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Rachel A. Rosen

@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop
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Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter.

https://rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · 3d ago

#PennedPossibilities 955 — Is your MC keeping any secrets? Can you reveal them to us?

Ian is all secrets, all the time, and he reveals them when he needs to and not a second before.

The big one at the moment is that he has clued in to the nature of the Big Bad and knows what needs to be done to defeat it, and he is not telling anyone for reasons.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · 3d ago

#WritersCoffeeClub Mar 13: Consulting an expert for a piece of writing.

I think the funniest was when I got an environmental scientist to do a strong assist on a fake research paper on the effects that an eldritch abomination had on the surrounding ocean geology. Only excerpts made it into the final book, but the entire thing is beautiful.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · 3d ago

#ScribesAndMakers Mar 13: Our featured creator writes both novels and short stories. How do you feel about short fiction? Do you read short stories as often as novels?

I never used to read short fiction—I hate when I'm just getting my head around a character and then the story ends. Which is unfortunate because the sensible path to publishing is "write a bunch of short stories, get known by editors and learn your craft, then write a novel." I did the opposite.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · 3d ago

#WordWeavers 13/3: Tell us about a quirk your SC has.

Shadi has absolutely atrocious fashion sense and the apocalypse hasn't helped with this. He could actually be an attractive guy, which Maya notices, but he does a lot to disguise it with terrible fashion.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · 4d ago

#WordWeavers March 12. How could someone who knows your MC well console them after the last time you made them suffer?

If it's Jonah, sex. Anyone else doesn't have much of a chance.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · 4d ago

#ScribesAndMakers March 12. Our featured creator has an em dash key on his keyboard. Do you do any customizations for your creativity?

You can get an em dash key????

Unless you count my chaotic file management system/desktop wallpaper, I don't think so.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · 4d ago

#WritersCoffeeClub March 12. How do you "stress test" your work?

I send it to @stromberg@wandering.shop .

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · 5d ago

#PennedPossibilities 954 — What is your SC’s skill level when it comes to cooking and baking?

Actually Shadi is good at it, not that he gets a chance these days. Food is very important to his family as a way of holding on to culture; both his grandmother and mother were excellent cooks and made sure that he was good at it too.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · 5d ago

#WordWeavers: Mar. 11: Give an example of brilliant writing. What's special about it?

Someone was raving about Notes From a Regicide by Isaac Fellman and I hopped on to say that this was one of my favourite books of last year. Besides being a moving story about trans joy, art, and revolution, there's such an alien, archaic stylization in the prose that conveys the sense of a very different time and place in a way that SFF writers should take note of.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · 5d ago

#ScribesAndMakers 11 Our featured creator does 3D printing. Have you ever? (Share a pic)

Yes! My new job has two 3D printers and so I'm learning to use it. I'm not especially great at it but the kids have done some cool stuff.

Here is a very messy and unpainted mini I did of Sujay from the first book.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · 5d ago

#WritersCoffeeClub 3/11. Does your work reflect your morals? How so?

Yes, though I like to think not in a didactic kind of way, and not always. My characters do things I wouldn't. My narratives don't exist to tell the reader what to do or how to act. But the type of work I write reflects my ethical framework.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · 6d ago
@cstross@wandering.shop all of which I loved! But none of them were at a street paperback sale where you could get a book for $1.
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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · 6d ago

#writersCoffeeClub 10 March: How informal is your prose? Is there a limit to informality?

Quite informal, depending on the character. I do like a baroque sentence punctuated by fucks.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Feb 25, 2026

#PennedPossibilities 941 — MC POV: Name one thing you lied to yourself about. Why did you do this?

This is rather impossible to write in Ian's POV since he will not admit that he lies to himself, even in narration. But among other things, he's lied to himself that it's worth it to break Maya's heart, it's worth it to lose Jonah, that Cal made his own doomed choices, and that his current plan to betray his separatist allies won't result in a gruesome amount of deaths.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Feb 19, 2026

#writersCoffeeClub 2/19: What's your biggest challenge when crafting a satisfying ending?

I don't find endings that hard; with most things I've written, I have at least a vague sense of how it ends (yes, including the trilogy). It's more lining up all the pieces to get to the ending.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Feb 18, 2026

#ScribesAndMakers Feb 18
Have you ever or would you ever do you own cover?

I mostly do, because my other job is as a cover designer and I publish with small presses who do a terrible job if left to their own devices (I have stories). I advise authors not to do their own covers even if they have the talent, as distance from the story is important but anyone better than me also costs more. Anyway, hire me! My business is getting crushed by AI slop. https://rachelrosen.ca/index.php/design/

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Feb 18, 2026

#WordWeavers Feb 18
Can your MC carry a tune?

