Romi Moondi
@romimoondi.bsky.social
Travel lover and author of the Publishers-Weekly-starred-review upmarket romance 24 Hours series: 24 HOURS IN PARIS 🥐🍷 and 24 HOURS IN ITALY🥂🍋—both in bookstores now 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇦🇺!
Also: Advertising Copywriter by day.
Author status—>Working on my next MS 💻
Also: Advertising Copywriter by day.
Author status—>Working on my next MS 💻
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Romi Moondi
@romimoondi.bsky.social
· Nov 12
A little intro: am all things “writer” (two books in bookstores now (see reviews below if you’re curious), ad copywriter by day, sometimes-screenwriter ( @scriptpipeline.bsky.social contest finalist)), & love traveling!🌍 Working on my next MS, will be seeking first-time rep in new year 🙌🏽 #AuthorSky
What an intriguing review (and luckily with no spoilers); cannot wait for Severance S2 👀… variety.com/2025/tv/tv-r...
‘Severance’ Season 2 Is Surreal, Stylish and Worth the Wait: TV Review
Season 2 of the hit Apple TV+ drama 'Severance', starring Adam Scott and largely directed by Ben Stiller, is surreal, stylish and worth the wait.
variety.com
January 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
What an intriguing review (and luckily with no spoilers); cannot wait for Severance S2 👀… variety.com/2025/tv/tv-r...
🤓: Sharing snippets from my next book in progress, hope it’s something you’ll be into when it’s said and done 👀…And yes, still here clacking away at the keyboard, so stay with me, because I haven’t given up on author life! (just haven’t figured out how to be in two places at once 🫠💻..)
#WriteSky
#WriteSky
January 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
🤓: Sharing snippets from my next book in progress, hope it’s something you’ll be into when it’s said and done 👀…And yes, still here clacking away at the keyboard, so stay with me, because I haven’t given up on author life! (just haven’t figured out how to be in two places at once 🫠💻..)
#WriteSky
#WriteSky
📣 END OF YEAR BLOG POST: serving up some humour, “ode to travel” energy, slice of life, writing talk, & some hope and inspiration to end the year; enjoy! In the meantime, wishing you a happy holiday🎄, and will be back soon with unhinged ambition 😉✨… romimoondi.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/h... #WriteSky
December 20, 2024 at 2:02 AM
📣 END OF YEAR BLOG POST: serving up some humour, “ode to travel” energy, slice of life, writing talk, & some hope and inspiration to end the year; enjoy! In the meantime, wishing you a happy holiday🎄, and will be back soon with unhinged ambition 😉✨… romimoondi.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/h... #WriteSky
I haven’t been able to do my usual amount of holiday baking the last two years, but whenever I do, it makes me happy to see the simple joy it brings, including this morning, when the office crew annihilated these cookies 😅 (chocolate chip with shortbread baked into them—all from scratch!)
December 11, 2024 at 5:39 PM
I haven’t been able to do my usual amount of holiday baking the last two years, but whenever I do, it makes me happy to see the simple joy it brings, including this morning, when the office crew annihilated these cookies 😅 (chocolate chip with shortbread baked into them—all from scratch!)
