Jennifer Dawson is writing poetry this month
@jdawson001.bsky.social
American living in Northamptonshire, England.
Wife. Mom. Gigi. Author. Editor. Book reviewer.
She/her. Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
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Wife. Mom. Gigi. Author. Editor. Book reviewer.
She/her. Online at: WorldsOfMayhem.com
Follow me on StoryGraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/profile/dawson001
Trans rights are human rights. LGBTQIA+ 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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A little about me and my aesthetic: I love books, cats, and the F-word, plus the LGBTQIA+ community, especially the transgender community.
For books, it's mostly sci-fi, fantasy, romance, mystery, and any combinations imaginable.
For books, it's mostly sci-fi, fantasy, romance, mystery, and any combinations imaginable.
And my Christmas music! Where's the bin with my Christmas CDs?!?
Yes, I know CDs are old school, but since I can only play them in the car, they're also useless.
Yes, I know CDs are old school, but since I can only play them in the car, they're also useless.
December 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
And my Christmas music! Where's the bin with my Christmas CDs?!?
Yes, I know CDs are old school, but since I can only play them in the car, they're also useless.
Yes, I know CDs are old school, but since I can only play them in the car, they're also useless.
Kid brought in the Christmas bins. I'm missing one. I can't find any of the gift labels, or the garlands of lights I had on my staircase railings. Or my Christmas wreath andwindow lights.
I'm going to hard to skip Christmas this year and start right after Halloween, since this* didn't work.
I'm going to hard to skip Christmas this year and start right after Halloween, since this* didn't work.
December 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Kid brought in the Christmas bins. I'm missing one. I can't find any of the gift labels, or the garlands of lights I had on my staircase railings. Or my Christmas wreath andwindow lights.
I'm going to hard to skip Christmas this year and start right after Halloween, since this* didn't work.
I'm going to hard to skip Christmas this year and start right after Halloween, since this* didn't work.
Reached my 300-book reading goal for 2025 with this surprisingly excellent sci-fi book* - I don't think I'll set next year's goal as high since it gave me a ridiculous amount of stress this month.
#BookSky #StoryGraph #Supercarrier
#BookSky #StoryGraph #Supercarrier
December 19, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Reached my 300-book reading goal for 2025 with this surprisingly excellent sci-fi book* - I don't think I'll set next year's goal as high since it gave me a ridiculous amount of stress this month.
#BookSky #StoryGraph #Supercarrier
#BookSky #StoryGraph #Supercarrier
What takes more work?
1) Finding a Christmas tree, strapping it on top of a Mini Cooper, setting it up and decorating it
2) Pulling books off their shelves and stacking them into a tree-shaped thing
Asking for a friend...
#QuestionOfTheDay #Christmas #BookSky
1) Finding a Christmas tree, strapping it on top of a Mini Cooper, setting it up and decorating it
2) Pulling books off their shelves and stacking them into a tree-shaped thing
Asking for a friend...
#QuestionOfTheDay #Christmas #BookSky
December 18, 2025 at 8:34 PM
What takes more work?
1) Finding a Christmas tree, strapping it on top of a Mini Cooper, setting it up and decorating it
2) Pulling books off their shelves and stacking them into a tree-shaped thing
Asking for a friend...
#QuestionOfTheDay #Christmas #BookSky
1) Finding a Christmas tree, strapping it on top of a Mini Cooper, setting it up and decorating it
2) Pulling books off their shelves and stacking them into a tree-shaped thing
Asking for a friend...
#QuestionOfTheDay #Christmas #BookSky
I wish this were true, but it's a week from Christmas and we haven't decorated anything because I'm too exhausted to get the bins from the garage.
December 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I wish this were true, but it's a week from Christmas and we haven't decorated anything because I'm too exhausted to get the bins from the garage.
Me: I feel like cleaning the bathroom.
My brain: last time you cleaned anything you couldn't walk for two days. You work tomorrow. You should not clean today.
Me: stupid broken body.
My body: what?!? I'm fully functional right now!
#Disability #MultipleSclerosis #InvisbleIllness
My brain: last time you cleaned anything you couldn't walk for two days. You work tomorrow. You should not clean today.
Me: stupid broken body.
My body: what?!? I'm fully functional right now!
#Disability #MultipleSclerosis #InvisbleIllness
December 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Me: I feel like cleaning the bathroom.
My brain: last time you cleaned anything you couldn't walk for two days. You work tomorrow. You should not clean today.
Me: stupid broken body.
My body: what?!? I'm fully functional right now!
#Disability #MultipleSclerosis #InvisbleIllness
My brain: last time you cleaned anything you couldn't walk for two days. You work tomorrow. You should not clean today.
Me: stupid broken body.
My body: what?!? I'm fully functional right now!