Yes, he's quite a good musician. Fiddle was his instrument and isn't anymore but he's musical enough that he can sing reasonably well. Of course, he's in a book with Lucy, an opera singer, so it's all relative.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Feb 18, 2026

#WritersCoffeeClub 18 Feb: How balanced are your finished works? What do you do to achieve that balance?

If you put them on your head and stand perfectly still, they may not fall off immediately. Mostly symmetrical in form.

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Rachel A. Rosen
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Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Feb 18, 2026

#PennedPossibilities 934
Do you have a book cover for your WIP?

No, this usually comes along much later in the process. I often do rough mockups while writing, so I do have something, but it's not something I'd show anyone else yet. I'm on Book 3 of a trilogy, I have a fairly good idea of how it will look to be consistent with the other two, but I'm still drafting and it's possible something could radically change. (1/2)

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Rachel A. Rosen
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Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Feb 17, 2026

#PennedPossibilities 933 — Share three facts about your MC with us.

1. Cats love him
2. Cops hate him
3. Gaaaaaay

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Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Feb 17, 2026

#WritersCoffeeClub ~ How do you write about ecstasy, in a spiritual, artistic, or sensual context?

That's maybe one of the hardest emotions to capture. Even when I write sex scenes, it's pretty grounded in messy reality and isn't transcendent.

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Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Feb 17, 2026

#WordWeavers Feb 17
Would you still write if you had to use a typewriter or pen and paper?

I did back in the day but I and anyone who had to read it would be unhappy about it.

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Rachel A. Rosen
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Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Feb 17, 2026

#ScribesAndMakers 17. Share a fun memory from a past SAM prompt.

I always enjoy digging through my collection of saved memes from the 2010s.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Feb 16, 2026

#PennedPossibilities 932: Share three facts about a favorite SC with us.

Low-key my favourite SC is Kenny, who I am trying to shoehorn in to the last book (it's not explicit but if anyone is wondering, he did survive the second book).

1) The antlers he wears at the bar were found in the woods on a hike and they're actually quite heavy.
2) He knits anti-surveillance pattern sweaters.
3) He has invented 5 new types of cocktail and no one ever orders them.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Feb 16, 2026

#ScribesAndMakers Feb 16
Do you have a favorite decade of music? Which one(s)?

Here's the thing, in my head the best music is 80s post-punk, and that may not in fact be objectively true but happens to coincide with when my musical taste was being formed.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Feb 16, 2026

#WordWeavers Feb 16
If your MC had a statue put up in their honor, what it be for?

If anyone ever put up a statue for Ian, he'd be the first one to try to topple it. Besides, they don't put up statues for delaying the apocalypse.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Feb 16, 2026

#WritersCoffeeClub Day 16:: What’s the most ridiculous place you’ve tried to sneak in some writing?

On some train tracks, while stopping a train in a solidarity action with Wet'suwet'en land defenders.

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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Jan 27, 2026
#WritersCoffeeClub 27 Jan What's a technical skill you think should be more widespread? I was about to say close reading and then I remembered that a significant percentage of my students don't know how to save a file or find the location for the save button and I realized that my standards need to be lowered a bit.
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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Dec 25, 2025
#WritersCoffeeClub 12/25: Should anything in fiction be off-limits? What? The main thing is ensuring that your audience understands it's fiction. Some of the most harmful texts in the world, from Protocols of the Elders of Zion to Michelle Remembers would have been far less evil if their authors were the kind of people to admit that they were fictional. Though if their authors were good people, they wouldn't exist in the first place.
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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

wandering.shop
Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Dec 08, 2025
#WordWeavers Dec 8 Does your world have any weird laws, practices or beliefs? It burns the blood of ancient beings to fuel it, even though doing so hastens the end of all things.
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Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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Rachel A. Rosen
Rachel A. Rosen
@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop

Author of The Sleep of Reason series ("Cascade" and "Blight") and co-author of "The Sad Bastard Cookbook: Food You Can Make So You Don't Die." Find me on rachelrosen.ca or subscribe to my newsletter at nightbeatseu.ca/newsletter. https:// rachelarosen.carrd.co/ to find me all over the internet.

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@youseeatortoise@wandering.shop · Nov 20, 2025
#writersCoffeeClub 11/20: How did you find your writerly voice? Scavenged from under a rock in a swamp and purchased from the entity that lurks there for the cost of three teeth (not mine) and five years of my life.
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