Kyle at the band's big Summerfest debut. His (alleged) last time playing with them after helping them through their first summer. I like how this quiet moment before their big show turned out. #WIPSnips

Happy #PretendPanel! My writing has, unequivocably, become far more self indulgent. My favorite tropes. My favorite scenarios. My favorite kinds of little guys. The two biggest projects I'm working on right now solely came from the thought of "lol you know what would be dumb & fun" No regrets 😂 +

Younger me never would have imagined an emotionally-driven romance would be the story that would click for me. But that's what finally did it after decades of false starts trying sci-fi & fantasy. Since then, I've come full circle and am nearing launch of my fantasy adventure serial. #pretendpanel

2 points: - 6th grade, I signed up for after-school program for D&D and it was just me & another kid who became my best friend. The adventures we had for decades still inspire my writing. - 6/1/2024 when I wrote the first words of my rock romance and posted on this account about it #pretendpanel

#AwesomeCharacters Ok, time for a thread about the different witch covens and their feelings toward each other. I've yapped about the fact that there are different covens but never really in depth or been too specific. I'll set the Named Gods aside for now and just focus on witches. 🧵

Everyone go follow Nush! She's not only a wonderful artist but a simply delightful person 🥰 To prove it I'm reposting this sketch she did of Mireia & Kena completely on her own just because she thought a scene I wrote was funny. This still makes me giggle when I look at it 😂❤️

If you aren’t following Nush, you should! Wonderful artist and wonderful person!!

icon comm for @carska36.bsky.social !! Kelsey you’re the absolute coolest ❄️😎💜😁

An early intro to Kyle in my rock romance/drama serial 🎸❤️, Ballad of the Philosopher Queens. Here he is arriving home at the airport and sees a father struggling with his baby so Kyle has to help while waiting for his taxi to be ready. #WIPSnips

We don’t have cable tv so I was curious about if they are streaming the main NYE countdown shows and not only did I find ABC going full AI Ryan Seacrest for the advertising but they are actually posting it on Disney+ *tomorrow*! 🤣😱😂🤣 Corporate media is dead.

Happy New Years everyone!!! 🎉🎊🥳 This is nowhere near comprehensive, I wish I could have included more 😭😭 and some of these I haven't posted yet so sneak peek 👀

Excellent thread of excellent thoughts

Read my cozy plus size m/m romance 'More to Love right now for FREE on Koboplus or Everand. Wrestling coach Emmy Park is content living romance through books—until he meets Jamir Cunningham, the charming owner of his favorite shop. #MMromance bit.ly/moretolovero...

So here's my resolution for the new year: More cringe, less shame (thanks for this, @paisley-rose.bsky.social!). Write like no one is going to read it. Be free. And if people don't like it, that's their problem, not mine.

MY BOOKS ARE ON SALE!! The eBooks are $2.99 and paperbacks are $17.99 TODAY and TOMORROW on Amazon only! These books are EPIC and DARK Fantasy with nonhuman characters put in intense and traumatic situations, set on worlds incredibly different from Earth.

Oh, how I have utterly mastered this trick!!! I can (and frequently do) do it in my sleep even!

Pub.... lish!!! More specifically, start posting my Felcrown fantasy adventure serial and I really, really hope, my Philosopher Queens rock romance serial as well. That is dependent on the other thing I want to accomplish - improving my writing & especially revising(!) to publishable quality.

Like so many others, I further learned how awesome this writing community is! There are too many of you to name who have been so wonderful & encouraging. You all made me think deeper and feel safe pushing my boundaries in the smutty parts of my writing, and I'm excited to explore more! #Smutcember

Kyle's first encounter with Katie's old, beat-up couch does not go well. Hopefully, he'll have better experiences with Katie and her couch later. 😉 From Ballad of the Philosopher Queens, my rock romance/drama serial. 🎸❤️ #WIPSnips

Cozy gamer gets online hate for being a woman, and is ticked off that her favourite streamer doesn’t defend her, so she vows to hate him—until they meet IRL and it turns out he’s really sweet and awkward.

I am literally going to put this on my wall when I get home. Might even bust out my embroidery hoops and put this mantra in stitching.

These are very good people go.bsky.app/GTic7UX

Always a good time to practice since I’m not great at these: 😬 Ballad of the Philosopher Queens - A former music history professor deals with being laid off and recovering from emotionally abusive ex-fiancé by forming a rock band with her friends and learning to trust again with one of their dads.

Please enjoy the second episode of the podcast by writers for writers, From Tree to Book Writing Group! Can you relate to these writing anxieties? 😂

Bored and waiting for the bus to go home from a doc's appointment. Here's a reboop of Beelock Holmes for those who missed it last night.

This came in just before I was traveling to visit family, so only getting to post now, but here is some art I commissioned of Katie from my Philosopher Queens rock romance/drama serial! It's by @lokyu.bsky.social and turned out beautiful!

I posted entire scenes of my spicy writing on AO3 for IndieKinktober despite the terror. I also am close to publishing Felcrown, my fantasy adventure, so I know my rock romance isn't the only story I can manage to write. I've tried to write fantasy for *decades* and never got anywhere until now.

