Why do I have to be bad at marketing AND poor?!

I talk a lot of shit for a girl who has driven away with her coffee on top of the car more than once A lot more

I can't stop thinking about the used bookstore I went to a few weeks ago that only had the second book in a series. Wise Man's Fear, New Moon, Broken Angels, Parable of the Talents, to name a few

Me: Wahoo, another pre-order! Also me: it's a SIGN FROM THE UNIVERSE

If you need me, I'll be studying the ancient texts to solve this bullshit.

✨TENSION✨ only it's me and QueryTracker watching my favorite agent reject queries ahead of mine, getting closer and closer...

My pursuit for a spoonie friendly diet 🤝 My husband's culinary creativity We call it Chronic Kitchen Chronicles

1 toddler nap, 1 hockey team loss, and 2 hours later I've cut over 1,000 words from my WIP. In the first 5 chapters. Goddess, help me.

According to beta readers, my top crutch word in Project Thistle? Smirk 😏

Setting perfectly reasonable expectations for my Beta reading group

I don't agree with banning any book, but if you're going to try, it should be mandatory to submit a high-school level book report on C-SPAN on it before you can propose a ban. #bannedbooks

5 more queries on the books Only 19 rejections to go to hit my February goal #amquerying

Outlining book two over some sushi. You know, as a treat. (Is this how plotting works? Sincerely, a pantser who is trying)

My goblin brain wants to activate floor troll mode for outlining, but my chronic pain would punish that decision with prejudice. Where's the VR version of outlining already??

#1 is a personal attack. Stay away from me and my emotional support shelf trophies, okay?

Krista D Ball is Canada's Snarky Potato@kristadb1.bsky.social · last yr.

Here is a not-complete list of things you can do this weekend instead of being on the internet: 1. Read a chapter in a book you bought four years ago 2. Pick up the garbage in your house. Put the garbage outside. 3. Pick up all of the dishes in your house and put them in the dishwasher. +

Night off from the book? No, no. You mean make a canon playlist that is referenced in the pages. Certainly, that's what you meant, right?

Collecting agents to query like the autistic I am. Gather, categorize, put them on a shelf to admire. Touch? Noooooo. Only look.

I guess we're getting serious over here #amquerying

Work on the book *scream into the void* Work on the book *scream into the void* Repeat, repeat, repeat

It's sunny out. Watch my productivity soar

Writing with ADHD is weird. Like sometimes I bust out 2,000 words in a few hours that need no editing, but other times I get tired just opening my doc.

Edits 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬇️ Betas 🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ Please clap, I'm so tired

First query rejection on the books for Project Thistle. Form letter, but quick turn around. Am I a real author now?

Hey you know how Christmas was only 2 weeks ago and not 7 months ago? I'm gonna go rewatch comfort shoes until February, thanks.

Finding a possible comp only to realize it had JUST been delivered to my Libby is 🤌🏼 ✨perfection✨

So because I don't want current events, tech news, or political content Bluesky has resorted to giving me .... Birds. My feed is full of fucking BIRDS.

You know what, imma just wait for Jan 20 for the trash here to take itself out. Then I'll be with my people

I find it very telling that on Bluesky when you say "I'm not interested in this post" it doesn't disappear from your feed. Pretty sure that button is the SM equivalent of the "close doors" button on an elevator

Blurb ✅ Synopsis ✅ Pitch line ✅ Author bio 🤮🤮

Why is my Discover feed full of white men talking about computers?? I literally left an entire industry to escape that Help me Queer sky, rescue me 😭😭