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hi!! i’m isabel cañas, i’m a full-time writer living my best chaotic life between nyc & pnw.

tbh i’m here for a good time, not an organized/professional time. that said! one! must! hustle!

  • i wrote a Gothic horror novel called the hacienda. think the haunting of hill house in 19th-century mexico + a healthy dose of the hot priest from fleabag s2. out now!
  • i have a new novel out in august 2023 called vampires of el norte! it has hot vaqueros, monstrous vampires, western vibes, and heaping dose of romance
  • aaaaand i have some book-sized surprises in store for 2024 and 2025 👀

i also write short fiction! here’s a selection of my favorite things i’ve published, available to read free:

xx

hi!! i’m isabel cañas, i’m a full-time writer living my best chaotic life between nyc & pnw.

tbh i’m here for a good time, not an organized/professional time. that said! one! must! hustle!

  • i wrote a Gothic horror novel called the hacienda. think the haunting of hill house in 19th-century mexico + a healthy dose of the hot priest from fleabag s2. out now!
  • i have a new novel out in august 2023 called vampires of el norte! it has hot vaqueros, monstrous vampires, western vibes, and heaping dose of romance
  • aaaaand i have some book-sized surprises in store for 2024 and 2025 👀

i also write short fiction! here’s a selection of my favorite things i’ve published, available to read free:

xx

  • November 05, 2022 with 252 notes
bitbybitfic

new post on ao3


it's a poem from eowyn's pov and i'm pretty proud of it, given it's my first ever post there!

an excerpt:

as she pulls the sword from its sheath, it is
a sound like birds taking flight,
a thousand wings, a thousand beaks turned skyward,
as one, they lift, and rise to azure autumn skies.

--bitbybit

bitbybitfic

new post on ao3


it's a poem from eowyn's pov and i'm pretty proud of it, given it's my first ever post there!

an excerpt:

as she pulls the sword from its sheath, it is
a sound like birds taking flight,
a thousand wings, a thousand beaks turned skyward,
as one, they lift, and rise to azure autumn skies.

--bitbybit

  • September 22, 2024 with 2 notes
there is no peace like being on a fic reading bender, truly not a brain cell to be found over here
there is no peace like being on a fic reading bender, truly not a brain cell to be found over here
  • September 22, 2024 with 19 notes

going to start writing shitty poetry again idk might fuck around and post it here

going to start writing shitty poetry again idk might fuck around and post it here

  • September 16, 2024 with 0 notes
lesbianralzarek

i dont see why i cant start a trend, so here goes. lets try to build back our attention spans. lets try to focus on just one thing for as long as possible. lets not watch those "asmr for people with adhd" videos where they fuck up adhd folks even worse. lets resist the urge to reach for our phones when watching a movie. lets read the articles we reblog, even when theyre boring. i know its hard, i have adhd too, but its worth it. i also know that this hard work doesnt always seem super impressive to other people, so id love for yall to tell me in the tags or replies if youve done something, no matter how small, for your attention span. you deserve to feel like youve taken back some of what social media has ripped from you

lesbianralzarek

i dont see why i cant start a trend, so here goes. lets try to build back our attention spans. lets try to focus on just one thing for as long as possible. lets not watch those "asmr for people with adhd" videos where they fuck up adhd folks even worse. lets resist the urge to reach for our phones when watching a movie. lets read the articles we reblog, even when theyre boring. i know its hard, i have adhd too, but its worth it. i also know that this hard work doesnt always seem super impressive to other people, so id love for yall to tell me in the tags or replies if youve done something, no matter how small, for your attention span. you deserve to feel like youve taken back some of what social media has ripped from you

  • August 08, 2024 with 98,042 notes
8-2-2024

currently trying to write 500,000 words between dec 1, 2023 and nov 30, 2024 (a full calendar year, but ending on nanowrimo). after tallying up June’s words, am up to 197,588, currently ~94k words short of my goal.

