Wired headline: Allbirds is pivoting to AI compute. Sure, why not Once a $4 billion apparel juggernaut, Allbirds will rebrand as NewBird AI, a "GPU-as-a-service" company. Hey, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

If anyone is interested in a day job, hyper-specific crash out, I am currently losing my shit over the Allbirds shoe company rebranding as an AI company because WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE ABANDONING SHOES TO BECOME A GPU-AS-A-SERVICE COMPANY???

I have been MIA on bluesky for a while. I will post updates, but for now I just want to lurk and see what vibes are like. This is just proof of life.

Double-especially if it is a kink anthology.

Please. 🖤

When you're submitting for an anthology and they ask in the submission form for possible triggers in your story, please use that opportunity to consider what triggers are in your story and share them.

Especially if the potential triggers in your story are consent based.

Apologies to anyone who is waiting on Leashed Anthology notifications. My plan is to send out responses this weekend with directions/next steps.

I appreciate your patience and apologize for the delay. 🖤

be at least a bit of a freak about what you're making

So I've been pitching my books to bookstores and just found out today that Ingram distribution had gotten turned off somehow.

Sigh.

damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors

Thank you for the tip! I wouldn't have known the difference

Ooh I haven't! I'll see if I can track that down, thank you!

Woof.

I will be researching demons (and pleasure doms) for the foreseeable future. Wish me luck!

...RIP.

I'm basically living that Mitch Hedberg joke, except instead of trying to convince myself that what I thought of isn't funny I'm just generally trying to convince myself that what I outlined isn't good because I have to re-do it, anyway.

Today I discovered that I have to re-outline 10 stories in The Believer collection because I left the notebook with all the details for them (creature design, general plot, overall vibes, actual stories) in Maine.

I'm in VA for the next several months.

Threads post by mrs.brasingtonreads "I want unhinged book comps. Don't compare your book to some popular published book instead I want something like, "This book feels like the chorus of I'm in Love With a Stripper"

On Fluent Haunches feels like a sexy mental breakdown directed by David Lynch.

'I'm the Sinner' by Jared Benjamin would be the theme.

(And it's queer!)

A map of the US with Alabama, Arizona, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, and Virginia colored in.

A trope map with bi+ rep, religious guilt, taboo romance (adoptive siblings), troubled protagonist, 90s nostalgia, and mental illness rep on it - The text surrounds the On Fluent Haunches book cover. Additional text reads: Available now!

I made a map of all the states in the US where I have sent On Fluent Haunches, it was more than I thought!

I have already dreamed up the cooking show and my grandma and great aunt have confirmed if it existed they would watch it. (They are my cooking competition experts.)

Because I am unable to go more than a few weeks without imagining another WIP I am currently working on a cooking competition/celebrity chef romance. It is a rivals to lovers/enemies to lovers type of a thing.

I'll stay out of review spaces, I know those are for readers, but part of me is pleased that I have been putting the book out there enough that it got in front of the wrong person.

What is also exciting is I already have my first 1 star rating. (There is no review - I assume someone's mad about the taboo queer romance? Idk, it's not my business.)

Someone told me that On Fluent Haunches wasn't on Storygraph so I went to check Goodreads and Fable to make sure it was there. It was! Very exciting.

Today is On Fluent Haunches release day! It does not feel real.

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On Fluent Haunches with a small scratch on the T

On Fluent Haunches with a tiny scratch next to the T

I only had two damaged copies of all I ordered. This feels like a tiny self-publishing miracle. Before I make these LFL copies, does anyone want them for just the cost of shipping? They'll come signed and with my preorder extras, they just each have a tiny scratch on the cover. $10 or less in USA

A stack of packages

The first batch of On Fluent Haunches copies, ready to be sent to bookstores around the US.

If you need me, I will be losing my mind.

Tysm

I got some really bad news on Friday but I kept moving through the weekend and got some solid chapter writing, outline drafting, and special feature creating done.

I will not let the bad things win if it kills me.

Remember folks: if you have any small amount of artistic talent, any sex appeal, or can make your friends laugh, the richest man on earth is crying screaming throwing up because he can’t be you.

Scheduled posts on Patreon for As We Rot: Finch Goldblum interview, character mood boards - part 1, chapter 3, Vincent Graves Interview, Vince Playlist, Chapter 4, Dream Sequence 2 - Jaq, Chapter 5, Chapter 6. These posts are scheduled on varying dates between now and January 3.

My serial is popping off! This is just the stuff that is scheduled to post, not even the things that have already been shared. Plus Eerie and above members get an ebook copy of my debut novel On Fluent Haunches when it drops on 12/15!

I refuse to let the sadness win. Listening to character playlists and working on writing today because spite is an incredible motivator.

Fox Emm A creator of genre-defying fiction. Commonly found writing nonsense or reading whatever they’re in the mood for. Maker of weird art.

Just a reminder you can preorder On Fluent Haunches for cheap today ($0.99!). I would LOVE to make it to 10 preorders, and now is the time to do it! Foxemm.com

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