November was one of the lowest writing months I've had in a long time. A major car accident derailed my life for a while followed by a funeral and the holidays (Thanksgiving and my sister's birthday). Trying to resettle and recenter for December before the holidays shake everything up again.

It's the time of the year for wrap-ups and best-ofs. Here's my best books of the year: margerybayne.medium.com/best-books-o... #BookRecs #ReadsOfTheYear

I'm going to work on a spin-off short story in the Safe Haven universe. Different characters, expanded setting and worldbuilding, same romantic yearning. #AmWriting #AmQuerying

From Safe Haven: Distantly, he heard the front door open, hanging there, letting cold air and city sounds inside, and then closing again, leaving the restaurant quieter for all those who had exited. #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt #AmQuerying

I love queer romance books in speculative settings (sci-fi, fantasy, etc.) What are your recs? #BookSky #WriteSky #IndieAuthors

Why would the readers care if they get together or not? medium.com/writing-coop... #WritingAdvice #WritingTips #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Note to self... if you can't find your favorite earrings, check you travel makeup bag. You just never unpacked it three months ago.

From Safe Haven: It felt like he kept trying to edge Haven into a corner from one direction, then the next, then the next. To trap him into vulnerability? Honesty? #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt

From Safe Haven: From couch to armchair, Bliss and Bennie shared a couple look, knowing in their own special language. Perry’s stomach squirmed. #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt

This is our blue promise, Satin as the evening breeze - a poem medium.com/intangibleth... #Poem #Poetry #QuickReads #WriteSky

From Safe Haven: A generous interpretation was that Haven was giving the friends space to catch up; a less generous one would be that he was avoiding being relegated to third-wheel status in his own home. #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt

My full manuscript request ended with a rejection. Sigh. Back to the querying trenches. #AmQuerying

From Safe Haven: It made Haven want something — selfishly — more than he had wanted anything in a very long time. He wanted to keep spending his time under Perry’s attention. #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt

Nothing like having the insurance agency of the truck that rear-ended you in an at-fault state with a witness and a driver who admitted fault multiple times completely ghost you. (Been having a bad week)

I've read a lot of the Great Gatsby retellings since it went into the public domain and I find it interesting how long most of them are compared to the original. Just a testament to how effective the original less than 50k words of the original were.

From Safe Haven: Warning sirens beeped with each movement as an excavator dug into silty dirt, the shouts of a dozen construction workers calling back and forth filled the air, and yet Verity spoke more than loud enough to be heard. #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt

Creativity is a renewable resource. 💖

A brand new short story about a road trip, a friendship, and lose. medium.com/intangibleth... #WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction

A brand new short story about a road trip, a friendship, and lose. medium.com/intangibleth... #WriteSky #ShortStory #ShortFiction

Where are the main places you get reading recs from? For me, from friends/family, from what my friends are reading and reviewing on goodreads, library browsing (I'm a librarian, so this happens every day), searching for books with specific tropes, archtypes, or readalikes to books I like.

But Sincere, his best friend... His shoulder to lean on, cry on, vent to, who was always ready to lie and say Perry was with them when he wasn’t, and always amicable to Perry trailing off mid-conversation to start scribbling out a new plant theory. #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt

The aestetic value of owning an old fashioned typewriter sharply declines when you have to move it. 😬

From Safe Haven, a real short snip today: Diginity’s voice turned to cold steel. “We're leaving. Now.” #WipSnips

I used to only write stories chronlogically (probably because I started with fanfic where you push serially), now I jump all around the place in my first draft. It's a patchwork quilt that I make make sense later. #WritSky #WritingCommunity

Raise your hand if you break the rule of only using "said" in your dialogue tags. 🙋‍♀️ #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

From Safe Haven: Haven didn’t live all that lavishly... He had nice things, but not a horde and nothing show-off-y. He had a lot of space, but only filled the necessary parts. #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt

