Michael Lilly

I write words! Occasionally I write enough of them, in the right order, to make a book out of them. Neat!

He/him/his 🏳️‍🌈

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

It's almost here! As the weather starts to cool, the days shorten, your favorite sweater finds its way out of the closet, and everything is pumpkin, grab the perfect Spooky Season read here. #books #thriller #paranormal

The Shadow Puppeteer https://t.co/5CJkAIam3J

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

I'm just saying, it would be SO poetic if we got the headline we've been waiting for today.

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

@CrisHeroes The gameplay itself—being inside the stadium, playing as a Pokémon—is the only good part of the game anymore. Emblems are stupid, License Journey was a HUGE miss, acquiring cosmetics is wildly expensive, loot boxes and prize shooter are awful. It's so hard to want to play anymore

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

I hate it here. #MyXAnniversary

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

@DisneyPlus @hulu The INSTANT I see an ad in my ad-free subscription, I'm unsubscribing altogether. Advertising has gotten outrageous.

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

It's my book! :)

[Vulpine Press @vulpine_press]

A tragic accident that turns out not to be so accidental...

The Shadow Puppeteer by @AuthorMLilly. A psychological thriller that will make you question everything.

Order yours here: https://t.co/yCU7myJSEP

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[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

I promise I've been writing. It's just been a hell of a year and I've been doing my best to be gentle with my goals and ambitions. But I have a book nearly ready to start querying and I'm quite excited about it. 🤗📚🖋️

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

@Warcraft Idk man, I've been a feral main since Legion but it feels way less fun than literally every other spec I've played so far. 😕

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

My favorite thing about the absolute downfall of this site after the rat took it over is that, if/when he finally gives it up, the single best marketing tool they'll have is the very fact that he's not running it anymore.

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

🥲

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

@stephenRB4 Forgot your wallet?

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

@king_reinhardt I'm doing the thing I know some people hate: Writing the story in three separate timelines, lol. Two of them are for one character (one when he's a kid and one when he's an adult), and the other is for another kid in the late '50s.

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

@SoVeryBritish People trying to talk to me while I eat it.

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

@Skoll_Shorties It's...pretty bad, yeah. Ditch the dumb little fill-the-bar quests (or put mini bosses there instead), and after a boss spawns, keep that boss spawning every 10 minutes or so until the next area. That's how I'd change this event.

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

@Virginia_Brasch And I'm not just talking about "Oh, the author said 'Aaron' once when that character's name is Alex, oops!" It was incorrect its/it's, their/there/they're, that kind of thing. I don't mind when this happens infrequently, but it was multiple issues per page.

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

@Virginia_Brasch I was really excited about a book mentioned in a Facebook group I'm in. The premise was unique and exciting, and I was eager to dive into it, but it was clear pretty early on that it had not been edited. The writing was mediocre at best and it was riddled with errors.

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

@jdotb My late GM called it that once back in Cataclysm and it's how I've thought of it for the past 13 years.

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

@Fleks27 I want to be, but I'm skeptical. I'm a feral main and really don't like the philosophy they took with redesigning feral gameplay (the tl;dr version is that they're slowing it WAY down), and I'm not confident PvE will be in a good place right away.

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

Historically, I've had a mix of planning and pantsing my books. In this case, I planned and outlined quite thoroughly, and I'm ashamed to say it's working beautifully.

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

Been going through a LOT lately but I'm hard at work on a book I'm thrilled about. 🥹

[Michael Lilly @AuthorMLilly]

@Warcraft Soaring Spelltome. I know it got a fair bit easier with DF launch, but it still took a lot of work and a lot of wipes and I'm so happy to have it. It was my favorite of the three that we voted on so I'm glad to have been able to get it another way.