Emily Sinclair
@butterflyonawheel.bsky.social
Author of Butterfly on a Wheel, now available on eBook, in paperback, and in hardcover!
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Website: https://flowersofdeath.net/
Cover art by Kai Schüttler: https://kaischuettler.com/
https://books2read.com/u/mqxJJQ
Website: https://flowersofdeath.net/
Cover art by Kai Schüttler: https://kaischuettler.com/
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#BookSky #queerbooksky #writingcommunity
A bunch of bright kids from the SF Bay Area decide to embrace the grindset and take cutthroat tech jobs circa 2002? So, Silicon Valley, I guess.
(Bonus for SV being a comedy while my WIP about bright kids from the Bay Area being rock musicians is a drama)
#Novmemeber 16
(Bonus for SV being a comedy while my WIP about bright kids from the Bay Area being rock musicians is a drama)
#Novmemeber 16
#Novmemeber 16
Share some ANTI-comps (things that are totally OPPOSITE from your WIP)!
You could also try reframing your WIP as a totally different genre. What would it look like if your romance was now horror?
Share some ANTI-comps (things that are totally OPPOSITE from your WIP)!
You could also try reframing your WIP as a totally different genre. What would it look like if your romance was now horror?
November 16, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A bunch of bright kids from the SF Bay Area decide to embrace the grindset and take cutthroat tech jobs circa 2002? So, Silicon Valley, I guess.
(Bonus for SV being a comedy while my WIP about bright kids from the Bay Area being rock musicians is a drama)
#Novmemeber 16
(Bonus for SV being a comedy while my WIP about bright kids from the Bay Area being rock musicians is a drama)
#Novmemeber 16
Jeanette my narrator loves rural Northern Michigan, specfically the Lake Huron coastline aka the Sunrise Side. Butterfly on a Wheel is a lowkey love letter to this underrated gem of a place.
David my MC loves the Big Island of Hawaii for its dark skies and active volcanoes.
#WritingPrompt
David my MC loves the Big Island of Hawaii for its dark skies and active volcanoes.
#WritingPrompt
Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:
What's a place that your character loves?
Do they feel loved back?
What's a place that your character loves?
Do they feel loved back?
November 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Jeanette my narrator loves rural Northern Michigan, specfically the Lake Huron coastline aka the Sunrise Side. Butterfly on a Wheel is a lowkey love letter to this underrated gem of a place.
David my MC loves the Big Island of Hawaii for its dark skies and active volcanoes.
#WritingPrompt
David my MC loves the Big Island of Hawaii for its dark skies and active volcanoes.
#WritingPrompt
#queerwriters | remark
Exactly one use of "remark" in The Stardust of Failure, and it comes when the Narrator is having a VERY bad time overall and is about at the end of her rope. CW for language.
Exactly one use of "remark" in The Stardust of Failure, and it comes when the Narrator is having a VERY bad time overall and is about at the end of her rope. CW for language.
November 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
#queerwriters | remark
Exactly one use of "remark" in The Stardust of Failure, and it comes when the Narrator is having a VERY bad time overall and is about at the end of her rope. CW for language.
Exactly one use of "remark" in The Stardust of Failure, and it comes when the Narrator is having a VERY bad time overall and is about at the end of her rope. CW for language.
Mystery stories! I don't read them to figure out whodunit (and my favorite vintage mysteries by Josephine Tey are crafted so the reader canNOT reasonably guess whodunit) but to be taken on a well-crafted ride. I also rather like work procedurals. The two overlap.
#Bookvember
#Bookvember
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 16!
Follow the directions on the prompt card and explore the many genres readers love.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Follow the directions on the prompt card and explore the many genres readers love.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
November 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Mystery stories! I don't read them to figure out whodunit (and my favorite vintage mysteries by Josephine Tey are crafted so the reader canNOT reasonably guess whodunit) but to be taken on a well-crafted ride. I also rather like work procedurals. The two overlap.
#Bookvember
#Bookvember
#WIPSnips | run
From an interview with David and Jeanette as excerpted in The Stardust of Failure, Chapter Eight. History is penned by the victors.
From an interview with David and Jeanette as excerpted in The Stardust of Failure, Chapter Eight. History is penned by the victors.
November 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
#WIPSnips | run
From an interview with David and Jeanette as excerpted in The Stardust of Failure, Chapter Eight. History is penned by the victors.
From an interview with David and Jeanette as excerpted in The Stardust of Failure, Chapter Eight. History is penned by the victors.
November 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I really love The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters, which despite the flaws of its era (fat-shaming for one) is both a meta-work on how the mystery genre itself functions and a closely observed look at niche-enthusiast group dynamics that rings true to my experiences.
#Bookvember
#Bookvember
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 15!
