Written in dust, tainted by memories
I confess my hope, recognize my loneliness...
—Opeth
@leprojetserret.bsky.social
Author of GRENDEL WEPT and AMERICAN FICTIONS. Publisher, Tempest & Gayle. tempestandgayle.com «It is a lonely passion of the soul—or a passion of the lonely soul». —Arthur Machen
Written in dust, tainted by memories
I confess my hope, recognize my loneliness...
—Opeth
Actually, my padded cell ain't that bad.
#booksky
Plot-->setting-->characters
17.10.2025 03:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.
The Ninth Gate
The Witch
The Thing
30 Days of Night
Define your music taste with 8 artists:
-Opeth
-Meshuggah
-Nile
-Katatonia
-Lucifer
-Blood Ceremony
-The Devil’s Blood
-Kylessa
Self-publishing is an exercise in humiliation, if less so than the query trenches. But even if no one ever buys or reads your book, there is something to be said for seeing your book(s) exist in the world, and holding them in your hands.
16.10.2025 12:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And winter comes to Arizona. Life in 2 seasons.
16.10.2025 12:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0"A plank. The theory is very simple: you walk along it; at the end, you fall off..."
"Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet" part 3 (1978). #DoctorWho
Give in to temptation—buy my book.
07.10.2025 13:50 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The beauty of art is that artists can disagree on method and express that disagreement by creating art.
10.10.2025 13:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A review is like rain in the desert.
10.10.2025 01:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Brodernist nightmare: an existential novel that is less than 1,000 pages long, wasn't written a single sentence, has paragraph breaks, and even—sometimes—punctuates dialogue.
10.10.2025 00:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1Even rarely so.
10.10.2025 00:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bad take, HP.
10.10.2025 00:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Ramen is the best cold medicine.
10.10.2025 00:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Instead of a midlife crisis, I wrote and published novels—or, they are the midlife crisis.
09.10.2025 02:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0👍 Can't beat having a library in your pocket, and phone screens are big enough these days for it to work just fine.
09.10.2025 02:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I don't have a Kindle, but I've found the app to be useful on my phone.
09.10.2025 02:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Give in to temptation—buy my book.
07.10.2025 13:50 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Bring your slings! Bring your arrows!
The Serret shooting gallery at #goodreads is now open: have at it.
#booksky
Bring your slings! Bring your arrows!
The Serret shooting gallery at #goodreads is now open: have at it.
#booksky
Anyone and everyone with taste.
06.10.2025 02:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0And here I am, creating an incredibly niche book tag. Like one does. Come read my Labyrinth book tag!
Who else loves this movie?
#Booktag #Booksky #Labyrinth #bookblogger
For the artist, above all, endurance.
05.10.2025 20:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0People need art, but the industry at large now exists for itself. Art still being created outside of the industry—but people have to be willing to seek it out.
05.10.2025 18:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Still with the Collen Hoover ads, but maybe what they’re saying is that PLAYING GOD is as toxic as a Colleen Hoover novel, to which I must reply... True. 😅
#booksky
name: Serret
current read: Moby-Dick
last show: Poisonous Love
last film: The Fallen Sparrow
fav book this year: The Invention of Morel
fave watch this year: Gap, the series
+something spooky:
Almost required reading for GRENDEL WEPT. Almost, but you can skate by without it if you pay attention.
04.10.2025 03:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hot wings
03.10.2025 21:57 — 👍 3883 🔁 341 💬 59 📌 13Six of my novels and an anthology I have a story in are part of the Anthropic settlement. I just filed my claim. It's easy, they have all the information you need to do it.
You can find the lookup here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup