Kerry C. Byrne

Nothing makes me more cryptid than spring daylight savings

Jacob Elordi tilts back Margot Robbie’s head on the wuthering heights poster

Ok I liked it more than I thought I would but also wow I’ve never seen a film so self-aware of being a film or an aesthetic so self-aware of being aesthetic or shock value so self-aware of being shock value

I was eyeing it for so long !! It is everything I hoped so far 😌

Started Bunny and I really do think unhinged upmarket horror/thriller is for specifically me

At least a cap

Dead rat: THE icon of the hour

The cover of the iron garden sutra by AD Sui

Sonia Urlando (moderator) and AD Sui sitting at a table with a blue check tablecloth

Had the loveliest time this weekend celebrating the launch of @thesuiway.bsky.social’s Iron Garden Sutra, and hearing about:

✨ Dead rat (not relevant to book)
✨ Corpse farms (kinda relevant)
✨ Wall staring competency (very relevant)

Can’t wait to start reading 👀👀👀

Congrats !!

Thank you !!

Thanks Cindy !! ✨✨

Thanks Suzan !! 💜

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News from the inbox 👀👀

✨🙀 got notified today that my climate SFF novel (not novella) is receiving two OAC recommender grants !!

BIG thanks to @ontarioarts.bsky.social for running the program, and @ecwpress.bsky.social & @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social for recommending my work for funding 💜

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I often see posts saying name an author who you've read 5 books by.

I'm interested in short stories. So how about, name an author you've read 3 short stories by?

Also, the stories have to be published in the last 10 years.

Also, don't say me. 😂

I have killed so many em-dashes today

Successfully edited The Surprise Novelette back to a (…long) short story length of 6350

Snipped 3.3k off in the last week!

Now it will only be hard to place instead of nigh impossible 😌

A long haired tabby lit in white light looks out the window, surrounded by plush pillows and blankets

The goddess Athena rises

"The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta (WGA) are shocked and disappointed to have had a joint Freedom to Read Week event discussing censorship and book-banning cancelled by the contracted venue."

writersunion.ca/news/reading...

I JUST LOOKED AND IT’S LESS THAN $1k TO GO, GOGOGOOOOO

My assumption is it’s language that’s meant to imply the speaker understands complexity

Which is helpful for when AI need to speak around a subject while fronting that it understands it 😭

But may the man reading a pulp sci-fi book between reps receive every gain he wishes for

Of another star system !!!

May every man who doesn’t wipe down his gym machine after using it be smote

Ty ty

Yes this

I lied, we’re down to 6750

There may be a 5,000 word version in here yet

me and my nemesis:

using boat terms so they mean what they mean and not what parts of a boat I think they SHOULD be based on vibe

hit 7200 8)

going to stop here and shop it where I can, and then we'll do the DEEP cuts (cutting whole scenes, combining them, etc.) if the long version runs out of options

WE ARE DOWN TO 7450 !!!

No idea how I'd get it down to 5k (where I want it to land, ultimately), but this is a win I'll take.

Pray for me, I've gotten it from 9200 to 7700 and I think there's still fat to trim 🙏🙏🙏

WE MIGHT MAKE THIS THING A (LONG) SHORT STORY