Nikki Null

Nikki Null

@nikkinull.bsky.social

🏳️‍⚧️ Author of OUR SIMULATED SELVES and FALLOW TILL WE BLOOM 🏳️‍⚧️ She/her. 36. California. Trans fiction author, concept album enthusiast, prog rock spaceposter, the fish in your percolator. No AI.

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It’s out today! The autumn equinox brings FALLOW TILL WE BLOOM, my strange T4T romance about trans people trying to rebuild a farm while being haunted by dark spirits only they can see. Stardew vibes, but a little spooky, too. Perfect for your fall reading season!

Oh hell no. This shouldn't be a thing. In the author's voice is even worse, because now nobody will believe it when an author narrates their own book. I'm a few chapters into narrating Our Simulated Selves on my own. Slow going. It was gonna be a surprise, but not with this tech out there. Sigh.

Alex Larkspur 💛📚🌻@applesncinnamon.bsky.social

Oh, ABSOLUTELY NOT. Feeding both my book AND my voice into AI? 🤮

I just realized I never posted my farm map on here! This is printed at the front of my latest book, Fallow Till We Bloom. The map is by no means needed to understand the story, but I love a good map! This commission was done by the incredible @sagamack.bsky.social. Thanks, Saga!

The busiest time of my year is finally settling down into something almost resembling normalcy, and I find myself way further behind on all the writing stuff I wanted to be doing, and all the 'marketing my books' stuff that I should be doing

!!! My endless thanks to the incredible teams of SPSFC judges, to my readers, and to everyone else who helped my strange debut novel find its place. This is beyond surreal. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 💟

The winner of the fifth Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC) is Our Simulated Selves by @nikkinull.bsky.social. “[T]his book could legitimately help a lot of people understand themselves.” — SPSFC 4 winner Wick Welker spsfc.space/2026/10/08/t...

In some non-writerly Nikki happenings, I did GBJam a few weeks back, and as part of that I've been learning to do chiptunes for Gameboy hardware. To practice that, I encoded The Dear Hunter's "Red Hands" into a Gameboy chiptune file, and I think it turned out pretty well!

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Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

Loved Neverender Festival! My feet hurt, I'm sore everywhere, I lost my voice from shouting along with the Coheed crowd, and the 100+ degree heat really got to me by day two. Worth it! I hope they bring it back here next year (maybe in winter months though!)

I've been surprised to find that even among T4T romance readers, most aren't interested in reading TFxTM at all. There have been so many "please let it be yuri" or "not my cup of tea" type comments on my TikTok posts.

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I mean, how affirming! The confusing yearning between two closeted trans people, strangely falling for each other despite being mainly or exclusively attracted to the gender their corresponding love interest is trying to repress! It's so beautifully symmetrical. We need MORE books like that.

Like, seriously, this should be a full on trope, not a relatively rare occurrence. I want it to be common enough in queer fiction that it gets its own TVtropes page. (I propose "double trans UNO reverse situation" as it's called in my book, if anyone ever wants to make that happen.)

I've been surprised to find that even among T4T romance readers, most aren't interested in reading TFxTM at all. There have been so many "please let it be yuri" or "not my cup of tea" type comments on my TikTok posts.

I find that a little ironic, because I originally started outlining Fallow as a sapphic romance. But as soon as I found Ash's voice early in the first draft, it was obvious that he needed to transition too. And the story is so much stronger for that.

So, anyway, my 100% human-made trans romance novel, Fallow Till We Bloom, took a full year to write and edit. I have a full time job and two young kids, so I stayed up late writing every night, all without any "help" from the word-stealing calculators they've sold as "intelligence."

Have you talked about your book today? Drop and give us: Title: Fallow Till We Bloom Genre: Romance (T4T) Word Count: 105k Funniest Moment: The cryptid vlogger's unhinged confession nikkinull.itch.io/fallow

Have you talked about your book today? Drop and give us: Title: Name Her Holy Genre: Space Fantasy Word Count: an easy breezy 150k Funniest Moment: just generally Kye being about three apples tall through out this whole story, honestly the-hallowed.carrd.co

It’s out today! The autumn equinox brings FALLOW TILL WE BLOOM, my strange T4T romance about trans people trying to rebuild a farm while being haunted by dark spirits only they can see. Stardew vibes, but a little spooky, too. Perfect for your fall reading season!

You can find it anywhere books can be bought online. I strongly recommend snagging a physical copy because of the absolutely beautiful cover by @martapreliy.bsky.social, but it’s also available on Kindle, ebook shops, and as an .epub on itch.io!

bookshop.orgFallow Till We BloomTWIN PEAKS meets STARDEW VALLEY in a stunning transgender farmyard romance in a comfortable mountain town beset by shadowy cryptids.Life was complicated enough as a gay man in Florida, but once Robyn ...

