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Vivian Roth

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#scifi and #horror writer, sometimes together | aerospace engineer | she/her | #writingcommunity #horrorwriters #scifiwriters #sff #sffh Editing: NEON DREAM IN A VENDING MACHINE (hopepunk scifi) RR: https://www.royalroad.com/profile/804429/fictions

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Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Dec 19

Guide to NEON DREAM IN A VENDING MACHINE my queer literary sci-fi
#writingcommunity #writing #scifibooks #scifiwriter 🪐📚

(had to fix something, so reuploading)

Guide to NEON DREAM IN A VENDING MACHINE. A queer adult sci-fi with literary elements

Pitch: BOT FIXER JAQS DREAMS OF SPACEWALKING, BUT HER ILLNESSES KEEP HER GROUNDED. JOINING A SHADY ORG MAY BE THE ANSWER, UNTIL SHE HAS TO DECIDE WHAT SHE’S WILLING TO GIVE UP: HER FRIENDS, HER MORALS, OR HER DREAM--BECAUSE NOTHING COMES WITHOUT A PRICE, EVEN IN A UTOPIA.

Contains: OWNVOICES FOR:
DISABILITY REP
QUEER IDENTITY

NEON, AS A SETTING
AND AN IDENTITY

ALL WOMAN CAST

CUTE ROBOT SIDEKICK

CULT ACTIVITIES

NO VIOLENCE

THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP

HAVING HOPES AND DREAMS WITHIN A SEMI-FUTURISTIC SOCIETY

Target Audience/Comps: FOR FANS OF:
+ MIKE CHEN OR VICTOR MANIBO’S LITERARY SCI-FI STORIES
+ CASSANDRA KHAW’S DESCRIPTIVE WRITING STYLE
+ CYBERPUNK 2077 - BUT HOPEPUNK STYLE
+ VAPORWAVE LISTENERS WHO WANT A BOOK TO MATCH

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · 13h

Do uh...eldritch beings count? The Destroyer is an armored length of sinew with a jagged maw and powerful, finned tail that swims through the great void of space, searching out ships to break in half.

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 14h

Tell me about your merfolk and otherwise fishy characters! 🧜‍♀️ #WritingPrompt

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · 14h

Glad to finally be finishing up this neon book. I love it, don't get me wrong, but I want to return to my horror.

You all ready for some eldritch beings space opera?

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · 4d

Trying to decide on a cover. Thoughts?

neon dream in a vending machine cover

neon dream in a vending machine cover

neon dream in a vending machine cover

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · 14d

half way done editing NDIAVM. Right on track.

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · 29d

#WIPSnips #Writingcommunity #writesky

A helper bot in terrible shape sits in the bed. Something, or someone, split it almost in two at its center. Wires claw into the air from the gaping wound, searching for their other half; and fluid, dried and sticky, forms rivers down the wrinkled metal of the body. I’d left even more bot viscera in the helper bot’s charging area. The couple that had met me in front of their scrape had no answers except pinched mouths and wide eyes.

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · 29d

I write food as unappetizing as possible.

That or robots. Love me some robots.

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Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com · Sep 10

Just try and stop me!!

Meme
1) you don't always need to kill off the main characters parents!
2) writers: you know what? I'm going to kill them off even harder

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Sep 10

Just heard my manager say that 'paid overtime is a benefit' and I swear to god

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Sep 10

this is about day job btw lol

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Sep 10

I am begging.

If you want people to follow a process. WRITE THE PROCESS DOWN.

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Sep 10

right, but gen-z isn't just teens (13 to 28 years old), so it does speak to them

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Sep 10

I wonder if part of the rise has to do with gen-z zooming through life "goals" and the rise of trad wife content on social media. Gen-z is, in general, getting married earlier and having kids easlier.

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Sep 10

agree. Just let people make art

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Sep 10

I cannot keep listening to the KPDH soundtrack and watching chess videos.

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Sep 10

was that the (stupid) drama about them working through SA or something in fic?

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Sep 10

I need more things to watch on Youtube for when I'm knitting or working. What are some of your favorite things?

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Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Sep 8

Couldn’t make a cover I liked on Canva so drawing my own.

NDIAVM cover WIP
#writingcommunity #royalroad

Jaqs in front of a neon drink vending machine

Reposted by Vivian Roth

WriteHive 🐝 @writehive.bsky.social · Sep 8

Registration is now open for WriteHive Lite - a free, virtual writing conference October 11-12! Attendees can join four editor-led classes and 40 applicants will be chosen by the editors to receive a personal 30-minute consultation.

writehive.org/writehive-li...

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Sep 8

Couldn’t make a cover I liked on Canva so drawing my own.

NDIAVM cover WIP
#writingcommunity #royalroad

Jaqs in front of a neon drink vending machine

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Sep 6

The hardest part will be deciding what to work on. Will it be:
- the robots taken over by the environment and humans at war with them book?
- the mushrooms killing people in space book?
- the grief manifesting in the NM desert book?
- or do I do the time loop book...

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Sep 6

Editing NDIAVM has made me fall back in love with writing. I'm still proud of this book. And I'm looking forward to drafting gain when this book is done and out. #writingcommunity

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Sep 3

You have done amazing at that. It is because of you that I now feel I have a path forward with my writing.

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Sep 3

This is a shout out of appreciation for @ladzwriting.bsky.social . They didn't do anything specific, they're just an amazing person that you should all be following and supporting. Go buy their books. And Ladz, thank you for being my friend <3

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Sep 3

Neon lights slice through the night sky. Brilliant blues, proud pinks, and garish greens overlap in strings between balconies, shine from stacks of windows, and blare from signs to draw people into the shops of the towering scrapes. It casts everything in a wonderland of color. #writingprompt

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · Sep 3

Share a snippet from your book/wip featuring the color pink 🌸🍬🎀 #WritingPrompt

Vivian Roth @vivianroth.bsky.social · Sep 2

nope!