Brooke Lanier

Help! I need advice on getting out of new-project-paralysis! I can't decide which idea I want to dive into. Authors, how do you pick your next project from your idea pile??

Made some cookie dough. These aren't making it to the cookie stage.

Upholding my social duty to my coworkers by bringing in my latest dating app horror stories

My mom just found a note from Grandma to my aunt in the cookbook "June 17, 1990. Carrie, this is for you because you need all the help you can get."

I love my friends and family so much, and I truly appreciate their outpouring of support 💕💕

That being said, it's also really exciting to get my first 5-star review from a total stranger and know that my writing is spreading outside of my immediate circle.

Let's hope there's room for me in the car & hotel because I haven't planned for alternative accommodations.

My mom doesn't know I'm flying to see her. Almost messed up the surprise when I called her at my gate while a gate announcement was going on the intercom. Hung up immediately. I think the surprise is intact.

I don’t write queer sci-fi stories for the money. I write them because they need to be told. Because I didn’t have books like this when I was younger. Because creativity IS resistance.

Still, I thank you for buying my books and holding space for the stories we need. 💕

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ENTER HERE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF PORTALS is eligible for a Nebula nomination! If you're an #SFWA member and would like a free review copy, get in touch with me and @mstevensonbooks.bsky.social via email and we'd be happy to send one along.

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Sometimes I think it'd be cool to build a patchwork sleeve based on every story of mine that gets published, but if my latest one gets picked up, that'd probably mean getting a cow molar tattooed on my arm and IDK if I actually want that for life.

Juvenile bald eagle landing, wings partially outstretched, on a branch sticking out of a semi-frozen lake. White tail and head feathers are still coming in, giving a mottled appearance.

A soft place to land

I have little social life 😅😅

If you see this and agree, you are obligated to rec a book by a fantasy author who's still writing. I don't make the rules.

I mean, I do. Please though? It'd be great.

The Celestial Kingdom duology by Sue Lynn Tan! I devoured them and the accompanying short story collection in a weekend!

Can I turn a suburban house in the desert into a gothic setting? Let's hope so!!

It feels fitting to listen to Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights on repeat while writing the ending to this Gothic horror short story.

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I will never understand the people who are weird about audiobooks “not being reading”

I asked my dad, someone who doesn't really read books, how many books he thought I read last year, and he said, "700?"

42. I read 42.

People think I’m exaggerating when I say this, but I have absolutely no idea how to access ChatGPT. I don’t know if it’s an app, a website, or software that I have to download. I don’t care because I’ll never use it. But the people that think it’s universal have no idea how many people are like me.

Crows mate for life 😭😭😭😭

I don't understand why people say "on my way" in Facebook marketplace instead of giving an ETA. I don't know where you're coming from. I don't when you'll get here!

My mom jsut told me I need to get out of my house for a while because it's not good to stay inside for four days straight...

I have pneumonia...

Three cough drops left... day four of pneumonia... only one week into the new year...

Last night, my nephew assembled a team to set up a trap for Santa that'd ring a bell in his room when one of the cookies was eaten. Around 1am, I woke up hearing a bell jingling then little footsteps on the stairs.

Christmas feels much more magical this year with little kiddos around.

I have not yet!!

How do I deal with the query trenches? I have a missed connections breakup playlist I play when I get a rejection notification that starts out sad but slowly builds my spirits back up for trying again.

My issue with cutting filler words to make my writing more confident is that my main characters are not confident. They are bumbling fools, #JustALittleGuy, dropped into horrifying scenarios. They are making stuff up as they go. Maybe they'll have confidence by the end of the book. Probably not.

Yes I'd love to hear more!

I'm just so curious about translations and foreign rights! I'd like to have my works translated, when I get to publication eventually.