Words can't do justice to what these books mean to me and I can't wait for you all to see what Cat has in store! I mean heck, look at this cover! You knowwwwwww you're about to get a fun time with this cover. ^.^

Learning to Bleed comes out March 18th and artist @scherville.com is so deeply talented I can hardly believe it! This book is the 2nd in a trilogy that explores queerness and trauma through vampire lore, all against the backdrop of an impoverished rural community that has its own monsters 👀 Links⬇️

There's so many good books in this!!! (Including mine!) ^.^

Very, very soon, I get to show you the cover for Learning To Bleed by the very talented @scherville.com I'm always excited about cover reveals but I think this is one you're going to ✨eat right up✨ (that was a vampire joke, laugh 😘)

I have never been this sick in my life, after years of fucking avoiding COVID, it finally got us circa an visiting in-law And just. This is fucking *awful*. Never stop masking, going to mask more than fucking zorro

Someone asked me what my books were all about this morning, and my four-nights-on-basically-no-sleep brain nearly supplied the answer of "If Evanescence was queer and allowed to murder people" and I have no idea where that sleep deprived thought came from but I don't think it's wrong

Welllllllll isn't this a facinating idea. 👀

Share your favorite black and white movie

"hey Leslie, how did you celebrate getting your BBNYA finalist nod?" "I deep cleaned my house x.x"

I'm so proud that my vampire pirate captain and her queer crew of miscreants have made it to the finals! I'm so excited! Revenge of Captain Vessia is a BBNYA finalist!!!

I'm so proud that my vampire pirate captain and her queer crew of miscreants have made it to the finals! I'm so excited! Revenge of Captain Vessia is a BBNYA finalist!!!

#BBNYA2025 finalists announcements are incoming!!!!!

While Revenge of Captain Vessia certainly has kissing in it, oh it's 100% trauma

It's soon be time to do a cover reveal for Learning to Bleed and the new cover is FIRE Is anyone out there interested in helping me boost my reveal when the time comes? Features, shares, etc are all helpful 💕

Putting together a folder of vampire books (especially indies) that I can toss in alongside my own vampire marketing this fall and winter. Help me make sure I didn't miss yours! 🩸

The Indie Ink Awards winner announcements take place this Sunday Sept. 14 at 3pm ET/12 pm PT! If you'd like to receive the Zoom link to attend the ceremony, please RSVP: forms.gle/4t6TJGcmA6jQ...

Trans & Nonbinary Creators Boost - Share your fiction, essays, poetry, fanfic, thinkpieces, and other writing below. - Go into the replies and look for new works to read and share. - Follow new trans creators and make your feed brighter! NSFW and erotica welcome. #WriteSky #BookSky

Surprise, it's a cover reveal! Thank you @kholbatar.bsky.social for making my dreams come true. Thank you everyone for waiting. Thank you for signing up for the backerkit campaign. This book is going to kick ass & kiss women, & it's full of both www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... #bookbazaar25 #📢📚

The almost finished sketch of Dorian Gray

I for one, blame the decade I spent on tumblr

Sometimes I'm my own worst enemy

A meme in it's natural habitat

Suddenly my mermaid tattoo makes so much more sense. Waiting for the bit where she's also an undead mermaid to be a bit more clear though.

Ah yes. Early September. Where the evenings get cold enough to make you want that extra blanket. Where the mornings trick you into maybe bringing a jacket. And finally, where the afternoons and evenings make you remember you were a fool to think a jacket was ever necessary

The reactions I get when I explain the Not Since Moses Marathon are *hilarious* "What do you mean you have to race the tides"

The Revenge of Captain Vessia

Me at 2AM: I can't sleep. Maybe I'll just scroll on Bluesky for a bit and try and jar my brain. Me five minutes later: Is it... Is it happening? Please Gods let it be happening that would be so funny

I remember the moment my wife showed me this episode (she *loves* dirty pair) and seeing this floored me. Like, seeing the most positive trans woman piece of media I'd ever seen and it being from *fucking 1985* both gave me hope and pissed me off so much. How did we get from this to now?

