M. Dee

He’s the sole heir to a banking empire, but all he wants is to work on art. They say it’s a mistake. Then he meets Sara in a café. No social media. No phone numbers. No last names. Just Sara & Heck, talking about music, movies, and life in between. tr.ee/WrLtUM

@justcastellon But that fvck Tiago and AI fake reviewer Lakewood said it's a cookbook.

@Plotwist_ing @justcastellon Nah.

@justcastellon @mdee_writes I knew it! 😅 He should definitely quit, though. 😌

Why the fck am I getting nicotine products ads? Isn't it banned? 💀

BRANDING COLORS Your #bookcover is influenced by your story and characters. It's the visual artform of your synopsis, the central image that represents everything within. Color, on the other hand, signals something deeper. It imprints on the subconscious while you're writing your story. In my novel Gnight Sara / ‘Night Heck (with @mdee_writes), I wrote the second part in Paris, where Sara had moved. Every day at my favorite spot, Café Bohème, I wrote with rows of rental bikes almost directly in front of me. Sometimes I'd just stare at them while processing a dialogue or scene. If Tiffany has Tiffany Blue, I have Sara's Teal. Your #branding elements aren't random. They're rooted in your story. These are the things you need to tell your book designer when you commission them to design yours.

Loved working on this one! Mitchell Hadley's 'The Book of Revelations' launches June 16, and every piece we worked on had one job; make you *feel* the book before you read a single word. The color palette used is showcased below. The mood and aesthetic is dark and cinematic, designed to match the weight of the story. Idea stolen from the great @justcastellon. 🫶🏻

Them: I like the bright orange. Them: Is that Mandarin Orange? Me: It's Konstantine Orange. COLOR PALETTE 🟠🧡🍊 Every visual designer knows this: not all colors are created equal. The right one doesn't come off a swatch. It takes days, sometimes weeks, to formulate a color that belongs to the work and nothing else. #brandingcolors

'Of Darkness and Light' has a new cover!!! ✨🖤 The original was beautiful, and the designer who made it did exactly what I asked for. But after years of promoting it, a cover can start to blend into the noise. Sometimes a change isn't about what was wrong... it's about what's next. This new one feels quieter. More like the poems inside it. Which one do you prefer? Vote below!

@GaiusKonstantin @justcastellon Congratulations on the new edition. You're in good hands. I will check it out. The old cover is still in transit.

@mdee_writes @justcastellon I can't answer that in general. She took my case on as its unique due to multiple factors. I also think she was hell-bent on proving her point, I don't know.

Testing the waters There’s a drawback to being a literary critic, and that is partial tunnel vision. What I mean by that is that I focus exclusively on the book itself, sometimes selecting a title without a cover to look at. If there is a cover, that doesn’t sway my overall rating. Great, but that doesn’t work for Gaius the author so changes are coming. There’s a big bonus here for us though as I wrote and released Fading Away with zero marketing and no concern about the cover. Both of these things will now change and I’ll be able to see the impact. Regardless what happens, I’ll share the results

@GaiusKonstantin @justcastellon Is she accepting private clients now?

@mdee_writes It's all @justcastellon and the feedback should be valuable to her as well. I started with a baseline of zero, so the impact will be easier to identify.

Free on Kindle Unlimited: #GnightSaraNightHeck. Sara. Heck. Two voices. A little messy. Very real. Co-written with @justcastellon in a true he said/she said on love, sex, friendship, and his side of it too. 👇 👇 👇 👇 👇 #KindleUnlimited #BookTok #booktwt

I'm melting. Buy my books before they melt too? 😅

@KyleOwe02309720 Ice cream belongs to the dairy section of the supermarket. That's under breakfast food. Mine is a newly lighted cig and a left over beer from last night.

I forgot to get Cheerios yesterday, so I ate an ice cream sandwich for breakfast. Don't tell Mom. 😂 I also found a pair of black socks. Most of my socks have cartoons on them. I now feel and act like a gentleman. Providing you overlook the ice cream sandwich. 😂Enjoy your day.

@CollingsMaccrae Thank you for buying our book and it's sequel. It was a privilege to co-write it with Justine. It’s probably my first and last book, so I’m very proud of this one. I think she’s releasing a new one. The Runaway Prince focus on Heck n his brother, partly a parallel story to Book 2

@mdee_writes I love this book.

In music, they call it a one-hit wonder. In writing, that’s me. I did it once and never again.

@ZsaffrynTerra @justcastellon Thank you very much Zsaffryn.

@mdee_writes @justcastellon Welcome to X’s writing community 🪶

I think I need to introduce myself to this #writingcommunity. I’m Mike, the other writer behind Heck in Gnight Sara / 'Night Heck, co-written with @justcastellon. My co-author said she is stepping away from X, and I was tasked to get the noise running for our book.

The novel #GnightSaraNightHeck co-written with @justcastellon is a conversation about music and movies inside an NYC café. “Transatlanticism” by Death Cab for Cutie is one of them—the first song that connected Sara and Heck.

@justcastellon Are you back? I hope you're feeling better and fixed whatever needed fixing. You can still take a break. I’m enjoying my new role.

They say ice cream or any sweet is a mood shifter. After the shitty day I had, I’m really hoping that’s true. 🍨

@AutisticRedHead That's awesome Gaby.

Thank you 🫀🫀 amazon.com/dp/8797694339

@KyleOwe02309720 @justcastellon

@mdee_writes @justcastellon

@KyleOwe02309720 @justcastellon Thanks Kyle. I need to earn my book royalties.

@mdee_writes @justcastellon I hear ya noise. 👍😂