Rebecca M. Zornow

"Surprisingly tense?"
Well, thank you very much :)

This is how I learned season 2 is out :)

It's been so long since I've logged into Bluesky that I saw this story and thought, OMG, the exact same thing happened to me!

...it's my own post, folks 🫠

👻hooray!

I bought a book from my library for $1. I took it home, thinking I'd read it soon. It's only 200 pages.

THREE YEARS later, I finally cracked it open and read it in an afternoon. It was a lovely sci-fi story.

Title: A Small and Remarkable Life by Nick DiChario

I'm 30K into a new scifi project and January is all about drafting

Ok, what's everyone writing in 2024?

The week between Christmas and New Years is for laying on the couch eating leftover sugar cookies, mulling over every decision you've ever made.

Oh those look fabulous

10K words in new project this week 😶
Most I've ever done

Lovely news and enjoy that pie in the sky

6685 words in the new manuscript! Hurrah!

Author Rebecca M. Zornow at her writing desk with a spiral-bound notebook open in front of her, a smaller photo of her in the pages. She's smiling in both.

I built the outline for my newest novel using a workbook Nicole and I designed over at Conquer Books.

We shared how we created the Building a Story workbook here: www.conquerbooks.com/behind-the-s...

Promo poster for What We Do In The Shadows. Text in lime green. Four vampires surround a vampire hunter in green lighting with dramatic shadow.

Cackling at vampire antics on Staten Island was the perfect lunch break activity for the past two months. 10/10

I would welcome your student's master planning in my life.

I started sealing my letters with wax and now each one feels as if it contains the gossip of the court, a negotiation for peace, or a plea to my wealthy aunt who is all I have left in the world and who really must advance me my allowance so I can afford a steamship to the Americas.

An e-book cover of It's Over or It's Eden. White lettering, a spaceship looking in the background. Text reads: "A gripping and engaging story. -Amazon customer"

I'm still new here, so taking some time to introduce myself.

My debut was a classic first contact story: Aliens invade. We lose. Solder flees to the Rocky Mountains where she finds an isolated group of people who don't even know we've been invaded, but are harboring a dark secret.

Great, thanks for sharing this

This resonated because I've often balanced my inbox at the expense of writing time. I found myself nodding along through the chapter. I didn't feel mad, more relieved that I discovered something new, something that I can point to moving forward that helps me understand myself a bit better.

I'm following The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron and this week's chapter discusses using work to avoid creativity. "I'm working" can be an excuse for so much. We can pretend we're busy, give ourselves a reason to avoid the fear that comes with creating art and exploring new self-expression.

That's terrific news, congratulations

An office with purple walls, a couch and coffee table, desk, and three white bookshelves.

Here's my office on a perfect, clean day.

The desk was a hotel leftover, the tapestry came from a thrift store outlet, and the stained glass lamp was in a Facebook buy nothing group. I think there's a certain beauty in seeing what joins you along the way.

Friends! Who are some of your favorite cover artists who do Dark Fantasy/Horror? Particularly those who can do beautiful/spooky/surreal landscapes??? No AI people please.

This is great news!

No. I think it's the nuance that makes something great. Writers develop voice over time.

Today I'm logging the last of my research hours for a new book, and then starting on the outline next week. What are you writing today?

Sorry Dr Manhattan.

Oh, good luck with the querying. I am just starting a new book (far future scifi). I'm outlining this month and drafting in December.

Thanks! Do you have any projects in progress right now?

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I write science fiction and book coach with Conquer Books. I just finished rereading Lore Olympus and am debating whether to dive into a 1977 edition of The Shining I got for two bucks.