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CoffeeQuills | Writing: ☠🥀 Toxic Bloom - spicy & Sapphic!
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They/He/She 💀 #ApocalypticallyOptimistic 🌻 Genre-weaver writer radiating happiness w/sloshes of coffee | #HurricaneWriter, #DustWarrior, & Funshine Care Bear
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May you have what you need for your Monday quests (and I certainly need some coffee for mine!)
In cursive brown, there's written Happy Monday. A small hedgehog holding a leaf says "It's dangerous to go alone, take this!" and there's a to-go cup of coffee on the lower right-hand side.
October 6, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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#WritingLifeMonthly 10-3

My desk in all its glory! Backgrounds shown are from #4thewords and the collection of small things grows weekly 😂 Looking at putting a 3rd monitor up but my PC apparently can’t handle that at the moment (so I wait)
A desk shows two monitors and a LOT of small cute and weird things around it. The keyboard glows.
October 3, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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It's Friday! (or at least, for me it is) - Sending out good luck to any who want/need it!
In orange cursive is "Hello Friday" on a backdrop of gray chalkboard. In the upper righthand corner is an orange moon with three black bats flying in front of it. On the bottom left in yellow-orangish block letters is "Find a leaf, pick it up, then all day, you'll have good luck!" and on the right side is a happy fat hedgehog holding an autumn leaf.
October 3, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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#WritingLifeMonthly 10-2 📚

1 book? Inconceivable! 😁 Books on the list, though:

All She Was Worth by Miyuki Miyabe
All That Remains by Sue Black
Watership Down by Richard Adams
Nuclear War (anthology) edited by Gregory Benford & Martin Greenburg

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat
October #writinglifemonthly Day 02 What's a book you can't stop thinking about? Build Community - Share. Like.Comment in Group. @traceyleewrites
October 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Want to know more about me? Here's a new poster! Hint: I'm easy to get 😉

I love hedgehogs, minerals, sea slugs, Fallout (the game), & steampunk.

I can be found all over social medias, some more constantly than others.

And I love #writing! Many Quills - Many Genres!
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This is a poster about Coffee Quills. "Hello! I’m Coffee Quills, but feel free to call me Coffee, CQ, or Quillsy. My brain collects story ideas more than a geologist with minerals. I love writing, reading, games!" There are things that they love, like hedgehogs, minerals, Fallout the video game, and sea slugs. There's places to find them: Twitch, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, Bluesky, + TikTok. And there are "Many Quills - Many Genres" with "Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Romance, + More" books written.
October 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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Book Quote Wednesday! (or Thursday for us future timezone peeps)! "Hard" is the word.

In Scavenged Ghosts, there're plenty of hard choices, though friendship is easy.

Free to read in KU & available as an ebook on Amazon. books2read.com/scavengedgho...

#bookqw #BookQuoteWednesday #BQW 🪐📚💙
A small blast on his left side propelled him right, and a worry formed in his gut when he saw nothing large enough to hold, or hide, a body. “Which means that if Orion was here, after, I'm guessing, an explosion, ze would be floating in view. The fact that ze isn’t makes me think there used to be debris here, ze entered them, and they are still moving or were hit hard by something else to be flung farther out." - this quote is from Scavenged Ghosts by Coffee Quills
October 2, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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#OctoberWorldBuilders 10-1: Deserts

I'm going to focus on the Red Trail Desert, though it's not the only one in the area and truth be told, not that many people live in the area.

My main characters will eventually run into this place though, so I'm happy to be thinking about now!

#amwriting #wip
October Worldbuilders Day 1 - While this desert has many large red rocks and the sand dunes are a hazy, rusty shade of orange, the name fits even if that’s not where it comes from. Temperatures here can reach the high 100s, and most of the families who live out here tend to dig downward when carving (literally) out new rooms. If there’s a need to go somewhere else, travel is done mostly in the much colder night. October Worldbuilders prompt list WEEK 1: DESERTS 1: Name of a desert in your world 2: What’s your desert society like? 3: Desert town architecture 4: Desert animals/plants 5: Myth/legend/religion about desert 6: How do they survive? 7: Clothes/dance/music from desert society WEEK 2: SPORTS AND GAMES 8: Does your MC play a sport? 9: Board games in your book’s world? 10: Competitive game/sport 11: Cooperative game/sport 12: Equipment/pieces 13: History/famous figure involved in a sport/game 14: Strategy for winning WEEK 3: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CITIES 15: Trade routes 16: Fire/police/hospital services 17: Where does their food come from? 18: Tech: Electricity? Steam power? Mills? 19: Sanitation, sewer system, hygiene 20: Who developed the infrastructure? Government employees? Soldiers? Private business? Are taxes or slaves involved? 21: Housing (Style? Architecture? Amenities available in your world?) WEEK 4: AESTHETCS/VIBES 22: Share a moodboard or art 23: Aesthetics of a town/city 24: Overall vibe of your story/book/wip 25: Religious/cultural vibes/influences 26: Clothing and accessories 27: What feeling or thoughts do you hope your readers come away with after reading your story? 28: Something special about your world Extra days: 29: Plans for next month 30: Recent character you’ve created 31: Which of your characters would you like to see someone cosplay? (Or who would you cosplay yourself?)
October 2, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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#WritingLifeMonthly 10-1: This Month's Writing Goals

