Julie Bihn, author of Titanic Voyage

@juliebihn.bsky.social

I write emotional, heartfelt time-travel books. Arizonan. 🌵 Host of #TimeTravelAuthors No AI LOVE. YOUR. NEIGHBOR. Titanic Voyage: books2read.com/TV Preorder Immigrants’ Journey: book.juliebihn.com/IJ

I'll go with the unnamed* antagonist from my not-started-book 3 #HistorytownAZ. I know she wouldn't hurt me on the plane (she only hates the Rochesters), she PROBABLY wouldn't encroach on my seat, and with a little luck I'd at least learn her name and mannerisms. LET'S DO THIS! #AwesomeCharacters

💀🫜 Count Charlie (Chelizabeth) Deltula 🦊🧛‍♂️@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 6h ago

Tell me about your #AwesomeCharacters Hypothetical day! You have just settled in to your seat for a 12 hour flight when the person assigned to the seat next to you arrives. It is one of your antagonists. Who is your seatmate, and how bad is this? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

::slips in miscellaneously:: I actually had Historytown pressed pennies made. One plays a role in my sequel Immigrants' Journey, so hey! (I love cheap collectibles so much, and a pressed penny feels like a perfect item from a theme park.) #LitHodgepodge #HistorytownAZ

Zinc-copper elongated penny/pressed penny/smashed penny with the Historytown logo, a silhouette of Picacho Peak with a tiny cactus and The Archives on the left and a Ferris wheel on the right. “Historytown, Eloy, Arizona.” On top of a bag of about 90 more pressed pennies.
Pamela Jeong 🎃🫜@pamelajeong.bsky.social · 2d ago

#LitHodgepodge 23 Your WIP is getting its own bookish merch! Tell us about an item you’d love to see made real. A heat-activated mug with a changing memorable quote? Or something a bit more out there… villain-endorsed candy heart poison tablets, perhaps? #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #WriteSky

#LITHODGEPODGE
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An October Prompt Game of Miscellaneous Proportions

FRIDAY FLIGHTS OF FANCY

[Graphic of a winged angel holding a book]

Prompt:
23 | Your book is a runaway success, and now there’s merch coming! What’s something from your book that you’d love to see in physical form? What kind of item would it be?

[Graphic of a talking crow]
I must confess, it is a dream of mine to see a beautifully produced wall calendar featuring yours truly, Oscrow Wilde, and my famous epigrams. “I can resist anything except temptation—the temptation to peck at those who rightly deserve it,” for example, would be perfect for March.

Join tomorrow for Saturday Snap Judgments!

Didn’t participate in the chat, but wow what a great prompt question. It’s a six-foot Italian sub sandwich somehow, and Rocky is down for it!

ELwolfsblood |Author/Artist|@elwolfsblood.bsky.social · 4d ago

#SunsetChat Q5: When I was 14, I had a baby brother and we used his diaper bag to sneak an entire Burger King dinner into the movie theater. Your character doesn’t have to accept the weird mystery food, just tell us what they were offered. #QTP #writingPrompt #WritingCommunity

q5: another patron snuck in something ridiculous. They lean back and offer you some, what is it?

Bolton is a 12' plastic skeleton but it's waving at you Leecie is a jack-o-lantern, sustained by inner fire Luke is an inaccurate novelty animal skeleton Rose is a prop knife...at least we hope it's a prop Anthony is vampire teeth

💀🫜 Count Charlie (Chelizabeth) Deltula 🦊🧛‍♂️@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 6d ago

Tell me about your #AwesomeCharacters I am in a Halloween mood this weekend! So, please choose a classic Halloween decoration that suits your character best! Giant skeleton? Bat on an elastic band? Styrofoam gravestone? Fake vampire teeth? Pumpkin? 🎃 #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

A reader reads all books in conversation with all the other books they have read before. My novel is never a stand alone novel. It is book five hundred twenty six on some reader's life series. And I cannot know how a reader's previous reads impact my novel in their mind as they read.

Whether you can give or if you can only share/maybe spare good thoughts, this is a sweet and entertaining read, especially knowing that Ladybug is well on her way to treatment. I'm optimistic they'll get to the "COSPLAYING AS A RESPONSIBLE PET OWNER WHO CAN AFFORD PREVENTATIVE CARE TIER" of funding.

Seanan McGuire@seananmcguire.bsky.social · last wk.

I know we're all pretty strapped right now, but @yamyamyam.bsky.social is a dear friend, and Ladybug is one of those incredibly sweet, loving, pet rock-type cats who shouldn't be in pain just because her human's financial situation has changed: www.gofundme.com/f/send-ladyb...

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

Libby menu interface showing Content Controls: AI Contributions with the Hunan authors only and Human narrators only options selected.

Practical answer is that I’d have to figure out some great indie publishing thing, but I guess that’s not frivolous and maybe isn’t one thing. So oh hey guess I’d have to bankroll a BattleBots team. (Not one of these but man that’s a nice GIF)

Battlebots Minotaur Battlebots

Alt: Battlebots Minotaur, very much on fire, and SawBlaze I believe

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Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · last wk.

question for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?