Picard strategy tip: When an egotistical, malevolent person tells you their dangerous intent, believe them.

"Allison. Your heart would beat faster, If it still beat, But now you just felt a haunted feeling, In your chest, A flurry of ghosts within what remains of you. You couldn’t let anything happen to her. You knew you had to help her. You knew you had to haunt her." #WIPSnips #WriteSky

Authors & publishers posting abt illustrated books or using an illustrator's work to promote a book, pls credit ILLUSTRATOR. Not only are you helping boost artist but it shows people that you or your publisher hired a HUMAN artist. #PicturesMeanBusiness art @sarahmcintyre.bsky.social #KidLit

This morning's spam from a scammer claiming to be Andy Weir, asking me to send a link to my own work and maybe he'll check it out (aka the opening salvo to sending the scammer money) and I'm all, look pal, I know Andy's read my stuff already, he said so WHEN WE WERE DOING A FUCKING EVENT TOGETHER

Alright everyone, it's official. The NEXT #UnhingedPit event will be tomorrow, Sept. 23rd, from 8am-8pm in your time zone. Let the scramble to pull together an unhinged pitch begin. See you tomorrow!! #WritingCommunity

I open to queries on the 1st of every month and I close when I get to 100 unread queries in my inbox (or on the 7th of the month, whichever comes first) You can see my full MSWL on my or the Azantian website but right now? I desperately need a friendship or sibling story that makes me cry. #MSWL

#QueerPrompts Summer’s Cruel Warmth, Winter’s Gentle Chill takes place in turnover season = spring & fall, depending on which hemisphere (Spring in the north) It also takes place in the kingdoms of Summer & Winter (just what you’d expect). & Natura, which is based on the eye of the beholder

Sunny loves taking tests, so you know something’s off here (What, were we expecting snow flurries today?) #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity From Summer’s Cruel Warmth, Winter’s Gentle Chill 🌞📝

#AwesomeCharacters Ren gets a monkey paw wish granted in aPB3, so we’ll do Blake’s (b3) Blake wishes for Ren to live again. The monkey paw’d be that Ren survives his death. Not only does he never haunt Blake, Blake wouldn’t even exist in this reality (since Ren would’ve married Blake’s grandma)

#Pitblk 2025 has begun!!! Make sure to submit your pitches by Sept 24th at 8pm EST at the link below. We're excited you're participating and can't wait for agents and editors to see! www.pitchpitblk.com/pitblk-submi... #amquerying ##writersky #booksky

If anyone is a paid subscriber to The NoSleep Podcast, your #WIPSnips host has a short story featured on there today! I am considering a private listen party for spooky season, but we’ll see what I can plan. I’m just thrilled to be on the show!

Well, I’m having a great day! 🦅📝🎶💙😎

Here's "Mission Specialist", my entry for @augursociety.bsky.social's #AugurMicros2025. Enjoy!

Here is my entry for the @augursociety.bsky.social Microfiction contest: The Sudden Cancellation of Breakfast Plans 🥞💔 #AugurMicros2025

What’s that? New Motion City Soundtrack?! Should I write a new book in the H/V-verse for it?

#UnhingedPit seems to be happening…sometime 😉 They like to keep us on our toes

I’m thrilled to announce that my horror story Under the Surface is on The NoSleep Podcast on Season 23 Episode 12 out today! I still can’t believe I was accepted to have my words produced for the show! And got paid for it! What a dream come true! I can’t wait to listen to it. #WriteSky

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In A Paranormal Bromance, Blake wants peace. He’d spend all day lounging around, thanks But (post-b1), he’ll put up w/ adventure to keep ghost BFF Ren here, because Ren needs a) to feel loved & b) experiences (which, when it comes to Blake giving him those, amounts to the same thing) #QueerPrompts

It’s not just that Taylor is the only one to disagree with Rosie. Apparently he’s the only one to disagree in any of my books! ❗️CW: animal dissection ❗️ #WriteSky #WritingCommunity From Taylor-Made 🤖🐊

Pizza was everything I hoped it would be! 🍕

I ordered a pizza and I’m pretty excited about it. I haven’t had pizza in ages, certainly not from where I’d prefer to order it

I think the characters from She-Ra & the Princesses of Power would get along w/ Sunny Ray (& Jack Frost, by extension). I think their powers would mesh & their silly energy would complement Sunny's. Even though it's SF vs. fantasy, they'd really get each other's worlds #AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky

