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Writer. Romantic Speculative Fiction >> Cozy | Gothic | Queer https://brookelanierbooks.com/
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Dad is reading my manuscript for the first time. Every character he comes to, he asks, "Who's _____?" like just keep reading you'll find out soon

I had grocery store sushi for my Monday morning breakfast and I can't tell if that was the best decision or worst decision

Sick on the first day of pride month? That's pretty rude of my body tbh

Happy Pride!!!

My mom just got offered a summer pottery apprenticeship at age 56, so it's never too late to follow your dreams!

Cuteness overload to combat the Wednesday scaries

I love chocolate covered espresso beans, but they are so dangerous for me because I will eat 10 in 5 minutes and then go to the fourth realm.

Time for another rewatch of both Mamma Mia movies

It would seem my gen AI rage post made it into a Futurism article. Didn’t see that one coming. 🙈 I’m truly glad the community is so unified against this. Really, really proud of everyone holding the line against gen AI slop. futurism.com/fantasy-nove... 📚💙

Hoolahooping moose next 20 miles

I used to use this strategy, the PROP method, to teach critical thinking skills in American history twenty years ago. It's as helpful and relevant as ever. How do you know something is true? How do you evaluate what you are hearing or reading? The kids always loved "reason to lie." Be skeptical!

Just turned in my thesis novel for final review! Weighing in at 82,945 words.

Two teas, two coffeeshops, same manuscript while I wait for my car maintenance to finish

My brother visited my mom's first grade classroom today and gave them the advice to "build up their shoulders so they have the strength to carry their own burdens" ☠️☠️☠️

I finally cried over a character death today and so um what the actual fuck

My manuscript has now passed 80k words! My little archivist apprentice's story is nearly complete.

I sent my dad some Jeff Buckley and Radiohead songs. He listened to Buckley first and called, "This is some sad shit. I'm gonna try Radiohead now and hopefully cheer up." 🫣🫣🫣

I use the word "just" 139 times in my manuscript, which is 0.17% of my total words (79k). A lot better than I was anticipating, tbh

Object Word Frequency in Current WIP 🫠🫠: DOOR: 181 FLOOR: 81 TABLE: 60 CHAIR: 57 DESK: 54 STAIRS: 52 WALL: 40 HOUSE: 39

I can already picture animation edits of my characters to this song, especially with one of Zane's pupils blown from chapter 38. If only I was talented enough to draw them myself.

"Hello yes, here is my cozy fantasy with a fair amount of body horror, enjoy" can I say that?? Is that a thing?? I swear it's heartwarming 😭😅😭

Perfect view for writing an epilogue

okay, if you think gAI is a positive, that its "here to stay", and you're so proud of using gAI to write create art, claim it. Disclose when you use it to read, write, think, create. Have the integrity to publicly declare that you used gAI--its all the silence and secrecy that is so interesting.

SECONDED, also, the thing that annoys me MOST about the stupid Plagiarism GenAI BarfBot Apologists is their claim that it is ABSOLUTELY INEVITABLE, like What is WRONG with you? Oh it's INEVITABLE? Really? Push a button, get a handful of warm NutraLoaf? That HAS to happen? You HAVE to have it?!

I am so excited to be hiding a cipher in my chapter epigraphs. I wonder if any readers will solve it!!

Loss never really leaves you

Horrible crap buried in the 389 page behemoth Congress is trying to shove down our throats: blocking any state from regulating AI for the next decade. If you don’t want to bow down to tech bros in this way, get involved at fairshareusa.org www.techpolicy.press/us-house-com...

The way I will literally listen to certain narrators narrate ANYTHING because they’re amazing but have stopped audiobooks two lines in and bought the paperback because I don’t vibe with the voice at all - like wtf a narrator is an artist FUCK GEN AI AND FUCK YOU IF YOU USE THIS

I feel like I exist somewhere in the space between "Vienna" by Billy Joel and "The Bolter" by Taylor Swift.

I don't know how my editing playlist became a massive slew of brooding rock songs, but I'm not complaining.

Call me David Attenborough

The antique mall was especially sapphic this weekend 🤌🤌

‘it’s okay to use ai for covers and editors and promo so long as i wrote my book’ is a heck of a way to defend your stance. no, sorry, we stand with artists AND authors AND editors in this community. no one gets left behind. we do not pick and choose. have integrity.

That's understand

Edits have me in a chokehold today

Edits are necessary because somehow I used the word "pivot" three times in the span of five paragraphs.

Please enjoy this photo of Ziggy

Friday nights are for the classics

I have one grey hair front and center of my hairline, and I have decided to make it my entire personality.

My cats enjoying the sunshine together brings me so much joy!!

Nine hours until I hear feedback on my novel's ending. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

Saw a moose today!

Jitterbug turns seven today!

Thinking of being a medieval rat catcher at the Colorado ren faire this summer

"Don't reinvent the wheel" okay but what if the wheel has been there so long that people forget its purpose in the first place until the wheel starts breaking and then they have to figure out how to make it work again what then

I don't cook fish very often, so I'm really happy with how this lemony salmon turned out tonight