Tam Chronin | Invisible Author

That went so much better than I expected. I almost ran out of books.

Celebrating my book birthday at The Scribbled Hollow in downtown Glendale, AZ today at 1pm. I'm excited!!!

Alyssa doesn't believe in vampires, of course. She may be a poet, but she's rational and has never seen a vampire... Until she became one. ...and if vampires are real, what else is?

Goodies came in today! I don't have to spend the rest of the month worrying about my books coming in in time for my official book birthday party on the 24th!

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Lyarrah

@lyarrah.bsky.social

6 July

When you dismiss the nice things your friends say about you, you are calling them a liar and a poor judge of character who you are choosing not to believe.

29 June

In non-writing related news, I put the finishing touches on my second World of Warcraft house today. I don't think I'll be touching them again until the next big patch. Now to put all that creative energy back into something I can make money on...

28 June

For the curious: This is why there's no map in The Godslayer Series. This is the map I have in my notes. The tiny circle is Cairnborough.

28 June

I've shared it with a couple of people who were interested in making a map for me, and I'm pretty sure they ran away screaming. To be quite honest, I don't blame them. That is the appropriate reaction to this map.

31 May

B909N Phoenix Fan Fusion vendor's hall. Be there. Say hello. Be kind.

30 May

Refusing to tell someone that a family member has died because they aren't part of your religion, or because they are estranged from their parent who you think should pass that news along, is messed up. My mom was abusive. She was a child molester who married another child molester.

30 May

I don't care that your religion thinks I should "forgive" and just brush that under the rug. Not telling me that my grandpa, My uncle, My other uncle, Or my grandmother Had passed away? Is messed up. Letting me find out on Facebook when the general public found out?

30 May

Not giving me a heads up that their time is close, giving me a chance? You guys are all terrible human beings. You are all proof that blood does not make family. Family are the people who care. Family shows up. Family can be together forever... And I won't recognize a one of your faces.

22 May

If you call yourself a Christian and believe in the prosperity doctrine, you're probably just a Roman wearing a cross.

17 Mar

@johnhigginbothamjr.bsky.social Can't imagine why this made me think of you immediately. lol

Lyarrah@lyarrah.bsky.social

Looking for playtesters for two TTRPGs! One is a board game with a character sheet about mallgoths the other is a more normal say you're doing the thing then roll dice to see if you succeed style RPG, and is an art vs artist type thing about fanfiction.

15 Mar

Author's eye view of Tucson Festival of Books today. It's a beautiful morning to find a new favorite author.

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Lyarrah

@lyarrah.bsky.social

12 Mar

we'd all be so much better off if we hadn't decided as a civilization that saying "I don't know" is supposedly a sign of weakness, not of honesty

28 Feb

I went to a friend's book debut party, and it was so fun! Coffee, conchas, and signs to hold up for pictures. Really makes me wish I'd written romance instead of fantasy. She really knows where the marketing is!

15 Feb

My husband and I went out to see Iron Lung for Valentine's Day. Hearts pump lots of blood, Iron Lung has lots of blood, seems like a perfect date movie to me! I'm really glad we were able to see it in the theater. It was beautiful, disturbing, and one of my top favorite horror movies now.

15 Feb

It did not feel like "only 3 million dollars". It did NOT feel like two hours. The discomfort delivered. The body horror delivered. The cosmic horror delivered. I *cared* about Simon in the end. I cried for him when he said, "You sent me down here to die and you don't even know my name?"

15 Feb

I am sick of horror that relies on cheap jump scares. I'm 51, ffs, I want to be disturbed, not just shocked. This movie will stick with me. This is horror I can love. #ironlung #markiplier

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GrayMM

@graymm.bsky.social

14 Feb

you can just say CLAMP you know

25 Jan

The worst parts of trauma and grief are the stunning mundanity of the world grinding on as usual while your world has been utterly destroyed.

23 Jan

I live in Phoenix, and we're expecting rain. On the fence if I should be running out to stock up on bread and toilet paper. I mean, we've got plenty for now, but it's rain. In Phoenix. Pray for us. I don't know what we'll do when the wet stuff hits. We don't have the infrastructure for this.

23 Jan

I do not have shoes on, and it feels good.

