Cassandra Jeanne Farrin
@cassandrafarrin.com
SFF writer, poet & folklorist (rep: Thais Afonso & Jen Azantian) 👾 Director, Erewhon Books 📚 Shin Buddhist & adoptive parent of 3 w/my twin sis 🍵 Guilty of writing in my journals AND my books. 🫣 Clarion West NWW ‘25.
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I have 3 chapters left to draft in my manuscript, but I couldn’t resist picking up ALIEN OCEANS to begin research for the new novel trying to coax my attention away. (Thank goodness both MSS & my Clarion NWW cohort are prepared to yell at me to FINISH THE DRAFT. I need you guys to keep me honest.)
October 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I have 3 chapters left to draft in my manuscript, but I couldn’t resist picking up ALIEN OCEANS to begin research for the new novel trying to coax my attention away. (Thank goodness both MSS & my Clarion NWW cohort are prepared to yell at me to FINISH THE DRAFT. I need you guys to keep me honest.)
he’s way cooler than me
August 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
he’s way cooler than me
Proof of life! I had a wonderful time at #WorldCon2025 last week, met a great many of you, sang sea shanties about spaceships (yes, really!), composed two new poems in the fantastic SF Poetry workshop, worked on my novel with Clarion friends, and will resurrect sometime next year probably. 😴❤️🔥✨
August 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Proof of life! I had a wonderful time at #WorldCon2025 last week, met a great many of you, sang sea shanties about spaceships (yes, really!), composed two new poems in the fantastic SF Poetry workshop, worked on my novel with Clarion friends, and will resurrect sometime next year probably. 😴❤️🔥✨
Fun things about making books for a living: picking the colors of the case stamp, drawing lil plants for chapter head designs
May 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Fun things about making books for a living: picking the colors of the case stamp, drawing lil plants for chapter head designs
Double brace kind of a day
May 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Double brace kind of a day
Will never be over them. 🥺 SINNERS was phenomenal, the horror threaded through with love.
April 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Will never be over them. 🥺 SINNERS was phenomenal, the horror threaded through with love.
Sometimes when I'm rereading the pages of my current tip, I ask myself, "Is this manuscript just an elaborate fanfic of THE SWORD IN THE STONE?"
April 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Sometimes when I'm rereading the pages of my current tip, I ask myself, "Is this manuscript just an elaborate fanfic of THE SWORD IN THE STONE?"
I’m not hugely religious but I believe in the holy trinity
April 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I’m not hugely religious but I believe in the holy trinity
📚 My latest SFF #Bookstack! I loved every single one of these recent reads, which I quite literally flew through over the past couple of weeks. My soul was in need of some new speculative fiction, that’s all I can say!
April 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
📚 My latest SFF #Bookstack! I loved every single one of these recent reads, which I quite literally flew through over the past couple of weeks. My soul was in need of some new speculative fiction, that’s all I can say!
Goodbye, my sweet dopey ginger cat, whose favorite place to cuddle with me was flopped over my writing notebook with your chin on my hand, claws wrapped around my wrist. You lived the laziest, sunshine-filled existence you deserved, but at 9 years old I still wish you’d had many more. ☀️💛
March 7, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Goodbye, my sweet dopey ginger cat, whose favorite place to cuddle with me was flopped over my writing notebook with your chin on my hand, claws wrapped around my wrist. You lived the laziest, sunshine-filled existence you deserved, but at 9 years old I still wish you’d had many more. ☀️💛
What books have you read recently that really sucked you in and immersed you? I finished revisions, and now all I can do is stare into space. I need to find something to jolt my brain out of writing mode for a while!! #bookrecs #whatareyoureading
February 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
What books have you read recently that really sucked you in and immersed you? I finished revisions, and now all I can do is stare into space. I need to find something to jolt my brain out of writing mode for a while!! #bookrecs #whatareyoureading
How a goblin says, “I love you.” 🪶👑
February 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
How a goblin says, “I love you.” 🪶👑
Circling back to say HAMMAJANG LUCK by @makana-yama.bsky.social was fantastic, and anybody who needs an anti-billionaire heist IN SPACE with a HECK of a queer love story built in, you know where to look now. 🥺🍏🌸🦾💫 Hand this to anyone who loves Becky Chambers & Mary Robinette Kowal!
February 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Circling back to say HAMMAJANG LUCK by @makana-yama.bsky.social was fantastic, and anybody who needs an anti-billionaire heist IN SPACE with a HECK of a queer love story built in, you know where to look now. 🥺🍏🌸🦾💫 Hand this to anyone who loves Becky Chambers & Mary Robinette Kowal!
