Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations!
For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE.
Imagine what we could do with $$$
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I’m not “overcoming” autism.
I’m living it, learning it, owning it.
Autism isn’t a glitch or a setback it’s
my strength. I’m not less. I’m just
wired differently. And that difference?
It’s the power I didn’t know I had.
There are so many ways to remember D’Angelo. So I wrote about him from the grief living in our home state. No person has ever embodied the phrase “Virginia Is Lovers” more. andscape.com/features/dan...
#WIPSnips #BookSky #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #snippet
No "razors" in my wip, exactly, so here's "knife" instead.
Aubergine asks Grilled to meet him in a private location... and to bring his knives.
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#SummerOfStory 5
Okay, for my real answer: I love Chekhov's Gun and I love to include it in my books. BUT, I also love adding random worldbuilding details to flesh out the world and provide Vibes™️(more below)
(Sadly, I find most authors do Schrokovam's gunblade):
#WIPSnips #BookSky #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #snippet
Yes, this is from the Good Thyme Inn wip. Every once in a while, I take a break from the gang and show you what the villains are up to. Here's Anya, THE villain of the Greed Wars, thinking about how she can use a princess she's holding hostage
#MythAugust *cracks knuckles* Here we go. I'm going to give a one-post yap about each God of the Decatheon, going in elemental order. More on Lucognidus next week!
The Decatheon:
-Sawyer
-Windesoar
-Cherribell
-Entomothy
-Flamboil
-Sparkato
-Machenerate
-Lucognidus
-Liqua
-Icsnow
#SummerOfStory 2
I've given a lot of thought to psychic distance. Years ago, I heard some people talk about how they disliked 1st-person PoV because it's often too close, and they like to be more distant from the narrator. That's when I realized "wtf, I love 1st person because I love being close"
Sapling cafe by margaret killjoy with a floral design on the cover. Paperback on a dock by a mountain lake
One of my current reads, a trans witch story by a transfem author I haven’t heard nearly as much about as I would’ve expected!
It feels a bit YA so far (50 pages in) (not a criticism but it wasn’t shelved as YA do I’m curious)
Saturday Snippet Image shows a holographic page with writing against a blueish background
Happy Saturday, writer friends! Did you get any writing done this past week? Share a line or two from your recent writing sessions with us 🙌
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I use them but now I keep reading they’re an indicator of AI so in my new WIP I find myself avoiding them 😟
Tuesday Trope Treasures Open chest of gold. Pirates, stay away!
Today's trope is all about.....Creepy Kids!
Do you like it? Do you not? Have you ever used it in your own writing? Best insurance you've seen it used? And perhaps in a genre that's *not* horror?
Bring on all the creepy kids!
#booksky #writesky #writingq #tuesday #shadowsparkpublishing 📚🪐
I am reminded that at some point I will have a sword & sorcery & serpents & sass story out, featuring my fat lippy competent girl assassin (a vishakanya that I just made up and yes she's venomous AND poisonous AND toxungenous)
Excited to see her square up against not her victim but an assassin bro
Every time I finish writing a book, I think “wow, that almost killed me. Never again.” Then, like, three weeks later I’m googling how many moons my made-up planets should have.
Art is wild.
Please hydrate and romanticize your weird little passions before we all turn to dust.
#writingcommunity
So I'm working on a post for disabled indie authors for Disability Pride Month (yes I know it's later, but better late than never!) and this may be the biggest collection of authors I've ever included in one article.
Y'all, a friend just wrote a fanfic for my world
If you need me, I'll be over here celebrating in my little corner of the world.
And also reading it😂
If you loved an author’s book, tell them! They will completely ignore it because they’re fixated forever on the anonymous person who once gave them two stars on goodreads but it’s probably good for your karma
We're so excited to bring Amy's book into the world! Stay tuned!
POWELL'S BOOKS - PRESENTS WENDY C. ORTIZ WITH EMILLY PRADO WENDY C. ORTIZ POWELL'S CITY OF BOOKS WEDNESDAY, JUL. 30 • 7 PM
People of Portland, I hope to see you a week from today when I’ll be discussing my books with Emilly Prado at Powell’s.
SSP Author spotlight featuring Salem Wolf, with the covers of the anthologies she's been involved in: "When Peter Became Pan" in Panthology, "But I Have A Boyfriend" in Horn(y), and "Hot and Cold" in Cozy-ish
It's Shadow Spark Thursday! Where we shine a spotlight on one of our wonderful authors. In today's case, Salem Wolf does more work behind the scenes as an editor, but she's written stories for our anthologies, too! Go check them out in Panthology, Horn(y), and Cozy-ish!
Help I’m writing an epic fantasy 😭
love when a paywall sounds like it’s drawing a gun on you
Got the itch to play a City Builder (video game genre). Played a game of Banished, which is my usual go-to, but I've built the town as far as I want. Anyone here ever play Timberborn? I had it on my wishlist forever, then bought it during a recent sale. Looks cute. How's the gameplay?
The exact midpoint of my current wip is... a scene I plan to delete because it's so cringe 💀
Parsnips talking to Grilled: "There are things you just can’t do until you’re an adult because it carries responsibility with it. Owning a house, having a job, drinking alcohol…”
“Deer head” Chihuahua mix dog. Brown hair on head but mostly white
Chihuahua wearing a harness perched on a chair
Sleepy chihuahua mostly white hair with brown around eyes and ears
Six pounds of pure energy
I'm delighted to announce that my poem "the jacarandas are unimpressed by your show of force" will be published by @strangehorizons!
The first sign that food will be important to my wip should be the fact that the characters are named after foods 🤣 And if that's not enough, I even include recipes! Many members of the cast show their love through food (whether making it, eating it, growing it, or providing a space for meals)
