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Mel C. | Book Editor
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✨ lgbtqi+ romance book editor ✨ || average danmei enjoyer 📖

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melronnolrem.bsky.social
Hi guys! I haven't updated in a while, but basically:
🎉 I got a publishing internship! 🥳

7 weeks ago, I was accepted and am an intern until mid-December! This is a very exciting time for me, and I'm learning so much about the industry!

#AmEditing #bookpublishing #romancenovels #internship
October 16, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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piamo.bsky.social
Hurt to Kill is available!

synopsis: ambassador to alien planet fixes diplomatic oopsie by boning a werewolf king 🐺

read this book and tell me if you can guess on a scale of 1 to 1000000 how much i adore ursula le guin

available here: books2read.com/u/mdOEvZ
or here: ppiamo.itch.io/hurt-to-kill
A graphic for my novelette Hurt to Kill. The cover art is in the center, and features a toothy neon werewolf with red eyes and drool, and the backdrop is a space nebula. Surrounding the cover art are the following tropes with arrows pointing to it: - werewolves! but they're aliens - neato biology - 14.4k words - forgetting who you are - sorta sexy? - m x m x m - loss of innocence
September 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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catsjpg.bsky.social
Script:

Hello, I'm [name], and I'm deeply troubled and concerned with the new policy changes. This new change will harm artists, media creators, and bluesky's reputation as an outlier in the social media game.

3. I select the "product feedback/suggestions" for the category
(CONT.)
A screenshot showing the "category" and "type of device" categories selected, as explained in the post.
September 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
I'm happy to have proofread this too! The characters are amazing in this one! ♥️
Congrats on publishing it for the jam! 🐺
piamo.bsky.social piamo🌸 @piamo.bsky.social · Sep 19
published my entry for the #sexywerewolfjam !

ty so much @darkchibishadow.bsky.social for hosting despite everything that's been going on. this jam got me to write sci-fi for the first time, and it turns out i love it ! (u might notice le guin was a huge inspiration)

🐺 ppiamo.itch.io/hurt-to-kill
HURT TO KILL by piamo
ambassador to an alien planet fixes diplomatic oopsie by boning a werewolf king
ppiamo.itch.io
September 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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obviouslyaard.bsky.social
start using "fanworks" again instead of "content" let's go people
September 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
I loved working on this with you! ❤️ I'm looking forward to any future games you make~ The art for this was amazing too!
piamo.bsky.social piamo🌸 @piamo.bsky.social · Sep 15
omfg i can't believe we did it. first game ever. we're devs now?!?! #yaoijam2025

ppiamo.itch.io/hell
HELL by piamo
gay labubu dumpster fire
ppiamo.itch.io
September 15, 2025 at 1:30 PM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
Thank you for trusting me with proofreading Excoriate! 🪱 I loved editing this work and getting immersed in its world through doing so!

This is around 17k words, but every scene packed a killer punch! Looking forward to seeing it released! 🐛 ♥️

#selfpublishing #proofreading #horrorfiction
piamo.bsky.social piamo🌸 @piamo.bsky.social · Sep 11
would you love me if i were a carnivorous worm the size of a horse that spits hallucinogenic acid and fucks good? 🐛

COMING SOON
cover of a book called Excoriate by me, piamo. Surrounded by the usual arrows and tropes, which are listed as follows: hallucinations skin picking gay worm smut dread moby dick prom gone wrong product placement one labubu reference The cover of the book has a sickly yellow-green tint, and features diagrams of dissected worms transposed on top of a painting of a swamp An excerpt from Excoriate: It was the perfect texture. Soft, wet. Invasive. You couldn't deny it felt good. Probably, feeling good was what mattered. Synopsis: In the not-too-distant future, the melting of glaciers introduces a new threat into the world: xenopillars, terrestrial worms the size of horses that use slime and hallucinogenic acid to trap their prey. Harrowing? Not nearly as harrowing as high school. It may be the apocalypse, but eighteen-year-old Hal Nieffer has bigger things to worry about---like bumping up his rank in Valorant and securing a date to prom. It’s only when a freak encounter with a xenopillar at an abandoned convenience store leaves him disfigured that Hal discovers a dangerous method of self-soothing. In a world where getting picked off is the norm, what’s the harm in picking yourself apart? On the left is a diagram of a dissected velvet worm.
September 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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piamo.bsky.social
my neocities is still WIP, but my short stories are available on smashwords!

