who are your favorite writers on here? 🥰
so many of great writers here damn! But my top 3 are: you Andy, @i-me-mine and @superblysubpar and all of you are on the first place because you can blow my mind and do whatever you want with my heart with you works like nobody else lmao
🥺🥺 that just made my day @itsfreakingbats 😭😭🩷
Also here’s some of my faves @estrellami-1 @steves-strapcollection @strangersteddierthings @artiststarme @henderdads 🥰🥰
I’m going to cry 🥺 you’re so sweet!!
You, obviously. @luninosity was a BIG one for me for a while and I still love her writing style and try to emulate it when I can. @thatonegreyghost is a FANTASTIC writer ❤️ @steddieas-shegoes, obviously! @piratefishmama is great too! :) And a few others that have already been named. ❤️
Oh, gosh, thank you! That’s so kind! <3333
(and someday I shall finish that one unfinished crossover Steve/Bucky Chris/Seb fic, I swear... *laughs*)
I’ve got too many favorite writers on here to name, so I’ll pick a small subset - people who, when I read their writing, I’ve genuinely learned something from, absorbed it, been in awe of it - about style, voice, sensory detail, and phrasing! So let’s go with... @ninemoons42 @significantowl @musette22 @thebestpersonherelovesbucky and @whtaft
Love you! <3
This presenter at this popular romance studies conference just showed a Rofroy manip while discussing queer Jane Eyre retellings
and instantly it is 2011 again and I am deceased
my god, how the past haunts me
"Treasures," my little m/nonbinary flash fic romance, comes out from JMS Books tomorrow! (June 24!) And it's only 99 cents!
Blake just needs a gift for his niece...which means, of course, visiting the best magical toy shop around...and, just possibly, falling head over heels for a magician toy maker...
(I know the cover's not exactly the best; the JMS flash fiction shorts only have a pre-set choice of four options!)
You can grab it at Amazon here, or over at JMS Books here - on sale for only **79 cents** at the moment! *throws confetti*
Look at the shiny number one banner! 💜💜💜
"Treasures," my little m/nonbinary flash fic romance, comes out from JMS Books tomorrow! (June 24!) And it's only 99 cents!
Blake just needs a gift for his niece...which means, of course, visiting the best magical toy shop around...and, just possibly, falling head over heels for a magician toy maker...
(I know the cover's not exactly the best; the JMS flash fiction shorts only have a pre-set choice of four options!)
You can grab it at Amazon here, or over at JMS Books here - on sale for only **79 cents** at the moment! *throws confetti*
Happy Character Bleed Box Set Release Day!
Ebook first, paperback coming soon - and yes, it’ll be massive! *laughs* It’s 332,890 words! Good heavens, as Colby would say. This is closer to the way I originally wrote it, as one giant novel - I broke it into a trilogy to, y'know, make it publishable! But now we’re doing it as one big story! This volume includes the short stories that came with each book of the trilogy - the short stories that were published separately will get collected into a second volume, coming soon! (And there might be a new one in there…I’ve been wanting to do the Leather & Tea crossover story, purely for fun, just because I want to. This is a good excuse. And it’s possible that Colby and Ben, of all people, have met before…) I love these characters and this world so much - it’s the most words (and ideas!) I’ve ever written, and I’m so grateful and so lucky to have you all sharing this journey - tall ships, bread puns, and tender falling in love - with me. I loaf you. (Couldn’t resist.) This box set is on sale over at JMS for only $10.39 during release week - after that it’ll go up to $12.99! (This is the ebook - paperback coming soon.)
Come order yours at JMS now! (I believe there’s not a separate Amazon link - or if there is I can’t find it - because Amazon already lets you buy all three books as a bundle over here. That doesn’t get you the new cover or Author’s Note though!)
Ah, someone found the Amazon link! It does exist! So you can also grab the collected box set from Amazon over here, if you would like. <3
Happy Character Bleed Box Set Release Day!
Ebook first, paperback coming soon - and yes, it’ll be massive! *laughs* It's 332,890 words! Good heavens, as Colby would say. This is closer to the way I originally wrote it, as one giant novel - I broke it into a trilogy to, y'know, make it publishable! But now we're doing it as one big story! This volume includes the short stories that came with each book of the trilogy - the short stories that were published separately will get collected into a second volume, coming soon! (And there might be a new one in there...I've been wanting to do the Leather & Tea crossover story, purely for fun, just because I want to. This is a good excuse. And it's possible that Colby and Ben, of all people, have met before...) I love these characters and this world so much - it's the most words (and ideas!) I've ever written, and I'm so grateful and so lucky to have you all sharing this journey - tall ships, bread puns, and tender falling in love - with me. I loaf you. (Couldn't resist.) This box set is on sale over at JMS for only $10.39 during release week - after that it'll go up to $12.99! (This is the ebook - paperback coming soon.)
