I cast "you realizing you are old if you remember this book" and makes your bones turn to dust.

Nine years ago tonight, we lost one of the greatest voices in rock n roll history. RIP Chris, you’ll never be forgotten. 🤘🏻

@spookty.bsky.social I’m keeping this so I recognize you.

Come check out my #Writer pit pitch on Instagram ✨ Would love the support from my fellow writers and readers 🫶 #WritingCommunity www.instagram.com/p/DYUsUzxkYu...

Good night 💤 “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” Robin Williams

another book rec i meant to pass on a while ago is haunted voices, a collection of horror-tinged scottish oral folk tales. there's old and new in here, and the quality is consistently high. i particularly loved the addict's take on the raven, 'the cravin'' by d.a. watson.

How come when an agent requests pages I am plagued by the stomach-churning dread that I have unforgivably botched something in my submission? Come on, self-doubt. At least let me expect rejection because my writing comes up short. #writingcommunity #amquerying #amwriting

Writing a novel is basically: “I am a genius.” followed 11 minutes later by: “I have created the worst sentence in the English language.” 😅 #writersofX #amwriting

To query as an author is to yeet your book baby at strangers hoping one of them wants to help you raise it.

What are some novel titles that strike you as powerful? I'll go first: my question is inspired by Hannah Kaner's upcoming novel, A Snake Among Swans. A love when a title alone stirs up the imagination.

Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.

Saw #hokum today. Personally I thought it was really well done! Good scares, good story. I love Adam Scott, and I’m a sucker for ANYTHING Irish, especially if it’s spooky. AND there’s a side character who’s a struggling writer working two day jobs! Rooting for him!

For lurking #LiteraryAgents SEVERANCE x SILO She erased memories, until memory remembered her. THE UNMAKING 🚫 Emotion as system error 👾 The haunting is digital 📋Corporate ritual menace 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action RevPit Shortlist PosterPitAward 2nd #AgentsGuide

Nerves… virtual pitch meetings next weekend @writingdaywksp.bsky.social Pittsburgh! I thought I was ready to #amquerying but my dev edit was so amazing that I’m mid-rewrite now, so I’ll be pitching a WIP. Still, I’m excited! So much prep to do … pittsburghwritingworkshop.com

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

The 2026 Online Pittsburgh Writing Workshop is an online “How to Get Published” writing event on May 8-9, 2026. Writers are welcome to attend virtually from anywhere! Info & Registration: pittsburghwritingworkshop.com #amwriting #amquerying #literaryagent #writingcommunity #writing

WE USED TO LIVE HERE x MISERY When a sentient house attacks a naive author and his stalker orchestrates an invasion, his badass sister and her disobedient dog race against an impending storm to save him, but they must face both monsters to survive the night. #QuestPit #H #LGBTQ #agentsguide #Q #A

A glimpse from the pages of The Night of the Fire: “And somewhere in the tangle of murder is always the thread of inconsistency. The pebble in the shoe. The scab I can’t help but lift. Because underneath is where the truth festers.” #QuestPit #Q #A #T #MY

HEARTLESS HUNTER X SLAVIC FOURTH WING 🎭 She, a humble servant posing as Duchess, is his executioner-to-be. 🐉 He, the arrogant Dragon Prince, must save a kingdom from the encroaching Ever-Dark. 🖤 Neither anticipated falling for the one destined to be their undoing. #questpit #NA #R #F #DF #Q

Apple TV’s SEVERANCE meets SILO 🚫 Emotion as system error 👾 The haunting is digital 📋Corporate ritual menace 🧪 Complicit Protagonist 🧨 Creeping dread to visceral action #QuestPit #Q #A #SF #S #SFF #U

Josephine’s been dead for 100 years, the sole guardian keeping hell’s lid shut. If Howard can solve the ritual that’s breaking it open, he will take her place, but erase her from existence. Unfortunately, he’s falling in love with her. Awkward. #QuestPit #A #DF #IndustrialAcademia #W

CABIN IN THE WOODS × JOHN DIES AT THE END × JUMANJI When one of them is murdered at their annual gaming retreat, 5 dads must rely on years of #TTRPG experience—& ball-busting puns—to solve the crime before they're all butchered like NPCs in a badly written supernatural campaign. #QuestPit #A #H #Q

@questpit.bsky.social A ritual begins. Five stories. Each releases a demon. In 1906 Pittsburgh, a steel heir is pulled into his uncle’s infernal “Book Club,” where five dark tales will begin to tear the lid off hell itself. Everything burns EXCEPT the books. #QuestPit #A #DF #IndustrialAcademia #W

So excited to share that my first published book will be coming to shelves Fall of 2027!

