Happy Halloween 🎃

Aiole makes beautiful art. Sometimes she lets me pay her for it. Love seeing my characters come to life. 💚

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

Love this fanart of my protags. ♥️

HIII C0mms open feel free to DM! :> #comm #commission

Family. Fandom. Who we are. And who gets to write the endings to our stories. A DARK HOLE DARKLY A Detective's Story Don't believe the lies your TV tells you: Sometimes neurodivergence makes you a much SHITTIER detective. Out *TODAY*! #IndieAugust #ADHDetective #ADHD 💙📚⚡

Sweet & Wild, is out now! 🐝💛🍃 Sweet & Wild is a MM Fantasy Romance featuring nature magic, a sunshine MC, and mysterious spirits in the forest! Universal Link: books2read.com/u/bzNng9 Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/alexlarkspur... Itch: applesncinnamon.itch.io/sweet-wild Cover by the wonderful @northyme.com

One of the earliest concepts for our main character Doug 🐶 You guys really liked this picture on the con so I thought I'd post it for #wishlistwednesday #dogwoodgame #Indiegame #gamedev #art

🗣 GIMME A CHARACTER I HAVEN'T DRAWN BEFORE (Ocs included) 🐟 Also have a pic of blorbo. Aka Nova. Aka Nova THE Tempest. MY QUEE- #rova #theviridiandream #au #queerart #nonbinaryart #fantasyart #oc

Writers, If you'd like more writers to talk to during these quiet hours, let me know your country and I'll tag you in a thread! For 🇳🇿 New Zealand -island? 🇦🇺 Australia -state? Where are you in..? Asia, Africa 🇪🇺 Europe 🇬🇧UK Or are you a night owl/early riser ✍️ 🇨🇦 Canadian 🇺🇸 Usian Latinx

Hey. Hey. Please don’t wait for an indie book series to be finished before you pick up the books. Just buy them. Don’t wait. So MANY indie series never get finished because the author gets zero sales on the opening volumes and gives up. Give them a reason to keep going. Buy the books.

If you're joining the Writers & Authors Discord and would also like to be added to its starter pack, please let me know!

Concept art for @dogwoodgame.bsky.social ! Couldn't have them eating on the floor like animals smhhh #indiegame #conceptart #dogwoodgame

Little preview of new area for our PGDX demo 👀 More details on our Steam page under Recent Events & Announcements! (Link in bio) 🐾 #dogwoodgame #conceptart #Indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

When someone tells me what to do

More romance stories need to start with married couples and have them still married and together at the end. I promise established relationships are interesting! Let married couples go on adventures together I AM BEGGING YOU

Recently celebrated my 40th birthday. Decided to make my own cake. I'm not much of a cake decorator, but this turned out OK. It's 4 layers of vanilla shortcake with raspberry filling and Geman buttercream, topped with mushroom shaped sugar cookies. #birthdaycake #cake #cakedecorating #mushrooms #art

We're excited to announce that Dogwood won second place at the Young Creatives Challenge Season 2!! 🙌🎉 We met so many promising young creators from all over the #Philippines ! Thank you for supporting us in our dev journey! 🌱🐾 - Team Soleil #indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #dogwoodgame

Working on a lil something 🌱 #gamedev #indiegame #screenshotsaturday

Some concept art for @dogwoodgame.bsky.social ! I summon thee bald cat #conceptart #indiegame #furry #dogwoodgame

My dear friend and guest artist for my first book @aiolesauce.bsky.social has been working hard on this project. You should give this (and her!) a follow if you like beautiful #art, cute #furry designs, and a promising #indiegame 😊

Ever wanted to play as a gun-toting, pan-flipping chef dog? 🤔 Follow us for updates and announcements on Dogwood, our action-adventure restaurant sim! #gamedev #indiegame #dogwoodgame

Credits to our artist @aiolesauce.bsky.social for this beautiful sunset #indiedev #dogwoodgame

My painting COASTAL EXPLORERS

I always feel so sad when I see authors wanting to quit cos of a tough stretch of no or few sales. My streak of sales took ✨ eight years ✨ and there was a gap of no sales RIGHT before it! Don’t give up! Publishing is an uphill climb through an avalanche while in flip flops but you can do it 💪

An E-bike battery burned my house down on the first day of GDC. Seeking mutual aid from financially stable colleagues. gofund.me/47306b15

BREAKING: A court overturned Ohio's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. This is a critical victory for trans rights.

After much delay and spoon-foraging, The Viridian Dream is now available across multiple platforms and retailers in ebook format. (Paperback to come after another round of spoon-foraging.) Universal Book Link: books2read.com/u/4Ejk1M

Hair day. My stylist had a lot of fun with this one. #rainbowhair #colorfulhair #undercut #goldirockshairsalon #rainbow 🌈🏳️‍🌈

Do NOT go to the US if you speak up for human rights, are Arab, or trans. The US is literally disappearing foreigners, full stop. They will go through the Arabs, the trans folks, and the protestors, and then start to disappear any other undesirables until all that's left is obedient pure fascists.

Although I have been swamped with other priorities, I am pleased that my manuscript is finally over 50k words. Still far from done, but it no longer feels intangible and nebulous.

Because I'm a complete goddamn nerd, I'd like to explain to folks (particularly Liberals) what a feint is, in sword fighting. People think it means "a fake attack." It doesn't.

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Be an overachiever. Do both ✨️

TELL ME YOUR 🏳️‍🌈QUEER SHORT SFF🏳️‍🌈 OUT IN JANUARY 2025!!! Originals only pls, up to novella in length, indie okay. Just reply with the author, title, and a link to read and/or buy and I'll get them on the list. Here's December's list for context & more info: www.patreon.com/posts/some-q...

Ngl, I saw a post about trans authors writing trans characters and someone labeled them as authors who would cause dysphoria, and whoo boy, that is not for one person to decide. One trans person's dysphoria is another person's empowerment. (This had a very transmed slant 🫠) 1/

"Award winning author" = Got a gold star sticker in second grade for my poem about growing seeds.

It rains, and it’s very cloudy and humid.

A hyperactive undead dragon child who is knowledge incarnate, wears a crown possessed by the ghost of her mentor, and sings songs about beheaded nobles couldn't possibly be a better choice. No way this could go wrong.

"time spent writing" really should include the number of Wikipedia rabbit holes one goes down for worldbuilding purposes. In completely unrelated news, I suddenly know a lot more about ethical silk production, which sure helped me write two whole sentences in a scene.

This is very urgent. The UK government is planning to change copyright law. If you are an artist, author, musician or work in the creative industry please read this. www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...

Sometimes when someone doesn't comment about the latest controversy it's because they've spent a month in the hospital with a family member and have to pretend everything is fine because they have a new book coming out. But feel free to send angry messages because they didn't share an opinion.

For so long the US has been the core UK & European ally, the loudest voice in proclaiming its democracy. *But the US is now a threat to the global economy, to global health and to global stability. The sooner this is acknowledged the better.* 6/9

This is all of Medicaid, by the way. This means people will die. It means disabled kids like my son will lose our extra medical coverage and our waiver funds that help pay for his care. This will devastate the country in ways you cannot imagine. An absolutely hate-filled group of people

When demons destroy her home, Rowena’s forced into adventure like she’d always dreamed of, only to wake up among nightmares. Until she finds a life like the one so savagely taken from her. She can stay, but will it be worth the sacrifices she’s made along the way? #QuestPit #DF #SFF #H Snowdrop #W

Should we start a new feature? Let us know about your work, and follow each other for support and encouragement #WritersLiftWednesday

I'm sick to death of the descriptive language = purple prose, book has to start mid-triggering-event minimalism. Spend your entire first chapter setting the scene, I'm in. Tell me the color of someone's pants. Describe the light. The plot is pointless to me if the book isn't beautiful.