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Mel Grebing - nd enby on the loose
@mslanna.bsky.social
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website: http://melgrebing.com
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nd enby on the loose
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Mel Grebing - nd enby on the loose @mslanna.bsky.social · May 2
🥳 It is OUT 🥳

Queer Assassin Romance
details in thread 🥰

order through traditional channels: books2read.com/u/3kVvoW?for...

or through itch.io
mslanna.itch.io/bulletproof-...
Bulletproof Heart by MsLanna
A queer assassin romance with a lot of spice and a hint of autism.
mslanna.itch.io
mslanna.bsky.social
Who is ready for some Hallmark Christmas meets horror short story? 👀

(yes, it is queer.
yes, it will be free.
yes, I won't bury the gays. actually NOBODY gets buried even those who die ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
December 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
mslanna.bsky.social
I'm too greyspec for this question. 🙈
It's more about what they associate with the other and once they bonded, whatever is there is perfect. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also, brown eyes.🥰

#Smutcember
lizzieblackwood.bsky.social Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 15h
To wrap our first week of #Smutcember, tell us:

What do your characters find *physically* attractive about each other? (We'll get into the more intangible traits later.)

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#Smutcember, a Bluesky writing prompt game hosted by @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social & @hookandquillpress.com Blurry black & white background that looks like a couple heavily making out. Prompt: 7) What is something that your characters find physically attractive about the other(s)?
December 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
mslanna.bsky.social
Samson & Salma danced around each other for a while by now and he made sure never to run into her on business. (He's an assassin.)
Yet here they are and he has - a knife?!? 🤨 What happened to your gun, my man?
(Follow up smut in free demo: melgrebing.itch.io/bulletproof-...)

#Smutcember
The blade presses a cold line against my skin. Even if I manage to move, Samson'd slit my throat in a heartbeat. My fingers curl around his iron grip and achieve nothing. My other hand is covered by his calloused palm and pressed flat over my belly to keep me pinned against his body. Daniel stands three paces away, worry eating at his features. He can't get at his own weapon in time and it's way too late to talk our way out of this. Raising his arms he takes a tentative step in our direction. "I'm sorry, Salma." He puts his hands up. But it's okay. This is our code for a distraction — exactly what he needs. I try to think, but there is little I can do that wouldn't end up with my throat getting cut. My fingers scramble over Samson's hand. He ignores it like mosquitoes. Well. I turn my head, taking in his profile. My head is the only thing I can move somewhat. Or my feet, but unbalancing us doesn't feel like a healthy option. So, head. When the knives are out, you only get to choose where you bleed. The words echo up from memory. This is the choice I have. I close my eyes. My left moves over the back of Samson's hand, leaving the taut knuckles behind as it reaches for the naked blade. He turns his head slightly, just enough for me to tilt my own forward sideways. Our lips meet as my fingers try to slip under the edge of the knife. For a breathless second everything stops. The breath uncurls from my nose, mixing with his. I keep pressing my lips against his which burn a line on my mouth like lava. The fingers of my left finally make their way around the knife, covering a blade that is lowering slowly. Samson snaps into life, adjusting his grip around me. We click into place like magnets, his mouth yielding to my pressure. His chest heaves against mine and his left hand snakes around my waist.
December 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
mslanna.bsky.social
I don't know. It's usually forced proximity of some kind until they figure out what makes the horny for the other. Can be a protective streak, understanding/caring, or acceptance.
For #BetYouMyHeart Tanjy agrees to help Raoul win a bet against his father.

#Smutcember
lizzieblackwood.bsky.social Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 2d
#Smutcember, it's time to talk about our work! To start off:

How do you build chemistry between your characters? You can speak in general terms or give specific examples, whichever you prefer.

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#Smutcember, a Bluesky writing prompt game hosted by @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social & @hookandquillpress.com Blurry black & white background that looks like a couple heavily making out. Prompt: How do you build chemistry between your characters?
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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caitgauthor.bsky.social
I’M TOTALLY SHAMELESS! Today, I want to promote the two multi-genre disability fiction anthologies I co-edited with @taliacjohnson.bsky.social! Nothing Without Us (Prix Aurora Award finalist) and Nothing Without Us Too (Prix Aurora Award winner)! See my pinned post for where to buy! #SpoonieAuthChat
spoonieauthnet.bsky.social Spoonie Authors Network @spoonieauthnet.bsky.social · 2d
Spoonie Author Chat (for creatives who manage spoons), December 5, 2025:

ARE YOU FEELING SHAMELESS?

Because it's #ShamelessPromo Friday!

Share with us all the awesome things!

