Hi.
Today, I handed in my notice from my full-time job. I’m 40, been working since I was 18 (even during my degree), and I’m just so sick of not caring about what I do.
My head is constantly in other worlds and adventures, so fuck it I’m writing—wish me luck! 🍾
BIG NEWS!! From today, I am officially a full-time writer! 🥳
Thank you sooooo much to every single reader who has made this possible!
There are huge plans, adventures, and many, many books ahead! 🙌🥳📚❤️
I've hit 5,000 followers!
When I started this penname in March, I never dreamt I'd get this far! 5,000 is unreal!
🎉🎉🎉
To celebrate I WANT TO BUY YOUR STORIES: novels/comics/art!
Reply w/ your work & I'll buy & review TWENTY from the comments!
#WritingCommunity
#WriterLift
Delighted to announce that, as of today, I’m only working 2 days a week!
Now I can focus SO MUCH MORE on becoming a full-time indie author! I’m beyond excited!! New website, audiobooks, streaming, here I come! 🥳
Thank you SO MUCH for your support & making this possible!
-Eve x
Read my
#free
#vampires
&
#zombies
short story!
As the night sky burns, a terrible stranger approaches the walls of Owl Court, home to Rise & his
#vampire
coven...
ON THE EDGE OF SALT,
A Blood Brute
#ShortStory
Prequel
Available free:
🦇 🦇
First day back at work & writing after my mum died.
I think it’s fine to take time to grieve, even wallow for a bit. But I know getting back on the horse really helps, too. Thanks to everyone for their kind messages 🌷🌷🌷
#MondayMotivation
#writerslife
Every now and then I get an email or DM complaining about having a trans character and the helpless reader not being ‘warned’ about it beforehand and/or in the blurb.
And every now and then I’m all 🤷♀️
Without fail, whenever I talk about royalties/author earnings on here, someone just HAS to smugly chime in with “But I do it for the arrrrrrrrrrt!!”
Doesn’t happen in other creative fields like pottery, weaving, etc.
Heaven forbid we make art + a living at the same time 🫠🫠🫠
My
#FREE
#SciFi
#ShortStory
! 🔬🚀
#WritingCommunity
#SF
They decided to survive...
When their lab is raided by the vicious Atlas Colossus regime, VR specialists Meliss & Lauren must hide their relationship.
POWDERED SOULS, A Short Story
available free:
I’m seeing tons of authors lose their fn shit over not finishing one book / one failed launch / one underperforming campaign.
Backlist is king. That’s the backbone of your author career.
Focus on building that first, learn from (& never be derailed by) the blips along the way!
Today is my 38th birthday!!! 🎉
I can honestly say I’m happier, weirder, healthier, nerdier than ever.
Advice from a Level 38? Unashamedly be yourself. Relish your life. Live how you deeply wish. Forget everything else.
#birthdaygirl
#birthday
#MondayMotivation
#MondayVibes
My first
#FREE
#SciFi
#ShortStory
! A snowsub digs to our frozen-over skyscrapers, where long-dormant computers spawn sentient specters - What would you do for refuge? Harmemoric Asylum, shortlisted for The
#JamesWhite
Award, available:
#WritingCommunity
For 2020, I decided to stop dying my hair & grow out my natural colour... which happens to be
#GREY
AF! I’m being an obnoxious
#writer
about it & saying “I’m growing in my wisdom.” No one believes me 😅👍🏻
#MondayMotivation
#WritingCommunity
A gentle reminder that getting up early does not make you a better person. There is no inherent morality assigned any hour. Write when you can, create when you can.
And never think someone is ‘better’ because they’re up at the arse of dawn 👍🏻
#WritingCommunity
#SundayMotivation
*yes I do have safety nets in place, hard won and long fought for ❤️
**I’m uploading shorts about this on TT, IG, & YT if you’d like to follow the journey
Today’s my birthday! I’m Level 37! 💐🥳💐
Thanks to everyone who follows along this
#writng
journey. Losing mum in January without her ever seeing me publish a novel was very hard.
