Grayson Daly

(she/her) Author, artist, New England villager. THE UNTIMELY UNDEATH OF IMOGEN MADRIGAL out now!
IG: grayson.daly

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Halloween costume teaser - from one necromantic nun enthusiast to another 🖤

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Hey would anyone who liked Untimely Undeath read an Orion Cantor prequel story? He's been bugging me lately for a turn in the limelight.

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My mom donated a copy of Untimely Undeath to the library in my hometown (pop. 3000) and someone has apparently checked it out. I think this is what they call "having made it".

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Me: man I wish I had more time to write but I have so many fun social engagements!
Monkey's paw: *uncurls to reveal positive covid test*

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Sometimes I think I'm over being socially anxious and sometimes I walk through my neighborhood after a particularly trying doctor's appointment with gauze taped all over my arms thinking "oh fuck my neighbors are gonna know about my shitty veins"

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Bullied by my mother into buying booty shorts with "UNHOLY" printed on the ass

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It's September which means it's time for me to wake up, commit to a sweater, and then die by noon.

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Taking painkillers because I knitted too much last night and my hand hurts. Truly enjoying my wet and wild 20s.

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Clocking in for the side hustle. Needless to say I am not especially hustling.

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Have decided to approach my new job with the mantra of "WWCFSAD"—what would Chihiro from Spirited Away do. Note this will likely make me worse, but at least I can imagine that the terrors and confusions are more fantastical and less based in relearning physics.

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Ok but Python can wait, the evil Yankees witch who cursed us needs her story told.

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Have decided to use this time between finishing my draft and getting a new job to learn to code. It's going really well - so far I've *checks notes* started dev for a new book about a cyberpunk vampire infested Boston...

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Bluesleeves draft one: complete. Time to throw it into the back of the mind fridge and let it marinate for a month.

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Worldbuilding 😬👍

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GOOD NEWS, FRIENDSHIP RETAINED WITH OLD COWORKER DESPITE LESBIAN CONTENT 👌👌👌

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Y'know I never understood why someone would want to use a pen name until my very wholesome fifty year old male coworker decided to read my sapphic romance novel. He's on chapter 8. They make out in chapter 11. I feel like I'm watching a horror movie.

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@KimberlMerchan1 Good cuz I need you to beta read it

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Would anyone mind if I just write three books in a row about music? Bluesleeves is about the complex politics of upper woodwinds and Alternatives is about electroswing supervillains and The Beast is just about the healing properties of bluegrass so really they don't overlap...

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Developing a thumb blister from pickin too much suffice it to say I am not grinnin

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Never written a draft that was going to need such heavy edits before - usually I just have fluff to cut and foreshadowing to extend back, but this one needs full surgery. How do y'all tackle the second draft?

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Up in the club during pride month like Jonathan Harker all "this nocturnal existence is beginning to tell on me"