A. K. Hudson
@akhudson.bsky.social
SFF, Mystery & Romance Author | Rep: Alisha West @Corvisiero Literary Angecy| video game dev | Food & Book Enthusiast | She/her
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Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
June 23, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
The incredibly talented and brilliant @alicemrendell.bsky.social sat down and talked storytelling through video games with me.
This is the first post in a series of interviews exploring storytelling in different mediums and crafts.
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This is the first post in a series of interviews exploring storytelling in different mediums and crafts.
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Storytelling Through Video Games – an interview with Alice Rendell
This post is the first in an interview series discussing storytelling in different mediums. Alice Rendell has 16+ years experience working in video game development. She’s a narrative design consul…
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June 26, 2026 at 7:37 PM
The incredibly talented and brilliant @alicemrendell.bsky.social sat down and talked storytelling through video games with me.
This is the first post in a series of interviews exploring storytelling in different mediums and crafts.
akhudson.com/2026/06/26/s...
This is the first post in a series of interviews exploring storytelling in different mediums and crafts.
akhudson.com/2026/06/26/s...
New post featuring a few of my favorite feel-good romance novels from the last couple of years, if anyone else is looking for a little joy this weekend.
I would also love to hear your recs.
Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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I would also love to hear your recs.
Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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LGBTQIA+ Romance Recs to Celebrate Pride Month
Happy Pride!! I’ve been in the mood for some happy and heart-warming stories lately, which means romance has been my go-to genre. Recently I was browsing a local bookshop with a new friend an…
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June 12, 2026 at 3:17 PM
New post featuring a few of my favorite feel-good romance novels from the last couple of years, if anyone else is looking for a little joy this weekend.
I would also love to hear your recs.
Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
akhudson.com/2026/06/12/l...
I would also love to hear your recs.
Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
akhudson.com/2026/06/12/l...
Microsoft Teams told me I'd misspelled 'coffee' and suggested 'cofffee' as the correct spelling.
So things are going great in corporate America right now. 🫠
So things are going great in corporate America right now. 🫠
June 11, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Microsoft Teams told me I'd misspelled 'coffee' and suggested 'cofffee' as the correct spelling.
So things are going great in corporate America right now. 🫠
So things are going great in corporate America right now. 🫠
Ah yes, the sudden awareness that you're in a crowded cafe with your back to a window open to folks shuffling past on the sidewalk, monitor in full view, and you're writing a sex scene.
I normally write alone at home, with my back to a solid wall.
But, writing meetups are fun too.
#writerslife
I normally write alone at home, with my back to a solid wall.
But, writing meetups are fun too.
#writerslife
May 31, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Ah yes, the sudden awareness that you're in a crowded cafe with your back to a window open to folks shuffling past on the sidewalk, monitor in full view, and you're writing a sex scene.
I normally write alone at home, with my back to a solid wall.
But, writing meetups are fun too.
#writerslife
I normally write alone at home, with my back to a solid wall.
But, writing meetups are fun too.
#writerslife
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Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)
May 29, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)
Happy release day!
I'm so excited to read The Fake Divination Offense and then add it to this colorful lineup on my floating shelf.
I'm so excited to read The Fake Divination Offense and then add it to this colorful lineup on my floating shelf.
May 19, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Happy release day!
I'm so excited to read The Fake Divination Offense and then add it to this colorful lineup on my floating shelf.
I'm so excited to read The Fake Divination Offense and then add it to this colorful lineup on my floating shelf.
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Same, and I also don't use generative AI for anything in my daily life (summaries, making lists, outlines, recipes).
Just a note: I do not use generative AI at all. That includes for any research for my novel. I go to human-authored sources.
May 19, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Same, and I also don't use generative AI for anything in my daily life (summaries, making lists, outlines, recipes).
After I series of intense life events in the last year or so, I hadn't done much work on my blog, but I finally wrote about my favorite reads in 2025: akhudson.com/2026/05/18/8...
#booksky #bookrecs
#booksky #bookrecs
8 Book Recommendations From My 2025 Read List
Can y’all tell I’m playing catch up? Spring-time is flirting with summer, and I’m feeling super-productive. And, naturally, I want to shout about some books that I love. So here w…
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May 19, 2026 at 8:13 PM
After I series of intense life events in the last year or so, I hadn't done much work on my blog, but I finally wrote about my favorite reads in 2025: akhudson.com/2026/05/18/8...
