CK Combs Author (he/him)

Rules and traditions must be followed. Always a repost.

I white boarded the major scenes of my tm4m romance and finally the truth was obvious - I needed to dump a bunch of scenes and conflicts in order for it to work. Phew! I feel a lot lighter now. Time to finish the first draft with confidence! #queerRomanceWriter

To everyone celebrating a birthday tomorrow - 3.14 - my PI Day siblings - I hope your day is good and your pies fesh and satisfying. May you have many rounds of pleasure on this sacred day. 🥧

I'm making a list of small press companies who are interested in queer YA and/or adult novels. Please comment with recommendations.

I've decided to get back to the query trenches with my YA LGBTQIA++ mystery novel. In some ways, it's a shitty hard time to pitch a queer book. And also, someone out there needs to see a nonbinary hero of their own story. And so, I will persist. #authors #queerAuthors #queerYA

I'm in my escape pod writing my queer romance to get a break from the spiritual eviceration I go through every day. #writersandauthors I don't care what the publishers want right now. I'm going to write queer happiness and angst and discovery and love and frustration and everything else we do

I'm on day 4 of being sick and I wrote over a thousand words for my romance novel in progress. That's my win for today.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Rules is rules

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

If you can wait til 4/26 to buy your books, please do! That’s Indie Bookstore Day. Put it in your calendars. And ignore any conglomerate book sale you might see tomorrow, if you can. Support your indies!

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

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Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

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Had an early birthday celebration tonight with dear friends. This is what 61 looks like.

my fellow Californians of good moral character… trans people need you, *i* need you, to tell Newsom exactly what you think of him saying trans Californians (in a trans! sanctuary! state!) aren’t worth protecting PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS SLIDE

GOP 2025: fuck off to everyone but the rich people.

I've been struggling to find the right narrative voice for a novel I'm re-engaging with. I thought for sure first person was the way to go. Yesterday I decided to go back to 3rd and suddenly the damn burst and I couldn't get to sleep with all the ideas. #writingcommunity #authorlife

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I just finished Black River Orchard and whew! What a creepfest. And addictive. Lots of Eww! And Whoa!!! And OMFG... shitshitshit no go run forgodsakes!! So yeah you should read it if you like creepy scare that feels a bit too familiar at times. Nice work, @chuckwendig.bsky.social

Folks: I am NOT affiliated with the group that is using my name to support an economic boycott. Please spread this post, if you would.

@cedarmonroe.bsky.social now we know

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

Tyson and Nico aka The Black Hole. #catsofbluesky

#QueryTrenches current stats: 9 queries submitted; 4 rejected.

#writingcommunity #writers Hello to new people on this platform. I'm a trans enby writer, just finished a YA novel I'm querying for. Love to meet more YA writers, and trans/enby writers.

Omg. I have to make dinner again??

My brain has given birth to a new set of characters. An unnamed narrator and a character named Soup Bone. The narrator's grandma bestowed the name. "There's not enough of you to make a soup bone."

Dragging my feet finishing my synopsis which I need for some of the agents I hope to query. I think part of the problem is I need a break from this story and some of my other WiPs are tugging on my mental sleeve. #writers #authors

#gaybears So many sexy men folk. Mmm mmm good.

Fellow trans men and trans masc people. You may or may not have a uterus or other reproductive parts anymore but you know what it's like to be marginalized, bullied and dismissed as a female in this society. Follow the lead of black women, the brave, badass engines of democracy. Vote BLUE!

Gave myself a hair reduction #queerbear #transbear

I've sent my latest revised novel to 11 readers, including 4 YA aged folx. Now I need to work on something else so my anxiety doesn't shred me. I've got a short story that looks promising. #writerlife #author #amwriting #amwaiting

In search of my people... who else responds to imminent writing deadlines by coming up with new clues and scenes that need to be incorporated and editrd..edited... before you're done with the primary assignment? #writingcommunity #writerlife

On the downside, I had a big gap in my sleep last night. On the plus side, I had the answers to several story questions I'd been mulling over, caught them on my phones text app. So net positive. #writerslife #writingcommunity #amwriting

#WIPSnips 3/31 - 'back'

First line of my YA coming-of-age murder mystery.. EJ Temple pedaled hard, wishing they could ride away from their anger and frustration. <italics>She could at least try, EJ thought, tears welling up. It’s like I’m not important enough to even attempt using my pronouns.</italics> #writingcommunity

Happy pi day! It's also my birthday! Have some pie!

Like to charge, repost to cast 🙏✨