My friend requested my book be put in her local library! I cannot tell you how thrilled this makes me! #booksky

Happy #portfolioday ! I’m Ali! I’m a bookish artist/illustrator who specializes in character art and illustrated book covers. 📚✨ I work mostly with indie authors, often in romance and fantasy genres, but I’m open to other genres as well. I love drawing your characters! 🫶🏻 #bookishart #artsky

Been playing Split Fiction with my friend the last few days and what a great game! So imaginative, entertaining and just plain fun.

Sang in an impromptu quartet tonight at chorus and it was really lovely and uplifting. I’m glad to sing and tell stories more than ever before. To every person who read my cozy fantasy book, even though it’s not many of you, I cherish sharing part of my heart with you all. Thank you!

Introducing one of the characters from my cozy fantasy book The Soul from the Supernova! Sonny Pippit is a nurturing character who struggles with walking long distances and with body pain. She heals others with her magical sense of touch. #booksky #cozyfantasy #cozybooks

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I wish I knew who started telling Canadian conservatives “we’re about to have an UNELECTED prime minister! 😱” when we have in fact never elected our PM because that’s not how voting works in Canada. My mom is so scared of this “unelected PM”phrasing.

1/ Businesses boycotting AWS would hurt Amazon. Readers boycotting Kindle Unlimited would not. Independent authors are the ONLY ones who suffer when readers stop reading their books. Also, Andy Jassy is the CEO of Amazon; Jeff Bezos hasn't been since 2021.

I am THRILLED to announce the cover image for my cozy fantasy novel, The Soul for the Supernova, is now correctly displaying on bookshop.org 🥰 #booksky #cozyfantasy

Celebrating my 40th birthday today with my cozy fantasy book The Soul from the Supernova that I just released on Friday. Can’t wait to see what’s next 💕

My book is out! So exciting Today is my 40th birthday and I’m thankful I gave myself this gift. 💝

My next book is just going to be the most outrageous hopecore utopia. I need that.

My cozy fantasy book, The Soul from the Supernova, officially releases tomorrow! Celebrating the ending of this stage and excited to see what happens next with my writing. If you need a break from the heaviness of world events, take a look at my book 📕 #booksky #cozybooks

My cozy fantasy comes out on Friday and I received my author copies in time even though the shipment was delayed! #booksky #cozybooks #cozyfantasy #indiebooks

My book shipments have all been delayed and I am sad. #booksky

Hey everyone! I wanted to give a little update - I’ll be raising my prices a bit starting March 3! I also have a new slide for commercial fee info ☺️🫶🏻 Feel free to DM me to book ahead at my current/lower pricing. I don’t charge any booking fees and I have availability starting again in March! 💛

Very excited for my cozy fantasy adventure to come out February 28! Unfortunately, this is the day everyone has chosen for an economic blackout. But the dye is cast and I’m too tired to worry about it. So it shall be. #booksky #cozybooks

Melvene Keentrack’s mother was supposed to be dead. But now that she’s old enough for adventures of her own, it’s time for her to uncover the truth of her family’s past and discover how she belongs in the world. 🧶Cozy fantasy 💗 Found Family 🗺️ World building ☺️ Low-stakes #Questpit #w #SFF #F #A

Made this video to talk about indie author “alternatives” for print books outside of Amazon! #booksky #authorcommunity #indiebooks youtu.be/xYu-wwR16XE?...

My beautiful book characters 😍😍 My cozy fantasy adventure The Soul from the Supernova comes out February 28! #cozybooks #cozyfantasy #booksky

Loving Civilization 7 so much! I am losing though 😂 I think I’ll just start again now that I have a better feel for the game. It’s pretty different to the previous versions while still completely feeling like a civ game.

My cozy fantasy book comes out in 20 days! #cozybooks #booksky

A video about my upcoming cozy fantasy adventure The Soul from the Supernova, releasing worldwide on February 28, 2025 #booksky #cozybooks #cozyfantasy #indiebooks

I sure picked the dumbest year to bring my debut fantasy novel into the world. But The Soul from the Supernova is heartwarming and cozy and maybe people will enjoy that escape from the horrors going on. #booksky #cozyfantasy #indieauthor

I had to override my screen time limits because of insomnia. And now my insomnia will be worse from all the awful things I see while doomscrolling. What a cycle.