Plus COVID + working full-time.
But everyday I push closer to publishing the Blood Brute books🖖🏻
I don’t have time for people who are all I WROTE A 10 BOOK SERIES & A PREQUEL & THREE SHORT STORIES!! 😌😌😌 I’m all BITCH WHEN?? Show your progress & the hard work. Reduce the mysticism around creating things. Books don’t appear out of nowhere. Takes work 💪🏻
#writingcommunity
@McconnellEryn
[[psst! you can totes message KDP as ask to repeal that in a few months/when your next book is ready for preorder. No guarantees, but I know some authors have successfully repealed]]
Super thrilled to announce that I’ll be an in-person guest at this year’s
@Octocon
, the National Irish Science Fiction Convention! Hugely excited! Book your tickets now and let’s talk all things nerdy & SFF! 🥳🥳🥳
I have 1,000 followers!! Thanks SO MUCH! I’m just starting out in the
#writingcommunity
and it’s just fab! To celebrate, reply and TELL ME ABOUT YOUR BOOK! What made you write it? What’s your fav quote / character / scene??
#1kcreator
IT’S HERE!
My author proof of RISE OF ONE is here! 2 years in the making. Up at 5am before work. Blood, doubt, tears & that’s just the book! Surreal to finally hold it!
Out 15 Dec 2020
Preorder:
#BookTwitter
#NewBook
#amwriting
#irish
#WritingCommunity
Celebrating 4 years together today!
Don't settle for anyone who won't take you at your weirdest, or whose oddness doesn’t match your own. Find a best friend - especially so that your twin lighsabers take pride of place on the coffee table! 💪
Yay for anniversaries!
🎉🎉🎉
Can everyone keep our kitty, Tripod, in your thoughts today - after a long& difficult night he's with the vet today with a suspected stroke or brain tumor 😕 15 years old, three legs, and fluffy as hell. Fingers crossed his treatment today will see improvement.
Today I’m SO tired.
And there’s no reason. Fell asleep at 8pm, woke at 4:30am. Should be enough, right??
Creating seriously while juggling a f/t job really teeters on being soul crushing. Juggle everything right & yet it’s still not enough.🙄🙄🙄
#WritingCommnunity
#writerlife
@RealHeatherOB
Treating self-pub like a business, for starters. Have 1/5/10 year plans. Gather a team of professionals (editor, cover design, marketing). Learn, learn, learn everything about the industry and treat self-pub like a career.
Don’t be shocked (nor whine!) that it costs money 🙌
Morning, friends.
#NaNoWriMo2019
really sucked lately. Getting up at 5, writing b4 work & yet ‘failing’ anyway because I didn’t write ‘enough’ for the daily
#NaNoWriMo
target.
It’s ok to try new things & follow everybody else. But find what works for YOU! 👍🏻
#WritingCommunity
Hello from the writing desk and happy Monday!
A bit of an accountability tweet this morning, as I’m kicking off a new writing project / experiment! Wish me luck! ✨🙌
The sheer amount of positive comments on this is overwhelming!
It's too easy to dismiss social media as toxic, a cesspool, blah, blah. When, in my own personal experience, it's just people wanting to be heard. Good and bad.
We just want to find our people 🖖💫🚀
Hi.
Today, I handed in my notice from my full-time job. I’m 40, been working since I was 18 (even during my degree), and I’m just so sick of not caring about what I do.
My head is constantly in other worlds and adventures, so fuck it I’m writing—wish me luck! 🍾
✨ Achievement Unlocked: Level 40! ✨
It's my birthday today and I'm 40 years old! 🥳🎂
I have only 1 piece of advice: if you want something in life, so many people will tell you no, dissuade you, tell you it's impossible...
