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Rosemary Victus
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I am an aspiring writer and lover of all things food and romance. I'm also a mom to a toddler and two cats.
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Rosemary Victus @rosemaryvictus.bsky.social · 17d
Write 50k words to escape...but what if you don't feel like it?

This November the Lurker comes for you!

#Questpit #P (pre-order) #A #H #Humor #TheLurker books2read.com/u/bwJrGZ
The Lurker Immersive Reading Kit A red pen, remnants of coffee, creamsicle kitten. neglected writing project, confinement, copy of the book Arrows pointing to an image of the cover for the Lurker (image credit Wesley Ferreria), subscript: what would it take for you to start writing? With arrows pointing to center: About trying to write 50k words but is a lot less than 50k words Torture via reading your teenage Twilight fanfic out-loud Kitty sidekick with a ridiculous name meta-humor that only other writers will find funny It's like Misery but funny and will never have a movie adaptation Painfully obvious self-insert character
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In my recently published #novella, I have a segment about how the true lesson of #Thanksgiving is that all great writers doubt themselves at some point. It was probably the most divisive chapter when I was getting critique on "The Lurker."

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#TheLurker #Writesky #Books
The cover of "The Lurker" is at the center, it is surrounded by the following: You shouldn’t have written fanfic on the family computer Meta-humor that only other writers will find funny Use of American Thanksgiving as a lesson about legacy About trying to write 50k words but is a lot less than 50k words Painfully obvious author self-insert character Torture via having someone correct your rough draft while all you can do is watch
November 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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"The Lurker" is finally published! It's been a long road and my next project is something completely different, but for now the Lurker has retreated to my basement. 🍊

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#TheLurker #SelfPublish #Writesky #Books #nanowrimo
November 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Well it's 12am GMT, so the book is published. Here goes nothing!

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#Writing #Selfpublish #Novella #TheLurker
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November 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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If It Doesn't Exist, MAKE IT.

Aka. The motivational bnuy.
#originalart
an illustration featuring a jackalope levitating in the void with a red ribbon flowing around it that says 'if it doesn't exist, make it.'
November 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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So, my first published work releases tomorrow and essentially, any one will be able to read about just how unhinged I actually am for the low price of three dollars. 🤣
Available now at your favorite digital store!
The Lurker by Rosemary Victus
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November 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Autocorrect has become our worst enema.
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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My debut novella, which is an absolutely unhinged parable about how to write a first draft, comes out this Friday!

Do you ever wish someone would just force you to start writing? Welcome to the basement. 😈

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#Writing #TheLurker #Writesky #Books #Humor
November 19, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Self promo is my bane; it makes me feel like an immense tit when I post stuff about my writing (thanks to upbringing - never blow your own horn), but it is increasingly apparent that all it means is that I'm utterly invisible as a writer...

So, anyway.

I have books and stories out there.
November 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Right now, "The Lurker" has a perfect 5 star rating on Goodreads with *checks notes* one review.

Pre-order this rare *perfect* book while it's still perfect.

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#Books #Selfpublish #Writesky
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I have "backwards" in an untitled project where my MC turns a dark fae into a bunny 🐇 in the hopes that he'll give up on his romantic kidnapping goals. (also this is unedited #nanowrimo so be kind)

