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(@noiseandwords on twitter!) UK. Queer author of weird, whimsical and unsettling MG. Hot beverage enthusiast. WriteMentor Mentee 2021. They/She. Proudly represented by Caroline Wakeman Literary Agency.
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I've got a terrible affliction called "watched Kpop Demon Hunters twice already and wants to watch it a third time".

I don't think I'm the one to write it but I'm waiting for the romance book that centres around Austen's most eligible man aka MR 👏 ROBERT 👏 MARTIN 👏

Please please please can my drive to write come back

My MG horror #onsubmission: THE NESTING ROOM. Wild dark magic hides on the streets of London. 12-year-old Tilly’s life is a nightmare. A servant of the shapeshifting Magpie Queen & her flock, forced to lure humans so the magpies can rob them of their shiny Trinkets – then eat them alive #kidlitUK

My MG horror #onsubmission: THE NESTING ROOM. Wild dark magic hides on the streets of London. 12-year-old Tilly’s life is a nightmare. A servant of the shapeshifting Magpie Queen & her flock, forced to lure humans so the magpies can rob them of their shiny Trinkets – then eat them alive #kidlitUK

LGBT (leopard, garfield, bobcat, tiger) #illustration #pridemonth #cats #garfield

happy pride month btw

Opened and peeked at editor's notes on my latest draft today after not even being able to touch the damn thing for months. Not much, but it's something. Gonna get my hair cut soon, should be getting my start date for my new job any day now. Getting back on my feet, etc.

Sinners making Midnight Mass look like a WET BLANKET. Like a PISS IN THE PARK!!! Now THAT'S vampires.

This is good news. And no, poor families do NOT have to have Netflix to access Sesame Street. Netflix will release episodes to PBS the *same day* they drop on Netflix, which is significantly better than the prior deal with HBO, which delayed episodes for 9 MONTHS before porting them over to PBS.

I've got time to kill and I don't get paid by day job until next week who wants a sketchy portrait? #commissionsopen

Muppet Treasure Island. After a whole childhood of watching it in recorded quality on old TVs, imagine my delight when I saw it in HD for the first time and realised they'd given Kermit a pinup chest tattoo of Miss Piggy in the final fight scene.

Anyone wanna talk to me about the ugly elephant that is writer's jealousy and how to process/get past/live with those feelings? Because it's become a real issue for me lately and I'd love to go into waterstones without seething in envy and feeling like I'm failing. Oooh it's bad.

Just gonna state my hardline stance against AI, for a thousand and one reasons, least of all because AI generated images fully activate the uncanny valley in my brain and I find them so bloody unsettling and creepy. So putting them on my feed is an unfollowable offence 🥲

Been feeling a bit creatively bleak lately (but, unemployment does that to a guy). Might post a bit about my books on sub to remind myself why I love them, get some fun moodboards going.

Just popping out to get some goo, anybody want anything?

Dyson hand dryers: a fast, effective and low energy way to shoot a thin layer of water right up your arms all the way to the elbow.

The Big 5 who said my Redwall-esque Mice With Swords book was "too menacing" versus The Year 5 Kid who reviewed my first chapter and said it needed to be "more groosem" #KidLitUK

yeah this was my life in 2022-23 and it was really effective in shutting people down and gaining support. If you are even a little funny you can already run rings around any ai chud

my ADHD habit of putting something down without thinking and then having no idea where it went would be less dicey if that thing wasn't my VERY POINTY SEWING NEEDLE OR SOMETIMES, A CRAFT KNIFE.

but for realsies! money is tight at the moment and i could really use some commissions to keep us going!

I want to write!!! I want to share my stories and see other people just as excited about them as I am!! That's all there is.

Someone put me in touch with Masahiko Ôtsuka and AIC about pitching and writing a Puchi Puri Yuushii anime reboot. I can make it happen. My brain is big enough.

Anybody got some spare "catching a goddamn break and things going my way" lying around?? I could use a bit of that.

Cex is the modern-day Blockbuster and we're so lucky it still exists and I hope it never dies. Why would you digitally rent a movie when you can walk in and keep it forever for half the price, or sometimes less from the glorious £1 rack?? Physical media is magic and I will cling to it with my claws.

NAP COMIX! #259 A walk. Read all the NAP COMIX episodes for free: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/na...

DnD sucks. Whose big idea was it that the current trendy pasttime for queer neurodivergent creatives was to sit still around a table, paying attention and doing maths?? The pretending to be a gay wizard part kinda feels second fiddle to that.

We don’t hear much about the West Pole, where Cowboy Santa lives. Probably because of all the people he’s shot

All of this, and also I need people who put their foot down about SF and Horror to a) give us a shot and b) make peace with the fact that these books are almost always about the human condition / love