First time in over a week that I’m dressed & made-up👍🏻 Fully recuperated & all better now - thanks so much to everybody who DMd & checked on me🧡
Back to work tomorrow &
#amwriting
& being a productive member of the
#WritingCommunity
. But tonight it’s time for cheesecake! 😍🎉
In actual important news, I’m pleased to report that I survived the terrifying hairdresser’s chair (aka
#social
#anxiety
prison) & my stylist is an actual goddamn miracle worker! 💁🏻♀️💁🏻♀️💁🏻♀️ Face your fears & throw money at bad hair! Anyway, back to
#amwriting
#WednesdayMotivation
Hello fellow writers of the internet, it’s your friendly neighbourhood writer hag! Here’s a 7 month grey hair grow-out update 👍🏻 I’m still not any wiser! 😂 But, I’m writing away everyday, so that’s all that matters 💪🏻
#writingcommunity
#greyhair
#amwriting
#amediting
#grey
For feck’s sake!
Right, okay, yes, this book introduces Tseng, a trans character. She’s neat and tidy and brave and like a bossy older sister to our Vampire Rise.
Now, no more DMs and emails whining that you were ‘unprepared’ for a trans character. Normalise their normalcy 💪🏳️⚧️
I’ve had 3 chunks of amazing writing news.
It’s not often I’m silenced or don’t know what to say. But today, as good news kept rolling in, I was really & truly humbled.
And so excited for what’s next 💪
#writersoftwitter
What AI writing should be: Computer, help me research trending tropes in my genre & authors knocking it out of the park (i.e. cutting-down on research time)
What AI writing shouldn’t be:
Computer, write the whole damn novel.
I think, for me, that’s where the boundary is.
Hmm,
#NaNoWriMo
is so soon - I’m still working on that outline!
Thanks everybody for your supportive comments & DMs recently. I’m glad that seeing me put in the work (persistently & stubbornly!) helps you reach for your goals!
#WritingCommunity
#5amwritersclub
#SundayMotivation
What’s happening in this picture is that we’ve put a tablet next to The Man’s laptop, to encourage Stevie to sit on THAT instead.
It’s not… it’s not working 🙄🐈⬛
GOOD MORNING INTERNET I JUST HAD MY FIRST SALE! 😍😍Sure, POWDERED SOULS is just a shitty
#scifi
#shortstory
with
#STEM
#lesbians
in an
#apocalyptic
future under
#dystopia
rule. And sure, it’s supposed to be FREE but Amazon hasn’t price matched it yet, so it’s stuck at $0.99...
Purchased ISBNs, created barcodes, set up publishing press.
I keep expecting someone to tell me no, I can’t do any of this, tell me to stop.
But no, BLOOD BRUTE is being written. It will release. Terrifying, but one word at a time writes a whole book series 👍🏻
#writingcommunity
Sometimes, especially at 6:30am on a
#BankHoliday
Monday, I ask what the hell am I doing?
It’s easier to stay in bed. It’s easier to be a worker drone.
But then I remember, it’s worse not to try. It’s far, far worse not to write or create 🖖🏻
#writingcommunity
#MondayMotivation
I still have my Santa hat on and 'Yule' username, because in Ireland we celebrate
#NollaignamBan
on 6th Jan (or Women's Christmas, aka Little Christmas).
Nollaig na mBan marks the official end of Xmas. The decorations come down, and the women of the house do no work that day!🎄
Hello yes there needs to exist this photo of me on the internet, when it’s NOT 5am at the
#writing
desk, wherein I always look like an actual foot 👍🏻👍🏻 Sometimes I do look like a human & leave the house. No pink cat pjs in sight 👍🏻
#WritingCommunity
#5amwritersclub
#SundayFunday
Hi new followers! I’m Eve/Dixon Reuel, Irish author of the soon-releasing RISE OF ONE! My SFF has strong queer & POC representation, whether in a zombie apocalypse, a dystopian nightmare, or space. I'm into cosplay, gaming, & crochet. Also into breathtaking books w/ clean prose!