Continuing the tradition of giving away a monster story for Halloween. Blood & Bone is free on Kindle today. Werewolves, vampires, and superhero noir on the house.
https://a.co/d/e3GzXSW
https://a.co/d/e3GzXSW
12:22 PM - Oct 22, 2023
Writers—do you have a favorite metaphor, like one you use every single day cos it says what you need to say better than anything? Between the song and the film, never a day goes by I don’t think of pulling a ship over a mountain. Fitzcarraldo, man.
https://youtu.be/tkf7MznDR...
https://youtu.be/tkf7MznDR...
01:42 PM - Oct 21, 2023
I am the kind of anxious, restless, and desperate for change that if a stoned wizard and thirteen dwarves showed up at my door I would have no hesitation to go steal something from a dragon with them.
10:02 PM - Oct 17, 2023
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Needing to drive across Salem on Friday the 13th for meds from the vet is a HARROWING experience, even at 9:30 in the morning.
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Needing to drive across Salem on Friday the 13th for meds from the vet is a HARROWING experience, even at 9:30 in the morning.
10:40 AM - Oct 13, 2023
Giving away Blood & Bone today to kick off Halloween in Salem, superhero nordic noir with werewolves and vampires. I really should revisit the Titus solo stories again soon.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/...
https://www.amazon.com/dp/...
09:59 AM - Oct 04, 2023
3 Threaded Spouts
It's not that I don't travel well or like to travel it's that I normally sleep 4-5 hours a night but it's a VERY SPECIFIC 4-5 hours so traveling completely f*cks me up and I spend a lot of time sitting alone at 2 a.m. in hotel rooms.
11:58 PM - Sep 19, 2023
Been trying for months to figure out how to stop my neighbor's windows from melting my house and it has come to my attention there are nine-foot-tall inflatable lawn dragons that would look AMAZING peering out from that side of the house for Halloween that might just become permanent
03:36 PM - Sep 18, 2023
"My superpower is if I get extremely invested in a character, that character WILL inevitably die tragically."
"Do you think this might have anything to do with the fact you fully admit you have always had a low-key death wish so you identify with doomed characters?"
"...sh*t."
"Do you think this might have anything to do with the fact you fully admit you have always had a low-key death wish so you identify with doomed characters?"
"...sh*t."
08:09 PM - Sep 14, 2023
2 Threaded Spouts
Love when a character you create surprises you years later. Thinking about the joy of dancing (and how I have none), and how in the Indestructibles, the Dancer stops performing when all joy has left her life. Her entire arc is making sure that never happens to anyone else.
09:30 PM - Sep 06, 2023
I am not a violent person, but bulleted lists misbehaving in a document make me question that stance.
01:23 PM - Sep 06, 2023
I'll be joining moderator Sara Sheckells and fellow panelists Petrea Burchard and Stephanie Willing for a Salem LitFest panel on authors who narrate this weekend, 9/10 at 11 a.m. EST. Wanted to give this some love on this site. Virtual and free!
http://salemlitfest.org
http://salemlitfest.org
02:01 PM - Sep 05, 2023
2 Threaded Spouts
Seeing all the "writers don't deserve a living wage" still happening and I just blurted out to myself "ENTERTAINING PEOPLE IS IN FACT A SERVICE" and I feel like I need to put that on a coffee mug or something.
10:58 AM - Sep 05, 2023
Talking to another writer this morning about how there are two types of writers:
A) I use every tool known to humanity to help organize and inspire my writing
B) I need a deadline and a no-frills word processing program
(Both valid. I'm B)
A) I use every tool known to humanity to help organize and inspire my writing
B) I need a deadline and a no-frills word processing program
(Both valid. I'm B)
10:36 AM - Aug 29, 2023
4 Threaded Spouts
Chatting with someone who should know better and... Teaching multiple generations that only STEM matters and the humanities is a waste of time is a mistake humanity will never recover from. A lack of empathy might be the thing that wipes us out before climate change does.