#Disability #MultipleSclerosis #InvisbleIllness
Reposted by Jennifer Dawson is writing poetry this month
All of this. Be extremely wary of those words. They’re part of the reason I withdrew a story from a dream market this year.
If you see the words 'irrevocable', 'in perpetuity', 'formats not yet invented', 'net after costs', 'all rights', you're selling every damn thing you could make money from as an author for a one time payment, or in this case, a promise.
Signing this gives the publisher money meant for you forever.
Signing this gives the publisher money meant for you forever.
Behold, if you will, the...astonishing...contract from Shadow Light Press. A rolling 10-year term...payment on profit (but only after costs are recouped)...appropriation of the author's universe if they can't continue the series...and more www.reddit.com/r/Progressio...
December 17, 2025 at 11:42 AM
All of this. Be extremely wary of those words. They’re part of the reason I withdrew a story from a dream market this year.
I definitely chose some novellas to reach this goal, but considering how many 8+ hour audiobooks I normally read, a few short ones didn't even change the pie chart much.
This is my third goal of the year. Started with 250. Then 275. Now 300.
#BookSky #StoryGraph #BookGoals
This is my third goal of the year. Started with 250. Then 275. Now 300.
#BookSky #StoryGraph #BookGoals
December 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
I definitely chose some novellas to reach this goal, but considering how many 8+ hour audiobooks I normally read, a few short ones didn't even change the pie chart much.
This is my third goal of the year. Started with 250. Then 275. Now 300.
#BookSky #StoryGraph #BookGoals
This is my third goal of the year. Started with 250. Then 275. Now 300.
#BookSky #StoryGraph #BookGoals
Can officially confirm: the week before my period I have no desire to read anything 🔥🔥🔥, and mainly spend a few days trying sci-fi books and discarding them.
Most I don't mark as DNF unless I actually hated them. The rest I'll give another try later.
Most I don't mark as DNF unless I actually hated them. The rest I'll give another try later.
December 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Can officially confirm: the week before my period I have no desire to read anything 🔥🔥🔥, and mainly spend a few days trying sci-fi books and discarding them.
Most I don't mark as DNF unless I actually hated them. The rest I'll give another try later.
Most I don't mark as DNF unless I actually hated them. The rest I'll give another try later.
Post a female character you love
December 17, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Post a female character you love
The amount of times I've bought something, opened it, used it once, and then decided I can't stand the smell and will never use it again is ridiculous. Lotions. Shampoos. Creams. You can't just give open containers to people. Especially when your rating is : it stinks.
December 17, 2025 at 7:43 AM
The amount of times I've bought something, opened it, used it once, and then decided I can't stand the smell and will never use it again is ridiculous. Lotions. Shampoos. Creams. You can't just give open containers to people. Especially when your rating is : it stinks.
The street art in Brighton may not be one piece of art, but one building in particular brought me so much joy. Went for the #Banksy and found so much more. #StreetArt #Graffiti
Location:
28 Frederick Pl, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 4ED
Location:
28 Frederick Pl, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 4ED
December 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The street art in Brighton may not be one piece of art, but one building in particular brought me so much joy. Went for the #Banksy and found so much more. #StreetArt #Graffiti
Location:
28 Frederick Pl, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 4ED
Location:
28 Frederick Pl, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 4ED
Going into 2026 like…
December 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Going into 2026 like…
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As the year wraps up and we all prepare for the winter holiday break, please remember the reason for the season, and that there’s still time to send out an offer on a book, perhaps for six figures, in a multiple book deal, with no joint accounting. Bless.
December 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
As the year wraps up and we all prepare for the winter holiday break, please remember the reason for the season, and that there’s still time to send out an offer on a book, perhaps for six figures, in a multiple book deal, with no joint accounting. Bless.
Last night our pizza delivery guy told my husband, "If I don't see you before then, have a merry Christmas!"
Apparently we get the same delivery guy every time, and we order pizza about once a week. So he knows us better than most people in our little town.
I'd love to know what they say about us.
Apparently we get the same delivery guy every time, and we order pizza about once a week. So he knows us better than most people in our little town.
I'd love to know what they say about us.
December 16, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Last night our pizza delivery guy told my husband, "If I don't see you before then, have a merry Christmas!"
Apparently we get the same delivery guy every time, and we order pizza about once a week. So he knows us better than most people in our little town.
I'd love to know what they say about us.
Apparently we get the same delivery guy every time, and we order pizza about once a week. So he knows us better than most people in our little town.
I'd love to know what they say about us.
Show me how your 2025 went
December 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Show me how your 2025 went
Went through my notes and found I have 90% of what I need to review 12 books. I know why I haven't written the #BookReviews, though.
I look at my notes, remember the book and my rating, and then get overwhelmed with how to sum it all up.
Never used to be a problem.
I look at my notes, remember the book and my rating, and then get overwhelmed with how to sum it all up.
Never used to be a problem.