Hey Toronto: this display at Chapters Woodbridge is to let you know I’ll be signing copies of my books on Feb. 8, 2025! 🤩 Will I see you there to chat travel tips/pasta recipes/sign copies for you—OR your friends if you’ve already read them? Hope so! 😉 (Will remind you closer to the date 🗓️ )
December 3, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Hey Toronto: this display at Chapters Woodbridge is to let you know I’ll be signing copies of my books on Feb. 8, 2025! 🤩 Will I see you there to chat travel tips/pasta recipes/sign copies for you—OR your friends if you’ve already read them? Hope so! 😉 (Will remind you closer to the date 🗓️ )
One cool thing I routinely forget about being an author is that WE become the gift idea, the stocking stuffer, or in this case, the Cyber Monday deal. Check it out, Canada, not just for the book lover in your life, but the foodie, too (i.e. lemon pesto pasta recipe included🍝🤤).. shorturl.at/yhdxm
December 1, 2024 at 5:45 PM
One cool thing I routinely forget about being an author is that WE become the gift idea, the stocking stuffer, or in this case, the Cyber Monday deal. Check it out, Canada, not just for the book lover in your life, but the foodie, too (i.e. lemon pesto pasta recipe included🍝🤤).. shorturl.at/yhdxm
Took a day off from work, told no one, and I WROTE; intense, in-the-zone word count THE WAY THE WRITING GODS INTENDED. Now, did I get distracted after hearing some more tough news on the family front? Yes. But I meditated, and wrote again. A.k.a. she persisted, one sentence at a time ✊🏽… #WriteSky
November 30, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Took a day off from work, told no one, and I WROTE; intense, in-the-zone word count THE WAY THE WRITING GODS INTENDED. Now, did I get distracted after hearing some more tough news on the family front? Yes. But I meditated, and wrote again. A.k.a. she persisted, one sentence at a time ✊🏽… #WriteSky
Thanksgiving was 6 wks ago in Canada, so on this weeknight, spending this brief moment of quiet reminding myself that art created during rough times is all the better for it—proven to be true for my past books, hopefully true on this one, each sentence grinded into being, page after page ✨ #WriteSky
November 28, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Thanksgiving was 6 wks ago in Canada, so on this weeknight, spending this brief moment of quiet reminding myself that art created during rough times is all the better for it—proven to be true for my past books, hopefully true on this one, each sentence grinded into being, page after page ✨ #WriteSky
Sometimes you get a 25-min slot to write & you write 300 words, & that’s all the time you’ll get for the day. But that’s 300 more words than you had yesterday. Anyway, was trying to say I wrote 300 words in 25min, & now I gotta stop for the day, but damn, it felt good for those 25min! 🥹🥲 #WriteSky
November 23, 2024 at 8:50 PM
Sometimes you get a 25-min slot to write & you write 300 words, & that’s all the time you’ll get for the day. But that’s 300 more words than you had yesterday. Anyway, was trying to say I wrote 300 words in 25min, & now I gotta stop for the day, but damn, it felt good for those 25min! 🥹🥲 #WriteSky
When I get that Apple TV notification on my phone that a new episode of Silo just dropped:
a man in a purple jacket is making a funny face with his hands .
ALT: a man in a purple jacket is making a funny face with his hands .
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2024 at 10:20 PM
When I get that Apple TV notification on my phone that a new episode of Silo just dropped:
Normalize not sending a slew of Teams messages during lunch. Until then, I guess I’ll just normalize ignoring them.
a man wearing a brown sweater is eating a sandwich .
Alt: Pedro Pascal eating a sandwich .
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Normalize not sending a slew of Teams messages during lunch. Until then, I guess I’ll just normalize ignoring them.
How are things going here, writer folks? Haven’t had the occasion to post a lot to build a following (or does this app even reward that?), but I do like it, it seems fun, & maybe one day, more writers will find this author gal (I’m not important enough to be on anyone’s “starter packs” right now… 😅)
a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder
ALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:45 PM
How are things going here, writer folks? Haven’t had the occasion to post a lot to build a following (or does this app even reward that?), but I do like it, it seems fun, & maybe one day, more writers will find this author gal (I’m not important enough to be on anyone’s “starter packs” right now… 😅)
“Delulu arrogant gas bag” is a term I used today. Felt good. Will add to rotation. ✅
November 19, 2024 at 11:39 PM
“Delulu arrogant gas bag” is a term I used today. Felt good. Will add to rotation. ✅
The one part of writing AI can’t replace is soul ✨…
November 19, 2024 at 11:27 PM
The one part of writing AI can’t replace is soul ✨…
You can feed the cycle of derivative writing (next stop: AI), or you can break the cycle. Unrelated (or related?): Pluto re-enters Aquarius today, breaking a 16-year cycle of corporate dominance, corruption, and rigid traditions. Do with that what you will… #writesky #planetarymovements
November 19, 2024 at 11:26 PM
You can feed the cycle of derivative writing (next stop: AI), or you can break the cycle. Unrelated (or related?): Pluto re-enters Aquarius today, breaking a 16-year cycle of corporate dominance, corruption, and rigid traditions. Do with that what you will… #writesky #planetarymovements
This year, I had to listen to some writers say “AI helped me flesh out my plot…ChatGPT helped me outline!” Well, I think it’s now clear that what’s aiding you today, is being trained to bury you tmrw. But get paid to help dig your own grave! 😃🤦🏻♀️ www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief... #writesky
HarperCollins Inks AI Licensing Deal for Nonfiction Books
A new licensing agreement between HarperCollins and an undisclosed AI company will “allow limited use of select nonfiction backlist titles for training AI models to improve model quality and performan...
