Maire E Brown 📚
@booksandbylines.bsky.social
Full time writer, part time horror author.
Author of ‘Pieces’ and ‘This Once Was Home’.
https://mairebrownauthor.wixsite.com/website
Author of ‘Pieces’ and ‘This Once Was Home’.
https://mairebrownauthor.wixsite.com/website
Writing a book is my favorite part of writing a book.
I love writing books
That's it, that's the skeet
That's it, that's the skeet
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Writing a book is my favorite part of writing a book.
All my Beta readers got back to me with their feedback. Time to dig back into my novel!
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
All my Beta readers got back to me with their feedback. Time to dig back into my novel!
Why is writing a query letter harder than writing the book? Seems backwards, but okay…
November 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Why is writing a query letter harder than writing the book? Seems backwards, but okay…
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People who dismiss e-books or audiobooks as being somehow less worthy or less meaningful than physical books are missing the point of books. Books are not ink and paper, just as human beings are not defined by their physicality. Books are connections; emotions; ideas; just like their creators.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
People who dismiss e-books or audiobooks as being somehow less worthy or less meaningful than physical books are missing the point of books. Books are not ink and paper, just as human beings are not defined by their physicality. Books are connections; emotions; ideas; just like their creators.
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Supporting women’s rights and women’s wrongs.
-What on earth is happening?
- Neon lights and bloody delights.
- Coming of age stories.
- A foe people thought was vanquished returns.
- Supporting women’s rights and women’s wrongs.
-What on earth is happening?
- Neon lights and bloody delights.
- Coming of age stories.
- A foe people thought was vanquished returns.
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-Awkward teen gets shit together
-Awkward sports team gets shit together
-Seven murderers get together, save town whose shit is not together
-Two people, whose shit is not together, meet, fall in love, break up, get shit together, get together
-Revenge
-Awkward teen gets shit together
-Awkward sports team gets shit together
-Seven murderers get together, save town whose shit is not together
-Two people, whose shit is not together, meet, fall in love, break up, get shit together, get together
-Revenge
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
- Roaring rampage of revenge
- Reluctantly, I must resume my life of violence
- On reflection, the risk assessment on our giant monster facility and/or attraction could have been more thorough
- Girl survives
- Crime but make it quirky
November 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Supporting women’s rights and women’s wrongs.
-What on earth is happening?
- Neon lights and bloody delights.
- Coming of age stories.
- A foe people thought was vanquished returns.
- Supporting women’s rights and women’s wrongs.
-What on earth is happening?
- Neon lights and bloody delights.
- Coming of age stories.
- A foe people thought was vanquished returns.
I love when I start reading something new, and the first chapter is instantly gripping.
I fear I will be looking for every excuse to enjoy this audiobook over the next several days.
I fear I will be looking for every excuse to enjoy this audiobook over the next several days.
November 16, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I love when I start reading something new, and the first chapter is instantly gripping.
I fear I will be looking for every excuse to enjoy this audiobook over the next several days.
I fear I will be looking for every excuse to enjoy this audiobook over the next several days.
Thinking about starting a YouTube channel completely unrelated to my books and writing.
Instead, it will solely follow my opinions on shampoo/conditioner options offered by hotels.
Instead, it will solely follow my opinions on shampoo/conditioner options offered by hotels.
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Thinking about starting a YouTube channel completely unrelated to my books and writing.
Instead, it will solely follow my opinions on shampoo/conditioner options offered by hotels.
Instead, it will solely follow my opinions on shampoo/conditioner options offered by hotels.
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Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
November 9, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Sometimes I wonder if our many years of jokes about writers hating writing and doing anything but writing, etc, have convinced people that the writing part is the hurdle and the goal is just to have a thing in hand. But I am here to tell you: the writing is the best part. The act is the thing.
At my favorite coffee shop for a feedback session with a beta reader.
These are some of my favorite days as a writer.
These are some of my favorite days as a writer.
November 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
At my favorite coffee shop for a feedback session with a beta reader.
These are some of my favorite days as a writer.
These are some of my favorite days as a writer.
I want what every writer wants: for @realgdt.bsky.social to make a haunting fantasy adaptation of the story I’m writing.
October 31, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I want what every writer wants: for @realgdt.bsky.social to make a haunting fantasy adaptation of the story I’m writing.
New Florence+the Machine album for Halloween?
Yes, please.
Yes, please.
October 31, 2025 at 3:19 PM
New Florence+the Machine album for Halloween?
Yes, please.
Yes, please.
I have serious concerns about the amount of emotional damage season 5 of Stranger Things may inflict on me.
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I have serious concerns about the amount of emotional damage season 5 of Stranger Things may inflict on me.
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“I will honour HALLOWEEN in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.” -Charles Dickens probably
October 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
“I will honour HALLOWEEN in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.” -Charles Dickens probably
October 28, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Another day, another flash fiction piece submitted to some magazines.