#WIPSnips #Writesky #WritingCommunity
I’m not unsympathetic, but I have very little in the way of entertainment to offer him. “What do you suggest we do then?” Jaxis rolls over onto his feet with renewed energy. “Since you like gardens so much, I can show you the flower garden in my castle, and we can make love between the rose bushes while the sun sets.” His tail shakes with vigor and his eyes fixate on my face. I can’t help but laugh. “What are you laughing at?” “You shake your tail when you’re excited about something,” I pat him atop his head as his ears bend back. “It’s adorable.” I had never seen a bunny tighten his jaw before, but Jaxis is clearly annoyed. “Stop calling me that! I am a warrior! I could slay entire armies, bend the wind to my command. I could—” “Do you ever just stop talking about yourself?” He makes a sound akin to a horse and draws his brow together. “Do you want us to do something else?” I raise my eyebrows towards him. “Yes.” “How about helping me instead of just complaining?” He tightens his ears against his head. “Are you going to change me back? I can’t help when I’m like this.” I have an absolutely evil thought, but it just might be the idea which finally gets him to leave. “No, I think there’s lots you can do like this.” I smirk while he narrows his eyes. “See all these weeds, I don’t need to pull them all by the root, some of them, like the pearl flowers, only need to be cut back.” He holds his paws towards me. “I don’t think you have shears befitting my hands.” “You don’t need shears. Chomp chomp chomp.” Jaxis leaps backwards as if I attacked his very soul. “Surely, you don’t mean.”
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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#WIPSnips from my #nanowrimo project. I cannot resist putting "tries to seduce by offering a library" into a fantasy romance. ❤️

#Writesky #Writingcommunity
“I also have big library. You could spend hundreds of years there and still not have read each one.” His fingers inch towards my hand until just our fingertips touch. “I’m sure you’ll find a few you like, but when you read a book you hate, I want you to tell me about it.” I close my eyes and he’s a mischievous rabbit rubbing his paws together, yet his fingers have shifted to cover mine. “Then I’ll read it so we can talk about all the reasons we hate it.” My eyes spring open. “What?” “I’m sure if a book upset you, you would enter an absolute tirade about it. When you’re on a tirade we have some of our best talks.”
November 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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My feelings on my book release on Friday:

Obligatory: books2read.com/u/bwJrGZ
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November 18, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Gearing up to write a sad scene where MC feels hopeless and pushes one of the love interests away.

Writing depressing things always kind of depresses me and I know I'm not alone in that. I just get really into my own story...which is why I write happy endings.
November 17, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Shout out to the guy at the grocery store who heard me tell my toddler she shouldn't be asking for "blue milk" because I haven't showed her Star Wars yet, and actually laughed at my joke. 🤣
November 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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#TheLurker makes an excellent Xmas gift for:

📖 Aspiring authors
📖 People in the throes of rough drafting
📖 That one friend who told you their incredible story idea four years ago, but have yet to write anything and you want to be a bit passive aggressive about it.

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Available now at your favorite digital store!
The Lurker by Rosemary Victus
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November 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Header text that reads, “Every act of defiance steers you into the person you were always meant to become.” A 3d mockup of an ereader with Riyati Ripple’s cover is on the left. On the right, the following bullets are listed: Third book in series Dark Fantasy Contemporary & low fantasy with urban fantasy elements Buffy x Persona 4 Vibes 1st Person & Multi PoV Classism & effects of generational poverty Demi, ND fMC Found Family Reincarnations Intricate Elemental Magic Childhood Friends Slow Burn 97k words (~320 pages) Retailers Logos for the itch.io, ko-fi, Campfire, Payhip, Apple Books, Kobo, Smashwords, Google Play Books, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon Kindle are listed. Underneath says "+ more @ riyati.ink/ripple" The promo image is yellow and brown colors, with a faded yellow magic glyph with foreign characters. Text reads as follows: “After Nimaka’s death and the older selves returning to their own time, Kylie ran from all she’d known and grown up with at North Opal Pines, but she soon learns she can’t run far or fast enough. She thought she could leave it all behind: go back to being a normal high school student, make new friends, keep her grades up and her mother happy. But Nimaka’s death has only rallied the two others, and now they’ve stalked Kylie to her new school. Even worse, they have a mysterious new leader who no longer seeks to just kill Kylie but all those she knows and loves…. and the body count is rising. Kylie can’t get by on “just surviving” anymore: to protect herself — let alone those around her — she must become as strong and cunning as Siani was, or everyone she’s ever known and loved will die with her.” Illustrated character art for Kylie Rae, Jordan Boyle, and Maya Van Daele are together. To their right are mockups of an ereader, smartphone, and print book that has Riyati Ripple’s cover. Under the mockups is the text “riyati.ink/ripple” in a bubble. There are faded yellow particles and a yellow faded glyph on a black background. On top of the particles and glyph is text that reads: I just needed the damn piece of paper. That’s all that mattered. I could do this, would do this. Yet despite telling myself that more than once in the past few weeks, I still wondered if this had been nothing but a massive mistake. I pulled my jacket tighter around myself. Outside was like a humid swamp hell, but they must’ve had the AC running full blast inside. It worked for the best since I preferred long sleeves, but outside of work, I hadn’t been in an AC’ed environment in weeks now — nearing a month. It brought me back to the question I’d asked myself so many times now: how was I going to do this?   Just as predictably, there was only one answer as well: it didn’t matter; I had no other option.   -Maya On the bottom left, there is a picture of a teenage girl with dark brown hair and light emerald eyes pensively looking to the side. To her right, retailer logos are listed as follows: itch.io, ko-fi, Campfire, Payhip, Apple Books, Smashwords, Google Play Books, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon Kindle. A plus sign with “more @ riyati.ink/ripple” is under the retailer logos. Riyati Ripple Launch Sales! Aquakat Publishing Direct Store: 20% off total order with code RippleRelease, valid until Nov 17 Google Play Books Bundle Discounts Buy 2 Riyati books & get 25% off Buy 3 Riyati books & get 40% off itch.io Bundle Buy all three Riyati books for $9.99 (reg. $14.97), valid until Nov 17
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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My debut novella comes out in a week and even though it's been prepped and ready to go for months, I feel like that's like really fast.

