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I love the idea of a bunch of people standing around all, "Goddamn dinosaurs."

I love this. So atmospheric (literally and figuratively).

This is giving me creepy human sacrifice energy and I'm here for it.

I like this. Feels like an opening to a good reaper story.

Horror: Marian didn't like the drownings.

Fantasy: Marian knew it was a bad idea to make deals with certified necromancers, which is why she sought out an amateur.

Contemporary/mystery: He was the type of person who put his suitcase in the wheelchair space. This alone was grounds for his murder.

As an author, I don't make a whole lot of money, but at the same time I need to read a lot of books to stay aware of trends and support my fellow authors. Obviously if I spend all my profits on other people's books, I'm not coming out ahead!

So: ways to read lots of indie books for cheap.

On my first holiday in a year, and all I can do is look at videos of my cat and yearn.

In my defense ... Look at her.

Frey Lylark | My Mother Does Not Have a Trans Child

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“Do you remember when I took you to ballet? Do you remember President Sister Bishop’s Wife who first taught you that your body was a stick of gum?”

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Love when I read an early draft from a friend and it's gorgeous and haunting and so very her. Rough drafts have this spark and potential that's so much fun and so different from the depth and polish of published writing.

Cover of the novel "What moves the dead" by T Kingfisher, featuring mushrooms growing through an outstretched hand.

The cover of "Mexican Gothic" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia. It features a beautiful woman with brown skin and dark hair in a bob. She wears a red dress and lipstick and is holding a bouquet of yellow flowers. She stares into the camera without smiling and her eyes are cut off by the top of the page.

If I had a nickel for every excellent horror I've read about fungus in unsettling isolated manors owned by European nobility who've lost their wealth, I'd have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's cool that it happened twice.

Is there a third one I'm missing? I need a fungal horror trilogy.

Just got nominated for my first writing prize! I'm thrilled and incredibly grateful.

This is my second ever published piece and to have so many opportunities as an early career is the stuff of dreams. I feel so lucky today.

I kind of hate the way people post about attacks on diversity as "a distraction".

Yes, technically when the joker rigs a boat full of innocent civilians to explode, it's a distraction, but why do I get the sense some political commenters just want Batman to let the boat explode already?

Writing instructions for my cat sitter and my wife and I have officially become those lesbians.

"She prefers a tasting menu, so just a bit of the cod, salmon, chicken, liver, and tuna and her medicine on top. Pet her back and sing Chappel, but not Good Luck Babe unless you can hit the high notes."

Two digitally illustrated female fae. The figure on the left wears a dress inspired by pink oyster mushroom, while the figure on the right wears a layer dripping black dress inspired by inky cap mushrooms.

Besties

New micros by:

Mileva Anastasiadou @happilander.bsky.social

Zach Murphy

Kleopatra Olympiou @kleopatraolympiou.bsky.social

Majella Pinto

Frey Lylark @freybytheway.bsky.social

Enjoy, humans! 💚🐈‍⬛💚

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One week from today, humans! 💚🐈‍⬛💚

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A small tabby and white cat curled into a ball with her paw over her eye.

A tabby and white cat sleeping with her tongue out.

Introducing: The Ol' Razzle Dazzle (Razz for short) in her patented bun form (now with real bleps!)

Small cat curled up with paws over her face

She gets it

My wife and I just got approved to adopt a cat and I can't know how to wait now.

We're potentially meeting our matched kitty the week after next, and if all goes well we will have her home in two weeks.

Cover of The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C.M. Waggoner, featuring various mystical / Victorian era symbols against a starry background.

Reading The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry and how healing it is to see a character change from more feminine attire into men's clothes and become more attractive to her love interest after years of seeing only the opposite.

Also, it's deeply funny. Long live funny bisexuals.

Rereading the Blood Trials by NE Davenport was such a good move. I remember not caring for the ending the first time, but I loved it this time around. Maybe it's just the right book right time.

Somebody help, I did the "Don't look at the first draft, just write a second" and now I am reading both drafts and I love them both, but they're two completely different stories and I don't know which one to lock in.

I did not expect to have this problem.

With all due respect: comfort books? No. Clever books? No. Sexy books? No. I read books for one reason and one reason only and it's sad butches. Make the butches sad and then you can have all that other stuff, idk.

It's so interesting watching readers who talk about tropes when they clearly read very different sets of books.

Like, I understand intellectually not liking the unexpected pregnancy trope but the last time I saw that was in Twilight.

I'm posting late today. I had a ton of errands to run this morning. I left the ranch in good paws 🐾 though while I was gone! 🐈‍⬛️ #CatsOfBlueSky

Hey, I know books are expensive and money is tight right now.

But if there's a brand new book you really wanna read — including my own Lessons in Magic and Disaster — you can help get the book into way more hands by requesting it from your local library!

It's easy! Check your library's website.

Black and gold cover featuring triple goddess figure of Hekate, goddess of necromancy and the crossroads. Golden owls on either side and white hound around her legs.

I wrote my upcoming verse novel Hekate inspired by ancient Greek poet and playwright Euripides’ structure. I loved writing this book and was bereft when I finished it. It’s one of those stories that lingers - an intimating goddess of necromancy telling us her origins.

Writing horror is so weird because sometimes "there are six apples in the basket and I thought there were five" is in fact scarier than murder.

Not sure which lesbian or ace woman needs to hear this, but if dating real life men doesn't bring you joy, you can say, "I'm not attracted to men".

You don't have to be disgusted by men. You don't have to prove eternal lack of attraction to some hypothetical perfect man. Not feeling it is enough.