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I'm Elektra Hammond. Find me at untilmidnight.com
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I'll be decompressing and reading this month's banned book: To Kill a Mockingbird.
Until next week, I'm here on Mastodon, and occasionally on Bluesky & Instagram, too.
Same bat time, same bat channel.
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Today is my share date for this CRIME STORIES promo at Book Funnel. I love these genre-specific promos. You can browse cool book covers, peek behind each one, and see if your next read is right there in front of you. My Appalachian fiction GOOSE CREEK HOLLER is featured, so if you stop by the link, take a peek inside GOOSE CREEK HOLLER by clicking on my cover.
https://books.bookfunnel.com/crimestoriesfictionandnonfiction/zl8x3fx5up
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#WritersCoffeeClub 10/5: What haunts the narrative of your current work?
The antagonist that no one knows about yet. (I've spoken about her before, in depth, in other posts.)
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#WritersCoffeeClub 10/4: How isolated are your characters in your current WIP?
They aren't yet, but they will be. 😅
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#WordWeavers 10/5: If your characters had to swap lives for a week, which pairing would create the most chaos?
Zerika and Grigga. While Grigga *has* been a shield-maiden and warrior in her lifetime, killing monsters (like Zerika does) is another story entirely. On the other hand, Zerika would never survive as an innkeeper, either. She's such an introvert. She isn't very good with strangers. She does her best, though. Ergo, she would struggle so much with the job. And taking care of Grigga's family as well, which is another good point. That woman (an orc) has five children who are all rowdy, lovely, and crazy. Zerika wouldn't be able to handle her pack of children.
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#WordWeavers 10/4: What is your MC's most irrational fear? Where did it come from?
Making friends. It's both rational and irrational at the same time. People have stabbed her in the back far too many times, and it's left her scarred, battered, and bruised.
(Somehow, this never happened with Elric, though. She was never afraid of a possible friendship. She might have been unwilling to accept his kindness, was bashful as well, but she eventually relented.)
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#PennedPossibilities 1148: Is your favorite genre to read also your favorite one to write?
I spent easily fifteen minutes threading the needle on this one in order to say no, but it's ridiculous. Looking at what I've read since 2015 I have to admit it's fantasy, and what I've written is also fantasy, though I write it as if I were writing science fiction. Limits. Rules. No mysticism. I dislike Tolkien-style fantasy, so it is never that. And that’s what I've been enjoying reading. If the main character(s) are female, all the better.
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#ScribesAndMakers 2026.10.04 — <Do you include details in your work that are important to you even though no one else will likely notice?
Often. I try not to leave anything important enough that it could be misconstrued as a clue (since I structure all my stories like mysteries) and thus a red herring, but I do leave Easter eggs as I admitted last week in an answer to a prompt. (Oooo, you could go look it up!) If it adds color and makes a scene more real, it can stay, and more often than not it's backstory. I've been caught and had it pointed out, then tickled mercilessly until I wrote a story or a side-story based on it. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
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#ScribesAndMakers 2026.10.03 — <Is there a common thread throughout your creative work (apart from the fact that you created it)?
Alien worlds. Societies far different than ours, where the unimaginable is sometimes real, like women not being forced to live lives they don't want, able to do what they've grown capable of… anything, sometimes things men can't do well even though they think they can.
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photographer chef cooking
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#ScribesAndMakers 2026.10.05 — <Excluding unfinished work, what's the longest it has taken you to complete a project?
I am going to answer this inversely and perversely by saying, I once completed a flashfic of 800 words in 2 hours, a novelette of 13K words in 15 hours, and a novel 70K words in 2 months of 4 hours a day 4 hours a week. When I was counting. Beyond that, when it got done it did.
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#PennedPossibilities 1148: Is your favorite genre to read also your favorite one to write?
It actually is. I devour fantasy tales with the same ferocity and love as when I write them. And it’s also my favorite genre of games to play, or a film and series genre to watch. I’m easy. But I will add that I really do love all genres, especially when you add a bit of romance. I’m not picky.
#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.10.04 — How isolated are your characters in your current WIP?
Of all my characters, only the devil-girl is self-aware enough to realize she is isolated in her head—as she would point out are all people—that it is impossible to more than simulate the existence of "other" that is not oneself, that she can't prove that she isn't the only one in the universe. This is one of the reasons, perhaps, she accepts loneliness so readily, and living and studying in solitude. Nevertheless, she chooses to fill the void with people, despite her complaining and grousing about never being left alone to read and to study and to practice her tricks. She feels the best of her is that part that responds to the needs of others, for which she has trained and educated herself so diligently. In it, in her isolation, she finds purpose—and though she'd not admit that to anyone—joy. It's why she's able to commit to doing things that help those she feels responsible for—even to the point that it kills her (she's nearly died several times). In her worldview, she's not convinced death will change anything; instead, it will be the last thing she learns.
