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Emily Sinclair
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Author of Butterfly on a Wheel, now available on eBook, in paperback, and in hardcover!

https://books2read.com/u/mqxJJQ

Website: https://flowersofdeath.net/

Cover art by Kai Schüttler: https://kaischuettler.com/
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Emily Sinclair @butterflyonawheel.bsky.social · Jan 28
Butterfly on a Wheel is now available with Kindle, Hardcover, and Paperback versions on Amazon. Snag this saga of loyalty, lies, gender transformation, bad chemistry, and the perils of playacting a cultural archetype!

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#WIPSnips | dominant

Went with "dominate," which is close enough. From The Stardust of Failure, Chapter 5, wherein the members of Sigma S Star are experimenting with (gasp!) solo albums.
Luna Pier beat out Mumford and Sons and Jason Aldean to land in the year’s Top 5, which was enough satisfaction for me. I hated Mumford and Sons before their banjo player went full whackjob. As for Rob, his solo album just cracked the Top 20, which would’ve been humiliating if he hadn’t been so committed to self-actualizing in all kinds of ways not related to the charts. Rob had a sound body, sound mind, and sound bank account, and he could afford not to dominate sales this time around.
December 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Check this out!
December 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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you truly don't want to know how much of your modern lexicon was created by homestar runner, even if you never watched it it inspired all your favorite quirked up white boy comedy shows and podcasts
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(A couple days ago my roommate and I were trying to figure out why the phrase “crapfully yours” was in our heads and initially guessed it was an ancient foamy thing. It was not, it was homestar runner, but it’s been re-engaging the old internet video circuitry in my brain, which there’s too much of)
December 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Hello y'all! Butterfly on a Wheel has been out for almost a year, but it's about to go on sale at Smashwords (starting 12/8). If you are interested in a coming-of-age tale about a messy pop-rock band fronted by a trans guy, you can find it here as well as at the 'Zon!

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December 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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#WIPSnips | percent

From The Stardust of Failure, Chapter 11. Modern bands need to be on the road to make money, but COVID came along and blasted a crater in everyone's plans. What's a band to do?
Rob again asked us about rescheduling the tour—maybe when the Delta variant ebbed, maybe when 70 percent of the population had gotten the vaccine, maybe when the under-twelves could get the shot. The actual Rolling Stones were going out there, or at least the three that were still performing. The two remaining Monkees were hitting the road one last time. Nick Mason of Pink Floyd had his traveling show ready to roll. If these old, tottering men could, why couldn’t we?
December 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Indie and non-traditional authors! Today is the day to tell thousands of readers looking for holiday gifts about your books! Follow the link for all the details and leave a post (there, not here)!

Musicians/crafters/artists, etc: Your day is tomorrow!

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The 2025 Whatever Holiday Gift Guide, Day Two: Non-Traditional Books
Today is Day Two of the Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2025, and today the focus is on Non-Traditionally Published Books: Self-published works, electronically-exclusive books, books from micro presses…
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December 2, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Great news, everyone! Hook & Quill Press is launching today as an indie publishing company, supporting and supported by the writing community (and one octopus). We have plenty of exciting announcements for your feed today, but here's a quick teaser...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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The Moondreamers are the "antagonists" to Sigma S Star largely because they each need a foil. The 'Dreamers helped S* get signed in the first place because their leader wanted a messy band to be the opposition to the 'Dreamers' perfection, and S* chafe at the role and at the help.

#WritingPrompt
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Why is the antagonist of your MC their antagonist? What caused the friction? #WritingPrompt
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Weird. This sentence is the sole use of "snack" in the manuscript and also the singular use of today's WIPSnip word.

"The only eyes belonged to a tern making its swoops and dives in search of an afternoon snack."

From the ending of Chapter 1 of The Stardust of Failure.

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December 1, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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The top hat is a signifier of elite status, underscored by his close connection to big tobacco (corncob pipe), sweatshop labor (button nose), and the fossil fuel industry (two eyes made out of coal). In this essay, I will
December 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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#WIPSnips | belong

From The Stardust of Failure, Chapter 1: "belonged"
Lake Huron at the close of summer is warm as it ever gets. I armored up for public gaze in a swimsuit designed to flatter the asymmetry of my body and walked through the meadow and down to the shore. I need not have bothered. The only eyes belonged to a tern making its swoops and dives in search of an afternoon snack. I stepped into the browny-green water past a line of dead weeds. Still cold, yes, but tolerable. I got used to it after several steps. I waded out toward the boulder that marked the boundary between the coastal shallows and the deep blue-water beyond. Water up to my calves, my knees, my waist, my chest. I clambered up onto the small fraction of the boulder above the water’s surface and sat there amid the algae and guano, an ungainly sort of sea cow with bobbed hair and slippered feet instead of long tresses and shimmering tail. Don’t go swimming past the drop-off, I reminded myself.
December 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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If “The Canterbury Tales” were written today it would be called “The Airport Chili’s Bar Tales” and I think that’s beautiful
December 1, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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2 HONEY 2 CRISP
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Having gone through hell just to get to hell, Elvis Costello’s '86 ‘Blood And Chocolate’ LP is 48-minutes of shrill and thrilling score-settling leveled against past lovers, industry dweebs and primarily himself. A psychic demolition derby. Nowhere is his home. Hope your satisfied what you’ve done.
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November 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Thank you for hosting @sagetgreene.bsky.social! November was too chaotic for me to focus but the ones I did were fun!

