Canada Fiction Fest is happening now until July 4, featuring panels, readings, and a showcase of Canadian books of all genres (including mine!) Come check it out! fictionfest.ca 🍁 #CanLit #ReadCanadian

I am begging small mom & pop restaurants to stop using AI generated pictures. Believe it or not I want to see what your food actually looks like.

First thing my toddler said to me this morning: "Mama, there's lines on your forehead." Anyway happy birthday to me I guess.

For those of you looking to read through all the SPFBO books this year, 25 of us are in an itch bundle right now for $25! Come check it out. itch.io/b/3592/spfbo...

Happy Ides of March to all who wish to stab Caesar

The International Women's Day itch bundle is up! $32 for 32 books by/about women & gender minorities! itch.io/b/3556/inter...

Look, if you would fire an unpaid intern for a certain mistake, maybe you should also fire the AI for making the same mistake. (Yes this is a subtweet.)

Hear me out: what if Gabriela and Jolene are singing about EACH OTHER???

My kid, after playing with her bath crayons all of bath time, now watching me clean her scribbles off the bathtub: 😟 Me, who really should've seen this coming: "Um, sometimes the beauty of art is in its ephemerality." Evidently, she disagrees.

The annual r/fantasy megasale is back! This time featuring so many books that the sheer number of covers caused the website to bug on iOS. 😅 megasale.yrliu.com All books are free or 99 cents, and each purchase or download benefits charity.

A reminder to everyone (me) that erased frixion pen ink turns dark again if exposed to cold. So if you have a student who wrote their exam in erasable pen, avoid transporting their exams through the outdoors in winter.

When I have a fever, I get tired and fatigued and just want to rest, like most people. When SO has a fever, he gets super restless and can't sit still. Guess who our child takes after.

Finally got around to finishing Everything is Tuberculosis. Oddly light read (in a good way!) for such a heavy topic.

Tis the season for a million little project ideas and zero time to do them.

Crow guardian of the grading pile. (Crow plushie from @secondlina.com )

Starting an evil Durge BG3 run for the achievements, had to make it silly to make it palatable to me. Meet Perfectly Ordinary Human John Bhaaldursgate and his dream guardian, The Cooler John Bhaaldursgate.

Just realized that I haven't reblogged this on main? So uh, here, I'm reblogging this on main.

Asked my toddler if she wanted to eat something. This was a mistake as she's now extremely upset that I keep offering her pedestrian foods like cheese or yoghurt instead of the mysterious promised mana known as "something".

October is blindness awareness month and you might have noticed that recently I've been talking more about vision in general lately. I'm going to answer some common questions and give you some facts. First, blindness is a spectrum. Only 10% of us see nothing, most have residual/some usable vision

I have been told it's ADHD awareness month. I was not aware of this. I faintly remember perhaps being aware of it last year, but I must've forgotten it in the interim. This is likely due to the ADHD. Perhaps we should have an awareness month for ADHD awareness month.

My home likes to surprise me with random games of "why is there an [object] in [weird location for said object]?" Is it: a) my toddler b) my ADHD or c) a fey trickster spirit?

I have discovered what causes children with autism. It's *checks notes* adults with autism fucking.

Shoutout to my hypermobility for allowing me to twist my leg into a position where I can get a good angle to drain this blister on my foot.

What I always want from apps like Focus Friend (and what they rarely ever have) is something like a "stopwatch mode" that counts up instead of down. Timers don't work for my brain, but I want the bean to knit socks!

Reverse scope creep is when you start the summer with lofty ambitions of rewriting this textbook, and by the end of it you settle for some line edits and rearranging a few chapters.

Is the bookshop employee who only recommends sapphic books in the room with us right now?

Writers, describe your WIP in the worst way possible. Several people with no self worth and a martyr complex fight over who's gonna be the saddest.

Line 8 of page 187 of The Whisperer in White: No, it wasn't light, but a long, thin gash through reality itself 👀 3 tags: @amweald.com @ormakal.bsky.social @eric.sadbutbuildingworlds.blog

To celebrate Canada Day, here's an itch bundle featuring 16 Canadian fantasy and sci fi books. Check it out! 🇨🇦📚 itch.io/b/3114/the-c...

Me: "You can have one cookie." My toddler: "Two cookie." Me: "One." Toddler: "Three cookie." Anyway please buy my books so I can buy this child more cookies. Or buy the #PrideBookFair itch bundle! itch.io/b/3076/pride...

Thinking about everyone I knew in elementary through high school... I want all of them to magically know what a funny little weirdo I turned out to be.

I heard artists can get shares on their birthday, as a treat 🪷 #Illustration #Art #OCSky

Sometimes you gotta lie to your toddler and tell her that the reason she can't watch more Sesame Street clips is because Elmo is tired

Canadian SFF authors: I'm putting together an itch bundle to run the week of Canada Day (June 30 - July 6). Please fill out this form if interested! 📚📦🇨🇦https://forms.gle/VCgpewTdQuTVKRKQ8

For anyone having trouble finding the new Kobo ToS, the link within the email works fine, but in case you can't find it, here it is: cdn.kobo.com/merch-assets... Notably the bit about AI is in line with what was said in the CEO's thread.

Lots of questions about Kobo, #kobowritinglife and how, when and why we are using AI. Putting "AI" in the same sentence as "authors", "books" or "publishers" makes a lot of alarm bells go off, and for good reason. 1/

I can confirm that Mallorie is great! Highly recommend!

The migraine/period combo should be illegal.

Hot take: if you think books should cost pennies because "art should be accessible", I agree! Here is a list of alternative ways you can pay me: - Roof repairs - Electricity - My prescription medication - Childcare Oh what's that? It's easier to just give me $5 instead? Okay I thought so.

My neck feels really sore and stiff today, and as my anxiety keeps reminding me: there's just no way to know if it's because I slept weird, psychosomatic, or tetanus.

Come spring, flowers would bloom from the despot’s decaying corpse. Nature heals. Nature reclaims.

Me, rereading a story I wrote before my own diagnosis: "Wait, this character is neurodivergent? I don't remember making this character neurodivergent."

"I think therefore I am." If you're outsourcing your ability to think, what even are you?

The creature raised its claws and bared its fangs, all six of its mouths slavering venom. It responded to the world the only way it knew, the only way it had ever been shown. #whistpr #creature

I love how Pokemon Sleep ingredients have names like "snoozy tomato" and "soothing cacao" Can't wait for them to add more ingredients like "sleepy rapini" and "melatonin mango"

Sometimes being an adult is deciding to have ice cream for breakfast

I love cuddling my toddler while she naps. She's so cute when she's not causing chaos everywhere.

I'm also part of this Narratess Sale itch.io bundle! itch.io/b/2944/narra... Check it out, and the other bundles too! (Thanks @clh2oars.bsky.social for organizing)

FYI Campfire is having a sale for Indie April from now until the 13th, and all of my stuff on there is currently $1.99 each. www.campfirewriting.com/explore/brow...

The next Narratess Indie Sale is almost upon us! From April 5-7, a bunch of very excellent SFF & horror books will be on sale or free over at indiebook.sale! Additionally, we also have itch.io bundles this year! There are two fantasy bundles, a sci-fi bundle, and a horror bundle. Check them out!