When the audiobook narrator sings so badly you can’t tell if they don’t actually know the song or if they’re not allowed to use the real tune and either way your eye twitches.

My lovely gems! I've decided to schedule the book release date following the campaign, Dec 17th! If you're interested in this book, the best way to get it is backing it! ALL backers will get the ebook day 1!! Follow now so you don't miss when it's live! #booksky #writesky #tbb25 #bookbazaar25

Are you currently in a “Heck yes, I’ll take immortality!” or a “Golly no, who’d be happy living forever?” stage of life?

What’s going on with @itch.io?

Stephen King likes killing characters (maybe a little too much?) but here I take a close look at the role these deaths play in his plots. It’s not all fridging, and honestly the more I dug, the more common beats I found. It’s about WHY they die. #QueerWritersChat www.bloomsbury.com/us/functions...

And now I’m in this furnished apartment, trying to keep my stuff from exploding more than absolutely necessary, because I’ve just fled from a seriously awkward conversation with a guy who probably thinks I should be shipped off to the neatest psychiatric hospital. #QueerWritersChat

I think I usually focus on a) what makes the setting unique, and b) anything that’ll come back to haunt my characters later. If I spend time describing a parking deck, it’s a darn important parking deck. 😆 #QueerWritersChat

My favorite setting is Michigan because I know it so well. Plus if you need to get rid of cell phones to make a plot work, there are plenty of places in the UP without service. Let’s hear it for lakes that stretch to the horizon, flannel, and pasties. #QueerWritersChat

Hello! I’m Rebecca and I think I have to admit I’m stalled out on my current idea. 😆 I don’t think I’ve found the proper opening scene either time so … I’ll just have to let it simmer on the back burner and work on edits of other projects. #QueerWritersChat

In a world full of people tearing things down, keep on creating, friends. 🩵

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

New Sneak Peak up on Patreon for supporters! www.patreon.com/posts/openin...

What’s the point in putting mood music in the audiobook if it’s too loud to hear the narration?

Students I don’t even have emailed and asked if I’d be the faculty go-to for a bring-your-own-book club they want to launch. “We all thought you would be the best fit because of your great attitude and what we've heard about you!” 🥹

He’s got a book in one hand and a can with a koozie in the other, so I can’t tell if he’s drinking before noon, but he looks up and gives me a sort of guarded, toothless smile that doesn’t reach his eyes. #WIPSnips

Today, I'm starting on something scary and exciting. In a few weeks, I'll be launching the first episode of my YouTube show, wherein I will read a short story of my own making while illustrating a piece of artwork to accompany it. Follow in advance here: www.youtube.com/@CozyKathryn Details ⬇️

Trying something new on YouTube. My shorter vlog-style crafting series is a GO. Will it work? No idea! Let's see what y'all think. youtu.be/0Ww0Y4nblPw

Jamie decided not to start on a second name after he’d cleared the first. Charles Molson hadn’t even lived in Wisconsin in the 1970s, much less Milwaukee, and it was highly unlikely he’d taken time off from college in Florida to make all those trips north. #QueerWriters

There weren’t awards for first place or fan favorite or anything like that, but Ricky knew he’d won them all the same. #WIPSnips

Big sigh at the videos saying “In case your mom didn’t teach you” over something that’s definitely too recent to come from my own childhood (much less hers)? Bonus points if it’s useless or just wrong. 🤣

H.H. Holmes was a con man who gave five different confessions before he died, admitting to (and then denying) up to 27 murders. He even tried being his own lawyer at his trial, beating Bundy to the punch, but his silver tongue failed him. #QueerWritersChat www.amazon.com/Words-Monste...

Noel leans over and kisses the corner of my mouth softly. "You don't see it the same way I do," he says gently, "because we don't see your cancer the same way. You never thought you had a choice." #QueerWritersChat

Pip hates the sight of her ex - does that count? I’m sure she’d recoup from the scent of his cologne. Right now she’s also wary of fliers of all kinds, because of the funeral, and she’s sick of eating casseroles because same. #QueerWritersChat

I think sight and touch. I’m not great at identifying smells (maybe her new boyfriend smells like sandalwood? That’s a good boyfriend smell, right?) but sight and touch are good. (I had a creative writing teacher who HARPED on food and taste so … that one’s complicated.) #QueerWritersChat

Hello! I’m Rebecca. I write both true crime and thrillers. Right now I’m pecking away at a first draft where I’m destroying Pip’s life by killing het aunt, exposing her missing cousin as a serial killer, and having her ex try to work his way back into her life. Sorry, Pip. #QueerWritersChat

“The way I figure, the math checks out. What was it, honey? Half your age plus nine?” #WIPSnips

No new pics, where are you at mentally

I overheard a little voice from a nearby register gleefully announce “That lady got a ducky!” and my inner child is just as thrilled with my adult decisions.

