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really wanted to try my hand at rosalie's dress from chapter 27 of cooler than me by @wetcatspellcaster and got a bit carried away LOL......... dw rosalie i would have had the exact same reaction to literally everything happening to u rn
INSANE THING TO COME HOME TO ACTUALLY!
🥳 WHO IS READY FOR A COVER REVEAL?!? 🥳
Look at it. 🥹 Bulletproof Heart - A Queer Romance. Now with cover! 🥰
So many thanks to 1MilliDollars at Unsplash for taking the photo. 🥰
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Time to share some snippets from the past week 👀 Tagging @scuttlingcrab @chaosteddybear @mslanna @karneo + you!
“Life is not a fairy tale, my dear.”
“Yet mine already has the main antagonist on stage.”
“Oh? I didn’t realise I was the villain in your narrative,” he replied, clearly amused. If the line was meant to taunt you, you held back any retorts.
Raphael didn’t let the silence sit for long, eager as he was to continue painting the analogy. “And what does that make you, little raven? The hero? The sage? The victim?”
You leaned back on the chair. “Isn’t it a bit too late to choose a role? I am clearly the underdog.”
Raphael laughed.
“Everybody loves an underdog, don’t they?”
You hated the blush that crept over your cheeks. “I should hope so.”
from a thing i may finish one day
Tav squints at the terms and conditions of Mol's contract. Those could look better. Of course, just stealing or destroying the contract are the preferred option, but Tav can already hear Mol grouse about them interfering in their business with Big Raph. Better take the sneaky route. Their quill scratches over the parchment, amending a clause in Mol's favour. And maybe this one. Tav frowns in concentration, their surroundings forgotten for the moment. "My, my," a familiar voice purrs behind them. "What have we here?" It's too late to hide. Still Tav drops the quill, removing the evidence at least from their hand. They turn and stare at Raphael. The devil blocks the door, arms crossed before him and shakes his head in disappointment. "To think I dealt fairly with you." His brown eyes narrow. Tav swallows with no clever answer at the ready. "No defence prepared?" He mocks, taking a step towards Tav. "Where is that clever tongue of yours now?"
tagging, should you feel so inclined, @erinfulmerwrites @elizmanderson @akiwitch
Betraying myself a bit here but...
His lips brush over the delicate shell of her ear, and he doesn't have to force the gravel in his tone. “You see, I have no intention of being quiet and every intention of hearing that lovely voice of yours…scream…my name.” “Astarion,” she mutters, half in obedience, half in protest. “Oh, I’m positive you can do better than that, little songbird.” Gods, but he’s hungry for her all of a sudden, a sharp ache in his teeth to tear her open in the same spot he had her before. The mark is but a shadow on her skin, but he knows it like his own scars. Invisible, indelible. If she parts ways with him tomorrow, a hundred years from now he’d know it just the same.
It’s dangerous, knowing what this feels like, knowing it’s almost like being alive. How he could almost fool himself into wanting more from her than what he can take. He’s not sure he ever felt that way, even before he died. Life is wasted on the living. Or at least it was on him. “Are you ready for me, darling? Nod, please.”
DM me for the link if you want it I guess ok byeeeee!
Tagging @spacevalkyries @danaiwrites @byelizabethbane 😎
"I may have been a whole damn mess, but I was a whole damn mess on a mission."
Half-succubus attorney Lily Knight has blood on her hands.
Haunted by guilt, broke, and professionally disgraced, she's run out of options. Now, a secret government agency makes her an offer she can't refuse: put down another demon gone rogue in exchange for a sizable bounty. It's enough to cover her multitude of sins, including her steamy affair with Sebastian Ritter, a senator's son with taboo desires of his own.
As the supernatural threat stokes human prejudice and fear, Lily rescues a teenage succubus on the run from the authorities. But taking young Eve under her wing means facing new responsibilities, new risks, and the ghost of an old enemy.
As she hunts an assassin possessed by the spirit of bloody vengeance, Lily must reckon with her worst fear: the truth about what went down with Eve's father in the desert--and its consequences.
Thank you so much for your support this week as I rereleased Cambion’s Law! I’m relieved the book I worked so hard on is out in the world ag
In this post, I dig in to the story of what really went wrong at City Owl Press, from my personal perspective.
Of course, I cannot speak for other authors. The facts here are backed up by extensive documentation. The rest is my opinion, and you may judge that as you please.
From the outside, the turmoil at City Owl Press in the first weeks of 2024 probably seemed to boil up out of nowhere. It left a lot of onlookers wondering what the hell happened—including some of the press’s less engaged authors, editors, and readers.
In my opinion, the events of what some of us have taken to calling “Rush Week” were quietly brewing for a long time before the situation exploded. The publisher knew that many writers had concerns and had for a while. In fact, the owner said as much to me in writing when she offered my rights back on January 4, minutes after I asked to exercise my contract’s records clause.
