Starts TOMORROW--still time to sign up! Come get some research tips for your writing from a former librarian turned novelist (me!):
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Starts TOMORROW--still time to sign up! Come get some research tips for your writing from a former librarian turned novelist (me!):
Happy Cover Reveal Day to @cj-dotson.bsky.social whose sophomore novel, THESE FAMILIAR WALLS, is
*i m m i n e n t*
You know you wanna go in the haunted house book. Pre-Order here: read.macmillan.com/lp/these-fam...
#TheseFamiliarWalls
ONE WEEK 'til this research course for writers kicks off!
Let me use my former librarian powers to help you, and then let's do workshop activities that have us use our research while also inoculating against the dreaded infodump!
More info, and a sign-up link, below:
NEW WRITING COURSE ALERT
As a former librarian, I have research tips for writers! And exercises for putting research in your narrative.
Weekly, there's:
-a written lesson
-Zoom discussion
-feedback from me on your work
For more info, or to sign up, click here:
writers.com/course/truth...
I'm coming back to CT for StokerCon! I simply couldn't resist. Gotta get myself to Horror University.
Who else?
Starting WEDNESDAY! Still time to sign up, and play in the Gothic sandbox! We'll do some reading, playing, chatting, and WRITING--with feedback from me!
Useful for anyone writing dark, from suspense to thriller, fairytale to fantasy, and of course horror! More info, and sign-up, via the link:
It's that time again! Come try out Gothic writing techniques to inject delicious dread and dark desire into your fiction!
Starts 4/23, and currently the course is discounted!
Sign up or learn more here: writers.com/course/gothi...
I've been quiet because I'm struggling--and that's not quite the damning thing I tell myself it is. I have set myself a challenge, that's all.
More on this via the link. (Also, on my upcoming writing course on Gothic writing techniques...)
open.substack.com/pub/brianaun...
Found OGA on LibGen, as well as IN SOMNIO, in which my story "After the Apples" appears. I hate that my words trained AI, w/o ANY compensation I might add.
I'm not giving up my voice so a computer can speak over me.
It's NOT artificial intelligence. It's OUR intelligence & we're being robbed.
Putting the finishing touches on this course today, and so excited to get going. Writers, there's STILL TIME to sign up! Come draft your novel with me!
Timely: this is why I go to Rocky Horror.
If you wondered what this kinky-Victorian-Gothic author likes to do in her spare time, it’s this: go to Rocky Horror in my new country as a complete unknown, and nail the call-backs so hard that I get pulled up at the end to take a bow. (Also I got a gift basket!) Thanks, Sugar Club Dublin!
Maybe let Maggie have her coffee first, before you tell her the morning sun on her face really shows her age.
Starting Feb 19th! Let me coach you through that first draft--the hardest part!--with kindness, calm, and craft advice!
#WritersOfBluesky #AmWriting #Writing #Fiction #Writers #WritersWorkshop #WritingWorkshop #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity #NovelWriting
Not only do I rec this book (do you like spooky hotels? DO YOU?)... I also think this countdown with snippets is brilliant for getting a taste of Dotson's writing.
Check it out! And pre-order!
Starting Feb 19, I'm leading a 16-week novel drafting course! You'll get written lessons, weekly feedback on your writing, and optional weekly Zoom calls to discuss all things novel!
I know it can be the hardest thing in the world to just keep going. You can do this; I will help you.
Info/sign-up:
You gimme a wordy assignment, I do it. 💛
A perfume label for VINTAGE SNOW CLOWN BLOW MOLD, featuring a sad, Christmassy snowman clown yard decoration
A perfume label for STRAWBERRY BONBON, featuring a wrapped hard candy crushed on the pavement, surrounded by a sprinkling of broken glass bits
A perfume label for MIDNIGHT MARZIPAN, with the name shown against a backdrop of interstellar photography from 1909.
Ahead of our upcoming Yule launch, we wanted to tease the following three perfume oils therein which will raise funds for Transanta
www.transanta.com
Coming soon to our shop:
🎁 MIDNIGHT MARZIPAN
🎁 STRAWBERRY BONBON
🎁 VINTAGE SNOW CLOWN BLOW MOLD
Want to keep up with what I'm writing, reading, thinking--and any upcoming workshops or events?
May I suggest my Muse-Letter? This one is about beginnings, in books and beyond: brianaunamcguckin.substack.com/p/on-beginni...
Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school.
Hi, I'm Briana, my work in French is excellent--which is shocking, because I'm out sick so very often.
The best beginning to my voice-over career, in service to the best perfume oil people, for feminism, dammit:
I’m so excited to interact with writers and readers again in a virtual space! I’ve missed it.
Valentine Hobbs is discounted for your pleasure for February!
$1.99, ON GOOD AUTHORITY:
a coming-of-age kinky 19th c. Gothic; a lady's maid must teach a bad master the difference btwn servitude & surrender, & confront her dark desire for the footman.
tinyurl.com/2er75kfb
Had an idea for a writing workshop at 3am (as one does) so #writers:
Ex’s of absolute advice you’ve heard? I have:
Prologues=bad.
Show, don’t tell.
Always use “said,” no adverbs
Dreams: no one cares.
Don’t write in 2nd person.
What advice makes YOUR heart go: “Is that a challenge?”
On Writing the Right Beginning
brianaunamcguckin.com/2024/01/09/o...
For those wondering where I’ve been, and where I’m headed:
brianaunamcguckin.com/2024/01/04/2...
Obligatory new glasses post
Now is Not the Time (a moment from Dracula)
Arthur: (crying) I feel like, since I gave her a blood transfusion, I was her husband when she died.
Van Helsing: (smirking) There were a lot of blood transfusions from a lot of guys, bro.
A year. A YEAR. One year ago, ON GOOD AUTHORITY came into the world…
Happy birthday, Marian and Valentine.
I am so proud of my coming-of-age-kinky Victorian Gothic. I hope people keep finding it.
