Leo and Jules

The pillow shifted, the alarm stopped, and Skye was about to go back to sleep.

Wait.

She opened bleary eyes to see a cute, chubby face looking back at her. Large, beady eyes. Whiskers brushing against her nose.

There was a seal in her bed.

#wipsnips

Took some time off to refresh and now we're back! Here's a little #flashfictionfriday drabble for you - check it out on our blog! barrelofbreadcrumbs.com/mourning/

I think it's keeping everything engaging. The roadtrip takes most of act II and it feels like it's dragging a bit and I haven't even written half of it. We'll see what it looks like when I actually finish this draft, I guess.

I'm playing fast and loose with the selkie lore, and the romance is coming surprisingly easy. It's this roadtrip that really is the problem. It's been hard to keep the pace going well when they're literally just wandering around the US looking at weird roadside attractions lol

As someone who currently has three active WIPs and another 5 waiting in the wings, this is a Big Mood

Off to a glamping adventure this weekend! No internet, no phone service. Looking forward to just shutting off and writing for a few days! #writingcommunity #writesky

Knowledge: There fun shape mac and cheese costs more per ounce
Wisdom: I'm a goddamn adult and can buy myself the fun shapes if I want.

Oooof, here's wishing you some relief soon!

"He took your coat, and he trapped you. He forced you to stay with him. And now he's out there looking for you, and you're sitting in my kitchen, eating all my raw fish and drinking my milk. Is that about it?"

"I've also eaten the raw beef," Aurora admitted.

#WIPSnips #writingcommunity #amwriting

I haven't trunked it for long, but I do have a completed queer romance I put aside for a while after getting some edits on it. I need to think about what I want it to be and whether I can actually kill some of my darlings. #writingcommunity #writesky

I will finish this book by the start of book club tomorrow but by god I hate it #booksky

What if I just drag my feet and refuse to accept that it's Monday?

I think it's whichever one of you has a fluffy white cat in your lap

Is there a Monday equivalent for the Sunday Scaries? Monday Mopeys or something, is that a thing? Whatever it is, I'm feeling it.

I almost always default to too "giving too little information" and then get surprised when my betas want to know more haha!

Shh. Don't call us out that way 😊 #writingjokes #reading #writingquotes #amwriting

I'm definitely going to try this approach, thank you! :)

an important part of the writing process is crying

Being this active on social media is pretty new to me. Trying to balance that "need social media to be an author" with "need to protect my mental health" is a tightrope I am not walking well.

Wait, is this why I have felt like absolute garbage the past couple weeks? Hmmmmm.........

#Queerpit yesterday was such a fun experience! Good luck everyone who got agent likes!

It's a queer paranormal romance between a human and a selkie. Most of the second act they're on a roadtrip which I thought would be fun to write but is quickly becoming a bit of a white whale🙃🙃🙃🙃

#queerpit #FR #A

“You’re the chosen one?” Percy forced himself to ask. “But – I’m the chosen one!”

“That may well be; I suppose there is no fixed limit on how many of us there can be. Chosen for what?”

💙grumpy/sunshine
🏰high fantasy
🧚‍♀️fairytale retellings
🗡️one-sided enemies to lovers

A digital art by Amara of Alois, a person with pink hair, wearing a red and black dress, looking up and smiling at Jabber, a person with a skull face, horns, brown hair, wearing a suit and a dark cloak.

NON-BINARY WONDERLAND x BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

The fearsome beast Jabberwocky is nothing like the poem Alois read as a child; They're kind, gentle, & love books.

And Alois has fallen for them.

If they want their HEA, they must end the corrupt Red empire’s destructive reign.

#A #FTA #FR #QUEERPIT

Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 110,000 words "Did you hear? There's a human on board." A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling. alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human)

PITCH: Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist. Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway? That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no. PRIORITIES: make dinner remain cozy haul cargo go for drinks pull off one last score try not to fall in love

FIRST PAGE: “Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.” I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity. “Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.” “Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table. It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best. The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let themcome here.” The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?”

COMPS: Murderbot by Martha Wells Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers TROPES: Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm lying to themselves non-human perspective (afraid of humans) neurodivergent main characters metaphorically disabled protagonist slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship disabilitynorm and queernorm setting found family lovable pet/terrifying monster

WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT x SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN

Everything fell apart when the human came aboard. Instead of nice meals and quiet cargo runs, ship's cook Tai is stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QueerPit #A #Q #R #SF

Leah is missing, and Brooke is ready to tear their cult-like church apart to find her. (Literally.) But no one, not even Leah's own mother, seems to remember her.

Signs of sacrifice point to the truth being stranger than any nightmare.

#QueerPit #lesbian #ya #thriller #querying

What Lurks Beneath the Glass, a MG Botanical Horror Pitch: The gardens at Greer Manor used to be the pinnacle of botanical pursuits, until the gardeners tending the rare flowers started rapidly disappearing around the estate. When two girls discover it's the bloodthirsty plants lurking around the manor that are causing the disappearances, they must quickly nip this deadly case in the bud, before they become playthings for the monstrous flowers that have more than just sharp thorns . . . Completed at 49k words w/ Big 5+ editor interest

In the life of a Victorian noble, society will rip you to shreds—but in Greer Manor, so will the flowers . . . 🥀

🔍 whodunnit mystery
🥀 deadly botanicals
🗝️ “Everyone in this manor has secrets”
🍃 searching the lake at night
🕷️ creepy crawlies & ghosts

#QueerPit #MG #M #H

#queerpit #FR #A

UNMAKING PERCY

Percy grew up being told he is the chosen one, only to discover that he is, in fact, the chosen one's assistant. Now he has to help the actual chosen one, Evans, in the epic quest that should have been rightly his.

And try not to fall in love in the process.

Ouchhhhh, yikes. Hope your time away is restorative! (or at least better than this bs)

We'll see! Still need to write a lot of act 2 (why is act 2 always such a pain?) so maybe those 15k extra words will just materialize!