the audiobook for THE RED WINTER oh my god

to all the normies not querying, forgive me. I'm in "posting increasingly unhinged pitches for my novel trying to see what hits" mode

Hi, reality tech support? Yes. Yeah, time loop. Uh huh, well, seems like the longer it goes, the more the climate uh, unravels? & the more people die? & also try kissing me? Uh huh. Oh—sorry I don't mean STOP, I want them to go back to looping. Tryin to uphold the status quo here #Q #A #F #questpit

POV: you're a knight stuck in a time loop & yr fave thing is going to Hautdesert every summer so you can hang with the local lady and her unfortunately hot husband but this year she's...flirting with you?? & so is her husband??? HOW? it's a time loop!! WHY ARE THINGS CHANGING!! #Q #A #F #questpit

positioned so the star of the house of Fëanor goes uh well

POV: you're a knight stuck in a time loop & yr fave thing is going to Hautdesert every summer so you can hang with the local lady and her unfortunately hot husband but this year she's...flirting with you?? & so is her husband??? HOW? it's a time loop!! WHY ARE THINGS CHANGING!! #Q #A #F #questpit

read your literary grandparents. whatever writer inspires you and seems like a genius, check out who inspired them. it will confirm what makes them unique but also reveal how traceable their influences are. it teaches you new craft tools and relieves some pressure. no one writes in isolation.*

THE MONSTER OF BLACKSTONE, 95k gothic coming-of-age story with a dual POV My Darling Dreadful Thing X The London Séance Society 🖤An heir 🖤A monster 🖤An ancient curse 🖤Scottish Highlands 🖤Familial exploitation 🖤Emotional & physical isolation 🖤 Gay male lead #Q #A #Gothic #HF #PR #QuestPit

EVERY YEAR THE SUMMER: Totally hypothetically, what if you were an extremely repressed knight and the only way you could save reality was to let yourself be really, really bi? A24's THE GREEN KNIGHT w/ a transmasc protagonist (and this time the MFM romance is full-blown canon) #Q #A #F #questpit

partner: "how do you do that melty chocolate???" me, with great sagesse: "microwave"

halp I used weights on my leggies

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imagine being so good at your job that a coworker messages you saying that management want to train the company c*p*lot on your writing :)

IT'S RAINING AND GRAY OUT. I CAN DO ANYTHING!!!!!

cn: food . . . microwave means I can have fondue in 40 seconds any time I have the ingredients. I am an adult

every time they have a physical map on a table in a crime show I’m like. that’s GIS. that’s just GIS

I think SOPHIE’s “Pretending” is what you hear when the spacing guild boots you thru a wormhole

Writers using snakes as metaphors for indiscriminate hunger is very funny when I think of the pet snakes I’ve known (will simply not consider the food properly served until you have ceremonially danced the frozen mousie Just So)

Writers using snakes as metaphors for indiscriminate hunger is very funny when I think of the pet snakes I’ve known (will simply not consider the food properly served until you have ceremonially danced the frozen mousie Just So)

FALL GUY might be my new GALAXY QUEST

content note: food . . took a break from trying to figure out how to make my Gothic novel wider and more unsettling to engage in domestic labour apple cinnamon walnut baked oats | instant pot pinto beans

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took yesterday as a writing day, booked it with my family ("FYI guys I am going to be PHONE OFF"), got stuck in, wrote 10k worth of scene cards for the new book to right around the midpoint I figure. I've booked off today as well, have food and snacks (no bubble tea, but I'll live). time to WRITE

I think SOPHIE’s “Pretending” is what you hear when the spacing guild boots you thru a wormhole

Anyway, would also love if people pre-ordered WICKHILLS -- a weird city (??) novel in which a spy, secretary, archivist, vampire, thief, and scientist have to save one of the last six cities in the world! "From what?" Oh you'll see :) us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

please. my digestion. prithee give me an oz. of solace

I’m 10 minutes into watching GAME OF DEATH and it’s already one of the wildest films I’ve ever seen

I can tell I'm of an age because I sneezed twice today and it took everything out of me

after 3 months of querying I think we should all be getting a participation ribbon and two free movie tickets

Behold the snake.

Completely tossed at the official conan the barbarian website’s cookie notification window.

plants

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next up in my own personal Gothic reading extravaganza: rereading MEXICAN GOTHIC - first reread on the list, and actually I think I'll listen to the library's audiobook copy for a different experience

I am a salt & vinegar disliker, personally, but I believe in and support the mission

I keep racking up 5-star reads in 2026 - I really enjoyed THE BOG WIFE !!!

I wish I could reasonably have a dog (won't work right now for so many reasons), they would be a pittie and I would give them a very long glorious full name and a much longer list of absolutely saccharine nicknames

one piece live action mihawk… are you free on Friday… we can read literature and have chitchat

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just in case this got lost in the App Not Functioning of it all! come eat lunch with me or get coffee!

Succession but it’s about the Shinra Corporation

I made it!!!! closed out the day with a nice call with a friend, and now can slide into the weekend, an autistic little sludge

Klingon line cook: TODAY IS A GOOD DAY TO FRY

ONE OF THEM WAS CANCELLED* (*I would feel less unrepentant if this was a social call, but it was a work meeting)

four hours of meetings/calls today where I have to be actively engaged... keep me in your thoughts

THE BOG WIFE??? hello????? incredible opening 10%, can’t wait to read the rest