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Everett Linden Clark [he/him]

@everettwrites.bsky.social

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Tired, trans autistic oddball writing SF/F stories about others like him. Loves animals. NO AI. The (2nd!) slowest cyclist in Minneapolis. 98k/100k on adult sci-fi dystopia, HUMAN-ISH. 70k/100k on adult solarpunk fantasy, THE KING IN THE MOUNTAIN.

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Everett Linden Clark [he/him] @everettwrites.bsky.social · Jul 13

They were made to be expendable. Obedient. To free the human worker forever.

They're not what they were made to be.

Adler, a human-dog hybrid, has lost all hope of escaping the retraining facility he calls home. Finn, a captured feral, may just change his mind.

#Bluepit📖 #A #SF #W #OV #LGBT #TR

a moodboard featuring images of: three people cuddling intimately, three people holding hands in the dark, a dimly lit hallway with illuminated eyes looking in from the darkness, someone sitting at the bottom of a stairwell in despair, sharp smiling teeth, someone's arm in medical restraints, bloodied hands, a paper sign saying "OPEN YOUR EYES THIS IS THE REVOLUTION" and an image of sharp teeth that says "LET ME BARE MY TEETH FOR YOU". The text on top of the images reads "THE MERCY OF GODS meets DOGS OF WAR". "HUMAN-ISH", "an adult sci-fi dystopia about oppression, passion, and letting people in so you can all break out"

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Everett Linden Clark [he/him] @everettwrites.bsky.social · 12h

Me every year as soon as it gets under 50°F and rainy outside:

A still image of George Costanza (Jason Alexander) from Seinfeld with a firm, resolute expression on his face. The caption reads, "I gotta focus. I'm shifting into soup mode."

Everett Linden Clark [he/him] @everettwrites.bsky.social · 14h

Also gonna do the tiny idea I'll be Pounding Through (get it?) for writing month next month. Current working title is just "Healer Story"

"Pounding The Cute Burned Out Healer Before His Ex Does, Because His Ex Is Literal Death Incarnate & I'm Scared"

#LGBTQWriteAThon #WriteSky #WritingCommunity

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 17h

#LGBTQWriteAThon October 21:

It's time for Tingler your title! Rename your book in the style of a Chuck Tingle tingler! Have fun, and create a cover if you feel like it, too!

#writesky #queerwriters #writers #lgbtqwriters

Image: a burnt orange background with two jack o' lanterns. Text: #LGBTQWriteAThon Use the tag and follow the feed on BlueSky! Tag @LGBTQWriteAThon in photos on Instagram! October 21: Tingler your title. BlueSky: @amaralynn @rebeccafrostwrites.com Instagram: @LGBTQWriteAThon @amarajlynn @krakengoddess

Everett Linden Clark [he/him] @everettwrites.bsky.social · 14h

Screaming with delight at this, omg

KitM: "Pounded By The Hot Vampire King Because I'm The Physical Representation of The Cyclical Nature of Human Progress and Self-Destruction, And He Also Pounds Me With His Teeth At The Same Time Because I'm SUPER Into That"

#QueerWriters #WriteSky

AmaraJLynn💎🌌🌺GEMS & STAR FLOWERS coming soon! @amaralynn.bsky.social · 17h

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Fishtopher and Friends @fishtopher.bsky.social · 1d

happy birthday to this little guy!! 3 years ago is fishtopher's intake/rescue date

Fishtopher, a classic brown tabby cat with green eyes, sits and looks out above the camera. He looks happy and his eyes have a bit of a sparkle in them.

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SarahSaysWrite @sarahsayswrite.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite quote about writing.

New stories are like first dates, first discoveries, first expeditions, first moments of waking up.

And we get to experience them whenever we please, as often as we please. It’s a pretty good gig.

#5amwritersclub #WritingCommunity

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Everett Linden Clark [he/him] @everettwrites.bsky.social · 1d

The worst part of the chronic pain cycle is definitely the part that comes immediately after that brief (but potent!) period where you're like "haha, what chronic pain? I'm doing amazing!! I can do anything!" 🫠 I know that feeling well.

