Clayton Snyder

@cw-snyder.com

Four-time SPFBO Semifinalist. SPFBO 7 & 9 Finalist. WSFA & 2-time Stabby Nominee. Booknest Longlist. Grimmy Award Winner. Reddit Self-Pub Fave. Meat sack. (he/him)

Anyway, thinking about giving up writing. For a myriad of reasons, not least of which that over 20 years, 98% of my output has been met with a resounding 'Meh'. If I had a soul, I'd say it's soul-crushing.

Why did I break down and buy a bench and weights?, you ask. Because A) I hate myself, and B) I can't control shit else in my life, so I've chosen to become strong enough to punch a hole in the universe and escape.

⚔️ BOOK RELEASE ⚔️ I didn't think this day would come, but FALL RED EMPIRE, the final book in the BURN RED SKIES trilogy, releases TODAY! ⚔️📚⚔️ As always, thank you for your support. It's been such a journey! I still need some time to get used to saying it, but the trilogy is officially CONCLUDED ❤️

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I'm so excited that I wrote a fantasy book with the word "elevator" in it!! 😅 I feel bad for Chris, though--Cam gives him such a hard time throughout the book 😆 From TO DREAM A DARKER REALM, my dark 80's portal fantasy thriller with Stranger Things vibes 😁 #WIPSnips 💙🪐📚 #BookSky #WriteSky

“Are you going to explain any of this?” Chris said when they got in the elevator.


Cam darted a glance up at the elevator’s ceiling. Surveillance cameras. He resisted the urge to wave. And also the urge to answer Chris’s question. He had to be cool now, collected, not the same idiot who had picked a fight with Kenneth Lefler’s friends even though they had all deserved it. But he couldn’t resist fucking with the police, just a little.


“Well, Chris, it sounds to me like you had a psychic experience.”
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Losing my hardware admin at work, which means I have to start filling the networking gaps until we hire a new one. Fuck me. I'd rather be in a hentai featuring sentient network cables than run one.

You're not going to believe this. It might even make you unreasonably angry. But, I hate soup. What you've done is taken a perfectly good food and drowned it.

My main source of work and entertainment is out of the office today, so I have to figure out what to do with the free time. Could read a book. Could doomscroll. Could do some harmless flirting. Think I'll wander on over to the warehouse and annoy a different coworker, however.

Yesterday I put up an iron fence for the wife's garden. Today, while she's out of town, I will build a swing for the patio. Meeting my man things quota before the year's out.

Two things: One, I feel like an unfiltered bag of ass this morning. Two, I absolutely hate writing pricing algorithms, so why did I decide to take on a project that's almost exclusively that? Because I'm a self-loathing idiot, that's why.