Aimee Black @uthor

I'm just saying, if you're going to worldbuild magic being a "raw, primal force, akin to and interweaving with nature itself" you gotta explain to me why animals don't use it

Starlings are my Irish OC Lorcán's favorite bird. He photographs them whenever he can ✨️🥰

Verified: Microsoft 365 gets massive 45% price hike — and it's all to do with AI tools (Tom's Guide - January 17, 2025)

oopsie i tripped and spilled my link to archive dot org's downloadable copy of Microsoft office suite for 2007, which features no AI tools and is a powerful word processor that still holds up just fine on windows 10!

Updated with working 32bit link

For all my author babes out there 💕

I passed a flower shop next to a tattoo shop and at first I laughed because I thought it was ironic and then i freaked because IMAGINE YOUR OTP IN A FLORIST/TATTOO ARTIST AU

OMG I COULD TOTALLY IMAGINE THEM LIKE THAT IT WOULD BE SO PERFECT

I cannot BELIEVE a post I made when I was 13 is circulating! And also apparently started this trope? I thought somebody had the idea separately and it blew up that way😭

If my protagonist Ava were out at night after her shift as an influenza nurse in 1920s Chicago <3

This feels so on-brand with my 1920s vampire paranormal romances and I just *chef's kiss* love it so much!

“how did you get into writing” girl nobody gets into writing. writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you

"how did you get into writing" girl i've been tormented by the visions since i was eight years old

Please go learn how time works.

The problem with commercial F/M romance is that it's written by the most heterosexual women alive and reading it you feel yourself slowly suffocating from the Gender of it all like a fish in a eutrophying lake. And what we actually need as a culture is F/M written by insane bisexuals violently allergic to heteronormativity

As a fellow unhinged bisexual writing paranormal romance where the woman is pursuing the man (and is a cursed Kitsune fox shifter) I am striving to be as fluid as possible with my characters and my smut scenes!

For everyone who ‘used to love reading’ but now hasn’t finished a book in years, you CAN get it back. Genuinely start bringing a book (preferably short and either fiction or a non fiction topic you already really enjoy) everywhere you go and when you have 5-20 mins waiting for the bus or at the doctors office or mechanic or whatever, get out your book and read it! You don’t have to finish it quickly or even read it often but it is so good for your brain and fun to get into the habit of reading more (and replacing being on your phone for those moments). Source: I read 0 books in 2023 and I’ve read 12 in the first 4 months of 2026

This is so true! I've been reading a lot more since I deleted (almost all of the) social media apps with "reels" or "shorts" on my phone. It's been so amazing to go to the library again and pick out 2+ books at a time and actually read them! It's inspiring for my writing and helps my brain slow wayyyyy down. Highly recommend we all follow this advice in 2026.

Imagining a scene is free. Writing it costs my entire lifespan