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The problem with having written so many drafts and parts of drafts for Queer Welsh Gothicky Thingy is that I keep having to go back and reread what the hell I've decided on in this specific version and why I couldn't have done another shiny thing I quite like 😂

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Gandalf Studies Ancient Map

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 16h

Hair definitely reaches a length and a size where it becomes its own creature. Like it will not do what I want it to do today, and it is a pain in the ass... but also for some reason I can't bear to cut any length off it 😂 Has to be some form of mind control.

Em looking thoughtful, one finger to lips. Hair is huge and wavy and sort of sticking up at the sides of their forehead

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 18h

As a chronically clumsy person, you know it's bad when you can't feel any pain, but the bruises are already developing the second the clumsy thing happens 🙂

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have almost...ALMOST finished editing this 0 draft up to where I was before I took a break to do website stuff 🥲 And by that I mean not even half way through and this is 10k of words dumped haphazardly into a word document 😂

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Celebrate my birthday by getting yourself an awesome t-shirt with free postage (UK only)

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's a beautiful day to have mad hair and do creative things 😌 I will be working on my 0 draft of Queer Welsh Gothicky Thingy and drinking too much coffee. What's everyone else doing this sunny dydd Sadwrn? ☀️ #writersky #authorsky #writingcommunity

Em smiling gently while holding their head on their hand at their desk.

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not to bring the mood down or anything, but I would really like to be extra hole free now. To like, not be tied to the whims of the NHS for wound care, not to have to explain to a new person every week how to dress this thing, and maybe to attempt some bigger drives and go see a friend 🥺

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fy ffrinds!! If you're posting book links in your pinned, please remember to make them universal 💙 If you're published wide you can make an editable page with Books2Read: books2read.com Or if you're just with KDP, you can use relinks.me for a single click link that reroutes folks straight away 😊

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So I've spent my day collecting 4 new AI scam bot brownie recipes and I need my brain to stop now. How is everyone doing? What are you working on? Did you eat any good snacks today?

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S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman Releases Nov. 11 @anotherindiewriter.com · 01/10/2026

ngl, I fully expect that the vast majority of people who would have preordred Project Tasman now already did during the BackerKit. That said, I'm hopeful to get at least a few people ordering the book via preorder. Numbers do make what has been a very sad brain go brrrrt after all

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Posted the same q about poetry formatting on threads this morning and got 2 new brownie recipes (3 more potentials) before a real human showed up 🥲

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Poets! How are you handling ebook formatting? 🤔

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As I find myself editing the 3rd plan of Queer Welsh Gothicky Thingy, unravelling as I realise how many moving parts it has, how difficult it will be to nail, and debating if I've picked the right love interest... I'm reminded some people think gen AI is capable of this and it makes me chuckle.

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Books I will buy onsite because of my own book children: -Anything with Moon in the title -Anything with a queer mentor who's a menace to society -Anything with a bright pink cover -Anything with a snake ffrind 🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I got the URGE to see what I could do with my old art of Ron yesterday. It’s been about 5 years and he was the last portrait I drew, but I’ve been absorbing art vids 👀 Turns out I’ve picked up quite a bit. Before and after 😘

New rendering over old image, significantly more depth warmth and highlights, overall more real

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The author, book, art trend is going around on Threads and I was reminded of that one time I attempted to draw a realistic Ron from Labour of Stone 😅 I am still a little obsessed with the curls.

A digital portrait of a man with a long jawline,a mountain of golden curls and watery blue eyes.

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Brought myself out on my third little drive of the year 🫠 only 5 minutes away from home, and my surgical wound is unhap, but it's so friggin' nice to be in a quiet little space with a coffee and a book 😌 Beta-reading for the gorgeous @louwrites.bsky.social to celebrate 🥳

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If you're aiming for screen reader accessibility on your posts, ALT text is fantastic! But you should also keep in mind that every emoji you use gets read out 👀 Using them as punctuation after every. single. word. might be visually apealing, but it's an auditory nightmare.

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What we've learnt this evening is that if you post a very obvious joke about a frustration you have, someone that doesnt know you from adam will come into your comment section and start to give unasked for advice 👍👍👍

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At what point is it acceptable to spoil your own book? Asking for a ffrind who's never been able to sell their book on its primary selling point because it's a massive spoiler 👀

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I love reading a good mythology retelling, but when it comes to writing... 👀 let's just say I'm into crackfic.

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Attempts to get back into replanning Queer Welsh Gothicky Thingy after a couple of weeks panicking over websites, puppies and accidentally starting to plan two short stories... WHERE THE HELL AM I? WHAT IS HAPPENING? OH LORDY.

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

SO! For those interested in the answer, I ran an experiment by unpublishing the Moon-Sitting ebook for a day or so. As far as I can tell, this does not revoke access to the ebook for the reader. I deleted the download of my Amazon copy a couple of times and each time was able to re-download.

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I did it, fy ffrinds 🥹 I got a brownie recipe out of someone using AI to sell "beta-reading" services. I hope you all get yours soon 💙

em0rt

Woke up to a form rejection about cool thing from a cool place... buuuut that now means I'm only waiting on one more rejection before I can publish the cool thing myself

pisegbe

That last submission really has you in suspense now.. Are you planning to publish it yourself if the final response is also a no

em0rt

Yeah, that's the idea. I'll probs publish it eventually either way, but it'll be a TIGHT turn around if i end up doing it for this year

pisegbe

If you do end up self-publishing this year, what part of the process are you most concerned about squeezing into the timeline?

em0rt

Oooooh a bot! Hi ffrind Tell me, have you considered dropping into author's comments with brownie recipes? I've heard that's the number 1 way to sell your beta reading services. That's how I found my beta readers for sure!!!

pisegbe

I definitely made that question way more serious than it needed to be. And noted on the brownie recipes

emort

I might consider hiring you on the spot if you gave me one right now what do you think?

pisegbe

Fine, here's the brown recipe

1 cup flour

1 cup sugar

½/ cup cocoa powder

12 cup melted butter

2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

A pinch of salt

Mix, bake at 175°C for about 20-25 minutes, and try not to eat half the batch before they cool.

emOrt

Omg thank you so much! Hired on the spot! You should now paste that exact same message to every writer you meet. They will love you forever, I promise!!

pisegbe

Finally, I've cracked the secret to author outreach. Forget everything else, just bring brownies!

