH

How to win over a girl: 1. Kidnap her 2. Torture her 3. Force her to live with you 4. Take away her hopes & dreams 5. Accidentally throw things at her when she surprises you 6. Freak out if she touches you 7. Give her the silent treatment #UnhingedPit #CS #YA #F #M #R #MH

🚨 ESCAPED FUGITIVES ALERT 🚨 3 high-risk fugitives vanished from Agency prison without a trace When: unknown All very powerful & dangerous If you think you see something, DO NOT ENGAGE. Report to your local Agency representative immediately #UnhingedPit #CS #YA #F #M #R #MH

I love this book sooo much! (beta reader) So stoked it's finally getting published!

Last of my #UnhingedPit posts! SWORD OF SHANNARA X SHADOW OF THE FOX Chuck Norris doesn't cry tears, he cries badgers. #YA #F #P #SelfPublished

UNHOLY TRINITY is what would happen if George Orwell and Margaret Atwood tripped on MK-ULTRA drugs together, watched "Real Genius" and "The Last Castle," got the plots mixed up, and then wrote dystopian AU fanfic about it. #UnhingedPit #A #SpF #Q (Now w/ 500% more Tumblresque character moodboards)

Cryptids are tricky especially when they’re hungry… follow Alice’s advice and you’ll be just fine.. after all curse breakers and cryptids go together like peanut butter and lasagna. #cryptids #magic #mgfantasy #bluecrew #bluesky #amquerying #F #MG #Q #UnhingedPit

The Society of Curse Breakers as told by memes. Bone Apple Tea. Comps The Shadow Thieves by Anne Ursu, The Cabinet of Wonders by Marie Rutkoski and Trust No One by Linda Sue Park #UnhingedPit #F #MG #YA #Q #amquerying #mgfantasy

Badgerblood: Awakening - "Get out of jail free" Pinterest fail. Graceling X Shadow of the Fox #UnhingedPit #P #SelfPublished #YA #F

IDLE OF A PSYCHOPOMP How far would you go to make sure your loved ones survive? For a retired explorer, that burning question never ceases to exist. When he overhears a rumour about a mysterious forest, he ventures back into the wild, desperation overwhelming every other emotion. #PosterPit #Q #T #A

Heartbroken & need a new🏡to live? Boy, do we have an offer for you! Why not try an Arranged Marriage today? Comes complete with: No Love Pact Plenty of bickering Faking💘for the MIL & the all-important question of “How long before the arrangement becomes inconvenient?” #UnhingedPit #W #A #R

“Keys.” Hands tossed them to her. “Cane.” I passed her the stick for reaching the pedals. “Chaos.” Ringo lifted his paws & yelled, “Woo hoo!” Roxy turned the key in the ignition, & the golf cart hummed to life. “Buckle up, bandits.” -Sisters in Crime #Q #MG #Humor #Heist #Raccoons #UnhingedPit

#UnhingedPit #WIP #YA #F Let’s mix two supernatural things together for a b-plot. Who? … Got it! Angels and Fae. What should they do? …Legal dispute. Argue contract law over an outsourced miracle. That’s what people who read books with these things want, right? Bureaucracy. I’m with it.

Former supernatural-obsessed teen, Brandy, hardly minds that her husband is a werewolf...until bodies start showing up dead on their property on full moons. Has her partner lost control? And should true love really require this much bleach? #A #T #Q #UnhingedPit

I’m sure you’re all invested by now, so here’s PART 3 of Chicken Shop Date with my main characters. Anticipating a lovely happy ending for them because nothing bad ever happens in dystopian fiction, ever 🥰 #unhingedpit #Q #YA #DYS #T #SF

When you bring a pizza box to a sword fight. I Am Chosen~A different kind of paranormal romance. *Agent guide on profile* #UnhingedPit #R #Q

PART 2 of Chicken Shop Date with my snarky MC and her love interest. #unhingedpit #Q #YA #DYS #T #SF

One comp, Interview With The Vampire, is 49 years old! Am I unhinged for using it? Yep. But Anne Rice mixed history, paranormal, and decadent descriptions of culture and cities around the world. Like a vampire, her books keep moving beyond the grave.🌹 *Agent guide on profile* #UnhingedPit #R #Q

Which character from FIRE AND DEATH would get raptured? (Coming Oct. '26) #UnhingedPit #F #YA