Still so sorry to hear, friend. 🫂 I hope it passes soon!

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 2d

Failure to return the shopping cart to one of the cart returns if you are able is a sign of someone who does not value the social contract.

Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 5d

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Everett Linden Clark [he/him] @everettwrites.bsky.social · 2d

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky

"What do you want to achieve with your writing?"

What's that old tumblr post -- the point of art is not to be great but to make it apparent that there's something deeply wrong with you? Yeah. That. 😂

Everett Linden Clark [he/him] @everettwrites.bsky.social · 4d

Phew... You know times are hard when you're kicking yourself for a $40 purchase you made last year. 🥴

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Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔 @voicesofvalhoon.bsky.social · 4d

Today’s the day folks! Songs of Broken Bells is officially out in the world for your enjoyment.

I hope you guys love it as much as I do 💕

Universal link: books2read.com/songsofbrokenbells
Itch: voicesofvalhoon.itch.io/songs-of-bro...
Discounted (slightly damaged) copies: payhip.com/b/6fowY

Aila is cradling an orb of rainbow colored light in her hands. She has pink skin, magenta hair in braids, small horns, and opalescent feathered wings. She’s wearing a white dress with a red scarf draped over one shoulder. Text at the top of the image says “Songs of Broken Bells Releases today!”
Text at the bottoms says “If you’d need me to, I will give you every ounce of faith within my soul.”

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Everett Linden Clark [he/him] @everettwrites.bsky.social · 7d

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky

Me, at me: No. Everett, no. I don't CARE how much you like that shiny new idea, you've got two active projects and one backburner project right now. You can't lose focus chasing after something new, listen to me--

Me: ...

A screenshot from Scrivener, with the 'new project' option highlighted...

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Kat Farrington, Esq. @katfarrington.bsky.social · 8d

We need to bring back the Horse Book genre, and also the accompanying section in the library with the little yellow horsey stickers

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 8d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Everett Linden Clark [he/him] @everettwrites.bsky.social · 7d

I absolutely refuse to feel bad for not finishing a book, even if I put it down early on. Life is too short for me to keep plowing through a forgettable story with characters I don't care about just on principle. Grab me in 1-2 chapters or I'm putting the book back on the shelf.

#WritingCommunity

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 8d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Everett Linden Clark [he/him] @everettwrites.bsky.social · 8d

The greatest trick the coven in The King in the Mountain ever pulled was living rent-free in the protagonist's head from day 1.

Headed by former-king Nicholas, the coven is comprised of his former members of court and dearest friends. They're a tight-knit found family by the time Silas meets them.

When he thought he wasn’t listening, that other man in the (Coven? Family? Polycule?) house referred to him as his majesty — true. Could just be a weird sex thing. Could also be one of the hallmarks of a coven, relaying respect and deference to the head, oftentimes the maker of the other members.

Whatever it is or isn’t, his gut tells him something very strange and very interesting is going on there — true. But Silas hates trusting his gut. Making life decisions based on feeling over evidence is a fool’s way to live.

Connor swallows audibly. “You’re really lost in thought over there. What are you thinking about?”

“I met someone,” Silas says.

Connor’s eyes widen. “You did? That’s great! What’s their name?”

Rudely jerked from his train of thought, it takes Silas a few heartbeats to realize that Connor thinks he means he met someone of romantic interest. Hence the excitement, which he now dutifully tries to smother. “It’s not like that. I think he’s a vampire.”

The devastation that visibly washes over his best friend in the ensuing seconds should be photographed for its sheer magnitude. Under his breath, Connor murmurs “Silas.” As if he’s just admitted to some terrible thing.

“I know that you don’t believe. That’s fine. But I have to find out more about him.” And then, “You asked why I was lost in thought, and that’s the answer.”

Connor’s eyebrows knit tightly together. “Listen, I…” he’s going to say I know how you get about vampires. He’s been saying that since he was fifteen and Silas was sixteen, and Connor was the more grown up of the two of them. Instead, he takes a different turn. “How long have you known this guy?”

“I met him last night.”

