Remember this is a live ask event!

What that means is I will be active for the hour, hopping into ask boxes with followup questions as I am able, while encouraging you to do the same.

Answering the questions tells me you are cool with this.

You may answer all questions via reblog, reply, hopping in my askbox or even reposting. Just remember the #writeblr and #writeblr live tags if reblogging/reposting so we can find ya.

We’re here to help rebuild interaction in the community, so get in there and have fun with it!

For the fan-fiction I mostly write for the Fallout games (didn't care enough about the series to bother) though the blog I write on is currently inactive due to creative burnout. That is not to say I won't be returning to it, it's just going to be a while.

For my original fiction, I prefer to write supernatural fantasy (NOT the tv show). Werewolves, fae, old god, cryptids. That sort of thing. It all takes place in a fictional island in Scotland and has been an ongoing process for a little over ten years now.

As for what I am most proud of? That's hard to say, really. I have a hard time taking full pride in anything I do (long story) but I was once pretty proud of myself for coming up with some stuff about sentient garden gnomes that I believe I once mentioned during the May live event.

I genuinely put a lot of time, effort, thought, and even research into them as well as making up their holidays, religion, and origins, but I kind of suffered from creative burnout there, too.

And finally, the bonus round!

I also yammer about big gay vampi--I mean I write books.

No, really. I have written books.

SO MANY BOOKS SO MANY

Look, they have covers too. Isn't that fun?

'Weald and Wen' is about trauma, terror and finding some semblance of joy and laughter while suffocating in agony.

'In Fog' is about loneliness and belonging and nonbinary monsters being erotically murderous.

'Can't You See Me?' is about a ghost who would very much like her wife and kids to know she's dead.

'Don't Look' is about a criminal lack of affordable housing forcing someone to take an apartment despite all the red flags.

'Snowblind' is about you. You're lost in the snowy wastes with a terrible hunger and a sweet voice in your ears.

'The Portrait' is about how Miriam should be happy with what she's got and stop obsessing about the portraits.

'In The Marrow' is about Hazel and how she's fine. If she closes her eyes and focuses on her tasks, everything is just fine.

'Beneath the Brine' is about loneliness and the mundane horror of being lost at sea.

'Got Your Nose' is about maybe exercising some caution before you take a clown in a drippy costume to bed.

Remember this is a live ask event!

What that means is I will be active for the hour, hopping into ask boxes with followup questions as I am able, while encouraging you to do the same.

Answering the questions tells me you are cool with this.

You may answer all questions via reblog, reply, hopping in my askbox or even reposting. Just remember the #writeblr and #writeblr live tags if reblogging/reposting so we can find ya.

I have selkies (closer to the traditional ones of Scottish/Manx lore).

I have Lycaons, which are like werewolves but better.

I have glaistigs AND urisks (goat women and goat men, respectively)

And I have Garden Gnomes. Not brownies, not red-caps, not the little men of the dirt. Garden Gnomes made of stone and painted pretty colors that walk around and fall in love. Maybe a little bit of a cheat calling them a hybrid, but they’re pretty close to one really.

Rules: share the cover (or any other art/picrew/moodboard/etc) of a published story or WIP + a sample page, then tag some people to do the same!

learn more about the book and find links here: The Lord of the Wood on E.M. Anderson's website

Little Horns (and in the future, other works of mine) can be read here

I was going to wait until the end of June to do this, but things are likely to change between now and then. This is an excerpt/opening for 'Goldie' which is one of (hopefully) many short stories* from my anticipated anthology/collection "Don't Feed The Wolf".

No links to offer since there is no where to read yet, but I guess let me know if you want to be added to a list of potential beta readers for when I do finally start getting these works from start to end?

Also, I have no one to tag since my go-to has actually tagged me, but PLEASE take this as an invite to participate! And for anyone who wants to read the block text but can't in the picture, feel free to look under the read more.

*Let it be known that the information found in this piece and the sister piece "a short history of garden gnomes" was written with exactly one (1) actual source I found online and my own imagination, and not a true history of the Garden Gnome.