Amber Marshall Writes

Author of Negatives and Apertures, paranormal horror romances releasing serially on Substack (ambermarshallwrites.substack.com). Co-Author of The Trident of Merrow (with Kristopher Lewis).

[ambermarshallwrites]

Amazon.com: Negatives: A thrilling supernatural horror romance with vampires (The Negatives series Book 1) eBook : Marshall, Amber: Books

If you have Kindle Unlimited, you can read Negatives for free!

[maidthings]

my 37 year old vampire girlfriend keeps telling me i simply don't understand the woes of immortality as if I didn't also own a VHS player or visit a blockbuster a few times as a kid

[maidthings]

she keeps staring off into the distance saying those shit like "those as youthful as you know not what horrors lie in your past" even though we both know damn well she's talking about the 2008 financial crash

[moringmark]

[runcibility]

I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it

[quadriviummuse]

I always reblog this one when I see it on my dash. When someone posts their own art, writing, or music here they are really hoping you will share it.

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[rederiswrites]

Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

It's rude.

[draconym]

Sure, you know how to self-flagellate, but do you know how to apologize? Saying "I'm a stupid idiot" is not the same thing as saying "I did something wrong."

[draconym]

People who want an apology pretty much never want to hear "I'm a stupid idiot." If someone is actually trying to get you to say you're a stupid idiot, it's not because it will make up for a mistake you made or harm you caused. It's because they want you to feel like a stupid idiot. People who care about you do not want you to feel like a stupid idiot and it hurts them when they see you putting yourself down in their name.

[ambermarshallwrites]

I'm trying to teach my kid this, that the thing to do when you make a mistake is to apologize and try to fix the problem, not put yourself down.

[ambermarshallwrites]

Flash sale on Negatives!

$0 for the ebook on Amazon from 6-7 to 6-11

[bad-comic-art]

Question: why is using free stock images bad art? If someone's not good at designing or drawing vehicles, horses, space ships, etc, but the story calls for them, why can't they use resources other artists have created? People get heckled for drawing badly, for tracing over objects, and for putting stock images in their work. How can they win?

I’ve gotten this kind of ask a lot over the years and I used to spend a lot of energy trying to think of compelling arguments to answer them but honestly Ive come to the conclusion that if you don’t get it you won’t get it, you win, can’t explain why tracing is bad (this is obviously talking about in a professional setting for all the hit dogs in the audience) I can’t explain why photoshop filtered 3D models are bad, it’s too fundamental a feeling to explain beyond “because you’re an artist dude” why do chefs slave away in the kitchen when they can door dash, why do musicians practice a piece for hours when they can just play it on YouTube? You’ve got to try, if you can’t draw a space ship, not drawing the space ship and just slapping in a model isn’t the answer, you have to practice, you have to learn how to draw it but that takes time and effort, If your main goal as an artist is to save time, find a short cut to get around having to improve, to just fucking trying then why bother? Why are you as an “artist” taking up room in a cut throat industry when someone infinitely better than you is begging for $10 commissions on twitter? Or even if they aren’t better just someone that would try and improve and maybe one day get better than you, do you think Adam Hughes when he was learning to paint was ever like “this is too hard let me just slap some jpgs in here” no, he learned form drawing, because he loves what he makes which people like Greg Land clearly fucking don’t, I don’t believe theres ever been a great artist in any medium that didn’t fundamentally love art, if not the process than the outcome but if the outcome isn’t yours to begin with then who gives a shit, not you obviously but hey you didn’t have to try and plus think of all the time you saved, that’s what really matters

[butch-tradwife]

For everyone who ‘used to love reading’ but now hasn’t finished a book in years, you CAN get it back. Genuinely start bringing a book (preferably short and either fiction or a non fiction topic you already really enjoy) everywhere you go and when you have 5-20 mins waiting for the bus or at the doctors office or mechanic or whatever, get out your book and read it! You don’t have to finish it quickly or even read it often but it is so good for your brain and fun to get into the habit of reading more (and replacing being on your phone for those moments). Source: I read 0 books in 2023 and I’ve read 12 in the first 4 months of 2026

[ambermarshallwrites]

A way I've found that works for me is to download an ereader app on your phone (doesn't have to be Kindle), get a local library card if you don't want to or can't buy ebooks, and always have one going. Have it open in the background and pause your social media apps. When you open your phone in an idle moment, it'll be right there and you can get a page or two in instead of scrolling.

[feralratbitesu]

can i be honest tho i kinda hate makeup bc i love licking my lips and rubbing my hands on my face like a cat or a fly annd i also love wiping my eyes like a sleepy infant all the time so basically i cant do it

[ambermarshallwrites]

Honestly this is why I rarely wear it anymore.

