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Paul Hayes🌈📖
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Writer. Fantasy/Science Fiction. #5AMWritersClub #WritingCommunity 🌈📖

Favorite themes: Coming of Age, Finding Authentic Life, Self-Discovery, Unlikely/Unwilling Hero, Compassion/Empathy Save the Day

Here for the calm. Staying for the writers.

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it's here
it's QUEER
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2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
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2025 Queer Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
Welcome to the 2025 list of queer adult science-fiction and fantasy books! If you’re new to this dance, this list and the ones before (see: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019) are my answer t…
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November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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From the Amazon description of MEXICANS ON THE MOON. My heart is full. Much love.
October 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
paulehayes.bsky.social
#Dahlia: Ketchup and Mustard. Squeezing the last joy out of summer.
Dahlia bloom, common name Ketchup and Mustard. A flower of many radiating ketchup-red petals tipped along its edges with mustard yellow. About 10 inches in diameter when fully open. This plant stands 7 feet tall. Pure joy in the garden.
September 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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I’m excited to announce my first author event! On Nov. 3, I’ll be in Florida at the Dunedin Library having a fun conversation with the brilliant author L.L. Kirchner, chatting about my memoir CAMOUFLAGE. Hope to see you there!

Preorder: posthill.to/B0F316HJTD
September 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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It's my birthday!! I'm 49 - how did that happen? I would LOVE it if you could share or follow my art for my birthday, that would be a brilliant gift! Thank you everyone who follows and comments, it is such a great place here! 49 feels ace btw. #artshare #birthday #watercolour
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huge dragon (only the head visible) resting in a body of water in a forest. Lots of vines and tree branches dangling down, a stream running over its head and a great white egret taking off from the water next to it. a mermaid with a pink tail resting on a rock and leaning back on her hands as her tail comes out of the water. In the background is a lagoon and some cliffs and further back the hint of a waterfall a precarious tall hill with a wizard's house sitting on top of it with a wisp of smoke coming out of the chimney. It is dusk and all the windows are yellow with the light from inside. a large winged blue dragon prepares to land on a nest with two baby blue dragons waiting in the nest for their dinner.
September 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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I loved this conversation with Thriller Thursday. Any chance to talk about Sylvia Plath and writing 🖤

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Writing What Haunts Us: Penny Zang on Friendship, Loss, and the Making of Doll Parts
with Lauren Nossett
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August 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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This was such a fun conversation. Please go listen to This Mama is Lit!
August 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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***NEW EPISODE!***

@pennyzang.bsky.social, author of Doll Parts, talks with @evalangston.bsky.social & @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social about writing through grief, the “rights and wrongs” of motherhood, and finding inspiration in Sylvia Plath.
Penny Zang: Unfinished Business
Eva and Holly chat with Penny Zang, author of Doll Parts, about writing through grief, the “rights and wrongs” of motherhood, and finding inspiration in Sylvia Plath.
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August 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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So excited to see what dropped into my e-reader today: Congrats, @pennyzang.bsky.social !!
Cover of Doll Parts by Penny Zang; Half of a woman’s face looking upward. Samantha Downing says it is mesmerizing, original, eerie, and addictive.
August 26, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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August 12, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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If that matters to you, now’s the time to act. Donate: n.pr/458sOhq
August 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
paulehayes.bsky.social
Me, checking the weather for the thousandth time to see if spring has even arrived in Michigan:
a cartoon character is standing in the snow in a snowy forest .
Alt: Homer Simpson ambles through a blizzard.
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April 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
paulehayes.bsky.social
Good morning, #5AMWritersClub #WritingCommunity

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single nap. - Americanized Chinese proverb, because of course.
December 1, 2024 at 10:53 AM
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Good morning, #5AMWritersClub #WritingCommunity.

Pulling a #WIP off the shelf after resting for 3 months. Time for the final, Final, FINAL, FINAL! edit before restructuring my entire life to create the headspace to potentially piece together the possibility of getting through a synopsis draft.
November 29, 2024 at 10:44 AM
paulehayes.bsky.social
American holiday or mid-week bonus writing time? Whatever it is to you, enjoy the day.

Good morning, #5AMWritersClub #WritingCommunity
(Photo: Blackburnian Warbler, P. Hayes, noAI)
A Blackburnian Warbler, with its orange blush and definitive black lines and speckles, hides in a Jack Pine. Location: Tawas Point State Park, Tawas, Michigan.
November 28, 2024 at 10:08 AM
paulehayes.bsky.social
Wrest your time back from the perpetual rage machine. We fed that monstrosity enough of who and what we are.

Today is the day to write that chapter, polish that query, get that agent. The creative world needs you.

Good morning, #5AMWritersClub #WritingCommunity #SkyWriters
November 26, 2024 at 10:14 AM
paulehayes.bsky.social
My authorial goal is rewarding the re-reader with an epiphany that the ending was obvious/inevitable from the first page/chapter, truth in plain sight that only crystallizes the first time at the inflection/climax.

Surprise your readers, #5AMWritersClub #WritingCommunity
and have a great day!
November 24, 2024 at 10:25 AM
paulehayes.bsky.social
Enjoying music by The Strike this week. Pulling in Walk the Moon and The 1975 for this morning's #writing session.

Line edits continue apace.

Hope you make the most of today, #5AMWritersClub #WritingCommunity #SkyWriters
November 23, 2024 at 10:04 AM
paulehayes.bsky.social
I pre-ordered mine! Can’t wait.
pennyzang.bsky.social Penny Zang @pennyzang.bsky.social · Nov 22
Thank you to everyone who helped celebrate and share the cover for Doll Parts. The vibes are strong with this one: grunge, friendship, Sylvia Plath, & some ghosts that just wouldn’t go away.

Please pre-order and listen to ALOT of Courtney Love in the meantime. 🫶
#5amwritersclub #writingcommuning
November 22, 2024 at 12:06 PM
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Good morning, #5AMWritersClub #WritingCommunity

75% done with line edits for the #WIP.
It's Friday!
Presentation at 7am to prevent drug-disease interactions.
Looking forward to hubby's birthday tomorrow.

Enjoy your day.
November 22, 2024 at 10:30 AM
paulehayes.bsky.social
Starting a petition to demand that summer be renewed for another season. And make it a longer season. More beach episodes.

#WritingCommunity #SkyWriters
November 21, 2024 at 8:16 PM
paulehayes.bsky.social
When my characters scream or shout, I use the exclamation point. The exclamation point is the context. There, I said it. IYKYK

Good morning, #5AMWritersClub #writers #WritingCommunity
November 21, 2024 at 9:51 AM
paulehayes.bsky.social
My next MC will be in his 60s and applying life-long experience in a secondary-world fantasy. Think Kathy Bates's Matlock as Robin Hood. Age offers a mostly untapped perspective in most genres.

Good morning, #5AMWritersClub #writers #WritingCommunity
November 20, 2024 at 10:16 AM
paulehayes.bsky.social
Seriously, though, what would life be like without music, books, and visual arts? Unimaginable.

Have a great day, #5AMWritersClub #writers.
November 19, 2024 at 10:28 AM
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vickiewv.bsky.social
I was a member of the #5amwritersclub over at the Bad Place and would often slide in between 5-8am, as I figured writers from other time zones would be joining then, so no one is ever actually late. 🤓
So, use the hashtag anytime.
It’s a great community.
#writingcommunity #amwriting #blueskywriters
a man wearing glasses says not late at all on a netflix ad
ALT: a man wearing glasses says not late at all on a netflix ad
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November 18, 2024 at 12:36 PM