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Vote Green!

Didn't want to do it, but had to strategic vote today for the very first time. Please can we have ranked ballot?

#canpoli

Meet Me Tonight Blurb.

Meet me tonight points.

They call it school spirit. You'll call it survival.

Students are vanishing. The school looks the other way. And the truth? It's buried in blood.

Pre-order Meet Me Tonight starting April 2nd.

A YA dystopian thriller with biological magic, dark secrets, and a fight for survival. Coming June 2025.

Quit posting on BlueSky and go cuddle the kitty.

missing, valley, guardian, defend, sasquatch

What we do is not nearly as important as what we try.

Lets just say there was a time when I actually had self confidence...

@bsky.app Can we please get the upside down smiley face in the emojis? How am I supposed to communicate my millennial angst without it?

Thanks

No one has destroyed my confidence more than my 6 year old daughter. She is now a teen and it has not improved. 👍

Definitely. I recently create a futuristic fantasy version of the city I live in and it was incredibly fun to build another version of somewhere you have come to know so well.

As a writer, I was inspired by authors like Robert J Sawyer, who based (some of) their writing in Canada. Its so much easier to connect with the story and I hope that I give the towns that I love their chance to be seen for the wonderfully interesting places they are.

"YOU'RE DOING YOU BEEEEEEEEST!"

Second draft done for my YA novel. A huge improvement over my first draft in every way. Now to let it simmer while I contemplate my next project.

As a kid, dystopian sci-fi was my favorite genre. I read The Giver, but the sequels didn't exist yet. Reading them now for the first time over break.

There should be a word for the UTTER RELIEF you feel when you find out, decades later, that Jonas' sled was REAL and not a deathbed hallucination 😭😭😭

Thanks for the suggestion. I will definitely check it out.

Until I got my ADHD meds figured out, all I could do was think about my story for over a decade. But this past summer, the stars aligned, and 1 month later my words are down on paper. I just couldn't let it go.

When it comes to writing a novel, you have to be obsessed with it. Think about the thing you're most into right now. If you aren't at least that locked into thinking about your book, you're not going to make it. It must consume your whole being. Full stop.

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A lettuce farm was busted by the FDA on suspicion
of combining plant and human DNA to create
a new protein hybrid.

When they dug up
the grounds they found human romaines.

Borderline Tales Winter 2024 Issue

Featuring:

Susan Kuchinskas
mk zariel
Frank Talaber
JB POLK
Anthony David Vernon
Courtney Mason
Heather Labay
Demi Ev.
Donna Gum
Theodore Carter
Tony Duxbury
Jade Jiao
Bethany Browning
Dan Muenzer
Paul Smith

Moving Mars by Greg Bear broke me when I first read it. The idea of understanding the universe, peeking behind the curtain, and realizing that possibility will only be fiction in my life time (if ever) was enough to send me into an existential crisis.

Still 10/10

Moving Mars by Greg Bear

What happens when you take a zombie book and fill it with plausible science, emotional arcs, and devastating moments of heartache?

Publish my book and you can find out for yourself! 😃

#write #writers #publish

How is it that I can spell words like 'incredulously' fast and flawless but I have found dozens of 'they' missing their 'y's? SMH

#writer #writing #editing

More weird mistakes while writing.

"He had instantly realized what he had said out loud and remained twilight for the rest of the session, his eyes glued firmly to the floor."

#writing #writers #editing

Found during 3rd read through of manuscript.

"Never underestimate the charm of a smoothie walking pharmaceutical agent."

#writing #writers #editing

Despite working in an increasingly digital world, I always print and read the hard copy of a "final" manuscript draft before submitting. I find that my eye catches issues better on paper than it does on a computer screen.

Maybe I'm just 👵

🧪

I always do this as well and read it aloud. I find its even better if you can read it aloud to someone else. I end up catching so many mistakes that flew by me the half dozen times I read it through on my own.

Finished the second draft of my book. Is it better than the first? Only an experienced editor would know for sure. In any case, I did it!

#writers #writing