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S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · 3d

As far as I can telll, microtropes are just...things that happen. Preorder Two for Holding here to get it four days earoy! ninestarpress.com/product/two-...

Art by @tuiskuh.bsky.social

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S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · 7d

Out on October 28th! Pre-order here and get it early! ninestarpress.com/product/two-...

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S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · Aug 7

Mourning that I won't get back to these guys till December

Excerpt from hockey romance Two for Charging

Excerpt from hockey romance Two for Charging in which the love interest's comically big dick is revealed

S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · Aug 6

is anyone else essentially a cat on the hunt for the right napping spot except it's writing programs and utensils that allow you to focus for ten minutes put together?

S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · Aug 1

So tomorrow's my birthday and I am working my way through the second round of edits on this book. And if you follow me on social media a really cool birthday gift would be to shoot me a question anywhere about this series!

Cover and trope sheet for hockey romance "Two For Holding"

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S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · Jul 15

S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · Jul 5

am i doing this trope sheet thing right?
cover art by @tuiskuh.bsky.social

Cover for a hockey romance novel with one player sitting on a locker room bench shirtless while the other uses his jersey to wipe sweat off his brow. Title: Two for Holding. Author: S.B. Barnes. Tagline: Playing defense never won the game...or the guy. Tropes: mild animosity to lovers, m/m hockey romance, inexperienced older man/experienced younger man, slow burn (ish), opposites attract, practice kissing

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S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · Jul 1

Both books available for 3.24$ each on Smashwords! If you want to read about an anxious academic and a gray ace mechanic falling in love and solving crimes, look no further! www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/99625

Book covers of Heart First and Second Chance with the Text "Half-Price at the Smashwords Summer Sale"

S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · Jun 29

the only things tagged "foryou" that are actually for me are those sped up videos of pastry in the oven

S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · Jun 24

love writing wish I could do it without using so many words

S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · Jun 19

hemingway said "write drunk edit sober" but I choose to follow the cersei lannister method of "doesn't matter what part of which process, have a glass of red wine handy"

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S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · Jun 15

Ideally I don't want to have a legacy as a person/creator, just my books. Those I hope provide comfort, distraction, amusement, catharsis.

Prof Emily but Spoopier Now @professoremily.bsky.social · Jun 14

Happy Saturday once again, #PretendPanel! 😁

I'm very curious what answers I'm going to get for this one...

Saturday, June 14: What kind of legacy do you hope to leave behind as a writer/creator? What kind of mark do you hope to leave?

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #Writesky

#pretendpanel prompt for Saturday June 14: What kind of legacy do you hope to leave behind as a creator?

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S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · Jun 15

If you're interested in queer academics not trusting the police to competently solve murders, both Heart First and Second Chance are 40% off for the whole month of June! ninestarpress.com/product/hear...

Book covers of "Heart First" and "Second Chance" side by side. Below them text "40% reduced in June! Use coupon code "PRIDE2025"" in fluorescent pink

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S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · Jun 13

Proud to announce Second Chance has now sold 69 copies. Nice.

Book cover for Second Chance by S.B. Barnes. Tagline: Will solving the crime mean losing his lover? Cover shows the Hudson River Valley in upstate New York in the lower third and above that a mechanic in coveralls working on a car

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Jun 3

It does suck that "AI" now means both generative AI (boo hiss) and a whole basket of incredibly useful machine learning techniques.

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S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · Jun 3

There are two wolves within me. One wants to gain enough recognition that people read my books. The other one wants to continue being totally unknown online.

S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · May 31

that's a relief

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S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · May 31

are there people out there who can just be working on one thing? not editing one thing and drafting another and brainstorming a third and always thinking about something new?

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S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · May 27

trapped in the editing hell of my own making, I once again ask: what's so bad about adverbs? And why did I use so many?

S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · May 23

AI could never bring to the table what I do as a writer (fudging the timeline during the first draft forcing me to wade through 350k+ of material and reconstruct three separate fake nhl schedules retroactively so it adds up)

S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · May 23

turns out the downside of writing a whole series at once is having to edit it all at once too. who knew?

(me it's me I knew and I did it anyway)

S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · May 21

Sometimes I get nervous about publishing hockey romances given I haven't been following hockey for very long. Thankfully I have the basketball plots of the high school musicals to comfort me because I definitely know more about hockey than whoever wrote those knows about basketball.

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S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · May 20

I was a fun teenager to be around

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S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · May 20

flashback to the time a girl I didn't like held a presentation about how disney teaches good morals cause all the princesses are nice to ugly people and I was like "all that proves is they're dumb because disney villains are often fat and ugly and I think that's a bad moral they're teaching".

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S. B. Barnes @sbbarnes.bsky.social · May 19

I am sure there is a much smarter, less white person out there who can articulate how much worse the vibes of this behavior are in sports with a significant number of non-white players. for now time to exit the r/leafs subreddit for a few days.