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Ada Hoffmann

@ada-hoffmann.bsky.social
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Spec fic writer, poet, autist. They/them. Philip K. Dick Award finalist, Rhysling & Elgin nominee, & author of the OUTSIDE series. Canadian. More about me and my books at ada-hoffmann.com

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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Apparently Canva isn't useful anymore unless you want AI all over everything (why do I always wait to adopt tech until right before it does something like this?) so I have simply created this promo graphic in PowerPoint (Also, hi! See you in a few weeks at Can*Con, if you are going!)
Meet me at Can*Con!
Saturday (Oct 17), 4pm: Killing/Saving Your Darlings. L Chen, Ada Hoffmann, Melanie Marttila, Y.M. Pang (m)
Saturday (Oct 17), 7pm: Problematic Lesbians and Toxic Sapphics. Ada Hoffmann, A.D. Sui, Madeleine Vigneron, dave ring (m)
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Look who's on the Top 10 SFF list in this week's issue of ALA Booklist!
A page in a paper magazine with a list of titles, authors, and short summaries for several books. The one I want you to pay attention to is, of course, Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffmann. The summary says, "This character-driven sf follows and autistic, queer woman who finds a comfortable place for herself fine-tuning AI prompts to create episodes about a space pirate, when her best friend reappears asking for help with a dodgy situation."
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Annnnnnnd then I have a dinosaur poetry collection which is not really gay or straight at all because it is about dinosaurs. Do you like dinosaurs? Everyone like's dinosaurs, C'MON.
Cover of Million-Year Elegies by Ada Hoffmann. The cover art is the skeleton of a baby dinosaur curled up in a circle.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Meanwhile RESURRECTIONS is probably my most bisexual book? Like there's a whole section about the classic het situation of trying to save a troubled man by sleeping with him. But there are also epic novelettes about lesbian dinosaur hunters, polyam changelings, and a nonbinary radical space poet.
Cover of Resurrections by Ada Hoffmann. There's a sort of shiny red tree growing in the clouds and a light filled silhouette of a person underneath it.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I also write short stories! MONSTERS IN MY MIND was my first short story collection. My early work wasn't quite as flaming as now, but you'll still find a gay man surviving a dinosaur apocalypse, lesbian witches and naiads, a bi/polyam epic-style heroine and more.
Cover of Monsters In My Mind by Ada Hoffmann. The art is a brown silhouette face with the title words creatively typeset into the area where its brain should be. Along the neck it says "Creator of Autistic Book Party."
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
THE OUTSIDE is the first book in a trilogy, and the next two in the series - THE FALLEN and THE INFINITE - are probably even queerer, as our heroine assembles a super-powered, mostly-queer found family in her fight to save the planet Jai.
Cover of The Fallen by Ada Hoffmann. The cover art features some highway bridges that have come alive and started to reach into the sky with greenery-covered tentacles. They also have red eyes in them. I don't know, it's sort of hard to explain. A tiny human figure sits by the roadside looking up at them.Cover of The Infinite by Ada Hoffmann. A tiny human figure stands on a rooftop reaching up for one of the tentacles of a big, many-eyed cosmic horror monster in the sky. Light erupts between her and the monster.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
THE OUTSIDE, my first published novel, is a cosmic horror space opera with a lesbian heroine who's up against genderfluid shapeshifting cyborg angels and an ace-coded heretic scientist.
Cover of The Outside by Ada Hoffmann. The cover art features some really cool twisting metal tentacle sorts of things with a tiny astronaut standing on one of them sideways. A pull quote by Karin Tidbeck says "A fresh and mind-bending mix of cosmic horror and space opera."
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hi, new followers! Someone else did a "happy Pride, all my books are gay!" thread and now I want to do it too. First up is IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS, just out this May. A sapphic cis woman and a trans space pirate team up to fight genAI, book bans, and censorship. Super queer and super fun!
Cover of Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffmann. The cover art features a big cartoon Jupiter with a little cartoon spaceship flying over it against a starry background. On the cartoon spaceship there is a tiny Jolly Roger.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
I said "pics next week" I but Iied because actually the tattoo artist sent me pics that she took immediately before putting the bandages on so here they are right now! Artist is Jenny Grant: www.instagram.com/jennygrantta...
