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Lisa Jo Phillips Author

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Storyteller | Wife | Veteran | Dyke lisajophillipsauthor.com Mark Your Calendars! *CYPRESS DAUGHTER* is set for release April 30th, 2027!

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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 23h
I watched a few clips of Mia Bailey's arrest for murdering her parents last night. And, I gotta say, shout out to the Utah police who never once (that I heard in the clips) misgendered her. We are making progress as a society when even murderers are getting their pronouns right.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had trouble writing choreography in my novel's scenes. So I drew the blueprint. Now I have trouble writing choreography AND I have a cool little blueprint of Diana's lodge.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Lesson learned: mulch at the base of a pot does not help drain, it grows mushrooms.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You know. Just casually curious about building homes in cold climates (everything these days is research for thr novel), and stumbled on a new reason why pirating books might be okay:
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Two panel comic. Panel 1: a bat hangs upside-down from a telephone line at sunset. The bat is in front of a billboard advertising the Florida Mega Jackpot, which is valued at $5,318,008 - represented with a digital ticker. Panel 2: the POV flips to the bat’s upside-down perspective, which makes the digital numbers look like they spell “BOOBIES”. The bat appears delighted.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm 16 subscribers away from my newsletter goal! Do you like lesbians? Speculative Fiction? Complicated mother/daughter/niece relationships? Get all of that and more in my upcoming novel: Cypress Daughter.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Guess what? If you set up an LLC to publish your book out of, set the address of said LLC to your home, set up a mailerlite newsletter, and then send out the first newsletter to dozens of people. It will have your home address on the footer.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's 2026, and I'm so fortunate to be caught up in trying to be a better wife to my wife, that I forgot legalizing same-sex marriage was going to be on the ballot.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Growing up as a threadbearer in the shadow of her mother was like growing up near a mountain that could see into souls. And not like the normal mountains who have that uncanny feel of being intrusive. Actual soul. Laid bare."
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When "just a few hundred words before bed" turns into five, and Novlr is the first one to know it.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In the mood for some Sapphic Biopunk Speculative Fiction? This is not the official cover, but after licensing this, I wanted to see it with a title Then it needed a colophon and an entire day of breakdowns over how hard it is to write a blurb If you hold your phone at arms length, it looks great
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have been a part of Novlr since 2015, came in on the triumphant NaNoWriMo (RIP) victory and paid for a lifetime subscription. It's been the backbone of my drafting for 10 years, And I'm so grateful they're still anti-AI.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Last night at writers group, our exercise was an ekphrasis piece inspired by this:
Sculpture of "the tumbling woman"
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Striving for Mediocracy Ascending Mt Okay Half my Hopes, all my Dreams Brief Canker Sore .Fine. Lost in the Sauce Middle Third
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This week's 3x5 marketing features Cypress Moon. The women who belong to this moon are the Motherhood's rangers, special ops, & trackers In the very first chapter: "The Commander" we see Diana MariasDatter inherit command of Squad Fourteen by receiving four "rank pips" from the previous leader.
CYPRESS MOON RANK PIP DIAGRAM.

Roughly sketched by Lisa on a 3x5 card.

four diamond shaped belt pins (or pips) with round "new moon" silhouettes in their center.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I drive Uber to put money aside for a good editor. My goal is 50-100 bucks a week after expenses, which is difficult, especially when only about 10% of people tip anymore.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Contemplating completely sabotaging any hope of my book's success by only making it available in print. Thereby making it extraordinarily difficult for readers to feed to the machine. Pirate *that* MFers! AI can pull my story out of my cold dead hands!
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Them: How's your manuscript rewrite going? Me: (Credit: Matt Tarply)
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Happy Friday :)
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm trying to get pregnant with my wife's embryo, which involves taking a sh*t ton of progesterone. Me from the bathroom this morning: "Why do they make the intravaginal pills orange?? My discharge is... autumnal."
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Working with feds who refer to DoD as the department of war. 🤮🤮
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I gotta finish this manuscript so I can start working on the sapphic retelling of Ladyhawke. Matthew Broderick's character is just begging to be a little, adorable, non-binary thief. And Michelle Pfeiffer's character was made for a butch lady knight to love it.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Writers Group gems from tonight's session: "Either make the rat dream weirder, or put more diety." "And yeah. That poem was deep and cool." "I disagree with that suggestion" "No!! I reject your disagreement!" "That's not how this works!"
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
My dog's been dead for two years, I guess it's okay to throw away her vaccination records.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I know I'm queer, but I'm so comfortably so that I forget. And then I'm sitting in a fertility clinic waiting room surrounded by 6 women who are there for the same thing as me, and I'm like. "Oh, I am so different today."
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Starting my novel re-write today!!! Mapped out some new chapters to give my MC a bit more development and to strengthen her love interest ❤️ 💕
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Any good publishing/author/writing podcasts out there?
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
RimWorld. Thank goodness I last played without Randy Random.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Is author head canon... canon??
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Halfway through writing my novel, I realized I needed a more concrete source document for my speculative matriarchal nation.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚨 AUTHORS: IF YOU AREN'T DOING THESE SEVEN THINGS SIX MONTHS BEFORE LAUNCH YOUR BOOK WILL FAIL 🚨
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Me: "I'm capable. I can navigate this self publishing journey. The worst thing that could happen is I lose money and people hate my book." *opens up social media* Me: "maybe tomorrow"
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I'm putting that dusty 20 year old computer science degree to some use, and I figured out Mailerlite! (Kindof) Here's my newsletter sign up!! lisajophillipsauthor.com/newsletter-s...
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Tuesday is a day of abundant opportunities and favorable circumstances.
Fortune that reads: "Tuesday is a day of abundant opportunities and favorable circumstances"
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
You know that feeling when you walk into Costco wearing only Kirtland clothes?
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Sigh... I STILL DONT KNOW
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Witch Halzel Bloosom season >>>>> Cherry Blossom season
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
He learned. He got better. He focused on craft. He devoted himself to authorship. And he became an author. You can, too. If you have big dreams for your book, don't ask yourself, "Who am I?" Ask a different question. "Why not me?" - A.J. Harper in *Write a Must-Read*
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
"There’s really only one question that can be answered, Genry, and we already known the answer…. The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.” - Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Added this to the top of my "feeling sorry for myself" playlist
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Age verification? I have a stash of silver still in my Y2K emergency bag.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Books arrived today. Not sure where I should start.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
My wife just went through a second trimester miscarriage this morning. And as I lay in bed, unable to fall asleep, a tiny, shamed part of me is relieved that I can finally be sad about something that people might understand. It's pretty simple. My unborn daughter died, and my wife almost did too.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 How did this happen. What did I do on my nearlt vacant and inacfuve Instagram that convinced the algorithm that this would be my first follow on Thread.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
yesss
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Sophia_Nyx 🐰 @sophianyx.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Name a black and white film
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I just got feedback from my first beta reader (and the first person to read my whole WIP) And, they said it is NOT A PILE OF TRASH. THEY LIKED IT. EXCUSE ME WHILE I GO CRY IN THE CORNER.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
"Being incompetent doesn't make you a bad person, Lisa" - one of my Air Force commanders, and me, pretty much every day after that.
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Inshallah
A paper sign on a door that says "beware of falling ice"
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Lisa Jo Phillips Author @lisajophillipsauth.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
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a cartoon of a man and a bird with the words from not surprise
ALT: a cartoon of a man and a bird with the words from not surprise
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