This kid is enormously articulate and persuasive. Will anyone listen? I hope so.

"My Own Worst Enemy" by Lit

You swallow
hope like swords,
fear bright as fire,
a river of sadness
moving
of its own accord,
then you wait—

something
will grow, even if you
do not want it,
tried to guard against it,
made a salt circle
around your heart—
it all still breaks,
& you do too,
history
ripping
& repeating.
#TinyPoem

Watching someone who spends $1500/month on ads yelling at authors for not trying hard enough.

As someone who has, at various times in her career, spent a shit load of money on advertising, leave poor authors the fuck alone.

Always a lawyer, doctor, or laid off CSuite marketing (or spouse of one).

This series is extremely good, even though, yes, sometimes you will feel “bad” about stuff. Go buy it.

Is there a German word for "cries in appreciation of one's editor"?

I understand being frustrated if something is marketed as something it's not, but I've never marketed the series as anything other than fantasy. Most of the heavy is hinted at on the jacket copy. When I know I don't want something heavy, I read the cover copy until I find what fits with my mood.

And I firmly believe people should read what they want to. I flip-flop myself depending on my mood. Sometimes when things are dark I WANT dark books, and sometimes when they're dark I want a book where the worst thing that happens is two people having a misunderstanding.

This is one of the best examples of this completely bizarre phenomemon of "I read for escapism, not terrible things happening, how dare you kill a beloved character" and their escapism has been five books of interplanetary genocide.

The Edge world is very dark! So is the Kate Daniels world. I also think, in retrospect, that that flies over the head of most readers.

Top text reads: Let's break down a contemporary fantasy series together. Beneath this are the covers of Books 1-6 in the Nyx Fortuna series, with text to the side of each. Book 1: "Deals with an unfair prison system that results in an entire displaced people, child trafficking and death." Book 2: "Deals with a black market that preys upon the desperate and has a literal slave market." Book 3: "Deals with a corrupt governing body that created the current system at the cost of multiple genocides." Book 4: "Deals with parental trauma, off-page past SA of a secondary character, and the torture of a person for decades for political gain." Book 5: "Deals with an exiled people trying to reclaim their home planet from people who have displaced them to gain rights over a valuable resource." Book 6: Deals with overcoming personal loss, seeking justice, and learning to lean on your found family." Below this is a 2-star graphic, and a Goodreads review on the 6th book, which reads: "No. I was reading something fun and it turned dark right at the end? No thanks." Below this is a 3 star graphic of a Goodreads review on the 6th book which reads: "This book (and the end of the previous book) reflects a shift in tone and theme to a much darker and depressing feel than her previous works."

Anyway, read my always-dark-despite-rumors-to-the-contrary series. Especially if you like books that have been DNF'd for reasons such as "I didn't want to cry for 2 chapters, or "too political".

Direct: payhip.com/b/GUeEk
Elsewhere: books2read.com/u/mV66Jp

Remember the graphic⬇️ Read with caution.

I try to write humor into the books, because people survive terrible things through humor. There are lots of good things between Nyx finding her place and finding her family. But yes, if you are actually reading the events of the books, they are heavy and deal with A Lot.

I am not going to spoiler the events of the series, but I will say that this series is not, and has never been, marketed as anything other than contemporary SFF. And the only reason to claim 5/6 are a betrayal of the series, is if you are going into it with a different genre's expectations.

There is humor in every book (yes, even 5 and 6), because I truly believe humanity cannot survive the terrible shit this world throws at us without humor.

So it's always interesting to me that not a single reader expressed problems with the heaviness/darkness of the subject material until Books 5/6, when the darkness has been front and center from the beginning. The Nyx books have always been about finding hope in darkness.

Book 6 deals with personal loss, a quest for justice, and learning to deal with your pain by leaning on others. It's the moment of realization for Nyx that her found family is there for HER, no matter her heaviness.

Wrath: payhip.com/b/aDhY1

Book 5 deals with an exiled people reclaiming their home planet from colonizers who took advantage of their kindness to help them survive the planet's harsh conditions, then ousted them to gain control over a valuable resource, and has branded them as violent savages.

Defiance: payhip.com/b/r0AsX

Book 4 deals with just how truly bad you didn't know your parental trauma was. There is reveal of and fallout from past SA to a secondary character. A character is rescued who has been tortured for decades to provide power to a political figure. None of this is light.

Torment: payhip.com/b/V5DZe

Book 3 has Nyx abducted and taken to a forbidden planet, wherein the discovery of how the current universe's government and transit system was built reveals a dark history of genocide.

