Ange | Author A. M. Shilling

I appreciate that! My best thread about them so far is probably this one, but I’m sure I’m due for another ramble soon, since I am finally porting them into an original setting and story this month.

Thanks. It comes and goes, so I manage it as best as I can. Fortunately, I don’t have the kind that keeps me up late, but the kind that wakes me super early, so as long as I go to bed early enough, I’m usually okay.

I hope you get some good sleep, too!

Walker, I’ll tell you my secret: it’s insomnia.

Eliwood, on the other hand, is a powerful drafting wizard. I’m always so impressed by her output.

I am super glad you decided to join the leaderboard! It’s way more exciting with a bunch of people! ☺️

Uh, what?

I’m normally not a yapper on this site (threads are my bane), but every time I think about my vampires, I have to resist the urge to ramble about them. The vampire brainrot is real, folks.

I didn’t say that, though. I’m actually most productive when I just sit and write, usually doing back-to-back sprints. On-and-off writing is helpful when multitasking but takes me so much more time to achieve the same word count, so it’s less efficient overall.

Yes! My vampires primarily use stealth and subterfuge to feed because I want them to be more insidious, prowling predators as opposed to horror flick monsters. The more they can hide in plain sight, the better.

Great question! I'm borrowing from Vampire: the Masquerade for this, where vampire saliva has minor healing properties; it can close small wounds, including bite marks. Vampires are supposed to heal these whenever they feed on a human or make a new vampire, to preserve the lie that they don't exist.

No notable or permanent injuries on Lia and Roman, though the latter has some minor scars from wounds he sustained during [REDACTED] that healed naturally. That was before his death. Nowadays, most wounds inflicted on vampires heal during the day while they sleep, or if they drink enough blood.

No way it ends up more than 15k, though.

WIP update: I was able to write on and off all day, so I managed 1,618 new words for my vampire novella, THIAW. This brings me to 3,664 of 10,000 total words! I also divided up what I've written so far into chapters, because the lack of breathing room was killing me. #WritingCommunity #AmWriting

March is finally here! Hello, friends! February may be the shortest month on the calendar, but somehow it always feels to drag on the longest. No holiday excitement leftover from December and January, and in my neck of t…

New post up on my website.
Didn't know I posts that go on a website? It's new!

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Thanks so much, Ron! Sign-ups close on Friday.

BonApriltite is so cute! It might result in a few misspellings, though. It also seems like it'd be a challenge to come up with 30 different prompts (or answers to those prompts, for that matter) for a food-themed game, but if anyone can, it's you.

Thank you, Kara!

All good things, it sounds like!

I'm having a lot of fun with Monster Mash Madness and it's only the second day! Joining the Trackbear leaderboard also provides a fun sense of community, as long as you don't take it too seriously.

Thank you, Eliwood!

Thanks so much, Jae!

Book cover for FROM UNSEEN FIRE: teal embellishments on a dark background with the central image of a fire in an ancient-style brazier. Text and arrows surrounding: Yearning | Fierce determined women | Elemental magic | Dinner with a side of snark | Cutthroat politics | All this blood | An awful lot of swords.

Book cover for GIVE WAY TO NIGHT: purple and bronze embellishments on a dark background with the central image of a temple door surrounded by spooky trees. Text and arrows surrounding: Grouchy + sunshine friendship | Creeply cultists | A siege | Sapphic subplot | Roman ghosts | Bad things happen at the beach | Even more blood.

Book cover for THE BLOODSTAINED SHADE: red and gold embellishments on a dark background with the central image of a Roman temple split by blue lightning. Text and arrows surrounding: Chaos unleashed | Reunions and revelations | Weaponized snark | Big Badass Battle Sequence | Heroine's Journey | Sapphic sweethearts | Still just so much blood.

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Thanks so much, Bradley!

Congratulations!

Thank you, Laken! 🫶

Yay! Can't wait for you to read it!

Sounds great. I'll take four books of it.

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PLOT SUMMARY Throughout their marriage, Jason and Ayana’s lives always ran parallel but never entwined. It’s the perfect arrangement. He’s free to pursue his dangerous yet lucrative career as an elite assassin, and she can focus on conducting autopsies for the city’s forensic center. But after Jason spares a witness to his latest murder, he becomes the prime suspect in his own brother’s homicide. While he hunts for the real killer, Ayana discovers an impossible illness in one of her cadavers. The couple quickly identify an unsettling connection between the two events—one steeped in religious fanaticism and occult conspiracy. Jason and Ayana must learn to work together, using their wits, lies, and criminal connections to uncover the truth behind a mysterious cult and exact revenge. But human enemies are the least of their concern. Beyond the boundary of their world exists a cosmic threat of apocalyptic proportions, and it is trying to break through.

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LMAO!!!

Here's another one of my favorite moments between Jason and Ayana. ❤️

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Ewww I hate him.