Author Ares Lyuben

Alive. Not kicking anymore tho.

Danielle in Ever After: I would rather die a thousand deaths than use gen AI in my books.

At Cupid’s Bookshop ‘s soft opening

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Them: What do you want for your birthday?

Me: I want to be on FaceTime with my child hood best friend, neighborhood best friend, sister, highschool bestie, college bestie, and I want us all to bake a cake from our home country at the same time. And yap.

If they keep rebranding the taverns in Rittenhouse they’ll never beat the allegations of being fae traps. But I suppose this will do.

I would like to try. I’m Ares, first of my name and last of my line. When will auditions be held?

My efforts of trying to make my mom read something other than the Bible is going downhill faster than ever.

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Tonight we FEAST! I say as I put 2 eggs to boil with the intent of having an egg salad sandwich for dinner like I’m rich people or something.

Microsoft office literally underlines spelling mistakes and I agree with most of its grammar little blue squiggles. A comma here. Maybe I typed the same word twice. Why do i have to feed my paper to AI? Zero marks on my paper. Zero feedback besides “Hey go use this AI grammarly thing!”.

My professor just told me my paper lacks professional communication. As in something is lacking in spelling or punctuation.

They want me to use grammarly. What? So you can flunk me? Claim I plagiarized?

I rather drop out.

🥺 I’m super sensitive lol I wrote a book. Didn’t publish it cause “I’ll be ready to publish when I’ve written 2 or 3 books. To give myself runway”. Then I wrote the books and novellas and and and. Oh I guess it’s time to publish. And now it’s just something everytime. I felt “safer” sitting on books

It said some pretty straight forward info. I personally took it as “wtf is wrong with you? Wasting our time… ugh. Just delete the book.”

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It was something like “oi if you do this (more than once?) we won’t let you post preorders anymore”. Like I get why it’s there. It’s not reliable if my book had like 100 preorders to move the publication date. Customers don’t like that. But come on it has like 5 and it’s my first time using this lol

Learn from my mistakes.
Amazon preorders can’t be rescheduled more than a month from the og publication date. Also, when you do try to reschedule or cancel it you get a nastygram about it. Dont mind me while I curl up and cry.

Who was up all night playing a dating sim and just told the mailman all about it?

Me.

Me. It’s horrible.

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When I walk home alone at night, I walk in the middle of the street against traffic so I see cars coming & so I don’t get pulled into an alley.

Sometimes I sing so people look out the window… So someone is watching me. Or their ring cameras see or hear my last location should I disappear.

There is nothing I want more than to play #LoveandDeepspace and yet my phone nor iPad will allow it 😢

The highroad requires tolls and I’ve already paid my dues. We doing this my way now.

Clocking in. Who wants to work this shift? #booksky #booktok

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I didn’t think I had an opera version of Prison Song in me but it bloomed and now it’s here. I’ll be figuring out how to explain the sounds of every instrument to someone for the next week.

Which editions have it? I will have to improve my penmanship to add it in if not 🫣 and my handwriting is horrible

Were these a preorder?! I need

Not everything in my pink house is pink.

I have an orange cat. A blue couch. A black wardrobe. And a green apothecary kitchen where I make cookies from scratch.

The pink house welcomes not pink.

They’re all within 15 mins of eachother. The Mercer museum and the Fonthill castle

In PA, the Vampa museum

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I took a trip with some bookish discord friends to 3 museums in order to write some scenes I left TBD in my works in progress. I can’t imagine a better way to write. We basically visited a fae castle, howls moving castle and a vampire museum. Today may have been the best day I’ve had in a long time.

A certificate from the US Copyright Office

The only mail I wanna see right now. #authorsky #writingcommunity

Yay! I’m the head of Pope House :D we a spicy bunch! Are you in TOME’s discord?