C. W. Maurer
@cwmaurer.bsky.social
Author of epic fantasy and low-tech sci-fi. Engineer, coach, gamer, mom, and hobby collector in New England.
Fueled by tea, video game soundtracks, and dog snuggles.
(She/her)
Fueled by tea, video game soundtracks, and dog snuggles.
(She/her)
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C. W. Maurer
@cwmaurer.bsky.social
· Jun 25
Excited to share the illustration by Ben Falco that will accompany my story, "Riftwork" in the anthology Brave New Girls: Tales of Girls Who Invent and Imagine.
Get it July 9!
Ben captured the tone of the story so much better than my aphantasia-brain could have imagined, and I love it!
Get it July 9!
Ben captured the tone of the story so much better than my aphantasia-brain could have imagined, and I love it!
Temperatures were slightly above freezing, so we went to see what was going on at the beach. (Got to see many dogs out for walkies, which is always nice)
Winter coastlines are quite something.
Winter coastlines are quite something.
February 14, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Temperatures were slightly above freezing, so we went to see what was going on at the beach. (Got to see many dogs out for walkies, which is always nice)
Winter coastlines are quite something.
Winter coastlines are quite something.
I've been part of this winter's cohort, and it's been such a great experience.
Would highly recommend!
Would highly recommend!
Only a few times a year, I take on a small group of writers to learn and improve the craft of writing short stories for three months. Applications for my April-June cohort are open through March 5. Learn more and apply to join the cohort here: maryrobinettekowal.com/short-story-...
February 14, 2026 at 3:17 PM
I've been part of this winter's cohort, and it's been such a great experience.
Would highly recommend!
Would highly recommend!
Just really enjoying the amount of overlap there apparently is between the @scalzi.com and @neorsd.org fan bases.
Am I surprised? No.
Is this venn diagram crossover likely to get more circular as the conversation goes on? Probably.
Am I surprised? No.
Is this venn diagram crossover likely to get more circular as the conversation goes on? Probably.
Someone just finished writing a novel.
Spoiler: It was me.
It's called "Monsters of Ohio," it's my 20th novel, and it'll be out in November.
I hope you'll like it.
I'm very tired.
Spoiler: It was me.
It's called "Monsters of Ohio," it's my 20th novel, and it'll be out in November.
I hope you'll like it.
I'm very tired.
February 9, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Just really enjoying the amount of overlap there apparently is between the @scalzi.com and @neorsd.org fan bases.
Am I surprised? No.
Is this venn diagram crossover likely to get more circular as the conversation goes on? Probably.
Am I surprised? No.
Is this venn diagram crossover likely to get more circular as the conversation goes on? Probably.
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We are playing Dredge for Gaming Club in March. Make sure to get this great game on sale now to be ready! :)
DREDGE is $9.99 on US eShop buff.ly/fOXpAcR
US PSN buff.ly/leZNMwL
(Steam) Humble buff.ly/vWCVJsq
GOG buff.ly/o0PJsf8
also on PS+ Extra/Game Pass Premium
US PSN buff.ly/leZNMwL
(Steam) Humble buff.ly/vWCVJsq
GOG buff.ly/o0PJsf8
also on PS+ Extra/Game Pass Premium
February 8, 2026 at 7:54 PM
We are playing Dredge for Gaming Club in March. Make sure to get this great game on sale now to be ready! :)
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not a molecule of executive functioning to be found in my entire being today
January 30, 2026 at 4:33 PM
not a molecule of executive functioning to be found in my entire being today
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🎮 FREE STEAM GAME 🎮
Thanks to @heavylunchco.bsky.social -- I’m giving away a Hermit and Pig Steam key 🐷
How to enter:
✔ Follow me
✔ Follow @heavylunchco.bsky.social
✔ Like this post
✔ Comment 🐷
🔄️Reposts are not mandatory but encouraged!
⏰ Winner picked Feb 5. Good luck!
Thanks to @heavylunchco.bsky.social -- I’m giving away a Hermit and Pig Steam key 🐷
How to enter:
✔ Follow me
✔ Follow @heavylunchco.bsky.social
✔ Like this post
✔ Comment 🐷
🔄️Reposts are not mandatory but encouraged!
⏰ Winner picked Feb 5. Good luck!
January 30, 2026 at 9:12 AM
🎮 FREE STEAM GAME 🎮
Thanks to @heavylunchco.bsky.social -- I’m giving away a Hermit and Pig Steam key 🐷
How to enter:
✔ Follow me
✔ Follow @heavylunchco.bsky.social
✔ Like this post
✔ Comment 🐷
🔄️Reposts are not mandatory but encouraged!
⏰ Winner picked Feb 5. Good luck!
Thanks to @heavylunchco.bsky.social -- I’m giving away a Hermit and Pig Steam key 🐷
How to enter:
✔ Follow me
✔ Follow @heavylunchco.bsky.social
✔ Like this post
✔ Comment 🐷
🔄️Reposts are not mandatory but encouraged!
⏰ Winner picked Feb 5. Good luck!
