Nothing convinces me you're compensating for something more than open carrying in the grocery store. In a city. With the gun just clipped to your pocket or waistband. Yes, you showed us all what a big man you are.

I have a newsletter! Wow, that took me forever to put together.

My tiny press has launched its first Kickstarter! Not one, but TWO anthologies of demonic paranormal romance could be yours! Support 🌶️📚 indie authors! www.kickstarter.com/projects/the...

It's the day after an event, so I just wanna be lazy, but as I still have not made it on the NYT bestseller list, I apparently need to get back to work.

If your position can be debunked by spending five minutes or less on Google or Wikipedia, it's probably not based in fact.

Not from Michigan, and not sure I know anyone who is, but if you're out there, HB 4938 is a special kind of heinous that disguises the censoring of the LGBTQ+ community (especially trans people) in a sweeping "porn ban" that will also cut access to education materials. Everything about it is bad.

Okay. I need an angel investor to give me $100K to start up a niche bookshop that also has a decent community space and maybe a coffee cart with offices for a publishing company upstairs. We'll employ my kids and all their neurospicy friends and they can learn valuable life skills in a calm setting.

I can feel my to-do list glaring at me.

I'm trying to set up a space where I can film content, and I have put more thought into the aesthetic of this small space than I have the rest of my house. Any day now the hyper focus is gonna slip and I'm gonna just throw up my hands in defeat and it'll go from carefully curated to eclectic AF.

My friend Robin is doing a 2nd Edition of her periodic table oracle deck, with revisions to the book and a new printer that prints on 100%-post-consumer recycled cardstock. @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/bit...

Me: Wow, I've got a lot to do this week. Universe: Yeah you do! Me: ...what's that supposed to mean? Universe: Oh, everyone needs you this week. No one cares about your deadlines.

The Spirit Halloween has opened! Spooky season is officially upon us!

“Why not just have AI do it all for you?” is not the proper response when an author is talking about the copy writing side work they do to support their career. Calling said side work “real work” and the novels “fun writing” is also not the vibe.

I cannot be held responsible for the unhinged decisions I make while world building. But also, English.

So I switched WIPs and wrote over 1000 words yesterday for the first time in over a month. I am simultaneously irritated with and proud of myself.

My favorite part of this is you just know this guy was one of those "AI is the future and you all need to get over it" bros. www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

Some of the panelists invited by the FDA to discuss SSRIs and pregnancy claimed that antidepressants don't work at all and depression goes away on its own. One suggested that depression was not an illness, but rather a product of “women just naturally experiencing their emotions more intensely.”

I'm going to try working on an old WIP that's been sitting at 20K for a little too long in the hopes that my stupid ADHD brain will go, "Eh, bored with this, let's write Lady of the Bridges instead!"

I was recognized in public today! I was at the Ren Faire, waiting for Jacques de Whipper to take the stage, and a woman a few people down goes, "Weren't you at Book Bash? I bought your books!" I was so delighted! And kinda wished I hadn't been eating a giant turkey leg at the time, but oh well.

Why are all the t-shirts in Torrid's Nightfall line oversized? I'm already fat, I don't need a completely shapeless shirt making me look fatter. You can't tease me with the gothy fashion and then go, "Ha ha, it's SO unflattering."

👸💖🤴👨⚔️ Well, I tried.

Let’s freaking gooooooo 💪

I've been redoing the spare room with the intention of making it into a place I can go write and also take pictures and film content. About halfway done, but stalling, because when it's done I will no longer be able to use "I have nowhere to film" as an excuse for why I don't make video content.

There are stores on eBay selling Seer of the Strait at a mark up. I am SO confused. Just buy it from me. I'll even sign it for you. Why are...just...why!?

I have to accept that Lady of the Bridges will not be ready for publication by October. I'm sorry. Nothing this year has gone how it was supposed to and I'm struggling. Still here, still writing. We'll get there.

Doing image searches for mood boards tonight, and the proliferation of AI slop is very annoying. It's not good, I can tell it's AI, but there's so much of it and it's burying everything else.

I have spent far too much of my adult life frustrated by things I have very little control over but are still my problem.

We are still crisis-ing! But we're getting somewhere. And I spent some quality time editing the last couple days. Still moving forward is what counts, right?

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So my existential writer crisis seems to be continuing through the week. Spent yesterday sorting through my WIPs and my file of story ideas. There's a lot in there.

i am perceived 😭😂

I'm pretty sure what you could laughably call my writing career is going to be sunk not by bad books but by my inability to build an audience.

Cashier: Oh, what do you do? Me: Um, I’m a writer. Cashier: Oh, wow, really? Anything I’ve heard of? What do you write?  Me: *brain ceases functioning*

My dad: Honey, your book was really good. And I read a lot of those kinds of books, so I'm telling you, it was really good. Not sure about the bisexual stuff, maybe you could have left that out. Me: I have devastating news about that sequel you're waiting for...

I have 112 (resolved) Quality Notifications from KDP and they are ALL either fantasy or archaeology terms.

I went to my first dance class in close to a decade today. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be, but I could do it. It stirred up a lot of emotions, struggling to do things that were once so easy, but the fact that I could do it at all is progress. I'll go back next week.

So I missed World Goth Day, but I assure you I was wearing black and probably listened to VNV Nation or Covenant (as they're in my current playlist).

Folks call your Senators now!! A ban on any state laws on GenAi for 10 YEARS is gonna do unthinkable harm! For those of you wondering what to say here are two posts you can use to build your own script (use alt script to cut and paste) Need to find your representatives? Here you go: 5calls.org

Library of Congress staff just showed what resistance looks like. After Trump abruptly fired Dr. Carla Hayden, the respected Librarian of Congress, he tried to install Todd Blanche, his former personal lawyer and current Deputy Attorney General, as acting librarian. Staff weren’t having it.

I have had this ska version of the 20 dollar salad TikTok song stuck in my head ever since I heard it [what a sentence lol] Please enjoy!

So I’m sitting in Pine State Biscuits waiting for a late breakfast, listening to some chill hipster Mumford & Sons-esque band on the speakers, watching the Bob Ross channel. It is a quintessentially Portland moment.

Who thought it was a good idea for me to drive back home by myself while completely exhausted and suffering from con drop? It was me. I thought it was a good idea. Well, let’s get some caffeine and power through.

I contacted Bluehost today to cancel all my services and close the account, and they're like, "Are you sure? But are you really sure?" and I'm sitting here like, "You should have cared this much 6 months ago when I was contacting customer service twice a day because the site wasn't working."

This, though I would also need to go back to actually looking for an agent.

Still recovering from some hardships in 2024, so I'm even willing to deliver no script for $3M.

I hope the constituents of Jared Golden (Maine), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Henry Cuellar (Texas) and Ed Case (Hawaii) demand some answers for their damaging and careless actions. I dunno, maybe ask who bought them or something.

Keywords are the bane of my existence.

Lady of the Bridges is currently at 21K. We're getting there. Kinda. Sorta. Look, I'm trying.

Mr. "Empathy is a Weakness," who has been joyfully laying off thousands of federal workers, would like to know why Tim Walz is SO MEAN.

I got an email with the subject "Around the house music" and I know they meant music to play while doing things around your house, but the first thought that went through my head was "Why do we need to go around house music? I like house."