Kameron Hurley
@kameronhurley.com
Amateur gardener. Professional ad copywriter. Award-winning novelist | THESE SAVAGE STARS (January, 2027) | patreon.com/kameronhurley | venmo @Kameron-Hurley | kameronhurley.com
Picked this up on while browsing on my trip, and it's extremely good, and weirdly soothing. Here's how we got here. Here's how it all happened before. How we're doing it all again. How the world ticks on. Nothing more soothing to me these days than the wheel of time (except maybe a good murder show)
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Picked this up on while browsing on my trip, and it's extremely good, and weirdly soothing. Here's how we got here. Here's how it all happened before. How we're doing it all again. How the world ticks on. Nothing more soothing to me these days than the wheel of time (except maybe a good murder show)
There's a hole on the underside that you stick the blunt end of a pencil thru to pop it up
He provides a free pencil with every purchase 😆
He provides a free pencil with every purchase 😆
November 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
There's a hole on the underside that you stick the blunt end of a pencil thru to pop it up
He provides a free pencil with every purchase 😆
He provides a free pencil with every purchase 😆
Spent week in the woods working through plot of latest book. Had to work beat by beat to recomplicate it. I like it much more now. Also,characters are delightfully more fucked up now. Highly recommend book Screenwriting is Rewriting. Always helps uncover deeper structural problems, how to solve them
November 26, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Spent week in the woods working through plot of latest book. Had to work beat by beat to recomplicate it. I like it much more now. Also,characters are delightfully more fucked up now. Highly recommend book Screenwriting is Rewriting. Always helps uncover deeper structural problems, how to solve them
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DRINK WATER FROM THE SKULLS OF YOUR ENEMIES! IF YOU HAVE CRUSHED THEIR SKULLS, USE A GLASS.
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
DRINK WATER FROM THE SKULLS OF YOUR ENEMIES! IF YOU HAVE CRUSHED THEIR SKULLS, USE A GLASS.
Spouse's new custom board game table has arrived! It's very fancy and means we FINALLY have a table that actually fits this space. To save on exorbitant shipping costs, he did drive down to Georgia to pick it up, but tells me it was worth it 😆. Ordered from here: www.tables4games.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Spouse's new custom board game table has arrived! It's very fancy and means we FINALLY have a table that actually fits this space. To save on exorbitant shipping costs, he did drive down to Georgia to pick it up, but tells me it was worth it 😆. Ordered from here: www.tables4games.com
The vast majority of us either have day jobs or spouses with good jobs and health insurance. Writing novels full time has become my retirement plan 😉
Back when I was an anxious baby writer I remember reading @kameronhurley.com ‘s blog where she talked unashamedly about her day job and it was incredibly encouraging to hear that yes you could do it and no it wasn’t perfect and sometimes it sucked but there was a path forward
almost every novelist you read who's not from the airport fiction or bestseller sections is working a full on day job, including multi-award winners and absolute legends, or they have a spouse or trust that supports them. virtually across the board. just normalize in your mind that's how it works.
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The vast majority of us either have day jobs or spouses with good jobs and health insurance. Writing novels full time has become my retirement plan 😉
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Scientists reveal what triggered Santorini 'earthquake swarm' www.bbc.com/news/article...
Scientists reveal what triggered Santorini 'earthquake swarm'
Thousands of earthquakes were caused by magma "pumping through" Earth's crust for three months, they say.
www.bbc.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Scientists reveal what triggered Santorini 'earthquake swarm' www.bbc.com/news/article...
As I prep for my week with the book in the woods, the plot has become significantly more complex
Bless.
Bless.
a man with his eyes closed and the word of course written on the bottom
ALT: a man with his eyes closed and the word of course written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
As I prep for my week with the book in the woods, the plot has become significantly more complex
Bless.
Bless.
"A 2015 study even found that fewer than half of cultures actually practiced romantic-sexual kissing"
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
November 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
"A 2015 study even found that fewer than half of cultures actually practiced romantic-sexual kissing"
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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🌾🌱⚘️🌿🌼🦠🚀 #BUC2026 Impressive survival of moss spores, Physcomitrella patens (spreading earthmoss) on outside of International Space Station for 9 months! Vacuum, radiation, dry, too much light, cold. Over 80% germinated when back on Earth. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
🌾🌱⚘️🌿🌼🦠🚀 #BUC2026 Impressive survival of moss spores, Physcomitrella patens (spreading earthmoss) on outside of International Space Station for 9 months! Vacuum, radiation, dry, too much light, cold. Over 80% germinated when back on Earth. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
No better toy in the world
November 21, 2025 at 12:09 AM
No better toy in the world
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Who else is going to ConFusion this year? It's gonna be SO GREAT.
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Who else is going to ConFusion this year? It's gonna be SO GREAT.
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When I was young, I thought that when someone in a TV show or movie asked “Are you wearing a wire?” it meant “an underwire bra”
Whenever they asked women characters I was shocked at how rude and intrusive a question it was, but it did make scenes where they asked men that much more interesting
Whenever they asked women characters I was shocked at how rude and intrusive a question it was, but it did make scenes where they asked men that much more interesting
November 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
When I was young, I thought that when someone in a TV show or movie asked “Are you wearing a wire?” it meant “an underwire bra”
Whenever they asked women characters I was shocked at how rude and intrusive a question it was, but it did make scenes where they asked men that much more interesting
Whenever they asked women characters I was shocked at how rude and intrusive a question it was, but it did make scenes where they asked men that much more interesting
They are all extremely beat up 😂. Everyone has a limp or missing limb or scars. If they aren't missing part of an ear, what's the point?? lol Anyone with smooth skin and symmetrical features is considered a rarity. Modern media has given us a real sea of bland "pretty" that all looks the same
I think that this is important for why your books are often so hot. There is a continual sense that characters notice small, specific, idiosyncratic physical details about others, and those are the things that trigger attraction. It feels the way attraction does for me in real life.
November 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
They are all extremely beat up 😂. Everyone has a limp or missing limb or scars. If they aren't missing part of an ear, what's the point?? lol Anyone with smooth skin and symmetrical features is considered a rarity. Modern media has given us a real sea of bland "pretty" that all looks the same
I really sympathize with the writer character in The Beast In Me whose book is two years late and her house is literally falling apart and of course because the book is late, she's broke. 😆
a man is smiling with the words " funny not funny " behind him
ALT: a man is smiling with the words " funny not funny " behind him
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I really sympathize with the writer character in The Beast In Me whose book is two years late and her house is literally falling apart and of course because the book is late, she's broke. 😆
What makes that kind of slick beauty stand out is that it's rare. Once everyone else looks that way, it's just not as fascinating. And suddenly normal looking people become the fascinating ones😆
Like many, I was delightfully OBSESSED with that actress's buck teeth in White Lotus. She was ADORABLE.
Like many, I was delightfully OBSESSED with that actress's buck teeth in White Lotus. She was ADORABLE.
YES
everybody is not just unusually attractive, but messed with
and it's nearly all of them, not just a couple characters who are *supposed* to be incredibly attractive for the story
it casts this pall of unreality on it… makes everything surreal and weird and not in a good way
everybody is not just unusually attractive, but messed with
and it's nearly all of them, not just a couple characters who are *supposed* to be incredibly attractive for the story
it casts this pall of unreality on it… makes everything surreal and weird and not in a good way
November 20, 2025 at 7:19 PM
What makes that kind of slick beauty stand out is that it's rare. Once everyone else looks that way, it's just not as fascinating. And suddenly normal looking people become the fascinating ones😆
Like many, I was delightfully OBSESSED with that actress's buck teeth in White Lotus. She was ADORABLE.
Like many, I was delightfully OBSESSED with that actress's buck teeth in White Lotus. She was ADORABLE.
I appreciate that Claire Danes gets to look her actual age in The Beast in Me.
The plastic people in so many US shows wearies me
...it also reminds me I'm looking JUST FINE for my age 😆
The plastic people in so many US shows wearies me
...it also reminds me I'm looking JUST FINE for my age 😆
November 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I appreciate that Claire Danes gets to look her actual age in The Beast in Me.
The plastic people in so many US shows wearies me
...it also reminds me I'm looking JUST FINE for my age 😆
The plastic people in so many US shows wearies me
...it also reminds me I'm looking JUST FINE for my age 😆
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content (n): what we create.
content (adj): what we long to be.
content (adj): what we long to be.
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
content (n): what we create.
content (adj): what we long to be.
content (adj): what we long to be.
I keep trying to wind down with something other than British Murder Shows, but it's def the surest balm for a stressful day. Motives that make sense! Bad guys who get got! The illusion of order and certainty in a chaotic world!
November 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I keep trying to wind down with something other than British Murder Shows, but it's def the surest balm for a stressful day. Motives that make sense! Bad guys who get got! The illusion of order and certainty in a chaotic world!
"Did you ask GPT?" Is the new "Did you Google it?"
Live long enough and time feels like a flat circle.
Live long enough and time feels like a flat circle.
November 18, 2025 at 9:25 PM
"Did you ask GPT?" Is the new "Did you Google it?"
Live long enough and time feels like a flat circle.
Live long enough and time feels like a flat circle.
"publishing will suck all the joy and light from your life if you let it."
Focus on what you can control. The rest is a dice game.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
Focus on what you can control. The rest is a dice game.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
November 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
"publishing will suck all the joy and light from your life if you let it."
Focus on what you can control. The rest is a dice game.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
Focus on what you can control. The rest is a dice game.
undercover-in-the-apocalypse.ghost.io/my-dreams-ca...
8 more to go!
Today is a good day job day to rewrite 30 transactional emails.
November 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
8 more to go!