Come order yours at JMS now! (I believe there's not a separate Amazon link - or if there is I can't find it - because Amazon already lets you buy all three books as a bundle over here. That doesn't get you the new cover or Author's Note though!)
Whilst I actually remember that I exist here, may I quickly catch you up on some News of various types?
1) the RomPod podcast episode that's got an interview with, er, me, and also the lovely romance scholar Maria Ramos-Garcia, is up now, if you want to hear me ramble about things! We're in episode 2, which you can find here.
2) if you're looking for a good cause to support this month, and some great short stories celebrating queer joy in all sorts of flavors, you might like to check out this anthology kickstarter from Amphibian Press - I've got a story in there! Something brand-new and shiny and exclusive to this collection! (I think we're not supposed to announce the full lineup yet, but there are some lovely author-friends in there too!) Proceeds are going to benefit Club Q!
3) this one’s probably the Big Thing - the Character Bleed box set - with the original three novels, plus new author’s note, and updated cover art - is coming June 10 from JMS Books! Ebook first, then paperback probably in about two months - yes, it’ll be massive! I really want to see it. It’s going to be...wait for it...332,890 words. (Good heavens, did I write that many words?!) It’s actually sort of experimental - JMS said they don’t normally do paperbacks for box sets, but this trilogy has been such a consistent good seller, they’d like to try at least a limited number in print. (So maybe please buy one when that happens? If nothing else you can probably use it as a hammer, or a doorstop, or a weapon.)
This is closer to the way I originally wrote it, as one giant novel - I broke it into a trilogy to, y'know, make it publishable! This volume includes the short stories that came with each book - including the ones that were never on AO3, at least one of those per book. The short stories published separately will get collected into a second volume! (I am STILL working on Leo’s book, which might have to be two books, because it is now 116k and NOT DONE *screams quietly into pillows about not being able to write short things*)
I don’t think the Amazon link is live yet but here’s the JMS Books link!
4) with the Academic Hat on, I am your Fantasy & the Fantastic Area Chair for the Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association Conference! We've got several great proposals but should have room for 1-2 more - if you are working on some fantasy-adjacent research / creative work with meta-cognitive component, and you want to come to Portland in October, send me an abstract over here! Or, if you are in or near Portland, would you like to hang out, meet up, say hi? Or, any recommendations? I’ve been to Portland once before but also for Academic Conference Reasons, so not lots of tourist time. Awesome Husband might come this time because he’s never been to Portland and he’s got some vacation time. We like history, good craft beer, botanic gardens, water, queerness, and libraries. I think the conference hotel is some sort of Hilton in the downtown area?
5) officially got the rights back from Inkshares* for my first** novel, A Prophecy for Two! (Plus they sent me the last paperbacks they had in inventory, so a- those are I guess rare-ish now, since there'll never be another of those editions - want to buy one for cheap? *laughs* I mean I’m semi- serious; they sent me like 13 paperbacks, and I do not need that many! and b- I think that's it as far as that relationship! *dusts off hands*) Now to give the whole thing a polish and republish it with JMS - we've already had conversations about that, so it’ll happen!
*I’ve got complicated feels about Inkshares. That’s a whole other post. In the short form: did I get a book out of it, when I was an unknown author? Yes. Would I advise someone else to work with them? No.
**first in terms of being completed. A Demon for Midwinter ended up being published first, because of publisher schedules and JMS Books sending me a super-quick offer and having great editorial turnaround.
6) okay, I THINK that’s it! Actually, a totally non-publishing related thing: I just had a student submit - for a 12-page paper requirement - a paper that was 21 pages. Yep.
Honestly, it was kind of lovely - he’s a good student, he’s a good writer, and he already submitted a 14-page version that was excellent, but then he asked if he could send me an updated version “to make it as good as I possibly can,” and I said yes, because he *is* a very good writer, and then. A 21 page paper showed up in my email. Not including his Works Cited section, or the lengthy email in which he told me how much fun he had in my class and getting to write about monsters and monstrosity and ethics and agency. My god, student, I am both impressed and vaguely in shock. I mean, that’s why I do this job, that’s why I love this job, but also - he sent the updated version to me the *day* before final grades were due. (He already had an A.)
me: *reading post from friend about her latest first date that was a massive NOPE, or so we thought*
me: ...is this, like...a straight boy thing that they do? *summarizes date to Husband*
Awesome Husband: ...honestly, I wouldn’t know. But also no, he’s creepy, full stop.
tag game thing!
