Starting on a few new books today, but am most excited about @books-that-go-boom.bsky.social's American vampire noir cyberpunk, Neon Citadel, which releases today! 💙📚🩸📚🪐📚

Hey #bluepit, today happens to be book release day for my cyberpunk/tech noir/low fantasy novel, Neon Citadel. A vampire PI teams up with a wechuge on the run and an ifrit hacker, on a missing persons case that turns into a bloodbath. www.amazon.com/Neon-Citadel... #bluepit📖 #A #P

🪐📚 IT’S OUT. “With Neon Citadel, Leunig has proven his mastery over genre, successfully blending cyberpunk, urban fantasy, and noir into a bloody cocktail fit for even the most discerning of vampires….” — Russ Nickel, lead writer of Helldivers 2 readspaceboy.com/portfolio/ne... #booksky

FYI: one of my new years resolutions is to spend nearly half the year offline/not doomscrolling, so if you see me less or I miss a couple of your posts, that's why. I'll definitely be around, but I'm trying to limit habits that allow me to fall into online spirals.

My joy at being able to pull thru my last hospital visit has been replaced by the anxiety that it would've been cheaper to die. Just throwing this out there hoping for a miracle. I've got PayPal or cash app too.

So pretty! ❤️ Very excited to see this cyberpunk out in the world! 💙📚

Reposting this every year on Jan 2nd, but I’m a loser so I’m a day late.

Some shots from the past holiday. Instead of the traditional strawberry shortcake, I got a cheesecake for my Japanese Christmas cake, because I have foreign visitors and thought they'd like to try it. I also won a big platter of mochi & manju from a mochi-ya here. I ate way more than I shared.

Thread of books I’ve read in 2026. ❤️📚🔖

Book release, yay!

Presenting my 2026 reading list, featuring such fine selections as the Epic of Gilgamesh and "a book that sounds stupid as shit." Because I'm classy and a ~literary connoisseur,~ obviously. zenandblade.wordpress.com/2026/01/01/p...

Finally planned well enough to order osechi (traditional Japanese new year foods) from Kyoto. I’m so excited, usually I need to make it myself like an animal.

Goodbye, 2025! You've been...okay. zenandblade.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/g...

EVERYBODY STAY CALM!!!!!!!!

Presenting some of my favorite reads in 2025! (Including awesome indies by @moewanders.bsky.social, @nicksnapeauthor.bsky.social, @luketarzian.bsky.social & @barrykgregory.bsky.social) Very satisfied with 2025.💙📚 zenandblade.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/m...

I know *I* like starting my year with painful, expensive and unexpected surgery.

Living through Dec 26th-30th feels like existing in a weird temporal rift that's fully detached from the space time continuum. I have no idea what day it is or what's happening. I'm confused and tired and full of sugar.

Perpetually late 😭, but I wanted to show my e-reader for the holidays before it’s too late (spoiler alert: it’s already too late.) #booksky

Christmas conversations around the tree: Family member: Does anyone else smell something burning? Brother: oh yeah, I melted half of the [fake] Christmas tree when I tried to change the lights on it yesterday. But it's just the back half, it's fine. Rest of family:

Have an excellent holiday, everyone!

Everyone look at the wrapping paper I FINALLY managed to buy in advance so I could use it for Christmas, only for everyone in my life to ask for things to be shipped directly from sellers. So now Kiley will be the only person to see how funny I am.

I thought porn wasn't allowed on Bluesky.

💙📚 Thoughts on this book/series? I intend to go in fully blind, but I've heard it's really dense and difficult. I've been reading epic fantasy for decades, so chonk in page numbers or lore doesn't bother me, but am wondering what others think about it.

I’m obsessed w/this mooncake tin. I have a fantasy where a high-level triad man who shares a love-hate rivalry w/me leaves a meeting at the location depicted on it, only to be shot by the command of his former best friend/ex-triad member, causing me to lead a bloody killing spree w/my own gang.

I'm very frustrated. I'm so busy right now that I can barely make time to sleep, let alone read. I've gone longer without reading, but that was by choice. I didn't realize how much it affected my mental health. I had a bunch of library books and didn't read any. Now they're overdue and I have fines.

