Judith Gaines
@jpgwriter.bsky.social
I write mystery novels with imperfect characters... art thieves with amnesia... out-of-work travel bloggers... impostors that have trouble lying...
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#amwriting #amquerying JudithGaines.com
With a few tweaks and the character creator, Sora might be my new time sink when I'm supposed to be writing. Happy Halloween. 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
With a few tweaks and the character creator, Sora might be my new time sink when I'm supposed to be writing. Happy Halloween. 🎃
Hanging out with Sora as a creative tool for visualizing WIPs. With screenwriting direction and a few techinical queues, it's amazing how close it gets to the stories in my imagination. This is a scene snippet from a current project, "Never Trust Anyone." #amwriting sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_68f6f9d2...
jpg-writing on Sora
When an e-art theif returns to Paris.Jade turned onto the bridge and took a right, coming to an arched entrance to a cobblestone courtyard. John Young’s reflection flashed across the glass as his hand...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Hanging out with Sora as a creative tool for visualizing WIPs. With screenwriting direction and a few techinical queues, it's amazing how close it gets to the stories in my imagination. This is a scene snippet from a current project, "Never Trust Anyone." #amwriting sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_68f6f9d2...
Love reading about art heists? Stolen art. A lost past. Jade Weekes must outrun killers and rivals as she chases her memories and a missing van Gogh from Chicago to Paris in this stunning art thriller.
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Wired to Steal (Jade Weekes Book 1)
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October 20, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Love reading about art heists? Stolen art. A lost past. Jade Weekes must outrun killers and rivals as she chases her memories and a missing van Gogh from Chicago to Paris in this stunning art thriller.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00C...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00C...
It’s a classic thriller trope- see, plan, take. The story behind the story will no doubt inspire a few new novels.
October 20, 2025 at 10:40 PM
It’s a classic thriller trope- see, plan, take. The story behind the story will no doubt inspire a few new novels.
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Make word goals your fuel, not your tyrant: pick a daily floor (200–300) + a stretch, sprint in 20-minute blocks, track a rolling 7-day total, and on edit days count net-new words or 250-word equivalents. Tiny wins stack into finished drafts—what’s your word floor this week?
#Goals #AmWriting
#Goals #AmWriting
October 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Make word goals your fuel, not your tyrant: pick a daily floor (200–300) + a stretch, sprint in 20-minute blocks, track a rolling 7-day total, and on edit days count net-new words or 250-word equivalents. Tiny wins stack into finished drafts—what’s your word floor this week?
#Goals #AmWriting
#Goals #AmWriting
April Cross has just been fired from her job as a fact-checker at an online magazine. (She accidentally sent a stringer to cover Sasquatch Fest instead of the Scotch Festival.) Her new job goal is to find viral-level ratings for her fledgling podcast and a free place to sleep. #AmQuerying #WIP
October 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
April Cross has just been fired from her job as a fact-checker at an online magazine. (She accidentally sent a stringer to cover Sasquatch Fest instead of the Scotch Festival.) Her new job goal is to find viral-level ratings for her fledgling podcast and a free place to sleep. #AmQuerying #WIP
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Time-based goals lower perfection pressure.
Use time-in-seat to build consistency: commit to 20–25 min per day, sprint in focused blocks with Wi‑Fi off, and end by leaving a one-line cue for tomorrow—show up for the minutes, let the words follow.
#WritingGoals #AmWriting
Use time-in-seat to build consistency: commit to 20–25 min per day, sprint in focused blocks with Wi‑Fi off, and end by leaving a one-line cue for tomorrow—show up for the minutes, let the words follow.
#WritingGoals #AmWriting
October 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Time-based goals lower perfection pressure.
Use time-in-seat to build consistency: commit to 20–25 min per day, sprint in focused blocks with Wi‑Fi off, and end by leaving a one-line cue for tomorrow—show up for the minutes, let the words follow.
#WritingGoals #AmWriting
Use time-in-seat to build consistency: commit to 20–25 min per day, sprint in focused blocks with Wi‑Fi off, and end by leaving a one-line cue for tomorrow—show up for the minutes, let the words follow.
#WritingGoals #AmWriting
#Sora did a great job using my graphics to create a book trailer for Double Cross. It's not perfect, but it did capture the gist of the story's theme and mood. Meanwhile, my husband is making animated cat videos.😹
#amwriting #wip #bookpromo
#amwriting #wip #bookpromo
October 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
#Sora did a great job using my graphics to create a book trailer for Double Cross. It's not perfect, but it did capture the gist of the story's theme and mood. Meanwhile, my husband is making animated cat videos.😹
#amwriting #wip #bookpromo
#amwriting #wip #bookpromo
Pitching Now! Wish me 🍀
When 28-year-old April Cross experiences an unplanned career change, she creates a fledgling podcast, pinning its success on a majestic Irish estate. Only her host is no stranger, and her stay comes with a condition: help solve a murder and find out who wants him dead.
When 28-year-old April Cross experiences an unplanned career change, she creates a fledgling podcast, pinning its success on a majestic Irish estate. Only her host is no stranger, and her stay comes with a condition: help solve a murder and find out who wants him dead.
October 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Pitching Now! Wish me 🍀
When 28-year-old April Cross experiences an unplanned career change, she creates a fledgling podcast, pinning its success on a majestic Irish estate. Only her host is no stranger, and her stay comes with a condition: help solve a murder and find out who wants him dead.
When 28-year-old April Cross experiences an unplanned career change, she creates a fledgling podcast, pinning its success on a majestic Irish estate. Only her host is no stranger, and her stay comes with a condition: help solve a murder and find out who wants him dead.
