Today I got to visit the Truelove Seeds farm where I wandered away from my group when became distracted by the quality of golden light coming over the tops of the evergreen trees in the late afternoon. It was golden, shifting fast, and illuminating the petals of blooming flowers like treasures.

My wife noted that I mostly post photos of the sky here on this app. This is true. Here are some more!

Two years ago a friend was scammed by a fraudulent business which left her without a wedding photographer. I stepped in and photographed her wedding, and in return she used her horticultural skills to design and plant a garden in the back strip of my house in West Philly.

My wife brought home a sticker book and we were surprised to find a picture of me inside:

Me and @jrblackwell.bsky.social had so much fun being Elvira and Harley Quinn for this! Give it a listen!

Just thinking about the guy who said DC would *never* let me write Superman and Batman.

Most of the photography I do these days is related to nature. Flowers and wildlife are my models and landscapes are my settings. It’s tough to carve out time for art between work and parenthood. I’m hopeful that I’ll be able to get back to it someday, or find time once a year to create.

GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR, currently banned by the Department of Defense.

All this talk of THE VOICE OF FREE PLANET X reminded me of the time @tkingfisher.com and @productivityalchemy.com were on as part of a crossover with their podcast THE HIDDEN ALMANAC. That was a fun episode! planetx.libsyn.com/episode-13-w...

if queer readers all drop off suddenly but they were only buying queer books to begin with, all publishers see is that queer books suddenly aren't selling. please know that their response to this will never be anything but deciding queer books aren't worthwhile haha

I know some incredibly hot gossip and I CANNOT TELL ANYONE!

Article: If you fold your pillow and it takes time to spring back into shape, it’s probably time for a new pillow. Me: Folds my pillow into an origami swan.

In an effort to get my child to get back into bed, I asked her if she wanted to be tucked in by Monsieur Momengraff, who comes into your room on tiptoes and says "sshhh!" and "No no, iz no time for the speaking. Iz time for the beddy-byes" before tucking you in and throwing a cream pie in your face.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Love how in publishing you can have the best day of your career and no one will know for a good six to eight business months.

The other day a fan told me that they had never seen a trans or genderqueer character in a mainstream book before, and that seeing them in HAWKGIRL helped them sort out their own gender identity. Stories are far from pointless, especially in the hands of those who need them.

Meet me at my favorite restaurant, Crazy Chicken's Pizza Coffee.

I know you will be beautiful, because the act of transitioning creates a glow of happiness and self-understanding that is unrelated to the dominant culture's fascist beauty standards. It will be glorious. I want you to have that glory. 6/6

Happy Birthday @planetx.bsky.social!

One question I get asked a lot is "When is Galaxy going to meet Superman?" Meeting someone as iconic as Superman, who Galaxy has idolized all her life, would need to be a very special and meaningful story. That story happens to be GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN by me and @ryehickman.bsky.social.

Good lord, this is happening tomorrow.

"He should be remembered for more than his bigotry." Maybe he should have thought about that before he did the bigotry, then. Maybe there's a lesson here.

After the cathedral of St. Andrews was no longer in use, the town sold the iron roof and the townspeople collected the stone for their houses. The cathedral became the town around it. After I took this photo my daughter told me she saw a dragon flying through the blue sky beyond the stone window.

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My eight year old has taken up residence in this closet. She just finished the first book in the Dragonbreath series and after I got her the next two on e-reader she closed herself in. She found a little cubby in the closet where she is wedged in like the filling of a sandwich.

We got the kind of lost where you know where you are but you’re not sure if you’re on the right path. Surely the intended trail can’t be this narrow or steep.Then there is an opening in the trees and it doesn’t matter if this path is right or not, because it brought you here.

Absolutely give trans people money. But not to me, I'd prefer you just buy my books. Maybe give them to a trans kid you know. GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR bookshop.org/p/books/gala... HAWKGIRL: ONCE UPON A GALAXY bookshop.org/p/books/hawk... THE DC BOOK OF PRIDE bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Having a last look at the Kickstarter before bed. I think we'll hit @mytholder.bsky.social 's goal overnight; I think we'll get to @gejwatts.bsky.social ; and it's on the edge whether we hit @sdorward.bsky.social and @planetx.bsky.social . So, it's a great time to get an add-on or up your pledge.

Tour tickets on sale now! 🎟 bit.ly/4kCoUmk

happy Pride month specifically to the artist and writer duo from page 148 of Scott McCloud's Making Comics (2006)

This this this!! Honest to god shockingly depressing how often trans and queer writers’ work is review-bombed.

I was at a cocktail party and my friend noticed this Red-Tailed Hawk.

You know what’s a true, pure joy? When you find a new book and you finish it real fast and are like “Wow, this book is great!” and then you learn it’s just the first in a completed six book series. Delicious.

I've been waiting so long to talk about this, and I finally got the go-ahead! GALAXY: THE PRETTIEST STAR is getting a sequel, GALAXY: AS THE WORLD FALLS DOWN! The adventures of teen Galaxy continue, by me and the spectacular @ryehickman.bsky.social!

It helps me to focus locally, and make an impact there. How are you fighting fascism in the city or town where you live? How are you helping the people around you who are already suffering? Fascism can be resisted in small ways as well as big ones. You don't have to be a soldier to strike a blow.

Confession: Today I borrowed a book from the library just to see if the author was still using the portrait I’d taken. It gives me great delight to know that the author still likes and uses that picture.

My bisexual wife, @jrblackwell.bsky.social, somehow managing to sit on the couch and an armchair simultaneously: "I am so comfortable right now."

Photo from work, where clusters of iris are blooming in the sunshine.

I know all the secret projects. But I cannot be compelled to testify! Heheheheh.

I talk about Galaxy non-stop because a) me , @deuxdel.bsky.social and @airy.bsky.social created her and b) I still get people who are surprised to hear that that this trans lesbian superstar is a major presence in BAD DREAM and HAWKGIRL.

I am not sure about what’s going on with the plotline of my life.

Here’s the thing. I know what my wife is up to and you all are not ready!

Part of my job is helping wildlife cross the road. This sounds like the setup to a joke but I legit support my family by doing this stuff.

I'm telling y'all, OUTLINE. The more detailed your outline, the easier the actual writing process will be. Check out how detailed the outline was for the first four pages of HAWKGIRL #6. You're getting stuck because you don't know what comes next. So, plan what comes next before you start.

At the place where I work we have been following the ongoing will they/won’t they drama of a couple of Canada geese who may or may not be nesting by the pond. This week, Third Goose arrived. It has been a Goose standoff for days.

Signs of spring, ranked.

My wife is writing a very good thing and I get to read it first!

Only if you're a US author but worth knowing still!

It’s the time of year that’s got me crouching on the ground looking at tiny sprouts and saying things like “do you think that’s bluebells? Bloodroot?”