7 Jan

Well, I'm on the verge of giving up on my brain. I'm having an impossible time with this book. It's a jumbled mess right now. I wanna write faeries, pirates, and vampires. Not wizards. But I also wanna finish this series. T_T

6 Jan

My cats are taking it personally that I did not allow them into the bathroom while I took a shower. They have been rattling the door nonstop the whole time.

5 Jan

I threw my hat in the ring and put Everyone Dies Alone up for SPFBO yesterday. I did NOT make the coin flip, which is a little disappointing but fine. I plan on being supportive and excited for others in ways I couldn't if I had skin in the game. This'll be fun!

1 Jan

Happy New Year folks! We survived another trip around the sun, and might make it through this one. May the new year treat you kindly and be full of happy moments and relief from stress and the insanity that seems to have hit so many of us last year. Good luck to us all.

I'm supposed to be at Tales & Tumbleweeds Book Festival today, out in Mesa. Instead my body has betrayed me with weakness and I am glued to the couch. So my husband went in my stead.

First, I hope he does well. He's a good bean, and he's been watching me do this for years, so my books should be in good hands.

Oh boy.

I'm supposed to be at Tales & Tumbleweeds Book Festival today, out in Mesa. Instead my body has betrayed me with weakness and I am glued to the couch. So my husband went in my stead.

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Second, I feel guilty for not being there, so I keep thinking I should go grab my laptop and set it up in the living room, but that's work and I need to get better. But it's only a little laptop... Only a little editing. As a treat.

Finally, I am just irritated that I'm sick. Running a fever for a couple of days now, but I just have a little cough and a tickle in my throat. So I feel fine-ish, but I'm exhausted and my skin hurts. I want to do all the things! But no energy. Bleh.

27 Nov 2025

Driving to my MIL's house and half way through Alice's Restaurant we realized we forgot to grab the herbals from the fridge. Store or turn around? We turned around. At least we got to hear the whole song.

27 Nov 2025

My birthday yesterday went really well. One thing my husband got me was a few lottery scratchers, and I'm glad I didn't check them until today. Not a single winner among them. It's good I didn't face that disappointment until my birthday was over! 🤣

25 Nov 2025

I actually got a surprise party for my birthday last night. That was pretty awesome! I'm really hopeful that today is nice and quiet, then we can do a small family thing with Thanksgiving, just the way I like.

24 Nov 2025

What fictional creature/villain traumatized you as a child?

Nicole Winchester 📚@nicolewinchester.bsky.social

What fictional creature/villain traumatized you as a child?

My birthday is coming up next week, and I am staring at it warily. Birthdays and I don't always get along. It's not the age, I view that as a badge of honor. It's the buildup and inevitable disaster that follows.

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My husband tries, and I love him for it. He doesn't make it a spectacle, he just does silly little things to keep me cheered up. It helps. But my birthdays are AT BEST quiet affairs. I hope this one is peaceful.

Anyway, my grandpa's birthday would have been tomorrow.

The biggest birthday party I had as a kid was while my grandpa was in the hospital when I turned 5. The loneliest was in 8th grade when I was finally allowed to invite friends and nobody showed up. The absolute shittiest was when I turned 20. And I almost stopped myself from having more at 21.

18 Nov 2025

Just went through the process of updating all my covers with changes to the title/author fonts effects. Same iconic font, it just looks slightly prettier now (and all volumes will match now instead of The Arcane War being completely different from the rest).

18 Nov 2025

I also changed the paperback covers to glossy, because I'm having texture issues with the matte finish Amazon uses. It doesn't feel nice in my hands after a few years. That's probably just a me thing, but in case it's not - you're welcome. lol

17 Nov 2025

This. It's a little demoralizing sometimes. Writing is a stubborn business, it takes a lot to not give up sometimes.

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17 Nov 2025

All pumped up and ready to start the week right with putting words on paper. Or computer screen. I should spend time composing music to go with some lyrics I wrote, too. Maybe that's a tomorrow thing, once I set up my keyboard or tune one of my guitars. Getting this book out is priority one.

10 Nov 2025

Home after a long and amazing TusCon 52 (it's a year and a couple weeks older than me lol) I'm exhausted. Writing starts up again tomorrow.

10 Nov 2025

I want to get a button made that says, "Just some bitch who wrote some books."

6 Nov 2025

On our way to TusCon for the weekend! Hurray!