✨Trivial Meet-cute www.smashwords.com/books/1820883 (50% off til Sept)
✨Negative Resist www.smashwords.com/books/1821055

new formatted edition of RTTW in the works 👉 sign up for my newsletter for updates piamo.beehiiv.com
One of those book advertising graphics with the arrows pointing to the cover. The cover says the title "Trivial Meet-cute" and has a skeleton with a fedora wrestling a man to the ground. The arrows read as follows: 1) Poly endgame FtM x M x M 2) You get to help me afford being alive 3) Lovable losers 4) 8.8k words 5) Death and dying yay 6) I think I'm funny One of those book advertising graphics with the arrows pointing to the cover. At the top it reads "It's not as clean in here as it should be." The cover says the title "Negative Resist" and is of a depressed-looking dude in a cleanroom suit and surgical mask with a red bite mark on his neck. The arrows read as follows: 1) NTR 2) 9k short story 3) semiconductors and sex 4) noncon 5) age gap 6) alpha x omega
August 3, 2025 at 4:40 AM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
Congrats to L. L. Yovoki for releasing 👑The Salvation of the Scum Prince!⚔️
I had a great time dev editing, line editing, and proofing for you!
Check it out here, released on Sep 12th! a.co/d/87Tdtl9
#romantasy #indieauthors #blnovels
August 21, 2025 at 8:18 AM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
Dear Aussies, the creativity of games and literature is once again threatened.
This is beyond their intent to protect children; it's a campaign censoring creative expression of sexual, violent, and queer media. Next thing you know, there'll be no women protags or representation in media at all.
daff.space daffodil 🇵🇸 @daff.space · Jul 25
Action for Australian folks:

register a concern about Collective Shout's wrongful listing as a charity, do so on the Australian Charity and Non-Profit Commission website

Collective shout's profile + ABN: www.acnc.gov.au/charity/char...

Raise a concern with the ACNC: www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern
Message from a user called BBBen on discord: Collective Shout, who have been provoking this latest wave of trouble are registered as a charity in Australia, but their work seems to be purely as a political activist organisation generating moral panic. This is against the rules for registering as a charity. If any Australians (Aussies only, please! It's counter-productive for people from elsewhere to do this) want to register a concern about their wrongful listing as a charity, then you can do so on the Australian Charity and Non-Profit Commission website. Here's the relevant links. Collective shout's profile, including their ABN: https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/charities/8f14b7df-39af-e811-a963-000d3ad24077/profile Raise a concern with the ACNC: https://www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern You can also attach evidence, which would probably help, though any concern is a valid one to post. Just explain the situation and try to call attention to the fact that political lobbying is not charitable work. You can go into other relevant details if you wish. All of this only takes a minute.
July 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
Happy to have proofread for you again! Wishing you the best of luck for the jam submission! ♥️
piamo.bsky.social piamo🌸 @piamo.bsky.social · Jul 13
my #hotwetqueersummer jam entry! 😷💦
a process engineer gets wrecked in a semiconductor cleanroom

🖤 9k word short story
🕊️ dead dove (noncon, NTR)
👅 omegaverse
😇 age gap
✨ formatted beautifully by @subvertebra.bsky.social

ppiamo.itch.io/negative-res...
Negative Resist by piamo
engineering filth
ppiamo.itch.io
July 13, 2025 at 10:34 AM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
Glad to have proofread for you again on Trivial Meet-cute! ✨
Looking forward to the next release 👀
piamo.bsky.social piamo🌸 @piamo.bsky.social · Jul 12
*yeets new short story into the void*

a guy just trying to run a trivia show and not die 🖤 poly endgame BL (FtmxMxM)

ppiamo.itch.io/trivial-meet...
Trivial Meet-cute by piamo
bar trivia + death + sex
ppiamo.itch.io
July 13, 2025 at 5:02 AM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
I had so much fun at Citrus Con! Will be back next year~✨
June 24, 2025 at 3:38 AM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
Glad to have worked with you on this heartwarming novella! 🎄

