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Who remembers when friends made friends mix tapes?! Bonus points if your friend is an artist 😁 Now I gotta find a tape player... 🤣 #FunFriday

I think it's safe to say Hollan's got a crush... 😏 #GoblinBridgeNovel #WIPWednesday #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

New #TuesdayShort, in which Rose makes a deal and gets more than she bargained for. CW for skulls if those bother you, but this one's pretty tame. 🔗 in bio to read #AmWriting #ShortStory #WritingCommunity

Why Miss Reade, how forward! 🫢 🫠 A lil' something steamy for Valentine's Day 😉 🫦 #CalderwoodNovel #FinishedFriday #WritingCommunity

So glad I got rid of my Disney+ subscription. Just got an email from them about upcoming changes to their policies, which included this gem about their making people who pay for no ads still watch ads 🤣

THE SELECTION X HANDMAID’S TALE All Dahlia wants is a choice. Too bad she lost the option when she joined a cult that sells its women to the highest bidder. ✉️ Blackmail 👰‍♀️ Bride auction 🎭 Courting Season ⛪️ Theocracy 🚫 Inequality 🔥 Burn it all down Welcome to Rhoada. #W #Dys #F #questpit #A

FOR THE WOLF x THE GIRL WHO FELL BENEATH THE SEA Viv looks for a loophole to avoid an arranged marriage & meets a goblin prince instead. Their fake engagement of mutual convenience turns into a fight for true love when a jealous goblin tries everything to keep them apart. #W #A #RF #QuestPit

3 months. 2 opposing friend groups. 1 missing soul. Every day for 13 weeks, Emmeline faces the question that plagues teens everywhere: homework first, or enter Death on a time-sensitive supernatural goose chase with her life hanging in the balance? #Q #YA #PR #QuestPit #EmmelineHarperPsychopomp

Goblin-obsessed Vivianna doesn’t want to get married…until a goblin prince asks her for a mutually-beneficial fake engagement. Now Viv must dodge the jealous wrath of a goblin sorceress & fight for her chance when she realizes she wants Hollan for real. #W #A #RF #QuestPit

The Greatest Showman x The Invisible life of Addie La Rue A gymnast is forced to perform in a magical circus alongside a man she doesn’t recognize, but he knows her… and he’s watched her die dozens of times. 💕”Who did this to you?” 💫Grounded fantasy 🖤Dark whimsy 🎪Atmospheric #Questpit #F #Q #A

BRAVELY x BUFFY x SABRIEL Emmeline steals a ring from her Gran's casket & gets more than she bargained for. New school? No prob. Amazing new friends? Heck yeah. Balance life & death, deal w/ a toxic boyfriend, avoid a hungry shadow & find Gran's soul before time runs out? Iffy. #Q #YA #PR #QuestPit

😳😬💀 Nothing like meeting the parents for the first time... 🤣 #GoblinBridgeNovel #AmWriting #WIPWednesday #WritingCommunity

New #TuesdayShort, in which Balo attends a mysterious party and finds out the entrance fee too late. CW for PA/SA, dubious consent, implied drugging. Nothing explicit on-page, but protect your peace. 🔗 in bio to read. #AmWriting #ShortStory #WritingCommunity

Reading together while kiddo works on recovering from noro 🤮😣 She reads out loud and says of Junie B. Jones: "she says a lot of wrong words, but I'm gonna just say the right ones." 🤣 #ReadingTogether #ReadingIsFundamental #LiteracyMatters

I can't art very well...but I can't stop thinking about #CalderwoodNovel cover concepts, either. 🤣 #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #FinishedFriday

New blog post, in which we explore my top 3 ways to become a better writer. Excerpted from my January email newsletter. 🔗 in bio to read (click Shorts) or visit https://buff.ly/4atFTDk. 🔗 in post to sign up and get exclusive, subscriber-only content! #AmWriting #WritingNewsletter #WritingTips

I'm not the hugest fan of the "mine" trope...but it works here. 🤣 What about you--swoon or nope? #WIPWednesday #GoblinBridgeNovel #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

New #TuesdayShort in which insecure, memory-challenged Everett has to face himself. Again. CW for memory loss, piled-up corpses, violence, murder by blunt trauma, theft. (This one's less fantasy, more psychological thriller.) #AmWriting #WritingCommunity 🔗 in bio to read

I'm a writer who'll never give you a long, detailed visual description. Why? Because I have no pictures in my mind. youtu.be/uNZ7YSH1rUY?... #aphantasia #WritingCommunity

STOP YOU ALMOST MADE ME DROP MY CROISSANT 🥐 🥵 🫦 Lucien needs to behave. (Lucien never behaves.) #FinishedFriday #CalderwoodNovel #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity

Can I just take a second to say that #artists and #illustrators are fkn AMAZING??!??!?! I look through the artists here on bsky and just...there are PEOPLE who can make PICTURES that are just....🤯I can't even make pictures in my head 😭 #aphantasia ARTISTS ARE SO GREAT that's all

No tentative sparkles of love to see here, ✨MOVE ALONG✨ 🤣 #AmWriting #GoblinBridgeNovel #WritingCommunity

New #TuesdayShort! In which a prince sees a pretty girl, makes a stupid promise, tries to do magic he doesn't understand...and pays the price. 🧜‍♀️ 💀 Visit https://buff.ly/3X97aGA or click the 🔗 in bio to read. #AmWriting #ShortStory #WritingCommunity

After 10+ yrs with a brass label plate on my #TravelersNotebook, I removed it b/c I got tired of having an uneven writing surface on the left side. Once, I would have been so upset about the "scar" it left behind. Now it's just part of the history, beautiful b/c of its evolution, not "perfection."

Updated the #CalderwoodNovel trailer, since I was still drafting when I made it! Love this spooky, swoony, mildly-spicy book so much ♥️ #AmQuerying #WritingCommunity #FinishedFriday

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Fun fact: this is based on how I felt entering Shinto shrines in Tokyo. No matter how close to road or foot traffic, the ⛩️ makes the whole world fall away leaving nothing but a watchful, peaceful stillness. Truly magical. #WIPWednesday #GoblinBridgeNovel #AmWriting #WritingCommunity

New #TuesdayShort today, in which robot and creator enter the Shadow World seeking a better future. You can imagine how it goes. 💀 CW for death, dismemberment, horror, blindness. 🔗 in bio to read or visit https://buff.ly/4gZSEHJ #AmWriting #ShortStory #WritingCommunity