This book's also gone from a ridiculous number of name changes lol. It was originally NAMES OF BLASPHEMY, then ANTICHRIST, until my editor and I decided on YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOME NOW.

I was trying to find an old draft of YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOME NOW, and it's ridiculous the number of drafts I have. Over 300 since 2022, then probably 50+ more from 2020.

Every time I make a major change, I make a new draft.

The City of Slaughter is available on Netgalley!! #Netgalley #TheCityofSlaughter

I do not use AI. In fact, I have never once queried AI and when it pops up asking if I require help I usually spend a few minutes figuring out how to disable it.

I don't want AI thinking for me, writing for me, or editing for me. I don't want AI drawing for me, painting for me, or composing for me.

This sounds so amazing!!!

Publishers Marketplace Deal Report August 25 2025 DEAD RINGER by Leanna Renee Hieber Imprint: City Owl Press, Recorded Books Leanna Renee Hieber's DEAD RINGER, a romantic mystery set in 1892 Manhattan, in which an adorable disaster of a telephone operator is begged by a beautiful ghost to help solve that ghost's murder and help prevent others, to Lisa Green at City Owl Press, in a two-book deal, for publication in fall 2026 by Sara Megibow at Megibow Literary Agency (world English). Audio rights to Catherine Wallach at Recorded Books. Rights: contact@megibowliterary.com

DEAD RINGER is a return to form, one of my inclusive, big-cast Gaslamp Fantasy novels! An adorable disaster of a telephone operator assembles a team of amateur detectives (a hot immigration lawyer & labor activists!) to solve the murder of a ghost who pops through her console & prevent another one!

Like, if I can't reinstate my Threads and Instagram accounts, I'm done with social media. This is just ridiculous. Ten years down the drain, and Meta still won't tell me what apparently I did wrong.

When I was literally trying to call out the way conservatives view trans youth as 'redeemable victims' until a certain age, when they begin to demonize those same trans youth, now in their late teens or early adulthood, as predators.

I'd really love to know if the reason I got banned on Instagram and Threads is because I antagonized an account that called me a kike and a rat for responding to their posts calling trans people 'degenerates' or is it because a bunch of trans people misinterpreted my post as transphobic.

I did that in the initial email, and like an hour later, they perma-banned my account. They still haven't told me why, and there's no way to even see what the apparent offense was. This is so effed up. I'm done with social media if I can't get my accounts back after this.

Can anyone help a queer writer and ask Instagram and Threads why they banned my accounts? I'm pretty sure transphobes filed malicious reports.

It won't let me appeal. It didn't even give me a reference number I can use to file an appeal with the Oversight Board. For some reason, none of the avenues online (my account was hacked, etc.) are even accessible for me. It's like they've blocked my entire access to the sites.

Banned from Instagram and Threads!! Are any mutuals able to reach out to them and file a complaint? I don't know why I was perma-banned, my accounts are being deleted, and there's no way to file an appeal. I can't even log into the sites anymore.

Jake Arnott blurb

Blown away by this blurb for HUNTING BY THE RIVER from Sunday Times bestselling author Jake Arnott.

I'm so upset. I can't believe my Instagram and Threads accounts are disabled and going to be deleted, when I did nothing wrong.

For what?

How did you contact tech support? I can't even access their help chat

I got some angry responses yesterday to a Thread that some viewers misunderstood, but that shouldn't have been reason to suspend me.

This is horrible. Instagram and Threads suspended my accounts for literally no reason! They won't tell me why.

WTF? My Threads and Instagram accounts just got suspended for no reason.

I filmed my first short back in January. Just under 8 minutes, cost $750 for locations, and I'm incredibly proud of it. It might not look as flashy as all these AI videos flooding my timeline, but I did it all myself. Shot it, acted in it, edited it. It's all mine.

Like, it would feel typical--I can't recall my childhood or my adolescence or my undergrad--except, I know that the level of daily amnesia I experience is abnormal. And this level of identity variance is abnormal.

It's funny, because before I realized I had a dissociative disorder, this would all feel relatively in sync, but it's paying attention to these subtle nuances, I realize--the reason I can't clearly recall the last two years of my life, is because we are fractured.

There is a clear cleavature of emotions, of experiences, that is separated by the adult trauma. That divides, me as Aden, with the one that became.

There was a divide, between who I was as Aden, and how I viewed myself in the moment. And I can't relate, on a baser level, to how I viewed myself in the past, before that moment.
I feel no emotion or relation to the classes I took in undergrad, to studying abroad in Germany, to my writing career.

I think, the worst part of realizing I have DID, is struggling with the feeling, that I am not a person. That I don't quantify the necessary amount (of my daily life, of my piecemeal past) to be a whole, complete person.
Like, I think, a few years ago, after an adult assault, there was a schism.

A few minutes later, the man came up, GF said, "I heard you offered to buy our friend here" and I said "F- you, you pedo- f---." Guy said he was working for police; police had no record of him. Still think about that...

A few years ago, I was living in Vancouver, and hanging out with my friend and his GF at the beach. We were drinking and smoking, and my friend went over to him to ask to use his charger. The man asked me friend if he could buy me, which my friend relayed to us when he returned.

Now I know why, and I know the abuse I suffered has defined my entire life. I'll never know the person I could've been, had it not happened. And that's gutting.

CSA ruins lives. It literally destroys a part of you, of the child you could have been and the adult you could've become.
I began having symptoms of DID several years ago, but even before that, since I was a kid, I felt horribly wrong, broken, rotten. And I didn't know why. 1/2