(Please quote-post and add
#SpoonieAuthChat to your replies!)
Banner image has the same text as a post. There’s also a smaller image of three spoons that are tied together with a festive red bow.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
mslanna.bsky.social
Day 4 of my snippet Advent Calendar with Romee from #50going15 doing some applied therapy. Good for them. 🥰
black on white text with the word 'guikt' highlighted in yellow. I stare holes into the air above the table and enjoy the utter absence of people and expectations. When I close my eyes I can almost smell the safety of my flat, hovering in blessed darkness and silence. "How late do you want to be?" Claude murmurs into my ear. I don't know. Not at all, but the way he asks, implies we are late already. Guilt and shame pool in my stomach. Also, a little anger because he could have told me sooner. Like, really. I breath deep and slow. He could. And he didn't. Which, in his case at least, means now is when he wants to know. It's fine. I'm fine. We're fine. "Let's go." I force a smile and jerk myself back from the brink of safety
December 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
mslanna.bsky.social
The snippet of Day 3 of this #AdventCalendar is from #ProsAtCons.
The LI is not fond of puns it seems. 😔

#Romancelandia #QueerRomance
black on white text with the word 'shoulder' highlighted in yellow. "A pun." James lowered the book to look at them accusingly. "Don't tell me, the other titles are all puns as well." "Well." Shona fidgeted. "The second is called 'Bloody Jenny' and seems to be about vampires but isn't. And the last will be called 'Jenny Pig' and is set on a farm where strange things happen." Their shoulders slumped. "I am curious to see what the novel with the shrimp will get for a title," James grinned. "Ten a Jenny," Shona replied deadpan. "Because that's probably how many it would take to kill a person."
December 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
mslanna.bsky.social
I prefer to write it. Probably because I am really invested in the characters and that's the most important thing ever if explicit sex scenes are to work for me.🥰
Also, my squicks are popular tropes.😔
In #BetYouMyHeart I wrote a 2-chapter sex scene which I'd probably not read.😅

#Smutcember
lizzieblackwood.bsky.social Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 4d
Continuing our #Smutcember setup:

Do you have a preference between reading smut or writing it, or perhaps engaging with it in a different form of media entirely? If so, what about that form of engagement appeals to you the most?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#Smutcember, a Bluesky writing prompt game hosted by @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social & @hookandquillpress.com Blurry black & white background that looks like a couple heavily making out. Prompt: Do you prefer to read or write smut?
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
mslanna.bsky.social
For day 2 of my #AdventCalendar a little reflection on hiding who you are and maybe stop doing that from my current WIP #50going15.
black on white text with the word 'flesh' highlighted in yellow. My past self is sure that denying herself for the rest of her life will be fine. She's been doing it for all of her life already, didn't she? Of course that was the crux. And it took me several long years to break out of the formerly protective shell that imprisoned me. Sometimes I still feel the iron bands circling my chest, cutting into flesh as if the binders were hemmed with razor blades. I didn't want breasts. When they grew on me anyway, I let society tell me what to do with them. Until Leslie Feinberg made me realise I could just get rid of the unwanted ballast. It certainly eliminated the horrible double-bind between presenting appealingly for possible partners and hating each and every glance.
December 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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hollylynwalrath.bsky.social
That Hugo for poetry I spiraled out over all this year? It's happening in 2026 again.

Poets: Your work matters. There is a dedicated group of speculative poets that is working behind the scenes to prove that point. :)

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Hugo Award for Poetry Will Be Presented by LAcon V
LAcon V organizers today announced “Best Poem” will be the optional additional category for the 2026 Hugo Awards being presented at the 84th World Science Fiction Convention. The Hugo Awards, creat…
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December 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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merriam-webster.com
“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.
December 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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pasuht.bsky.social
und wenn ich schon mich daran erinnere, dass ich an der Armutsgrenze mein Bestes tue, dann kann ich auch gleich noch mal das hier posten. Nur falls jemand gerne meine Adventszeit ein wenig weniger armutsgrenzenbeleuchtet machen möchte, ohne Umweg über (die tollen) Sanktionsfrei und Zufall.
December 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
mslanna.bsky.social
‪Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

uh oh
The 'I have connected the dots'-meme edited to read: i've disrupted publishing/you opened a vanity press/i've disrupted it
December 2, 2025 at 8:02 PM
mslanna.bsky.social
I'll write the most explicit sex I can imagine. Bulletproof Heart is 25% explicit sex. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'm very picky as a reader. Anal squicks me so that's a hard no. If I don't vibe enough I just skip the sex. In fanfic that means I'll put up pointers for people who want to do the same.

#Smutcember
lizzieblackwood.bsky.social Lizzie Blackwood @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social · 5d
As we continue into #Smutcember, it's important to know:

What is your spice comfort level? Does it vary between what you enjoy privately and what you're willing to share? Do you have hard boundaries for what you engage with?

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
#Smutcember, a bluesky writing prompt game hosted by @lizzieblackwood.bsky.social & @hookandquillpress.com Blurry black & white background that looks like a couple heavily making out. Prompt: What is your spice comfort level?
December 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
mslanna.bsky.social
1 day late without even coffee...😔
I'm Mel/MsLanna and I write Old Adult romance and sff.
Will be talking about Samson/Salma (below) from Bulletproof Heart (pubbed) and Tanjy/Raoul from Bet You My Heart (up next year).