Vibes my very goblin project PRINCE DARLING brings to the function. 🪶👑😏 Finally wrapped up a big round of revisions, so I celebrated by having wayyyyy too much fun making this.
February 1, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Vibes my very goblin project PRINCE DARLING brings to the function. 🪶👑😏 Finally wrapped up a big round of revisions, so I celebrated by having wayyyyy too much fun making this.
So fun! Why yes, I *am* a process-loving, hands-on creative. What about you? 🧐 Love how well these drawings capture the little quirks of the signs in all these positions!!
December 10, 2024 at 1:36 AM
So fun! Why yes, I *am* a process-loving, hands-on creative. What about you? 🧐 Love how well these drawings capture the little quirks of the signs in all these positions!!
The chapter I'm revising rn is a long one broken into 2-3 page scenes in rapid shifts of POV. It's challenging to revise because readers won't have a lot of time to drop into the emotions of each character before a big turn happens and then we jump to the next character. #amrevising #bookannotation
December 7, 2024 at 7:35 PM
The chapter I'm revising rn is a long one broken into 2-3 page scenes in rapid shifts of POV. It's challenging to revise because readers won't have a lot of time to drop into the emotions of each character before a big turn happens and then we jump to the next character. #amrevising #bookannotation
Reviewing metallic inks for an upcoming @erewhonbooks.bsky.social title. 👀 Fun book production fact: Metallic inks tend to be more shimmery than shiny. Foil tends to be brighter but more expensive, because you have pay by how much it takes to cover the full area you need, and it is stamped on.
December 5, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Reviewing metallic inks for an upcoming @erewhonbooks.bsky.social title. 👀 Fun book production fact: Metallic inks tend to be more shimmery than shiny. Foil tends to be brighter but more expensive, because you have pay by how much it takes to cover the full area you need, and it is stamped on.
Another chapter revision down, on to the next one. 🥺 I’m at 110/400 pages!
This round is a sequence of super short scenes, little POV pivots among 3 different characters over a single night, so it should feel quick unless I hit a problem that is hard to solve.
🏷️ #amrevising #sff
This round is a sequence of super short scenes, little POV pivots among 3 different characters over a single night, so it should feel quick unless I hit a problem that is hard to solve.
🏷️ #amrevising #sff
November 30, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Another chapter revision down, on to the next one. 🥺 I’m at 110/400 pages!
This round is a sequence of super short scenes, little POV pivots among 3 different characters over a single night, so it should feel quick unless I hit a problem that is hard to solve.
🏷️ #amrevising #sff
This round is a sequence of super short scenes, little POV pivots among 3 different characters over a single night, so it should feel quick unless I hit a problem that is hard to solve.
🏷️ #amrevising #sff
Oh John, you are in trouble, my friend, you are in so much trouble rn and don’t even know it #amrevising #sff
November 23, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Oh John, you are in trouble, my friend, you are in so much trouble rn and don’t even know it #amrevising #sff
Book 3 of the Divide series by J. S. Dewes is in my hands!!! 🤩 I love these books SO MUCH and cannot recommend them enough for fans of Ann Leckie and Martha Wells/Murderbot!
November 16, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Book 3 of the Divide series by J. S. Dewes is in my hands!!! 🤩 I love these books SO MUCH and cannot recommend them enough for fans of Ann Leckie and Martha Wells/Murderbot!
Revision time! I have my edit letter, I’ve marked up my manuscript and let myself confront a few thought-gremlins that resist change for fear of “breaking” something, and now I’m mostly asking myself what would make this the fullest possible experience of a story I already love. #sff
November 16, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Revision time! I have my edit letter, I’ve marked up my manuscript and let myself confront a few thought-gremlins that resist change for fear of “breaking” something, and now I’m mostly asking myself what would make this the fullest possible experience of a story I already love. #sff
This is writing but it is also momming 🫣
November 12, 2024 at 11:05 PM
This is writing but it is also momming 🫣
cassacassacassa #bookannotations for SHALE VOICES by Alistair Findlay, research for a novel. I'm mining for linguistic references but never tire of the labor history that so often comes with it.
November 9, 2024 at 2:26 AM
cassacassacassa #bookannotations for SHALE VOICES by Alistair Findlay, research for a novel. I'm mining for linguistic references but never tire of the labor history that so often comes with it.
Starting this gorgeous work of poetry and history about the shale oil miners of Scotland and their families. Expect some #bookannotations on this one to be forthcoming, because I’m VERY interested in this topic for reasons related to a well-loved #writing project of mine.
November 7, 2024 at 1:38 AM
Starting this gorgeous work of poetry and history about the shale oil miners of Scotland and their families. Expect some #bookannotations on this one to be forthcoming, because I’m VERY interested in this topic for reasons related to a well-loved #writing project of mine.