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Emily Sinclair

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Author of Butterfly on a Wheel, now available on eBook, in paperback, and in hardcover! https://books2read.com/u/mqxJJQ Website: https://flowersofdeath.net/ Cover art by Kai Schüttler: https://kaischuettler.com/

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Emily Sinclair @butterflyonawheel.bsky.social · Jan 28

Butterfly on a Wheel is now available with Kindle, Hardcover, and Paperback versions on Amazon. Snag this saga of loyalty, lies, gender transformation, bad chemistry, and the perils of playacting a cultural archetype!

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Butterfly on a Wheel

Butterfly on a Wheel [Sinclair, Emily] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Butterfly on a Wheel

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Joe Klein @galapula.bsky.social · 18h

Pretty excited to read this book to my kids as it's out heritage as Michiganders and, well, it's a crazy story. They're not excited but they will listen (maybe a little) regardless.

#booksky

@johnubacon.bsky.social

Cover of book, The Gales of November by John U. Bacon.

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Emily Sinclair @butterflyonawheel.bsky.social · 17h

#WIPSnips | push

From Chapter 10 of The Stardust of Failure, in which our narrator takes one step forward and falls one step back.

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Tobey @ commissions open! @t0bey-art.bsky.social · 1d

its a shame shadow dragons art doesnt get as much flowers as the other games cuz masamune shirow's marth is easily my favorite

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Emily Sinclair @butterflyonawheel.bsky.social · 1d

bookish checkpoint 📝

✧ last book: Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

✧ current read(s): Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

✧ newest adds to the tbr: Sympathy for the Blues by S.S. Genesee

✧ eagerly waiting for: the next non-fiction book by Jonathan Meiburg

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 2d

bookish checkpoint 📝

✧ last book: wisteria by adalyn grace

✧ current read(s): perils of the past, holly, no earthly sunne

✧ newest adds to the tbr: i found the first three books in the nightrunner series at a used book store!

✧ eagerly waiting for: sunrise on the reaping! (i know, i am slow)

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Emily Sinclair @butterflyonawheel.bsky.social · 1d

#WIPSnips | hope

From The Stardust of Failure, wherein Sigma S Star is on hiatus thanks to events outside their control (and are unhappy about it).

But not Sigma S Star, because we were already…over? It felt that way, in 2010’s nadir and into 2011. Did a couple of reviewers make wistful queries as to what the Moondreamers’ star-crossed rivals Sigma might’ve done, if only? They did, and inevitably their speculations were wrong, because they didn’t know about The Engine Room and what we’d been planning in those brief, bittersweet weeks in April. None of us mentioned it, publicly or among ourselves. The endeavor felt cursed in a Scottish Play kind of way.

I alluded to it once, tempting Fate in the way that one feels bound to do when one is wearing a fragment of the Hope Diamond’s mother-stone. But only the once, and not by name.

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Emily Sinclair @butterflyonawheel.bsky.social · 2d

David the MC has an older sister, Gwen, who is taller and prettier than David (and possibly cleverer). Gwen plays a supporting role in Butterfly on a Wheel; she is fiercely supportive of her younger sibling and is loved very much in return.

Narrator Jeanette has no siblings.

#WritingPrompt

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · 2d

Does your MC have any siblings? Are they part of the story? What are they like? #WritingPrompt

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 3d

nonfiction writing in english has been degenerating into a garbage fire since rhe early to mid 2010s. one of the recurrent signs of it is just an increasing emphasis on personal essays written by deranged people

Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 3d

I'm going to start calling essays like this "odes to whiteness" because the underlying premise is that they are like this because they don't anticipate any social cost to smelling bad.

This one is v. frustrating because it tries to lump in perfumes with the broader (problematic) beauty industry

I’m turning 50 next year. I rarely wear deodorant anymore. Many women I know have stopped, too. We don’t talk about it, but I catch it in the air — a faint musk of onion, goat, curry, mustard, salt, sage, fennel, ozone, and the muddy wet marrow of the earth itself. I’m kind of obsessed with this collective stink: the animal symphony of skin, of women being women, punk and unfiltered, taking up space with their scent. Raw, unapologetic BO. The more I live among it, the more I see it not as a hygiene failure but as a radical act of self-acceptance. It’s not polite, but it’s honest — and that feels hot. Hotter, even, than anything a Guess ad ever promised.