My work can be found at:
flowersofdeath.net

books2read.com/u/mqxJJQ

(And at Amazon, which is the only way to get the hardcover.)
November 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Happy Birthday Gene Hillard!! 🎸💕 He may be a fictional character, but he's one of my favorites, so I drew him having a good time.
He's one of the MCs in my book SYMPATHY FOR THE BLUES! 🎸🎤

📖: books2read.com/SFTB
Retro anime-style artwork of Gene Hillard playing guitar, with white confetti surrounding him. He is the main character of S.S. Genesee's book SYMPATHY FOR THE BLUES. Handwritten text on the image says: "Happy Birthday Gene".
November 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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#WIPSnips | number

From The Stardust of Failure, Chapter 7, in which Sigma S Star are grappling with how to sustain their big comeback.
“Oughta put something on here,” Nicky said of his newest guitar, a customized purple Telecaster meant to replace the one that met its end at Reading in 2007. “Y’know, like ‘This Machine Kills Fascists.’” “It’s been done,” I said. “How about ‘This Axe Belongs to a Dying Nation?’” Nicky, to his credit, ran with my suggestion. Sigma S Star kept busy that spring, doing two short-burst tours plus a single and video. The song “’74-’75” by the Connells had haunted the back of my mind for years now, as it was one of those tunes whose DNA included the Byrds, R.E.M., and Big Star…just like many an early Sigma S Star number. Since the rest of the band was of a mind to indulge me, we did a cover with David singing lead. Lyrically it’s a song about fading relationships and the passage of time. David noted it could be about a band whose moment has gone as much as it is about a love affair on the rocks, and with that mind-set he entered the studio. The video, a moody gray-scale depiction of our recording process, ran with that interpretation a bit, showing us as an aging, weary, melancholic group just grinding it out.
November 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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really went dark for the sequel
A movie marquee advertises for the films Nuremberg in Zootopia 2
November 28, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Was compelled by our favorite tiny humans to watch the Wicked sequel. Movie bad, but worse than expected level of bad. Bad in ways that shrink the vast, weird, compelling world of Oz from the books into something small, even petty. Opposite of wonder-ful.
November 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Reflecting again on how John Cale’s piano playing on Nick Drake’s “Northern Sky” is one of the single most moving things I’ve ever heard, and also how it's like the thirtieth most historical thing to occur over the course of his career in music. A remarkably passionate oracle. Truly no one like him.
November 27, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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#WIPSnips | system

From The Stardust of Failure, chapter 3, in which the narrator adjusts to the reality of her marriage to a fellow pop star.
There’s having enough money to be secure, comfortable, to make things easier. One can make a down payment on a little house in the Berkeley Hills, buy a new car with good sound system, book an impromptu trip to Hawaii without a second thought. My life as lead guitarist of Sigma S Star, housemate of David Stuart, sometime student at UC Berkeley, had been comfortable. The world Allie and his wealth created didn’t make life comfortable, it made life frictionless. It was someone else’s job to maintain my car, to trim the hedges, to decide what I was having for dinner. It was someone else’s full-time job to maintain my schedule and let me know where and when I needed to be. Multiple people existed on the payroll to make my wishes reality, whether that wish was for a new winter coat or to have front-row tickets to a show or just to have marzipan sweets with tea. With the stroke of a pen, I’d shot past being well-off to having entirely too much money to fathom, money that allows one to simply glide through an existence that is no longer one’s own problem.
November 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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One of my favorite kiddy books, The Mouse and His Child by Russell Hoban, has a great transformation of the main antagonist, Manny Rat, into a crusty member of the main characters' found family. There are several traumatic moments in the book but the ending is A+ stuff.

#Bookvember
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Welcome to #Bookvember Day 24!

Follow the directions on the prompt card and discuss the tropes we love and hate.

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Bookvember, a book share prompt game for writers and readers by @woodenvelt.bsky.social Day 24: Share the book with your favorite heel turn. Either a good character turning bad, or a bad character turning good. #Bookvember. Use alt text for images. Have fun and interact with others!
November 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM