2025 Mini-reviews: Calamity (Knights of Eternity #1) by @quirkiltons.bsky.social Woman is sucked into her favorite arcade game and inhabits the body of one of the game’s most terrifying villains. Things get worse from there. Bonus: The author is super nice & cool :D #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg

Oldest: Didn't you and Dad finish that game? Like all the achievements. Me: Yeah, I can't explain why I'm doing this when I'm not accomplishing anything. Oldest: Well... it's not like you were really accomplishing anything before. Me, trying to figure out if my child is trying to be mean or nice:

Excited to share that I'll have a table at this year's Nerdy Noel! Pick up a copy of my books, a vinyl Apocalypse Parenting sticker, get books signed, or just stop by to chat!

2025 Mini-reviews: I’m Not the Hero by Tommy Kerper A boy is sent to a magical land to be their fabled hero. This story is about the kid who accidentally went with him. Bonus: I've met the author, and he's super nice :D #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg

2025 mini-reviews: Ends of Magic: Antimage by Alexander Olson A grad student is yanked into a fantasy world, where he immediately has to fight off mind-control attempts. After he escapes, he uses his Earth knowledge to find unique ways to use the world’s magic #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg

I frequently wake my kids up in the morning like I'm a video game boss summoning reinforcements: "Arise, my champions!"

2025 Micro-reviews: Rebuild the World: Alaska by Justin Marks An accident leads to the rapid cooling of Earth. The aliens responsible don’t stop to fix it, but they throw some tech at the planet that might be enough to help humanity survive if used correctly. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg

2025 Micro-reviews: Battlefield Reclaimer by David North A family's hereditary “broken” class has left them poor and weak for generations. A horrible accident leaves a father and son in danger far from home, but it might also give them the key to finally move forward. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg

2025 Mini-reviews: Sword and Thistle by S.L. Rowland – Older adventurer goes on solo quest for a rare herb, hoping the money will finally let him put to rest some old troubles. Finds more than he bargained for along the way. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #cozy

2025 Micro-reviews: Potions and Perils by Reck Well Small town witch has injured jerk foreigner dumped in her lap. Can she heal her, live up to her mom’s high expectations, and save her village from a mysterious threat? #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #romantasy

2025 micro-reviews: Shadeslinger (Ripple System #1) by Kyle Kirrin Rich guy buys all the early access slots for new MMO. Everyone rightfully resents him for this. Somehow a really fun story, probably because the MC is heckled the whole time by a sapient axe companion. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg

EASY way to improve the world if you're food secure and live in the US: Go through your cupboards for everything close to its best by or that stopped being your kid's favorite right after you bought 12 of it. SNAP payments are being delayed for November, which will affect over 40 million Americans

2025 micro-reviews: Hell of a Witch by @rachel-aaron.bsky.social Young witch – the only man in a coven of women – tries to strike out on his own and hires demon mercenaries to help. "Heaven" objects to all of this. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

2025 Mini-reviews: Demon Card Enforcer by John Stovall Follows a mafia enforcer in a world where the magical powers are baaaasically Yu-Gi-Oh, but the system actually feels believable #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg

2025 Mini-reviews: The Wastes of Keldora (Factory of the Gods #1) by Alex Raizman – Guy is brought to another world and accidentally gives the magic powers he’s supposed to get to his phone, then uses it to engineer his way forward. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg

Summary of Bog Standard Isekai by Miles English: A portal fantasy LitRPG story primarily set in a small-town, with a lot of the early conflict fueled by fantasy small-town politics… although the troubles of the world at large will come for them eventually. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Finished one of my kids' Halloween costumes for this year. They wanted to be the "hardest boss" from Deltarune: the watercooler. #halloween #videogames #costume #deltarune

Self-Published Science Fiction Contest #5 is open for entries, and I'm volunteering as a judge again. Unlike many such contests, this one is free to enter and 100% volunteer-run. Link in the comments. Apply, please! I wanna read some fun and wild stuff. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Very excited to share that people can now listen to the first book of Apocalypse Parenting on Spotify! It's narrated by Laurie Catherine Winkel, the best narrator I could possibly ask for. It's also now available on Audiobooks.com Links in the comments! #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

"All monsters must die bloody, and by a hero's hands, and soon," he says over brunch. He doesn't think it's a rude thing to say to a monster...– @that-gay-jedi on Tumblr www.tumblr.com/that-gay-jed...