An easy one. Set's #1 industry is power. The dantz crystals they're mining down in the planet are powering the entire galaxy, so it's their top industry and top export. #Septopolis

Wasn't planning to write for the #FlashFictionChallenge this week, but had some inspiration last night. I wish I'd had more time to give it, writing it in the 1.5hr I had between a workout & my niece's soccer game, but, hey, always good to have a new story. Heavy editing needed #FFC #AmWriting

Writing calls, fellowships, awards, grants & more paying writers up to $65,000. #Writing #SubmissionCall #Authors #Writers #qtbipoc 🔗 authorspublish.com/94-opportuni...

Heaven forbid the telekinetic locksmith should look strange, right? A snippet from Applied Leverage, book one of the urban fantasy series Origin Key (see my pinned post). #amwriting #WIPsnips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #fantasy 📚💙

Evie understands the #WIPSnips assignment today #WriteSky #WritingCommunity From Master/Puppet 🦸🏼‍♀️🥸

Hello? Sunny Ray, all the way! My sweet Summer prince wants the environment to be perfect for all nature to live the way it should. Perhaps if he were Mother Nature, he could better help! #QueerPrompts

Got abducted by aliens, but they beamed me back to earth because I wouldn't shut up about my characters and world building lore

#AwesomeCharacters Not that *I* could write it, but wouldn't Sunny & Jack be adorable in a YA contemporary boarding school setting, competing for a prestigious award that Sunny is best qualified for, but Jack would need to win to get a scholarship & stay in the school? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

While Jacks falls in 💘 w/ Ray at the age of 7, he doesn't understand until 14, when his mom takes him to see the aurora borealis, & all he can see in its beauty is Ray. His people don't have same-sex couples, so he's relieved to find he likes girls, too...just not as much as Ray. #QueerPrompts

Agreed. Is it ironic that I sometimes find the fact that they are not to be bemusing? Or am I using both of those words wrong? 😂

Am I ready to start paper edits on a “few” short stories? You bet I am!

I guess I'm a nerd, guys 🤓 So many of my stories heavily reference sci-fi & fantasy shows & movies. Not fan fiction. Just plots that depend on people knowing these stories. A SFF convention setting, kids confusing LotR w/ Waiting for Godot, boys watching The Ring during a thunderstorm... (1/2)

🎶 Is it me you're looking for? 🎶

Smart, emotionally mature women are so hot

A bit of worldbuilding lore this time. The sprawling graveyards of Earth were impractical once humans moved to space. Outright impossible to manufacture on the ships and the space stations, and a waste of usable land on terraformed planets. Death, rather, was handed more practically. #WIPSnips

Ugg THAT guy (A continuation of a previous SNIP for those following along) From "HatWIP" #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WIPSnips

A little action from the two boys in Evie’s life who really don’t know how to fight. Danny just found out Ace is in Evie’s body, & Ace was trying to kill him a second ago #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity From Super/Human 🦹🏼🐦‍🔥

Inside you are two wolves

This is just one of the many panels that's happening Oct 4 & 5 at the 6th annual Rainbow Space Magic. This free virtual con is for writers & readers of queer speculative fiction. Full schedule at www.rainbowspacemagi... #LGBT #writing #ScienceFiction #fantasy

#DailyOCs Blake is a better student than he gives himself credit for. That’s because Ren keeps him studying when he’d rather do nothing. He’s not a *great* student, but he’s ok. (Except for a time when he was cutting/acting up in English class) If he had a choice, though, he wouldn’t go

A shitty deal is *far* *worse* than no deal at all. No, really. A shitty deal can strangle your career before it gets off the ground, no kidding. Stand up for yourself *now*, even if it’s scary. You will never have more leverage than you do as a debut.

If you were planning on pitching finished manuscripts during #clifipit tomorrow, it has been postponed. #solarpunk #writersky

Our hero muses on autumn. From "HatWIP" #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky #WIPSnips

Blake tries desperately to keep Ren from fading away to the afterlife after all of Ren’s tethers (good or bad) are broken #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity From A Paranormal Bromance (1) 👻🪢

Okay, the #PitchDis queries/fulls I received yesterday are sent out 😎

CW for...Vines. Blood. It's a gross book. #Dogwood1 #WIPSnips ((Wesley learns he's special, Owen learns he's not.))