www.publishersweekly.com
November 19, 2024 at 11:22 PM
This year, I had to listen to some writers say “AI helped me flesh out my plot…ChatGPT helped me outline!” Well, I think it’s now clear that what’s aiding you today, is being trained to bury you tmrw. But get paid to help dig your own grave! 😃🤦🏻♀️ www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief... #writesky
Reposted by Romi Moondi
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
November 18, 2024 at 5:15 AM
“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”
- James Baldwin
- James Baldwin
Avoiding the city during Swifties weekends 1 and 2 in Toronto is self-care.
November 16, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Avoiding the city during Swifties weekends 1 and 2 in Toronto is self-care.
Got about 1,000 words written today in those little cracks of free time. I’ll take it, because that’s how this book is going to get done—scrappy, bit by bit, Thomas the Tank “little-engine-that-could” type shit 🚂 ✊🏽… #writesky
thomas the train making a surprised face with his tongue hanging out
ALT: thomas the train making a surprised face with his tongue hanging out
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2024 at 12:50 AM
Got about 1,000 words written today in those little cracks of free time. I’ll take it, because that’s how this book is going to get done—scrappy, bit by bit, Thomas the Tank “little-engine-that-could” type shit 🚂 ✊🏽… #writesky
Reposted by Romi Moondi
FYI - "MS Word has a new feature whose default is ON, that will scan your docs as you're working and add them to their AI training model."
Learn how to turn it OFF below.
Learn how to turn it OFF below.
November 15, 2024 at 7:16 PM
FYI - "MS Word has a new feature whose default is ON, that will scan your docs as you're working and add them to their AI training model."
Learn how to turn it OFF below.
Learn how to turn it OFF below.
Sweet, wondrous, magnetic—I know he’d disagree with these adjectives—Conan O’Brien has just given us a reason to actually watch the Oscars 😍… #Oscars #filmsky #AcademyAwards variety.com/2024/film/aw...
Conan O’Brien to Host 2025 Oscars Ceremony
Conan O'Brien is set to host the 97th Oscars ceremony in March 2025.
variety.com
November 15, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Sweet, wondrous, magnetic—I know he’d disagree with these adjectives—Conan O’Brien has just given us a reason to actually watch the Oscars 😍… #Oscars #filmsky #AcademyAwards variety.com/2024/film/aw...
Got to write a bit after work, and it felt great 🥹. Just gotta keep building this story bit by bit. So, if you think you’d enjoy this upmarket romance that explores the “what if” of waking up in a world where rom coms, Shakespeare, and the Renaissance itself never existed, stay tuned 👀 … #booksky
November 15, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Got to write a bit after work, and it felt great 🥹. Just gotta keep building this story bit by bit. So, if you think you’d enjoy this upmarket romance that explores the “what if” of waking up in a world where rom coms, Shakespeare, and the Renaissance itself never existed, stay tuned 👀 … #booksky
All I want for Christmas is quiet time b/w the holiday and new year’s to write; to prioritize word count over social hangouts, to read a great book when I need inspiration, & to cozy up with liters of tea, vs. the liters of alcohol I’ll be having until then 😂. Dare to dream… ✨ #Writesky #writing
November 14, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Reposted by Romi Moondi
As folks are starting to move over here, I made a starter pack of writers of fiction and CNF in "Canada." Let's get the party started! Please share and let me know if you'd like to be added. Fun! go.bsky.app/8VVZv4i
November 14, 2024 at 3:11 AM
As folks are starting to move over here, I made a starter pack of writers of fiction and CNF in "Canada." Let's get the party started! Please share and let me know if you'd like to be added. Fun! go.bsky.app/8VVZv4i
Tips (for me/you) to stop day job from seeping into writing process: don’t check Outlook/Teams early AM for “a head start.” Get ahead on the next chapter instead. Don’t need a smoke break? Take a day dream break. Can’t write during lunch on office days? Read for 15 min to get inspired. Good luck ✨
November 13, 2024 at 12:37 PM
Tips (for me/you) to stop day job from seeping into writing process: don’t check Outlook/Teams early AM for “a head start.” Get ahead on the next chapter instead. Don’t need a smoke break? Take a day dream break. Can’t write during lunch on office days? Read for 15 min to get inspired. Good luck ✨