oh this sounds SO good
Hi Bluesky! I figure it’s time for a reintroduction.
I’m Jamie, she/they, and my debut novel, a gay vampire romcom called THE GOOD VAMPIRES GUIDE TO BLOOD AND BOYFRIENDS is out in August of next year and available to preorder now 🥰
(art: Andreea Dumata; design: Kerri Resnick)
Feels like the perfect storm for marginalized authors careers to be destroyed right now - book bannings, no organized meeting place on social media, racist algorithms, our books literally being censored everywhere and it really seems like nobody cares
LITERALLY SAME I DONT TRUST HIM!!!
i missed the last vote for love island usa this is the worst day of my LIFE im so sorry bergie i wanted you to get that 50k 😭
the fact that bottoms comes out tomorrow and isn’t playing in any theaters near me is actually so homophobic 😭😭
it was just wild, the og girls got a video of the og boys getting intimate with new casa amor girls, and it was like 2 guys who had been in solid couples, so at the recoupling, all the girls collectively tore the men to shreds for being disrespectful. it was fantastic and i wholly recommend!!!!
the casa amor recoupling tonight in love island usa was peak reality tv. and I watch a LOT of reality tv. that was so completely bananas I am invigorated and inspired??
Writing with the expectations and pressures of publishing is hard but what if you're a freak who ALSO applies expectations and pressures to "fun" writing like fanfiction, then what am I supposed to do????
Yes exactly!!! It's definitely not perfect but even when it's flawed it's addictive, and that's enough to carry you through!
Okay there were a lot of problems with Fourth Wing but I regret to admit that I did actually enjoy it or at least have fun with it. Dragon shenanigans can overcome the brutal info dumping, at least if you make it past the first 150 pages of military school nonsense.
I will not be taking questions at this time
I'll report back for sure! I've heard people either LOVE it or HATE it and I was hoping I'd be the former but the signs are not looking good right now lol
2023 has been great for my reading!!! I thought I was being super bold by aiming to read 30 books this year (compared to my usual 20-25) but we're almost there at only halfway through the year!
My favorite read of 2023 so far has been Spell Bound by FT Lukens. Any 2023 must reads y'all recommend??
no sorry but genuinely why is no one talking about how this is just military romance with dragons???
i bought fourth wing because dragons and upon reading the dedication and the acknowledgments i already have the intense feeling that me and miss yarrow are NOT gonna vibe
I always appreciate your threads on various publishing inner workings and discourse!!
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he is so beating the bad casting allegations that is MY prince henry through and through
My gay vampire romcom THE GOOD VAMPIRE’S GUIDE TO BLOOD AND BOYFRIENDS is coming out in 2025 and you can add it on goodreads now 🧛✨
Mine will have a lot of “i almost deleted this part”s 😅
now if they'd make clear their policy on feeding shit to the ai beast we could REALLY get excited but alas
still getting acquainted with all of bluesky's stuff but the custom feeds and automatic mute/block lists are actually such sexy features so i'm excited to see this place grow!
It's working but very slowly! The servers are overflowing from the mass Twitter exodus RIP
anyway this is me giving folks permission to roast me if I don't write 20k words this month I guess
Anyone else doing July #campnanowrimo? Tomorrow i'm starting to draft book 2 after endlessly revising my outline, and I'm nervous bc I haven't drafted anything in AGES and I know it's going to suck a little? I'm hoping that stating my intent on the internet will force me to stay accountable or w/e
Howdy Bluesky! I’m Jamie, a writer of quirky queer books, a designer and type snob, and a nerd of many interests.
I love talking all things writing and publishing and pop culture. Happy to be here✨
