Congratulations!!

Exactly 💯

I had the great pleasure of beta reading BLUDEYE BEACH, and let me tell you, it is such a treat. If you love supernatural horror and sweet romance, you will love this book. I'm buying a copy immediately.

So I distracted myself from the immediate task but

I wrote a novel, y'all. I'm still super burned out and it was *agonizingly hard* to do and I had a lot of "I shouldn't have agreed, I am a fraud, all those books were flukes and my time is done"

But I fucking wrote a novel, y'all

FUCK YEAH

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

For anyone who is concerned, she is fully healed in another couple sentences, and eventually becomes a boon companion. 😁

MC Lesin and her magician friend Nivie have magically traveled to a location where they unexpectedly discover the external cost of Nivie's earlier magical experimentation.

**Content warning** for accidental animal cruelty.

#WIPSnips

A little peak inside everyone's favorite cafe in Foggy Dell

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

I really love your presentation on this one. 🙂

a stuffed monkey wearing overalls and a green shirt is making a surprised face . ALT: a stuffed monkey wearing overalls and a green shirt is making a surprised face .

Forgot to turn off dialogue highlighint. Whoops!

MC Lesin having another moment of 'I'm about done putting up with this state of affairs.'

#WIPSnips

books of THE ANNUAL MIGRATION OF CLOUDS and WE SPEAK THROUGH THE MOUNTAIN with a red banner reading PRIX JULIA VERLANGER 2025 on a table with other books

HEY

THEY ANNOUNCED THE PRIZE BEFORE THE ACTUAL CEREMONY

LE HOLY CRAP I WON THE JULIA VERLANGER PRIZE

A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto

She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card

Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her.

She spoke out and was kicked out of the country.

It’s retaliation & it’s wrong

Dropkick Murphys "Who'll Stand With Us?" Music Video YouTube video by Dropkick Murphys

youtu.be/5BRHuiRyVEE

Happy Birthday, Kindred Spirits: Tower of London (And celebrating a whole decade of being published...)

Happy Birthday, Kindred Spirits!

A whole decade since Kindred Spirits: Tower of London was published, and I cannot believe it... It's been a very lovely journey.

jennifercwilsonwriter.substack.com/p/happy-birt...

#historicalfiction #ghosts #booksky #booknews #paranormal #histfic

++ to this recommendation.

Even when I can't participate I enjoy seeing the snippets posted most days.

Flint pebble that fell out of a wall in Linton, Cambridgeshire and I picked up bc I thought it looked like the world's largest rodent. I added the eye with a fine liner pen

A photo of a mother and baby capybara nestling together affectionately

I found a capybara pebble🤎

#WIPSnips

Not for the first time he longed for his early childhood, when his parents' love and approval had been something that wrapped his whole life, something that had seemed so solid at his young age. He wanted 'I'll always love you' to mean what it had meant when he was a five year old.

me, wearing black clothing, aitting behind a wooden podium. the wall behind me is painted with a shadowed skyline with purplish nightsky with stars and a u.f.o.

me, sitting at a table autographing a book.

shout out to carmichael's bookstore for hosting me tuesday night - and many thank yous to all who attended, i appreciate you.

as with joseph-beth, carmichael's too has signed copies of The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife which can be ordered thru their website. please support local sellers.

Arrested Development - Let Your Voice Be Heard - Strong YouTube video by Arrested Development

youtu.be/UEQjA7hx1u0

MC Lesin and magic user Nivie are in disguise while checking on some friends who are imprisoned against their will.

She's surprised to nearly walk right into a good friend, and takes the opportunity to arrange further support.

#WIPSnips

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Getting old is shit.
#FuckCancer

Being able to tell my story, my truth, has always been important to me.  There are too many mistruths floating around out there that seem to be readily believed by everyone.  I’m not entirely sure why I care, I guess it’s human nature.  But to be so misunderstood, to have the person who cut you open out there turning you into the villain, it’s infuriating.  It’s enough to make someone go mad.  Don’t get me wrong, I don’t care what he thinks at all.  He knows the truth.  I know the truth.  But he’s out there making up his own truth and that doesn’t sit right with me.  

Today’s #wipsnips word is “care”. #writingcommunity #writingprompts #writersky #writesky

When you hear someone say that "there's no such thing as an innocent [insert nationality/ethnicity/political affiliation here]", I advise you to remember the words of Iain M. Banks:

"A guilty system recognizes no innocents."

That would be a change...

Sorry for missing this, Aud, thanks for including me!

From the most polished manuscript I have (my first):

As she passed under the battlements where Nolap stood, she called what sounded like a question in the Syng tongue.

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