An arm tattoo based on the cover art from the Outside books by Ada Hoffmann. Ominous metallic spirals swirl down the arm and transform into green, frond-like shapes in which red eyes begin to open. The tattoo was designed and inked by Jenny Grant.An arm tattoo based on the cover art from the Outside books by Ada Hoffmann. Ominous metallic spirals swirl down the arm and transform into green, frond-like shapes in which red eyes begin to open. The tattoo was designed and inked by Jenny Grant.An arm tattoo based on the cover art from the Outside books by Ada Hoffmann. Ominous metallic spirals swirl down the arm and transform into green, frond-like shapes in which red eyes begin to open. The tattoo was designed and inked by Jenny Grant.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
From today to May 25, all Tachyon's books are on sale for 20% off - including IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS! If you've been waiting to get your copy, now is a perfect time. tachyonpublications.com/product/memo... #IgnoreThisBook
Memorial day sale! 20% off May 22-25th. Use code Memorial20. Text banner over a collage of many different recent books published by Tachyon Publications.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Author copies arrived right on schedule! Now I just have to find room for them on my author copy shelves... #IgnoreThisBook
A cardboard shipping box open with copies of "Ignore All Previous Instructions" by Ada Hoffmann inside.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Thank you, Queen's! I had so much fun this afternoon.
Ada Hoffmann is wearing short hair, glasses, a leather jacket, jeans, and black running shoes. They are sitting in a red chair in front of a yellow wall, waving their hands in an expressive gesture. They look happy and excited. Beside them is a small table with a water bottle, copy cup, and book. On the other side of the table a man with gray hair sits. He is wearing a striped shirt, jeans, and brown shoes. He is the event host.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Psst. Any folks on here from Kingston? You get to sneak into my very first, early reading event next week where there may be an early surprise prize or two... #IgnoreThisBook
April 15 at 2pm. Goodwin Hall room 230. 25 Union St. Kingston ON K7L 3N6. Ignore All Previous Instructions: A Novel. "A love story and also a love letter to the power of human creativity and imagination as resistance." Dr Carolyn Lamb writing as Ada Hoffmann. Hosted by Queen's University.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
See what the critics are raving about! IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS launches in just 33 DAYS. #IgnoreThisBook
A table of pull quotes.
Praise for "Ignore All Previous Instructions"
"A revelation... 10 out of 10." - John Joseph Adams
"Thrilling, prescient, and emotionally rich." - Publishers Weekly
"Intimate, hopeful, and completely charming." - Kelly Robson
"A triumph." - Jordan Kurella
"A delight." - Bogi Takacs
"Liberating and meaningful." - RB Lemberg
"Precisely the book we need right now." - Izzy Wasserstein
"This is science fiction with heart, soul, and brains." - Maria Haskins
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
From Instagram - here's Nancy Wu getting ready to record. :D #IgnoreThisBook
Screenshot from n.wu.reads.aloud on Instagram. Nancy Wu, a Chinese woman in a tank top, poses in front of a red backdrop with a laptop showing the cover art of Ignore All Previous Instructions. Yellow lanterns can be seen overhead. Bubbles of text in the image say: "So happy. Just starting in the booth with Ada's new book! Ada Hoffmann's writing is simply fantastic. Recording in Bangkok, Thailand. Grateful to @recordedbooks audiobooks and @vintagestudio.thailand"
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Y'all, I am going on a little tour. #IgnoreThisBook
Ignore this mini book tour - sneak preview!
Virtual Can*Con
April 18 - panelist info to come
Bakka Phoenix Books - Toronto, ON
Launch day event!
Tuesday, May 12, 6:00pm
Indigo - Kingston, ON
Launch week signing event
Saturday, May 16, 11:00am-3:00pm
More stops to be announced
Watch this space!
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Two different sales going on in the same week?! It's more likely than you think!! THE INFINITE is going for $1.99 on Kindle this week. If you've been wanting to read the epic conclusion to the Outside series but haven't yet, now is your chance! angryrobotbooks.my.canva.site/watkins-medi...
Amazon Kindle: The Infinite, by Ada Hoffmann, £1.99/$1.99. For one week only. Ends 8th Feb 2026. Follow the link to redeem.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Ignore this pre-order campaign ad! Or maybe don't, because actually I AM SO EXCITED my book is one of Indigo's most anticipated sci-fi books!!! For those of you not in Canada, this is basically Canadian Barnes & Noble, and it's giving you 25% off if you pre-order next week. #IgnoreThisBook
Book cover of Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffmann. Above and below the cover there is extra text, which says, "Get 25% off Indigo's most anticipated sci-fi books! Shop the pre-order sale February 2nd-8th."
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I always wanted to make one of those graphics with the arrows and now I have :D #IgnoreThisBook
Cover of the book Ignore All Previous Instructions by Ada Hoffmann with arrows pointing to it. The text next to the arrows says: Be gay, do crimes! Trans M / cis F. New Adult. Queer coming of age. Autistic / ADHD relationship. Anti-LLM. Childhood friends to lovers / second chance. Prompt injection heist. Book bans (we're against them.) Writer MC. Sad backstory / happy ending. The power of imagination!!! Outwitting the clankers. Space colonies. Good girl / bad boy. Let me take you for a ride in my spaceship... Space media pirates.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
For folks in Ottawa - I will be dropping by on Feb 9 to speak on this panel at Carleton University. (They wanted a writer who is knowledgeable at AI to round out their list of academics, and I fit that bill.) Super excited!
