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Director_Kumazaki ／熊崎信也 🎮 @director-kumazaki.bsky.social · 3h

Large Kirby plush toy with a cheerful smile😌✨👍 うるうる笑顔、おっきなカービィ！　いろいろな表情も増えて😌 ーーーーーーーーーーーー #kirby #kirbyplush #星のカービィ #カービィぬいぐるみ

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 3h

Leo's daughter, Adrienne, is a lesbian! (she comes out to him at the same time he comes out to her as as a trans man. It's very cute.) #QueerPrompts

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 6h

Roland lives in a tiny house in a tiny town in the Deep South. He's panicking because his father just died, his brothers all fucked off or died in WWI, so he has no support. His life is spiraling out of control... at least his BFF offered to let him live with her in NYC (or SF). #FirstDraftFall

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Not really. (I had to think about this one a bit.) I guess the phantom thief forms show their true inner selves? Does that count? (William becoming an androgynous waif, Leo just straight up becoming a dude...) That could be a form of inner beauty, I suppose. #QueerPrompts

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Roland's the youngest of seven. His mom died when he was ten, so he was raised by his father's family, mostly. He grew up in a tiny town in Mississippi in the late 1800s and it sucked. (especially being the only "girl" of the family, having a preacher for a dad, and racism.) #FirstDraftFall

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Y'know... not physically, but he probably should when he's off doing a phantom thievery. Would probably make it harder for him to get caught. Metaphorically, he does wear the mask of being closeted (even to himself!) for half the damn book. #LGBTQWriteAThon

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Didn't have comparison, so I looked up a bunch of synonyms... Didn't have any of them (but similarity was one of them) so I went with similar. This was the beginning of Leo getting his ass kicked by a bratty magician. (don't ask) RIP. From 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP. #WIPSnips

“Asshole,” I muttered.
He glared at me. “I could take away what muddled, pathetic magick you’ve sullied right now and leave you nothing but a husk.”
“Go ahead.”
“Leo!” Void cried. “Stop being rude.”
Okay, I was probably being a bit too confident right now. But this guy was a douche who’d probably been born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He deserved to be taken down a peg.
Even so, my heart was pounding away in my chest.
He drew out a magic circle—it looked similar to mine—and pressed it out towards me.
I tossed myself to the ground. Even though Void said that transforming twice in one night would fuck me up, I still had to…
“Power of the Phantom Veil! Give me strength!” I cried, and in an instant, I transformed.
Normally, transforming twice in one night would make me feel like absolute shit. But I was so pissed off I didn’t care.

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Leo is coached by his cute animal mascot, and the spirit of his great-great-great-great-great grandfather (the original phantom thief) in his powers but I wouldn't call them Coaches™, y'know? #QueerPrompts

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

After his father's death, he gets a letter from his BFF Mary telling him to come to NYC/San Francisco (not sure yet) and goes "fuck it we ball" and leaves. Unfortunately for him, as soon as he gets off the train, he's met with a lead pipe to the back of the head and ritually sacrificed. Yikes!

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The MC of my #FirstDraftFall project is Roland Matthews, a 35 year old Black trans man living in the Deep South in the 1920s. He's bitter and has a chip on his shoulder from having to take care of his dying father after his siblings all fucked off/from dysphoria and racism. (cont)

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Leo's terrified of getting got. If he does, the magic in his blood will go to his 19 year old daughter, and she'll have to become a badass phantom thief. (She still has chuunibyou, so she'd love it, but Leo doesn't know that, so it's a constant thread of anxiety for him.) #LGBTQWriteAThon

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I didn't think I had rice in this WIP, but here we are, I guess. Now I want jambalaya... From 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP. #WIPSnips