Follow the directions on the prompt card and explore the many genres readers love.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Follow the directions on the prompt card and explore the many genres readers love.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
November 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I really love The Murders of Richard III by Elizabeth Peters, which despite the flaws of its era (fat-shaming for one) is both a meta-work on how the mystery genre itself functions and a closely observed look at niche-enthusiast group dynamics that rings true to my experiences.
#Bookvember
#Bookvember
....which sometimes manifests itself in the way characters are handled (behavior with no consequences) and sometimes is in the writing itself in a way that turns me off. Analogy: those online recipes that have 12 paragraphs of slop before you get to the ingredient list. 2/2
#WritingLifeMonthly
#WritingLifeMonthly
The last book I DNF was actually a non-fiction book on extinct birds wherein I felt the writer was too blinkered and self-indulgent to actually put together a compelling narrative about a topic I am deeply invested in! So I guess I would say self-indulgence... 1/2
#WritingLifeMonthly
#WritingLifeMonthly
📚 #WritingLifeMonthly November Day 15📚
This is easy, bad editing. A novel that hasn't gone through enough of an editing process, I will toss it in a heartbeat.
#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookskyclub #bookish #books #tbr #tbrpile #indie #amreading
This is easy, bad editing. A novel that hasn't gone through enough of an editing process, I will toss it in a heartbeat.
#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookskyclub #bookish #books #tbr #tbrpile #indie #amreading
November 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
....which sometimes manifests itself in the way characters are handled (behavior with no consequences) and sometimes is in the writing itself in a way that turns me off. Analogy: those online recipes that have 12 paragraphs of slop before you get to the ingredient list. 2/2
#WritingLifeMonthly
#WritingLifeMonthly
The last book I DNF was actually a non-fiction book on extinct birds wherein I felt the writer was too blinkered and self-indulgent to actually put together a compelling narrative about a topic I am deeply invested in! So I guess I would say self-indulgence... 1/2
#WritingLifeMonthly
#WritingLifeMonthly
📚 #WritingLifeMonthly November Day 15📚
This is easy, bad editing. A novel that hasn't gone through enough of an editing process, I will toss it in a heartbeat.
#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookskyclub #bookish #books #tbr #tbrpile #indie #amreading
This is easy, bad editing. A novel that hasn't gone through enough of an editing process, I will toss it in a heartbeat.
#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #bookskyclub #bookish #books #tbr #tbrpile #indie #amreading
November 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The last book I DNF was actually a non-fiction book on extinct birds wherein I felt the writer was too blinkered and self-indulgent to actually put together a compelling narrative about a topic I am deeply invested in! So I guess I would say self-indulgence... 1/2
#WritingLifeMonthly
#WritingLifeMonthly
Also, Cleary's characters were generally not fantasy-rich or fantasy-poor, but very recognizably West Coast middle class. Ramona Quimby's dad being laid off and the the family having to cut back to the point fast food burgers were rare treats resonated with my family life.
2/2 #Bookvember
2/2 #Bookvember
Beverly Cleary's books impacted me a lot. She had a gift for capturing the illogical logic of childhood in a way I've rarely seen, and the West Coast setting of her books reflected my early life in a way few kiddie books did. I could truly relate to her characters & their lives. 1/2
#Bookvember
#Bookvember
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 14!
Follow the directions on the prompt card and share your love of diverse voices in literature.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Follow the directions on the prompt card and share your love of diverse voices in literature.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
November 15, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Also, Cleary's characters were generally not fantasy-rich or fantasy-poor, but very recognizably West Coast middle class. Ramona Quimby's dad being laid off and the the family having to cut back to the point fast food burgers were rare treats resonated with my family life.
2/2 #Bookvember
2/2 #Bookvember
Beverly Cleary's books impacted me a lot. She had a gift for capturing the illogical logic of childhood in a way I've rarely seen, and the West Coast setting of her books reflected my early life in a way few kiddie books did. I could truly relate to her characters & their lives. 1/2
#Bookvember
#Bookvember
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 14!
Follow the directions on the prompt card and share your love of diverse voices in literature.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Follow the directions on the prompt card and share your love of diverse voices in literature.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
November 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Beverly Cleary's books impacted me a lot. She had a gift for capturing the illogical logic of childhood in a way I've rarely seen, and the West Coast setting of her books reflected my early life in a way few kiddie books did. I could truly relate to her characters & their lives. 1/2
#Bookvember
#Bookvember
I would say the major character in Butterfly on a Wheel/The Stardust of Failure who believes in the Power of Love is the antagonist. Make of that what you will…
#WriteSky
#WriteSky
Today's random #Lovember #WritingPrompt for the #WriteSky #WritingCommunity:
Does your character believe in The Power Of Love™️? If so, what do they believe are its limits?
Does your character believe in The Power Of Love™️? If so, what do they believe are its limits?