#booksky #bookrecs
#booksky #bookrecs
Just finished tearing up an outline to hopefully make things harder for my protags and up the pacing.
Y'all, I like atmosphere and slow build and mood. I'm actively working against my default mode.
It looks good in the outline. Let's see what happens on the page!
#amrevising #amwriting
Y'all, I like atmosphere and slow build and mood. I'm actively working against my default mode.
It looks good in the outline. Let's see what happens on the page!
#amrevising #amwriting
May 16, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Just finished tearing up an outline to hopefully make things harder for my protags and up the pacing.
Y'all, I like atmosphere and slow build and mood. I'm actively working against my default mode.
It looks good in the outline. Let's see what happens on the page!
#amrevising #amwriting
Y'all, I like atmosphere and slow build and mood. I'm actively working against my default mode.
It looks good in the outline. Let's see what happens on the page!
#amrevising #amwriting
is THIS enough to convince you to read The Red Winter? 👀
🎨: Christina Mrozik
🎨: Christina Mrozik
May 12, 2026 at 11:19 PM
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Happy Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! If you’re looking for books to celebrate the rich expanse of #AANHPI storytelling, we have 48 new and upcoming titles from AANHPI authors and illustrators for you to check out!
May 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Happy Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! If you’re looking for books to celebrate the rich expanse of #AANHPI storytelling, we have 48 new and upcoming titles from AANHPI authors and illustrators for you to check out!
And the surprise preorder book has arrived: The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty!
I can't wait to dive into another Amina Al-Sirafi adventure.
#booksky
I can't wait to dive into another Amina Al-Sirafi adventure.
#booksky
May 12, 2026 at 10:57 PM
And the surprise preorder book has arrived: The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty!
I can't wait to dive into another Amina Al-Sirafi adventure.
#booksky
I can't wait to dive into another Amina Al-Sirafi adventure.
#booksky
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Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition is out in just about a month now btw
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Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition
Check out Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition - <B>Dig deeper into one of the most banned books in America with this annotated edition of Maia Kobabe’s seminal autobiographical work.</B><BR><BR>...
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April 21, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition is out in just about a month now btw
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Me: A book is out for delivery!
My partner: Oh yeah, which one?
Me: ....
Partner: You don't know do you?
Me: Well, we preordered a few in January, and I got 2 emails about books shipping in the last week, so...
Partner: You don't know which one.
My partner: Oh yeah, which one?
Me: ....
Partner: You don't know do you?
Me: Well, we preordered a few in January, and I got 2 emails about books shipping in the last week, so...
Partner: You don't know which one.
Annie Murphy's Wink in Schitt's Creek
ALT: Annie Murphy's Wink in Schitt's Creek
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May 12, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Me: A book is out for delivery!
My partner: Oh yeah, which one?
Me: ....
Partner: You don't know do you?
Me: Well, we preordered a few in January, and I got 2 emails about books shipping in the last week, so...
Partner: You don't know which one.
My partner: Oh yeah, which one?
Me: ....
Partner: You don't know do you?
Me: Well, we preordered a few in January, and I got 2 emails about books shipping in the last week, so...
Partner: You don't know which one.
I think I'm going full circle on the project I'm revising right now.
2015 - contemporary fantasy
2020 - romance
2025 - romantic suspense
Now I'm reintroducing fantasy elements I'd removed to focus on the romance and it looks a lot like the 2015 plot.
#amrevising #amwriting
2015 - contemporary fantasy
2020 - romance
2025 - romantic suspense
Now I'm reintroducing fantasy elements I'd removed to focus on the romance and it looks a lot like the 2015 plot.
#amrevising #amwriting
ALT:
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May 11, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I think I'm going full circle on the project I'm revising right now.
2015 - contemporary fantasy
2020 - romance
2025 - romantic suspense
Now I'm reintroducing fantasy elements I'd removed to focus on the romance and it looks a lot like the 2015 plot.
#amrevising #amwriting
2015 - contemporary fantasy
2020 - romance
2025 - romantic suspense
Now I'm reintroducing fantasy elements I'd removed to focus on the romance and it looks a lot like the 2015 plot.
#amrevising #amwriting
I can't wait to get my hands on a copy. I loved Oil & Roses.
May 11, 2026 at 6:31 PM
I can't wait to get my hands on a copy. I loved Oil & Roses.
Just dug out the physical file for a 2008 manuscript so I could find the scrap of legal pad paper with my hand-written research notes on Ireland to add to a new manuscript undergoing revision.
