Springtime!

What is the best music to write a sapphic high fantasy book to and why is it the How To Train Your Dragon soundtrack? #authorsky #booksky

I did ALL THREE of my jobs today. > Dayjob of senior marketing associate > Nightjob of magazine proofreading > Everyothertimejob of being an author Now, I am tired and it’s time to go to bed!

Early morning? Hell yes, time to work on Book Five! #authorlife

Jumped into my WIP for a few minutes today to clarify a small scene! And it was really just a few minutes because sometimes that’s all I have energy or time or mental capacity to do after a long productive day at work but it still feels good to open that Word doc and get some words in. 📚 #amwriting

What do you mean someone should write a sapphic scifi about a morally gray spaceship captain being ruthlessly hunted by her enemies and yet falls in love with her crew (esp. her cinnamon roll first mate) so she decides to protect this crew from the dangers but her time as herself is running out?

Wrote 2.7K words today!! I’m speeding my way to the end of Book Five and I can’t believe it! 😱📚 #amwriting

If you see this, drop a hero with a sword!

Writer: Okay! I’m going to write today!! Narrator: She re-read a chapter, deleted some lines, and added some dialogue tags. #booksky

Carve out some intentional writing time TOMORROW at 2PM Alaska time. 📚 Virtual? Yup! Open to anyone? Yeah! Hell fun? Hella yes!

The first meeting between a wandering scribe and a snarky painter is a furious hand to the scribe’s throat while they’re locked in the same prison. And yes, they do end up together. And yes, it’s hella queer.

Not to be dramatic but I completely missed FATAL SPORES book birthday over the weekend because of continuing stressful ✨cat stuff✨ and now I feel like I’m a bad author. 🤦‍♀️ Anyway, my book’s been out for over a year now! #booksky

Mood:

Revised a chapter today and really liked how it turned out! ✨🏳️‍🌈📚

Join me on a Quest! You’ll find: > writing prompts + exercises > time to write in our own creative works > a read-aloud > a challenge corner [bring a writing problem you’re having!] Open to everyone! Find more info in my bio + on the Alaska Writers Guild website. Hope to see you there! 📚

Girls be like “I needed this” and it’s just a lazy Saturday morning eating baked oats with their cat snoozing on their laps

OMG! Because of a lot of not fun ~life stuff~ happening this month, I completely forgot to promote this. My sapphic scifi and fantasy books are 50% off this month!! 🧡🏳️‍🌈📚 penlightpress.com/shop #booksky

I love when right after I send a chapter out, I start to think where I’d change it and that’s usually where my critique group highlights! The confirmation from them makes me feel like my own revisions would be on track. (Though they see other stuff I completely miss too.) Is anyone else like this?

Did I hear you say you wanted a queer fantasy that has ancient forbidden magic, a twist on the good old mentor, a snarky prisoner-painter with a soft heart, and a curious scribe who might just doom them all? Slides over INK STAINS & ILL-FATED LIES #booksky #sapphicbooks

I’ve passed 50K words in my sapphic high fantasy WIP. 🎉 Not done yet but felt good! #booksky #amwriting

Join me for a QUEST!! An hour-long, intentional writing session. ✨ > writing prompts + exercises > time to write in our own creative works > a read-aloud [completely optional] > a challenge corner [bring a writing problem you’re having!] www.alaskawritersguild.com/event-6547877 #writingcommunity

Not me wanting to create a new character just so they can have an alpaca for an animal companion 🥰 … #amwriting #booksky #authorlife

A do-nothing day on vacation means I can get a whole chapter written in one sitting! Hell yeah. 🧡📚🏳️‍🌈 #booksky #amwriting

Writing through the horrors, by writing horrible things happening to my characters because I know they’ll have an okay ending that I can control. My girls will be traumatized, but still moving forward and stronger for it. #booksky #amwriting

Sleepy birdfriend 🤎

Revised a fight scene today and it’s so much better now. It’s the next chapter my critique group gets to read, and I’m psyched to get their reactions!! 🔥🪶 #booksky #writingcommunity

Super excited for #CriticalRole tonight!!

Spent the morning prepping for ✨an exciting future thing✨!!

Writing Book Five. Just thought of a devistatingly cool punishment for one of my main characters. You think death is bad? Wild Nature is UNFORGIVING! 🍄‍🟫🌳😈 #amwriting

I’m writing an intense chapter in Book Five in Misti’s POV and I had to dive deep back into Book One to recall this particular pain point. Honestly, it’s both fun and terrifying to be writing the final book in my sapphic high fantasy series. #booksky

It’s -20 here. I think this might be the cold snap….but a month early. 🤔❄️

-14 degrees AGAIN today. It’s been too cold for too long. #alaskalife

Happy New Year, my fellow adventurers! I hope this year brings that phone call you were waiting for, that contract to sign, that chance to write “the end”, and that lovely community to be a part of. 🧡📚 #authorlife #amwriting

Apothebakery is so cute!! #boardgamenight

Spent the day writing. Got 3K words down. Pretty happy with it!

Had a lovely holiday yesterday! 🎁

Worked on my WIP for 30 minutes. Started a scene. Unsure if I like where it began because there’s a time skip. Might cut it later but at least I got some words down. 😂🤔 #authorlife #writingcommunity

Happy Solstice! ❄️🕯️

Worked on my sapphic high fantasy WIP today and had to research “what does it feel like to be stabbed” and “would a stomach wound kill you”? This chapter got REAL intense, real quick. 😁 #authorlife

*banging a spoon on a pot* Who wants to read an adult scifi about grumpy-sunshine, antihero + cinnamon roll sapphics in space?! #queerSFF

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Beauty & The Book HEA for the Holidays book signing event was great! Chatted with some lovely readers, reconnected with my author friends, and sold some queer SFF books! #booksky

It’s cold outside, so baby it’s time for some more homemade soup! This one is a quick ramen-style soup with chicken broth, seaweed, rice noodles and a ton of garlic plus a boiled egg on top! So warm and comforting. … #soup #soupseason #wintermood

Just a girl, gripping her computer screen, realizing that all three suncreature fights thus far are in one character’s POV in a four-POV-character book. I WAS going to submit this chapter to my critique group tonight. Now I’m changing the POV instead. *sighs* #authorlife #amwriting #sapphicbooks

It’s raining AGAIN! All the snow is melting, and now everything is one big icicle.

It’s warm and melty out so now it just smells like cold water instead of snow. 😫

My actual note in my current sapphic high fantasy WIP: “make the dragons more badass” #authorlife #booksky

Homemade pie!

Earthquake!

Researched what it feels like to break a rib today for my WIP. Yay writing!! 🦴🤕 #amwriting #writinglife #authorlife