Plotting:
🧩 Post-Apocalypse Community Post

Writing:
✍Toxic Bloom
✍Mazes, Mallow, & Moon

Editing:
❣ Road to Redemption
❣Thrive While Broken

And drinking a LOT of coffee 😁

#writingcommunity #BookSky #BookSky💙📚 #authorchat
October - #WritingLifeMonthly - Day 01 - This month's writing goals. Written on a cream colored background, boarded by brown, and with a book in the bottom left corner and a typewriter in the bottom right corner.
October 2, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Gooood morning! What's everyone up to today? (Or with timezones, what *have* you been up today?)

On my list is writing Toxic Bloom and getting a little more organization in before the October ride starts ☕
On a blackboard background, a ghost and a hedgehog have cups of coffee. In orange it says "Good morning!" and in purple is says, under a line up of different cold and hot coffees, "may you have the coffee you need."
October 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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*pops up out of social media hibernation to hear what everyone's reading, writing, or just having a fun time with*

(also, since I said "fun," it's up to you if you'll include what you're editing 🤣)
On a chalkboard background is a hedgehog holding a leaf, surrounded by many leaves. Above the hedgie says "Hello October!" and under it says "What's new?" Then there's a ghost saying "boo!" next to jack-o'lanterns.
October 1, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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*shares some coffee with whoever needs it*
A cup of coffee has a thumbs up in the middle of the dark liquid. Under the coffee cup it says "First I drink the coffee and then I can do the things."
June 22, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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😍 Look at these salmon chips! And the bag is cute, it had a little fin on the side! 🐟
A bad of Salomon Chips, where the pink and brown design had a little fin on the side
June 21, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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#WIPSnips Day 12: respect

I mean... sharks show respect by *not* biting you (or at least, that's how this one swims)

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity

Put some teeth into politics 🦈
Bite Me is coming out July 14th, 2025!
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A book, "Bite Me" by Coffee Quills is show for pre order. A woman stands in front of stormy beach and great white sharks. A blue ribbon says “Ava took a deep breath and readied herself for the last part. "And while ripping throats out is a respectable action, can we agree that we will talk over things first? The shark woman looked at her for a few moments, but then she nodded."
June 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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#BookSky 💙📚 - Looking for #queer books to read? I've got more than 5, but here's at least 5!

Bready or Knot might not have a #nonbinary main character (Eiksi is #genderfluid) but the rest of the books have #nonbinary main characters!

🌈📚 #Books

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5 LGBTQIA+ Books to Read by CoffeeQuills - monster romance spicy -> Bready of Knot - urban fantasy zombies -> Knitting Necromancers - solarpunk (on sale) -> Growing Seeds from Stones - post apocalypse (on sale) -> Blasted Research - urban fantasy spicy (on sale) -> Lunar Witch's Guide to Keeping Secrets
June 13, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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Getting ready to make a salad, and this little one appeared 🐛 I also no longer have questions about the freshness of my salad 🤣
A small caterpillar or worm is on a paper towel in a kitchen with veggies The kitchen caterpillar or 🐛 worm was gently released outside on a hydrangea plant.
June 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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#WIPSnips Day 6: avenue

This shark-woman wants to meet Don DeSatan, gov. of Florida. That might not be the brightest avenue for him to walk...

📚💙 #BookSky #Preorder #Reading 🌈📚

Put some teeth into politics 🦈
Bite Me is coming out July 14th, 2025!
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A book, "Bite Me" by Coffee Quills is show for pre order. A woman stands in front of stormy beach and great white sharks. A blue ribbon says “Then, since she's very publicly screaming for him in a public space, he's going to come here and bring his guards out with him, just in case. There's absolutely no way he's going to pass this up, it's an avenue stroll to free publicity."
June 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Oooh, there’s also Cli-Fi Pit too! Happening September 18th - learned about it thanks to @solarpunklitmag.bsky.social
#ClifiPit a climate change fiction pitch event in BlueSky 9-18-2025 - more info at solarpunkmagazine Orange background with a blue rectangle, these word, and a burning sun logo from solarpunk magazine
June 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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#Nonbinary Sale! 3 Books at 0.99 on Kindle!