#onsub #writer #author #flashfiction
#onsub #writer #author #flashfiction
October 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Another day, another flash fiction piece submitted to some magazines.
#onsub #writer #author #flashfiction
#onsub #writer #author #flashfiction
Just cleaned my apartment instead of sitting down and writing. I feel like that’s a square on the author bingo card.
#writing #writer #author #horrorauthor
#writing #writer #author #horrorauthor
October 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Just cleaned my apartment instead of sitting down and writing. I feel like that’s a square on the author bingo card.
#writing #writer #author #horrorauthor
#writing #writer #author #horrorauthor
“No, my initiative order doesn’t match my character’s vibes!” Is the most D&D sentence I’ve ever heard uttered 😂
#d&d #dungeonsanddragons
#d&d #dungeonsanddragons
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
“No, my initiative order doesn’t match my character’s vibes!” Is the most D&D sentence I’ve ever heard uttered 😂
#d&d #dungeonsanddragons
#d&d #dungeonsanddragons
You’d think with all the real horror going on these days it would be easier than ever to write horror fiction.
Sadly, I can’t top the real world. Political, social, and economic problems aside, can we talk about the fact that there are CHRISTMAS decorations out before Halloween?
Sadly, I can’t top the real world. Political, social, and economic problems aside, can we talk about the fact that there are CHRISTMAS decorations out before Halloween?
October 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
You’d think with all the real horror going on these days it would be easier than ever to write horror fiction.
Sadly, I can’t top the real world. Political, social, and economic problems aside, can we talk about the fact that there are CHRISTMAS decorations out before Halloween?
Sadly, I can’t top the real world. Political, social, and economic problems aside, can we talk about the fact that there are CHRISTMAS decorations out before Halloween?
Hit the 10k mark on my WIP today and wrote a chapter that felt pretty good (for a rough draft).
#writer #author #horrorauthor
#writer #author #horrorauthor
October 19, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Hit the 10k mark on my WIP today and wrote a chapter that felt pretty good (for a rough draft).
#writer #author #horrorauthor
#writer #author #horrorauthor
The hardest part of being a writer is that you have to be self-motivated.
So, write. Even when you don’t feel like it.
#writer #author #horrorauthor
So, write. Even when you don’t feel like it.
#writer #author #horrorauthor
October 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The hardest part of being a writer is that you have to be self-motivated.
So, write. Even when you don’t feel like it.
#writer #author #horrorauthor
So, write. Even when you don’t feel like it.
#writer #author #horrorauthor
I don’t read a ton of nonfiction, but John Green’s Everything is Tuberculosis was really interesting and definitely worth the read!
#bookrec #readersky #johngreen
#bookrec #readersky #johngreen
October 16, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I don’t read a ton of nonfiction, but John Green’s Everything is Tuberculosis was really interesting and definitely worth the read!
#bookrec #readersky #johngreen
#bookrec #readersky #johngreen
The hardest part of starting my next writing project is never creating the concept or having the motivation.
It’s seeing the messy 1st draft and not trying to make it perfect before starting draft 2. Stagnancy in the process kills more stories than bad writing.
#writersky #author #horrorauthor
It’s seeing the messy 1st draft and not trying to make it perfect before starting draft 2. Stagnancy in the process kills more stories than bad writing.
#writersky #author #horrorauthor
October 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
The hardest part of starting my next writing project is never creating the concept or having the motivation.
It’s seeing the messy 1st draft and not trying to make it perfect before starting draft 2. Stagnancy in the process kills more stories than bad writing.
#writersky #author #horrorauthor
It’s seeing the messy 1st draft and not trying to make it perfect before starting draft 2. Stagnancy in the process kills more stories than bad writing.
#writersky #author #horrorauthor
T. Kingfisher has done it again. What Stalks the Deep was a great addition to the Sworn Soldier series!
#readersky #bookrecs
#readersky #bookrecs
October 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM
T. Kingfisher has done it again. What Stalks the Deep was a great addition to the Sworn Soldier series!
#readersky #bookrecs
#readersky #bookrecs
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An important element in improving your writing is in self-reflection and the identification of your weaknesses. It can be tempting to ignore the flaws in your writing, hoping your strengths will outshine them. But discovering and improving your weaknesses will make your next tale more well-rounded.
October 13, 2025 at 10:32 AM
An important element in improving your writing is in self-reflection and the identification of your weaknesses. It can be tempting to ignore the flaws in your writing, hoping your strengths will outshine them. But discovering and improving your weaknesses will make your next tale more well-rounded.
Added another chapter to my book before breakfast. I’m up to 3,000 words in the last week!
#writersky #author #horrorauthor #wip
#writersky #author #horrorauthor #wip
October 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Added another chapter to my book before breakfast. I’m up to 3,000 words in the last week!
#writersky #author #horrorauthor #wip
#writersky #author #horrorauthor #wip