Horror writers, my Halloweenie newsletter promo will be opening next month. If you have a story you'd like to have prompted for free this Fall, send me a DM. All horror subgenres and age ranges welcome.

Deer horror story is now assembled. Ended up shaving 200 words off, but I'm sure I'll make that up and more as I continue revising. Not a bad start to the week. #WritingCommunity #WriterSky 💙📚📝

'Resonance'

Revising my deer story today while a crew installs a spiffy wheelchair ramp for Dad. Very productive for a Monday. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

If you've never seen the 1998 Merlin mini-series with Sam Neil, today would be a great day to discover it. Oh look, it's on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZL5...

In honor of Sam Neill all steamrollers must now have quieter, faster engines.

Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream & Jeeves and Wooster kind of night.

Too much death and politics today. Bluesky needs more happy puppies.

Reminder that if you have neck or shoulder pain that came out of nowhere to check your pillow. Is it a pancake? Might be time for a new one.

Submission Guidelines: Artificial intelligence can be a helpful tool for writers... Nope. I don't care what your AI policy is, this statement alone is enough to add you to my Do Not Sub List.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Sharing a gift link to this because I know when I was caretaking my mom every ounce of validation that I was doing something emotionally, physically, professionally and financially impossible helped me feel less alone

Dearest readers: don’t send authors typo corrections. There are a lot of reasons for that which I will detail below, but the tl;dr: it helps nobody but your own sense of superiority.

First 10K trail run of the year and only five minutes off my PB. Pretty scenery.

It smells like a campfire outside, and my face hurts. Fire season sucks.😥😷

FYI, this is malware. If you see this, don’t do this

Looking for a nice summer read? I have heard this book is very interesting, very good, and that the author is very cool. Shh, pass it on

Quick, someone give me $4000 for a very prescient anthology so AaN can publish it.

If anybody else's dog is struggling with the heat, try getting them to lie on a damp towel. Mavis has gone from panting and unsettled, to spark out and breathing normally within 5 minutes.

Where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods

Psst...go to my new site draigbooks.com to see the super secret (not so secret) blurb for the highly anticipated (by me) fantasy novel QUARTZ STORM. While you're there, sign up to Dragon Post and you'll be first to see the fantastic cover designed by the fab @ravven.bsky.social #booksky #sff

Me shouting "15 stories" over and over again like Jeremy Piven in the car in Grosse Pointe Blank.

PSA from your friendly neighborhood bookseller: a lot of bookstores are currently finalizing their big Fall '26 orders, so now would be a great time to preorder any new releases coming out in September - December with them. An example from this past week:

Good. Anyway, what’s everyone having for dinner tonight?

I’m hearing a lot of people talking about the 10,000 folks ICE kidnapped over the first week of July and them saying “ICE has started up again.” It never stopped. One small city in Michigan (Pontiac) has had over 300 community members kidnapped in the past few months alone.

Changing your mind isn't weakness. Sometimes it's evidence that you've learned something worthwhile. 💙

Okay, the deer story is drafted at 2,000 words. Now to let it simmer for a couple of days. My favorite search for this story was: What's up with those trees on I-84? and actually getting the info I needed. 😂

Have you backed up your writing lately? What about all your cover art, and promo graphics, and those random text files of notes you keep meaning to organize? Quick, back 'em all up now, before the Mean Data Goose comes and pecks them to pieces 🪿

Morning writing session done. 500 words added. I think I'll have a good rough draft by the end of the day. Yay!

Drafting the main section of my deer horror story. This has been so much fun to write. Lots of inappropriate giggling. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky 💙📚📝

SF writers and readers are some of the nerdiest nerds on the planet. We love tech. We are so early-adopter that we imagined it before you built it. If you’ve lost us, you’ve lost the fight.

Got a hold notice on a story I’m really proud of. It’s so nice to find editors that dig my brand of weird. 🤞

Wrote another 600 words today on my messed up deer story bring it to around 1200 words. Halfway to being drafted. The heat has fried my brain, and I just want to find a dark hole to nap in for the rest of the afternoon. I wonder if I have popsicles...

Victory #art

Getting hot again, so I'm staying inside and writing today. Stay cool, friends. 💙📚📝 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

We're still figuring out getting my parents and brother a permanent home and the costs are still outrageous. So any shares of the post are still greatly appreciated!

600 words is a good start. I hope I can pull off what I have in my head. Oh, man these deer. They are messed 👏 up 👏.

I should probably stop scrolling and go write my messed up deer story, huh? Okay, see you kids later. Have fun.

Sometimes we keep looking for certainty when what we really need is perspective. 💫

I'm very sorry to announce that I was one of the devs affected by the Obsidian layoffs today. At least for four years, it was a beautiful dream. If you need a writer with experience in everything from the fog of war to romance - especially if you're open to remote - please get in touch.

Heeeyyyy, would you like to help make another year happen for a publication focused on bringing you speculative stories by immigrant and diaspora authors??? Well here's your chance! You can get issues as rewards, or extras like research consultations or author chats!!!

We’re just over 50% funded and there’s only 9 days left to go. Help us get across the finish line and publish another year of immigrant and diaspora speculative fiction!

Reminder for writers: You can jump off the publishing hamster wheel anytime you need to. Publishing is not where your worth lies. If you write, you’re a writer.

I think I'm writing a 'The Deer Are Not Okay' story. 🦌 Let's see where this goes. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

A few notes about World Cup viewing locations today: - Brick Park and Pacific Place will NOT be open today - Victory Hall is open, but get there early - Pier 62/Barge is open but requires reservation or ticket - Seattle Center will have games on inside the Armory as well as at Mural Ampitheatre

Happy Disability Pride Month! Here are some disabled SFF writers and writers who write SFF about disability to follow: @wiswell.bsky.social @jordankurella.com @mariness.bsky.social @atgreenblatt.bsky.social @cornellwriter.bsky.social @stephanieburgis.bsky.social @andiwrites.bsky.social 1/

This will be a thread of tips for people suffering through their first god-awful heat wave with no or subpar AC. I'm a perpetually broke Southern Californian so my ideas run cheap.

Appreciation post for all the alt-text folks today. You’re a star ⭐️

Longest sub still out: 437 days Newest sub out: yesterday #WriterLife #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Nightmare fuel for this former theatre TD.