But I got to be Veilwhisper again!
Wait. Why was I so excited about that? Maybe it was just because there was a chance that I could see Silvershadow again. And I didn’t have to be an overworked HR peon with a racist as hell boss. And I got to be tall.
But I couldn’t help but wonder if my uncle would be proud of me. Was I upholding the Royle family legacy?
Probably not. Making googly eyes at Silvershadow and practically rubbing my junk against their leg wasn’t being a glamorous, powerful phantom thief. It was really just being a bit of—as Adrienne and her friends would put it—a simp. Embarrassing.
I sighed, then started my car and went back to Heather’s place.
When I got back, she wasn’t there, but had left a note on the fridge saying that she’d be back around ten PM and that dinner was in the slow cooker. Fair enough. It’d give me some time to decompress from this shitshow of a day and hang out with Lysander and Void.
I grabbed dinner—just some jambalaya and rice—then vegged out in front of the TV. I refused to watch the news. Not after being humiliated like that.
But for now, at least, I was safe. Detective Choi and the rest of the SFPD weren’t looking for some forty-something who literally changed sex to become Veilwhisper. Though… I felt kinda bad for any forty to fifty year old dark skinned Black guys with locs running around the Bay. The racial profiling would be insane.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This ancient Greek figure from the 2,500 year-old Douris Cup looks uncannily like someone working on a laptop! 😲 💻 He’s actually writing with a stylus on a hinged wax writing tablet! The technology has changed, the posture has not! 😂 Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Research, research and more research. I'm trying to nail my MC's voice so he doesn't wind up sounding like a sad tired millennial. (He's a sad tired Lost Generation 😂) #FirstDraftFall

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Meeting with my advisor didn't go well! I'm fucked! (should have just stayed a NEET instead of going back to college, my god) #FML

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Kristin 🇨🇦🤓 @faierius.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A photo of a hand on a cat's head. The hand has text over it that says compliments. The confused looking cat has text that says me anxious and confused as why someone's being nice to me

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Leo has a Bachelor's in business... so business, lol. 😅 William, programming. Xavier, criminal justice. #QueerPrompts

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nothing like getting embarrassed by the news while making out with one of your love interests... RIP Leo. From 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP. #WIPSnips

The rest of the weekend went on normally, and before I knew it, it was Monday morning.
I idly watched the news as Heather and I ate breakfast together. The news was still droning on and on about how Veilwhisper and Silvershadow were apparently dating—which we weren’t!—and broadcasting our make out session all over channel three. Ugh.
I looked so… submissive with them. Panting slightly, pinned against the wall as they kissed me… It had almost felt like a dream.

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My main goals for the week are: - write 10k on 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP - work on a piece for my fiction writing class workshop coming up - clean the house before the guy comes to fix the AC #LGBTQWriteAThon

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For the world: pretty much everything. This is a historical novel, so I need to do so much research. The characters... the MC is a preacher's kid in the mid 1920s, so... more research. At least I'm a pantser, so I don't have to understand the story quite yet. 😅 #FirstDraftFall

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I did a dumdum and made an appointment with my advisor for 9:30am when my next class isn't until 6:30pm. Guess I'll just bum around campus and sit in the library writing. #whoops #studentlife #writesky

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Didn't have foreboding, so I went with dread. Poor Leo (even if he doesn't know he's Leo yet.) I'd be freaked out too if I learned that if I got killed being a thief, it'd fuck over my daughter. #LGBTQWriteAThon #queerwriters

The rest of the week was boring enough, even though I had dread hovering over my head like a raincloud. If I fucked this up, Adrienne’s life would be over. She’d have to drop out of school, come back here, and risk her life to purify cursed artwork. I couldn’t—I refused—to have that happen to her.

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Having trans people in it. (Specifically, trans people who are happy and have fulfilling relationships.) 🏳️‍⚧️ Alternatively, all the magic in it. 🪄 #QueerPrompts

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The egg's being held together with shoestrings and bubblegum at this point. (It cracked entirely about 5 scenes later.) From 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP. #WIPSnips

Could I be Leo all the time? Heat rushed to my face. Just the thought of transition made my heart skip a beat. Even if I did, I’d still only be five-five. I wouldn’t look like Veilwhisper. I’d probably look like a teenage boy until I turned sixty.
Ugh. This was a problem for future me.
Void padded over towards me. “What are you thinking about? You look like you want to die.”
“I dunno…” I whispered. “You said I’d be happier if I was Leo all the time, but… I think if I had to choose, I’d want to be Veilwhisper. Tall, strapping, attractive…”
Lysander clapped his hands together. “Oh, the soul searching’s happening! Finally—”
I shut him up with a glare.
“You don’t have to make any decisions now,” Void said. “With the extended lifespan you get from Lysander’s contract, you have decades to figure yourself out.”
“That makes me feel a little better.” I flopped onto the pullout couch, sighing. “I’ll figure it out.”
“There’s nothing to figure out,” Lysander said. “When I was in the body of a female name-bearer—your great-grandmother, Lauren Royle—Veilwhisper was feminine. A beautiful woman with long braided hair and a slender build. Since I don’t look like that with you, well…”
I hadn’t thought about it that way. Fuck me.
Fuck me, fuck me, fuck me—I couldn’t be…
I swallowed. “Shouldn’t I have figured this out when I was sixteen? Not forty-one? That’s how it works… right?”
Sure, I’d never been one hundred percent satisfied with my body, but I’d always assumed that was a weight thing, not a gender thing. I’d always been a bit chubby—Mama would say curvy—but…
I closed my eyes and tried to picture myself as a man—but all I could see was Veilwhisper.

