Vanessa MacLaren-Wray

Vanessa MacLaren-Wray✓

Mastodon @cometarytales@wandering.shop
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📣Sponsored postOne disclosed post (toot) with your link and message. $12→ 🧵Sponsored threadA multi-post explainer or story — the fediverse rewards dept… $30→ 📦Product seeding / honest reviewSend me your product — I post a disclosed, honest take. Auth… $16→ 📌Pinned sponsored postA disclosed post pinned to the top of my profile for the mon… $36/mo→ 🔗Profile link (bio field)Your link in one of my profile metadata fields for the month… $18/mo→ 🔁Boost packageI boost (repost) your account's toots through the month — di… $24/mo→ 🏛️Instance / community sponsorshipSponsor the server I run — a sponsor line in the About/rules… $30/mo→ 🤝Mutual boost collabWe boost each other across instances — a value swap between … Swap→

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Followers
110
Account age
3 yrs

Known for

Thanks to clicking "yes" on the place where they asked "Are you willing to moderate a panel?" I'm moderating not "a panel" but FOUR panels at online Worldcon this coming weekend. The online schedule is just packed...but no need to miss anything, as most panels will be available on replay through 2024. As a reward for moderating, they gave me a reading slot as well, so join me if you're online th2 views Thanks to clicking "yes" on the place where they asked "Are you willing to moderate a panel?" I'm moderating not "a panel" but FOUR panels at online Worldcon this coming weekend. The online schedule is just packed...but no need to miss anything, as most panels will be available on replay through 2024. As a reward for moderating, they gave me a reading slot as well, so join me if you're online th

📊 Post engagement

9
Avg engagement / post
8.2%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since

🔥 Top post: #WordWeavers May 13 - Worst mistake in a final manuscript found · 15 likes + reposts

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence
0.22 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 8 text · 4 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
2.2×
Follows 51 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post #WordWeavers May 13 - Worst mistake in a final manuscript found after publication. A short story in chapbook form. My first romance story: beautiful cover, well-laid-out. On the final page...the critical two lines that tied together the character arcs: Absent. These little boo… ★ 15
Page 2! Riding high on its victory over California newspapers, Google has unleashed its Gemini text chat monster to snarf your thoughts, questions, and ideas. Unencrypted chats, info will be used for marketing. Say "I agree" if you want, but, be a… #WordWeavers Aug 23. Confronted with a difficult decision...? She would cycle, wondering who she might contact, whether they would help or not, second-guessing her own thoughts until time ran out and then she'd decide, while feeling that s… ★ 11 #WordWeavers 16/8 Do your characters have bread? What kind? "Bread" like slang for money? Well, Tama hasn't got any at all, but that's an artifact of cross-continuum travel. Ange has a nice nest egg for the moment, but it won't last much l… ★ 12 #WordWeavers Aug 15: Worst thing MC has done? She declined a call from her sister, and then put her phone on "do not disturb". Why, oh, why didn't she just forward her calls to her assistant? She had an admin by then, a people-tuned perso… ★ 12 Shoot. Got distracted reading WordWeavers posts. Supposed to be doing this here: My publisher's running a sweet offer on a signed 1st ed. of my cozy first-contact adventure with a lazy-ass over-privileged scion of a major crime family tryi… ★ 1 #WordWeavers 8/13 and 8/14 seem to belong together... Use three verbs to describe your MC: gallop, reprogram, nurture Is your MC pretty?: Uhhhh, she would say a hard, "No." Others might differ, but others aren't her. Main point might be… ★ 11 Thanks to clicking "yes" on the place where they asked "Are you willing to moderate a panel?" I'm moderating not "a panel" but FOUR panels at online Worldcon this coming weekend. The online schedule is just packed...but no need to miss any… ★ 2 Gawd, I've missed a lot, but sometimes you just have to scale back, right? 🤦‍♀️ Should shared earlier, but reasons. There's this free online reading hosted by this wonderful group that boosts and brings together non-binary and women write… #WordWeavers May 3 MC POV: What do you dislike about yourself? Mostly, it's that I'm not really good at anything, not like other people. It always feels like I could do better, if I tried harder, practiced more, studied longer. I'm sure … ★ 6 #wordweavers May Day. The setting as character. We are the mountains of Maquil. (we are, we are) We protect all our peoples from outsiders. (and from each other.) We pull storms from the sky, to make our rivers flow. (we overdo at times. … ★ 9

🐘 Community & instance

Home server
wandering.shop
A sci-fi & writing server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 9 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.2× per week.

🛡️ Audience credibility

89/100 Excellent
  • Est. 99% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
  • Strong engagement (~8.2% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
  • Verified account.
  • Established account (3+ years old).
Est. authentic audience
99%
Fake-follower risk
Low
Data confidence
High

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

Writer, science fan, Ph.D. engineer, poet, nerd. Upmarket literary speculative fiction. (she/her) SFWA member. SHADOWS OF INSURRECTION and FLAMES OF ATTRITION are available everywhere! Querying, revising, not waiting. ALT for header image: A man brandishing a sword looks out on a shadowy landscape, with flames surrounding the scene. ALT for avatar: anime girl with big eyes and floofy yellowish hair (no resemblance), wearing a rainbow hat.

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Page 2! Riding high on its victory over California newspapers, Google has unleashed its Gemini text chat monster to snarf your thoughts, questions, and ideas. Unencrypted chats, info will be used for marketing. Say "I agree" if you want, but, be aware of what you're agreeing to, including Google Generative AI terms and conditions. It's a lot of legalese to read. Me, I said "No thanks" and archived Gemini' Thanks to clicking "yes" on the place where they asked "Are you willing to moderate a panel?" I'm moderating not "a panel" but FOUR panels at online Worldcon this coming weekend. The online schedule is just packed...but no need to miss anything, as most panels will be available on replay through 2024. As a reward for moderating, they gave me a reading slot as well, so join me if you're online th Gawd, I've missed a lot, but sometimes you just have to scale back, right? 🤦‍♀️ Should shared earlier, but reasons. There's this free online reading hosted by this wonderful group that boosts and brings together non-binary and women writers. I got the call to fill in when someone had to cancel. Join us, ok?, today and onward? 7pm EDT, June 20. Later, on YouTube, but more fun live. https://strong

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