Behold, I have answered the question: "I finished Dungeon Crawler Carl and want to check out more LitRPG/Progression Fantasy. What should I read next?" #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

2026 Micro-reviews Ab initio by Jacob Terracina Really cool story about the creation of humanlike intelligence, told through the lenses of courtroom drama and the hearts of the humans working on it. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #&microreviews #spsfc

This makes me deeply unhappy. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c... #booksky

Really enjoying Oldest's meltdown during our family game of Codenames Duet because his teammates (Middlest and Youngest) wanted to guess "String" for "Vertical" over helicopter... And they ended up randomly getting a different right and feeling SO justified.

Well, gosh. Thanks fortune cookie with an actual prediction. Here's hoping.

2025 Micro Reviews The Terminus of All Things by Jay Neill @jayneill.com British man ends up in alternate reality for forgotten things. His efforts to get home lead him to discover a plot that threatens our reality. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #&microreviews #spsfc

Couldn't sleep last night, but I did improve my website. Fixed a few minor but prominent bugs and added a sidebar to my blog that has a tag cloud and a Bluesky feed. ...And now I'm realizing my main page rotator doesn't show book 4 is available. Oh well. Tomorrow, maybe. erinampersand.com

Time Traitors by @elidonovanwriter.bsky.social Dino scientist gets to go back in time again after her poacher husband’s arrest. Unfortunately, not everyone thinks she deserves a second chance, and her ex wasn’t the only one harvesting velociraptors. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #&microreviews #spsfc

2025 Micro-reviews: Wherever the Stars Call by S. Jean – An ace girl and her nonbinary cyborg buddy steal a space Porsche to escape from a controlling government. Things go wrong, but maybe running into vampire space pirates isn’t all bad? #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg #&microreviews #spsfc

Word to any parents who want to see their kids see the tree but don't want to get up at 5:43 am tomorrow: streamers and painter's tape make a festive barricade. My kids actually get excited for it and I am not a Christmas zombie :D

One of Middlest's gifts arrived in its own packaging, and said child was the one to spot it first and bring it inside. I thought that when I assembled and wrapped it very, uh, specifically, then claimed it was a potato, the child would instantly recognize my deception. Apparently not!

2025 Micro-reviews: Apocalypse Me by Noct The world has gone mad and the MC is told he’s an apocalypse of hunger. He’s gotta eat some real weird stuff, do his best not to destroy the world, and get strong enough to keep anyone else from doing it. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg #&microreviews

2025 Micro-reviews: Gravesong by Pirateaba Girl pirates Earth music to fantasy world in order to survive the ghosts and zombies. Look, it actually makes sense when Pirateaba tells it, okay? #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg #&microreviews

All set up for Nerdy Noel! Indoor, zero admission, Christmas craft fair at Stovehouse in Huntsville from 11-5 today. Support small creators and take care of your Christmas list in one fell swoop. :)

2025 Micro-reviews: Interstellar Pig by William Sleator One of the earliest gamelit books. For reasons of their own, an eclectic group of aliens teach a young human a complex board game that may – or may not – be more real and more serious than it seems. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg #&microreviews

Something very unfortunate happened for my husband today. A child whose ears had recently been pierced lost an earring. Whereupon, I pulled out my old piercing stud I'd kept for decades, sterilized it, and popped it in. Packrat tendencies SO vindicated right now. Keep everything forever. YESSS.

2025 Micro-reviews: Bioshifter by Natalie Maher A lifetime of repetitive dreams turns out to be the “slow burn” part of a transdimensional transformation process for a girl who thought she was human. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #&microreviews

This is adorable. I also love how most of the characters have fancied themselves up at least slightly and Hornet is just like "Whatever, I was born fancy."

2025 Micro-reviews: Tower of Jack by Sean Loomer A professional assassin wants to leave his job. Unfortunately, he’s sucked into a magical world and told that if he doesn’t successfully slay an unkillable hero, a powerful faction will wipe out humanity. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg #&microreviews

2025 Micro-reviews: 1% Lifesteal by Robert Blaise A poor young man is scraping by at the bottom of a stratified society. He’s “lucky” enough to find a possible path to bettering his life, but the road ahead is painful and dangerous. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg #&microreviews

Shrinkflation is always infuriating, but it's extra infuriating to have a recipe that calls for "1 package (16 oz)" and every package on the store shelf is between 14 oz and 15.5. Recently made banana pudding and had to get multiple packages of three "1 package" ingredients. Came home seething.

2025 Micro-reviews: Discount Dan by James A. Hunter – A guy teleported to a malfunctioning dungeon immediately ends up as a spectator in a superpower battle. He’s lucky enough to grab a few discards that might just be the tools he needs to survive. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg #&microreviews

This is my Christmas energy. www.instagram.com/p/DRzsZ_YAIs...

2025 micro-reviews Player Manager by Ted Steel – Guy secretly gets FIFA game powers in real life. It sounds terrible, but it’s actually great. I don’t even like sports. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg #&microreviews

Man, fairytale retellings are such comfort reads for me. I tend to keep them on my TBR after I discover them as an "in case of emotional emergency, break glass" situation. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Working on getting ready for Nerdy Noel and pretty pleased with how these little signs turned out. 🔥🎄🔥🎄 #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg

Anyone know of a medical book or website targeted to authors or writers? I want to hurt my characters and save them realistically, but my confidence level at properly interpreting medical papers whose intended audience is "qualified surgeons" is low. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

2025 Mini-Reviews: Game at Carousel by Rob M. Lastrel – The town of Carousel is alive, forcing those it traps to act out horror stories in order to survive. In a storyline, even death can be survived, as long as your companions finish the story successfully. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg

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