Lilly Lockwood 🔥SoBB is out NOW!🔔

Image of 9 books covers for books by Helen Whistberry: Roadkill, shows a highway with animal skeletons on it; The Final Voyage of Avery Mothmere, has a black cat playing with an old-fashioned sailing ship; When Your Heart is a Broken Thing, has a white rabbit crying red tears and a red rabbit with skeleton exposed crying blue tears; Once Upon a Wave of Witches, with co-author Eli Belt, has a green kraken tentacle sweeping through turbulent blue waves; The Tail of Nightshade, has a gray mouse among purple nightshade blooms; The Melody of Trees, has a red fox among twining tree branches; The Weird Sisters, has a full moon behind tombstones with a hand visible lying on the ground; The Avenging Angel, has a full moon behind a mansion; The Ghostly Groom, has a full moon behind a tombstone with a black bird on top of it.

World Book Day? I have books, though I don't talk about them as much as I should which means nobody buys them, but if you're into classic mysteries or dark fantasy or hopeful horror or fractured folk tales and enjoy illustrated books, I got 'em!

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a pixel art illustration of a crying smiley face Alt: Thanos snapped anguish emoji

I can’t believe you’ve murdered me in my own home

I’m a big fan of Under the Dragon Moon by Mawce. The mc is a trans man and the spicy scenes are quite good

Finally managed to write for the first time in like two months 🎉

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Dungeon Crawl Classics! It’s a very fun old school revival style game (styled after OD&D). The mechanics are pretty simple, chaotic, and highly deadly

If you're looking to read more Canadian authors, there's a bundle for that! (:

It’s definitely Mark on You by The Mountain Goats for False Knight, it perfectly captures the central theme of the story

Thanks! I submitted a Magnus Archives game (mothman themed), Wildsea (more of a freeform adventure), and a DCC 0 level funnel (the 0 level portion from The Exodus of Wolfbane)

And with that, my friends, I have finished my didactic semesters of vet school. So excited to never take a final exam ever again.

I think it's time for a friendly reminder that if your profile pic is AI you're gonna get an insta block from me :)

If they gave out superlatives in vet school I would get "Most likely to take their puppy to the ER for a loose baby tooth"

(because that's what I spent my afternoon doing, thought it was fractured. Nope, just hanging on by a thread😌Nearly passed away out of embarrassment when the vet yanked it out)

Oh look it's my fav problematic daughter and her science experiment 💕

Digital drawing of Owen and Kenzie from Aud Connelly's Dogwood series. Owen is leaning against Kenzie, who holds his cigarette just out of reach. She faces the viewer, but her eyes are slanted sideways looking at something off screen. Owen is making an annoyed expression, unaware that she's not even paying attention to him.

Commission for @audconnelly.bsky.social of Owen & Kenzie from her Dogwood series! 🐇❄️

#art | #commission | #artcommission

One exam down, two to go 😩

I think you pulled off that dynamic perfectly in book 1 💕

I've submitted my events for GenCon 😁
Now back to studying for radiology final 😔

My most recent release is "A Taste of Wild Honey" - it's a supplemental short story for Sweet & Wild!

Sweet & Wild is a MM Fantasy Romance! 💛🐝
"A Taste of Wild Honey" is an erotic short! 🍯

Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur...
Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io
Uni. Link: books2read.com/u/bzNng9

A landscape art piece featuring part of a large stump covered in buildings and a watchtower. There is a large stag beetle wearing a saddle on the stump. In the distance is a vast field of treetops with tall redwoods reaching above. Art by me

Posting this purely so that people can see the lil stag beetle the people of Home Stump use as transportation

(I hate the way the buildings look but I was getting bored with the piece and am too eepy to try and fix them)

A rudimentary map titled The Heights.The top right corner is orange while the rest of the background is green (it's all treetops. There are major landmarks noted like Kardonak (a small mountain range), Home stump (a massive tree stump), The tower (a crumbling tower of a civilization long forgotten), The Echoes (a large chasm within the treetops), Endok's Rest (the skull of a leviathan), and Farelight (a tall redwood with a platform looping around it)

I've been designing a Wildsea RPG reach as a little treat for myself and of course I had to make a map for it

(yes I should be studying, give a guy a break, I can only look at xrays for so long before my eyes start to glaze over)

Because Val’hoon is a queernormative world the only thing my character’s sexual orientation really affects is who I pair them up with, if anyone

#AwesomeCharacters

🔥 Songs of Broken Bells
Líadan: lesbian
Aila: pan
Vasil: bi
Minno: bi

🕊️ Without Wings
Fallen angel: aroace
Toska: demisexual
Bodil: queer (doesn’t care much for specific labels)

⚔️ False Knight
Aloís: lesbian
Jette: lesbian
Kit: aroace
Eld: aroace
Kannan: undecided

Woooo! Congrats!

I especially love the lil ant

This is so cuuuute!

pixel art of mushrooms in a purple world, at night with a purple crescent moon in the sky. An ant is coming upon the mushrooms

Today's pixel art practice: mushrooms! I joined Lospec, a website for pixel artists with lots of neat resources including this palette. Their #lospecdailies theme of the day today is #mushrooms and I was already planning to draw some, so that worked out well!

Just practicing for fun and relaxation😊

Listen, someone's gotta write anostalgic rural Irish ghost stories! May as well be me!