Read the whole sordid story on my blog…
wdym you're going to hold me at gunpoint? What's next you caress me at gunpoint?? kiss me at gunpoint??? 🤨
One advantage of not really having a strong sense of gender identity is that you’re very [shrug emoji] about how people gender you. Sometimes people call me by she/her pronouns and sometimes they go with he/him pronouns and on the internet people often default to they/them, and neither option is entirely right but also, fuck if I know what would be right, and I don’t particularly care. Therefore I’m perfectly happy to outsource my gender identity to the people around me who actually need to figure out which box to put me in. I don’t need to talk about myself in third person, so really my pronouns sound like a you problem.
My pronouns are I/me and the rest is for someone else to deal with because I have better things to do.
Very fond of macrolabels, like “queer”, that provide zero extra information. Is it genderqueer? Is it romantic/sexual orientation queer? Is it queer as in “none of your fucking business what’s in my pants and what I do with it and with whom”?
This is actually probably the first time I’ve ever read something that accurately describes my relationship with gender--ie, ‘my gender is me and my pronouns are a you problem’--so thank you for that!
#you cannot gender me in a way that matters
Loving the term "macrolabel" for things like "queer," this is a true gift to discussions of queer theory, and I'm not joking even a little.
Rashida Tlaib has set up a petition to send to the White House to recognize and stop the ethnic cleansing and forced displacement happening in Gaza. If you’re a US citizen please sign. I have no illusions that this will change policy, but the public outcry against their actions must continue. We will not be distracted or discouraged from continuing to object to these humans rights violations.
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and the final part!
Part 1, Part 2
Stay tuned for the news about printed version :>
I am holding myself to this: I do not get to write a brief essay on the most infamous and frequently misused craft advice in writing until I've drafted the next 10k words
we are currently at "bribing myself with the promise of future navel-gazing"
It’s been a long, weird year so far. No, I’m not talking about the year (and some) since I last wrote in this blog, though 2023 was also…eve
✨WE’RE LIVE BABY!!✨
Half-human. Half-succubus. All work and no play. Ambitious prosecutor Lily Knight fights like a demon in the courtroom, but she’s as dangerous to herself as others. Touch-starved by choice, she refuses to live beholden to any lover.
“Innocent” doesn’t describe Sebastian Ritter’s craving for dominance in bedroom and boardroom. But one brush of his fingers over her skin tells Lily that he didn’t commit the murder he’s charged with.
With her life and secrets on the line, Lily races to find the real culprit. From the infuriating incubus who taught her to tempt and take, to intrigues and indiscretions at a masked cabaret, each unraveling thread entangles her further in a perilous game of seduction and lies.
To survive, she must embrace her power, unleash her hunger, and surrender control…at the risk of losing herself to the demon inside.
CAMBION’S LAW offers trope-flipping paranormal suspense, modern noir fantasy, and dark romantic tension with a slow burn, subversive power dynamic grounded in mutual consent. Perfect for fans of Book of Azrael, Ninth House, and TV’s Jessica Jones or Lucifer.
Amazon.com: Cambion's Law (Cambion Series Book 1) eBook : Fulmer, Erin, McCorkle, Heather
On Jan. 12, my rights were reverted from my publisher after I asked about viewing their records related to my book.
It turns out they only ever ran one ad for my series, in June 2022. They sent me screenshots for the ad, a single A/B Facebook test, in response to my records request. It looked like AI trash, and they noted in my expense report that it had bad ROI, not to be repeated. 🫠
So my little book never really had a fair chance. Now it’s back with me, I’m determined to do right by it.
Drop this sunflower🌻into the inboxes of the blogs that make you happy! Let's spread a little sunshine ☀️
🥺🥰 awww thank you Mel!!! It worked 😊
✨WE’RE LIVE BABY!!✨
Half-human. Half-succubus. All work and no play. Ambitious prosecutor Lily Knight fights like a demon in the courtroom, but she’s as dangerous to herself as others. Touch-starved by choice, she refuses to live beholden to any lover.
“Innocent” doesn’t describe Sebastian Ritter’s craving for dominance in bedroom and boardroom. But one brush of his fingers over her skin tells Lily that he didn’t commit the murder he’s charged with.
With her life and secrets on the line, Lily races to find the real culprit. From the infuriating incubus who taught her to tempt and take, to intrigues and indiscretions at a masked cabaret, each unraveling thread entangles her further in a perilous game of seduction and lies.
To survive, she must embrace her power, unleash her hunger, and surrender control…at the risk of losing herself to the demon inside.
CAMBION’S LAW offers trope-flipping paranormal suspense, modern noir fantasy, and dark romantic tension with a slow burn, subversive power dynamic grounded in mutual consent. Perfect for fans of Book of Azrael, Ninth House, and TV’s Jessica Jones or Lucifer.