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Emily Sinclair @butterflyonawheel.bsky.social · 2d

#WIPSnips | welcome

From The Stardust of Failure, in which our hero starts a podcast:

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Emily Sinclair @butterflyonawheel.bsky.social · 3d

#WIPSnips / prize

From The Stardust of Failure:

Alcona County, 2021

Nicky thought this corn maze by their Michigan ghost town was going to be a simple puzzle for the kids. He wasn’t prepared for stalks of corn ten feet high and branching loops that got his sense of direction utterly screwed within about three turns. “Okay, I guess this is legit.”

“It’s a liminal space,” said Jeanette.

“That’s your kind of thing, not mine.” Nicky preferred the strict separation of there and not-there.

The kids cooperated on working their way through the maze, with Anthea being a scout, Mira drawing the map on the back to the scavenger hunt form, and Alix keeping the actual map sealed tight in her hand. Sometimes they had to track the girls by their voices as Jeanette measured their progress in terms of the pumpkins and hay bales they encountered.

“Ghost pumpkins!” Anthea shouted from the next loop over, even as Nicky and Jeanette found themselves at a dead end by the cell tower. They kissed at the dead end while the girls celebrated one more prize checked off the list.

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S.S. Genesee @geneseedraws.bsky.social · 5d

Paperbacks of SYMPATHY FOR THE BLUES are now available for preorder on Bookshop!!

They're having a free shipping sale today too! All the rest of my books are also available in paperback on there as well, so check it out 🥰
bookshop.org/p/books/symp...

Sympathy for the Blues

Check out Sympathy for the Blues - <p>It's the 1970s, and two young men are brought together by their shared love of music.</p><p>Ray Roderick and his best friend Gene Hillard form a blues-rock band: ...

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Cole Wehrle @colewehrle.bsky.social · 8d

Alright, let's do it. Here's a little prospective reader's guide to every Thomas Pynchon novel. We'll take them in order of publication. This might be a long thread. Buckle up! 1/x

Image from the Simpsons of Pynchon with a bag over his head on a cell phone. He's standing in front of a house with a neon sign advertising it as his home.

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 7d

figuring out a way to make it clear that I support putting everyone involved in Don’t Look Up on a terrorist watchlist but for purely artistic reasons

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Should Leonardo DiCaprio be on a terrorist watch list?Consider how much anti-American crap he's made. #OneBattleAfterAnother is not as lousy as #DontLookUp but it is just as lousy as #KillersoftheFlowerMoon & #TheRevenant

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9d

very neat little thread about the family, but with a name like that they're obviously crying out for an urban fantasy series.

Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 9d

Historical novel about Black Revolutionary War veteran Ichabod Twilight when?

If that’s not a name for a well-researched Bildungsroman, IDK what is

Historical marker reading “Black Heritage Trail NH
- WARNER

The names of four Black men are etched on this Soldiers Monument representing three different wars. Ichabod Twilight served for three years in the Continental Army and after his service lived in Corinth, VT. William Bradish served in the War of 1812 and is buried in Warner's Poor Farm Cemetery. Cousins James and John F. Haskell served in the Civil War. James served with the 54th Massachusetts Colored Regiment.
John F. served with the 45th United States Colored Infantry. Both cousins are buried in the Maplewood Cemetery in Salisbury, NH. These soldiers' stories represent a small part of the rich history of Warner's Black community

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 9d

maybe we can use this time to carve out a space between poptimism and rockism (being normal)

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J. C. Cantwell 🌻 @segfaultvicta.aludel.xyz · 12d

this may be a cold take btw but i dont think we paid ENOUGH attention to the Pivot To Video, the point of which i think is clear in retrospect WAS to utterly annihilate an extant and flourishing media ecosystem and replace it with something much easier to push low-trust audience fractionation with

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 13d

I really think our reactionary age is downstream of the three heads of the Scam Economy, Wellness, Social Media, and Gambling/Crypto

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 17d

Among other things, we often contrast in Greek military thought between the personal-excellence 'Achilles' ethos and the clever-tactics 'Odysseus' ethos.

Whereas Pete Hegseth recalls the Ajax-the-Lesser ethos of being forgettably bland and unimpressive except for doing a bunch of sexual assault.

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 21d

Back when there was a trend to have video game trailers backed by a sad, somber piano version of a pop song (think Gary Jules’s Mad World), did anybody ever do that to Lawyers, Guns, and Money? Because that’d be awesome.

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Emily Sinclair @butterflyonawheel.bsky.social · Sep 11

#WIPSnips | half

(From Chapter 5 of The Stardust of Failure)

I half-expected a Day of the Locust stampede when the church doors at last opened to grant us admittance. It didn’t come, but a crazed buzz, a current of chaos, thrummed in the air nonetheless.

✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social · Sep 11

The #WIPSnips word for September 11th is "half"

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#WIPSnips a bluesky writing community tag
September 11 - half
Share a line from your WIP with the daily word for inspiration
Use #WIPSnips. Don't forget Alt Text for graphics
Synonyms, variation and vibes are fine.
Support others on the #WIPSnips tag!
Hosted by rosie-j-potter.bsky.social

The image behind the text is a border that is black with stars with a light blue rectangle highlighted by a fuchsia line. An illustrated caticorn holding a pencil and writing in a book with a rose behind one ear is in the lower right corner

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Emily Sinclair @butterflyonawheel.bsky.social · Sep 8

#WIPSnips | ability

From The Stardust of Failure, Chapter 8:

Nicky wondered, not for the first time, how to combat someone who planned out their moves more than a decade in advance. Maybe it was time to admit he did not have the scope of mind for such a thing, that his horizon was too limited to even attempt it. Dusty ideas ten years old weren’t his thing. But Molly...she just had to have things her own way, and perhaps the years of solitude had led her to develop an inhuman patience, the ability to wait for the right moment. As little Molly in her sparkles once said, “The future is now!”

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jadehawk "FREE ŁINK" @jadehawk.bsky.social · Sep 8

2016 is the birth year of the "it's fine" meme. just saying.

I keep seeing kids in their late teens and early 20s romanticize the year 2016. “It’s 2016 and you’re listening to this song…”

Guys, nobody liked 2016. Until 2020, it was considered one of the worst years anyone had ever seen. Everyone cool died. It was fucking miserable. Stop it.

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Emily Sinclair @butterflyonawheel.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Stardust of Failure, Ch 5:

Alix wore proudly the latest trinket Aunt Molly sent her: a gold badge in the shape of the Mintaka Space Expeditions logo, its three stars lit by real diamonds. It’d flown in space with Molly, and now Alix paraded it as a token of celestial favor.

Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @cometkins.bsky.social · Sep 8

Share a snippet from your book/wip that features the color gold 🏆🛎️🔔 #WritingPrompt

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Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · Sep 8

It's his birthday today so ofc u should read my comic about him Dying

Pascal's Chimaera @angevinyaoiz.bsky.social · Sep 2

My new comic about the death of Richard the Lionheart, THE HOLY CEPHALOPHORE, is now available to read!

Check it out on my site: tomatobirdart.com/comics/the-h...
Or download for free on itchio: tomatobird.itch.io/the-holy-cep...

#medieval #comics #zines

Illuminated manuscript laid out with swirling organic patterns, showing a saintly figure holding her bleeding severed head, with a devil and a knight above her. The text reads: In fair Limoges, the land of Saint Valerie, the King of England embarks on an unholy mission to punish his disloyal vassals, devastating the land with fire and sword...

ANNO DOMINI 1199

The scene opens over a view of pavilions and tents in front of a castle, knights abound and there is smoke in the air.

A tonsured priest speaks: My lord, it is Lent! You promised peace with King Philip!

King Richard is holding his sword in one hand and a maille hauberk in the other.

Richard: I have no peace with a traitor's knife of a castle pointed right at me! The Viscount of Limoges must learn the consequences of allying with my Enemy!

And thus he turns around with rage at the priest.

Richard: "Abandono God?" Let me remind you, King Philip was the first to abandon God when he abandoned ME on crusade in defiance of his oath! He conspired to keep me in prison while spreading lies about me to all of Europe!

In the background are flames and a tiny shoujo evil laughing philip figure in the background.

Richard: Is that Christian brotherhood to you?

Priest: I didn't mean-

Richard: Should I join hands with a man who sought to turn even my own brother against me?

Priest: Your anger is just, my Lord, but this goes too far! It's your duty to honor the agreements and observe the holy days. Don't you care for the fate of your immortal soul?

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Emily Sinclair @butterflyonawheel.bsky.social · Sep 7

The exceptions are the MC David, who emerged as a specific type of prickly, tyrannical, rock-band figure I wanted to work on, and his initial love interest Eric, inspired by flaky "genius" musicians who wreak havoc. I had particular RL figures in mind in designing them both.

(2) #pretendpanel

Emily Sinclair @butterflyonawheel.bsky.social · Sep 7

The characters in Butterfly on a Wheel emerged in stories I was writing for myself as a tween, mostly inspired LOOSELY by people I knew. When I decided to specifically write a saga of a rock band, they were retooled (over many years) to fit the classic rock archetypes I wanted to explore. (1/2)

Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.bsky.social · Sep 5

#pretendpanel, it's that time we've been waiting for... character focus time!

September 5th: Where do your characters come from? You could answer in specific, or if you have a general philosophy then please expound upon it!

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