#Smutcember
Portrait of a white woman with short brown hair and brown eyes. She smiles happy with her teeth showing and looks slightly to the right. The background is reddish shades of purple. Portrait of a white man before a background of purples and dusty blues. He wears a black button down the top buttons open. His face is turned slightly to the side exposing his throat. He has short dark hair and almost black eyes, a small, straight nose and thin, pink lips.
December 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
mslanna.bsky.social
Currently stuck on my WIP #50going15 because I introduced the LI's drag persona and all I can think about is getting dirty with her backstage. 😩
She's so hot though? 👀😯🥵

My do some editing on #BetYouMyHeart until this calms down.😔
December 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
mslanna.bsky.social
Day 1 of my snippet #AdventCalendar with the word movie from Bulletproof Heart. (buy link in pinned)
Life is not like movies - though Salma wouldn't say no to a cabriolet...

#Romancelandia 🌶️📚 #QueerRomance #Booksky
black on white text with the word 'movie' highlighted in yellow. He drops my arm and turns to face me, his eyes serious as his hands clasp my shoulders. We're almost the same height and I look straight into darkness. "I will not hurt you." I glance at my shoulders and he drops his hands as if burnt. "That didn't hurt," I say sheepishly, but I got the message. "I vote we take your car." He nods and leads the way without touching me. It's an unexpected disappointment. As is the car. From movies you'd expect a slim, shiny thing. But of Darset drives the most common of grey Tiguans; it's slightly dirty with a dent in the rear wing. I berate myself for expecting anything but the most overlookable of cars.
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
mslanna.bsky.social
Was looking for a kind of advent calendar appropriate for my spoon and enjoyment levels.
Landed on posting daily snippets by generating a random number and word for each day.

the four stories I will post from in 🧵
December 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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mslanna.bsky.social
I'm already 30% to my Creator Day goal. 🥳
If three more people by The Thing, I will meet it. 😌

So, ifn you wanna help an indie romance author make ten bucks, this is your chance. Two queer romances for 2,23$. 😚🏳️‍🌈

#Romancelandia 💙 #QueerRomance 🌶️📚 #BookSky

itch.io/s/170240/bla...
Black Friday Creator Day 2025 by MelGrebing
A bundle by MelGrebing, $2.23 for Bulletproof Heart, Pros at Cons
itch.io
November 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
mslanna.bsky.social
Successfully dropped my sister off at her operation.
My plan to spend the waiting time with a lil shopping spree thwarted by the shops being closed this early. 😔
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 AM
mslanna.bsky.social
You have reached the end of #MelsNoWriMo! 🥳
Congratulations. And thank you for your understanding when my life/spoons were not able to keep up. 🥰
So, did you achieve any/all goals? Wanna post one last snippet?
A simple golden Frame on a light pinkish background. In the middle of the frame is the MelsNoWriMo question of the day. Today's question is: You Did it! Talk about goals you achieved and hand over a final snippet. 🏆
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
mslanna.bsky.social
I'm already 30% to my Creator Day goal. 🥳
If three more people by The Thing, I will meet it. 😌

So, ifn you wanna help an indie romance author make ten bucks, this is your chance. Two queer romances for 2,23$. 😚🏳️‍🌈

#Romancelandia 💙 #QueerRomance 🌶️📚 #BookSky

itch.io/s/170240/bla...
Black Friday Creator Day 2025 by MelGrebing
A bundle by MelGrebing, $2.23 for Bulletproof Heart, Pros at Cons
itch.io
November 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
mslanna.bsky.social
Almost there...
Do you have ideas or wishes for the cover of your story? Did you make a mock-up, maybe??? 👀

#MelsNoWriMo

(sorry, pretty dead and doing my best to simply stay afloat rn)
A simple golden Frame on a light pinkish background. In the middle of the frame is the MelsNoWriMo question of the day. Today's question is: Ideas for your dream cover? 📘
November 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
mslanna.bsky.social
it's now

#Romancelandia 💙 #QueerRomance 🌶️📚 #BookSky
mslanna.bsky.social Mel Grebing - nd enby on the loose @mslanna.bsky.social · 10d
Biting the bullet and doing some promo.😔
Yay, sales times.😐🎉
Black Friday Sale on itch. Starts - some time.
You can get BULLETPROOF HEART and PROS AT CONS for under $2.5.🤑
I even set an earning goal!🥳 ($10 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

#Romancelandia 💙 #QueerRomance 🌶️📚 #BookSky

itch.io/s/170240/bla...
Black Friday Creator Day 2025 by MelGrebing
A bundle by MelGrebing, $2.23 for Bulletproof Heart, Pros at Cons
itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 PM
mslanna.bsky.social
A dream for many writers: having your novel turned into a movie/series. Ever thought about it?

#MelsNoWriMo
A simple golden Frame on a light pinkish background. In the middle of the frame is the MelsNoWriMo question of the day. Today's question is: If you got to turn your novel into a movie, where would you shoot? 🗺
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM