Cass Morris
LightNews LightNews
banner
cassmorriswrites.com
Cass Morris
@cassmorriswrites.com
5.8K followers 630 following 7.8K posts
Author: Aven Cycle | Story Editor: Mythik Camps | Podcast Cohost: Worldbuilding for Masochists | novels, short fiction, & immersive xp | Shakespeare nerd, once & future educator, rhetorician, geek chic | she/her | Virginia, USA

linktr.ee/cassrmorris
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
cassmorriswrites.com
Cass Morris @cassmorriswrites.com · Dec 8
An actual pinned introduction thread!

Hi! I'm Cass, & you've probably found me because of one of these things:

-Books & writing
-The Worldbuilding for Masochists podcast
-Shakespeare & education
-Halcy-Con & other conventions/conferences
-Immersive experience work & enthusiasm
-General geekery
Reposted by Cass Morris
sarahbethdurst.bsky.social
Signed books make great gifts!!! If you'd like a signed and personalized copy of THE SPELLSHOP, THE ENCHANTED GREENHOUSE, or THE LOST, either for yourself or as a gift, order from Books of Wonder by Nov 30, and I’ll be delighted to sign one for you! booksofwonder.com/products/978...
Signed and personalized books available from Books of Wonder
November 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
cassmorriswrites.com
They've got free shipping this weekend!

And if you'd like some recommendations, I've got an affiliate storefront: bookshop.org/shop/cassrmo...
bookshop.org Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 5h
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
cassmorriswrites.com
FROM UNSEEN FIRE, Book 1 of the Aven Cycle, is on sale in ebook this holiday weekend!

Historical fantasy set in an alternate ancient Rome: A trio of sisters and an ambitious senator use wit, charm, and magic to realize their dreams for the city they love.

books2read.com/b/from-unsee...
Book cover for FROM UNSEEN FIRE: teal embellishments on a dark background with the central image of a fire in an ancient-style brazier. Text and arrows surrounding: Yearning | Fierce determined women | Elemental magic | Dinner with a side of snark | Cutthroat politics | All this blood | An awful lot of swords. Graphic: Book cover of From Unseen Fire against a white marbled background spattered with gold. Text: Ebook sale - US $0.99 - Through December 1.
November 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
cassmorriswrites.com
#PretendPanel Nov 28: It's been a good month! I finished drafting the WIP and slid right on into revising the first act. I currently have.... ::counts:: 8 scenes left in that, only 2 of which are a bit thorny. Should finish up this weekend!

And then it'll be full read & revise time. 😅
hiriadunning.com Hiria Dunning @hiriadunning.com · 12h
#pretendpanel, it's time to check in!

November 28th: It's almost the end of November! How did you go this month? (whether you set a goal, or took part in a challenge, or not!)

#WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingPrompts
#pretendpanel a daily prompt tag hosted by @hiriadunning.bsky.social November 28th: It's almost the end of November! How did you go this month? (whether you set a goal, or took part in a challenge, or not!) Please support your fellow #pretentpanel posters with replies, likes and reposts New #pretendpanel questions every Friday and Saturday. Hop in any time!
November 28, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Reposted by Cass Morris
scalzi.com
Honestly "Don't Engage, Just Block" has transformed my social media experience so profoundly that it's hard for me to describe. It's just so much better to be online now.
nscottg.bsky.social Nick The Time Miser @nscottg.bsky.social · 6h
i also liked the fact that most of us who had come from the other site had the mentality of not giving "bad actors" the benefit of the doubt on here , and told all to block, not mute, an move on
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
cassmorriswrites.com
#WIPSnips Nov 27: ngl I just really like the word "fyrd"
They wore the uniforms of the Toviran fyrd, brown and greenish-blue, but something was wrong. Lycus had spent most of his life battling Tovirans of one stripe or another, and this was not how their fyrd fought, not when they were winning, anyway: a disorganized mass, no unified shield wall, no cohesion to the unit. He’d seen Tovirans fight like this when they were scattered and desperate, being harassed by Requini cavalry, or when they were just village folk who had been panicked into violence. But a trained fyrd, under banner and clearly carving their way through a defenseless group of merchants with almost no resistance? They should be better disciplined. They would be better disciplined.
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Reposted by Cass Morris
stephanieburgis.bsky.social
This week's Thursday snippet comes from Enchanting the Fae Queen, which comes out just 2 months from today in the US (& 2 days later in the UK)! Preorder now: stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen

And snap up book 1 now: stephanieburgis.com/books/wooing-the-witch-queen

#romancelandia
Against a background of dark violets and green leaves is shown the illustrated cover of Enchanting the Fae Queen, in which a mischievously grinning woman with long blonde curls, a moonstone crown, a pink dress and bare feet, sits perched in a tree teasing the uniformed general who stands before her, his expression determined and one of his hands around her closest leg while she pokes his strong nose with one finger. Above that cover image is this snippet of text: No one was allowed to kill the Golden Beacon on her watch! ...No one apart from her, obviously. But that was different.
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
cassmorriswrites.com
Happy "stock up on candles for the rest of the winter" day to all who celebrate
November 27, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Reposted by Cass Morris
shakespeare.lol
Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
November 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Reposted by Cass Morris
flaroh.bsky.social
Even though the trees here are still clinging to their leaves, I think I need to fully accept autumn is coming to an end 🍂🏺🍁

My “Autumnal Artemis” and “Autumnal Apollo” illustrations from last year 🍂
Artemis in a golden scene wearing a green dress Apollo in a golden scene wearing a green chiton
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 PM
cassmorriswrites.com
I have so many thoughts about the shattered modern attention span and the insistence of media-illiterate audiences & readers on being spoonfed stories.

