Write Now with Scrivener, Episode No. 67: Jaima Fixsen, Mystery and Thriller Author Jaima Fixsen's latest novel, Don't Look Close, is a historical mystery set in Canada in the 1950s. kirkville.com/write-now-with-s…
I've been a menace to my own characters since I was ten and gotten a reputation for turning the emotional screws since I was fifteen. It used to be a game in my fandom circles to make people read a particular one of my fics on stream and bet on whether or not they'd cry.
Christopher Kennedy’s Stealing Marquee Moon moves through punk, memory and loss Rose Books lists October 6 as the publication date for Christopher Kennedy’s debut novel Stealing Marquee Moon. The independent publisher identifies the edition with ISBN 9798987581896. mythscribe.cloud/blog/stealing… #Mythscribe #Books #Indie
11 King: the vampire advanced, his eyes sparkling with the dead avidity of a stuffed moose Poe: that doesn't make sense steve King: it's called a metaphor Poe: yes but Poe: are you aware of what a metaphor is for, steve? King: it sounds cool? Poe: sometimes but Barker: this does not sound cool steve
The classics can be tough
#WritersCoffeeClub 7 Oct Does your editing process tend towards addition or reduction? Reduction even when I'm trying to reach a word count. Ok, I try to add more description and more depth to characters but my style can verge on terse. Unlike the waffle that I speak when too tired. Or excited. Or ...
I think a lot about how long before books were mass produced, spoken stories were how culture and myths were kept alive, how people shared. And I think, if any of these a I “”””authors””” were asked to verbally tell a fictional story on the spot to a crowd of eager children, could they? No.
Audiobook ads are inescapable, references are awkwardly dropped into new media as if we're in an alternate reality where it's not a touchy subject, even otaku spaces are flooded with gender bend fetish art of one of a pre-teen child who they refer to by a fascist slur. It's all so desperate.
Search for the Lost (Chaos and Order 02) by J. Scott Coatsworth and Kim Fielding #ShadowPost #NewRelease #OtherWorldsInk #LGBTQ+ #Romance #Fantasy #Gay #GuestPost J. Scott Coatsworth and Kim Fielding has a new MM romantasy book out, Chaos and Order book two: Search for the Lost. SOMETIMES ORDER BECOMES CHAOS... Leopold Lane—after being “collected” for the Office of the Lost by Crispin Eladrin Moss’caladin—is tucked away cozily with his beloved office fae in their… eloreenmoon.com/2026/10/07/sea…
I read Midnight X-Men and I thought it was pretty good. I do have to say though I don’t really buy Cyclops being a beard guy. He should be clean shaven. Even in a darker alt universe he doesn’t really strike me as a beard guy
Here's my #flashfictiondrawchallenge story for October: authorjeffbaker.com/2026/10/07…
Reading the "Guardians of the Galaxy" '08 run as a pre-bed study has been a fun time. Rocket looks so skrunkly.
Read “It Is Upon Us Again (The Book Bazaar)“ #BookBazaar26 by SpookyxPickle on #Medium. #indiebooks medium.com/indie-vations/it-is…
The Empire's caste system systematically traps some of the most vulnerable or disadvantaged women while at the same time empowering them in ways that they would not have had access to without the Empire. The Scriptorium's Scholar for cultural studies, C.J., is relentless in his analysis. #BookSky
If you want something good to read this Halloween, check out this anthology. amazon.com/Annual-Creatures-Cr… “It also makes a great gift.” Yes, I have a story in it. #writing #reading #halloween #mdc3con
Every so often I get stoked that Matt Dinniman is a local area writer, but there is just no way in hell I’m going to pick up that series. It was really interesting when I thought it was a single book.
Join us for Dialogue and Dialect, a craft-focused webinar for sharpening your dialogue skills & learning how to best represent dialect on the page through short lectures and hands-on exercises led by author, editor, and WtO co-author Nisi Shawl. 📅 Nov 21 🕘 10a–3:30p Pacific 💰 $175 - Scholarships available! 💖 #WritingCommunity! Give us a 🚀 and share, please! 🙏🏾 champ.ly/s-BLWlm_
No matter what I write, I’m writing a horror comedy.
Looking for a spooky Halloween read? My new book Atlas Gothica explores 50 gothic destinations around the world, including vampiric graveyards, magical museums, mummy-stuffed catacombs, eerie libraries, cursed highways, and a whole city modelled on the Chinese underworld. Grab it here: mybook.to/atlasgothica #folklore #gothic #history #Halloween #weird #wyrdwednesday #books #reading #paranormal #ghosts #vampire #vampires
I write weird transgender lesbian monster romance! “What does it mean to be human?” and “how do we relate to our bodies?” are questions I love to explore. Often, I do so in the form of loving, if sometimes messy, relationships between dorky women who are not normal about each other.
#WritersCoffeeClub 7/10: Does your editing process tend towards addition or reduction? Both. So I end up with around the same amount. I tend to rewrite sections rather than cutting them.