Madness: payhip.com/b/RDFzK

Book 2 has Nyx following someone from her past to a black market planet, where a secondary character from Book 1 was sold in the slave market TO THE AFOREMENTIONED PRISON PLANET before escaping.There are heaps of parental trauma in this that would not fit on the graphic.

Shadows: payhip.com/b/dVS1j

Book 1 begins with the main character (Nyx) willing to die to escape her current situation. She nearly does. She then proceeds to go to a prison planet to rescue someone unjustly imprisoned, and deal with all the fun (read terrible) things that come out of prison systems.

Chaos: payhip.com/b/GUeEk

Top text reads: Let's break down a contemporary fantasy series together. Beneath this are the covers of Books 1-6 in the Nyx Fortuna series, with text to the side of each. Book 1: "Deals with an unfair prison system that results in an entire displaced people, child trafficking and death." Book 2: "Deals with a black market that preys upon the desperate and has a literal slave market." Book 3: "Deals with a corrupt governing body that created the current system at the cost of multiple genocides." Book 4: "Deals with parental trauma, off-page past SA of a secondary character, and the torture of a person for decades for political gain." Book 5: "Deals with an exiled people trying to reclaim their home planet from people who have displaced them to gain rights over a valuable resource." Book 6: Deals with overcoming personal loss, seeking justice, and learning to lean on your found family." Below this is a 2-star graphic, and a Goodreads review on the 6th book, which reads: "No. I was reading something fun and it turned dark right at the end? No thanks." Below this is a 3 star graphic of a Goodreads review on the 6th book which reads: "This book (and the end of the previous book) reflects a shift in tone and theme to a much darker and depressing feel than her previous works."

Y'all I'm sorry but I'm tired of people acting like I pulled the rug from under them in the middle of the Nyx series, as if it were a cozy lark of puppies & rainbows up to books 5/6, so buckle up & let's break down the darkness this series deals with from Day 1.

We'll start with a helpful graphic.

Promo graphic for Truthfinder's Promise by Michelle Manus. Features the book cover against a teal background. T the left of the book cover is a pinned note that says: Meredith Townsend's personal To Do List: - Be depressed about existence - Dance on abusive mother's grave - Figure out what to do with my life. To the right of the book cover is another pinned note that says: Fate's To Do List for Meredith Townsend: -Discover hot ex-fling is a werewolf - Prevent Aspect/Shifter Society war - Figure out how relationships work. At the bottom, SALE is written in large letters and the book's regular price of 7.99 is marked out, with the sale price of .99 clearly displayed

Yes the world sucks but a girl's gotta get by in a capitalist society so DID YOU KNOW I have a book on sale?

For the PNR crowd that likes the worldbuilding depth of UF.

Direct: payhip.com/b/lSaqU
Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
Kindle: www.amazon.com/Truthfinders...

Other retailer links in 🧵

Related, I have had to turn Copilot off in Outlook Every Single Day (sometimes multiple times a day) for the last week.

Apple: books.apple.com/us/book/trut...
Google Books: play.google.com/store/books/...
Bookshop .org: bookshop.org/p/books/trut...
Barnes and Noble: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/truthfinde...

Promo graphic for Truthfinder's Promise by Michelle Manus. Features the book cover against a teal background. T the left of the book cover is a pinned note that says: Meredith Townsend's personal To Do List: - Be depressed about existence - Dance on abusive mother's grave - Figure out what to do with my life. To the right of the book cover is another pinned note that says: Fate's To Do List for Meredith Townsend: -Discover hot ex-fling is a werewolf - Prevent Aspect/Shifter Society war - Figure out how relationships work. At the bottom, SALE is written in large letters and the book's regular price of 7.99 is marked out, with the sale price of .99 clearly displayed

Yes the world sucks but a girl's gotta get by in a capitalist society so DID YOU KNOW I have a book on sale?

For the PNR crowd that likes the worldbuilding depth of UF.

Direct: payhip.com/b/lSaqU
Kobo: www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...
Kindle: www.amazon.com/Truthfinders...

Other retailer links in 🧵

How dare they tarnish the good name of innocent bears.

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In the last month, every piece of technology has made it more difficult to do things that used to be simple (changing buttons/menus for things to be harder to find) and I am convinced they are trying to make everything so frustrating to use that you want to ask AI to do it for you, but fuck them.

For God’s sake don’t repost this article about FBI DIRECTOR KASH PATEL threatening to sue The Atlantic over reporting that he appears to be a FALL DOWN DRUNK otherwise it might draw attention to the article alleging that KASH PATEL IS A FALL DOWN DRUNK, and that would be bad.
So don’t do it.