We Shadows Fans: a fan blog for Thomm Quackenbush

This is the "official" fan tumblr for the Night's Dream series by Thomm Quackenbush. Feel free to share your love for his books We Shadows and Danse Macabre or the world he created and the characters that reside in it. Fan material is encouraged! and squee all you want we'll understand. (who doesn't want to kiss ghost Eliot on the mouth or cuddle the vampire pumpkin until dawn?)

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Kitty paws. 🐾🐾 #kitten #gideon #paws #cutie

[anarchism-and-tea]

Gideon is a cat!!! 

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“Her lips are like pillows of warm glass. It is strange to find her resistant for even a second, since she has been the kisser and not the kissed. It wasn't like the last time, which felt fumbling and unnatural. That time wasn't off-putting, just like kissing one's sister. This kiss, my kiss, was tingling sweetness, electric apple blossoms.” ― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

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Interview with Author – Thomm Quackenbush

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Author Bio: Thomm Quackenbush is a novelist, essayist, and teacher in the Hudson Valley. He has been previously published by Cave Drawing Ink, The Journal of Cartoon Over-Analysis, Broken City, and Paragon Press. He is the webmaster of http://xenex.org, where is posts his writing. He hardly …

[thenamegarden]

Roselyn

Gender: Female

Pronunciation: ROWZ-lin; ROWZ-a-lin; ROZ-lin; ROZ-a-lin; RAHZ-lin; RAHZ-a-lin

Origin: Old English

Variant of: Rosalyn

Meaning: Gentle horse; Beautiful rose

Ranking in the US top 1000: #849, 2012 (see past rankings)

[weshadowsfans]

10 reasons Sane is an asexual mongoose

1) only mongooses like reading books, especially fairlytails.  FACT.

2) It never say's she's not a mongoose.

3) it's commonly known that only Mongooses and Asexuals drink tea regularly 

4) mongooses have especialy powerful thoughts.

5) the authour confirmed it.

6) She really cuddling, sleeping, and being pet over sexual relations.

7) Shane is the best and Mongooses are the best so Shane=Mongoose.

8) All college students are Mongooses at heart.

9) mongooses wouldn't bang if they didn't need to. 

10) it's just so obvious! 

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((I thought I needed more of Roselyn ;_; and Roselyn is pretty sexy so I couldn’t let that go to waste))

"I seriously do not know why I put up with her! Whatever…it can’t be helped I guess…"

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reminded me of our Roselyn too :)

[thommquackenbush]

Okay, but why isn't Shane totally a lesbian? She is in my headcanon.

[weshadowsfans]

in my headcanon Shane is a mongoose and has no real sense of sexuality - it makes for an even more interesting read.

[thommquackenbush]

Finally!  I was beginning to think no one really got my series!   Here is a picture of asexual Shane hanging out with Gideon.  

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I think this makes it actual canon now... 

[mr-elementle]

I just talked to the author of the nights dreams series so now imma borrow my friends copy and read it despite having previously made fun of the cover and i will probably be overpowered by my feels and post abunch of stuff about it and find out theres this huge secret fandom for it in tumblr… wish me luck

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hope you like(ed) it! and welcome to our mini-fandom! (sorry it's not huge or secret) 

[rebelofxebel]

Fucking Gideon, dude.

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I know, right?

[thommquackenbush]

Okay, but why isn't Shane totally a lesbian? She is in my headcanon.

[weshadowsfans]

in my headcanon Shane is a mongoose and has no real sense of sexuality - it makes for an even more interesting read.

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Source: Anon

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This is the first book report I have ever seen for one of my books.  I am so amused. 

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Hey Thomm. I just wanted to formerly thank you for all the help and advice you gave me on Omegle earlier today. It means a lot that you were willing to sit around and give advice to a beginner like me. The help you gave me has not only inspired me to finish my book, but it’s given me hope that I can get my book published. So thank you very much for everything.

An email I received just now from a writer I had encountered and encouraged once before on Omegle.  In this industry, it is easy to believe the odds are against you, that your book will never see the light of day.  I try to let future authors know that it is possible to publish, as long as one is dedicated.   Ideally, if this were a movie, this person turns out to write an amazing book that ends up my favorite and touches the hearts of millions.  But this isn’t an ideal world.  It is more than enough for me that, because I told a stranger on Omegle that publishing is possible, he is almost finished with a book and is checking out publishers. (via thommquackenbush)

[von-sternenstaub]

“Tombstones covered the dale, the smooth marble surfaces bright. She had spent days here as a teenager, though not out of any awareness of mortality. Like every adolescent, she intended to live forever.” 

― Thomm Quackenbush, We Shadows

[thenamegarden]

Roselyn

Gender: Female

Pronunciation: ROWZ-lin; ROWZ-a-lin; ROZ-lin; ROZ-a-lin; RAHZ-lin; RAHZ-a-lin

Origin: Old English

Variant of: Rosalyn

Meaning: Gentle horse; Beautiful rose

Ranking in the US top 1000: #849, 2012 (see past rankings)

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[thommquackenbush]

Artificial Gods and Real Authors

Artificial Gods and Real Authors

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My third book, Artificial Gods, was released this week. Along with some praise, someone asked what it is like to have published three books. I had to admit, it is uncomfortably underwhelming.

When my first book was accepted by Double Dragon Publishing, I was beside myself. I could not believe the email was an acceptance at first, so used to rejections was I. I had written and rewritten We Shadows so often that the idea of finally releasing it from my grip made me a bit queasy. Within a few months of publication, it was contracted for a SyFy Channel miniseries that has yet to go anywhere, so I felt a real sense that my life as an author teetered on finally beginning in earnest. My publisher compared it to the BBC series “Being Human”, which I had not seen but which showed a keen insight to my marketability. Soon, my name would be known. Any moment, the right person would happen across my book and then I would be a Real Author (the definition of which is not clear to me, but must be something other than what I am at this moment).

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