[eraserheadadult]

one time in college i was in a creative writing class and this guy was holding up the critique with what i can only describe as like cinemasins dinging another student's writing. and at some point the professor said "the plot is the fork and the prose is the meal. you are critiquing the taste of the fork"

[pastafossa]

"If only there was a way other than AI to talk to my favorite characters and OCs!"

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: Sad King

Stephen King: everyone, listen up! my boy joe is going to tell a story tonight! Joe Hill: dad you don't need to do this King: everyone!! pay attention!! King: this one's gonna be good!! King: just like all his other stories Hill: dad please King: i love my beautiful boy!!!

King: everyone, you're going to love this one King: ok joe go ahead Joe Hill: submitted for the appr King: IT'S ABOUT A DRAGON Hill: dad! King: i'm sorry joe i couldn't help it King: i'm just so excited King: my boy joe wrote about a dragon Poe: hm i gathered

King: you're all gonna really like it King: it's a sprawling, multi-decade epic, a real moby dick of horror King: it's like joe hill's It King: except instead of a clown, it's got a dragon!! Hill: i wouldn't describe it like that King: it's exactly like that

Joe Hill: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this the tale of king sorrow Hill: it's about a group of friends who use a grimoire to make a faustian pact with a dragon Hill: as you do

Hill: so for this story we're going back Hill: back to the 90s Hill: when our hero isn't busy wearing flannel and listening to grunge rock and receiving AOL CDs in the mail, he's summoning dragons

Hill: so they summon this evil dragon Hill: from the fiery depths of the hell dimension Hill: and this eternally evil demon monster from beyond infinity looks at them and says Hill: COR BLIMEY GOVNA BIT O A STICKY WICKIT INNIT Hill: NIMMY UP THE WICKERSHAMS BOBS A DONUT RIGHTO

Hill: anyway this story deals with a major moral dilemma that i'm sure all of us have struggled with at some point Hill: is it ok to make a contract with an eldritch dragon from another dimension to do murders? King: boy King: we've all been there! King: am i right, guys? Poe: what

Hill: in a broader sense tho Hill: the real question is Hill: is it morally justified to murder evil people? Mary Shelley: yeah Hill: well wait just a second mary you haven't heard all the caveats yet Shelley: i said what i said

Hill: mary, stop it! you're not supposed to answer it Hill: it's a gedank experiment Hill: you know, like Hill: it's supposed to make you think Shelley: yeah i thought Hill: no! Hill: no not like that!

Shelley: do i get to kill the people myself Hill: no you just name them and then the dragon does the actual killing Shelley: fffffft Shelley: what's the fun in that Lafcadio Hearn: oo! it's like death note! Shelley: shut the fuck up nerd

Hill: guys be serious Hill: what if you had the power to murder, like, really evil people? Hill: it would still be murder Hill: would you want that on your conscience? King: hm really makes you think! Hill: exactly Barker: yeah makes you think about who you would murder Hill: no!

King: joe is right, it's a real moral dilemma King: i mean, i don't know if i could sanction murder King: even if it was the worst, most irritating, most annoying person in the world Barker: you sound like you have a name in mind, steve King: what? no no of course not King:

Elon Musk: [rising from bushes] eyyyyy stephano king! King: King: [sweats]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I'm a sucker for a good "you think you're in one horror subgenre but it's actually a different horror subgenre". character struggling to accept that maybe demons are tormenting them suddenly finds out it's actually aliens. trope of all time tbh

[waitingforthet]

Some fantasy-themed tweets, some of which probably should’ve gone with those fairytale tweets I posted.

[ambermarshallwrites]

If you have Kindle Unlimited, you can read Negatives for free!

[nitewrighter]

You might be frustrated by the library never having a complete manga collection on its shelves at any given time, but the 12 year old checking out 14 volumes of One Piece at once is vital to the library ecosystem. He's like the sea otter keeping the kelp forest from being devastated by an excess of sea urchins.

[chess-blackmyre]

To those curious some other keystone library species include:

—the retirees who’ve read more murder mysteries than I’ve had hot meals

—the paperback romance girlies (gender neutral) who check out every single bodice ripper the second it hits the shelves

—the dads very slowly making their way through a ‘1001 movies to see before you die’ list

—the one-man criterion collection who checks out like, three movies per day and brings them back the next. (TV series are only a minor roadblock.)

—kids who like Minecraft

[nitewrighter]

---The new parents checking out 47 picture books for their 7 month old baby who clearly has nothing going on in their head except the Wii Sports Resort theme song

[isuggestusingyourlocallibrary]

I suggest using your local library!

[astroargonaut]

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