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https://featuredreads.kaleidoscoperomance.com/october-2026-featured-reads?ref=0rT7qbJ4YjRg
Check out Headless on Fright Night by May Furhst in the October Featured Reads!
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https://featuredreads.kaleidoscoperomance.com/october-2026-featured-reads?ref=pAFdlXFEHZhj
Browse the October Featured Reads!
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#WordWeavers 2026.10.04 — What is your MC's most irrational fear? Where did it come from?
Those few characters with irrational fears are dealing with mental illness, and currently aren't the MC. However, though the MC is a day angel with feathered wings meant for flying, she feared flying up until age ten. Falling, actually. An uncle got sick and tired of it, and the therapist bills, and her getting beat up at school, and shoved her off a cliff. It is one of many mysteries to contemplate in the stories as to how Bolt survived, considering day angels are still entirely human with no instinct for flight yet violate physics… Anyway, when she figured out she could fly she immediately feared landing, but that was handled within the day.
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#microfiction #flashfiction #tootfic #smallstory
#WordWeavers 2026.10.03 — Share a line from your WIP that foreshadows something important without giving it away.
In the prior paragraphs, Rainy Days has just discovered that Bolt's name is not "Tandem" as she thought, but "Good Eye." Yes, that's—count them—three (3) identities and it's complicated. To fully appreciate the tension below, pretend Rainy Days is their world's Queen Elizabeth I.
Rainy Days extended a fist for a bump and I bumped knuckles firmly in a womanly gesture. My knuckles felt like glass. They ought have clinked loudly. They ought have shattered as the commanding woman added, "I expect Good things. I'm keeping an Eye on you."
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#PennedPossibilities 1147: How does your SC feel about those around them?
The devil-girl rarely gives away her thoughts, often cynical and snide, but she has them about every one around her in Home City, for example, about Forge (as in Red Hot…). She's the school bully. When the devil-girl, fighting off a PTSD episode that this young woman triggered, accidentally demonstrates she is much more capable than all her new upper school classmates, it becomes as if she has gained a puppy. Forge cajoles and wheedles, nagging her to distraction, campaigning for some private tutoring. No, not that kind! What the devil-girl thinks after finally having agreed to teach—only to have her instructions ignored—could melt lead. But Forge will never know as the devil-girl rarely gives away her thoughts; murder might result and that's never good.
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#PennedPossibilities 1147: How does your SC feel about those around them?
Damir cares about his friends, even if he never says the words aloud. Rather, he shows it, instead. As for everyone else around him, he couldn’t give less of a shit. He usually seems emotionless, unfazed, and cold to most. People assume this of necromancers. Some, meaning the special individuals and the sort who genuinely care about others, they can see the heart inside of him, the one he keeps hidden away. Damir does feel. He feels deeply.
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.10.03 3/3— How do you feel about spoilers?
Oddly enough, on Mastodon I leak quite a few. Spoilers. Of my own work. I want to be clear about that, but here's the realization: By the time the main stories publish I expect readers will have forgotten the details†. I'm no brand name. I'd rather provide content, take the time revising excerpts and creating mildly spoilery bits to test the waters, look for reactions, and tune the presentation to migrate details back to the novel. It's working so far.
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† I may take down the posts eventually.
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.10.03 2/3— How do you feel about spoilers?
You wanna lose a friend? Unsolicited tell me how a book ends, or a movie—predictions and deductions are okay for a shared viewing only. I never watch the previews, ever.
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#WritersCoffeeClub #WCC 2026.10.03 1/3— How do you feel about spoilers?
If you read the end of all but my shortest stories, you will be unable to glean how the story turns out.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 2. Do you have plans for your next work yet?
I should really be getting back to working on book 7 of my ongoing urban fantasy series, The Wheel of the Year sequence.
On the other hand, it would be good to finish writing my collection of short stories, Tales From the Demi-monde, as I don’t think I’m going to be comfortable leaving it unfinished even though I’ve got at least four months’ worth of stories in reserve.
There’s always a worry that something could occur which would interrupt my schedule and I’d hate to be forced to miss publishing them online on my website as planned.
So, I think that’s decided, finish the short stories before picking up where I left of with book 7.
