Grey and white cat sits on green chair, stares longingly at bouqwt of yellow gillyflower and mini pink carnations atop a glass/chrome table.

Spring

The new Laufey album is incredible inspiration fodder for a hopeless romantic character

If anyone has any recs, please send them my way!! I really enjoyed Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood and its representation for type 1 diabetes.

Don't get me wrong, I devoured the angsty YA contemporary fiction/romance books like TFIOS and think that representation is sooo important! But I also desperately needed happy ending, normalized health disorder representation in romantic comedy novels.

I need to write a romance novel where the main character has a heart condition AND NO ONE DIES OR HAS A SCARE AND IT'S THERE BUT IT'S OKAY because I needed that kind of book when I was thirteen finding out about my heart issues and wondering if I could ever have a normal life

Celebrating getting through my early morning echocardiogram with a deliciously warm bath, matcha latte, and the new Holly Humberstone album.

fry from futurama is shown in a close up Alt: fry from futurama is shown in a close up narrowing his eyes

*gets a "hold for second read" notification about a short story I'm really excited about*
*realizes what day it is*

Panic before the disco

Princess Donut is literally my cat Jitterbug. I can't believe it's taken me this long to crack open Dungeon Crawler Carl!! It's so entertaining!!!

I think my dating app horror stories might be over 🥰🥳🥰

Anyone else make up a silly little jingle of their placeholder title for new drafts to sing whenever you have an idea for the book?

🎶spaaace DIEmonds iN OuTer SpAcE🎶

Help! I need advice on getting out of new-project-paralysis! I can't decide which idea I want to dive into. Authors, how do you pick your next project from your idea pile??

Made some cookie dough. These aren't making it to the cookie stage.

Upholding my social duty to my coworkers by bringing in my latest dating app horror stories

My mom just found a note from Grandma to my aunt in the cookbook "June 17, 1990. Carrie, this is for you because you need all the help you can get."

I love my friends and family so much, and I truly appreciate their outpouring of support 💕💕

That being said, it's also really exciting to get my first 5-star review from a total stranger and know that my writing is spreading outside of my immediate circle.

Let's hope there's room for me in the car & hotel because I haven't planned for alternative accommodations.

My mom doesn't know I'm flying to see her. Almost messed up the surprise when I called her at my gate while a gate announcement was going on the intercom. Hung up immediately. I think the surprise is intact.

I don’t write queer sci-fi stories for the money. I write them because they need to be told. Because I didn’t have books like this when I was younger. Because creativity IS resistance.

Still, I thank you for buying my books and holding space for the stories we need. 💕

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ENTER HERE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PORTALS is eligible for a Nebula nomination! If you're an #SFWA member and would like a free review copy, get in touch with me and @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social via email and we'd be happy to send one along.

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Sometimes I think it'd be cool to build a patchwork sleeve based on every story of mine that gets published, but if my latest one gets picked up, that'd probably mean getting a cow molar tattooed on my arm and IDK if I actually want that for life.

Juvenile bald eagle landing, wings partially outstretched, on a branch sticking out of a semi-frozen lake. White tail and head feathers are still coming in, giving a mottled appearance.

A soft place to land

I have little social life 😅😅

If you see this and agree, you are obligated to rec a book by a fantasy author who's still writing. I don't make the rules.

I mean, I do. Please though? It'd be great.

The Celestial Kingdom duology by Sue Lynn Tan! I devoured them and the accompanying short story collection in a weekend!

Can I turn a suburban house in the desert into a gothic setting? Let's hope so!!

It feels fitting to listen to Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights on repeat while writing the ending to this Gothic horror short story.

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I will never understand the people who are weird about audiobooks “not being reading”

I asked my dad, someone who doesn't really read books, how many books he thought I read last year, and he said, "700?"

42. I read 42.