Abnomrality

Back to it: new writing schedule, book updates, and a ramble. Back to discussing female killers, a new serialized story, and a rant about mental health.

So here’s the full rundown on what’s happening for me in December. I am back! With a tentative new writing schedule and a couple of announcements! #readingcommunity #mysterybooks #books #BookSky

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With Christmas only around the corner, don't forget I have two amazing books available on Amazon if you're still looking for gift ideas!

Sketches from a Curious Mind:
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FH6KPPFW

Philosophy for All:
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FYLTTH73

Support indie authors this Christmas

I LOVED Harrow the Ninth!

You should absolutely get #TheLurker! I got an arc and I DEVOURED it. Every terrible excuse you've made for yourself as a writer will come back to mock you. You'll have no choice but to get writing! I LOVE the writing meta humor and it's also genuinely inspiring
#writingcommunity #writesky #booksky

I've had one periodically following and re-following me lately too! I wonder if it's the same one

My revision readthrough is taking longer than I expected! Maybe my book really IS too long #amediting #amrevising #writingcommunity

My upcoming debut #novella "The Lurker" ( books2read.com/u/bwJrGZ ) isn't written to market; in fact I wrote most of it for myself and then I shared some of the jokes with writing buds. It was because some people really connected with it that I decided to make it something to finish. 1/4

It’s launch day!

My new book, Philosophy for All: Anaximander to the Present Day, is now available.

Tracing philosophy’s journey across ancient Greece, India, and China to modern thought.

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0FYLTTH73

#Philosophy #BookLaunch #WritingCommunity

"You’re always typing away, but never on that novel.” 📖

If the idea of someone reading your old fanfic out loud, while you're helpless to stop it, scares you...start writing before he comes.

#Questpit #H #Humor #P (pre-order now books2read.com/u/bwJrGZ) #TheLurker #Writesky

I'm actually not a fan of this. While theft is a serious issue, holding internet service providers accountable for the actions of subscribers will only encourage even more surveillance and censorship and threaten the free internet which is essential to a healthy democracy.

Ahhh I LOVE this one! If you're into dark fantasy you'll probably love this

On October 31st, you dressed up for Halloween; on November 1, you woke up in his basement.

That's while you'll be rough drafting your novel in a set of skeleton sweats. 👻

#Ghostpit #A #SP #H #Humor #SS

Arrows pointing to an image of the cover for the Lurker (image credit Wesley Ferreria), subscript: what would it take for you to start writing? With arrows pointing to center: About trying to write 50k words but is a lot less than 50k words Torture via reading your teenage Twilight fanfic out-loud Kitty sidekick with a ridiculous name meta-humor that only other writers will find funny It's like Misery but funny and will never have a movie adaptation Painfully obvious self-insert character

Have you ever wished that someone would just force you to write?

Be careful what you wish for...

#TheLurker #Selfpublish #Novella #Writing

The cover of the book The Devils by Joe Abercrombie. A red skull with two candles on top of it over a reddish black background

#20TBRbookchallenge

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

20/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

My favourite part of the Halloween season.
Not the trick or treating, or the costumes, but being able to repeatedly stab a gourd!

#halloween #autumnvibes

books2read.com/u/bwJrGZ Pre-order is now up for the e-book version! (Still working on the print version).

#TheLurker is a meta-humor/light horror novella about struggling to write a first draft in the month of November.

#Writers #Nanowrimo #Selfpublish

The cover of the book My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix. The book is designed to look like a VHS box from the 80s.

#20TBRbookchallenge

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

19/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

A proof copy of "The Lurker" by Rosemary Victus (it has a band across it indicating that) the holder is wearing a skeleton hoodie

😅 I can't describe what it's like to hold a book I wrote for the very first time...

#SelfPublish #TheLurker #Writesky 1/2

The cover of the book His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik. A thin black dragon with a long tongue curls around an amulet with an image of a ship in the middle, over a red background.

#20TBRbookchallenge

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

18/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

The cover of the book A Sh*tload of Crazy Powers by Jackson Ford. Black text on a yellow background, surrounded by random everyday objects.

#20TBRbookchallenge

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

17/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

The cover of the novel A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge

#20TBRbookchallenge

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

16/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

The cover of the novel Apostles of Mercy by Lindsay Ellis, book 3 in the Noumena series. The cover shows an inkblot-style butterfly on a green background with white bars splitting the background and sometimes the butterfly.

#20TBRbookchallenge

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

15/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

I'm SO READY for the Lurker!!!

The cover of the book "Normal Women" by Ainslie Hogarth. A cloud covers the eyes of a smiling white woman over a blue background. shaved white legs in 1950s-looking yellow heels and a skirt dangle from the right, and a little baby's face is visible in the bottom left corner. The title is in yellow text at the top and the author's name is in black text; each letter is unique and creatively drawn.

#20TBRbookchallenge

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

14/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

The cover of the novel On Beauty by Zadie Smith. Gold patterns on a blue background shadowed by the silhouette of a woman that makes the patterns blue and the background black.

#20TBRbookchallenge

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

13/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

The cover of the novel "Todos los Hombres del Rey" by Laura Gallego. Gold and roses frame the title over a red background, with a uniformed man in the bottom left corner and some dark thorns in the bottom right

#20TBRbookchallenge

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

12/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

And here's the thing, even though the best outcome is learning the material (which often these late night projects were), the "I had to BS my way through" is actually learning skills. It's problem solving, creativity, improvisation and thinking on your feet.
Gen AI teaches nothing but helplessness.

The cover of the novel "Children of Ruin" by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The background image is a satellite breaking apart in space, with large red planet in the upper right corner.

#20TBRbookchallenge

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

11/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

The cover of the book "God Created the Integers: The mathematical breakthroughs that changed history" by Stephen Hawking

#20TBRbookchallenge

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

10/20

#Booksky #bookchallenge
#readingchallenge #readersky

Zane (@zane) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform Inktober 2025 | Day 1: Mustache

#inktober day 1: #mustache

But I'm already behind. This is Paulie enjoying the fuck out of finger mustaches lol

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#art #ocart #oc #originalcharacter #wmhst #traditional #inktober2025 #ink #drawing #lgbtartists #queerartists #queercharacters #sketch