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Morgan Biscup

@vazdimet.com

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Engineer by education, author by inclination. (she/her/any) I write queer SFF space fantasy. ✨🌈📚 www.vazdimet.com

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Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · Feb 13

I write queer-normative space fantasy.

My necromancy is based on string theory, and my plots are character driven with lots of found family, and a big middle finger to authoritarianism.

You can find my currently published series here:
link.vazdimet.com/mordena-dawn

#SFF #IndieReads

Vazdimet: Mordena Dawn Series

How far would you go to hide from your past?

link.vazdimet.com

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Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 4h

Absolutely devoured this book. It has so many of my favorite things. And the imagery is lovely.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/23...

Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 15h

I have a definite *thing* for "powerful magical person with dark past who transforms into an eager creepy puppydog toward the first person who treats them with a crumb of kindness".

Read the first chapter of "The Traitor and the Wretch" today during lunch and I can't wait to finish work.

#BookSky

Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 15h

Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 20h

She already is!

Last night she only wanted help to read the word "curtain".

Also "theater" but I'm not counting it, because she knows the word theater, it just confused her since it was spelled the-ater because it was split across two lines due to the word wrap.

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Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 20h

She IS.

I'm very excited she's decided she enjoys reading now. She didn't like it because it was challenging to read the kids of books she wanted to read so preferred if someone read to her, but she's been reading me one of 8yo's books at bedtime every night and doing great.

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Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

Yes!

Character development also includes their relationship developments with others. That's some of the best stuff.

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Astrid (yeehaw) 🤠🌈 ✨ @ansitru.bsky.social · 1d

I'm just saying, we could settle this with swords, instead of 30+ emails. 🤺

#artWIP

A WIP embroidery piece, with a sword and mace chzrm, spikes and letter beads.

The beads read "this email could have been a duel | fight me"

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⛓️ Knight Chief: Claire @hereticalcowboy.bsky.social · 1d

🐺𝘉𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦

Make sure to properly bathe your werewolf partners
specially if they're out in the forest chasing criminals, finding lost folks or getting into tussles with other supernatural beings!

Zanesha belongs to @orkidebelladona.bsky.social

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Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

6yo: I love reading now, Mommy! I know all kinds of words and how to spell them, all because of reading! And the things I learn at school make it so much easier to read! I LOVE READING! LOOK AT ALL THESE WORDS!

She's telling me all about her book and why Hannah is a thunder dragon.

#parenting

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Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

Names are so hard!

I keep notes on fun ones I run across, just in case they fit someone later. Then end up using them for Planets instead because my characters are picky.

Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

I feel you, Martha. It's exhausting enough dealing with the living.

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Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

It's important to me. I did not have that privilege myself, so I try to give it to others.

Not all of them, though. From my polyam romance draft, for example. Poor Zeke.

But most of them.

#Vazdimet #VazSL1 #WIP

“My parents are good people, Mills. They just weren’t good to me. But as much as I hate it, I can’t blame them. Maybe I’d have made the same choice. Sacrifice one child to save the others. And it’s not like I've ever needed anything since I signed up. Anything I could ever want, the government’s already covered. All I have to do is… this.”

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Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

The Lawrence family is all kind of traumatized-but-trying:

- Jake, precocious pre-teen
- Caroline, ferocious dead mother
- Shane, powerful guilt-ridden necromancer, programmed to do literally anything to complete his mission, which is currently raising Jake
- Feels, Shane's murdered spouse, healer

Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

I try to write good parents.

I mean, most are still flawed parents. (Except Veris' mother, she can adopt me please, and feed me whatever she wants in her kitchen).

But genuinely trying ones.

And then there's Selkirk. Her reasons are solid, she's just... A Selkirk. It's complicated.

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Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

Me, too!

I mean, I enjoy my day job, but I would love the ability to do it less often.

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Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

I get my best ideas while driving. So, same.

I did get a water resistant phone so I can take notes in the bath. That is my second best thinking place.

Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

I love her, so much. She's very demanding, and the one person in the universe Shane is afraid of.

She doesn't appear in books 1 or 2, although Shane and Jake talk about her, but starting in book 3:

#Vazdimet #VazMD3 #WIP

<<You promised me.>>

There was a warning in the words this time, a deep set threat he'd never felt in his life until that fateful day on Loxira when–

<<You promised you would protect our Jacobus. Keep him safe. But you are here, and he is home. Worried sick about you.>>

Caroline. She'd come to find him, the one person he'd sworn never to cross, no matter the cost. Her intentions were clear despite the lack of inflection in the Legionese she'd chosen to address him, her urgency conveyed instead by the precise vocabulary of the language itself.

<<I know you are here. Answer me, Necromancer. I will not allow you to abandon our son.>>

Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

Honestly I get jealous of my characters sometimes simply because they don't have to worry about these things.

Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

In my published series, Shane is a deeply traumatized necromancer haunted both figuratively and literally by his past mistakes. He wants to atone, and has decided that raising the son of his last victim as his own is the best way to do that. (Yes, he coparents with her ghost).

#WeeknightWriters

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 1d

Q5: Tell us about your main character. Who are they? What do they want? #WeeknightWriters

Notepad that says "#WeeknightWriters: Tell us about your main character. Who are they? What do they want?"

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Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

Oh gosh yes!

But I would settle for consistent time to write.

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Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

I need more time and less responsibilities.

Also a self-cleaning house would be nice.

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Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

I write too slow.

I have all these notes on where they're going and how they'll get there and I want to see them get there and share that journey with others, but my writing time can't keep up with the ideas.

#WeeknightWriters

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 1d

Q4: What aspects of character development do you find most frustrating? #WeeknightWriters

Notepad that says “#WeeknightWriters: What aspects of character development do you find most frustrating?"

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Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

I have so many I still want to edit and bring back in line with the worldbuilding and actual plot somehow, because the interactions are just so much fun.

Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

And of course it's especially fun to shove the what-won't-they-do in their faces at just the right moment.

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Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

These are my favorite things, too!

Morgan Biscup @vazdimet.com · 1d

It's so fun and rewarding.

Like raising fictional kids, and cheering for them as they find themselves and discover who they want to be and how to get there.

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