🌞🧷 #Solarpunk Growing Seeds from Stones
🌶️🧙‍♀️Spicy #UrbanFantasy Lunar Witch's Guide: Keeping Secrets
🏚☢ #Apcalyptic Blasted Research

Preorders w/enby characters:
9-13🌌👻Scavenged Ghosts!
8-4🏚☢Unstable Classifications

🌈📚 💙📚

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Nonbinary Book Sale! 3 books for .99 cents all with nonbinary main characters, written by Coffee Quills. Top left book: Growing Seeds from Stones - Moss is feeling caught between two hard rocks, the younger generation wanting change and the older generation not. But the seeds of rebellion are growing and xe refuses to do anything other than thrive. Middle Right Book: Lunar Witch’s Guide to Keeping Secrets - As a lunar witch, and someone who prefers to stay out of the spotlight, Meray is fine setting up an informational booth in Witches' Alley. Then there’s Liane. An explosion. Grady. And secrets xe needs to keep until an unstable spell can be removed. Bottom Left Book: Blasted Research - Dr. Jules is sent into the wastelands on a fetch quest, hiring Kirk and Li as xyr guides. But the wasteland loves its little surprises and it’s going to take every ounce of determination, sacrifice, and friendship to stay alive... let alone find happiness.
June 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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#WIPSnips Day 5: point

We all have a point where life as we thought swerved right instead of left, went down instead of up. Davith, Orion, and Luna are no exception to that.

📚💙 #BookSky #Preorder #SciFi #Reading 🌈📚

Scavenged Ghosts is coming out Sept. 13th, 2025!

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A person in a space suit looks across a wreck in space to see a glowing, human-like child. The text in the middle says "What about your friend Davith, right?" "He had an elder brother on a generation ship, but the convoy never made it to their final destination. All were reported lost, vanished somewhere between point A and point B on the journey."
June 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Blasted Research is what happens when someone living in a protected city is forced to go out in the wastelands on a fetch quest, and xe finds a whole new world to understand (and survive).

I'm talking about you, Dr. Jules.

#PrideBookFair 🌈📚 #QueerAdultSFF #Nonbinary
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A book cover is against a teal background. Various arrows show statements. - What would you do if I said yes? -Xe/Xem pronouns - 2 types of swimming lessons - Non-binary & sexual main character - Trust earned; love gained The book is Blasted Research by Coffee Quills
June 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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#WIPSnips Day 4: check

There's a method and a bit of madness when a person goes looking for bodies in space. Thankfully Orion has Davith... Ze needs more friends though.

📚💙 #BookSky #Preorder #SciFi #Reading 🌈📚

Scavenged Ghosts is coming out Sept. 13th, 2025!
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A person in a space suit looks across a wreck in space to see a glowing, human-like child. The text in the middle says "I have a system with the friend I was talking about before, Davith. When one of us explores an area alone, we set up an email to auto-send after a certain amount of time goes by and we haven't checked in with our personal computers."
June 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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#WriteStuff Shameless Self-Promo (w/some dark humor)

This July, a paranormal political satire!
🦈were-sharks + 🗳️voting all in 🍊 Florida

What does this shark want?
Will Don DeSatan remain gov. of Florida?
Does Ava become a delicious snack?

Pre-orders are open!
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A woman stands on a beach in front of waves. There are three sharks behind her, she's holding a trident, and the title of this book is Bite Me: put some teeth into politics - written by Coffee Quills
June 4, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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#WIPSnips Day 3: wait

Orion asks a simple question, but already knows no easy answer will be coming zir way. Still, ze calls out for the light to wait & hopes that it chooses to.

📚💙 #books #preorder #scifi #readers 🌈📚

Scavenged Ghosts is coming out Sept. 13th, 2025!
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A person in a space suit looks across a wreck in space to see a glowing, human-like child. The text in the middle says "Are you alive, ze wanted to ask. No answer... Which ze should have expected. Noise didn't travel across the vacuum of space. But they did turn to ze, and ze noticed when their eyes locked onto zir suit. "Wait!" Ze called out.
June 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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#WIPSnips for May 28 is “want”

Orion wants to do his job
Davith never wants to find Orion's body
But who's glowing?
And they all know you can't always get want you want, right?

📚💙 #books #preorder #scifi #readers 🌈📚

Scavenged Ghosts is coming out Sept. 13th, 2025!
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A person in a space suit looks across a wreck in space to see a glowing, human-like child. The text in the middle says ""Or instead of finding you, we’ll be adding your body to the collection," sighed Davith. "Which I truly never want to do, so please be careful." "You know I will." "No, I know you’ll do everything for the job.”
May 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Necromancy exists. Heck, there are 2 necromancers at the care home Quinn manages. At the same time, ze's not prepared for a zombie apocalypse—or needing to work with thorns-in-zir-side Bryce & Mia (zir residents' grandchildren) to save the town. If possible.

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Knitting Necromancers - yarned and dangerous by Coffee Quills. A zombie hand is holding a ball of pastel yarn and there are knitted skulls in the background.
May 28, 2025 at 4:21 AM