A poster advertising an academic talk. Monday, February 9. The Place of AI in the City: Intelligent Machines and the Changing Shape of Social Relationships. 7:00-9:00 p.m. Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre (290 Lieger Street) In the background there is a stock image of pedestrians on walkways linked by shining red and blue lines.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
RT this with your home river.
Locks on the Cataraqui River in Kingston, Ontario. The water is calm and surrounded by green forest of a northeastern US / eastern Ontario type. There are two small bridges overtop.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
It's gotten to the point where the minor characters are now actively rebelling and refusing to do that tactic again, so
Text: The short guy bristles. He's got a loud voice, made even louder by the megaphone, although currently he's just holding it loose at his side and not shouting through it, per se. "We are not a diversion," he insists, [in tones of great conviction] [he says a union slogan idk what do you want from me]
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Kitteh approved. #IgnoreThisBook
Ninja, a black cat with green eyes, lounges contentedly on a pink pillow with a copy of Ada Hoffmann's book, "Ignore All Previous Instructions."
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Well, that was encouraging!
Your 2026 word is "based."
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
Screengrab from "Godzilla vs Mothra." We see the back of a gray haired man's head as he looks at a colored map of Japan and its surrounding area. Red letters at the top of the map say "GODZILLA DETECTION."
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Sometimes I still think about this evergreen tweet (made by a friend of a friend) Today the big lesson in therapy was "Ok, Ada, but are you aware that OTHER PEOPLE ALSO make choices???"
Tweet by a person named goth edit rosalina nintendo. It says, "working thru trauma is so goddamn goofy sometimes. like im really out here 31 years old giving myself kid's show lessons & assignments. Ok sweetie this month we're going to practice MAKING CHOICES! :) Do you know what a CHOICE is? *turns to a fuckfing puppet holding two items* 10:20am, May 2, 2022. 30 likes.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health.
Screenshot from Disney's "Tangled." Rapunzel is lying facedown despondently in the grass, while Flynn sits nearby, exasperated, with his face in his hand.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I just found out @tachyonpub.bsky.social is having a Black Friday / year end sale! Everything on their website is going for 30% off - and I mean *everything* everything, including pre-orders for IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS... 😇
An ad that says, "30th anniversary Year end sale! 30% off sitewide until the end of 2025. Use code YEAREND30. Tachyonpublications.com." In the background there is a collage of covers of different Tachyon books.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
BEEP BEEP BEEP WE HAVE A COVER
Cover of the book IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS by Ada Hoffmann. The title is written in bright, colorful block letters and the author's name is below it in a handwriting-like font. A tiny robot peeks out from the "S" at the end of "Instructions." Below the title and author there is a cartoon depiction of the planet Jupiter, against a starry background, with a cartoon spaceship flying up from it. There is a small Jolly Roger flag on the spaceship.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
One of the items I bought from the Ottawa Cat Rescue booth last week was the Considerate Cat Tarot, Volume II - and now that I've got a moment to breathe, I'm getting to know the deck. Reply with a question and I will tell your fortune with kitties* (*for entertainment purposes only)
Blurry picture of the box of the Curious Cat Tarot, volume II. It is teal colored and is resting on a wooden surface. It has cover art of a black cat surrounded by daisies.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Might have gone a little overboard in the Can*Con vendors room this year...
A pretty large pile of books, notebooks, stickers, bookmarks, candy, magnets and accessories.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
And a few from closer to where I normally live.
Back end of several university buildings, with a tree in the foreground.A cement mixer and tractor in front of a house.Martello Tower with trees and traffic lights in the foreground.A trailer full of cows in a parking lot.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Here are a few from Barcelona!
Back view of several buildings in Barcelona.A pedestrian street in downtown Barcelona.Outside of a building.Comic shops on a street in Barcelnoa, with pillars and balconies.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
One thing I am determined to do before IGNORE comes out is get used to making those cute promo graphics in Canva that everyone's making now. This is my first attempt 😅 Also hi! In just 10 days you can meet me at @canconsffh.bsky.social !
Meet me at Can*Con 2025!
