If you'd like to read more disability representation this December, Author Katie Mettner has put together a list of books by disabled authors! #disabledromancelandia #romancelandia www.katiemettner.com/dod.html

Ah man, the recession indicator vampires are back in style and now I want to pivot to writing slutty little bloodsuckers in fancy coats I yearn for abandoned cathedrals and coffin naps

Hey, hi, real quick: ✨Fuck AI✨ That’s all. Thank you for your time.

If all this conflicting writing advice is confusing, let me just say as an editor that I've seen random online ultimatums do more damage than not. As in, it's the opposite of what any good editor would suggest and sometimes counter to industry standard & good storytelling Stop listening to randos

Tis the season to support small businesses and undervalued creators!

Something didn't feel right with my WIP, so I chopped all the funny scenes and added more horror instead. Aaand, yep, fixed the issue To everyone who's been telling me for years they thought I was a horror writer, I uh.. I might have been in a bit of denial

Winter morning routine: 1) Scurry out to turn on heater 2) Burrow under heat blanket 3) Wait for room to become inferno 4) Skitter through walls to go get coffee 5) Use tunnels back to my goblin den 6) Hide under heat blanket in fiery room and become Balrog

I sure would like to get a lot done, but it's 10pm at 6 and my body says I should hibernate

Ah yes, my favorite part of my curly hair routine: squishing random products in to see which combo makes me not Cousin It this week

I keep trying to write the charming, seductive villain/antihero archetype and they all turn into sassy lil weirdos with depression and chaos gremlin tendencies

Since started this Ko-fi goal, I got an influx of donations from fake email accts, which means I can't use the funds until paypal resolves it. I'm pretty bummed considering this was for a food bank. If anyone feels like donating via venmo, I'll send 100% to the food bank this afternoon. Link in bio

Dude, there's something about giant fantasy doors that is just SO satisfying I'm not talking about castle doors or gates; I mean those impossibly gargantuan stone doors set into a mountainside or something that are probably passages to an oblivion realm or eldritch titan Good stuff 👌🏻

My super effective, professional process for addressing editing notes to my future self is.. Highlighting random sentences and passages as a shorthand for "dun like it, please fix"

Anyone else just eat peanutbutter straight out of the jar sometimes like a little gremlin

It's Monday and I have fries and I don't want to hear nothin' from nobody

I wrote 10k words into Act 2 that now need to be recycled elsewhere or downright scrapped because I had a breakthrough on a better direction for the plot

Writing retreat update ✍️🏻 I've been indisposed for the majority of the week thanks to an ill-timed chronic flare (fuck you, cosmos), but I'm on the up and clocking in words Tonight, I celebrate with pizza and cider. And more reading & writing

I do a lot of detailed lesson in the Self-Editing Series, but I also dropped a quick, easy checklist to read, print, and refer to as needed during edits! I prefer that people don't have to suffer through the revision process, and I think this helps! www.patreon.com/posts/self-e...

Heading out on a belated birthday trip to a lakeside cabin for a much-needed reading & writing retreat How far will I get in writing this villainous enemies to lovers fae book? Updates to come 🧐

⭐🌟 searching by starlight 🌟⭐

The fact that some ladybugs bite is such bullshit, what do you mean you look like a cartoon fairy's pet and you crave human flesh 🤨

MERE MINUTES AWAY. LET'S GO. twitch.tv/thebookbazaar

Okay but what if I gave you colorful mushrooms of friendship and they didn't taste poison-y and you wanted to follow me through this totally normal tree circle and you didn't hear the voices—

"A writer's not-so-subtle fixation is always easy to spot in their work" Me, frantically paging through all the mentions of comfy beds with too many pillows and solid nights of sleep: Ohhh no, oh no, ohnoohnoohno—

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

"I'd fight a god for you" doesn't really hit the same when I already have anger and authority issues. Just waiting for any ol' tavern keep to give me that quest, honestly

Dude I'd make a horrible influencer, I block every brand and ad I see, my DMs are as locked down as I can make them without kicking out friends, and I start hissing at the mere thought of strangers assuming any kind of personal access to me I just want to write books and hide in my cave 😶‍🌫️

I'm very much team "bring back legal duels" I could use another hobby

The only, ONLY thing I don't like about having a space heater is that now my room stays warm enough to melt my iced coffee faster This vexes me