05:56 PM - Aug 28, 2023
"I can always tell how bad a day you're having by how trashy your Boston accent is when I talk to you."
Thanks... I guess?
Thanks... I guess?
05:56 PM - Aug 28, 2023
Artists & Creatives MUST be included in White House discussions on Generative A.I. - Sign the Petition! https://chng.it/Rhb82ghG via Change
08:52 PM - Aug 21, 2023
One of my absolute favorite things to do as an author is hook up literary events with awesome writers I've been on panels with in the past. Nothing makes me happier than connecting those lines.
11:41 PM - Aug 21, 2023
Things that only make sense in a specific context:
"What's wrong?"
"I have misplaced a box of very big minis."
"What's wrong?"
"I have misplaced a box of very big minis."
09:19 PM - Aug 19, 2023
This was a very pleasant email to start the weekend with. (I never thought I was eligible, TBH, applied a few weeks ago when I saw I met the requirements. Feels nice to be included in an organization like this.)
02:04 PM - Aug 19, 2023
Been ping-ponging around all the social and I find Spoutible to be a great refuge for writers/authors, specifically. The gaming stuff I work on seems to be picking up on Bsky. Tumblr is haunted, but in a good way (?). Mastodon I can't get anywhere. I kinda like the segmentation a lil bit.
11:48 AM - Aug 19, 2023
3 Threaded Spouts
Ran the first session of our Nine Hells meets Regency game last night and I wanted the NPC list to read like the dramatis personae of a drunken Shakespeare knockoff with a dash or Pratchett-esque playfulness and I think I got it. Cast list in the follow up:
11:33 AM - Aug 19, 2023
I have so much work to do, but the sky is thundering, I'm struggling to breathe, and I have a D&D game to make up silly NPC names for, so my attention is... meandering. Kinda want to sit outside in the rain and daydream.
10:01 AM - Aug 18, 2023
Pitched a D&D game as the nine hells meets Downton Abbey and now we have rich goblin spinster sisters, a table knocker, dark Oliver Twist, a kenku butler and a home schooled cleric. This is going to be a DMing nightmare and I’m here for it.
09:36 PM - Aug 17, 2023
I'll be joining Salem Lit Fest for a virtual panel on 9/10 on Authors Who Narrate with Sara Sheckells and Petrea Burchard - looking forward to talking about working with Spoken Realms on the full-cast audio of the Indestructibles!
https://salemlitfest.org/2...
https://salemlitfest.org/2...
10:25 AM - Aug 17, 2023
Had a long convo the other night about how many companies we'd worked for that committed suicide by venture capitalist and started wondering why business schools aren't teaching how to not get f*cked by VCs, but then I realized they're teaching how to BE the vulture.
01:59 PM - Aug 12, 2023
Couple of old photos of me popped up this morning and I just remembered my former publisher wanted to use one as my author photo and I was like "I look like a very vain supervillain, please don't"
09:35 AM - Aug 11, 2023
I think I actually need to go to King Richard's Faire this year. New Dungeon Crawlers is in the works and the series has always used prop weapons I personally own in the cover art and I'm all out, so clearly buying a sword at a ren faire is a BUSINESS EXPENSE
09:46 AM - Aug 10, 2023
I'm always a little moody after working a few conventions back to back. They train my entire social battery to zero, but they're also the time I feel most fully and personally engaged with readers. I wish I could do this more often. (So much work, but so rewarding.)
09:35 AM - Aug 10, 2023
I'm at Terrificon all weekend with a new book and new audiobook to promote, and as is tradition I'm giving away a ebook novelette all weekend: an Indestructibles prequel, "The Monsters We Make."
https://a.co/d/5RXIxYd
https://a.co/d/5RXIxYd
09:29 AM - Jul 28, 2023
Got the old party back to get her for the first in person game in 3 years and almost had a PvP TPK at the end. They did try to socialize magical healthcare though.
06:35 PM - Jul 23, 2023
