Recently, I closed two of my social media accounts on Threads and Bluesky. I used to love Threads. It was a less stressful, less chaotic, less toxic version of Twitter. I had all the book girlies and writers on my feed. And then, suddenly they were gone. That beautiful feed got replaced by political attacks, weird ideologies, hate, pain, and sorrow.
I know. The algorithm, but I know I didn't click on those things that much. The climate we live in is a direct result in how that shifted.
I even took time to put banned words in so I would stop seeing certain posts, but they continued. Posts got through. And I started suffering mentally from it.
So I closed them!
Now, I was promoting on both Threads and Bluesky. That will change, but I still have Facebook, Tiktok (until they ban it again), Instagram, and this.
Sometimes we have to do what is good for our own mental health. And that's what this is...doing what is best for me.
It has been three days and I already feel much better and less agitated. I am still trying to connect with other writers. But, what I am doing is trying to take that added time and put it back into my writing.
Today alone I have edited and submitted a short story to a Tavern Fantasy anthology. I am not sure if I will get picked for that one, but it also required me to send in recipes which was an interesting addition. I will say I submitted herb roasted turkey legs and an apple stack cake recipe. If you are not Appalachian, an apple stack cake was one of the primary sweets that Appalachian people ate as it was difficult to get sugar so far up in the mountains. It uses apple sauce to sweeten between each layer of cake, which is super thin.
On top of that, I ordered my copy of A Sparkle of Woodland Magic, an anthology that I was accepted in. That story is about Azeria, the sixth daughter of Grandmaster Frostdenn, and her quest to refill her magic after being thrown through the portal and into the human realm.
The story I submitted today is about Seraphine Frostwhisper, a bounty hunter Fae who is looking for Azeria. There is a little back story about Seraphine's life and a new character who destroyed her whole Fae line, leaving, she suspects, only her alive. A Kirwine, a magical tree, picks her up and tries to take her to that new character and away from her target.
It was interesting to write and sort of summoned a desire to write a fantasy book, but I don't think I have time to create such an elaborate world right now. I have some self-induced timelines screeching forward. So I will leave you with this.
September 19th is the release of my next book. I can't wait to share it with you. Have a wonderful day.
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