Tam Chronin | Author

we'd all be so much better off if we hadn't decided as a civilization that saying "I don't know" is supposedly a sign of weakness, not of honesty

I went to a friend's book debut party, and it was so fun! Coffee, conchas, and signs to hold up for pictures. Really makes me wish I'd written romance instead of fantasy. She really knows where the marketing is!

Tumblr is a good spot for authors with a very supportive community. I'm on the outside of it, but I can recognize its strengths. Even better if you don't care about monetization and are just looking for feedback. It's a small but mighty community.

I've been using my Patreon for that, but the fact that nobody knows who I am limits my exposure there. I've heard other sites from other authors, but I can't think of them off the top of my head.

Well that's a rollercoaster if I've ever seen one! 🤣

That's terrible! In that case though, it seems more like a server issue than anything else, which I've run into a lot. I can't offer anything current except sympathy, I'm doing more java and playing WoW lately. But I swear the sympathy is fresh.

I've had SO many issues trying to get my custom skin to not just disappear, even when playing solo. It's so frustrating. I think they just want us to use their premade elements because they're "safe".

I am sick of horror that relies on cheap jump scares. I'm 51, ffs, I want to be disturbed, not just shocked.

This movie will stick with me.

This is horror I can love.

#ironlung #markiplier

It did not feel like "only 3 million dollars". It did NOT feel like two hours.

The discomfort delivered. The body horror delivered. The cosmic horror delivered.

I *cared* about Simon in the end. I cried for him when he said, "You sent me down here to die and you don't even know my name?"

My husband and I went out to see Iron Lung for Valentine's Day.

Hearts pump lots of blood, Iron Lung has lots of blood, seems like a perfect date movie to me!

I'm really glad we were able to see it in the theater. It was beautiful, disturbing, and one of my top favorite horror movies now.

you can just say CLAMP you know

I thought my first Japanimation was a bootleg copy of Project Ako because as a kid Voltron and Transformers were just cartoons I watched every day after school.

The best time to plant a tree is ten years ago. The second best time is today.

Kill the emails.

Oh no! Take care of yourself, I hope you feel better soon.

The worst parts of trauma and grief are the stunning mundanity of the world grinding on as usual while your world has been utterly destroyed.

I live in Phoenix, and we're expecting rain.

On the fence if I should be running out to stock up on bread and toilet paper.

I mean, we've got plenty for now, but it's rain. In Phoenix.

Pray for us. I don't know what we'll do when the wet stuff hits.

We don't have the infrastructure for this.

I do not have shoes on, and it feels good.

I've been escaping the horrors with World of Warcraft.

They've extended their eight hour maintenance window three times already.

Been scrambling for distraction all day. My sympathies.

If I weren't four books into the series already that would be fantastic! 🤣

Well, I'm on the verge of giving up on my brain.

I'm having an impossible time with this book. It's a jumbled mess right now.

I wanna write faeries, pirates, and vampires. Not wizards.

But I also wanna finish this series.

T_T

Oh come on, like we don't all have the Stargate address for Earth on autodial these days?

When I was a kid I read all the books and gave up in the middle of The Last Battle. I hated how it treated Susan, and it just wore on me until I stopped reading and picked up something else instead.

My cats are taking it personally that I did not allow them into the bathroom while I took a shower. They have been rattling the door nonstop the whole time.

Congratulations and good luck!

Congratulations and good luck!

I threw my hat in the ring and put Everyone Dies Alone up for SPFBO yesterday. I did NOT make the coin flip, which is a little disappointing but fine. I plan on being supportive and excited for others in ways I couldn't if I had skin in the game. This'll be fun!

Congratulations and good luck!

Oh no! Rest up and take care of yourself

I feel you. I'm in this whole "Get me out of here" boat with no oars, too. I hope a way opens for you.

Happy New Year folks! We survived another trip around the sun, and might make it through this one. May the new year treat you kindly and be full of happy moments and relief from stress and the insanity that seems to have hit so many of us last year. Good luck to us all.