How the magic happens and how the accidents can make even better magic #audiobooks #voiceover #fantasy #SFF #publishing www.twitch.tv/videos/27721...

First draft of the new WIP. Look out beta readers I'm a-coming for ya :D

Came across this tribute to @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social just now. It's funny, of course, but it's also sentimental. Mel's responses to the numbers are so genuine and sweet. I actually got a little sentimental at the end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7BL...

Please continue pretending, dreaming, working, inventing, improvising, and creating.

So good...

Has anyone ever done a neurological study on audiobook listening? We know how many parts of the brain activate in response to music. Is it the same? How does it differ? #audiobooks

A friend of mine with MS once told me he climbs the stairs to work every day because he can. This small and ordinary decision is extraordinary. Appreciate the small moments Do what you can do Don't take short cuts Credit yourself It's all there in one statement. Climb your stairs

The problem with quicksand is that they say the worst thing you can do is struggle, but if do nothing you are still sinking. May we all find the tools and support we need when quicksand sucks.

You could buy our latest release: Hornytown Chutzpah by @andrewintheclouds.bsky.social or check out the reviews by @skiffyandfanty.com and @nerdsofafeather.bsky.social.

Both of my writing class proposals have been approved. I will be teaching genre and kid lit again.

What are the six genders? Wrong answers only. Earth Air Water Fire Spirit Taxes

This was so lovely. And now there’s a VOD. I love to talk about audiobook narration! And with TWO OTHER AUTHOR-NARRATORS!!!

Trump inflation is HUGE.

For those who missed it last night, I participated in a really fun, sleeves rolled up discussion about how to make an audiobook yesterday. @gregoryawilson.com, @csecooney.bsky.social, and I. We covered everything physicality, intonation, use of silence, and more. www.twitch.tv/arvaneleron

Can a person who doesn't drink coffee "Twitch?"

Excited to be part of this. Love to see you there. It should be an amazing conversation about audiobooks, craft, and how we overcome production challenges.

It is May, which means Amusement Park Arcana's opening day is ever-closer! 🎢🎠🎡 preorder the ebook, paperback preorders will happen....eventually! :D books2read.com/AmusementPar... and check out this BLURB from @kateforrest.bsky.social 👀

And it's going to be a blaaaaast!

So if you've been wondering what I am planning to do for my birthday tonight I'm going to be hanging with @gregoryawilson.com, @csecooney.bsky.social, and @trendane.bsky.social chatting about making audiobooks and how my latest novella Hornytown Chutzpah came to life. ,

Someone remembered :)

✨ Big thread of my 2026 reviews! ✨ This year I'm not making separate threads for books and games, so this thread will have both. I will number them separately though: B is for books and G is for games.

That must have stung.

If every bad guy believes they are the good guy does that mean that every dystopia secretly thinks it is somebody's utopia?

I made a list! It's true. I found Ex Partum worth more than a few swears.

Do you like dystopian speculative fiction? Stories about food? A focus on parenting? Raging against the predatory capitalist machine? Awesome because I have a book for you! Pre-order your copy here: emmaburnett.carrd.co #scifi #stories #booksky 📚🪐 #parenting #food #agroecology

Who Framed Roger Rabbit but with demons set in the suburbs or Washington DC. bookshop.org/p/books/horn...

Who Framed Roger Rabbit but with demons set in the suburbs or Washington DC. bookshop.org/p/books/horn...

I think we all feel this way. I feel no "misery loves company" joy when I see another author (even one far more successful than I am) face it. Give a writer a hug today. Hugs can come in review-sized shapes, quick posts of support, or joyful memories of stories past. (I'm not opposed to hugs)

Such a good series.

People keep asking about a book launch for Ex Partum. I'm not sure big events are really my vibe, but I'm considering doing an online introvert's read-along, where we all sit quietly together-alone and read the book without making eye contact. Would folk be into that? #booksky emmaburnett.carrd.co

Slightly increase a band The Macadamia Brothers They Must Be Titans Kaiju Boys All of us 2

It's my birthday this week. Let's party together in Hornytown. No, not that hornytown. Hornytown Chutzpah is Who Framed Roger Rabbit with Demons. It's a Mel Brooks style caper. Take it from these authors and reviewers-- bookshop.org/p/books/horn...

Slightly increase a band The Four Cyclotrons

A lot of the discourse that people who say they've "always wanted to write and AI makes it possible for them to" comes framed by an inaccurate desire: it's not that they wanted to *write*, they wanted something to sell. Coin was the only goal. We are not the same.

This is today! 1-3 pm! Come say hi!

If a book falls from a library shelf be the person who picks it up and reads it.

As a playwright, I've gotten to sit in the audience and hear the moment a joke lands. That laugh or sigh means so much. As an author, you send your work into the ether and hope. So, while I've been advised not to read reviews I do. Discussing a book is like clapping a faerie back to life.

Being an author can some days be a fragile thing. These little interactions can really boost a day.

I secretly love the idea that aliens who could travel hundreds of thousands of light years, invent technologies we have yet to dream of, and are intent on subjugation can be foiled (pun intended) by Reynold's Wrap. HG Wells idea that the common cold would save us is so much more sensible.

Hi everyone! I don't talk much about it here, but I have an autoimmune disorder called ankylosing spondylitis. My life is SO MUCH better now that I have a diagnosis and medication. But that medication also costs me *$700* per month just to be able to literally walk.

Amusement Park Arcana, my little horror novella coming July 15, 2026 now has a few PAPERBACK PREORDER links! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 to celebrate, please enjoy this blurb by @pauljessup.com 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 🎢🎡🎠 books2read.com/AmusementPar...

Hand-drawn art is - and will always be - important. 41 followers, let's keep it going 💚

AI is a tool of confirmation bias. That is part of why it is so seductive.

My favorite film from the year I turned 18?

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Welcome to a brand new newsletter post from yours truly, in which I admit to a confusion about two famous authors that is both a little embarrassing but also one I've heard that many others have made! kmveohongs.beehiiv.com/p/is-it-a-no...

Excited to speak, swap stories, and learn from you all.

And if this is the effect of smartphones, imagine the deleterious effect of AI on children's development.

As a kid, the Fantastic Four always appealed to me. Their broken family dynamic combined with the fact that they rarely could outmuscle the bad guys kept me reading, but more than that, at their best, the FF was science fiction not just action adventure. It was about the smart guys winning.