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Blank-page fear is fueled by perfectionism and decision overload. Shrink the stakes and reduce choices with constraints: time-box your start, give yourself permission to write a messy ‘zero draft,’ outline just the next beat in 3 bullets, and leave a cue for tomorrow so momentum carries you forward.
October 9, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Blank-page fear is fueled by perfectionism and decision overload. Shrink the stakes and reduce choices with constraints: time-box your start, give yourself permission to write a messy ‘zero draft,’ outline just the next beat in 3 bullets, and leave a cue for tomorrow so momentum carries you forward.
Today I added four chapters to an already finished novel that has dictated I NOT copyedit but rather dig its guts out and grow fresh organs so it can take in new life.
a woman in a hat is talking on a cell phone and says " oh yes , i am writing it all down " .
ALT: a woman in a hat is talking on a cell phone and says " oh yes , i am writing it all down " .
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October 8, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Today I added four chapters to an already finished novel that has dictated I NOT copyedit but rather dig its guts out and grow fresh organs so it can take in new life.
Thank you, Neil Plakcy for these beautiful Japanese literary terms. I love the tone and texture. www.killernashville.com/articles/jap...
Japanese Literary Terms to Enrich Your Writing – Craft Insights by Neil Plakcy — Killer Nashville
Discover fifteen Japanese literary terms—like wabi-sabi, aware, and mono no aware—and learn how they can add depth, emotion, and beauty to your writing. A craft guide by Neil Plakcy.
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September 30, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Thank you, Neil Plakcy for these beautiful Japanese literary terms. I love the tone and texture. www.killernashville.com/articles/jap...
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Love the @thelynxbooks.bsky.social vending machine at GNV (new career goal of having on of my books sold in a vending machine)
September 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Love the @thelynxbooks.bsky.social vending machine at GNV (new career goal of having on of my books sold in a vending machine)
Crazy experiences and working in ad media go together like a NASCAR legend and a pool shark. This was a private party at a NADA conference a few years back. 🎱
September 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Crazy experiences and working in ad media go together like a NASCAR legend and a pool shark. This was a private party at a NADA conference a few years back. 🎱
🕸️ Early Halloween decor or just a writer too absorbed with copy edits to notice the spider’s handiwork? I swear that wasn’t there when I started this revision. 👩🏻💻
September 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🕸️ Early Halloween decor or just a writer too absorbed with copy edits to notice the spider’s handiwork? I swear that wasn’t there when I started this revision. 👩🏻💻
I can’t resist a great book cover and ended up with three new reads from Killer Nashville. Stellar cover design across a series makes these soooooo collectible. 👏
@leyesses.bsky.social
@leyesses.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I can’t resist a great book cover and ended up with three new reads from Killer Nashville. Stellar cover design across a series makes these soooooo collectible. 👏
@leyesses.bsky.social
@leyesses.bsky.social
Killer Nashville was inspiring for so many reasons, but hearing @saraparetsky.bsky.social speak will be the most memorable. I’m so moved by her strength and the boldness her voice gives the mystery genre. 👏🕵🏻♀️
August 28, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Killer Nashville was inspiring for so many reasons, but hearing @saraparetsky.bsky.social speak will be the most memorable. I’m so moved by her strength and the boldness her voice gives the mystery genre. 👏🕵🏻♀️
I have 5 📝 📝 📝 📝 📝 manuscript requests! Today was all about combing through submission chapters to ferret out typos, unnecessary dialogue tags, sighs, winks, and characters waxing overly dramatic. I think all this hard work deserves ice cream. 🙌
August 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I have 5 📝 📝 📝 📝 📝 manuscript requests! Today was all about combing through submission chapters to ferret out typos, unnecessary dialogue tags, sighs, winks, and characters waxing overly dramatic. I think all this hard work deserves ice cream. 🙌
Killer Nashville 2025 winds down tomorrow—but first we pitch! The manuscript requests stand at 3. Who's up for a 70K contemporary amateur sleuth mystery set in Ireland? There's humor, murder, double crosses, and a family motto that says it all: In Death, Duty. ☘️
August 23, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Killer Nashville 2025 winds down tomorrow—but first we pitch! The manuscript requests stand at 3. Who's up for a 70K contemporary amateur sleuth mystery set in Ireland? There's humor, murder, double crosses, and a family motto that says it all: In Death, Duty. ☘️
— Visually pleasing and the perfect pause between thoughts—this punctuation emotes attitude.
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The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
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July 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM
— Visually pleasing and the perfect pause between thoughts—this punctuation emotes attitude.
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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Are you a member at B&N? They are running a special promotion right now for my upcoming Royal Spyness novel (From Cradle to Grave). You can get 25% off if you preorder with the code PREORDERS25 thru July 11 (this applies to all formats) #booksky #historicalfiction
From Cradle to Grave|Hardcover
Lady Georgiana “Georgie” Rannoch is just like any other new mother, balancing responsibilities of being 34th in line for the British throne and solving the shocking deaths of several young...
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July 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Are you a member at B&N? They are running a special promotion right now for my upcoming Royal Spyness novel (From Cradle to Grave). You can get 25% off if you preorder with the code PREORDERS25 thru July 11 (this applies to all formats) #booksky #historicalfiction
Authoring is hard, people. 😭
twilight sparkle from my little pony equestria girls is wearing glasses and a purple dress
ALT: twilight sparkle from my little pony equestria girls is wearing glasses and a purple dress
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July 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Authoring is hard, people. 😭
The graphic designers at Sky Tree Tower in Tokyo love a good mystery! 🔎
Photo drop from my time in Japan last month.
Photo drop from my time in Japan last month.
June 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The graphic designers at Sky Tree Tower in Tokyo love a good mystery! 🔎
Photo drop from my time in Japan last month.
Photo drop from my time in Japan last month.