Digs spent her entire life in an underground city only seeing the sky once as a kid and NOT liking it. Now she goes again with Pyntal who grew up on the surface. This time is much better. From Felcrown, my fantasy adventure serial about a megaduneon that becomes a city. (VERY WIP) #WIPSnips #DnD

I mentioned the other day that I want to do a "watch themselves in a mirror" scene. I have (at least) one planned. I also recently realized Rachel has a voyeur/photography kink that could be fun to explore. Next year I am going to try my hand at some non-human, monster sex scenes. #Smutcember

Oh absolutely! My romance novel became a trilogy and then a 4-5 year planned weekly serial because the side characters demanded to have a chance to be main characters in their own romances. I even have story ideas for many of the background characters that I’m excited about! 😅 #AwesomeCharacters

As there a lot of newcomers to the #WritingCommunity here, these are all accounts I enjoy interacting with here! It was hard to move away from the Bad Place, but I've become a lot more comfortable in myself and sharing my writing, and a lot of these folks are responsible for that. #WriteSky

Such a clever promo video, I wonder who comes up with these things. 🤔 ❤️ So excited for Bludeye Beach to release on Jan. 1st! ❤️

"The End" 🤣 (Been stuck in revision mire for too long) Seriously, though, I need to push weirder. My work can be pretty timid and I want to stretch it further - whether it is my fantasy adventure or my contemporary rock romance, I need to worry less and experiment more.

I got the cover for THE CONSORT AND I from The Author Buddy after searching EVERYWHERE for premade covers made without AI. A year ago, they just had a small "we don't use AI" note in their FAQ, but today I opened this beautiful newsletter from them.😍 @theauthorbuddy.bsky.social

#WIPSnips #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writesky Clobber synonym/vibes. I've shared this scene before, but it's been a while and it's one of my favorite scenes 😂 From Book 3 of my #Atlantis trilogy.

I've seen "smut" used specifically to describe "trashy" vs. "literary" depictions of sex, but I like "smut" as a blanket term for the same reason I like "queer" as a blanket term: the haters are going to use it as a blanket term anyway, so why not utilize it in solidarity? (3/8)

Interesting point in one of the smutcember threads. Often art that has staying power gets recategorized because, *of course*, if it was just porn/trashy, it wouldn't have staying power, so it must not be that but something else and past people just didn't appreciate it. Very circular definition. 🤔

#Smutcember All three of these exist in that nebulous space between "eye of the beholder" and "artist intent". (I'm thinking about Heidegger's writings on aesthetics here.) Also, on a practical level, I think of porn as a strictly visual format, but - again - there's that eye of the beholder thing.

#Smutcember The difference is in who's placing the value judgement. Do I have preferences for how much story is needed or how much character growth etc? Of course. But in the end, you're writing fantasies about people doing unspeakable things to each other and sharing them. And that's normal.

But sex is beautiful and silly and an essential part of life so let’s make lots and lots of good art about it!

I agree with a lot that's already been said, but I wonder if maybe there's something interesting to say about it from my philosophy background.🤷 Two points I want to discuss - Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language & the ethics (& agenda) of category labels like this 1/13 #Smutcember

Gotta get more of my fantasy adventure story written to get some good clobbering in! But here is a recycled #WIPSnips of Rachel going ballistic on a transphobe that threatened Katie in a bar parking lot after a gig. From Ballad of the Philosopher Queens, my rock romance/drama serial.

An interesting bit about eyes in my rock romance: - Katie's autism manifests in the common eye contact being distracting. She describes it as a "heaviness" but ranges from a usual "anchors pulling me down" to Kyle's kind eyes "like a pile of warm blankets on a cold night." 1/2 #AwesomeCharacters

You all are using the plagiarism chat bot for "research" while I'm here perusing databases of menus from the 1890s. We are not the same. I'm better than you. That's the subtext. Add me to more anti-AI block lists please because I don't want to interact with your lazy, fascist asses

NEW ARTWORK! I had the great honor of hiring Nush Deco to draw Tynan, the MC of my next book, Merchants of Dance and Hedonism! Which one is Tynan, you ask? They both are! Tynan's mind got split into two bodies, but they are psychically linked. They are the same person 1 like = 1 fact about Tynan

You don't need AI as an indie author, you need community. You need people who can help you when you're burning out (and vice versa, importantly). Trade labor with each other, beta read for one another, connect with editors and cover artists. Teach & learn. Help promote one another.

Okay, I'm going to piggy back on this for a minute because I have a lot of thoughts and probably shouldn't dump them in random people's replies. But here's my unpopular opinion: I LIKE THE THIRD ACT BREAKUP IN A ROMANCE. 🧵

Grab your favourite warm beverage (or cold one, if you're like the MC of this book) and pick up a copy of my debut novel LEVEL UP, available TODAY in paperback and on Kindle! 🥳 If you like nerdy romance with irreverent humour and cozy vibes, this book is for you! Probably! books2read.com/lvlup

What is this? A 3rd act break up?!! Seriously, Walker??? 😒 Sorry, it was my 1st romance so I used *all* the cliches 😅, and it really does (hopefully) make sense in context of the plot. But in my other various romances, I'm avoiding that overused plot device unless it really, truly fits. #WIPSnips