#ScribesAndMakers Feb. 13: How well do you sing? If you don't consider yourself a good singer, do you sing anyway?
Poorly-mediocre. I can hold a note (sometimes), but I'm often off-key or a whole octave off. I did a whole bunch of Christmas song spoofs in-character, as Elfest the Vorcha, though. That was fun since IDNGAF about being good, on-key, or accurate with the lyrics.
#WritersCoffeeClub 2/10. Talk about a work which subverted your expectations, in a good way.
When I started reading MM romance by those authors who have now become my favorite (possibly Wings'n Wands by AJ Sherwood and Jocelyn Drake), I was surprised to find romance where both partners are truly equal.
Where the MCs treat each other as equal, with caring, love and honesty. This should be the norm, but it's subtly different from FM romance.
How much effort do I put into describing food in my writing?
Depends on the story. My first pro sale was total #FoodPorn - about a French restaurant with a misbehaving appliance in the kitchen. I did way too much research there. I've written a cooking teacher, too, in class.
I'm a big fan of competitive cooking TV for relaxation. And hospital shows . . . hmm.
Color image of an artisan's handmade stained glass suncatcher in the window of a residence in Bath Township, Summit County, Ohio, USA, 7 February 2026, as the morning sun outside tries to warm the snow-covered world outside above its 5 F (-16 C) morning temperatures. Image shows a suncatcher with the sun depicted in the glass as wearing sunglasses and radiating panels in yellow, orange, gold, blue, red, purple and magenta against a backdrop of a yard covered in a foot - 32 cm - of snow.
Each novel in the #SlenderWolf series is in effect one school year from September to the following June (subject to a little artistic licence)
There are some gaps between them, you get to meet the kids of KristalClear and NutJob in book 3 as primary school kids, and in book 5 as secondary school kids. Book 6 ends with the kids at 15 and 16, mirroring book 1 when the MCs were both 16
a silhouette representing the family in book 4 - SlenderWolf The ChessGame - showing KristalClear and Nutjob (both aged 31) and HazelWood (aged 8) and AshWood (aged 9)
Question on #copyright I intend to publish a public domain book, Myths and Legends of the Bantu. I think it's an important documentation of our cultures, but it has problematic and racist content. So my goal is to strip it of racism, fix some factual errors, etc. I can't claim authorship, original author has moral rights to that. I'll only claim editorship. But 1) Can I legally register a copyright to this edition? 2) Is this whitewashing the author of her racism?
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#ScribesAndMakers 4 Feb: Our next featured creator is a comic artist. Tell us about a comic strip or web comic you enjoy.
I enjoy Calvin & Hobbes.
I'm even thinking that in book 3 of #SlenderWolf (set in 2464AD) when two of my current characters are older, they will have children of their own that they might name them Calvin and Susie!
They have a boy and a girl, I am undecided on the names.
🧵 I just discovered there are reviews for my books on #StoryGraph ! Look at this one for Chalice of Caladriai! (Also... when someone gets it! It has always bugged me how books often completely ignore the fallout that any normal person would be dealing w/ after the experiences in the story!)😊🥹
This concept of "what happens after?" was a BIG part of Chalice of Caladriai. What happens after a kid is forced to confront an evil adult hell bent on destroying everything? How do they deal with that? And what if a friend paid a steep price for that "win"? What then?
How are the friendship dynamics affected? What about the supporting characters? What happens to them? These were all things that were dealt with in CoC, along with the usual mix of action, magic, and mayhem. I am SO HAPPY someone else wanted to know, too!
In the next book, Team Arcania will be dealing with repairing their friendships and the aftermath of book 4's cliffhanger ending (I love my cliffhangers, what can say? 😏) and then there's the two big reveals from CoC that are going to play parts in the rest of the series, too!
A screenshot of a 5-star review for Chalice of Caladriai over on Storygraph. It says:
The main highlight of this book for me was covering what happens after. When the evil is defeated and the heroes return home, it's not all sunshine and rainbows. We see Ty struggling with suddenly being back home; he's dealing with PTSD from everything he's been through and it's so rare to see that represented in a book of this genre.
The #ZackJackson series is a young-adult sci-fi series that focuses on adventure and real science. While there are a few space opera elements, the majority of the science is based on real theory and astronautical engineering.
Five of the six books in the series have been published; I'm still developing the final book. Zack Jackson & The Cult of Athos is the first novel in the series.
A bear-like Ersidian, a human boy, a human girl, and a mantis-like Valtraxian on a desolate landscape with orange bluffs behind them--cover art for Zack Jackson & The Cult of Athos (original watercolor painting by Scott Christian Sava)
The third #ZackJackson novel is The Hives of Valtra. The summer after book 1, Zack & the Junior Rangers take another trip, this time to the jungle homeworld of the Valtraxians. Naturally, because I live to torment Zack, STUFF HAPPENS.
Book 4 in the series is #ZackJackson & The Secret of Venus. In his second year at Cytherean Academy, Zack makes a new friend and discovers a secret that has galaxy-wide repercussions. HE'S GONNA GET IN SO MUCH TROUBLE, Y'ALL.
The fifth, and most recent book in the #ZackJackson series is The Ruins of Athos. Like Spider-Man, Zack is Far from Home, and if he gets home, he knows things will have changed, maybe not for the better.