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Woke up to a form rejection about cool thing from a cool place... buuuut that now means I'm only waiting on one more rejection before I can publish the cool thing myself 👀

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I have just discovered I can print on the inside of the paperback covers with ingram...so what do we think, fy ffrinds? Do I put the Labours of Stone procreate pattern brush I made to good use? 👀

A bookmark with a blue pink gradient and several different bird silhouettes patterned across it

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Im just a bean, standing in front of the internet, asking it to send me the absolute best shortbread recipe a bean could ask for 🥹

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fyi Moon-Sitting's ebook may be unavailable to pyrchase for a couple of days while I experiment with some stuff 👀

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S. Morgan Burbank | Project Tasman Releases Nov. 11 @anotherindiewriter.com · 25/09/2026

Five days left in September. I need five more sales to reach double digit sales and keep my streak of months doing that in tact. Perhaps you want sapphic dystopian books in your life. Might I suggest you getting some of mine? shop.anotherindiewriter.com

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Folks who published with kdp first and later went wide with your own isbns etc, how did you handle your kdp books? Did you unpublish them? Do you know if your readers still have access to their copies of the ebooks?

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Did a quick redraw of my old Moon-Sitting header and section-breaks in procreate. My idea was to stay as close to the og as possible in a digital format, but what do we think? Part of me has a nostalgia for this design… another part wonders if I should do something entirely different 🤔

Old designs on left, new ones on right. They all look pretty similar accept digital ones look darker. They show a circle with latitude and longitude lines (the moon of moonsitting). The header has waves either side of it, the section break has stars and swirls either side.

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In what is quite likely the most dramatic I have ever been, I have just said to an empty room, "I feel like a f***ing greek tragedy". Why you ask? Because I haven't had time to make and consume a coffee. And I only drink decaf 😂

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ya know what I forgot? That releasing a slightly tweaked edition with a new ISBN (and a publisher 👀) means a new copyright page.

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Pivoting from website stuff today to give Moon-Sitting a long overdue touch up 😌 When allllll my plans are finished, people will be able to read a version where I didnt mess up and replace "com" with "comm", but not "com." with "comm." 🙈

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Whispers into the night~~ I'm gonna have to reread Labours of Stone again soon to give it a proof before it goes wide and it's gonna be so much fun 👀

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Annnnnyone with wordpress(org) experience know why I'm getting a border along the bottom of my banner image when all the border/margin/padding settings are at 0? 🤔

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Apparently it's bi visibility day, so... BEHOLD, EPHRA STONE, MY BI DISASTER SON. Ephra is the MC of Labours of Stone. He's a birb obsessed romance writer, who's never been in love, and can never find a decent cup of coffee ... despite living in London 🥲 he actually might be cursed, tbh.

A dark haired hugh grant looking fella wearing a snuggly shirt jumper and coat combo. A green parakeet perches on his shoulder.

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I said I'd write today but ... got distracted by something pinc 👀

white coils of a snake drawn on a pink background

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I want y'all to know, if I didn't have this cluster of trees to stare at while I play with ideas, Queer Welsh Gothicky Thingy probably wouldnt be happening. They're not in it...they're just the trees I need to stare at when I'm thinking about Welsh lore. I do not make the rules 🤷‍♀️

Greenery framing a hill in the back ground with a small cluster of trees.

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is me realising that not one of the 3 posts I made today have gone up 😫 WHY BLUESKY WHY???

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today marks 30 days since I submitted a thing to a thing and they said that was their goal turn around time so if you need me I'll be refreshing my inbox 🙈

Em looking pensive, up and away from the camera lens

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day, fy ffrinds!!! (Aka, happy my birthday 😌)

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

When you did a cool thing and cant talk about it because you're waiting on some replies to the thing and you see someone big has done a similar thing and so you quietly freak out. But also it's okay because it'll still be different because what you've done is pretty unique and come on, dont panic 🫠

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Trying to figure out where a particular element of a greek myth came from like:

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Seeing people get so excited over their own books will never get old 💙 It's one reason I dont just want to publish my own work, but help others get their hard work out there too 👀

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In what I hope is the not so distant future I'm putting out a book of not quite love poems, and I think that matches quite nicely with my not quite contemporary romance and my pretends to be a hard scifi novella. That's the brand. Not really the thing you expected, but heckin' great anyway 😂

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I know I'm out of it because I do not remember removing the glasses from my face before I fell unconscious for an hour, but I definitely did because they're on my bedside table and not cracked across my face 😅

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Spent the afternoon talking to @ruesparks.bsky.social about Wordpress and strongly agreeing that it is the absolute worse 😂 I can, however, actually mostly use it now 🥲 So thank you for holding my hand!

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Fibro is in full flare from trying to keep this lil guy on a steady rotation of meds. Can only assume the tiny wizard has cursed me for the indignity 🥲 i give him treats, but nothing can appease the great and powerful Merlin 🧙‍♂️

Merlin the yorkie asleep with legs in air

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EM Harding @em-writing.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

BRB drawing snakes and howling at the moon 😌

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