Moira King

I don’t want Canada to be our 51st state. We already have 50 and everytime there’s a natural disaster the feds just go 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think it’s funny that streaming services are making it harder to lend out logins to friends & family. If I wasn’t going to pay for Disney+ before, I’m sure as hell not going to now that they’ve kicked me off my cousin’s account. Give money to people who inconvenience me? Yeah right 🤣

I hate whenever the “having a kid is harder than having a pet” discourse circles online bc every pet owner I know who agrees with that mentality has also medically neglected their pet at least once.

Who else is watching the #karenreadtrial today?

I brain vomit my shower thoughts and they started getting traction over on Threads. No one sees what I post over here though and I like that.

Now, I’m not arguing one way or the other; I’m just saying it smells like cognitive dissonance to me 🤷🏻‍♀️

I’m convinced anyone who says “you can just crate a dog & leave” to justify why pet ownership is easier has never crate-trained a dog.

I didn’t sleep for months he howled so much & he still has scars on his face. If he were human, we’d call this “sleep training” & I’d get dragged for cruelty.

My cat is very dialed into me so if I get up and go somewhere, he will, too. He doesn’t follow me around, though. He just sits somewhere convenient & waits so I end up feeling like a video game character constantly ignoring the main quest line.

When I would argue the opposite: big wig authors should actually be listening to the nobody authors more than each other.

Once you have recognition, you’re able to check out of the ecosystem & have freedom to whatever you want. The nobodies can’t. They’re still in the trenches.

Something I’ve noticed in online author spaces is this dynamic where authors can talk to each other candidily, but at the same time, if you’re not a bestselling author (yet) your opinion on writing/publishing somehow means less. Creating this current of smaller authors overstepping.

I really would love people to stop saying “and they’re an author??” as if authors are some mythical creatures and not normal human beings capable of doing or saying the wrong thing. This culture of never allowing for people to make mistakes & learn from it gives me hives.

Every so often a stranger on the internet tells me they will never buy a book from me & I don’t know how to tell to them 20+ publishers already passed on the only book i have to sell so that doesn’t sting as much as they want it to 😅😂

Based on this & another turndown citing a “crowded market,” I can’t help but think having a book that could act as a standalone IS the best way to play it.

A while back I saw a fellow author post discussing “standalone with series potential” when #querying

Today, I got a turndown letter from a publisher via my agent. It said, “I’d be unable to commit to a trilogy, too, which is an added wrinkle. But I knew I had to at least give it a whirl.”

The same people shouting from the rooftops to just let people enjoy things are the first ones to shame haters, a demographic that historically finds enjoyment in hating things. So which is it, babe? 🤔

Umm I’ve heard it but id interpret it like hanging around or strolling around, not really having anywhere to be, but just seeing what’s happening.

Idk if it’s right but as an American reader that’s what I would think you’re saying lol

Some of you men are great but the rest of you need to stop talking to me lol

I’m watching reruns of #CriminalMinds and one of the psycho-unsubs they’re interrogating is also Mike from #Twilight and the fact that he’s SO GOOD at being so creepy and yet also Mike is making my entire night 😂

Sentencing in High Profile MMIP Case ‘Huge for Indian Country’ A Montana judge will sentence Sunny K. White on January 31 in the hit-and-run death of Mika Westwolf, a 22-year-old Blackfeet Nation member, marking a rare conviction in a case that became a rallying ...

Today, I learned a Montana judge will sentence Sunny K. White in the hit-and-run death of Mika Westwolf, a 22-year-old Blackfeet Nation member. A rare but much deserved win for MMIW! [2/2]

Some good news this morning! Two years ago, I saw a tiktok about the fatal hit-and-run of a woman walking to her home on a reservation in Montana.

They knew who did it but the local police were uncooperative. The family was asking for help by filing a tip report with the FBI, so I did. [1/2]

Bindery Books | What is Cry, Voidbringer about? Imagine having to fight for a country that stole you fr...

Imagine having to fight for a country that stole you from your home and forced you to become a warrior in their army, while fully believing they are justified in oppressing you because they feel like their fight is righteous. Cry, Voidbringer asks many of the same questions we are asking. Read more.

It also astounds me that people don’t realize you can do two things simultaneously. I’m sure the people doing those plans & proposals are not trained fire fighters, so obviously they’re not out there fighting fires? They’re doing other things & you’re only seeing it bc “LA fires” is trending

Must’ve had something really good in there 👀

Saying “it’s not fantasy, it’s speculative fiction” is the same as saying, “it’s not crimson, it’s red.”

Crimson is red, babe.

Another day, another man incorrectly explaining my own genre to me rather than trust I know what I’m talking about.

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Random person: “So wait, there isn’t any magic at all in your fantasy series??”

Me: “Well, some characters like to think there is, but others think those people are small-minded simpletons.” 😅😂

Loved this article! I enjoyed the classics when I read them in my Lit classes but it’s always odd to me when people claim we should “cherish” them over any other work.

I hate this year-end wrap trend bc it seems very few people can think rationally in those conversations. I know people who can thoughtfully read hundreds of books in a year, and I know others who can’t & end up mindlessly consuming hundreds of books. Most of us fall somewhere in the middle.

“Are you reading a lot or are you a victim of over-consumption?”

*reader gets incredibly upset*

“You could’ve just picked the first one, you know. I’m curious why you didn’t.”