Linn Coldiron

Quote from The Love In Your Words: “If this year has taught me anything besides how deeply one can feel heartache and pain, it’s that time spent nurturing love can heal sorrow.” Top row, left to right: the Liverpool Chinatown arch, floating red Chinese lanterns, the Royal Liver Building lit up in red in front of the night sky Middle row, left to right: The Royal Albert Dock, the quote from The Love In Your Words, cranes on a shipping dock lit up at night Bottom row, left to right: candles and flowers on gravestones at night, a couple standing underneath an umbrella on a rainy night, fairy lights shaped like stars and moons hanging from trees

KOMI CAN'T COMMUNICATE x TO ALL THE BOYS

Selectively mute 16yo Lena Mei wants to read a Chinese poem to honour her late mother, but she can’t read it. A charming autistic polyglot offers to help—not only with her speech but also in discovering her own autism.

#SEAsianPit #W #YA #CR

Hahaha I'm both scared and excited for it

Me: I’m going to get better at social media!

Also me: *doesn’t post on any social media for weeks and forgets it exists*

…whoops 😂

For 3 Act Structure, you need a new plot point about every 12.5% of your story:

1% Hook your reader
12.5% Inciting Incident
25% First Plot Point
37.5% First Pinch Point
50% Midpoint
62.5% 2nd Pinch Point
75% 2nd Plot point
87.5% Climax begins
98% Climactic moment

Last 2% Tie up loose ends

I'm focusing my activism right now in offline spaces, but just because I'm less vocal here does not mean I'm ok with any of this.

I care deeply about my communities, and I promise to keep showing up as best as I can for them.

writers, idk who needs to hear this, but you're not going to get in trouble if you don't do things exactly the way you think you should

#BookSky #RevPit #WritingCommunity

There's a Sports Night quote that randomly changed my life, on what to do when you feel overwhelmed and helpless at the world:
"Do something. Anything. As much of it and as often as you can."

Publishers, Authors Guild, and More File Lawsuit Against Idaho's Discriminatory Book Banning Bill Plaintiffs claim that Idaho's HB 710, implemented last summer, violates First and Fourteenth Amendment rights.

BREAKING: Major publishers, alongside the Authors Guide, bestselling authors, and others, have filed a lawsuit against Idaho's draconian book ban bill, claiming First and Fourteenth Amendment violations.

bookriot.com/idaho-hb710-...

5. 1 line from my current WIP

I'm currently working on a high fantasy novel dealing with religious trauma and loss of culture, and this is a line from the 5th chapter:

What did prayer do except give them hope for the rest of the world to snatch away?

Skipping #3 because it's very much a fanfic thing so:

4. So much inspires me to write. I write to process my world and often draw from my own emotions and experiences. Lotus in the Mountain, for example, was me dealing with my grief and guilt about my mom dying. Writing is very personal for me.

2. I prefer to write in third person limited past tense, but I also often write in first person past! I'll dabble in first person present, but it isn't my strong suit by any means. I've also written one book in second person 🤫

If I'm doing more than one POV, I definitely prefer third past.

1. I love writing fantasy! All sorts of fantasy. Contemporary, like the Dreams and Secrets Series, high fantasy like many of my WIPs, paranormal, urban, sci-fi/fantasy mix, you name it!

Also have a (not so) secret love for contemporary and romance~

Gradient pink and green background. Header says, "Questions for Fanfiction Writers" with "fan" scratched out. Underneath it says, "1 like = 1 answer." There is a list of 20 questions in two columns: 1. Favorite genre(s) to write 2. Preferred tense & POV 3. Tag you've used most 4. What inspires you to write 5. 1 line from a current WIP 6. Trope you want to write 7. Favorite character to write 8. How you choose your titles 9. Describe your writing style 10. A comment you treasure 11. Favorite scene you've written 12. Fic that best represents you 13. A fun fact about a fic you wrote 14. HOw you handle writer's block 15. Hardest thing for you to write 16. Dialogue you loved writing 17. Your planning process 18. Your editing process 19. Your favorite writing tip 20. Your current writing goals

Stolen from @reswytcher.bsky.social <3

One like for one answer!

Amazon ranking for The Children of Death kindle edition. Best seller rank is #487,618 in kindle store #44 in Teen and Young Adult Alternate History #548 in Teen and Young Adult Contemporary Fantasy ebooks #610 in Teen and Young Adult Dark Fantasy Ebook

I know this is such a small category on Amazon, and it’s not that impressive, but I actually cracked the top 50 in an ebook category 😱 yay book 3!

He’s so tiny and angry I love him

Five books on a wooden floor. Only two titles are visible, and they are the first and fifth book of the series. The first book is on the floor and is titled: Dreams and Secrets Book 1-Lotus in the Mountain. The fifth book is stacked on top of three books that are fanned out. You can’t see the other three book titles. The fifth book is titled: Dreams and Secrets Book 5-The Risen Queen. The books are by Linn Coldiron and are black with colored flowers. Book one has white flowers and book 5 has purple and gold flowers. The titles are shimmering silver in a script style font.

Five books stacked horizontally. They are part of a series with the first book on the bottom and the fifth book on the top. The covers are back with splashes of color. The spines are showing and the tiles are from bottom up: Lotus in the Mountain, An Imminent Dream, The Children of Death, A Hollow Secret, and The Risen Queen. All the books are by Linn Coldiron. They are on a wooden surface with a cream wall behind them.

And with that, all five books are out! If you’re interested in getting into the Dreams and Secrets Series, check out the linktree in my bio!

Authors, if you see this, it's a sign to post the first line of your book (or book-in-progress).

"If it had at all occurred to Mia that her best friend would be having a panic attack in a closet, she would have thought twice about begging her to wear a dress."

ME TOO 🥰 My disaster babies~

Describe your OCs as badly as possible. Here are the main four character of the Dreams and Secrets Series:

🌈 unknowingly closeted gay disaster
🤯 academically smart, street stupid
🖕 dishes it out, can't take it
🙀 soppy-wet kitten with daddy issues

I love them. They are my idiots.

Radical publishing notion, right here: if your publishers are making a living from publishing and selling your books, then you, the author, should be making a living from writing them.

Any fellow #selfpublished authors have a good platform that isn't Amazon to publish?

Right now, my books are available there as a paperback, ebook, and are on KU, but I'm looking to diversify (also debating if I want to stay in KU).

I'm so excited for this book!!!!

@reswytcher.bsky.social just informed me that I can be on here on my computer.

I am insanely happy now because I am not a phone person and that was keeping me from using this app more.

Oh yeah. This exists.

I’m terrible at social media but hi. I’m alive.

Decided to write 150k words for NaNo. Which means I've been writing like crazy.

Hit 50k just now. It's day 3 😂 My brain hurts.

Yup! I'm kinda already 40k in.

You know it

Been struggling so hard with my mental health recently thanks to recent events so I think I’m going to take a break from social media for a week. But I’ll be back! Working hard on book 4 in the meantime!

I’ve been putting it off while mourning Twitter, but I should do an introduction post! I’m Jessica, author of MG and YA in many different genres! All my work has queer characters, dogs, and (weirdly?) at least one mention of Waffle House. I look forward to connecting with new and old friends!! 🥰🥰

There's a big difference between "wanting a disability" and "wanting a diagnosis" that abled people seem to have trouble with.