i am a whole novel’s worth of words short of my goal, whoooopsie

better get back to it if I want to catch up

x

8-2-2024

currently trying to write 500,000 words between dec 1, 2023 and nov 30, 2024 (a full calendar year, but ending on nanowrimo). after tallying up June’s words, am up to 197,588, currently ~94k words short of my goal.

i am a whole novel’s worth of words short of my goal, whoooopsie

better get back to it if I want to catch up

x

  • July 02, 2024 with 1 note
8-1-2024

kind of want to hide out here again

8-1-2024

kind of want to hide out here again

  • July 01, 2024 with 2 notes
wyrmholemagazine

where am i? why am i in this HOLE?

welcome to the HOLE!

this Hole (read: tumblr) is the Secret Backend (hehe) of WYRMHOLE: our very serious and very professional speculative fiction magazine.

every month we publish one (1) original short story, 6-10 scifi + fantasy recs, and our signature Wildcard Editorial, ft everything from magazine gijinkas to baja blast pie experimentation. If you'd like to submit to us, we pay the professional rate of 10c/word for an acceptance! Only requirements:

  1. story is speculative
  2. story is original
  3. story is <4k words
  4. story contains hidden meme

we're 100% serious ab this. uwu.

ok enough being professional. follow this blog (read: HOLE) for writing/editing shop talk, parasocialism, worm and hole memes, and also shitposting and staring into the abyss and abyss walks out and you have tea together and then you never see your family again.

Subscribe HERE.

wyrmholemagazine

where am i? why am i in this HOLE?

welcome to the HOLE!

this Hole (read: tumblr) is the Secret Backend (hehe) of WYRMHOLE: our very serious and very professional speculative fiction magazine.

every month we publish one (1) original short story, 6-10 scifi + fantasy recs, and our signature Wildcard Editorial, ft everything from magazine gijinkas to baja blast pie experimentation. If you'd like to submit to us, we pay the professional rate of 10c/word for an acceptance! Only requirements:

  1. story is speculative
  2. story is original
  3. story is <4k words
  4. story contains hidden meme

we're 100% serious ab this. uwu.

ok enough being professional. follow this blog (read: HOLE) for writing/editing shop talk, parasocialism, worm and hole memes, and also shitposting and staring into the abyss and abyss walks out and you have tea together and then you never see your family again.

Subscribe HERE.

  • July 01, 2024 with 9 notes
NaNo Day 14


19,361 words and hanging in there. I wrote 5,500 words yesterday, 1,900 today. I’m nearing the end of the manuscript that i’m working on. A manuscript that I’ve been working on in some form or another since, like, I first had a nightmare that inspired it in August 2020. Really hoping to finish it tomorrow. I’m not looking forward to it, because a main character dies and writing that is stressful. I literally have such a tense jaw right now from the last two days of drafting leading up to the third act.

AH.

Anyway.

Thinking of being here more often. Everywhere else makes me tired.

That’s all.

x

NaNo Day 14


19,361 words and hanging in there. I wrote 5,500 words yesterday, 1,900 today. I’m nearing the end of the manuscript that i’m working on. A manuscript that I’ve been working on in some form or another since, like, I first had a nightmare that inspired it in August 2020. Really hoping to finish it tomorrow. I’m not looking forward to it, because a main character dies and writing that is stressful. I literally have such a tense jaw right now from the last two days of drafting leading up to the third act.

AH.

Anyway.

Thinking of being here more often. Everywhere else makes me tired.

That’s all.

x

  • November 14, 2023 with 5 notes
cool hack: flood your elected representatives’ offices with faxes demanding for a ceasefire

fight fire with fire

fight boomers with FAXES

faxzero.com

cool hack: flood your elected representatives’ offices with faxes demanding for a ceasefire

fight fire with fire

fight boomers with FAXES

faxzero.com

  • November 13, 2023 with 7 notes
writingdotcoffee

“Writing is really a way of thinking – not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.”

— Toni Morrison

writingdotcoffee

“Writing is really a way of thinking – not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.”

— Toni Morrison

  • June 10, 2023 with 242 notes

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