🎶 I am gonna claw out your eyes, and drown you to death 🎶 Really enjoying Hades 2! #games #gaming

2025 Micro-reviews: Nine Goblins by @tkingfisher.com Nine goblins are caught in a magical accident on a battlefield and teleported deep behind enemy lines. I don't even know how to describe the plot. Unexpectedly cozy with moments of high drama? #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff 1/2

2025 mini-reviews: The Thief by Megan Whelan Turner A fun YA adventure/mystery jaunt with little emphasis on direct combat and lots of focus on characters' internal lives. Main character starts in prison, but... did he end up there on purpose? #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

2025 mini-reviews: A Journey of Black and Red by Alex Gilbert My new favorite vampire story, and a delight for anyone who has a small part inside that wants to BE the terror in the night. This story is adventure, not romance. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Do you feel like a hero when you get your horrible & amazing little humans through another day? You are. So is Meghan. She struggles with monsters, aliens, and supernatural abilities, but also sibling arguments, kid logic, and the same parenting drama we all face every day. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

2025 Mini-Reviews: Dear Spellbook by Peter J. Lee A completed time loop progression fantasy series that does a good job maintaining stakes, not growing repetitive, and offering the reader a robust and interesting cast of characters, despite distracting interludes. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg

Yessss, two of my favorite people saying nice things about me. ^_^ Oh, plus an hour of other cool content #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg youtu.be/vyA27RoddYE?...

Mini-reviews 2025: Cowboy Necromancer by Harmon Cooper I usually don't review if I don't finish the book, but in this case, I was really impressed by a lot of what I saw - great worldbuilding, good characters - but the MC treating real people as a source of XP was too grim for me, personally.

Re-doing my mini-review posts from this year for Instagram and thought I'd re-share here as well. Shrubley, the Monster Adventurer A painfully idealistic young plant-monster raised by a druid decides to join a human adventurer's guild, and somehow it all works out. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg

Yes! My spread into libraries continues! If your library system uses Hoopla instead of Libby/Overdrive, you can now request that it picks up the Engineer's Odyssey eBook for digital lending. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg #libraries

It's a good day to cancel your Hulu, Disney Plus, or Marvel Unlimited subscriptions. I love the X-Men, but I love my country and freedom of speech more.

Better late then never, right? Finally posted my reviews of the SPSFC4 winner, finalists, and a couple books I personally :) think ought to have been finalists. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff erinampersand.com/spsfc4-the-w...

Today is a good day to buy a rainbow shirt.

Yes, so excited! Apocalypse Parenting is now available for library loan through Libby/Overdrive! If your library uses it, the easiest way to find the books is to search "Erin Ampersand" and request to be notified if your system adds the titles. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg

Absolutely pumped about how these modded tokens came out for A Place for All My Books (the game came with one side having lovely decorative foiling and the other side blank. The blank side called out to me and one printer and some modpodge later, here we are!) #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #boardgames

My child, who is wise to my ways: "We're home! ... But our name is NOT 'home!'"

Okay, look, this may seem trivial to some people, but Huntsville has ALWAYS been called Rocket City. This is NOT a new thing or something Trump came up with, I PROMISE.

Alright, friends, I have finally reached the point where various kinds of tape can no longer lengthen the life of my Kindle Paperwhite case. I'd like to get something a bit more durable next time. Maybe cloth instead of PU leather? Is that a thing? Suggestions? #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

At LitRPG Con, I got to know Haylock Jobson! He's a natural in front of an audience. We were surprised to learn we both launched our book 4s on the hang day earlier this week! Our mutual friend, author Jason J. Willis, whipped this up for us :) It's fun having author friends #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Yeah! Apocalypse Parenting #4: Breaking Rules out now! eBook, audiobook, & Kindle Unlimited See a mom discipline her children and kill monsters in the same chapter! Just as awesome as real moms but *sounds* cooler. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg

Yo, this is not okay. Go recommend a book to someone today. Buy a book for a kid. abcnews.go.com/Health/ameri...

Want a bunch of LitRPG books for free or 99 cents? www.jjthornbooks.com/massive-litr... Huge props to @jjthornbooks.bsky.social, author of Apocalypse Assassin, for putting this together! Love this graphic he made of some of the female led titles. I've read and enjoyed a lot of them already!

My book board game came! We immediately played a round and it was wonderful, but the backs of the book tokens are blank which seems to be screaming for mod podged tiny book covers. Trying to decide... Blue - sci fi Green - fantasy Red - LitRPG/progression Yellow - YA? #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

It's always weird when there's a storm named after you or someone close to you. It's like, you want to cheer for your namesake, but also you would prefer not to be associated with tragedy. #condolencestowomennamedkatrina

Playing the Flash Point co-op board game with the fam and my sisters were very worried about the dog victim so I got out my Lisa Frank stickers and made some changes to reduce the stress level.

That feel when you write a thousand words of a new chapter, then realize it fits better in the previous chapter, then re-tool it all to fit... and then you've been working for two hours and still have 0 words written of the *new* chapter you intended to write. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Apocalypse Parenting #4: Breaking Rules now available for pre-order on both Amazon and Audible The next installment of this LitRPG adventure releases August 26. Links in the comments! #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Just prepped the very last chapter of the very last book of Apocalypse Parenting to go live on Royal Road tomorrow morning. I'm absolutely crying right now. I love you all. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Man. I love editing, but I despise formatting. Sad days. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Spent the weekend at GenCon with the family and ended up with quite a haul of board games! The copies of Flash Point, Galaxy Trucker, and Flock Together are all signed by the artists or designers.