Remember to write all your sensitive information down on tiny scraps of paper lying around as a courtesy to future wasteland scavengers

Describing characters through the perspectives of their LIs was one of the best things I've done

kindle cover for dust & lightning by rebecca crunden; image shows a dark planet in purple lighting, a moon in the background, volcano canyons below

🌌🛰️👾 SCI-FI NOVELLA 👾🛰️🌌

🚀 spaceships
🌡️ dark conspiracies
🫂 brotherhood
❌ no romance
🪱 strange creatures
🤖 futuristic
🪐 other worlds
🐈‍⬛ a rescue cat

🔖 book link: mybook.to/schU
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...

a woman says i have a fifth sense in front of another woman ALT: a woman says i have a fifth sense in front of another woman

Time for another #SimmondsWritingTips (busy day today so getting this one done early).

Let's talk about using all 5 senses to bring your descriptions to life. This is the next level to the 'How to describe characters' thread I wrote a while back.

Get comfortable. This is a fun one...

Post a movie gif from the year you were born.

English teacher: but what does the cup represent?

I get so anxious when I get DMs from new moots 😅

It's honestly better to just buy a Bluetooth mechanical keyboard and use Word on your smartphone

STAR BOOK WRITING. Pricing and Costing To facilitate this international distribution, we must obtain a No-Objection Certificate (NOC) from the legal authorities in all 193 countries associated with WIPO. This ensures compliance with local laws, including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and ADA compliance standards. Each NOC will cost $XXX (Based on the current costs for NOCs provided to Star Book Writing by WIPO), covering all administrative and processing fees. With 193 countries involved, the total cost for obtaining these NOCs will be $(Based on the current costs for NOCs provided to Star Book Writing by WIPO) x 193 = $XXX. In accordance with the final mutual agreement, the investment contributions from each party are outlined below, totalling $XXX : • Author Name: $ Author’s Investment USD • Star Book Writing: $ Star Book Writing’s Investment USD In addition, Star Book Writing will handle all logistics and legal processes involved in securing these NOCs. Our experienced legal team will coordinate with the relevant embassies and authorities, ensuring a smooth and efficient process. Book Inventory: Amazon will handle any costs related to digital marketing, book printing, delivery, and distribution for this contract without charging the author any additional fees

Many scammers cheat authors by selling what looks like conventional publishing or marketing or agenting--except that it's a scam. But sometimes they just make shit up. Here's an example: a mythical thing called a "No-Objection Certificate", supposedly to ensure compliance with copyright laws.

The cover of the book "Blade of the Crown" by author Cara N. Delaney. The background is the ocean, choppy with waves. The sky is grey and dark blue with storm clouds. Silver ornaments decorate the corners and the top and bottom edges. In the foreground is a golden crown in a classic shape. A slender sword with an ornamental cross guard goes through it vertically. The title is written in a silver, slightly translucent font, with one point of the crown filling the "A" of "blade". The author's name is in white at the bottom.

Book intro: BLADE OF THE CROWN

👑 a princess struggling with her magic
⚔️ a royal guard with too much ambition
🏝️ an ambush that strands them on a strange island
💘 falling in love at the most inconvenient time
🗡️ a revelation that could topple the throne

tinyurl.com/bladeofthecrown

🌈📚 #sapphfic

UK journalists talking about echo chambers when 0.2% of journalists are Black and 2.5% Asian and 51% of the most influential journalists went to private school is a bit of a joke

I tried them once and they tasted like plastic

Definitely this one

a man in a blue shirt is sitting in front of a brick wall and looking at the camera . Alt: a handsome Irish man in a blue shirt is sitting in front of a brick wall and looking at the camera with sassy disapproval

My assortment of partially written stories seeing me start another project on Word

Oh I'm calling Ghostbusters then

The Outlands Pentalogy, book one, A Touch of Death by Rebecca Crunden; cover is in black and white and shows a silhouette of a woman in a coat with her back turned

🏹 sci-fi / dystopian
☣️ post-apocalyptic
👑 a tyrant king
🧪 a mysterious illness
🔥 slow burn romance
⚔️ enemies everywhere
📚 five book series
👾 book one is an SPSFC semi-finalist
❣️ ebooks are ✨99c!✨

🔖 book link: mybook.to/rSMw0
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/series/26074...

Cover for The Knight Saves the Dragon by Rebecca Crunden; background is a water colour type picture of a castle with trees and mountains behind, leaves surround the edges

🏹⚔️🏰 SHORT STORY 🏰⚔️🏹

🐉 a dragon (with a princess)
🗡️ a knight (with a plan)
👑 a palace (with a cruel king)
👥 second pov
❣️ only ✨99c!✨

🔖 book link: mybook.to/eJsBfU
📚 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

And you could always make the ghosts and demons pay rent

Definitely the house, it's free real estate

🫂

I don't think any of my stories are particularly comfortable to live in because even my 'slice of life' stuff is just miserable 😭

#writers #writingcommunity

If you could live in any of your stories, which one would you pick?

HarperCollins is selling their authors’ work to AI tech. On Friday, author Daniel Kibblesmith posted a series of screenshots on Bluesky in order to share a concerning email he received from the agency who’d repped him on his children’s book S…

Can’t say I’m surprised to see this. Authors, keep yourselves informed on what your publishers are doing re: AI & talk to your agents & Soc of Authors. lithub.com/harpercollin...

Post a perfect album for the 90s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, or Alice In Chains

Girl Power!

Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content.

That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂

It's devastating after spending so long developing their character arc and personality. But sometimes you just need to throw a spanner in the works...