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm gonna go gray before NovNov/First Draft Fall even starts with all the research I'm doing. I gotta remember that it's a first draft, and as long as an iPhone doesn't show up and no one says yeet, it's probably fine, and I can fix any anachronisms in revisions. #writesky #blackauthorsky

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Directly after this, the MC got his ass beat by a powerful magician from Imirion (who was possessing the guy who said this's body 😱) RIP in pieces, I guess. (He survived, but it was still embarrassing.) The powerful magician's been trying to kill him ever since. Eek. #QueerPrompts

“I’ve been hearing voices,” he said quietly. “Something about… Imirion…”

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Myself, mostly. I write the stories I want to write, without thinking about marketability. (probably why I made 3 dollars last month 😭) But if other people want to read and buy my weird little queer and Black stories, that's cool too! #pretendpanel

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Didn't have petal, so I went with flower. IIRC, this is the first time the MC sees Silvershadow irl. Nothing like having to have your self-proclaimed rival save your ass, lol. From 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP. #WIPSnips

The darkness melded into silhouettes of people with plants coming out of their bodies—their mouths, chests, hands—and I took a step back, covering my mouth.
They slowly encircled me and closed in, but I pulled my rapier out of its sheath, gritting my teeth.
Did I know how to sword fight? No. Had I ever even held a sword before? Also no. But if you stabbed anything enough, it’d go down.
But just holding it made me feel a bit more powerful. I slipped into a fighting stance, slashed at one of the silhouettes, and it shattered into pieces. Okay. I just had to keep that up. I could do it. Right?
But even as I fought them off, more and more of them popped up, and eventually, I was pressed against a wall.
Fuck me.
I slashed one last time, but a tendril of darkness grabbed my wrist, and yanked my rapier out of my hand.
I squeezed my eyes shut, waving my hand to try and push them away with gravity, but nothing happened. The putrid scent of rotting flowers filled the air, and I gagged, my vision swimming.
I couldn’t die here. I couldn’t subject Adrienne to this. I couldn’t—
A deafening bang echoed through the gallery, and I snapped my head towards the noise. The cops? How did they even get in here—no. A massive bullet of silver light pierced through all the silhouettes, and they let out a blood-curdling scream before shattering into millions of pieces.
Silvershadow?! They were holding an… old-fashioned flintlock pistol? They twirled it once, and it turned into their rapier. They hooked it back at their hip, giving me an expectant look.

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Pretty good! I didn't bomb my first exam in Sociology, I wrote 2.5k on my WIP, and I'm overall just vibing. 👍 #LGBTQWriteAThon

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it looks like you're writing a novel @gr8writingtips.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

make it weirder

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This will be a standalone since it most likely ends with the end of the world as we know it. (Yikes!) #FirstDraftFall

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I always have a title, even if it's not the final title. I'm a weirdo who can't really start without at least *something.*

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks so much for the recs! I'll check all of these out.

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just do. I've been writing/storytelling since I was 3 and telling my mother stories that she typed up on her computer. Asking me why I write is like asking me why I breathe. (I know that sounds pretentious af, but if I wasn't allowed to write, I'd go crazy in days probably...) #pretendpanel

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is making me realize that I should see if there's any books on queerness in the 1920s, since my NovNov project takes place back then and the MC is queer. (I'm taking suggestions, btw. I've been researching like whoa.) #QueerPrompts

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Didn't have dent, so I went with crater. The MC's training his powers in gravity manipulation in the middle of the night, with only his familiar and spirit of his great-great-great-great-grandfather for company. RIP. From 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP. #WIPSnips