Part survival guide, part literary analysis. It IS possible to make it to the final page in a book by the king of horror, but at what cost? #QueerWritersChat mcfarlandbooks.com/product/surv...

#QueerWritersChat PLEASE go give www.royalroad.com/fiction/1305... a read and a follow. You might need a Royal Road account, but it's totally free and if you follow me (or are a manga/anime fan) there's a good chance you'll enjoy it.

#QueerWritersChat 5: Don't forget to follow my upcoming scifi romance audiobook campaign on backerkit! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... And if you want to get in the fall mood, check out Yverwood! books2read.com/yverwood amaralynn.itch.io/yverwoodwitc...

#QueerWritersChat I'm also an artist and I'm working on adding more bookish services to my business. If you need art in the fantasy, dark fantasy, or horror realms, please check out my website and get in touch! www.conquerthyfear.com

#QueerWritersChat Q5. It's #SapphicSeptember, and if you're looking for some bloodthirsty lesbians living in Aphrodite's World Without Love, I've got two books for you, available on itch.io (no, they don't earn anything out of my sales!) and many other stores! :D linktr.ee/NicoleHidalg...

#QueerWritersChat Q5 When even you can't tell you from the villains... 🔥warrior-mages 🔥feel lies and hear feelings! 🔥queer heroes 🔥schemes and intrigue 🔥emotion is forbidden 💙📚🪐📚🌈 #Booksky Start the legend: books2read.com/PathofEndles... mcburnell.itch.io/a-path-of-en...

#QueerWritersChat I have a pre-order for my book, Inarora's Excursion (plus sample chapters) & short stories on Itch! seraphrdm.itch.io Also add them to your gr! www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... Also on PayHip & KoFi! payhip.com/SeraphRDM Aaaaand fanfic plug: archiveofourown.org/works/380054...

no autumn in sight for this near-equatorial story, but it does have disaster gays and a baby dragon? sapphic ace romantasy! grab it now ✨ #QueerWritersChat books2read.com/u/bpVEQ6 vriccithode.itch.io/the-dragon-n...

#QueerWritersChat I’m officially publishing my fun little fantasy subgenre uquiz! uquiz.com/mytO0i Money is always tough, so if you like what I do, support me: ko-fi.com/transcendrag... My website: theodoresnapdragon.com And SFF writers should check out the IncSpec discord! discord.gg/S3EuEtUZ

If a sweet MMF triad romance about a deported Earth-born elf, her charming social worker ex, and an ice elemental with a caretaker complex sounds appealing, you can find a full pitch, ordering links, and the first three chapters of The Harmony of Falling Snow here: andorabrokaw.com/the-harmony-...

You want some links?! Well I got some links for ya! Oh...You didn't want sausages? You wanted web links? Well why didn't you say so! Anyways, Fairy Seaons is my WIP baby. It needs love: www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti... And here's my linktree for all the other things! linktr.ee/spookypickle

You can find my books from @bewerebooks.bsky.social at: www.bewere.net/order.php?s=... #QueerWritersChat

A cult that soaks people in liquid helium and then shatters them with onyx mallets to appease their god - The Cold One. A cybernetic investigator getting into trouble. What happens next? Ch 4 drops Monday. You vote on what happens in Ch 5. open.substack.com/pub/writesin... #queerwriterschat

Check out ROACH MOTEL. a free module for the transformation ttrpg To Change set in the world of WE LIVE FOREVER (and we love to live)! It's a grimy absurdist body horror romp inspired by classic survival horror game manuals - and you turn into horny bugs! youarebeheld.itch.io/roach-motel

I'll indirectly promote myself & my fellow #bookbazaar25 entrepreneurs. genius IQs who are gonna radicalize this company with bold ideas, fresh scents, & novel buzzwords This is a starter pack of totally not writers that deserve your undying worship & maybe $5 #queerwriterschat go.bsky.app/VKPBEUH

add my upcoming cozy horror, about a 43yo autistic guy who has a gay/lowkey monsterfucker awakening after getting lost in an enchanted forest, on Goodreads or TheStoryGraph! #QueerWritersChat www.goodreads.com/book/show/24... app.thestorygraph.com/books/d27e0a...

#QueerWritersChat so don't have anything other than my Ao3 which I don't always like giving out, so have a small excerpt from my story instead! bsky.app/profile/eliz...

It's spooky season! Time to read Choctaw & Irish inspired #horror! Both are available at all major retailers AND you can find them on Goodreads & Storygraph. One is sapphic & has were-coyotes. One has skin stealing monsters! Choose if you dare and try to survive the night.😈 #QueerWritersChat

Woo hoo! Have an autumn road trip love story!! find.judithlynne.com/9ndop0tv8o

I'm REALLY close to hitting a small milestone on Of All the Stars! It'd mean a lot to make it this month 👉👈 kris-madigan.itch.io/of-all-the-s... #QueerWritersChat