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Emily | Gray Elk Edits
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Developmental, line, and copyediting for speculative fiction and romance. I want to read your weird stories! Other times, I knit, read, do puzzle hunts, square dance, and sometimes climb. She/her. Exact flavors of ace/neurodivergence TBD.
Hello, friends! Today is the day. We're begging everyone to get their payments in before tonight! Only 77 people are left out there, and I suspect many aren't seeing these posts because they are new to the auction this year! Please repost this reminder to contact us if you haven't gotten an email!
First @romancingthevote.com swag arrived! My existing dragon now has a bunch of teeny dragons for company. Mochi only tried briefly to determine if they were actually snacks.
Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Trans rights are human rights. The SCOTUS ruling is wrong and stupid. We have to keep fighting. Cis folks, this means us. Not because "they're coming for ___ next," but because fighting for our trans siblings is the right thing to do.
I want to edit your book, for democracy! @romancingthevote.com has so many amazing things up for auction, starting tomorrow!
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I've started a blog about grammar rules and why you should break them! The first post is about -ly adverbs and how they can be good, actually. www.grayelkedits.com/ly-adverbs/
-ly Adverbs – Gray Elk Edits
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This is what Merlin heard from my window. The sparrow and swift are real, but I'm pretty sure every other identification was actually a single mockingbird running through its repertoire.
Fountain pen help! I've just tried using a converter for my pen for the first time. It worked great initially, but then I put the pen down for a while (horizontally) and now it's not writing anymore. Thoughts on what I'm doing wrong? #fountainpen
All of the squares for my Berroco #vintageMKAL25 are done! Now I just have to sew them together. Actually they've been done for more than a month, but this year has had a lot of life things and I have been bad about posting. The big things: Good: I'm changing careers! I'm an editor!
PLEASE tell every author you know about this!
COVER REVEAL! UNBROKEN (Rath & Rune 4) now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book will release on October 17, 2025, in ebook and paperback, with audio coming next year. Preorder from me: jordanlhawk.com/products/unb... Preorder from a corporation: buy.bookfunnel.com/6pbn12izk1
I cannot stress enough the following points: It has been repeatedly proven that bolstering social programs and services as well as funding to education reduces crime, because it provides proper pathways towards sustainability. Want less crime? Lower rent and increase wages.
jesus christ
Also, I'm just a cis woman asking cis men to shut the fuck up about Why Cis Women Totally Need Me To Attack Trans Women On Their Behalf (Even If They Don't Think So, The Little Dears).
I just finished Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan, and it is so good. The meta-conmentary on campy romantasy. The slow reveal of complexity. THAT ENDING. app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/36b3...
Review by grayelk - Long Live Evil
This book is brilliant. I love the meta-commentary: complaining about inconsistent world build...
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I found a large house centipede crawling on the inside of the shower curtain liner this morning, while showering, and got my spouse to come catch it while drying off as fast as finally possible. Him: this is one of the good ones! Me: sure, but that doesn't mean I want it IN THE SHOWER with me!
I actually finished March's squares for the Berroco mystery knit along only slightly into April, but didn't take pictures in a timely manner. The intarsia square was so close to the Pride flag that I made an extra one. Downside: so many ends to weave in... 🧶 🌈 #berrocoYarn #vintageMKAL25
This absolutely requires some lunchtime prep
👻COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER!👻 Into the Dark (OtP 3) coming April 8th! Can Oscar survive the haunted asylum that killed his grandmother? Click here to see and cover and preorder from me: jordanlhawk.com/products/int... Or click here to preorder from a corporation: buy.bookfunnel.com/a0f4ial7cq
February's squares for my Berroco MKAL-as-Pride-flags. There are supposed to be 6 of this pattern, but I got bored and will probably make two extra in a different pattern. I'm mostly confident that the curling edges will be fine once I sew the blocks together. 🧶 🌈 #berrocoYarn #vintageMKAL25
This is apparently happening today -contact your senators!
ALERT! It just broke that tomorrow, the Senate will attempt a procedural vote on a transgender sports ban. It will take 7 Democrats breaking rank in order to have enough votes to pass cloture. Democrats held very strong in the House and only lost two votes. CALL YOUR DEMS! (info in next post)
As a cis woman, I fully agree with this. I do not need to be defended from trans people. They are not a threat. Nazis who want to squash me into their definition of what a woman should be, now.... That is the threat
I would like us to get clear on one thing here: the language used is "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism" and as a woman, I need you to know that any person who is asking to be "defended" from trans people is a nazi period. This is for nazis and only for nazis.
Finished January's squares for the Berroco MKAL-as-pride-flags! So far so good. 🧶🌈 #berrocoYarn #VintageMKAL25
I'm doing the Berroco mystery afghan, but rolling my own color combination. These are the stripes for the first square, which does not have stripes in the pattern, but this is my blanket and I can do what I want! 🧶 #VintageMKAL25
I recently got back from vacation to Japan, and I'm really excited about the various Japanese translations of books I found! I've now got @annleckie.com's Ancillary Justice, @naominovik.bsky.social's His Majesty's Dragon, and @travisbaldree.bsky.social's Legends & Lattes!
I'm so excited! This is waiting for me as soon as I finish my current read
Today's the day, The Fractured Dark is out now!! 🖤🚀🍄
I've been jealous seeing people posting about finding this in their local stores, or being in earlier time zones, but now it's here. MY TIME IS NOW. #romancelandia
It's book release day! A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel is here at last... @SourcebooksCasa kjcharleswriter.com/2023/09/19/i...
I'm knitting a blanket! It's half way done, as long as you ignore the border. Which is going to make all the rest of the hexes take longer. But we're going with "halfway" for motivational purposes. 🧶 #knitting #FairIsle