Drinks coffee. Eats pizza. Writes books like MY SEVENTH-GRADE LIFE IN TIGHTS. The inked-up librarian. Rep’d by Uwe Stender and Brent Taylor (Triada). he/him
Not sure I’ve ever read a book as beautifully written as Nothing but Blackened Teeth by @casskhaw. This was literary ASMR. The writing wasn’t just lyrical and pretty it was brain-tingly and visceral. My god.
Oh, it was also scary as all get out.
#amreading #writingcommuity #writersofmastodon #authorsofmastodon #horror #horrorfiction
First finished book of 2023 was a trip! BELOW by Laurel Hightower. This one may have been small in stature (barely 104 pages) but it was truly monstrous in scares!
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@sheilamaverbuch God that’s so true! 😭
@Ivy Thanks!
My #gamedev buddy of many years, Dustin Hansen (@dustwrites) just joined Mastodon and I wanted to give him an #introduction to get him going
Dustin was instrumental in being a leader and a mentor in my early days in #videogames at #EA. An #artist that reached great professional heights with hard work and without having to be a massive dick to everybody. Never settling he did theme parks, toys, books, indies, AAA, art teacher to his kids, etc, hes awesome.
Happy Hanukkah, y’all!
#happyhanukkah #holidays #writingcommunity #writer #author
@aelisterauthor That’s awesome!!
One of the things I enjoy about Mastodon is how the #writingcommunity acts like an actual community and less like a middle school cafeteria where the popular kids take up one table and won’t let anyone they don’t know sit with them.
On Twitter, too many traditionally published authors didn’t want to associate with non-traditionally published ones. I felt that pressure to ignore them, too. I’m not feeling that here, though. I hope it stays that way. 😊
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@VictoriaMAdams I'm glad I'm not the only one! 😂
My agent and I agreed it'd be wise to wait until after the new year to put my newest MG on sub.
On one hand this means I won't be frantically checking my phone every three seconds during the holidays.
On the other it means I need to scrap my New Year's resolution to not frantically check my phone every three seconds in 2023.
🙃
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Today is our last day of school before the break. I, the school's librarian, volunteered to play in a game of volleyball (teachers vs. students).
Glob help me.
Glob, also look after my pants because lord they're feeling snug after a week of middle schoolers bringing in cookies and treats all week.
@wendyparciak For real!
One of the tiniest things that's bringing me some real joy while writing this YA book is trying to come up with chapter titles that could be the chef's kiss of musical puns.
@rickmans For me, it's an hour each morning before I leave for work. Like right now. As I type this reply. But I suppose I can count this as writing, right?
@alisonpstevens Totally!
It's so wild to see pictures/videos of people's houses and they have all the lights on.
At any given time in ours we might have one or two on at a time. No more.
I'd like to say we're super goth and broody but the reality is our eyes are just way too sensitive to light.
But goth and broody sounds cooler, so we'll go with that. 😂
Also, this isn’t a #nanowrimo project because I simply can’t nanowrimo.
Figured I’d share the first line of my YA work-in-progress because I actually do sort of love it a lot. 😊
I honestly can’t say what I’m more attracted to—watching Kiki Kapoor trying to pick the lock to our band director’s office door or knowing that if she fails it means I’ll never have to hear Chapman Torres utter the phrase “fingering my bass” ever again.
#amwriting #writing #firstline #firstlines #ya #lotstounpackthere #battleofthebandgeeks
The main character in this YA I’m working on now wants so badly to be a good writer but can’t bring himself to —just write— without worrying if it’s good or not.
Is it me? Am I the problem?
😅
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A short love story to start your day.