Our tree has become a "How many bluebirds can you find?" puzzle while the little puffballs wait for me to refresh the mealworm supply.
January 28, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Our tree has become a "How many bluebirds can you find?" puzzle while the little puffballs wait for me to refresh the mealworm supply.
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If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
Doesn’t matter if it’s awful
Doesn’t matter if it’s nice
If it confirms your bias, check it twice!
::clap clap::
::clap clap::
If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
Doesn’t matter if it’s awful
Doesn’t matter if it’s nice
If it confirms your bias, check it twice!
::clap clap::
if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake
::clap clap::
if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake
::clap clap::
look, we’ve all been fooled before
when a deep-fake makes us sore
but kindly doublecheck your source, it might be fake
::clap clap::
::clap clap::
if the rage-bait works too well it might be fake
::clap clap::
look, we’ve all been fooled before
when a deep-fake makes us sore
but kindly doublecheck your source, it might be fake
::clap clap::
August 18, 2025 at 6:08 AM
If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
Doesn’t matter if it’s awful
Doesn’t matter if it’s nice
If it confirms your bias, check it twice!
::clap clap::
::clap clap::
If you want to believe it, check it twice
::clap clap::
Doesn’t matter if it’s awful
Doesn’t matter if it’s nice
If it confirms your bias, check it twice!
::clap clap::
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NWS still talking 12-18 in. for us. BUT, they now add: "And given how dynamic the system is, thundersnow is a possibility, cue the excitement!"
We'll do one better! We'll cue Jim Cantore reporting from Plymouth in 2015:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezcl...
So we're still at 4 Slices/High.
We'll do one better! We'll cue Jim Cantore reporting from Plymouth in 2015:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezcl...
So we're still at 4 Slices/High.
Thundersnow! - Songify This
YouTube video by schmoyoho
www.youtube.com
January 24, 2026 at 11:37 PM
NWS still talking 12-18 in. for us. BUT, they now add: "And given how dynamic the system is, thundersnow is a possibility, cue the excitement!"
We'll do one better! We'll cue Jim Cantore reporting from Plymouth in 2015:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezcl...
So we're still at 4 Slices/High.
We'll do one better! We'll cue Jim Cantore reporting from Plymouth in 2015:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezcl...
So we're still at 4 Slices/High.
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in a world of social networks churning with artificial slop trends, we prefer to be your social network trusted for actual slop treatment.
January 22, 2026 at 2:34 PM
in a world of social networks churning with artificial slop trends, we prefer to be your social network trusted for actual slop treatment.
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![Comic. Standard 16-Part Epoxy. [Epoxy applicator with multiple labeled chambers in different colors: resin; hardener; filler, softener; rosin; stuff that bonds permanently to skin and nothing else; stuff that will turn white and crack over a few days, for decorative appearance; placebo; minced duct tape; acetone Fragrance; powdered bar magnets; polyethylvinylesteracetate; 2-polyethylvinylesteracetate; salt and pepper to taste; blood sample from the Gorilla Glue gorillas; stuff that bonds to every known material except yours]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiamknds4yiai44hrtq3eiau3fqxjfzufclkb64uaxdnnig5klsck4@jpeg)
January 15, 2026 at 8:37 PM
As a chronic overthinker, honestly this could be a shift in a helpful direction 😂
January 1, 2026 at 9:53 PM
As a chronic overthinker, honestly this could be a shift in a helpful direction 😂
No cheating, reskeet with the most recent photo of your pet.
Most animals when its 18*F out: "Nope."
Appa: living his best life.
Most animals when its 18*F out: "Nope."
Appa: living his best life.
January 1, 2026 at 8:55 PM
No cheating, reskeet with the most recent photo of your pet.
Most animals when its 18*F out: "Nope."
Appa: living his best life.
Most animals when its 18*F out: "Nope."
Appa: living his best life.
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Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
insider-gaming.com/indie-game-a...
insider-gaming.com/indie-game-a...
Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
Sandfall Interactive and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been stripped of its wins at The Indie Game Awards due to use of generative AI.
insider-gaming.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
insider-gaming.com/indie-game-a...
insider-gaming.com/indie-game-a...
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A thread of how to say “nobody asked you” from around the world, starting with this one…
A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”
A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”
December 17, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A thread of how to say “nobody asked you” from around the world, starting with this one…
A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”
A Lithuanian way of telling someone to mind their own business is ne tavo kiaulės, ne tavo pupos. It means “not your pigs, not your beans.”
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*walking in a winter wonderland*
ME: where's bluebird?
BIRD: gone
ME: w... who are you?
*bird looks around shiftily*
BIRD: I'm new bird
ME: where's bluebird?
BIRD: gone
ME: w... who are you?
*bird looks around shiftily*
BIRD: I'm new bird
December 16, 2023 at 4:33 PM
*walking in a winter wonderland*
ME: where's bluebird?
BIRD: gone
ME: w... who are you?
*bird looks around shiftily*
BIRD: I'm new bird
ME: where's bluebird?
BIRD: gone
ME: w... who are you?
*bird looks around shiftily*
BIRD: I'm new bird
He's not sleeping. He's just resting his eyes.