December 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Went through my notes and found I have 90% of what I need to review 12 books. I know why I haven't written the #BookReviews, though.
I look at my notes, remember the book and my rating, and then get overwhelmed with how to sum it all up.
Never used to be a problem.
I look at my notes, remember the book and my rating, and then get overwhelmed with how to sum it all up.
Never used to be a problem.
Twenty points.
December 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Twenty points.
Authors that made me:
JRR Tolkien
Mercedes Lackey
Piers Anthony
Robin Hobb
Robert Jordan
Anne McCaffrey
JRR Tolkien
Mercedes Lackey
Piers Anthony
Robin Hobb
Robert Jordan
Anne McCaffrey
Authors that made me:
JRR Tolkien
Margaret Weis
Tracy Hickman
RA Salvatore
Ed Greenwood
Dean Koontz
Diane Duane
Christopher Stasheff
Robert Jordan
Mercedes Lackey
Brian Lumley
Bram Stoker
PN Elrod
Laurell K Hamilton
Nancy Garden
Stephen King
Jack McKinney
JRR Tolkien
Margaret Weis
Tracy Hickman
RA Salvatore
Ed Greenwood
Dean Koontz
Diane Duane
Christopher Stasheff
Robert Jordan
Mercedes Lackey
Brian Lumley
Bram Stoker
PN Elrod
Laurell K Hamilton
Nancy Garden
Stephen King
Jack McKinney
The authors that made me:
K.A. Applegate
Anne Rice
R.L. Stine
Lynn Flewelling
T.A. Barron
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Steven King
CS Lewis
Lewis Carroll
Shel Silverstein
K.A. Applegate
Anne Rice
R.L. Stine
Lynn Flewelling
T.A. Barron
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Steven King
CS Lewis
Lewis Carroll
Shel Silverstein
December 13, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Authors that made me:
JRR Tolkien
Mercedes Lackey
Piers Anthony
Robin Hobb
Robert Jordan
Anne McCaffrey
JRR Tolkien
Mercedes Lackey
Piers Anthony
Robin Hobb
Robert Jordan
Anne McCaffrey
Did I just go on eBay and buy this set of hardback books in very good condition because I can't find my original paperbacks of a series I absolutely loved? Yes.
Why? See comments;)
#BookSky #HalfbloodChronicles
Why? See comments;)
#BookSky #HalfbloodChronicles
December 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Did I just go on eBay and buy this set of hardback books in very good condition because I can't find my original paperbacks of a series I absolutely loved? Yes.
Why? See comments;)
#BookSky #HalfbloodChronicles
Why? See comments;)
#BookSky #HalfbloodChronicles
Declined an ARC for the new #Murderbot book, but I don't blame them... I asked for it "late" - I usually snag them as soon as they're available* - and I have a lot of reviews to do already. I've been blessed to review the last three Murderbot books, so I'm not mad.
#BookSky
#BookSky
December 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Declined an ARC for the new #Murderbot book, but I don't blame them... I asked for it "late" - I usually snag them as soon as they're available* - and I have a lot of reviews to do already. I've been blessed to review the last three Murderbot books, so I'm not mad.
#BookSky
#BookSky
December 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
This cat has mastered getting a human's attention, then leading them to what she wants. It's usually a closed door she wants open.
I call her Lassie when this happens: "What's that Lassie? Your human is locked in her room? She needs rescue? Lead on!"
I call her Lassie when this happens: "What's that Lassie? Your human is locked in her room? She needs rescue? Lead on!"
December 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This cat has mastered getting a human's attention, then leading them to what she wants. It's usually a closed door she wants open.
I call her Lassie when this happens: "What's that Lassie? Your human is locked in her room? She needs rescue? Lead on!"
I call her Lassie when this happens: "What's that Lassie? Your human is locked in her room? She needs rescue? Lead on!"
My mental health is dancing on the edge, so I used #StoryGraph to go through my TBR pile and remove any (for now) with trigger warnings that I need to avoid.
No infidelity, grief, death, war.... I need lighter stuff for the remainder of the year.
That's protecting my #MentalHealth
No infidelity, grief, death, war.... I need lighter stuff for the remainder of the year.
That's protecting my #MentalHealth
December 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
My mental health is dancing on the edge, so I used #StoryGraph to go through my TBR pile and remove any (for now) with trigger warnings that I need to avoid.
No infidelity, grief, death, war.... I need lighter stuff for the remainder of the year.
That's protecting my #MentalHealth
No infidelity, grief, death, war.... I need lighter stuff for the remainder of the year.
That's protecting my #MentalHealth
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Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Also, congratulations everyone who made something this year. A comic, a song, a film, a novel, a painting, a poem, a short story, a sculpture, crochet, embroidery, whatever it is. In this era of slop and theft, if you *make* something you are a shining jewel and I am so grateful for you.