That’s what happens when you commit yourself to doing a serialisation…
#WritersOfMastodon #TalesFrom… #SecretLife… #HowtoSucceed… #Author #Novel
In the romantic triangle story, The Fifth Seduction, sweet, gorgeous, and globally famous ROCK STAR Daniel Palmer, whose charisma runs hotter than his tour schedule, learns that his lover, a woman he's crazy about, Mable, is secretly involved with the woman with whom she runs a reality TV empire, Julia. How does Daniel grapple with being blindsided? How does he confront his feelings and Mable when true love is often so complicated? The Fifth Seduction is featured in the October promo on Book Funnel: https://books.bookfunnel.com/lgbtqiarockstarsale/13j54uj3hp
CLICK ON THE FIFTH SEDUCTION on the link.
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#PhantastikPrompts 10/3: Have you read a novel (not a non-fiction book) from which you learned something new about writing? Which one is it and what have you learned?
Random, maybe, but I'll give this example: I learned how to write OCD and intrusive thoughts in a way that reflects both the supernatural and how to address the topic in the early 1900s from Kaylie Smith's Phantasma. It's Book 1 of the Wicked Games Series. She's also a friend of mine. And to be honest, it helped me to understand my OCD better as well, including unwanted, recurring, and intrusive thoughts, which was the biggest takeaway of all.
#PhantastikPrompts 10/2: Which revision tip helped you the most?
"You should listen to the help that others selflessly offer you."
#ScribesAndMakers 10/3: Is there a common thread throughout your creative work?
Yes, I enjoy and write many different genres, and I might also be a romance author as well, but nothing comes without healing from trauma, recovering from the strife of life's struggles, and we'll always have strong female characters who can stand on their own (which everyone is or becomes well aware of). And of course, there will forever be "found family" dynamics sprinkled on top. Those things remain the same throughout my body of work. I'm proud of that. I don't just write generic, everyday romance. Instead, I write stories that feature romance, and there's a big difference.
Women, women, women, and the strength of them. And I do mean that in every single way it can possibly be taken. Emotional, mental, and physical. Give me happy endings with angst, struggle, and healing throughout. We need more of that in our world today.
An #AlternateHistory #Shortstory set in the 1930s that strides the line between #fantasy and #ScienceFiction; about monsters in the world, but it somehow ends on a hopeful note. I liked it very much. Enjoy! #WritersofMastodon #AmReading #AmReadingFiction #AuthorsOfMastodon #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity
https://kaleidotrope.net/autumn-2026/monsters-in-the-world-by-jenny-rae-rappaport/
#ScribesAndMakers 30.09. What was the last song you listened to?
Belated post
These days I don’t listen to music that much except for when I’m driving.
I tend to favour Jazz FM for that, even though it’s questionable whether some of the stuff they play actually counts as jazz.
Listened to a couple of cracking tracks yesterday, Every Day (I Have The Blues) from Count Basie & Joe Williams and Birdland from Weather report.
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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 3: How do you feel about spoilers?
I’m not sure I should say.
I don’t think I should give anything away at this stage.
Perhaps you’d be better off waiting until the book’s published…
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#PennedPossibilities 1146 Does romance ever feature in your work?
There have been numerous references to sex and romance over the course of the 6 books in the series.
8 characters have paired up so far, Nathan and Vicky, Esther and Frank, Lucy and Bruce, and Cassie and Dex.
You could argue there’re actually 5 pairings if you included Bruce and his mentor, Thompson, given the way they bicker like a married couple.
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#ScribesAndMakers - 3rd Oct. Is there a common thread throughout your creative work (apart from the fact that you created it)?
To date everything I’ve written has been set in contemporary times except for a couple of short stories in Tales From the Demi-monde where the tales are about the character’s younger selves.
I tend to concentrate on magic and the supernatural weaving in references to mythology and folklore.
My two light novels are an exception as they feature evil criminal masterminds and there’re no overt references to anything which could be considered to be of a supernatural nature.
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My Word of the Day today is CORVINE. Share YOUR words to describe this picture in the comments!
Corvine, from Latin corvīnus, derived from corvus, crow, + -īnus, of or pertaining to.
Meaning of, pertaining to, or characteristic of crows or ravens.
The picture shows a close-up portrait of a raven with dense, jet-black plumage, where the bird is looking directly at the camera.
Caw! I’m just craving to hear some corvine calls…
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I made a diagram to illustrate my current state of consciousness #writersofmastodon #deadline #insomniac
#WritersCoffeeClub 3/10: How do you feel about spoilers?
I think there’s a clue in the name…
And even when writing about a really well-known book, we should remember that there will always be people who are new to it, and don’t yet know that Lizzy and Darcy ultimately do… oops, nearly gave it away there.
#books #writing #writersofmastodon
#WordWeavers 3/10: Share a line from your WIP that foreshadows something important without giving it away.
This is the first appearance of a character who will become more significant, much deeper into the book.
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