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#Writephant A2: The common advice is not to start a story with a dream sequence. Aside from that, do you use dream sequences in your writing?
No, but I have written what one character hoped was just a dream when she remembered it the next day.
She had a...reaction* to a painkiller, which led […]
I don't get what #writephant is about
Yes. I’m actually revising a story based on an actual historical figure. The ones that stick in my head are the ones seemingly erased from history because they’re not powerful. As a result, there’s no record of them. #writephant
#Writephant A3: How much effort do you put into describing food in your writing?
It depends.
Christmas at Jenny's house? Lavish descriptions of the English traditional roast (a whole turkey in its natural habitat, swimming in gravy with roast potatoes), the Australian traditional seafood […]
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#writephant A2 writing space
Messy but I know where everything is? Then yes 😂
#Writephant Q3 Does your writing space reflect how organized you are?
A3 What is this organised of which you speak?
Graphic showing the sale, a woman reading with text proclaiming that The Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale runs between December 8 and January 1, discounts from 25%-100%
@adriabailton thank you for hosting the last #writephant of 2025 😊
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The #Smashwords sale is in its last few days (ends 11:59 p.m. Pacific January 1st US time, so Australians have to the middle of 2 Jan)
All mine are 25% off, if you’re in the mood for […]
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#writephant A3 What’s one thing about your writing process you’ve enjoyed the most this year? (This could be a new routine, software, pen and notebook, anything!)
I really really really like that I can draft on a tablet and edit on a PC. Using OneNote has let me do almost 100% of my outlining […]
#writephant Q2 How do you plan to balance rest and writing time over the holidays?
I don't
There is no balance, and the stories just keep bubbling up in my head and demand to be let out to play
#writephant Q1 How did your writing and publishing goals go in 2025?
Tardy response
Writing went splendidly, publishing less well because I am waiting on cover art to do the publication part. I did, however, succeed in pulling all my books off Amazon KDP, and finding alternatives for ebook […]
Thanks for hosting #Writephant, @neve
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My books, low-key fantasy with romance, mostly queer, are currently in the annual end of year #Smashwords sale — they’re already affordable but now they’re extra affordable, all 25% off:
https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/wendylpalmer
but […]
@adriabailton thanks for hosting #writephant
#SelfPromo time
I write cosy-adjacent fantasy with romance, usually queer, available everywhere including on #KoboPlus.
My latest book is a friends-to-lovers gay romance set amid the ghosts of Hampton Court Palace. More info and sample chapters at […]
Grace and Favour written in fancy font above a daguerreotype-style portrait of two men and a dog. One man is dark skinned and well dressed in a top hat, that’s love interest Cole. The other man is a bit more casually dressed, is blond, and has a stopwatch that’s main character Leo. The dog’s a big white Maremma. that’s Max. There’s the faint figure of a woman in the background. Very faint. Almost ghostly…
@adriabailton thanks for hosting #writephant 😊
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My next book, Grace & Favour, releases on Sunday, and is a friends-to-lovers gay romance:
“Leo Sweetwater keeps three closely-guarded secrets: his affections lie with men, he's in love with his best […]
[Original post on mastodon.au]
Cover of Grace & Favour. Blue and brass-yellow colours predominant. The title is in fancy font at the top, and there's what looks like a photo portrait in an ornate frame, of two men, one in a top hat, one holding a pocket watch, and a large white dog. In the background of the photo (actually a daguerreotype, but anachronistically in colour), there is the faint impression of a woman, transparent...you could say, almost ghostly...
Mood board for Grace & Favour. Has a painting by Turner (a watercolour of Hampton Court Palace from across the river), a daguerreotype in a case, a ghost postcard, a Scots phrasebook, and a big picture of Max, a Maremma livestock guard dog, big, white and fluffy.
@neve thank you for hosting the #writephant bi-monthly check-in, very useful timing for me at the transition from one project to the next 😊
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I write fantasy with romance, mostly queer. My next book is out November 16 and features the ghosts of Hampton […]
[Original post on mastodon.au]
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3 . Some shows like Sesame Street show monsters as furry creatures that just happen to not be human. Confusingly, Grouches aren't monsters. What do you think of these portrayals?
It's fine until they start Disneyfing folk monsters. Leave my vampires, ghost, and ghouls alone.
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4 . Consider this scenario. You have a monster under the bed trying to scare you. Not your kids or other family members; just you. How do you handle the monster? If they want to eat you, does that change your strategy?
Wave my charms at them and start chanting an appropriate mantra […]
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A5 . You have to make a monster for your next story, and you choose the genre. Are they friendly? Ferocious? A protagonist, antagonist or side character? And do they have a tail?
In my next series, the plan is for antags to be a cadre of spirits who have been dead 1,000 years led by […]
An open notebook, with the cover on the left (a wolf head with Viking vibes, surrounded by flowers, for witchy vibes). On the right, pretend handwritten text reading “fantasy gay romance with Viking vibes, men who think they’re clever, and monsters”. Plus a little cat with an arrow pointing to it saying “not the monster”
@Priyajsridhar thanks for hosting #writephant today 😊
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Since the topic was monsters, I’ll mention my most recent release, Little Wolf and the Witch, an only-one-bed, fake-married-to-the-barbarian, monster hunt, m/m fantasy romance […]
[Original post on mastodon.au]
@neve thank you for hosting #writephant 🙏 glad to have a chance to join in this week
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I write stand-alone cosy-adjacent fantasy with romance, often queer, and ALWAYS happy, hopeful endings. I’ve been described as “criminally underrated” by some rando* on Reddit.
*rando means “random […]
I’m a fan of both science and silence lol. But I tend to crave silence when people are being too loud and arguing. #Writephant
@neve thank you for hosting #writephant this week 😊
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I write cosy-adjacent fantasy books with romance, often queer. I have been described as “criminally underrated” 😉 Find out more about my books, including samples and retail links, at my website:
https://wendypalmer.au/
#books […]
@adriabailton thank you for hosting #writephant today 😊
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I write cosy-adjacent (fun but not as fluffy as they sound) queer romantic fantasy*, usually stand-alone. Find out more at my website:
https://wendypalmer.au/books/
They’re available widely including on #KoboPlus, #Everand […]
@neve thank you for hosting #writephant today (and reminding me how lucky I am to live in such a beautiful part of the world 😊 )
#SelfPromo time
I write cosy-adjacent fantasy books with romance, often queer, in a range of settings from Victorian London all the way back to antiquity. Find them […]
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@neve thank you for hosting #writephant this week and good luck with publishing That Murder Feeling (love that title!)
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I write romantic fantasy fiction, usually queer, always happy at the end. My latest release is Little Wolf and the Witch, a Viking-inspired monster hunt with a m/m […]
THe main characters for Little Wolf and the Witch verse each other. Little Wolf is Feilan. Which is Remy. Feilan: isn’t a barbarian, won’t hunt monsters Remy: isn’t a witch, just a redhead F: have FWB, not (very) interested in you, thanks R: have you noticed how naked I am? F: what do you mean we’re married now? R: I don’t make the rules darling F: I’m still not fighting the monster for you R: but a poor lonely vulnerable naïf needs you (and so does the queen) F: fine I’ll fight the human monster for you R: why are you glaring at my uncle like that?
@neve thank you for hosting #writephant this week
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Speaking of more light-hearted things, I did up a character card for my latest book. It’s an enemies-to-lovers, fake-married, only-one-bed, Viking-inspired m/m romance. Find out more (and see the […]
[Original post on mastodon.au]
Puns and feghoots. Most of that stuff has been serious. So something really silly hasn’t happened. #Writephant
I prefer a buildup with a setup to a funny scene. One thing I wish I could write is something equivalent to Diana Wynne Jones’s funniest scenes, like when an assassin begs to be saved from a pit of orange juice because drowning in that is not dignified. #Writephant
A large portion are snarkers; most wouldn’t know how to tell a joke. #Writephant
