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10/21/2026

It’s been a long road to release day, and to celebrate, we’re sharing all the moments that didn’t make the final cut 😉

Never Too Young is a charity anthology, edited and compiled by A.M. Tyson and Olivia J. Bennett, featuring 27 poems and essays on what it means to be chronically ill as a young person.

It features:

Olivia J. Bennett (.j.creates)
Kaleigh Schmidt ()
Devin Araneta ()
Kelly Esparza ()
Jordan Corley
Maya Jeanne (.jeanne)
Alysha Everwood (.of.a.bookworm)
Savannah Hernandez
Meg McBain ()
ZiAr ()
Lily March
Mattie Paige ()
A.M. Tyson (.tyson.writes)
Makena Metz ()
Marissa Anne ()
Mary K. Gowdy ()
Marwa Hussain ()
Brittney Kristina (.kristina)

All proceeds from the sale of this anthology will be donated directly to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, which aims to provide medical and humanitarian relief collectively and individually to children throughout the Levant, regardless of their nationality or religion.

Out now 🦌🍄💜

Order a copy here: bit.ly/oliviajbennett

or via the 🔗in profile

NOTE: Never Too Young, its creators, editors, and featured authors are not endorsed by, directly affiliated with, or sponsored by Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.
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10/19/2026

“What’s a funny alternate title for your piece?”

Every writer understands the titling struggle. Whether it’s the quandary of pulling the right allusion from a section of your piece, or crafting an all-encompassing metaphor that is both succinct and poignant.

But what about the titles that never were, or rather, the titles from a dimension where chronic illness was a little less scary, and a lot funnier?

Never Too Young is a charity anthology, edited and compiled by A.M. Tyson and Olivia J. Bennett, featuring 27 poems and essays on what it means to be chronically ill as a young person.

It features:

Olivia J. Bennett (.j.creates)
Kaleigh Schmidt ()
Devin Araneta ()
Kelly Esparza ()
Jordan Corley
Maya Jeanne (.jeanne)
Alysha Everwood (.of.a.bookworm)
Savannah Hernandez
Meg McBain ()
ZiAr ()
Lily March
Mattie Paige ()
A.M. Tyson (.tyson.writes)
Makena Metz ()
Marissa Anne ()
Mary K. Gowdy ()
Marwa Hussain ()
Brittney Kristina (.kristina)

All proceeds from the sale of this anthology will be donated directly to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, which aims to provide medical and humanitarian relief collectively and individually to children throughout the Levant, regardless of their nationality or religion.

Available Oct. 20, 2026 🦌🍄💜

Pre-order an e-copy here: https://a.co/d/08phN4Mm

or via the 🔗in profile

NOTE: Never Too Young, its creators, editors, and featured authors are not endorsed by, directly affiliated with, or sponsored by Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.’

10/17/2026

Q: Sum your piece up in one short sentence/give an elevator pitch.

“Like Water Over Stones” is a flash creative nonfiction piece. A narrative told through a series of vignettes, Olivia navigates medical gaslighting and radical acceptance through metaphor and memory.

More about me:

Olivia J. Bennett (26, she/they) is an award-winning author and freelance editor. Her chronic illness diagnoses include TMJ disorder (TMD) which she wrote about for ’s fourth volume, and recurrent UTIs, which she wrote about for this anthology. When not creating, Olivia can be found baking cookies, watching Naruto or Lost with their partner, or cuddling their two cats. She lives in Illinois.

Never Too Young is a charity anthology, edited and compiled by A.M. Tyson and Olivia J. Bennett, featuring 27 poems and essays on what it means to be chronically ill as a young person.

It features:

Olivia J. Bennett (.j.creates)
Kaleigh Schmidt ()
Devin Araneta ()
Kelly Esparza ()
Jordan Corley
Maya Jeanne (.jeanne)
Alysha Everwood (.of.a.bookworm)
Savannah Hernandez
Meg McBain ()
ZiAr ()
Lily March
Mattie Paige ()
A.M. Tyson (.tyson.writes)
Makena Metz ()
Marissa Anne ()
Mary K. Gowdy ()
Marwa Hussain ()
Brittney Kristina (.kristina)

All proceeds from the sale of this anthology will be donated directly to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, which aims to provide medical and humanitarian relief collectively and individually to children throughout the Levant, regardless of their nationality or religion.

Print version available Oct. 20, 2026 🦌🍄💜
Pre-order an e-copy here: https://a.co/d/08phN4Mm

or via the 🔗in profile

NOTE: Never Too Young, its creators, editors, and featured authors are not endorsed by, directly affiliated with, or sponsored by Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.

10/16/2026

Q: What are some challenges you ran into when writing/revising your piece?

“Bone Spurs and Blueberry Pie,” published in ’s fourth volume, is a 2025 Pushcart Prize-nominated creative nonfiction piece that uses the analogy of a blueberry pie (my favorite!) to describe how much of my daily life my chronic illness consumes.

“Like Water Over Stones” is a flash creative nonfiction piece. A narrative told through a series of vignettes, Olivia navigates medical gaslighting and radical acceptance through metaphor and memory.

More about me:

Olivia J. Bennett (26, she/they) is an award-winning author and freelance editor. Her chronic illness diagnoses include TMJ disorder (TMD) which she wrote about for ’s fourth volume, and recurrent UTIs, which she wrote about for this anthology. When not creating, Olivia can be found baking cookies, watching Naruto or Lost with their partner, or cuddling their two cats. She lives in Illinois.

Never Too Young is a charity anthology, edited and compiled by A.M. Tyson and Olivia J. Bennett, featuring 27 poems and essays on what it means to be chronically ill as a young person.

All proceeds from the sale of this anthology will be donated directly to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, which aims to provide medical and humanitarian relief collectively and individually to children throughout the Levant, regardless of their nationality or religion.

Print version available Oct. 20, 2026 🦌🍄💜
Pre-order an e-copy here: https://a.co/d/08phN4Mm

or via the 🔗in profile

NOTE: Never Too Young, its creators, editors, and featured authors are not endorsed by, directly affiliated with, or sponsored by Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.

10/15/2026

Q: Have you written much on your chronic illness before? How was this experience different from past writing experiences?

“Bone Spurs and Blueberry Pie,” published in ’s fourth volume, is a 2025 Pushcart Prize-nominated creative nonfiction piece that uses the analogy of a blueberry pie (my favorite!) to describe how much of my daily life my chronic illness consumes.

“Like Water Over Stones” is a flash creative nonfiction piece. A narrative told through a series of vignettes, Olivia navigates medical gaslighting and radical acceptance through metaphor and memory.

More about me:

Olivia J. Bennett (26, she/they) is an award-winning author and freelance editor. Her chronic illness diagnoses include TMJ disorder (TMD) which she wrote about for ’s fourth volume, and recurrent UTIs, which she wrote about for this anthology. When not creating, Olivia can be found baking cookies, watching Naruto or Lost with their partner, or cuddling their two cats. She lives in Illinois.

Never Too Young is a charity anthology, edited and compiled by A.M. Tyson and Olivia J. Bennett, featuring 27 poems and essays on what it means to be chronically ill as a young person.

All proceeds from the sale of this anthology will be donated directly to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, which aims to provide medical and humanitarian relief collectively and individually to children throughout the Levant, regardless of their nationality or religion.

Print version available Oct. 20, 2026 🦌🍄💜
Pre-order an e-copy here: https://a.co/d/08phN4Mm

or via the 🔗in profile

NOTE: Never Too Young, its creators, editors, and featured authors are not endorsed by, directly affiliated with, or sponsored by Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.

so little writing got done on my part and I was sick half the time but I still wouldn’t have traded time with these guys...
09/17/2026

so little writing got done on my part and I was sick half the time but I still wouldn’t have traded time with these guys for the WORLD💗

GEN AI COULD NEVER ‼️•What makes art so great is that it is simultaneously a microcosm of one person’s individual experi...
08/31/2026

GEN AI COULD NEVER ‼️
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What makes art so great is that it is simultaneously a microcosm of one person’s individual experience and an expression of universal humanity that we all experience. Casually Homicidal, and all of the other books on this carousel, was created from the synthesis of my personal trauma and the way I make meaning of the world—but also, it speaks to something that lives inside all of us. It’s this lens that allows us, both as writers and readers, to peer through a keyhole into the ballroom of the divine—the energy and indomitable human spirit that connects us. If you don’t like my keyhole, just take a step to the right and find another. Good thing they’ll all lead us to the same place.
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Sorry for getting esoteric on what’s supposed to be a funny meme post, but that’s why I feel so strongly about why generative artificial intelligence—large language models—has no place in creative endeavors. It’s because they are unable to make meaning in the same way we are. It is predictive algorithms—ones without true autonomy or self-awareness. It only seems like it does, because that’s how we’ve programmed these LLMs to speak. Its only by listening to the voices in your head and exploring the 3-4 highly personal thematic narratives that haunt your psyche will you write something that’s not only personally fulfilling, but something will allow you to connect with others on that meaningful level we all yearn for.
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(No I did not write this using AI, since I see a lot of long Instagram captions that are clearly AI generated. Thanks.) 🏷️

TO CHASE A PROPHECY by Sterling M.Z. | Fantasy Author
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FOR FANS OF
🗡️women with swords
💛golden retriever-coded men
🐍a manipulative villainess
📜epic quests
✨prophetic destinies
❤️tending wounds
🌟chosen ones
🤜🤛mentor-mentee
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GORGON: THE CRIMSON WITCH by John N. || YA Dark Fantasy Author
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FOR FANS OF
🤜🏾witches throwing hands
🏛️Greek mythology
🔮shōnen anime
🔥elemental magic
⚔️epic battles
💞Sisterhood and found family
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A RARITY

Been busy doing a whole lotta nothing✨ That’s not totally true. I finished the first *real* draft of NBTTD (the zombie b...
08/15/2026

Been busy doing a whole lotta nothing✨ That’s not totally true. I finished the first *real* draft of NBTTD (the zombie book I’ve been working on periodically since 2020; title forthcoming) recently, and I’ve spent a good chunk of vacation doing paper-based edits on it, which involves printing out the whole thing, reading it through, and marking it up with various color-coded gel pens. Paper-based edits are an integral part of any publishing process for me, since transferring the story to a new medium and seeing it printed out on paper and ink helps me get a better perspective and scope of the story. If you haven’t tried it, I highly recommend it! As for color coding: red is for copyedits, blue is for line edits, purple is developmental edits, and orange is formatting edits.
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Oh yeah, about vacation. We were up in the Michigan UP for the second time. We did some stuff alongside doing a whole lotta nothing (hiking, a boat and lighthouse tour) but the highlight was probably the food OMG. We had lasagna that was a whole meal, creme brûlée, authentic butter chicken, and, of course, Culver’s! or whatever.

Been a HOT☀️ minute since I’ve updated my editing services. The only changes are to my sample catalog. I’m SO PROUD of t...
07/09/2026

Been a HOT☀️ minute since I’ve updated my editing services. The only changes are to my sample catalog. I’m SO PROUD of the work I’ve done, especially over the past year. If you’ve been my client before, leave your favorite part of working with me in the comments!💝
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Now booking August through the end of the year! There are plenty of ways to get in contact with me: send me a DM, email at [email protected], or via the form on my website! 🔗 in b!o!
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My rates are flexible, too! I would rather have you as a client rather than price you out of quality editing. Please send me a message if you’re interested in a sliding scale💝

Gorgon: the Crimson Witch and Gorgon: the Minotaur’s Wrath by John N. || YA Dark Fantasy Author
The Peddler by Elyssa S. Schwendy
Deadheads by Eleanor Wells
The Unwavering Ache by Brittney Kristina
The Shadow Bound Queen series by Eliza Raine
Mission Possible: by Alexandra Allred
Scales of Flame by Meghan Le Fay
The Bookfell by J. Bird
I’ve Been Here Before and Other Stories by Eleanor Wells
To Chase a Prophecy by Sterling M.Z. | Fantasy Author
Sybella: the Fly on the Wall by Lisa Vasquez
Genesis by Anna Mercury
Ease the Chaos by Renee Welk
Narrative Wins! by Joe Caruso et. al
Goblin Teeth #1 by Jim Quill

AND MORE forthcoming soon!!

SPRAYED EDGES HEY HOW ARE YA😍•🌲•🚗•🔪•📸•♥️•🌲•🚗•🔪•📸•After watching Sterling M.Z. | Fantasy Author create gorgeous sprayed e...
07/07/2026

SPRAYED EDGES HEY HOW ARE YA😍
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After watching Sterling M.Z. | Fantasy Author create gorgeous sprayed edges for her debut, I knew I wanted to try it out! These are now up on my website! [🔗 in b!o] There are two options to pick from: “blood splatter” and teal that come with unique swag bundles. Swipe for more
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FOR FANS OF:
🌦️grumpy X sunshine
❤️‍🔥existential teen angst
🔪true crime
🧠mental health rep
🫂platonic soulmates
🇺🇸American gothic
🏕️adventure vibes
📖literary prose that’s not pretentious
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Hendrix Bundle🔪
• “blood splatter” edges
• Hendrix bookmark
• Arden sticker
•exclusive art print

Arden Bundle📸
• teal sprayed edges
• Arden bookmark
• Hendrix sticker
• exclusive art print

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