November 20, 2025 at 4:09 PM
He's not sleeping. He's just resting his eyes.
I get to celebrate Caturday this week, as we had one of the neighborhood wanderers stop by to scope out the small rodent situation in our upper yard.
The dog was...not pleased, so I went out to shoo the kitty away, only to have him/her rub against my legs and flop down for scritches.
#caturday
The dog was...not pleased, so I went out to shoo the kitty away, only to have him/her rub against my legs and flop down for scritches.
#caturday
November 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I get to celebrate Caturday this week, as we had one of the neighborhood wanderers stop by to scope out the small rodent situation in our upper yard.
The dog was...not pleased, so I went out to shoo the kitty away, only to have him/her rub against my legs and flop down for scritches.
#caturday
The dog was...not pleased, so I went out to shoo the kitty away, only to have him/her rub against my legs and flop down for scritches.
#caturday
Traditional Halloween Eldritch Horror game was delayed a week because of kid activities, but snacks and tea have been served, and it's time to watch the world fall into chaos. But the board game version, so it's fun Lovecraftian chaos.
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Traditional Halloween Eldritch Horror game was delayed a week because of kid activities, but snacks and tea have been served, and it's time to watch the world fall into chaos. But the board game version, so it's fun Lovecraftian chaos.
959 semi-coherent words for my NaNo day by 7AM, brought to you by my brain refusing to sleep from 2-5AM.
Im sure those will be fine when I go back to look at them. In the meantime, I am taking a nap.
Im sure those will be fine when I go back to look at them. In the meantime, I am taking a nap.
November 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
959 semi-coherent words for my NaNo day by 7AM, brought to you by my brain refusing to sleep from 2-5AM.
Im sure those will be fine when I go back to look at them. In the meantime, I am taking a nap.
Im sure those will be fine when I go back to look at them. In the meantime, I am taking a nap.
A plus of living in an old New England town is that the mill buildings house all sorts of fun businesses and workspaces. Like the women's club/co-work/makerspace I got around to joining so that I can write without laundry threatening from the next room.
10/10 Autumn sky through old window views.
10/10 Autumn sky through old window views.
October 31, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A plus of living in an old New England town is that the mill buildings house all sorts of fun businesses and workspaces. Like the women's club/co-work/makerspace I got around to joining so that I can write without laundry threatening from the next room.
10/10 Autumn sky through old window views.
10/10 Autumn sky through old window views.
My wind ensemble does a costumed fall concert every year, which I love because I *usually* go with slightly obscure nerdy costumes, and they're more likely to recognize them in that crowd.
I don't think that will be an issue this year.
This year we're gonna be ✨️Golden✨️
💃🎶
I don't think that will be an issue this year.
This year we're gonna be ✨️Golden✨️
💃🎶
October 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
My wind ensemble does a costumed fall concert every year, which I love because I *usually* go with slightly obscure nerdy costumes, and they're more likely to recognize them in that crowd.
I don't think that will be an issue this year.
This year we're gonna be ✨️Golden✨️
💃🎶
I don't think that will be an issue this year.
This year we're gonna be ✨️Golden✨️
💃🎶
Dear house sparrows currently fighting over the nest box in our yard.
Maybe late October in New England is not the most reasonable time/place for this?
Best of luck to ya, though.
Maybe late October in New England is not the most reasonable time/place for this?
Best of luck to ya, though.
October 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Dear house sparrows currently fighting over the nest box in our yard.
Maybe late October in New England is not the most reasonable time/place for this?
Best of luck to ya, though.
Maybe late October in New England is not the most reasonable time/place for this?
Best of luck to ya, though.
A little behind schedule this year, but we finally started day 1 of our annual Over the Garden Wall watch yesterday.
It's the kid's second time watching it, and it's so fun to see him recognize things he didn't notice the first time or to get excited about scenes/quotes he knows are coming.
It's the kid's second time watching it, and it's so fun to see him recognize things he didn't notice the first time or to get excited about scenes/quotes he knows are coming.
October 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A little behind schedule this year, but we finally started day 1 of our annual Over the Garden Wall watch yesterday.
It's the kid's second time watching it, and it's so fun to see him recognize things he didn't notice the first time or to get excited about scenes/quotes he knows are coming.
It's the kid's second time watching it, and it's so fun to see him recognize things he didn't notice the first time or to get excited about scenes/quotes he knows are coming.
I fear I reveal my roots by saying taylor ham, egg, and cheese on a plain bagel; salt, pepper, no ketchup
This whole post is gold if you are in the subcategory of humans who have strong feelings about bagels.
This whole post is gold if you are in the subcategory of humans who have strong feelings about bagels.
Tell me your bagel order and I will tell you *based on NYC cultural expectations* if you have won or lost your election for political office in NYC.
One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.
October 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I fear I reveal my roots by saying taylor ham, egg, and cheese on a plain bagel; salt, pepper, no ketchup
This whole post is gold if you are in the subcategory of humans who have strong feelings about bagels.
This whole post is gold if you are in the subcategory of humans who have strong feelings about bagels.