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Laura
@lauraipsumwrites.bsky.social
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Finnish heavy metal runs through my veins. English professor. Currently writing a horror novel. Animal lover. Slava Ukraini.
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It's that time of year where I have to decide what gets put away as Halloween decor and what stays out as year round spooky decor. It's difficult!
Snagged Halloween deals today and found this fun game that's like pictionary but you use a ghost like a planchette to draw on a whiteboard.
Thanks for the super professional response option to my novel rejection, Gmail! "Bummer!" with no additions is totally the right move here.
#amquerying #writesky
Same! My commute this morning was pitch black with rain and clouds, but it's nice once I've arrived at work.
Gloomy days are so pretty in the mountains, especially during autumn
Started a wendigo/monster romance audiobook out of morbid curiosity and rage quit when I heard "conversate." Made it only 2 hours in out of 18.
That'll be cute! I've meant to do that with my leftover Halloween fabric.
Love the fabric! What are you making?
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is phenomenal. The audience gasped, cried, and clapped. It's beautiful; no movie can bring forth such emotion in me like a del Toro movie.
I feel like we're connected now for having our first rejections on the same day, haha! I was given the advice to make rejection nachos for each rejection to celebrate.
Thank you so much! I'm still waiting to hear from a few other publishers, so fingers crossed one of them will take it!
Got my first rejection letter for my book! They said it was "very enjoyable to read" twice and invited me to submit more works again next year, so that's a good sign I guess!

If anyone's looking to publish a horror novel about a black metal band, I'm your girl! #amquerying #writesky
I had two of my literature students visit me during office hours to discuss Poe's "The Black Cat" and how much they liked it! Absolutely made my day!
I literally stopped in my tracks to get a picture of this pretty praying mantis on these little lavender flowers!
Every once and a while I question my career choice, but then I have weeks like this one where I'm getting paid to ramble about Edgar Allan Poe. I always love hearing from my college students about how they felt misled about his life in high school, haha!
I know I've married the right person because without prompting, he rolls down the car window on my side so I can say hi to a flock of sheep and goats at a stop sign.
That's a 10/10 loaf if I ever did see one
Doctors' offices in the south are like yeah, why wouldn't we have a bible on every side table in the waiting room?
This is Woo with his blue. We aren't sure what he considers blue because he'll kick it and then carry it around to carefully place it with us like a gift. And sometimes he'll be a silly little guy with it like this time!
It makes me so happy to see a Moomin sign outside of Barnes and Noble! I hope more Americans discover the Moomins because of this.
I just passed by a student sitting cross-legged against a wall, looking at their phone, with a whole pumpkin on their head. My college has pumpkin carving today, and this person decided that they'd wear theirs which I totally respect!
I'm so glad it worked out and it was interesting! That's great of the lawyers asking for feedback afterwards. Is that typical? I wouldn't think so because it shows the truly care about their jobs, haha!
There's a quote misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson across the hall from my classroom where I teach . . . Ralph Waldo Emerson. It's a good conversation starter for my students at least!
My coworker has the track list for Taylor Swift's new album written on the whiteboard on her door, and it got me thinking. If I wrote Orbit Culture's new album track list on my door, that probably wouldn't be received the same way. As a metalhead, why can't I also feel "safe" to share my music?