Za’chary Westbrook, author
zjwestbrook.bsky.social
Za’chary Westbrook, author
@zjwestbrook.bsky.social
Indie writer of novels inspired by pulps and comics.

https://linktr.ee/zjwestbrook
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New novella! ‘The Mask of Olympias’ is a thrilling, spicy adventure for fans of ‘The Mummy’ and Indiana Jones.
#booksky #indieauthor #adventure #romance #archaeology #supernatural #1920s
Make your verbs the most important words.
#writingadvice #writesky #author

Go look up dependency grammar, or keep reading.

Everything in your sentence hangs from your predicate, which is usually the main verb. Because everything hangs from it, readers grasp your meaning faster if the meaning… 1/4
December 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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#WIPSnips *high*
I kept getting hits for "thigh" and Ill pet you draw your own conclusions for why that is.
#lesfic #sapphic
December 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
“A Fugitive’s Guide to Silkhaven”
#wipsnips #booksky #writesky #pulp #action #1920s
December 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
“I’m a criminal, but I’m not a monster” energy.
December 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Guys, you’re not supposed to control voters. Voters are supposed to control the country.
"Mainstream" libertarians see shit like this from the Libertarian Party chapter in the most libertarian state in America and conclude the only real racism in America is against white male millennials.
December 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I tried to get the analogy in there, but it just wouldn’t fit without completely redoing the image.
#wipsnips #writesky #booksky #pulp #action
December 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be entitled, therefore, to judge respecting friendship.

#FrankenOpening #booksky
December 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
December 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Today’s challenge is “things you can say at a pogrom and at drug deal”.
#writerlife #writesky
December 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
December 15, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I’m giving speaking tests today and…Madam, I can hear you typing. You are upper management at an international company. It is weird that you think you can get away with this.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I got two on one page!
#WIPSnips #booksky #writesky #pulp
December 14, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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#WIPSnips December 14 "line"

The Writing Machine The "war on drugs" meant that people like Nick, groomed, trafficked and homeless, were given no mercy by the law, while those who became rich on him were untouched. This theme has grown even more poignant.

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December 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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#WIPSnips December 14 *line*

From A Very Whimsy Christmas, the sapphic romantic suspense, touch-her-and-die novella of the Whimsical Dreams series.

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #WritingPrompts #QueerWriters #ButchFemme
December 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“Long padding”
Nice $1,000 sleeping bag, Grace. Why are you still shivering?
The Uggs belong in 2008.

Cary Grant in THE BISHOP'S WIFE.
December 14, 2025 at 12:30 PM
As a kid, I didn’t understand why Kermit Cratchit was so scared when Ebenezer Caine showed up at his door. As an adult…dude’s boss showed up unannounced at his house! Shit!
December 13, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Bluesky is failing me. Why did nobody tell me that the heckler from yesterday's Kristi Noem hearing was a Catholic priest chanting the phrase "The Power of Christ Compels You" - famously associated with exorcisms. 🤣😂
December 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
“For reasons Madison couldn’t speculate on at 6am, her bathroom now had two doors.”
#notrealopeners
Friends!! I checked my calendar and somehow it's Friday again!!
Anyone wanna do some more #notrealopeners? 🫣

I'll go first:

"Linda couldn't decide if she wanted ghosts to be real or not as she stared at the spreading bloodstain on her carpet."

Who wants to share one??
December 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The sky above the port was the color of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
#frankenopener #writesky #booksky
December 12, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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...he'd be awarded a damn medal. It would be like crushing a cockroach. Not even a cockroach. Those could be difficult to kill. A wasp. Universally despised, of no value to anyone, everyone grateful when they're brutally disposed of.

#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity
'crush' for 'smash'
The #WIPSnips word for December 12th is HULK SMASH.

Okay, it's just "smash" but I couldn't miss my opportunity.

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December 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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This account exists to curate and amplify independent authors and small presses, consistently, transparently, and without paid placement.

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December 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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#WIPSnips - smash

Our odd-ball group follow a plume of smoke to find a fae village up in flames and seemingly empty of life.
December 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I’m getting a bit extra with this batch of #wipsnips #writesky #booksky #indieauthor
December 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
11k words deep on this section of the project and realizing I want to gut like half of it.
November 30, 2025 at 1:27 PM