I read a lot and have some author followers, so I wanted to put something out there regarding world building: combat & weaponry are a direct reflection of culture & place, and can be made to slot together. (🧵: 1/25)

NOOOOOOO I ACCIDENTALLY DELETED A LONG, POINTLESS THREAD ON A TOPIC NO ONE CARES ABOUT! 😭 I REFUSE TO BE WAYLAID BY MY INCOMPETENCE. GOD AS MY WITNESS, I'M GOING TO WRITE THIS THREAD THAT NO ONE WILL READ.

They put it right next to the entrance, what do you want from me??? #booksky

It gets funnier the longer you look at it. I can’t decide if I want bedroom 2, which appears to be three walls of closets and a window, or bedroom 4, which is just a “full bath” composed of one sink. I do love me a master roksn and a nice “coat bath” though.

Turns out I didn't need a bottle of vodka and a sledgehammer, I just needed an hour of sword & dagger training and a katsu-sando.⚔️🥪

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 👀👀👀

If I was offered immortality, I’d take it. Eventually, contemporary music is going to become the creepy jingles in haunted house movies, and I think people screaming in dark rooms while “C’mon N’ Ride It” by Quad City DJ’s plays would be worth the psychological burden of living forever. #horrorsky

My brother showed up on a night he was supposed to be working, ate my dinner, showed me a gym bag full of lightsabers he had for some reason, then left. I dunno.

This book is so good omg 😭

The only recollection I have of writing this is crawling to my desktop to post it, because I couldn't find my phone that was blasting Smashing Pumpkins through my airpods. It was in my pocket. I currently hate sunlight, my skull and the whole Japanese whiskey industry, in case anyone is wondering.

ive been layin face donw on my living room carpet drinkinsgood jaoanese whiskey and vibing to smahsing pimpkins do you guys remember samshing pinpkins

💙📚 Me looking down at my phone as it informs me that I got a library copy of Islington's The Strength of the Few when I'm only 50 pages into The Will of the Many:

What I Eat In A Day: I saw people doing this on social media, and I thought it would be fun, because I'm always interested in what people eat. What do you eat? Breakfast: I workout in the morning, so I just have tea. After I workout, I’ll usually have fruit (and cherry juice, but I ran out.)

The only good day on the internet is the fourth Sunday in Lent. It takes place in March, and is also Mother's Day in the UK, meaning many British say, "happy mother's day!" online, causing Americans & Canadians to FREAK THE FUCK OUT, not remembering that mother's day for them is in May.

MFW a kind, charismatic side character with a loving family suddenly appears in the fantasy novel I’m reading: #booksky #fantasybooks

Very overdue, but here is my review of @moewanders.bsky.social's amazing book, The Winds of War. A wonderful gem and an absolutely stellar show for an indie book (and yes, comparisons that readers are making to GRRM's ASoIaF are very apt!) zenandblade.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/b...

I know I'm old because my phone contacts are the actual names of people. No matter how many times kids tell me this is absolutely insane, I don't understand what's wrong with it.

Switched it up for spooky season a little late. 😑 Might keep this through thanksgiving. #booksky

My brother got me shine muscat for my birthday! They’re heavenly and worth the price, but I’m genetically predisposed to being on board for expensive artisan gift fruit. ❤️ Will be gone for the rest of the weekend & upcoming week for birthday shenanigans.

GIRD YOUR LOINS, it’s starfruit season. Everyone here knows someone who has been locked in eternal battle with a tree in their yard: they try to kill it, and the tree throws gallons of fruit at them. Then we all have to eat it. No one wins.

I read ONE short story in October. 🫠 Yey. I'm in the middle of multiple books, though. It's just a matter of finding time right now. My November is an absolute mess of busywork on multiple fronts of my life, to say nothing of the holiday prep. My online presence may be erratic.

#Spooktasticreads Day 13: this post was supposed to be a lot more interesting, but I ran out of time this week. Instead it's just a hodgepodge of creepy stories and media to enjoy this Halloween. Have a great night! 💙📚🩸 #horrorsky zenandblade.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/s...

#spooktasticreads Day 12: Sorry for the late post (although to my credit, it's still technically Oct 30th here.) I'm sharing one of my of my favorite horror storytelling mediums: analog horror. 💙📚🩸 #horrorsky zenandblade.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/s...

#spooktasticreads day 11: book review of This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer. Gory and somewhat confusing, this horror is a mishmash of everything, served with a liberal dose of blood. 💙📚🩸 #horrorsky zenandblade.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/b...

"Give me your favorite Star Trek ship." I'm a DS9 girl, what can I say?