summervillain / a. lee welles
@summervillain.bsky.social
user experience, safe biking, all the musics, many books. all opinions solely mine. he/they. apprentice romance author. aleewellesfiction.com 🦖 trans rights or i bites
Quick reminder of this auction to benefit @celestepewter.bsky.social who is currently having to deal with major health setbacks. You can bid on a critique from me! www.32auctions.com/organization...
10,000-Word Author Critique
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#SumLuv 🧡 The first time round they both fell hard and fast. This time, it's more complicated, but, also, uh, #HeFallsFirst because he never really un-fell.
📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 22h agoand is there pining? please tell me there's pining 🙏 #SumLuv 🧡
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Signed Copy of STAR WARS: LOW RED MOON
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Celeste Pewter@celestepewter.bsky.social · 12h agoTHE AUCTION IS LIVE. 😭📚💛 I can't believe how many wonderful book people donated books, critiques, editing, consultations + more. @jocelynrish.com @beccapodos.bsky.social, thank you for helping pull this whole ridiculous beautiful thing together: Please help spread the word.
A couple of days ago, I ran into this DO NOT UPDATE WINDOWS RIGHT NOW I had to do a full roll back it took me all day to fix this update.
Sean Aitchison@sean8urson.bsky.social · 2d agooh shit its for real for real fucking DO NOT update your windows, I had to do a clean reinstall
If anybody wants to celebrate with a lil book about two dudes falling in love with help from (the music of) FKA twigs, that is a thing i can offer you: books2read.com/b/bwDw7G
Stereogum@stereogum.com · 2d agoFKA twigs defeats trademark lawsuit from indie band the Twigs
#SumLuv 🧡 I think my MCs would get along fine with almost all of my IRL friends, even if few of them would appreciate my MC's music (they wouldn't want their records played at dinner anyhow). Some of my supporting characters though!... ("Is that guy always so rude?!" "Yeah, pretty much. Sorry.")
📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 3d agoA silly one today about how your characters might behave in the "real" world, and how "real" people might react to them #SumLuv
Thank you to anyone who donated to my girlfriend last week ❤️ you're what makes the world worth living in 🫶
Brooke@curly.kiwi · 3d agoI'm blown away with the response I got to this last week. Thank you so much to everyone who has donated to help me out I'm going to need to keep asking for help so you'll see this link a bunch more before March. If you have anything you can spare, I'd really appreciate it ❤️ curly.kiwi/fundraising/
GoFundMe to help keep a trans friend from becoming homeless. I hate how many of these there are, but love how much people are willing to gather & give!
Marie Brennan@swantower.bsky.social · 3d agoI hate that the 21st-century American safety net is @gofundme.com, but here we are. My friend @strangetree.maenad.club needs help staying in her apartment post-surgery until disability insurance comes through, so I have set up a campaign on her behalf: gofund.me/5dec93780
can you please, please stop the thirsty* texts now, Alex? * (thirsty for money, to be clear. but still VERRY thirsty. & i am not, nor have i ever been, a voter in florida.)
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3d agoDemocratic socialist unexpectedly wins Florida primary ft.trib.al/w4hNrdB
#SumLuv 🧡 I've touched on this before, but the VERY earliest notion of what is now "Reunion Tour" was a a dark fantasy without a romance arc (or either of the MCs). Later I had to decide between horror with a romance arc, or romance with a horror arc, and I chose to write a more hopeful book—
📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 4d agoDid you always expect their story to play out the way it has? Is there anything about the story you had to change to accommodate this romantic relationship? #SumLuv
/wrestles Imposter Syndrome back in to box/ Would anyone like to read any of my books? I write #LGBTQ+ romance, history, paranormal/time-travel, contemporary, novels, short stories. There's something for everyone! 🌈📚💙
Ally Lester@cogenthippo.bsky.social · 2mo agoPlease may I make a small self-promo thread for you? It's #Pride month and I'm a non-binary, pan author who writes #LGBTQ+ romance. It often has screaming monsters from beyond the void, mysteries, sometimes time-travel and occasionally erotic hair-brushing, awkward sex, and dogs. 1 🌈📚💙
#SumLuv 🧡 another great question - Danny and Nykky get to met twice. They're both young and inexperienced the first time, which plays into them not being able to meet the challenges their first relationship faces. The second time, they both have a comparable volume of experience, but even though—
📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 5d agoSometimes characters meet at very similar stages of their lives, but sometimes there's a mismatch—in age, in life experience, in background, in sexual appetite... Are your characters as worldly as each other? Does their baggage make a matched set, or do they need help carrying some? #SumLuv
#SumLuv 🧡 My standard go-to is that the MCs start to take extra space in each other's brains. Like remembering a coffee order, even if that's not something they would usually be good at. But in Reunion Tour, specifically they are also a fantastic rhythm section.
📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 6d agoHow do you show that your characters have "it", have that somethin-somethin, that spark, that je ne sais quoi between them? It's not just finding each other hot, though that's big. It's that other thing... That... 🧡chemistry🧡 remember content warnings for spicy snips, please #SumLuv
Hey let’s help Chelsea stay housed!!
Chelsea M. Cameron (she/they)@chel-c-cam.bsky.social · last wk.I need EMERGENCY help to keep me in my apartment. I have not paid for June or July and I am in serious danger of being evicted. Several things that I counted on did not come through after months of work, so I’m desperate. Please share and donate (ONLY if you can) ko-fi.com/A356F63/goal...
I will state again for the record that I will willingly pay a little more for shipping to companies not using Uline products. Make it a selling point on your website.
Queen_Potato@queenpotato.bsky.social · 3mo agoAnd there you have it. The anti trans campaign in Maine was never some "grassroots movement." It was bankrolled by billionaire Richard Uihlein, who poured over $800,000 into targeting trans kids over sports and bathrooms.