November 15, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I would say the major character in Butterfly on a Wheel/The Stardust of Failure who believes in the Power of Love is the antagonist. Make of that what you will…
#WriteSky
#WriteSky
Reposted by Emily Sinclair
Like "I'm Waiting For The Man" reimagined for the Pat Garret & Billy The Kid soundtrack, Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" is one of the great ballads of the 1970's: part debauched LA travelogue, part working class romance, part bizarro-world Eagles. Ensenada and Echo Park. Rock-by-way-of Raymond Chandler.
November 15, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Like "I'm Waiting For The Man" reimagined for the Pat Garret & Billy The Kid soundtrack, Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" is one of the great ballads of the 1970's: part debauched LA travelogue, part working class romance, part bizarro-world Eagles. Ensenada and Echo Park. Rock-by-way-of Raymond Chandler.
November was just a lousy month to hunker down and write 50K words, and I say that as someone who did manage it twice (a decade apart, mind you). The days are short and gloomy where I live and holiday disruptions begin. Anyway, it's a tradition I've no incentive to keep.
#pretendpanel
#pretendpanel
#pretendpanel, even before the last big controversy, November challenges have had their ups and downs. Tell me...
November 14th: BIG Challenges during November - what's your take? Good/bad tradition?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
November 14th: BIG Challenges during November - what's your take? Good/bad tradition?
#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
November was just a lousy month to hunker down and write 50K words, and I say that as someone who did manage it twice (a decade apart, mind you). The days are short and gloomy where I live and holiday disruptions begin. Anyway, it's a tradition I've no incentive to keep.
#pretendpanel
#pretendpanel
Reposted by Emily Sinclair
Sharing a special piece for my birthday featuring all 52 playable Thracia characters' flowers 💐
🎨: lemontaste on vgen
#petracomms #jugdralflowers #fireemblem #fe5
🎨: lemontaste on vgen
#petracomms #jugdralflowers #fireemblem #fe5
November 14, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Sharing a special piece for my birthday featuring all 52 playable Thracia characters' flowers 💐
🎨: lemontaste on vgen
#petracomms #jugdralflowers #fireemblem #fe5
🎨: lemontaste on vgen
#petracomms #jugdralflowers #fireemblem #fe5
As someone who lived in a large city where all my friends lived 1/2 an hour away by car, I read books like The Babysitters Club and the Sweet Valley Twins series in no small part because of the small-town fantasy they offered where friends lived a few houses away and could just walk by.
#Bookvember
#Bookvember
Welcome to #Bookvember Day 13!
Follow the directions on the prompt card and share your love of diverse voices in literature.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
Follow the directions on the prompt card and share your love of diverse voices in literature.
#BookSky #WriteSky #Books #Authors #WritingCommunity
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
As someone who lived in a large city where all my friends lived 1/2 an hour away by car, I read books like The Babysitters Club and the Sweet Valley Twins series in no small part because of the small-town fantasy they offered where friends lived a few houses away and could just walk by.
#Bookvember
#Bookvember
November 13, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Reposted by Emily Sinclair
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence!
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
Real conspiracies:
To: conspirator
From: famous person
Attachment: evidence.png
From Butterfly on a Wheel!
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want!
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want!
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
From Butterfly on a Wheel!
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want!
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want!
#WIPSnips | burger
One use of "burger" in the whole of The Stardust of Failure, in which the band is grappling with the prescriptions of their tour wellness director:
One use of "burger" in the whole of The Stardust of Failure, in which the band is grappling with the prescriptions of their tour wellness director:
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
#WIPSnips | burger
One use of "burger" in the whole of The Stardust of Failure, in which the band is grappling with the prescriptions of their tour wellness director:
One use of "burger" in the whole of The Stardust of Failure, in which the band is grappling with the prescriptions of their tour wellness director:
From The Stardust of Failure:
"I’d been thinking about racehorses, what they’re bred for and expended for, which resulted in a bit loosely inspired by Eight Belles, the filly who came in second at the Kentucky Derby and died trying, her racing spirit foiled by glass ankles."
#queerwriters
"I’d been thinking about racehorses, what they’re bred for and expended for, which resulted in a bit loosely inspired by Eight Belles, the filly who came in second at the Kentucky Derby and died trying, her racing spirit foiled by glass ankles."
#queerwriters
November 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
From The Stardust of Failure:
"I’d been thinking about racehorses, what they’re bred for and expended for, which resulted in a bit loosely inspired by Eight Belles, the filly who came in second at the Kentucky Derby and died trying, her racing spirit foiled by glass ankles."
#queerwriters
"I’d been thinking about racehorses, what they’re bred for and expended for, which resulted in a bit loosely inspired by Eight Belles, the filly who came in second at the Kentucky Derby and died trying, her racing spirit foiled by glass ankles."
#queerwriters
Reposted by Emily Sinclair
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last.
The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes.
Why?
It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.
Reposted by Emily Sinclair
