Wow Bluesky sure shit the bed yesterday didn’t they…
Kerrigan Legend
@kerrielegend.bsky.social
💭 writer / designer, author 📝 hobby: journaling, calligraphy 🌌 Star Wars nerd 🖊️ Scrivener weirdo, Notion + Substack designer & Pinterest/Cosmos expert 🖍️ redhead, GenX, sarcasm, introvert KerrieLegend.com kerrielegend.substack.com
The fifth wheel got hit by a dust devil today. Literally. Went right “through” us so hard that I had sand blowing through the fridge vent and into my office. Ripped off the vent covers and everything. Wow. Thought the trailer was going to tip over. Now properly exfoliated thanks to Mother Nature.
A full breakdown of the Allie Rose Co. trademark fiasco and why you don't trademark phrases used by an entire community. Looking at you, Ivory Chapters LLC and Kelsey McKelfresh. www.whatisthisfuckery.co/p/the-hot-gi...
Building my own email marketing server this week because Flodesk, Brevo, Kit, and MailChimp all ran out of room for what I needed. Sometimes you don't find the right tool—you build it.
Your book has a vibe. Your brand has colors. Your bio exists somewhere. None of it talks to each other because it all lives in your head, and your head is already full.
Words. And evidence of my cat eating treats on my desk.
Did I mention I got a new lens a couple weeks ago and I've been busy taking endless pictures of my cat, Whiskey? I swear he poses.
his past week, I've been so busy. But my productivity level shot through the roof, and I got a ton of projects I had been side-eyeing finished. Writing, design, systems, workflows, everything. I have to make sure I'm not on fire.
Your author brand is not a mood board. It is a system. Build it once, use it forever, and stop reinventing yourself every time you need a social graphic.
The manuscript is done for pen name I’m working on, but now I have to find that one font file I used on the cover, the hex code for the accent color, and whatever I named that Canva folder in a moment of organizational optimism. A brand kit would have saved me 40 minutes and a small crisis.
Your book has a cover font, an accent color, a tagline, and a vibe—but it lives in seventeen different folders and your brain. That is a haunting.
Sadness and longing live in an unfinished draft. They just sit there, quietly inside your draft, in a folder you’ve stopped opening or working on. The document is still there. The cursor is still blinking, or it would be if you opened it...
The Keepers is book one of The Turners Saga, releasing 06.16.26 from @quillsandcosmos.bsky.social Preorders close on Tuesday 04.14! Support a small press, indie books, and MATRIARCHY ✨ #BookSky #Preorder #IndieBooks #WitchyBooks #EpicFantasy #LiteraryFantasy www.kickstarter.com/projects/qui...
The Keepers - an epic literary fantasy
The beginning volume of an epic literary fantasy about witches and queens, in a matriarchal world.
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Substack Growth Planning Hub Notion Template
The Complete Publishing Infrastructure for Serious Writers If you treat Substack as more than a hobby, you need more than a basic planner. The Substack Growth Planning Hub is a fully developed Notion...
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i’m invincible. who knew this and didn’t tell me? lol
This dashboard has been a lifesaver for me. I'm so organized on Substack now! kerrielegend.com/product/subs...
Substack Growth Planning Hub Notion Template
The Complete Publishing Infrastructure for Serious Writers If you treat Substack as more than a hobby, you need more than a basic planner. The Substack Growth Planning Hub is a fully developed Notion...
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Our society gathers tonight to remember: writers are historians of the present. Your refusal to document makes erasure easier. Nerys says write the uncomfortable truth. The shelves will protect it from burning.
Faceless content strategy for book launches: pre-written email sequences, scheduled social posts, downloadable chapters, automated evergreen funnels. Set and forget.
Today's potion: focus-over-fear formula. For writers paralyzed by what's coming. Nerys says you can't prevent what you won't document. Write the warning. Even if no one listens. Especially then.
My editor: Can you cut 10,000 words? Me, looking at my 150,000-word manuscript: But which 10,000? Every word is my baby.
They don't want you educated, autonomous, or angry. Be all three. Aggressively.
in a mood; felt like decorating my iPad keyboard cover.