This is a fantasy novel about Nil, a several-hundred-year-old Elven assassin in unwilling service to a merciless goddess, pursuing a magical dagger. It’s a science fiction novel about Sook, whose father rules a corporate empire based on creating hundreds and thousands of clones of her. And it’s a spicy, spicy romance as the two women are drawn to each other. The pace is breakneck, the world-building a glorious, pyrotechnic mash-up of fantasy and sci-fi elements, with an extra helping of pathos and heart. In all honesty, it’s tongue in cheek and weird as hell, and it shouldn’t work, but the author goes into it so hard that you can’t help but be swept up in it, wondering where on earth it’s going next, and rooting for our two heroines to finally get their freedom. I liked both Nil and Sook immensely. In short, it was super. Very much looking forward to the conclusion of the story in the next book. I received an advance review copy for free (thank you to the author!) and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Boom Goes the Bride is a fast, explosive dive into a dystopian world where trillionaires pull the strings and everyone else fights to survive. Sook, daughter of a global power player, is kidnapped—possibly saved—by the enigmatic shadow Nil, kicking off a high‑stakes story where every alliance is questionable and every choice has consequences. The pacing is relentless: chases, gunfights, explosions, and just a spark of romance to keep things interesting. Despite the action, the characters feel sharp and human, and the worldbuilding lands hard without slowing the momentum. The bride goes boom—literally and metaphorically—and the cliffhanger ending makes a sequel feel inevitable. A quick, thrilling hit for fans of cyber‑fantasy, gritty dystopias, and morally grey heroes. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

I was given this book complimentary from Book Sirens in e-book form in return for my honest review. Everything stated in this review is of my own opinion and I was not compensated monetarily for providing this review. A sapphic alternate university fantasy romance that once it gets past it's stuttering start really takes off and engages the reader. Nil is an elven thief enslaved by a goddess and Sook is a corporate princess enslaved to her father and when their paths cross sparks fly, both the romantic type and the high tech firepower chasing the pair. The author creates a fantastic universe merging Gods, demons and fantastic creatures from an elven universe with futuristic weaponry from a future earth brought together by an event called "the pulse" with destroyed the earth in the process. The romance is hot and the chemistry between the two main characters is great. The pace of the book is frantic and reminds me in parts of Hunter S. Thompson if we relace the drugs with magic and missiles. When I started this book I did not think I would like it but after finishing it I find myself looking eagerly forward to #2 Recommended to fans of sci-fi and sapphic romances. Five stars.

The cover of my novel BOOM goes the BRIDE. An elven woman riding a jetbike drops off an asian woman, who is dressed like a greek god. Buildings rise at extreme perspective around them. The word BOOM is in giant yellow letters at the top over a stylized gas giant, followed by a holographic sign on a buildiing saying "goes." The follows as a neon sign jutting from the building, with the "E" out, as if the sign has broken. The word BRIDE flows up an angled platform, with the I being replaced by the asian woman. It is a very energetic scene in lesbian flag colors and blues.

5 stars? How bout FIVE STAR AVERAGE BABY

"It’s tongue in cheek & weird as hell, and it shouldn’t work, but the author goes into it so hard that you can’t help but be swept up"

NOW! that's what I call MY BRAND

(pre)ORDER 💥BOOM GOES THE BRIDE👰 MEOW

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The cover for Without Wings (a pink and purple sky with an angel statue descending head down from the top right corner) in the foreground of a charcoal drawing where a person is looking out at it from a boat. Text: Falling into you e-reader March 13

the Songs of Broken Bells softcover with a brick background. The picture is overlaid with screenshots from goodread which read "This book made me cry--and books don't generally make me cry." "I loved the found family vibe the slow burn romance and the inner struggles everyone faced. " "It is clear from the first page that the world of this novel is vast, full of carefully built, unique creatures, cultures, and settings. The magic system is also special, with its saints and oerents and Tethers, and Hagiographers, all marking different aspects and ways of handling powers that are often destructive and dangerous, but as always, can be also used for good. We step into a living, breathing universe. I also loved the framing device and the little epigraph-like chapters that helped us step outside of the immediate plot and conflict to hear more from a medley of connecting (or disparate) characters and events. Val'hoon and its nations are diverse and intriguing, and even though we only see small slices of it through the span of the story, and a lot of the time, what we find is scary and pretty dark, I felt at home and ready for adventure." "This is an easy recommend for folks looking for rich queer-normative worlds with lots of diversity and world-building, cozy-but-not-cozy fantasy (I'll explain what I mean by that in a moment), and lighter romance/friendship subplots that aren't the central focus." "I liked the grit of the characters' experience. The descriptions of Líadan fighting against her power, against the flames rising in her, felt sincere and urgent. I also appreciated the stakes of the story, with multiple injuries which were not graphic but did feel sobering and grounding." "I liked that the story had darker/serious elements, whilst the cast of characters were wholesome. It made this a comfy read, especially the found family aspect. I wish there were a little more conflict with the characters, but overall I enjoyed their dynamics. I definitely recommend this!"

I have a novelette coming out next month if you haven't heard!
Also Songs of Broken Bells has some really good reviews and I think maybe you should see what all these kind people are talking about for yourself
Without Wings: voicesofvalhoon.itch.io/without-wing...
SoBB: buy.bookfunnel.com/rktaq3muij

I just had my last ever lecture for vet school. I’m 3 exams and one much needed vacation away from starting my clinical rotations 😬 how the hell did this happen so fast?