Silly jack russel with white belly lying on her back on a yellow couch and looking cheeky at the camera
Cute white and brown jack russellying on an orange camping quilt and looking at the camera
This little nugget escaped from the neighbors to visit and made herself right at home, which meant I had a delightful afternoon of doggy cuddles
Okay well that's pretty cool
Moodboard for THE GODS OF ATALANTIS featuring: Ancient board games, temples with waterfalls pouring into pools, neat ancient fantasy cities, forehead kisses, frolicking in canals amid a palace, beautiful island coastlines, more ancient cities, and cool statues of strange gods. Center Quote: “From the day you left this village, you became more than merely yourself. You are the Sea Mother. This is the role fate has placed upon you. I told you when you left that I believed this path has opened up to you for a reason. I still believe that. You’ve been given a chance that few others ever have—the chance to change the world for the better. I’d even dare say it’s your duty to do so, now that you have the means.”
Digital painting by me of Mireia, the MC of my Atlantis trilogy, standing with her arms spread out in front of a carved wall relief of her goddess alter-ego, Mu'u the Sea Mother. Mireia is a teenage girl with light brown skin, long dark brown wavy hair, and gray eyes, wearing a blue garment that clasps at her left shoulder, a wide purple cloth belt, and a few pieces of gold jewelry. Mu'u is a feminine figure with a large coral-like headdress, obsidian eyes, and seven scaly arms holding various objects: a skull, a fish, a hammer, a lyre, a bundle of lightning bolts, a swaddled baby, and a small boat. Behind her is a background of cliffs and sea waves full of ocean creatures & human figures sunk at the bottom.
Hey Bluesky friends!
Just another reminder that I'm currently looking for ARC readers for my book THE GODS OF ATALANTIS - coming soon!
Slow-burn romance! Fantasy politics! Magic crystals!✨
If you like things like ATLA & FMA:B, this is for you! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
You live in a transphobic context, just like you live in a context of racism, misogyny, ableism, classism, and other oppressions. You need to constantly, consciously reflect on how you navigate the world because those bigoted contexts will pervade your beliefs and actions. We owe that to each other.
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Black and white kindle cover of The Seep, set against bright green moss.
The Seep was an eerie, dripping alien invasion that beautifully portrayed grief in the strangest of circumstances.
#weirdlit #fantasy #alieninvasion #theseep
What a stunning photo- it is one of my favorite birds
This looks awesome! I signed up :)
🤣 this little story made my day hahaha
Oh sorry lol I am comically bad at social media, I don't know how anything works
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Thanks!! It feels good to be in the flow 😍
I've been veeery busy for a few months and not been able to write much, but am happy to have gotten back into the flow the past few weeks and have the energy to post a #WIPsnip again🙂
#writinganovel #amwriting #yafantasy
The book Honeyeater, whose cover portrays a face blended with bird and tropical flowers, held up against greenery and pink flowers
Kathleen Jennings exquisite language made the swampy suburb feel like a beautiful nightmare. I loved the unsettling mystery in Honeyeater and can't wait to read Flyaway!
#ausfantasy #ausauthors #speculativefiction #bodyhorror
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Congratulations! How exciting :) (I'm applying for the short story workshop this year) Your novel idea sounds incredible
Favorite quote I've read today: "The source of wonder and horror is the same, and the boundary between them thinner than you would think."
-A Practical Guide to Evil by David Verburg
I'd love to explore that boundary in my writing!
#indieauthors #fantasy #apracticalguidetoevil
2026 Fiction Submissions Strange Horizons January 19 to 21
Strange Horizons fiction submissions open next Monday!
The window will be open for 48 hours from 3 p.m. UTC on January 19th 2026 to 3 p.m. UTC on January 21st 2026.
There will be no cap.
More information on submitting, including the link to our Moksha portal ⬇️
strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.
Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
My partner and I have made a very serious relationship decision: it is time to re-read A Practical Guide to Evil (practicalguidetoevil.wordpress.com/table-of-con...)
Cue obsessive analysis of every character and plotpoint!!!
Apparently the web series is now being published as ebooks 🤩
#fantasy
Petition against deep sea mining near Mariana Trench gaining support
That thing is stunningly beautiful
Hi! This is such a cool project! As someone who also does not have a science background but loves nature and particularly the ocean, I am curious, where are you finding the names of the deep sea creatures?
THE WELKIN MINI. For micros up to 100 words. Free to enter. Deadline = 2nd January 2026. 1st prize = £75, 2nd prize = £40, 3rd prize = £25, HC = £10.
I may have got a little over-excited and opened entries a little early. I'm not going to start reading until Monday, but if you want to send something over the weekend, you are welcome to do so:
www.mattkendrick.co.uk/welkin-prize...
There was one thing that none of my mentors told me about life in a large bookshop....
The pages of 45000+ books slurp a lot of water out of the air 📚
The humidity in here is currently 25%. When the temperature drops, it can get down to 20%.
Nobody warned me I'd need gallons of moisturizer 🙄
It was awesome! I loved it, really exceptionally crafted.
This nice post is about me (nobody was paid to write it!!!) - anyway it’s all true, I do dole out publishing advice on the tumblr. If you want to ask questions that’s great, but I beg you to look at the FAQ first — after a decade, many of them have been asked many times! 😘
