Kaurifish

Into Pride & Prejudice variations where Lizzy ruthlessly torments Darcy before inevitably falling for his ardent admiration? There's also a Charlotte/Col. Fitzwilliam plot line and Wickham dies. 📚💙

I finished it! On Friday I finished the draft of "The Corruption of Town." Today I revise. There will be vampires... 💙📚

I don't expect you to believe any no-AI pledge from me. All I have is my own ornergy stubborness. When I was a Dungeon Master I refused to use modules rather than building my own worlds. I love story telling. I love writing. Letting a computer have all the fun seems like insanity. 💙📚

I'm not saying weather magic works, but I put my blanket in the closet and now it's down to the high 60s F.

Went back and chaptered my last n-thousands words. Up to 16 chapters! I can smell the ending is nigh (smells like lots of blood). More conversations between characters I didn't count on ever meeting. Doing things I never expected them to do. 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

Gearing up for Halloween witih vampires? I'm running a deal on book two of Under a Cloak of Night. Get 'em while they're cold. 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

As intellectual exercises go, reading all the Wikipedia entries for the members of the British Privy Council during the Regency to decide how they'd feel about vampirism is a helluva one. 💙📚

Ready to start spooky season with something fresh? Vampires meet history meets Pride & Prejudice in Under a Cloak of Night. Vampirism is on the loose in Regency London and things are getting out of hand. Book three coming this Halloween! 💙📚 #jaff

Tomorrow my subscribers get the second-to-last chapter of "Darcy Among the Fae." Writing that story was truly a wild ride, traumatizing Darcy in ways I have never traumatized him before. Check it out. patreon.com/kaurifish 💙📚

I was merely looking for a corrupt politician when I found John Scott, 1st Earl Eldon. But I found so much more. www.historyhome.co.uk/people/eldon... A true cesspit of a human being. I'm going to do terrible things to him in book 3 of Under a Cloak of Night, and I don't feel bad about any of it.

Monstrum just did a lovely episode on the Hammersmith ghost that has me thinking about ghosts in Regency London. But I need to be thinking about vampires, damnit... 💙📚

Okay, it may seem counterintuitive, but setting an exclusion zone for the vac bot around the litter box is actually a really good idea. On a related note, the vac bot cannot see cat doots on a black cat litter walk-off mat.

Watched part of the "AI explains why AI is good" vid. Interesting that avatar took some time off from making faux Viking metal videos for that PSA. And fascinating that "the sum total of human knowledge" doesn't include that humans can't walk straight across the slope of a river valley.

Only 10? 1. Galadriel (aka Nerwen) 2. Maya Greenwood 3. Occula 4. Morgan la Fay 5. Valentine Wiggins 6. Rae "Sunshine" Seddon 7. Elizabeth Bennet 8. Marge (currently of Husaquahr) 9. Gabriel de Lioncourt 10. Pandora of Kesh

I hope that readers aren't relying on "this isn't AI" disclaimers on works. Someone unethical enough to publish AI gen work won't scruple to lie on a disclaimer, too. It's our judgment vs the plagiarism machine. 💙📚

Seeing as most of my followers here are writers, let me direct you to a valuable resource: The FAQ for r/selfpublishing has excellent resources, including an extensive checklist for everything one might possibly want to do starting before you write your book. I highly recommend reviewing it. 💙📚

Starting to write a book is kind of like starting a fire. You start by gathering tinder and kindling, but it's not til you bring it together, light the spark and breathe into it that it comes to life. Got the flame going yesterday on book three of the Regency vampire series. Feels good. 💙📚

My apologies to all the authors who have followed me. I don't know what I'm doing, either. 💙📚

Dealing with my cat's ear infection has revealed weirdness about cat ears that I never dreamed possible. Also, my cat has become much more talkative since we got it cleared up. Makes sense, as each time I had an ear infection, my voice sounded weird to me.

One thing I have to give to Reddit: No matter how forthright one is in a mea culpa, some people there will still take the opportunity to drag you. You cannot convince me that such folks, walking down the street and encountering a dog hit by a car, would not kick the dog.

Doing research into the decline of the Ottoman Empire (yes, it's necessary for my upcoming Regency vampire novel) really makes you appreciate how stable empires aren't. 💙📚

The spicy things one learns when researching English history: the man who was the Archbishop of Canterbury during the Regency had eloped - with his cousin. 😳 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles... 💙📚 Remains to be seen if this makes him more likely to take the threat of vampires seriously...

If you haven't yet checked to see if your vet clinic has been acquired by private equity, I suggest you do so ASAP. We're starting month two of fighting a 10-year long ear infection that our previous vet missed. Turns out they had been acquired by PE back in '19. 😿

I always write stories in order. Little things affect feelings which means the action comes out just a little differently than it would have if I'd written chapter 3 before chapter 2. 💙📚

Just discovered that there are new October Project albums! Nothing like their previous work, but beautiful.

Well darn it, the vet said the last two weeks of twice-daily antibiotic goo only knocked down 80% of kitty's ear infection. So now we're in for another two weeks of treatment. I can tell it's working because she's noticing the fireworks. All this decade I just thought she was chill...

As always with Darcy and Elizabeth, it isn't overcoming supernatural peril that's difficult. It's talking about feelings. #prideandprejudice 💙📚

Excitedly working on a story partially set in a reasonably obscure megalith. And just found out a dude just got murdered there. 😱 💙📚

I've been spending a couple days resisting the urge to respond to the comments about the heat wave in Britain, ex. "Why don't they just buy ACs?" But when my (HVAC engineer husband) asked, I had to reply. I visited England. Their windows are not like ours. Our window rattlers aren't going to fit.

Five series that define my tastes? Butler's Xenogenesis Spider Robinson's The Callahan Chronicles Feist/Wurtz's Daughter of the Empire Butler's Ekumen stories Starhawk's City of Refuge trilogy 💙📚

My browser tabs for research into fairies in the Regency are getting totally out of hand. Ignoring everything Victorian really requires a research team. My fae are primal af. No butterfly wings. No tea cups. Just power wrested from the foundations of the universe at the cost of their humanity. 💙📚

Do not put ripe apricots in the pockets of your yoga pants. It may seem like a good idea at the time, but it's not.

Okay, need to log off now. If I see one more book titled "The <n> of <x> and <y>" I'm absolutely going to lose it. 💙📚

I sadly report that the Roborock has lost its little robot mind. It was such a good vac bot, but vacuuming the bedroom when we told it to mop the dining room is not it. Have messaged the mothership.

Finally started watching S2 of Interview with the Vampire (mostly because Jennifer Ehle is going to play Gabrielle). My husband refuses because there was too much whining in S1. Was his complaint about the book, too. And he's not wrong.

Finished my second sex pollen story. What a delightful conceit, and how horny was Trek to invent this *and* Pon Farr? My patrons get the penultimate chapter this Friday. 💙📚 #prideandprejudice

Post a dragon, you say?

Made blueberry muffins. Had finally gotten to TJs to get the dried (really, candied) blueberries that give that perfect texture and contrast. Reminded me that the first thing I ever successfully baked was blueberry muffins - from Jiff mix.