I was suspiciously peered at from the woods today. Love the mustache (White-tailed Deer) #mammals 🌿

Pretty damn cool #catsvibing

Working on the umpteenth revision of my debut MG novel after helpful feedback from a friend who read it to his 9-year-old. Then back to querying! My latest passes have been in the vein of "This is great, but not for me. Someone else will love it, keep querying." Looking for that special someone. 💗📖

Iceland seems like another world. One I'd like to go to.

"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.

What does it feel like when you're engaged in the creative process, as in writing, for instance? I get a fiery or tingly feeling in my brain. Not literally, but that's a close analogy. Many people have described inspiration in this way -- a mind on fire. Does it feel like this for you, too? #Writers

The full map for my Sigils books.

Karl LOVES bubbles ❤️

If you know a young person who needs books for any reason, come to think of it...

Literary cat on #caturday.

🍎Just 3 apples oxidizing. #BarnOwl #Owls #BirdArt #BirdIllustration #WildlifeArt #FantasyArt #DigitalArt #Illustration #Apple #OddlySpecific

“What country can preserve their liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?” ~Thomas Jefferson, 1787. Image: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Weird bears

I'm more of a domestic witch than a wild one, but every once in awhile I break free and make it back to my mountain top where I can go full hag.

White, red, and black 🤍❤️🖤

I would probably try to find Old Kay Lockberry, (the Cailleach Bearra and the Gloss Gavalahn's human form), although the more I looked for her, the harder it would probably be to find her. Why? Because as the mother of everything, she has all the answers, even if they seems like riddles.

"Why would I want to get on a rocket ship, exactly?" "Where is it going to take me?" "Astronauts go through intense training and need to be very physically fit to survive space missions. But you're just going to put me on this thing?" AI is as scary as being forced onto a rocket ship. 🚀 🙀 ✔️

Join us on June 13th for an event and signing with A.F. Steadman, author of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief! wegottickets.com/f/21063

'(Back to School) is an important project in Perth [Scotland] because food is becoming more and more expensive and bills are also increasing, so such help in the form of clothes is a great support for families. The children are happy too.' ~ Back to School 2025 parent feedback

Those ancient Greek men were really afraid of women, weren't they?

#kidlit #edusky #queerkidlit #lgbtq

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👇🏽👇🏽 #booksky #kidlit #kidlituk #writesky #writersky

Middle grade fun! Come listen to middle grade novelists. Ask questions. Check out a new BN in Chicago’s Hyde Park stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

It's World Bee Day! 🐝 This little Mason bee (genus Osmia) demonstrates exceptional strength & fortitude in removing a nail from a brick wall. Mason bees are solitary: the females make nests from mud or, in this case, masonry walls. So, our narrator should say: "good lass." (📷: MrDowner1306, YT)

For a witch, a path may not be important due to its destination, but rather for the quality of spirits she talks to whilst upon it. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

Archives entomologiques, ou, Recueil contenant des illustrations d'insectes nouveaux ou rares Paris: Au Bureau du Trésorier de la Société entomologique de France, 1857-1858. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11638709) #nature #illustration #art

I'm the white guy when my fave tune comes on.

Colleen isn't really a leader. She's better as an advisor. Creative and empathetic, but she struggles with "social skills". Eafah does have leadership qualities. Brave and protective of others, she's more a person of action, while Colleen is more a person of ideas. So, they make a good team. 👭

It is now my dream to find one of these in the wild.

This should be the golden rule of the internet.

How wonderfully weird

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

A smallish poem for y’all today 🩵💙 #poem #poet #writer #writingcommunity

Not just removed from the library, but destroyed. When people act like this, we all need to ask one question: "What exactly are they trying to hide?"

Let me just say as a school librarian… Right now the only task at hand is getting kids to read ANYTHING versus mindlessly scrolling. That battle is won or lost in grade school and no one book, genre, or style wins. What works for one kid, won’t work for another. We need every kind of book.

Colleen likes the smell of wood smoke and crushed autumn leaves. She doesn't care for the smell of horses and hates the smell of rats.

Someone asked a bunch of kids what the first thing was that cane to mind when they thought about Trump. Their answers are priceless. Check out the video.

Good morning! The wonderful thing about writing is that there's always more to learn This is also the terrible thing about writing

A blessed Beltane to you all! May your summer be full of warmth and growth and may you be fairly compensated for your labour. Up the May!

Happy Beltane, Bluesky!

Susan Cavaliere - Beltane. oil on canvas.

Happy Beltane, everyone! Summer has officially begun.

To me, beds are just envelopes that mail you to your dreams.

I just started reading Free Lunch, by Rex Ogle, and I love it. I experienced life below the poverty line as a child and an adult. The agony of going to the grocery store when you don't have enough money and getting treated like dirt when you use your benefits. 💔 Stories like this are so important.

What would it be like to wake up autistic? In this allegory, 5th grader Sophia is stranded in an alt reality where ppl don't say what they mean & like boring things. She wants to go home, but when she learns it's not possible, she must adapt to a new life before it crushes her. #QuestPit #Q #MG #SF

Found a tiny referee down by the retention pond #birds

Kunstformen der Natur Leipzig und Wien: Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts, 1899-1904. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/47388083) #nature #illustration #art

BREAKING: The Rutherford County Library Alliance, a local coalition of library advocates in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, will receive the 2026 PEN/Benenson Courage Award. The all‑volunteer alliance galvanized its community against book bans and “inappropriate” book removals. pen.org/press-releas...