After a lot of time and effort I’ve determined it is pretty hard for an indie author to move away from using Amazon for print books. All other options cost significantly more money which a lot of us indies just don’t have. Doesn’t mean I’m giving up but I wish this was better understood.

This is my energy for 2025

I went ahead and set 1.5 hours of screen time on all my social media apps so I can’t doom scroll the play by plays of evil happening right now. I hope this works

4 chapters left in this round of edits before my final read through. It’s going to feel so strange to say this book is DONE! But by this time next week, it will be. #writingcommunity #booksky

I really don’t enjoy fighting with my website. Half the time I can’t figure out why things are not working as they should. Indie author life is hard sometimes!

Dear Indie authors outside the US (I’m in Canada), what are your alternatives to Amazon for print books? How much more expensive is it to print from these alternatives? I don’t mean print on demand. I mean for me personally carrying author copies. I already use Ingram spark. #booksky #indieauthor

My book will be available on other platforms soon (including my author website) if you’re looking to abandon Amazon! But here’s my cozy fantasy book coming Feb 28, 2025 #booksky #cozybooks

I write poems and send out exclusive poetry every month in my author newsletter! Talesofangela.com I also write cozy fantasy. #booksky #poetry

I’m can’t wait to show the character art for my upcoming cozy fantasy adventure with Firefly vibes, magical technology and found family. The artist has been sketching the characters and it’s like she extracted them straight from my brain!

Trying to buy only Canadian brands as much as possible and was relieved to find that Dare is Canadian based. So my kids can still eat Bear Paws

I’m supposed to finish this proofread of my book, and I really want to do it because it’s so close to release day now but… my cat is sleeping on me. It would be cruel to move her.

Opening the proof of my new cozy fantasy book, the Soul from the Supernova #booksky #cozyfantasy

Trying again to introduce myself on bluesky as I make my transition away from the meta nightmare… I’m a Canadian author 🇨🇦 and poet with a cozy fantasy adventure coming out February 28! I’ll follow back other authors and artists. 💖📚 #booksky

The proof copy of my cozy fantasy book, The Soul from the Supernova is here! Coming out February 28, 2025 and I’m so happy with how it’s turned out! 😍

I deleted all the meta apps from my phone. I will need to return to insta at some point to talk to the wonderful artist I’m working with on character art, but this is basically a trial run for me logging out of meta forever. It feels good. Back to editing I go. I have a book to release!

I recently started a YouTube where I talk all about writing things. I plan to start interviewing indie creatives as part of the channel very soon, but right now, I only have 12 subscribers. Wanna help me get to 50 by my birthday? m.youtube.com/watch?v=6hGf...

A reader made this beautiful book journal entry about MY upcoming cozy fantasy book, The Soul from the Supernova! 🤩 I love this!

I’m afraid to lose my bookish community over on Threads, but my slow migration from meta platforms has begun. If you’re a(n)… Writer Indie author Artist Poet Reader of poetry or cozy fantasy I’d love to connect 📚💫

I’m at the point of the editing process where I am so so so sick of my novel. Which means it’s almost launch time! Yay! If you read cozy fantasy, if you need a low stakes world to escape into, The Soul from the Supernova is coming February 28!

It’s only 7 days into 2025. 7 days of chaos and it just keeps flying.

As a poet, I hate-love this

I’m going to a Christmas party thing tonight. I do not want to go. I’m having to fight my brain to make myself go. Because I DO want to be around these people, but I also want to become one with my couch.

I got one of those mechanical keyboards with custom keycaps and now my kids keep asking for turns on the computer just to hear the key sounds when they type. All three of us are just obsessed with typing because it sounds so nice 😂

I am tired. That’s my Life Theme “wrapped.”

Book is with the beta readers and I could not be more nervous.