Have I been awake awhile? Yes. Do I have coffee & Reese's cups? Yes. Am I in a cozy, heated room during a cool November day with all the best vibes? Yes Am I still grumpy because it's Monday and that's just my core personality?

i'm soooo close to hitting 100 sales of my short story 'the knight saves the dragon' this year!! check it out if you like short fantasy stories where the dragon doesn't die! 🐉 only 99c! 🗡️ universal link: mybook.to/eJsBfU

As always, there's no time like the present to disappear into a mysterious fog and become a reason the old forest north of town is considered haunted.

*searching synonyms for "bordering"* Online thesaurus: Edging? Wrong scene, but thank you

Editing tip: if you're having trouble getting villain motivations across without a monologue, try ~Protagonists find clues throughout the book and put things together on their own ~They overhear others discussing pieces of the plan ~Subtext/implication is your best friend ~✨️Some people just suck✨️

This has been a good week for gut-wrenchingly sad music releases, so my writing week is about to go hard

I live in America—more to the point, Im sick in America. The only way I can get the meds I need is w/ Patreon. Writers get lots of lessons on building craft & honing skills. Readers get VIP access to my books and art. Everyone gets an amazing Discord community. $5/month makes a huge difference! 🔗👇🏼

Being a close friend to the goblin means you'll eventually get longhand letters with a wax seal, because I need to practice my penmanship and how else am I supposed to play with my wax and calligraphy sets??

It's always super hard to focus on one WIP during the autumn and winter months, because now I want to write seasonal stuff that I know I won't finish before the season's up

I have been reminded it's now technically the holiday season so if y'all are looking for a gift that: ✨ Supports a small creator ✨ Looks cool as heck ✨ Ships cheap ...consider grabbing some art from my shop! ko-fi.com/juliemarchbo...

Damn, must be falling asleep at my desk, my eyes are already blurring ... ... *cleans glasses* Ah.

My family got me a heater & a heated robe-snuggy thing for my birthday over the weekend I've gotten a heated lap blanket, heated bed cover, wool socks, and fleece pajamas in years past Between all of that power combined, I'M FINALLY WARM 😭 I just needed to feel at home in the fires of hell Morn 😶‍🌫️

For anyone that needs it, or wants to provide a meal for someone they know (or even donate to a food pantry) - #Aldi is offering their $40 #Thanksgiving dinner that has enough food for 10 ppl. It can make SUCH a difference right now! 🧵 www.aldi.us/products/tha...

Happy Halloween/Samhain, miscreants! 🎃 What is this goblin up to, you ask? Uh well..work, mostly, but I'm taking a half day to enjoy soup, pumpkin pie, & my favorite spooky season movies at least playing in the background 😌 What're you up to tonight, miscreants? 🧐 tell my thy ghostly plans

Halloween is almost here 🖤🍷🩸

Reading for pleasure has fallen by 40 percent since 2000. This is not progress. You should read because it's good for your brain, your soul. You should read because our freedoms will not long endure in a post-literate world. Most of all, you should read because it's fun.

Nowhere near the promised legally required aid is getting in. Near 100% total devastation. Clean water hard to find. No money for food. Tents falling apart and no new ones getting in. Bombs still dropping and/or detonating. KEEP SHARING. Donate what you can. It is our duty.

One of my cats chased me across the house and scaled a chair to crawl into my arms for cuddles, only to immediately start biting me until I set her down, then glared at me like it was my idea Totally unrelated, I now understand why people always side-eye me when I say I'm affectionate on occasion

"Energy and mood improves with sunlight" they said. "It's good for you" they said It's a cloudy day here and Idk how the fuck vampires even manage those, that's entirely too much Bright™️ I'M CLOSING THE DAMN CURTAINS, DECEIVER 😠

HAAAAAAAAPPY BIRTHDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY TO MEEEE! if you want to help me celebrate, go buy a book. Mine. Someone else's. Check out from the library. Read. linktr.ee/backwardskni...

Food banks are going to need even more help than usual when 41.7 million Americans lose SNAP on Nov 1 because of the Republican shutdown of the US government. If you can help in any amount, please do. You can find a nearby food bank using www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...