Erica Peck | Editor, Writer, Reader

I’ve read books in present tense that used past perfect for flashbacks when it should have been simple past, and it’s incredibly jarring—you went too far, come back! Almost as bad as using simple past for flashbacks in a past tense narrative so the timeline all blurs together.

My donations and primary votes are reserved for candidates who campaign on accountability for predators and protecting vulnerable populations instead of throwing them under the bus.

Update: late April and beyond

We live in a world where LGBTQ+ people feel unsafe. People like me. Perhaps, people like you.

I write the Moonlight Hearts books as an antidote to that: a queernormative setting where discrimination is rare and villainous. A world with happy endings for queer folks and their found families.

So please, if you can, I’d love to have this thread list pro-Trans everything. Creators, craftspeople, writers, artists, activists…if you or someone you know deserves some celebrating, bring it the fuck on, okay?

Post links if you can.

Buy stuff if you can.

They hate when people stand up.

ECCC was fun and I had a wonderful time.

But there was a storm cloud. When I complained about Trump with my white straight cis friends, we were all sincere and concerned.

But I talked with many Trans friends, and it’s so much worse. They are in fear for their lives.

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Interestingly, these have been at Trader Joe’s the last few times I’ve gone (in CA) instead of the other kind, which is more typical here.

Also, at first I read “reptiles” instead of “replies” and had to stare into space imagining vintage stop-motion films of dinosaurs fighting over hot dog buns.

Any email you receive purporting to be from a well-known author who wants to promote your #book (or chat about book stuff or whatever) is absolutely not for real. This is a well-documented #scam that uses various authors’ names with Gmail addresses. Don’t fall for it! Stay safe out there. 😘 📚

Those scammers are appallingly gauche. We should alert the Patronesses so their vouchers may be revoked posthaste.

Women's History Month Member Spotlight - Connolly Bottum Connolly offers book coaching, editorial assessments, developmental edits, and query package reviews. She specializes in Adult Romance, YA, and MG novels and frequently edits Adult Fantasy and New Adult titles. "Most of the books I edit are centered around women and girls who are finding their soulmates and/or themselves. I love that I'm able to work on novels that incorporate something that's so fundamental to how I move about the world." - www.connollybottom.com @connollybottom

The #EFA is excited to spotlight EFA member Connolly Bottum as part of our celebration of Women's History Month! Connolly offers book coaching, editorial assessments, developmental edits, and query package reviews. Learn more about and connect with Connolly: https://bit.ly/3MWvgBI #WHM

Ew. No thank you.

What authors and publishers pay editors for in a developmental edit is literally their time and expert analysis. If a developmental editor is charging you money to offload that work onto an LLM, you are quite actually being scammed.

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What in tarnation

Thanks for taking one for the team. This all sounds dreadful. 🙃

Aw man, now I’m going to have to actually finish and publish one of my WIPs so you can read it 😂
Fair warning, it’ll be a different animal from Nylah

Glad you’re enjoying the collection! And thanks for the follow! 😀

That’s valid. Reading preferences are entirely subjective. 🙂

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10/10 take. no notes

Fair! I don’t share that sensitivity, but it took me awhile to get immersed in the few 3rd present romances I’ve read; my brain took a couple chapters to recalibrate. And then it just felt like watching a movie and I could get into it.

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

I can’t read this because I’m not a subscriber, but this topic is fascinating to me. What if any are your thoughts on third person present? I thought it was super rare, but three of my editing projects in the last year have used it.

AI summaries are theft. Click links. Support actual people who put in the actual work

I’m so bummed. My choir’s Ralph Vaughan Williams concert is this weekend. We’ve been practicing for 9 weeks. The music is transcendently beautiful and the Dona Nobis Pacem is eerily timely. And this morning I WOKE UP WITH NO VOICE. 😩😭😷

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Blazing Saddles

Three times this week. It’s exhausting.

Pet peeve of the week: people who respond to my heartfelt hatred of AI by trying to convince me that the way THEY use it is okay. Like what do you want? Permission? I’m not your mom. (Because MY kids would never.)

I have no idea why this posted twice btw

Q: What’s the hardest part of building a model of a snake?

A: building it to scale 🐍 😀

Q: What’s the hardest part of building a model of a snake?

A: building it to scale 🐍 😀