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.

My middle child on Blastoise: Pokemon creators be like "Here's a cute guy! Here's another cute guy! HERE'S GUNS!"

Want to support an indie sci-fi/LitRPG author without spending a cent? Open your Libby app, search "Engineer's Odyssey," and hit "Notify me!" This will let your library know someone is interested in the title, and help make indie authors more accessible to everyone! #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Hey, pretty good showing for a LitRPG that's not on Kindle Unlimited! Everyone who's supported the release of Engineer's Odyssey has my deep gratitude. :D #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Long story short: it was the first-ever and it was awesome. Long story long? That's in the blog post. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

"Flying through the airport where things went wrong in your latest book." Yeah, that was fun. 😂 #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Engineer's Odyssey released today for audio and eBook! Vince and his friends try to engineer and fight their way home through over a thousand miles of monster-infested countryside. It's my first time going wide! Find my main series on Kindle Unlimited books2read.com/u/3RgqVp #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

So excited to meet Laurie Catherine Winkel! I couldn't have asked for a better narrator for Apocalypse Parenting!

I'm so ready for LitRPG Con! At least, that's what I'm telling myself. Ready or not, I'm definitely excited! #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Looking forward to moderating this panel, even if my own books aren't cozy! I'm hoping we can get some of the other cozy authors attending the con to show up, too, like Mystic Neptune. :) #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Been playing some family Minecraft and stumbled across the Woodland Mansion, only to have it spontaneously combust (lava underneath). After I gave up on putting it out, I got to live out my Library of Alexandria fantasies by saving as many books as I could. Deeply satisfying! #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 🎮

This panel should be a really fun discussion - definitely a topic that's near & dear to my heart! #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

This might be the panel I'm looking forward to most at LitRPG Con! Andrea Parsneau narrates Wandering Inn, a fave of mine, and I've read & enjoyed KT Hanna and Shami Stovall's books. Gonna try to read books by the other authors involved too, but time is short! #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Our primary-grade child, after building a 7-gold house in Stone Age: "Woo! All my gambling monies!"

Less than an hour until I talk with Reck Well about Engineer's Odyssey and LitRPG Con! The stream is being hosted on ChattinStats' Youtube Channel.

The panel schedule for LitRPG Con has been posted! I'll be part of the "Crit Fails and Combat Boots: Women in LitRPG" and "Respawn? Not This Time" on Saturday, and I'll be moderating the Cozy LitRPG panel on Sunday! More details in the comments.

I feel like I've thought about re-reading Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower every day this year but I just don't think I can handle it emotionally. Still, I totally recommend it (and Parable of the Talents) for anyone looking for some good topical political sci-fi #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

Played a family game of Boggle recently and oldest went through their list and then was like "Oh, and I have one more, but I'm not sure if it's a word. I think it might be like... ancient internet slang?" PWNED The "ancient internet slang" was PWNED.

During this month of June, I would like to thank LGBT+ people for making rainbow apparel for adults more accessible to the rest of us. As a grown woman whose tastes in fashion haven't changed all that much since kindergarten, this is a definite boon.

Yeahhh! We did it! Stardew Valley Perfection! (Much, much easier with a group, to be fair. Oldest fished like an absolute fiend and somehow was competitive with the entire farm in funding.)

Been playing co-op Stardew Valley with the fam. May I introduce you all to Robin's husband, "Dermatitis."

It's one thing to know how many pages a book you've written is, and another entirely to hold it and feel the weight. #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff #litrpg

Pre-orders are live for Engineer's Odyssey, a standalone side story in the Apocalypse Parenting Universe! As an experiment, I'm testing not putting this one on Kindle Unlimited. This means I can list it with tons of other services! Links to some of these in the response :) #booksky 🪐📚💙📚👀 #sff

If you really want to know... #Juneteenth