I'm brainstorming for the short story that fabulous editor invited me to submit next month. Want to nudge my creative process?
#ShortStory #fiction #SFF #fantasy #AmWriting
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Sarah Avery
Writer of epic and contemporary fantasy. Winner of 2015 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. Escaped academic.
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Now that everything but the last three days of this novel's plot has stabilized, The Spouse is reading the manuscript. A public post.
How to Shoot a Fictional Character
A post for Patreon subscribers
#SFF #Fiction #Novel #AmWriting #AmResearching
How things went at the World Fantasy Convention — well, but strangely well.
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A deleted scene, posted for Patreon subscribers. These two characters' relationship develops much faster in the current version of the book than when I wrote this scene. I still like it, but it no longer fits.
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https:// www.patreon.com/posts/142275496
In praise of my alpha reader, the friend who has read every draft of every scene of every novel I've started since 2003 — and how his advice is changing my approach to the trip I'm about to take for the #WorldFantasyConvention in the UK.
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Sprinting to the end of this manuscript before I travel for the #WorldFantasyConvention. A blog post about my current process and product.
#AmWriting #SFF #Fiction #Fantasy #Writing
To contact iHeartRadio about your participation in the #TexasBoycott, the only way I found to get feedback to them was to go to their Help page (help.iheart.com/hc/en-us) and pester the chatbot about letting me speak to a live human until it spat up an email webform. Good hunting!
Fun research rabbit hole: What traditional Hungarian dance would my main character and his ex-wife have done at their wedding?
#Fiction #SFF #Research #WIP #AmWriting #WritersOfMastodon
My program schedule for @capclave.bsky.social this weekend. Come to my reading to hear a new scene from the #WIP. I can't wait to see how it plays with an audience.
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! My award-winning, out-of-print book Tales from Rugosa Coven has a new publisher! We're bringing it back in August 2026 in a new author's preferred edition. The magisterial Melissa Scott acquired a small press called Candlemark & Gleam, and I get to be part of the new direction she's taking the press in. I've got lots to say about this news.
#sff #fantasy #fiction #PaganBooks #pagan #witch #publishing #WritersOfMastodon
https://www.candlemarkandgleam.com/2025/09/10/announcing-tales-from-rugosa-coven/
What's going on with the manuscript while the cool secret thing has been in the works: a Patreon post for subscribers.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/137488495
That very good thing I can't talk about in detail yet? It's definitely going to happen. I'll be able to make a big announcement about it next week.
#sff #PaganBooks #fiction #publishing #WritersOfMastodon
Something good might be about to happen. But I can't share details yet. It's that kind of good.
Crime, Punishment, and Video Games — I just finished reading #CrimeAndPunishment for the first time, because Younger Kid is playing a video game that makes jazz with a dozen characters from world literature. A public blog post.
#Fiction #VideoGames #LimbusCompany
https://www.patreon.com/posts/134876208
Good news and bad news. The short version: my little local arts grant still exists, but I'm not going to Seattle for WorldCon after all. Fiddly details in a Patreon post for patrons. https://www.patreon.com/posts/134280985
I've been checking my milkweed for caterpillars. No hungry little friends so far. You've got some fine ones there!
Where can you find me at #Balticon? Here's a public post about the panels I'll be on next weekend, May 24-26. Thanks, @balticon.bsky.social!
@jappel I was not surprised to learn that very few of them are known to exist. People who could use the zhanmadao effectively must have been rare.
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