My latest read, and the first time I've read this, although I'm a Greene fan. "When we are unhappy we hurt" As relevant today as when it was written. #booksky
Pushed my (self-imposed) deadline for finishing this novel draft back another two weeks to the end of October. The goal is to get it finished, not fall apart trying. #WritingCommunity #SapphicFiction #AuthorLife
"Genuinely, I never felt like I was reading someone writing [Wedge Antilles'] words/thoughts; rather it was like picking up a memoir that you’d find in a bookstore in the galaxy far, far away." ~ Jordan Maison
got kindle on my phone and realised it actually does make it way easier for me to read despite my hesitance lol.... blasted through there is no antimemetics division in about a week
What if adventuring was a queer metaphor? That's it, that's the guiding principle of everything I've ever written. Heroic and high fantasy, but queer.
Going in blind on Wolf Worm by @tkingfisher.com - didn't even read the description. I've loved every book I've read by her. So what a happy surprise, as a watercolor painter, to find the protagonist is as well, and all the descriptions are rendered in the paint colors I so love 😍
Summer can be found on a bench outside of her legal practice with a book levitating in front of her. She gives a bored yawn as she flips a page. Her eyes scan the page before she looks down at the spot next to her on the bench where a little legal pad and pen can be seen sitting. She uses her magic to pick up the pen. Scribble scribble scribble. She looks back at the book and flips another page.
Something both @stevendbrewer and I really care about. As well, of course, as @elegantlich.com. I have RSVPed.
'It is entirely possible, I believe, to reverse Auden's dictum that "art is born out of humiliation". From Robert Robertson's preface to 'Mortification - Writer's Stories of their Public Shame'.
#MERZpoet presents: A story from Merzmensch's Latent Spaces. / Title: Gymnopédies / Genre: FREE / Text: The clock on the tower is waiting for us, its hands frozen in time, while we hurry past, my feet carrying me farther and farther away from the hour’s mark. But I stop at the entrance, enchanted by the infinite possibilities lying beyond the stone façade. What secrets are hidden within its walls? Which doors lead to worlds both familiar and unfamiliar?
Hazel and the Spooky Season Written by Kyle Sullivan Illustrated by Jess Mason 1st Published September 5, 2023 by Hazy Dell Press 38 pages, Hardcover Ages 5-9 A really great Spooky Season book for younger children Synopsis in the alt-text #ChildrensBooksWithCats #SpookySeason
I recommend End Times Fascism by Klein and Taylor #book #books #bookreview #bookstodon reademall.blogspot.com/2026/10…
honestly kind of surprised how much that first Enemy Ace story is sticking with me … so bleak! dude in 1918 spends all day killing Americans then retires to his country estate to stomp around with a rifle, Tolstoy-style, wrestling with active self-destructive tendencies only barely euphemistic.
PROMO: Search For the Lost J. Scott Coatsworth and Kim Fielding has a new MM romantasy book out, Chaos and Order book two: Search for the Lost. SOMETIMES ORDER BECOMES CHAOS... Leopold Lane—after being “collected” for the Office of the Lost by Crispin Eladrin Moss’caladin—is tucked away cozily with his beloved office fae in their treehouse. Happily ever after, right? Not so fast. Before Leo can even get settled, Crispin’s mother disappears, leaving Crispin in charge… kittenwylde.wordpress.com/2026…
do authors ever argue about whether dictation or speech-to-text are "writing"? like "i've seen your handwriting, and i've seen you try to type! you're literally not a writer! all you do is talk at your phone!"
Notes from last night's writing group... What are the real scourges? The paths, the rivers, broken items. Our prognosis as a people seemed better when we had some humility. Humor allows reader to not instantly take a side.
My 8-year-old started reading the first Animorphs book. Last night he told me "it's alright, but I don't have anything else I want to read". Tonight I can't get him to put it down.
Check out my take on one of L’s earlier cases in my Death Note fanfic, The Price of Freedom at archiveofourown.org/works/7812…
Train to Cambridge reading gonna be. The missing link between Whitman & Ginsberg. No Let Us Have Madness Openly in 1936, no Howl in 1956.
My interview on the H2LiftShip saga is on "The Authors Show" today. It will be archived if you can't get to it today. Please check out the site, there are other great author interviews on the site too. #ReadABook #TheAuthorsShow
More Book Fest fun, this time plodging through the River Gaunless with poet Jake Morris-Campbell to discuss his new piece of writing for Durham Book Festival #books #literature #newwriting #durham #rivergaunless #bishopauckland
Oh yeah, that book I bought about making soft toys. Might have found a project for the hoodie I want to use up.
If you're interested in running a student-centered book arts/printing makerspace ("emphasis on institutions w/more modest resources"), I took+recommend @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social & Kari Kraus' "Building a BookLab" online class, happening again this January. Apply by 11/1 for best chance of seat
made a fic about the guys in my p.e class because i hate them (except ethan he's pretty chill)
book mail arrived today!
I want to make a whole 300 page audiobook but it's just screaming and burping
Strange Pictures by @uketsu.bsky.social (translated by @jimrion.com) is the real deal. Japanese horror and true crime mashed up in a series of puzzles where every solution draws the reader further into a chilling labyrinth of all-too-human evil. 10/10, can't wait to read the next one.
3 of 5 stars for Fringe War (Fringe #4), by Rachel Aukes lordofthemoon.com/bookreviews/… #LordOfTheMoonBookReview #BookReview #Bookstodon
scholastic have always been in the business of pumping the numbers for this franchise. this sort of nonsense is just exactly their MO.