“All right.” Void hopped in front of me, then did a little flip.
A small metal ball—about the size of a tennis ball—appeared in front of me.
“You can go back to bed once you figure out how to make this float.”
Great. I could be here for twenty minutes, or I could be here until sunrise. Well, I wasn’t staying here until sunrise, since Heather would have so many questions I couldn’t answer.
I stared at the ball, focusing my magic, and it wobbled slightly, but nothing else.
“Do you want a hint?” Lysander asked.
“Yes, please.”
“When I used my gravity manipulation offensively, I imagined myself throwing a net around them and yanking it upward or downward. Hopefully, that helps.”
It really didn’t, but here we were.
I yawned, then rubbed my eyes. Might as well try it…
I imagined a net of black light throwing itself over the ball, then yanked it upwards in my mind’s eye.
Nothing happened.
Great. I’d have to find my own way. And it didn’t help that I was sleep deprived.
I hovered my hand over the ball, trying to press out my magical energy. Or whatever it was that let me transform and float. It wobbled again, and for a split second, I could see tendrils of dark energy dangling from my fingertips. Hmm…
I squinted, focusing a bit harder, and the tendrils wrapped around the ball, slowly lifting it upward.
“Oh, excellent,” Void said, nodding. “Now press it back down.”
“Okay.” I kept staring at the ball, and then waved my hand downward.
The ball slammed into the dirt, leaving a small crater.
Lysander clicked his tongue. “A bit too much energy, but a good start.”
He was right. I didn’t want to turn anyone into a red smear, after all.

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This month is finishing up 40-something trans dude phantom thief WIP. It only needs around 15-25k, and I really want to get it done before NovNov/First Draft Fall, so I can hit the ground running with my shinier new project. No moodboard, though. I'm terrible at making them lol. #LGBTQWriteAThon

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Roland lives in a tiny town in Mississippi in the 1920s... His father just died from a prolonged illness, and he was the only one of his siblings who took care of him. He's also closeted and miserable. But now that he doesn't have any attachments, maybe he can reinvent himself... #FirstDraftFall

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wellllll... the god does want to purify (read: raze and recreate in his own image) the world, so that's at least a lil evil. But at least bigots get smote/turned into pillars of salt before that happens!

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There is some romance! (I'm a romance writer at heart, so there's always at least a little bit lol) But there's also the conflict of "does the god love me, or does he just love what I'm doing for him?" and "can a god love a human like a human loves a human?"

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Roland (the MC) is the son of a Baptist preacher, which makes the whole "sharing a body with a god who is decidedly *not* The Christian God™" thing a bit darkly hilarious. (He has trouble reconciling this at first, but gets on board once the god gives him power and a new body.) #WeeknightWriters

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm looking forward to the community and the cheering on. (I'm a little shy, so I just like people's posts and scream into the void.) And also the writing part! I haven't been this excited for a project for a long, long time. #WeeknightWriters

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Word count. I'll be aiming for the 50k (since I'm doing NovNov as well as #FirstDraftFall) but finishing the draft would be nice too. (I'm thinking this'll probably end up between 85-100k.) #WeeknightWriters

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Answered this with the last question, oops. Well... It's historical (1920s) it's queer (MC is a bi trans man) it's Black AF, it's horror (the MC will nearly get ritually sacrificed) there's some romance (the evil god shoved in his body takes a shine to him...) It's a lot, lol. #WeeknightWriters

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It's definitely a departure from what I usually do (self-pub tropey romance) since this is going to be more upmarket/literary, and I'll most likely try to query it when it's all said and done.

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Like I said in my intro, I'm writing historical queer horror. It's about a Black trans guy in the 1920s who gets a (probably evil) god shoved in his body after a botched cult ritual. The god gives him the body he wants, they smite racists/queerphobes, and reinvent the world. #WeeknightWriters

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A.M. Boone is in marketing hell @ambooneauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hi! I'm A.M! I write books that center black queer characters. My project is a historical queer horror about a cult victim who has an evil god shoved in his body. My #FirstDraftFall planning is going well! I've been reading books on/that take place in the 1920s and Black horror. #WeeknightWriters

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Mia Tsai says buy her books @itsamia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

actual hot take: y'all, generally speaking, are not interested in supporting BIPOC and queer authors when they are not writing about Hurt and Trauma because it's not educational to you. even if the books have BIPOC and queer casts and are in new settings.

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