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Everett Linden Clark [he/him] @everettwrites.bsky.social · 8d

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 8d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

Everett Linden Clark [he/him] @everettwrites.bsky.social · 12d

I didn't even realize that I hit 70k words on The King in the Mountain yesterday! Wow!

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky

a screenshot from Scrivener which reads 70,455 total words written out of a goal of 100,000.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 16d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Everett Linden Clark [he/him] @everettwrites.bsky.social · 16d

Quick snippet from The King in The Mountain today. I can't believe I'm nearly at 70k on the first draft. :')

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #LGBTQWriters

A screenshot from Scrivener. It reads:

"“What is your specialty?” Silas asks the next day. He and Nomsa are together alone again, across from one another at her desk. She is bent over a textbook and he is bent over yet another quiz. Silas hadn’t failed to notice that the line behind him was even shorter this morning.

A long moment passes, and he wonders if she heard him. Finally, as if coming to some sort of conclusion she hums and says, “Time magic.”

“Time magic,” he repeats. Every book on magic he’s ever read — which admittedly isn’t many, but a few — has included time magic as a footnote at most. For a long time it was strictly theoretical, and then sometime just before The Expansion some mages started making their stopwatches pause on command. A whole lifetime of work, to make a second hand stutter. “Really?”"

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 18d

Cease thou from strivinge to maken "fetch" to happen
#MeanGirlsDay

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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 20d

Part of being a fiction author is experiencing life. Whether you do that vicariously by reading other books or watching TV, or if you go out and try new things on a regular basis, what you experience informs your writing.

Step away from the keyboard regularly and refuel.

#LianaEdits #SkyWriters

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Everett Linden Clark [he/him] @everettwrites.bsky.social · 21d

What do you do when you meet a bunch of people living in the woods and you're SURE they're a vampire coven, but you can't prove it?

You make an excuse to come back later so you can interrogate them some more, of course! (Spoiler alert: it works.)

#WritingCommunity #WriteSky

A screenshot from Scrivener. It reads: "In the heat of the moment, in a single impulse he lets run wild out of desperation and fear, Silas pretends to miss his footing on the single step down into the foyer, and lets his pen tumble out of his limp hand. “I’m so clumsy, sometimes,” he says, “Goodness.”

“Careful now,” Ansel’s expression is a curated calm. He looks at Silas for a moment too long, but then pulls the front door open. “Have a good evening.”

“Good evening, my apologies again for the trouble,” Silas says over his shoulder.

The door shuts. Distinctly, he hears the deadbolt turn."

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Cara Nox 🖤🩸 FAMILIAR OCT.28 @cara.ink · 21d

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Cara Nox 🖤🩸 FAMILIAR OCT.28 @cara.ink · 22d

🖤🩸 Last chance to grab an ARC of FAMILIAR, my achillean vampire book releasing Oct 28!

I'll be sending out the last round Oct 1! If you want to grab an ebook at a discount, you can purchase from my PayHip!

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A picture of FAMILIAR, a book with a red cover and while text with a black droplet that reads "An Occult Misadventure" along the top by the spilled coffee cup.

The background features a black tray on a black blanket with star lights, a fake plant, and a stack of books along the wall.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 22d

Strongman competitions hunted them to extinction.

Steve Roth @steve.rothskeller.net · 22d

I honestly can't remember the last time I saw an actual, literal phone book. Do they even still make them anymore?

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Zane Schacht - Voice Goblin @voicesbyzane.bsky.social · 23d

I strongly suggest focusing on your neighborhood when it comes to political action/mutual aid because 1. Actual tangible change happens on the local level and 2. If you look at this from a national perspective, if you absorb every evil currently happening on a mass scale, you will fry your brain

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Everett Linden Clark [he/him] @everettwrites.bsky.social · 25d

I absolutely loved this. A fantastic read!

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 27d

If you're tired and need a hug today, I'd like to offer this story of mine. It's about a haunted house so lonely that it promises it'll behave if anyone will just live in it.

DP FICTION #64A: “Open House on Haunted Hill” by John Wiswell – Diabolical Plots