What could go wrong? THE BANSHEE OF CLAN MURTAGH is a gothic horror about the black sheep of a powerful 14th century Irish family and his doomed love story with the banshee who's haunted his household for generations. #UnhingedPit #Q #H #R #A #Historical #Gothic

What if my snarky, thieving MC and her love interest went on a Chicken Shop Date in their dystopian world together? #unhingedpit #Q #YA #DYS #T #SF

ANIMAL FARM x THE GOOD PLACE AITA for needing to eat souls? I look like a cat I act like a cat I talk like a cat But… I am not a cat All I want is some souls to sustain me in my afterlife What’s so wrong about that? #A #F #UnhingedPit

#UnhingedPit #A #F #R #W From EYES SHINE SILVER IN MOONLIGHT, a werewolf romantasy with your new problematic faves. (Shoutout to @carska36.bsky.social for help with getting these picrew images together ❤️)

Princess Bride X Sword of Shannara #UnhingedPit #YA #F #P #selfPublished #MultiPOV #OutlawMMC #AdventurousFMC #FingerDrawing #IHaveNoIdeaWhatImDoing #FinallyGetToUseOutdatedComps #YoureWelcomeForThoseExceedinglyLongHashtags #SorryNotSorry

I'm new to Bluesky. Recently opened an account so I could practice pitching for the dreaded query trenches at some future, unknown date, and connect with writers. I'm so excited for this pitch event! Anyone looking to swap support, comment below and I'll try to keep up tomorrow. #UnhingedPit

So, I edited my profile blurb on X/Twitter too many times and it *maaybe* thinks I'm not human anymore. 🤨 I'm like, no. No, I'm human. I'm just a writer. 🤦‍♀️ I don't see any robot arms sprouting yet though, so I think I'm good...

BADGERBLOOD A reclusive outlaw, haunted by his forgotten past & hunted by a tyrant, evades false murder charges by hiding in a feral Timberland. When a headstrong girl appears, Kor’s pendant draws him to her, driving him from his sanctuary to face secrets key to saving the kingdom & his soul.

Nothing like a good rainstorm to stir the imagination. 😍 (From a few weeks ago.) Anyone else feel better when it hardcore rains?

Sometimes you just need a bit of sky and sunset to get the creative juices flowing. 💕

Sometimes you just get lucky and catch that perfect candid shot. 😆 Sometimes writing's the same way, sometimes it's not. Got this shot a while back at the zoo. I was very happy for the "live photos" feature that day.

Maaybe I should have had baby skunks in Badgerblood because they're *stinking* 😶 cute, but something tells me the name wouldn't have rolled off the tongue quite as well. 😅 And yes, that's me (a few years back) holding real baby skunks. 😍

"There is no Wi-Fi in the forest, but I promise you will find a better connection." —Ralph Smart

Meet Kor from Badgerblood: Awakening! Outlaw MMC. Another rough character sketch. Drew it with pencil, took a photo, and sent it to our IPad to add color, etc in Procreate. (I'm pretty sure that's the name of the program... 🤔)

Rough sketch of Allinor from Badgerblood: Awakening. Adventurous FMC. 👀 (I drew it, but used a filter on the photo of the sketch to help eliminate strong shadows, etc.)

Badgerblood's got a map! (Designed by my artist husband.)

Finished a zero draft for #WIP Badgerblood 2 a little bit ago! So what happens next? Another zero draft... 🥴

Merrick and his wispy beard from Badgerblood: Awakening. 🤨🧔 A rough character sketch. I like to make attempts at drawing my characters sometimes.

Europe. ❤️ Also good for creative brains.

Once upon a time we went to a beach in Texas... Good for the writer's brain. ;)

A couple of great reads! 💕

Figuring out the writing process can be difficult. I tried using notecards for Badgerblood book 2 (my current WIP). It helped, a little. 😅

🎶Shiny...🎶 Bookmarks featuring the Badgerblood poster, designed by my artist husband. We used them in my Badgerblood book launch a few years ago, sell them on my website: scmonson.com, and I even gave a few away to a local library at our last resident location.

Just a little Badgerblood related pendant fun. Some good friends of ours 3D printed these in resin for Badgerblood 1's book launch giveaways a few years ago. Have some leftover for when I finish book 2.

Just joining Bluesky in prep for some pitch events. Wanted to join to get some practice. I'm not currently in the query trenches. (Phew! 😅) But I might join for a future book. Excited to support and connect with other writers! ✍️