As a writer who started their writing journey with fanfiction, many of my earliest writing lessons were by trial and error experience. One such lesson was learning how to come up with story titles. writingcooperative.com/how-fanficti... #WritingAdvice #WritingTips #Fanfiction #WriteSky

From Safe Haven: Depictions of the earliest human ancestors often showed them rubbing sticks together until fire sparked. What were words but modern humans’ kindling? An alluring friction of banter? #WriteSky #WritingPrompt

From Object Impermanence: "The coldness had almost completely taken over, from toe to fingertip, head to heart. Everyone thinks of anger as hot, and of monsters as loud. But anger is more like a snake: cold-blooded and lying dormant until threatened enough to strike." #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt

Last day (unless I forget to go in and change it, let's be real) of my ebook sale! Creepy short reads perfect for the spooky season, and also great to boost that goodreads challenge goal if your running behind, lol. #BookSky #BookSale #ShortStories #IndieAuthor books2read.com/impermanence

My witch short stories do have something for this one! The Witch said, “That doesn’t need a spell. Just a disguise. I suggest you learn how to slouch.” #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt

People are always so shocked that the library doesn't keep track of their checked out books after they are returned, or their holds after they expire. This speaks to how used to being tracked and recorded we are online, that a modicum of privacy is treated as an inconvenience. #LibraryLife #Privacy

Just going to use "blood"... This is the opening line to a story in Object Impermanence... "Lea had never been so desperate for a mirror than the moment she woke up in a puddle of her own blood." #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt

A few days are left on my ebook sale for Object Impermanence. Inside you'll find short but spooky reads of liminal spaces, titled realities, and the monsters within. #WriteSky #IndieAuthor #BookSky #AmPublishing #BookSale #BookRec #ShortStory

I got my first full manuscript request 🎉 #AmQuerying

Hot take: I think stories (novels, movies, tv shows) should be able to hold up to spoilers. Still not cool to spoiler the ending for people, but a good story should be enjoyable even if you know the ending. #WriteSky #Booksky

From Object Impermanence: “Ah — the memories. Memories are tricky ones. Have to be plucked like a daisy from a field. But they’re the most… distinct.” #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt

#Sunday #Vibes 📚 ☕️ 🌸 #RestingIsGrowing 🪴 #writingsforgood💜

From Safe Haven Haven pushed open the door; the room shushed as fast as someone might blow out a match. ##WIPSNIPS

Me to me: I should stop buying things... except for all the things I want to buy.

From Safe Haven: Zeal’s grip tightened on his glass, though his expression remained carefully unchanged. He loved a verbal battle, but he loathed being interrupted. #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt

I was researching boutique publishers and one of them asked you to submit a marketing plan along with your query. Listen, if I have a competent marketing plan, I would be self-publishing... #AmQuerying

A little second person #WIPSnips from Object Impermanence: You’ve tried to identify where the first of the cascading cracks started, but all you can land on is the last one. Screaming at each other from across the gulf of a room. You, throwing your hands up in the ultimate denial of it all.

Things I remember from my childhood or teenage years being 20-30 years old now does not freak me out. Things I remember from my post-collage adulthood have 10 year anniversaries is the thing that freaks me out. #Adulting

A day late, but here is "hope" from Object Impermanence: Maybe a logical person would’ve called somebody at this point, or crawled back under their covers and hoped it would all get sorted by itself. But I went down to the front door armed only with a flashlight on. #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt

From Object Impermanence: It was the type of smile that pulled you in and then pushed you out with the same hand. A kind of smile that said you could look, but you could only look. You would never touch, and you would certainly never understand. #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt #WriteSky

From Safe Haven: Someone less savvy than Haven might’ve found this a warm welcome. However, he knew from the brassy pitch to Zeal’s tone and the tightness of his grip on the decanter he didn’t want Haven to be there. #WIPSnips #WritingPrompt

Does anyone have any tea on Interlude Press since it was bought by Chicago Review Press. I used to follow them because some of its early authors were fanfic authors I, but it doesn't look like they've published anything new in years. #WriteSky #Publishing #amQuerying