Imposter syndrome incoming! 🤣

Also, preorder now: books2read.com/u/bwJrGZ
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November 14, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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My thought process when I was coming up with my #nanowrimo project this year: What if Cinderella's fairy god mother was a dark fae shadow daddy? Yeah, totally finally writing some genre loyal dark romance...okay, but what if when they first met he tricked her by transforming into a rabbit... 1/2
November 14, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Hey, so if we meet at an audio drama event and we exchange audio drama business cards, that's not an invitation to add me to your audio drama mailing list. I DO NOT WANT TO BE ON YOUR MAILING LIST.
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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I know I'm not the only one on here who has had #Writesky community-looking follows with a near immediate unfollow. Yesterday, the same account followed me in the morning and then followed me again in the evening (with zero interaction on my end).
November 13, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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Why is self-publishing simultaneously extremely exciting and extremely anxiety inducing?

I swear I'm swinging from one extreme to the other!

#Writesky #TheLurker #Shamlessbookplug
Available now at your favorite digital store!
The Lurker by Rosemary Victus
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November 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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"Throw all your parenting books away — Rachael Smith‘s Nap Comix will be your ideal guide to getting through everything parenthood throws at you."

What an opening line! Wow!

Read the rest of the article by the wonderful Richard Bruton here: comicon.com/2025/11/10/k...

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November 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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From "Vanilla (with Sprinkles)": when your ex meets your 'situation' at a wedding and then they bond over teasing you.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amediting
Dan leaned across the table and angled himself towards Sam. “You taking good care of our girl the Kale-burger on the east coast?” Kalie winced at her forgotten moniker; to be disgusting and calling oneself by a delicious name –but perhaps it was an apt nickname after all.
November 11, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Today's my birthday 🎉 If you'd like to celebrate too (esp w/ Ripple releasing in just 4 days now!), there's a 24 hour birthday sale going on right now-- get both Riyati books out for $3.20 through itch or direct!

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32nd Birthday Sale 24 hours only | direct & itch.io Riyati Rebirth + Riyati Rivals = $3.20 About Riyati Childhood friends slow burn Contemporary/low dark fantasy Urban fantasy elements Buffy x Persona 4 vibes Classism & effects of generational poverty Demi, AuHD fMC riyati.ink/birthday
November 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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My upcoming debut #novella "The Lurker" ( books2read.com/u/bwJrGZ ) isn't written to market; in fact I wrote most of it for myself and then I shared some of the jokes with writing buds. It was because some people really connected with it that I decided to make it something to finish. 1/4
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November 10, 2025 at 10:59 PM