Sat Oct 18, 10:00 am Slow Fiction
Sat Oct 18, 5:30 pm Navigating Social Communication
Sun Oct 19, 10:00 am He's Babygirl: Reclaiming the Queercoded Villain
@ada-hoffmann.bsky.social
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Take the fictional characters test and post the first four you recognize: openpsychometrics.org/tests/charac... (NOTE: it will also make you fill out a different survey before you get the full results) "An awkward nerd, but with 75% chance of something spooky going on" is... accurate
Raj Koothrappali from The Big Bang TheoryWillow Rosenberg from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"Will Graham from "Hannibal"Needy Lesnicki from "Jennifer's Body"
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Speaking as a Canadian: oh my god, *what?* (Our ballots look like this:)
A picture of a Canadian election ballot. It's super simple and just has four names with check boxes next to thm.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
YOOOOOOOOOO
Publishers Marketplace Deal Report
Ignore All Previous Instructions
By Ada Hoffmann
Imprint: Tachyon Publications, Recorded Books
Author of THE OUTSIDE Ada Hoffmann's IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS, a light sci-fi novel pitched as a queer coming-of-age with an autistic main character and a cutting satire about AI in publishing, conglomeration of corporate ownership in media, and censorship and book banning, by Jacob Weisman at Tachyon Publications, with Jaymee Goh editing, for publication in spring 2026, by Hannah Bowman at Liza Dawson Associates.
Audo rights to Brian Sweany at Recorded Books.
Fiction: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
April 8, 2025
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Cannot believe I sat through the entire first 6 hours of Trans Day of Visibility before I remembered that I am, in fact, also trans and could celebrate by making myself visible at this time. Here is a pic from June!
Picture of Ada Hoffmann. They are standing in front of a brown closet door, wearing a blue tank top and blue baseball cap.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
When drafting is hard, we do Mad Libs.
Screenshot of a paragraph from the zero draft of some story or other, with a lot of placeholder brackets where words are supposed to go. The full text of the paragraph reads:
“[mc],” [guy] says, extending his hand, “meet Dr. [li] and Dr. [extra]. [li first name] just won this year’s [a fancy chairship] and [name] works with her in [some capacity]. [both first names], meet [mc now with bonus last name!], one of my best and most reliable [polite word for assassin.]”
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
I don't really have any pics with enough different people in them to demonstrate how genderfluid I am, but for the gender of this *particular* current moment, here's one:
Fanart of Dr Evianna Talirr from THE OUTSIDE, drawn by criptidmar. A grumpy looking middle-aged woman with large glasses, a lab coat, a book in one hand and a lot of eldritch horrors clustered around her.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Wait I changed my mind it's this
Screenshot of Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico in The Last Jedi saying, "I could put my fist through this whole lousy beautiful town."
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Okay but actually
Pterodactyl in a defiant pose on a tree branch. Text says "Come at me extinction."
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I was looking for a different gif to use in a meme and I found this screenshot I took, like 2 years ago, while I was trying to put together Chapter 2 of THE INFINITE :P
[Ev's like "hi I'm here to fix your problem"]
[Yasira and the others have complex reactions]
[Ev hamhandedly apologizes]
[complex reactions]
[actual pran is explained]
[Eva sks Yasira to stay behind]
[Tiv leaps to Yasira's defense]
[Yasira waves her off]
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Look, this uquiz did not HAVE to drag me, but,,,
Your Result: [insert character] needs a hug. frown emoji. you poor poor thing.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
OMG there are so many new followers lately. And I have written a lot of things that some of you might not know about! Let's play this game!
Get to know my writing. For every like, I will post one piece I wrote.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Trying hard to distract myself with happy things today so here is my Can*Con swag pile!
A pile of books, coffee, cat toy, post-it notes, bottle of something sparkly, and a postcard that says "Has the world ended yet?"
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
1000 followers! This place has really livened up lately. Here, have a cat, a book, and a sunbeam.
A black cat sits on a brightly colored rug in a bright sunbeam with a copy of Ada Hoffmann's book, "The Outside." She is looking slightly away from the camera to avoid getting sun in her eyes.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
Okay, it's the weekend, let's do this meme. (Though be warned: my music taste is what most people would consider "bad," unless you happen to like both Top 40 pop and symphonic metal.)
Get to know my music taste. For every like, I will post one song I love.
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
Ooh, let's do the meme! 1 like = 1 answer.
1. Who's your favorite character you've written? 2. What book has had the biggest influence on your writing? (not counting craft books) 3. Which of your characters is the most like you? 4. Which of your characters is least like you? 5. What is your Big Author Dream? 6. Which do you like best: plotting, drafting, revising, or editing? 7. What is the genre of your current WIP? 8. What was the genre of your first WIP? 9. What do you do when you get stuck in your plot? 10. What is your ideal writing environment? 11. What author's style do you most admire? 12. Can you read and write at the same time? 13. Do you write every day? Why or why not? 14. What's your average word count in a day? 15. What time of day do you like to write? 16. What is the hardest part of starting a new project? 17. How do you get inspired when the well is dry? 18. If you want, tag three people to do the prompt!
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Ada Hoffmann @ada-hoffmann.bsky.social · 28/12/2023
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