Rules: tag 20 people you want to get to know better.
Tagged by @steverogersnotebook - yay friends! <3
Relationship status: happily married to the Awesome Husband!
Favorite color: specifically, it depends on the day, but somewhere in the blue/green/grey/violet realm
Song stuck in my head: yesterday it was Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again”
Last song I listened to: KingQueen, “Tornado”
Three favorite foods: potatoes (baked, French fries, mashed, sweet potatoes, hash browns...), any sort of apple or berry pie, and a really good macaroni & cheese
Last thing I googled: flights to Chicago, just to get a rough idea of prices for an upcoming academic conference
Dream trip: assuming something like “space, full of nebulae” or “futuristic Mars” is out, then I’d love to just wander around some of the countries I haven’t been to yet in Europe, for like a month: Germany, Prague (oops that’s a city not a country, oh well), Switzerland, Romania, Greece, maybe up to Norway and Sweden...lots of history, good food, gorgeous landscapes...
Anything I want right now: an extra week of time before some of these writing deadlines!
Tagging: gosh, 20? that seems like a lot! oh well, let’s see... @musette22 @paperstorm @turtletotem @thebestpersonherelovesbucky @rozf @ninemoons42 @dduane @amergina @ahnjunae @kernezelda @significantowl @ixalit @msilverstar @phlebasphoenician @soft-shroom @otpblackholemagnetar @marvelingjules @eloisajames @thebibliosphere
Look what’s up for pre-order: my & @thebestpersonherelovesbucky ‘s next m/m Regency magicians novel! And look at that gorgeous cover!
Chaos and Conjurations is the sequel to Spells and Sensibility, and we promise more tea, magic, riddles, Henry and Theo facing evil cultists and also an evening with Theo’s brother the Duke…and some revelations…
Release date March 11! On pre-order sale now over here at JMS Books! <3
Out now! And we promise we haven’t dropped anyone off a cliff in this one - though there might be an explosion or two...oh, and the magical sex toys... *laughs* And here’s the Amazon link, since evidently I forgot to put it in the earlier post!
I’m going through AoU quotes and I remembered the discourse about “Language!” And how, Steve growing up Irish in Brooklyn in the 1930s, was probably as potty-mouthed as they come.
So...imagine if "Language!" was a running joke between him and Bucky? Bucky's the oldest kid - he's probably gone through a bossy phase where he's wagging his finger at his little sisters and Steve for being naughty. "Language!" he used to snap when the argument got too heated.
Then he grew older and stopped caring, but Steve never let him live it down. Every time those standard issue guns malfunctioned and he'd pop a dirty word, he'd get Steve's smug voice next to his ear with "Language!" and he swears one day he's going to shoot the little shit in the head and it ain't gonna be by accident.
Steve had been thinking about and searching for Bucky for months. They were in Eastern Europe. He was riding through the forest on a bike. It was winter. There was laser flying overhead. For a moment he thought he was back in the war when the word "Shit!" came over the radio.
"Language!"
He held his breath. Disappointment washed over him when a different voice came online, "Is no one going to comment that the Cap just said "language"?"
The Avengers never let Steve live it down. It had come full circle.
(Bucky years later hearing about this: 😤😤😤)
If we ever did, like, a sort of author/friends hangout thing down at Phantom Ales in Anaheim, or maybe Bottle Logic, and people who like things I write, or just friend-people, could come say hi, are there people in SoCal who would? Or people visiting California for some reason? Might be fun?
Look what's up for pre-order: my & @thebestpersonherelovesbucky ‘s next m/m Regency magicians novel! And look at that gorgeous cover!
Chaos and Conjurations is the sequel to Spells and Sensibility, and we promise more tea, magic, riddles, Henry and Theo facing evil cultists and also an evening with Theo's brother the Duke...and some revelations...
Release date March 11! On pre-order sale now over here at JMS Books! <3
I keep forgetting to post these here! (And to update the actual author website, and...) In this month's Read Around the Rainbow group blog...webring...thing, the question was, "someone insults your main character! how do they react?" Which is a topic I actually have a LOT of thoughts about! (*looks at a scene or two in Character Bleed*) It also works well with the way I write, which tends to be very character-first (versus plot, theme, etc), so that’s always what I know most about: them as people!
Happy National Love Your Pet Day to this ridiculous creature 💜🐈⬛😸
For some happier things, presents from the Awesome Husband - some Labyrinth, some dinosaur earrings, what more do you need? 💜
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Just finished hamlet & had to share THIS
btw this is literally what goes down. it’s great.