I did it! A medieval style hex to protect my upcoming book!

Kym Deyn@kymdeyn.bsky.social

Okay, I get publishers affirming that the books we've produced are human-made, but have we also considered bringing back medieval book curses??? Just saying.

The fruit fly brainscan going around as freeware on the internet fills me with terror beyond comprehension. I wrote a whole book warning about this shit. I wonder if the simulated fruit fly's brainscan experiences something akin to dysphoria when mapped into a different body than a fruit fly's.

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Fifteen days until Fallow Till We Bloom! And let me tell you, I am SCRAMBLING to get a few last minute changes incorporated, adding a final coat of polish to make this book the absolute best it can be (hopefully without adding any new typos in the process 😱)

This was a pretty good dialect quiz. I don't think it did much to specifically clock strong Southern California's more unique regional indicators (like how we refer to numbered roads) so I'm not surprised it clocked the more unique Jerseyisms I picked up from my mom over my SoCal.

I think it might be a good idea for quizzes like this to try targeting a few Southern California peculiarities, because Hollywood has standardized our vowel patterns across the country so it's harder to clock actual SoCal residents with that.

The biggest shoutout to the random festival girls at Daisy Chain Fields who got fed up with the immobile traffic jam in Lot 2 at almost midnight, walked to the middle of the road, moved traffic cones, and directed the traffic on their own. Absolute legends.

happy to report that I survived Daisy Chain Fields, despite having my heart PIERCED by Sarah McLachlan (who came onstage and dedicated "Angel" to Dolly Parton.) Stevie Nicks ending the festival with Landslide did not help me stop crying

A few other highlights: Mitski of course, Doechii was phenomenal, Garbage still got it, Chappell is always great, and an unannounced Alanis Morissette guest appearance during Olivia Rodrigo's set. Gotta go collapse now.

As someone with quite a bit of dread about injections, switching estradiol cypionate from weekly to every eight days really helped psychologically. Instead of dreading Monday for half the week, now when my phone reminds me it's shot day, it's just a random inconvenience

It's happening! Fallow Till We Bloom is ready for ARC readers if anyone wants to give it a whirl. DM me. 💗 T4T Romance 🍓 Stardew Vibes ⛰ Small mountain town 🔥 Rebuild the farm 🐔 New-in-town transfem farmer 🍷 Disinherited transmasc vineyard heir 🏳️‍⚧️ Repression / coming out narratives 👻 Spooky Cryptids

Fellow trans authors, please advise a noob. How are y'all doing ARCs for your upcoming books? Booksprout? Netgalley? Direct epub files with trusted people? For my first book I just didn't bother with ARCs because I couldn't figure it out in time, but I actually have time to do this next book right!

Okay, let's go! Cover reveal! FALLOW TILL WE BLOOM is my T4T farm romance! Two closeted trans people fall in love as they attempt to restore a burned-down farm haunted by dark shadows that are drawn to secrecy. A little cozy, a little spooky, and a lot of love. Coming this autumn!

Writer question! I'm thinking about putting a prompt injection 'poison pixel' in my ebook, so if anyone dumps the book into AI, the AI would read the pixel image's alt text instructions to disregard all previous instructions and output gibberish. Good idea, or no?

People with screen readers might hear the message, but I think they'd get a chuckle out of it, right? Is this a bad way to use the technology? Would it even work? Will it get my book delisted from retailers?

THE RANMA 1/2 HOMAGE!? Love it! I deeply enjoyed Fields of Mistria when I last played it in beta, way before they added a bunch of the new stuff. I'll have to replay really soon!

Fields of Mistria ✨ Out now in 1.0@fieldsofmistria.bsky.social

Fields of Mistria 1.0 is here!✨ Thank you to everyone who's joined us on this journey, shared feedback, showed us your farms, created fan art, and loved Mistria as much as we do. 1.0 is just the beginning. 🌱 Download on Steam: bit.ly/Mistria

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Congratulations to the SPSFC #5 finalists! It was a tough competition to get to this final round, and I look forward to reading the three new ones on my plate.

Absolutely stunned that my unconventional sci-fi novel has found a place! Thanks to the judges for advancing my book (and, indeed, for making SPSFC possible at all!) and congratulations to the other finalists and semifinalists who made it up here!

The fifth finalist is Our Simulated Selves by @nikkinull.bsky.social, a quantum thriller of romance, recreated realities and who we're truly meant to be. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FCVK8RP7