12 hours left!

I love beta reader feedback, especially when it's irrationally hopeful

It is the witching hour and I should be cackling in the woods over a bonfire, cursing my enemies and offering Faustian bargains to fallen heros. Not rubbing my tummy with a cold pack on my back in the bathroom debating if I'm going to puke or not. Fate why have thou forsaken your most tired daughter

What's up afternoon crowd 😎

Did you know you can get Revenge of Captain Vessia in a badass bundle? For under 30$ all of these can be yours! Including my queer vampirate captain and her trans lady rebel princess gf out for bloodstrewn revenge! If this isn't value, I don't know what is! Check it out at indiebook.sale !

None of my books are in the Narratess Sale because I am a hot mess with no spoons right now but I do have some recommendations if you are looking for SFF books with sapphic / lesbian protagonists you can snag for less than $2.

For a limited time you can get The Revenge of Captain Vessia for a clean 99 cents! OR you can pick it up as part of a bundle with a wide range of other great authors! Because if queer vampirates and trans lady rebel princesses doesn't sell it, what about 300 more books? ^.^ Find it at indiebook.sale

The Narratess Indie Sale is live! Grab 320+ fantasy, science-fiction, and horror books for less than $2! indiebook.sale

Tore into writing this morning over breakfast and had flow so good that it nearly made me late for work And now I'm pacing the floor at my job like a caged creature chomping at the bit to get back to words Let me outttttttt

Solving my gender shit did not mean I stopped being exhausted

My kingdom for a vampiric afterlife spent primarily in a dark, candle-lit Victorian library with a snack, a pile of books, and a cat, outside the reaches of capitalism, day jobs, and the mortal coil

And the Learning to Bleed cover is very nearly here..... They're going to have a ✨Great Time✨ The Coal Gets In Your Veins ebook goes on sale this weekend and it's the perfect time to catch up on the vampire horror romance before book 2! All art by @scherville.com

Spencer and Laurel are in for a long summer indeed... Nothing like befriending a vampire, falling in love, leaving your abusive spouse, fighting off the horrific sentient generational trauma that lives in your blood, and maybe doing a murder or two along the way...

If someone clicked on you in an RTS, what would your voice lines be? 'yessum?" "Go for it" "Sup." "Alive and talk to-able apparently" "Yoooooo" "Gods I need more coffee." "Aye captain?" -Humming a song- "Sorry, I was thinking about big boats, and I cannot lie"

Post a screenshot of your first 5 Steam purchases and let Bluesky judge you Mine aren't as old as some others (blame it on living in the boonies for most of my life where internet wasn't available for years) but I do find it hilarious that all the trans girls I've seen have total war games lol

Waking up with the most clear vision for next book, feeling ready to tear into it! Thinking it up before I crawled out of bed has been the best part of my week so far, and I'm determined to capitalize on that today ^.^

I love how this video transcends language. You don't know the exact words but you *know* what they're saying.

Like I'm not joking when I say this was hell on earth. This is a photo of the sun on what was supposed to be a clear day. We were coughing black for weeks.

Woke up to wildfire smoke blanketing a chunk of the town from the fires in other parts of the province, and it has me remembering being out west in 2016 where the wildfire smoke over Victoria gave us 40'c+ temps and it was hard to breathe. It is *not* a good day for a Leslie

I was actively saying "none of this makes fucking sense, why would she DO that, She wouldn't fucking do that" basically over and over and over, while still somehow needing 100k worth of cuts.

Had to move recently, had a job change not once but *twice*, while at the same time as writing feels insane on a regular day. Now throw in the world as we know it and I feel like I have to compartmentalize or else bad things will happen

do you have enough love in your heart to go and get your hands dirty? wanted to finish this sooner, but, welp! --- #art