S H E (Chapter 1 Cliodhna) #FMC #booksky 🎨by @alluvial.ink

What's everyone working on today?? Gimme a WIP snippet.

We exist, I swear. I'm just bad at keeping up with social media. Currently gearing up to shave down our word count for beta. 😤📖

Beta for my novel is almost upon us, so I wanted to ask if anyone has some advice about beta reading best practices. I am completely brand new to this process. Please give me your wisdom, o' experienced authors out there. 🙏📖 #booksky #beta #betareading

I am and always will be a…

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We're a few polished chapters away from being in beta, and I am SO jazzed about it. Like, holy crap, we wrote a whole ass novel! 150k in less than a year (though we're gonna shave that down for querying)! Feels so great. 📖

I'm going live at 11am EST for a Twitch subscriber giveaway for emotes! Just show up with a SFW head ref, pick an expression, and be actively chatting when drawings happen. I have a follower emote giveaway coming up on 5/31 as well! twitch.tv/alluvialink #giveaway #pngtuber #twitch #emotes

what do you mean i can’t go to the seaside for a week? what about my melancholy??

My Carmilla x FMC x Countess Erzsébet Báthory vampire horror romance. 🦇🖤 Cover by Alex Patrascu.

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I needed to play with his hair and accidentally made him hotter (feat. the MMC of our novel WIP, Winter's Shadow) 📖 #conceptart #booksky #wip

I needed to play with his hair and accidentally made him hotter (feat. the MMC of our novel WIP, Winter's Shadow) 📖 #conceptart #booksky #wip

He only needs $270 to meet his goal and put his mother to rest. Every little donation and every share makes a tremendous difference. Thank you to folks who've helped out!

gofund.me/8da0097f Derek has been one of my besties for 17 years and he literally saved my life in 2009. If you've met me, or gotten art from me, or have good memories with me in the years since, you have him to thank for it. Every little bit and every share helps. His situation is awful.

Sorry for gently shilling my twitch channel on booksky, but I gotta cast a wide net. I'm still a broke artist until royalties start trickling in. 😩✨

I'm also hosting a FREE animated emote giveaway this Saturday 4/19 starting at 11am EST. All you have to do is follow me, show up with SFW refs, actively participate in chat, and make your selection from the poses I'm offering. twitch.tv/alluvialink #giveaway #freeart #emotes #pngtuber #vsky

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I had not heard of this book but now I am going to read it tonight.

I'm not superstitious per se, but Sleep Token has basically been the OST for this novel (The Arcadian Isles: Winter's Shadow) and the new album is Even in Arcadia. The new offering is a banger addition to the novel's playlist, also. I'm gonna worship so hard. 🙏🙌💤

Love to get art but hate to wait for it? I'm doing on the spot commissions for flat color icons and emotes! twitch.tv/alluvialink #pngtuber #twitchstreamer #commissions

If you see this, quote with a game with a 10/10 soundtrack 🎶 #gamesky #promosky #gaming

The book is nearly half editeddddd 📖🦋✨

Currently LIVE with an emote giveaway for subscribers. I'm also sitting at 90 followers, and if I can hit 100, I'll be scheduling an animated emote giveaway. Come on down and getchu some art! 🎨🖌️ twitch.tv/alluvialink #pngtuber #emotes #giveaway #twitchstreamer

Our beta edit is 40%ish done at approximately 49k words! We are most likely gonna have to shave about 10k off at the end for querying, but we wanna get the first editorial pass done before we start making cuts. We just get so verbose! 😔 📖

Tiny Cat the Diplomat M.D., Ph.D, DDS, D.O., J.D, MBA, Psy.D, M.Ed gave us 11 years of scratches and love. She will be missed dearly.

frothing at the mouth for the next 17 minutes waiting for Kriss's shift to end so the beta draft sprint vacation can beginnnnnn

One more day until Kriss and I spend a week in beta boot camp. If we don't finish it by the end of that, we will definitely get close. We already know we're going to have to cut down our word count before querying. We get so carried away. 😂

Doing a guide for the Discord mess- (As I did on Tumblr!) Discord has added a feature that lets other people "enhance" or "edit" your images with different AI apps. It looks like the image below. Currently, you can't opt out from this at all. But here's few things you can do as a protest.

Kriss has the first week of March off, and we're gonna get soooooooooo much editing done. 😤

Sometimes I also do art things!

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Seriously, creative folks: Don't be afraid to let people know your stuff is out there for them, or worry that "now is not the time for that." People are stressed and freaked out and looking for the things that will give them a moment of rest and joy. It is EXACTLY the time for what we do. Tell them.

Months of art block only to be hit with a surge of motivation, and I have two more days til my new tablet arrives. All I want to do is thumbnail cover ideassssss. I can sketch traditionally, but blocking in composition is easier for me digitally. 😔

whenever someone is judgmentally like "don't you have enough blankets?" you tell them "not enough for my blanket fort"

deeeep in editorial work today 📖 Prologue + 5 chapters just about ready for the beta draft! 😤

My "haha what if?" fantasy is writing generations of characters in the same setting like the Xanth series. God, the continuity! The sheer dopamine hit at the very thought is unrivaled. It'll be the trilogy that never ends, as Piers Anthony intended.

If you see this, quote with a game you've played multiple times

My Cintiq finally kicked the bucket after nearly a decade of use, so I have a few days free from work to wade into editing for beta. Extremely blursed. Having to buy a new tablet sucked tho. RIP Cintiq. I really got my money's worth, but my heart belongs to XP-Pen now. 🪦

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

"She was tethered to fear, sorrow, and a fresh sort of anger that thrummed at an increasing tempo beneath it all; a drum beat that was a slowly building crescendo in a discordant symphony." #wip #amwriting #booksky 📖

PITCH: In a world controlled by corporate vampires, two men struggle for autonomy. Will a chance meeting lead them to freedom~or a web of subterfuge, where every thread brings a monster offering death or permanent confinement? #YouDeservepIt 📖 💙📚 #Q #R Power Hungry CEO x Abandoned Puppy Bartender

We are born of one breath, one word

Prologue is donesies. Now to work on finishing that epilogue... What are we working on today, gang?? 📖 #amwriting #booksky

Working on a prologue today. Bit by bit, we edge closer to querying!

We are delighted to announce a new Six-Week Workshop scholarship for Trans writers. The Sea Star Scholarship, an annual full-tuition scholarship for the Six-Week Workshop, has been offered by an anonymous donor and will be available for the first time this year.

Thanks to @youdeservepit.bsky.social for running such a fantastic event yesterday! We saw many excellent pitches. The next event is #2025Pit, unlike #YouDeservePit & #BluePit this not a hype event. Only completed manuscripts and likes are reserved for agents and editors. Monday, the 27th!

I was so caught up in the euphoria of being able to design my own book cover that I didn't even think of the fact that I could like... offer those on commission??? I've mostly just done character art, portraiture, outfit designs, and whatever random nonsense I decide to teach myself on a given day.