This is why my office is overstuffed: two decades of post-its and paper scraps meticulously filed away.
This is why my office is overstuffed: two decades of post-its and paper scraps meticulously filed away.
July 19, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Just dug out the physical file for a 2008 manuscript so I could find the scrap of legal pad paper with my hand-written research notes on Ireland to add to a new manuscript undergoing revision.
This is why my office is overstuffed: two decades of post-its and paper scraps meticulously filed away.
This is why my office is overstuffed: two decades of post-its and paper scraps meticulously filed away.
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Didn't have to go this hard.
Did.
Did.
eight years ago today we all watched the glory of zendaya falling madly in love with tom holland and the internet was never the same
May 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Didn't have to go this hard.
Did.
Did.
Trying to focus on providing critiques and writing feedback (volunteer work) and/or editing my manuscript, but Ziggy is at the ER vet for the next 24hrs minimum for a blocked urinary tract, so naturally I keep thinking of him.
Hug your furry babies for me. I'm missing mine something fierce.
Hug your furry babies for me. I'm missing mine something fierce.
May 7, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Trying to focus on providing critiques and writing feedback (volunteer work) and/or editing my manuscript, but Ziggy is at the ER vet for the next 24hrs minimum for a blocked urinary tract, so naturally I keep thinking of him.
Hug your furry babies for me. I'm missing mine something fierce.
Hug your furry babies for me. I'm missing mine something fierce.
I have flipped the order of the opening sentence of this manuscript no less than 10 times now (not exaggerating). I'm about to give up and send it to my critique group and ask them to vote on which sounds better.
So, you know, slamming my head against my editorial desk today. 🙃
So, you know, slamming my head against my editorial desk today. 🙃
a woman is holding a yellow sticky note with help written on it
Alt: April Ludgate from Parks & Rec holding a yellow sticky note with help written on it
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May 1, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I have flipped the order of the opening sentence of this manuscript no less than 10 times now (not exaggerating). I'm about to give up and send it to my critique group and ask them to vote on which sounds better.
So, you know, slamming my head against my editorial desk today. 🙃
So, you know, slamming my head against my editorial desk today. 🙃
Yep, still allergic to soy.
Nothing quite like frantically searching the house for antihistamines at 2 in the morning.
Today, I'm a zombie. Don't disturb the zombie on the sofa.
Nothing quite like frantically searching the house for antihistamines at 2 in the morning.
Today, I'm a zombie. Don't disturb the zombie on the sofa.
May 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Yep, still allergic to soy.
Nothing quite like frantically searching the house for antihistamines at 2 in the morning.
Today, I'm a zombie. Don't disturb the zombie on the sofa.
Nothing quite like frantically searching the house for antihistamines at 2 in the morning.
Today, I'm a zombie. Don't disturb the zombie on the sofa.
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Being an artist is like "when i finish this art project i am going to reward myself for working so hard by making this new art project"
Over and over until you die.
Over and over until you die.
April 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Being an artist is like "when i finish this art project i am going to reward myself for working so hard by making this new art project"
Over and over until you die.
Over and over until you die.
Waiting for the Bainbridge Ferry from Seattle so we can go to our first stop of Indie Bookstore Day: @eagleharborbooks.bsky.social
From there we're headed to Liberty Bay Books and Away with Words in Poulsbo, before going to Saltwater Bookshop in Kingston and catching the ferry to Edmonds.
From there we're headed to Liberty Bay Books and Away with Words in Poulsbo, before going to Saltwater Bookshop in Kingston and catching the ferry to Edmonds.
April 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Waiting for the Bainbridge Ferry from Seattle so we can go to our first stop of Indie Bookstore Day: @eagleharborbooks.bsky.social
From there we're headed to Liberty Bay Books and Away with Words in Poulsbo, before going to Saltwater Bookshop in Kingston and catching the ferry to Edmonds.
From there we're headed to Liberty Bay Books and Away with Words in Poulsbo, before going to Saltwater Bookshop in Kingston and catching the ferry to Edmonds.
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Also worth noting, on Indie Bookstore Day, that Libro.fm is having an incredible sale which will directly support the local bookshop of your choice. libro.fm/sale/all
All sale audiobooks
Check out the selection of Libro.fm’s on-sale audiobooks!
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April 26, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Also worth noting, on Indie Bookstore Day, that Libro.fm is having an incredible sale which will directly support the local bookshop of your choice. libro.fm/sale/all