Can we help Chelsea get caught up on rent so she can stay housed?
Chelsea M. Cameron (she/they)@chel-c-cam.bsky.social · last wk.I need EMERGENCY help to keep me in my apartment. I have not paid for June or July and I am in serious danger of being evicted. Several things that I counted on did not come through after months of work, so I’m desperate. Please share and donate (ONLY if you can) ko-fi.com/A356F63/goal...
websites will be like “using a passkey is as easy as unlocking your phone” but then i’m like “unlocking my phone is difficult & stressful & must remain so for as long as ICE exists”
Ugh when you are doing the hashtag and then you forget the hashtag sorry #SumLuv 🧡 but you can find herein the pitch deck for “Reunion Tour”
summervillain / a. lee welles@summervillain.bsky.social · last wk.What if an agent’s guide, but bare bones? “Reunion Tour” has already had multiple sets of professional eyes on it, and I’m close to putting draft 2 to bed. So if you want to see it/buy it (waggles eyebrows) bsky.app/profile/summ...
What if an agent’s guide, but bare bones? “Reunion Tour” has already had multiple sets of professional eyes on it, and I’m close to putting draft 2 to bed. So if you want to see it/buy it (waggles eyebrows) bsky.app/profile/summ...
📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · last wk.Let's get pitchy with it, #SumLuv 🧡 I wanna get hype seeing you get hype about your project If you don't have a pitch deck or a book trailer, that's totally cool! Write us a 🔥 one-liner with all the bold, precise, exciting language you can fit in it and edit up your favorite excerpt 😍
"High Strung" in this collection is not just one of my favorite contemporary NB romances, it's also my favorite instructor/student romance EVER (at least so far) because of how thoughtfully it navigates the power imbalance and consent issues inherent in the situation. Highly recommended!
London Price, author 🌈@londonpriceauthor.bsky.social · last wk.Worried you won't be caught up on the series when Yule Be Sorry comes out? FEAR NOT! (she said angelically) You can get the first four books of the series in ONE GIGANTIC TOME for just $25! (That's 35% off the regular price.) Grab it now! #yulebesorry shop.ingramspark.com/b/084?params...
Crusading to find the resonant soundbite that unlocks massive sales for this book, so how about: the levels of tension & mounting dread in "The Silent Place" are AT LEAST on par with anything I've read from Patricia Highsmith, Steven King, or Charlie Huston. Should come with cardiac health warning.
N.R. Lines⁷ (she/her)@nrlines.bsky.social · last wk.I'm actually doing a reread of The Silent Places because it's moody and gothic and tense in the most delicious of ways. It's about a woman taking back her life and her autonomy and her power while living in a place where nature isn't kind to humans.
oh NOW we're getting into it #SumLuv! On the surface Danny is all-in from the moment he sees Nykky in the rehearsal space, and Nykky isn't sure if she forgives him/if she's ready for a relationship after a recent break up. But underneath that Danny isn't sure he deserves to be forgiven or if he—
📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · last wk.Even the coziest of romances has some tension, some aspect between them that must be unlocked over the course of the story to bring them closer Is there some insecurity or some misunderstanding that must be overcome? Perhaps there is a very literal plot machination keeping them separate #SumLuv 🧡
#SumLuv 🧡 Great drummers and bassists can play like they're telepathically linked. Danny and Nykky can, like the last decade never happened. It reflects their enduring physical chemistry, but also betokens how they're better able to bend for each other and share space this time around.
📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · last wk.Tomorrow we'll chat about what keeps them apart Today, I want to know what brings them together! What do they find intriguing or admirable in the other, maybe despite circumstances? What keeps them from simply being strangers in each other's stories? #SumLuv 🧡
A summer COVID-19 wave is still rising in the U.S., according to data through late July. Increases in disease spread are most pronounced in the South and West, but all regions have growing outbreaks. thesicktimes.org/2026/08/11/n...
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#SumLuv “Reunion Tour” is a chromatic progression with no passing tones ;) I originally thought this might be my first closed-door book! The moment one of my MCs propositions the other was a surprise to me as I typed it. “What did you just say!?” But after close examination, it felt right.
📚 Ellie Rhymer! Spaceships and Scoundrels 📚@ellieyellu.bsky.social · 2w ago"Closed door" "high spice" "🌶️🌶️🌶️" YAWN! We can get a little more creative with describing the amount and explicitness of physical affection and sex in our works, so tell me: are you on the ridge of a volcano, or the top of icy Mt. Everest? Hit us with your metaphors 🧡 #SumLuv
Wooooo new Olivia Dade Day!!! Now begins the wait for the preorder package to wend its way through the mails...
Olivia Dade@oliviawrites.bsky.social · 2w agoA starchy demon utterly undone by love. An underpowered oracle fighting for her community (and cheese). Sexy Satan. Villains actually getting their comeuppance. WOO(R)SD is out today, and I hope you love it as much as I do! Bookshop.org: go.oliviadade.com/WOObs AMZ: go.oliviadade.com/WOOamz
FYI the giveaway is open till the 17th so spread the good word! (But use good opsec, go find a dead letter drop and for heaven's sake don't forget to encrypt your message properly) (AND use your current agent code, not the old one)
Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · 2w agoHELLO FOLKS do you (in the USA) want a FREE COPY of my upcoming fantaspionage (??) book WICKHILLS?? My publisher @tordotcompub.bsky.social is doing a giveaway over at Goodreads! :D www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...
Williams' editorial hand had a huge influence on my whole NOTION of how modern science fiction works.
Kelly Robson@kellyrobson.com · 2w agoThe daughters of Asimov's editor Sheila Williams are asking for help funding care for their parents: www.gofundme.com/f/help-irene...?
