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If nothing else, I'm having so much fun writing this book. Like, let the record show that even though everything feels DIRE AF and this industry is BLERGHH, the actual part I can control—THE WRITING PART—is joyful AF. So at least there's that.

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Them: "I just hit 1,000 subscribers!" My brain, every time: "Well then you should APOLOGIZE to them"

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I like to imagine this person genuinely thought typing “Free” would get a free copy to appear in front of them as though by magic 🤣

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What a great setting! Those catacombs are spooky AF!

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MY BOOK IS OUT IN PAPERBACK TODAY AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I hope you love this survival thriller about four teens who go missing in the Paris catacombs and the race to find them—with a lovely splash of purple!

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The scariest part of the publishing process is literally all of it actually

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No but why is writing the pitch for a book like 10x harder than writing THE WHOLE ACTUAL BOOK????

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THANK YOU SO MUCH everyone who’s been subscribing to my Substack! This is WILD!!!

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I JUST SENT THE NEWEST BOOK I WROTE TO MY AGENT AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I WROTE ANOTHER BOOK AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH OH NO WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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One of my favorite things about writing books is when something creepy I write gives me literal goosebumps.

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"It's finished, but what if I do just one more read-through?" the author said forever.

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WE DID IT!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I REALLY DIDN’T THINK IT WOULD HAPPEN LMAOOOOOO THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!

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AHHHHHHHHH CAN WE GET THERE? CAN WE HIT NUMBER ONE?? THIS BOOK HAS NEVER ORANGE FLAGGED BEFORE AND I WOULD BE SO HAPPYYYYYY

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Me, an American, finding out the new pope is an American

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MY BOOK IS ON BOOKBUB TODAY AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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I played Oblivion tonight but didn’t battle anyone, I just ran around collecting herbs and making potions and selling the potions for two hours straight and it was kind of like meditating???

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@dianaurban.bsky.social once upon a time, in a bookshop far, far away (Marton, New Zealand) this appeared

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I'm revising my novel, and today in My Own Typo Made Me Snort-Laugh: "If I want to snoop, this might be my best snot."

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Started draft 3 today. 4 chapters revised, 8% in. Let's goooooooo.

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I TELL YOU AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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Getting ratioed on both Threads and Bluesky for your “unpopular opinion” and not deleting on either platform is BOLD. I don’t think my social anxiety could manage it honestly lmao

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I don’t let myself write “THE END” until after I write the epilogue. And I don’t let myself write the epilogue until draft 2. And here I am. Draft 2 complete. A new book written. SOBBING. I KID YOU NOT I WROTE “THE END” AND SPRAWLED ON THE RUG AND SOBBED.

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This new book I'm writing just hit the 80k-word mark, and I'm 95% through revising the second draft (plus, have to write the epilogue), and I never write "The End" until I finish the second draft and I'm finally, finally almost there and all I can think is OH MY GOD IS THIS BOOK TOO UNHINGED????

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Authors this morning

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Under the Surface comes out in paperback NEXT MONTH, so now’s the perfect time to grab a copy for less! It will have lovely purple edges & the same SCARY TERRIFYING AHHHHHHHHHH words as the hardcover—a survival thriller about 4 friends who go missing in the Paris catacombs & the race to find them.

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Me: "Why would Bethesda drop an Oblivion remake out of NOWHERE without doing any marketing for it first???" Also me: INSTANTLY THROWS MONEY AT CONSOLE TO INSTALL IT IMMEDIATELY Oh.

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YESSSSSSSS BETHESDA. So excited to play Oblivion for the first time! I've played Skyrim, Fallout NV and 4, and Starfield, and it's about dang time. (Seems like I got lucky with this remake dropping right when I'm between games—did this come out of NOWHERE?)

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Someone DMed me today to tell me how much they loved one of my books and it put me in such a good mood that I wrote extra on a day I wasn’t planning to write at all. READERS, YOU HAVE SO MUCH POWER.

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Me: “I want to join more author Discords!” My deadline: SHRIEKS

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Paperbacks of my book Under the Surface with the pretty purple edges have arrived at the warehouse WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. So excited to see these IRL AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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The fact that J.K Rowling wrote herself into her books as Tom Riddle and managed to hide it for so long is astonishing. Hell, she probably considers Voldemort a martyr. But it's clear as day now, and there's no excuse not to see it—she's a cartoon villain who relishes being a cartoon villain.

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75% through draft two of this new book I'm writing. THIS BOOK IS FEELING AWFULLY BOOKISH

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It feels like we're reaching a tipping point but honestly it's felt like that dozens of times over the past 10 years so EXASPERATED SHRUG

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Posting this here too… if any teachers, librarians, or booksellers want some free sparkly bookmarks with a REALLY WEIRD printing error lmaooooo, lmk via DM. I have 500 and 100 have been claimed. Bulk requests only please (50 or 100)!

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THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!! BLACK MIRROR SEASON 7 HAS DROPPED!!! (How did I not know this ahead of time?) Oh my god can my brain handle being even more shattered right now tho????????

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TBH I kind of like that Bluesky is my safe space where this does not happen lmaooooo

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