If anyone's interested, you can also read piamo's 'Return to the World!' here!: pppppiamo.itch.io/rttw 🎁
piamo.bsky.social piamo🌸 @piamo.bsky.social · Nov 13
if you like BL and are looking forward to the holidays, i have an advent calendar for you! 🎄🌈

how it works: you'll receive a chapter a day of my fluffy novella in your email inbox, counting down until Christmas Day ^^ it's free to read!💙📚

sign up & more info here: rttw.beehiiv.com/p/about-the-...
a banner featuring the title of my novella "Return to the World" as well as the Chinese title 重返人间。below it are the words "story by piamo". the background is a festive red and green, and the two main characters are featured in the foreground---the ML, who looks serious and has black hair and is dressed in a blazer, and the MC, who has brown hair, is pouting and wearing a red puffy jacket. The MC notably is also wearing a halo and tiny chibi white wings. In the background there are icons of cookies: a bee, a christmas tree, mistletoe, and a coffee cup.
June 13, 2025 at 4:11 AM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
Congrats on releasing 🌸Azure Flowers in The Moonlight🌙, Kat! 🎉🍾
It's been a long journey to this day, and I couldn't be any prouder to have been your editor for this amazing story!

Check out the first chapter here!: a.co/d/c3KSdC6
May 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
Just completed a dev edit of book 1 of a trilogy last night and came up with a plan to create an efficient work pipeline with the author and her beta reader!
Excited to start line editing the manuscript in June and edit a short story! 📚

#bookeditor #romancebooks #bookediting
May 21, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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septimusbrown.com
The first review is in!

"This is a story of transformation, trust, and the fragile negotiations between neutrality and intervention. Though billed as science fiction, its heart is literary: character-driven, formally inventive, and rich in metaphor."

Pre-order is live :)

a.co/d/gYE3Vll
May 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
Just finished proofreading 2 books!!📚
Starting off May strong🌼
May 2, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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baiheverse.com
Hello, dear baihe friends! It's been a week since we successfully launched our first project, and we're grateful to the hundreds of readers who have purchased and read it. While this number may not be huge, it's already a wonderful start!
The Clouds of Past Millennia
Wei Zai had become emperor long before she died, but when she did, she became stuck within her own imperial mausoleum. After waking up from prolonged slumber, she realized that more than a millennium ...
baiheverse.com
March 20, 2025 at 5:56 AM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
Dear book editors, how do you schedule out spots per month for projects?
I'm doing dev editing, line editing, and proofreading. If anyone can give me advice on how many spots of each editing type to do per month, it'd be much appreciated! ❤️

#bookeditor #developmentaleditor #lineeditor #proofreader
April 7, 2025 at 5:10 AM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
🎉Officially reached the halfway milestone of editing Azure Flowers in The Moonlight by Kat Wilkinson!🌸🍾

(Coming out on 30th April 2025 on Amazon!)
Preorder here: amzn.asia/d/2IRiR61

#lineeditor #developmentaleditor #bookeditor #romancenovels
Azure Flowers In The Moonlight (Immortal Blossoms of Love and Legend) eBook : Wilkinson, Kat, Kay, Anne: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store
Azure Flowers In The Moonlight (Immortal Blossoms of Love and Legend) eBook : Wilkinson, Kat, Kay, Anne: Amazon.com.au: Kindle Store
amzn.asia
March 17, 2025 at 5:49 AM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
Almost halfway through editing a novel~ 📄
March 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
Dear freelance book editors, what's your review of Editorial Freelance Association courses?
March 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
Lined up 8 book editing projects! 🎉🎊
Will post my rates after completing a majority of my assigned work!
February 27, 2025 at 3:56 AM
melronnolrem.bsky.social
Created a Substack acc! I know it’s more for authors but I’ll be using it as a diary for my editing journey ✍️

Feel free to join here!
substack.com/@melronnolre...
Mel C. | Book Editor | Substack
novice book editor ✨ dev, line editing, proofreading, qc
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February 18, 2025 at 3:58 AM