#agentsguide to MALUS, an adult dark academia fantasy. Currently #amquerying

I would be humbled to ask for your vote for my poster in the "Most Eye Catching" category. If the armies of hell *are* on their way ... couldn't hurt, right? #PosterPit #PosterPitAwards

Wrote all the words. Now re-writing all the words but trying to use fewer of them. COOL COOL COOL COOL COOL.

Thanks #posterpit organizers, for a great event, and all your hard work! This was a ton of fun, and it was awesome to spot some kindred literary spirits in the wild.

One naive bird and his sarcastic reflection in an enchanted puddle somehow share the only magick that can save two realms from an ancient evil. If they could only agree… about anything. A dark fantasy in progress. #PosterPit #W #Q #DarkF #Gothic #SPF #A

The gate of hell isn’t just opening. It is being trampled under. The ancient Order meant to hold it has already failed. And what is coming through will not stop at simply breaking free. (Currently in rewrite following developmental edit) #PosterPit #W #Q #DarkF #Gothic #SPF #A

The city of Pittsburgh at the turn of the century. Deep below, something ghastly is breaking through an ancient barrier. A girl, dead for a hundred years, stands guard at the gate. The steel baron’s spoiled heir who thinks he can save her? He’s dead wrong. #PosterPit #W #Q #DarkF #Gothic #SPF #A

Oh, thesaurus! How do I love thee! Let me list the ways… uh. Um. A lot. I love the thesaurus a lot. #mostimportantwritingtool

Born 30th March 1930, actor John Astin. Sadly, the majority of the original cast of "The Addams Family" are no longer with us, but, happily John is still around. John Astin played Gomez Addams in the show from 1964 to 1966. He is 96 today. #JohnAstin #Gomez

Happy New Year, #PosterPit people! We hope your 2026 is a grand one, and we hope to see you premiere during this year's pitch event! As always, #PosterPit will occur on the 3rd Saturday in April, and the full schedule for our 2026 event is listed below. More news to come 👀🍿

Current WIP—pulled from the query trenches in a death-defying act of literary heroism, it’s becoming what it was always meant to be… #darkfantasy #gothic

You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

Gillian Anderson praises the pilot script for Ryan Coogler’s The X-Files, calling it “really good” and encouraging fans to keep an open mind. “Have an open mind and give it a chance because it’s going to be fucking cool.” (Source: dory_jackson/TikTok) #XFiles #RyanCoogler #GillianAnderson

Annnnd, that’s a draft! Celebrating the 76,846th word with a gift to meself. I’m just bummed I missed @maggiestiefvater.bsky.social at Posman Books in PGH to get a signed copy!

Did a virtual ShutUpAndWrite get-together this morning... kinda cool. Gonna hit the in-person meetup soon. Good stuff, and neat to start making connections in the writing community! Highly recommend. www.shutupwrite.com

Curious visitor last night.

While Christmas shopping at 1/2 Price Books, I realized that I NEVER READ FAHRENHEIT 451. And I call myself a Bradbury fan. Oversight currently being corrected.

The letdown after finishing a manuscript. The hopeless feeling that it's not good enough, and never will be. Starting a rewrite, knowing it will need professional editing. Spending significant sums to fix it just so I can fail anyway? Why bother. Back at it tomorrow, regardless. Need dopamine.

Inspired by @wiswell.bsky.social ‘s amazing Somebody You Can Build a Nest In, I decided to try my hand at an uncanny cozy romantasy for November. Progress reports forthcoming as word count grows: “Hearts Cut to Ribbons, Gently”