If they aren’t having information disgorged directly down their throats like baby birds, it’s “too slow” or “dense” and I want to scream.
jroberts.bsky.social That Guy James @jroberts.bsky.social · 1d
When our son was 10 he would ask questions about whatever narrative we were consuming together and it took one talk like "those questions you're always asking are called the story and if you're patient you'll find that they get answered eventually" and a lot of the internet needs that refresher.
bbolander.bsky.social Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 1d
"WHY'S SHE DOING THAT?? WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT, I'M BORED" well the cool thing about following a narrative is that eventually if you keep watching or reading or listening, magical bits of information are doled out
November 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Reposted by Cass Morris
thomasdlee.bsky.social
All of which illustrates how infuriating it is when dipshits say that AI can 'help me to brainstorm ideas'. It can't do that. It can plaster a deepfake smile onto the corpse of zombie capitalism as it shambles towards the precipice of climate catastrophe, but it can't create meaningful literature.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 AM
cassmorriswrites.com
Today on Patreon: Sneak peek at some of the early concept work I did for the WIP.
Behind-the-Page: Shattered Souls Concept Work | Cass Morris
Get more from Cass Morris on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Reposted by Cass Morris
jamellebouie.net
precisely my thought. the president and his dumbass republican allies put these men and women into harm’s way for a political stunt and look what has happened
aubreygilleran.bsky.social Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 2d
Whether this was random street crime or targeted political violence, I think it was bad for the president to unnecessarily put the National Guard in harm’s way like this. They simply don’t need to be there.
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
cassmorriswrites.com
The fuck I am
Screenshot from an email: You're now using Gemini on your iOS device.
November 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Reposted by Cass Morris
kadoore.com
Midday rebagel 🫡
November 26, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Reposted by Cass Morris
emilymbender.bsky.social
Some of the most successful resistance to "AI" is coming in the form of communities organizing against data centers, precisely on the grounds of their impact on local water and electrical grids.

@karenhao.bsky.social documents this extensively in Empire of AI

>>
Empire of AI by Karen Hao: 9780593657508 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A New York Times Notable Book • An Instant New York Times Bestseller “A bestselling page-turner that has made waves not just in Silicon Valley but around the world . . . With Empire of AI,...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Reposted by Cass Morris
kateheartfield.com
I'm going to do a little thread on how the money from books works for traditionally published authors because people have questions, and this is always useful info to share IMO. First, a big disclaimer that every contract is different, and there are a million factors that can change things. 1/
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Reposted by Cass Morris
karenhallionkenney.bsky.social
yup

khallion.etsy.com/listing/4389...
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Reposted by Cass Morris
annabookwriter.bsky.social
GenAI is a fascist product. Sorry you don’t have the moral fortitude to do your own thinking, but fascists love that
November 26, 2025 at 12:03 PM
cassmorriswrites.com
Dear every thieving yahoo:

Quick question. What is an hour of YOUR labor worth? How much are you compensated? Bc since we still live in capitalism, I assume you are.

Cool. Now how many fucking hours do you think it takes to create a book?
cheriepriest.com High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 3d
We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
A quote-tweet with the profile blocked out because I won’t be accused of sending flying monkeys at this digital turd. counterpoint: pirate everything all the time. pirate a sandwich. download a car. abscond from from small business owner mindset with your brain [High Priestess, Low Patie... • @cherie... • 14h Re: previous post - People who steal art of any kind are assholes, full stop. If *you* deserve to be paid for your labor, so do I - and so does everybody else; this means writers, visual artists, musicians, and every other category of People Who Make Things.] • • • every time vulgar leftism pipes in from the sidelines of petit bourgeoisdom i am forced to become 8.75% more marxist
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Reposted by Cass Morris
matthewdowsmith.bsky.social
Honestly, people calling creators the "petite bourgeoisie" makes me want to snap.

We're working folk. And we work really hard. For next to nothing.

We're not lounging around eating bonbons. We're trying to figure out how we're going to be able to pay rent next month.
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Reposted by Cass Morris
merriam-webster.com
On December 4, 2007, in the Usenet group “Friends of the Friendless,” someone wrote:
“Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!”

And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.
November 25, 2025 at 7:36 PM
cassmorriswrites.com
#WIPSnips Nov 25: I do love good infrastructure.
The posting inn was a relic of Requini supremacy over the continent, one of what had once been a far-reaching web of stations for couriers. When they had all been appropriately staffed and equipped, their stables full of fresh barkers, a messenger could travel thirty or more leagues in a day in emergency conditions, and even a trip at a normal pace could range twenty or so in that time. The system still worked in central and western Requin, connecting provinces to the beating heart of Kamioch, but the Lijari had disrupted those relays in the south and east. In the Marches, there was no longer any system to speak of, though the Coriolese had revived it in Tovira and Orlein. Lycus had ensured this particular station’s survival, though, as he had done for all those on the route to Aylesburh. Even if Archen Bardanes proved totally incompetent, it would take a while for that chain to degrade.
November 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Reposted by Cass Morris
ekjohnston.bsky.social
I am seriously considering hosting a weekly meet up at the library where people come and ask me questions and if I can't answer them, we learn how ti look it up.
alexandragallant.com Alexandra Gallant-Lee 52A @ MICE @alexandragallant.com · 3d
This is so soulless, I can't stand it. We have BRAINS. We can USE THEM.
Al is also changing how we communicate. With so little free time and so much pressure to be perfect, many who've never cooked a turkey might have a chatbot walk them through the steps, feeling safer asking "stupid questions" in private. People even report using Al conversation prompts to get lively discussions going at the table. Al can generate the toast, the prayer, the party games and the poem read before dessert.
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM