We are currently just under $8.6k, which means only $4.4k left to FUND YEAR 6! 😲 Less than a week left to get there, let's see what we can do together. 💚

This is it, friends. The final week of our campaign. 😲 We have only 6 days to reach our stretch goals. If you've been waiting to back us, now is the time! At $13k, we'll be able to run year 6 of T&F ✨ At $15.5k, we'll be able to put a PRINT EDITION in your hands! 🤩 Back and share to help! 💚

Our #FictionFest live sessions kick off on June 21st at 12:00pm EDT with a panel discussion on #Romance as a genre! Register now and we'll send you an email reminder so you don't miss it: FictionFest.ca/events Live sessions are FREE and online so anyone in the world can attend! #ReaderSky #BookSky

I DID IT, IT'S DONE

I found out that the contract won't be renewed. Because he's been replaced with AI. So. That's neat. If anyone can help me cover the last of the bills ($500 total), I would cry. He made twice as much as me. we relied on his income. And now that's gone thanks to AI. Thank you. So very much, all.

Today is release day for Opus's audiobook! Go pick up Guitar Concerto in C Flat Major, Op. 12: Lucina written by me and brought to life by @katrafiy.bsky.social! Available on Itch, @libro.fm, and many author audiobook providers anotherindiewriter.itch.io/opus-audiobo...

Still floored by this lineup. What a team 😭🫶

SOOOOOON ♠️💜

We have ‼️8 days‼️left to raise $4800 for year 6 of Tales & Feathers. And if we can get there we might even reach our Print Edition goals!! 👀 Please back if you can! And if you can't, likes and shares are a huge help. We so appreciate your support and can't wait to bring you more cozy fantasy. 💚

Hello friends. WE NEED YOUR HELP ‼️ Our Kickstarter runs until May 31. We've funded T&F Year 5, but here's what else we're aiming for: $13k: T&F Year 6 ✨ $15.5k: T&F Print Edition 📚 Funding 2 years is a HUGE boost to the health & sustainability of the magazine. Back & share to help us get there! 💚

Today I get to reveal the next art print for the Project Tasman BackerKit project, this one created by @floramisu.bsky.social! Look at how serene Quinn and Brielle look and how happy Alana is! 🌈📚 #author #booksky Project Tasman launches Aug 3 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

I really am gonna be filling out that CanCon panelist application at the last minute too, aren't I

Good morning readers! In celebration of hitting ✨$7.5k on our campaign✨ we have a special update this morning: an interview with the inimitable @diogolsramos.bsky.social, whose wonderful story, "Through the Doorway, I Watch Her Come and Go" was published in our latest volume. Read it here!

Made a quick catalogue for this weekend 💚 💜 Come check out the awesome local artists & vendors at the Geek Hoard Haul! Sensplex Kanata 10am-5pm Free entry!

Nothing is more depressing than watching young artists give other young artists advice like “only use one colour palette in everything you do to have a more recognizable brand” and “draw everything with a target audience in mind”

I'm so excited to be participating in my first ever stamp rally!! Pick up and fill out a stamp card to get a free sticker sheet full of ditto mons drawn by all the participating artists 🩷 Geek hoard Haul May 24th, 10am-5pm Sensplex Kanata

Ten days left before the big campaign!! Any backer who was a Follower on launch gets a special Behind the Scenes bonus--a cool printable zine with little extras! So hop on in and gives us an early follow! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

Authors, post the last line of dialogue before they smooch! 💋 (From BLEEDING HEART, book two of the Cardplay Duology)

Hey. Hey. Do you like dystopia? Do you like women kissing? Do you like books? Do you like helping indie author dreams come true? Go follow Project Tasman on BackerKit. Then once the project launches in August, help my book become real. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

We're less than $30 away from $7k!! 😲 Just under two weeks left to fund year 6 of Tales & Feathers, and add our inaugural PRINT EDITION to your shelves! Back and share to help us get there! 💚

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our next artist reveal for the June Rebirth crate! Next up is Delaney @delaneyjanuzzi.bsky.social who illustrated the dust jacket for Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows @bmwillows.bsky.social 🧵

Our Managing Editor @loukoren.bsky.social has an update about reaching our first of 3 funding goals, and we're aiming for next. ✨ Give it a read here!

sluggy mermaids

Huge congrats to Tales & Feathers on reaching their main goal!! And with plenty of time left to reach those sweet, sweet ✨ stretch goals ✨ 👀

From the Locus Award-attempting author who brought you shitty handwritten ads, bad puns, and women kissing, comes a book with bad puns and even more women kissing. Project Tasman launches on BackerKit August 3rd. Go follow. Or don't. You have free will. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

see no evil speak no evil #wha

Some rough Molly mockups (planning to actually properly style the wig and start making the horns soon!!) ✨

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Good morning friends! We are 88% funded for our first goal!! Only $750 more before year 5 of T&F is secured. ✨ I have no doubt we'll get there! But if you can at all pitch in to help fund year 6 (and print? 👀) as well we'd be forever grateful. Thank you for your support! Let's crush this. 💚

Good morning everyone! Time to announce the various folks who are doing work on the perks you can get for Project Tasman's BackerKit project in August. While I don't have previews of most things yet, I do have a little bit I can and will show off today.

First is @bmwillows.bsky.social who did the cover of Project Tasman. I know I've already revealed her work, but it's worth calling out how beautiful it is yet again. This is the main cover available for the book in all forms.

It's TANGLED PAST's big birthday, and in its honour I am going to show you the FULL PRINT WRAPAROUND by @isthiseva.bsky.social . It has a friend on the back!! 💚 Queer fantasy novella w/ episodic buildup 🌲 We've reached the mystical forest!! buy.bookfunnel.com/gr50s6cb7y

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our next artist reveal for the June Rebirth crate! Next up is Lupo @luposlipaphobya.bsky.social who illustrated the hardcase for Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows @bmwillows.bsky.social ! 🧵

6 months until the bounty hunter stalks onto the scene... 🌓 Preorder/Add to TBR: thehowlingdark.carrd.co

We passed $5k!! 🎉 That puts us at 80% funded for next year of T&F! Funding our next year is the minimum we need to continue as the only pro-rate magazine focused on quiet, slice of life fiction, but we'd really like to fund our stretch goals as well! Please boost and share; it really helps! 💚

Good morning, friends! We are ✨SO CLOSE✨ to hitting that 5k benchmark; let's do it today! Many excellent goodies available, and two sold-out reward tiers have been made available again! If you want a T&F editor to edit your story, or consult a linguist on your fantasy language, now's your chance! 💚

GREAT NEWS, FRIENDS. If you missed out on our limited quantity 4k Short Fiction Edit or Consult: Build a Fantasy Language (with our very own managing editor and linguist @loukoren.bsky.social!) reward tiers, you have another chance! We've added 1 more of each; snap them up before they're gone!

🌈 Hey Reading Rainbows! It’s time for our next artist reveal for the May Knights in Shining Armor crate! Next up is Suto @akkaccel.bsky.social ) who illustrated the endpapers for Bloody Spade by Brittany M. Willows @bmwillows.bsky.social 🧵

Good morning friends, and great news: we've been selected as a Kickstarter #ProjectWeLove!! 💚 As of this morning, we are 70% of the way to our first goal, which also happens to be 30% of the way to funding our third goal of a PRINT EDITION! Please like and share; let's see if we can pass 5k today!

THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG! 🙌 BLOODY SPADE is getting the RainbowCrate special edition treatment! I can't wait to show you what we've been cooking up behind the scenes. This is going to be a beautiful edition. <3 #BookSky #WritingCommunity

Hey. Queer book writers with books on Itch. I made a graphic to entice you to do this. Go submit your books. Deadline is tomorrow. Help me have to do more work because more of you submitted. #PrideBookFair #QueerWriters pridebookfair.carrd.co#itchio

We're almost at 50% to our first goal this morning 🫨 With only 58$ away!! Share to spread the word and help us get even closer to our goal! 🎆

Can you believe we launched Tales & Feathers a half decade ago?! ✨ From humble origins, it’s now the only pro slice of life fantasy mag in the English-speaking world—pretty cool 💜 AND! Its future now depends 100% on the backs and shares this campaign gets 🔮 Repost, repost, repost !!

DAY TWO of our Kickstarter, and we are closing in on $3,000!! 🎉 Can we make it to 50 backers today? 👀 Like and share! Back us below! Help us keep our quiet, slice of life magazine running. 💚

Shadowbringer wall scrolls are almost done! Just waiting for a few more dowels to arrive before I finish them off. [ FFXIV Shadowbringers ]

Hello friends, we are 🎉✨LIVE ON KICKSTARTER!! ✨🎉 WE'RE FUNDING: 🌟 T&F Year 5 💫 T&F Year 6 and, if we reach $15k: our first ever Tales & Feathers PRINT EDITION! 🎊📚‼️ Check it out below! Like, share, and back the campaign to help us bring our dreams into reality. 💚

THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG! 🙌 BLOODY SPADE is getting the RainbowCrate special edition treatment! I can't wait to show you what we've been cooking up behind the scenes. This is going to be a beautiful edition. <3 #BookSky #WritingCommunity

🌼 Book 1 for June is our third original anthology: Let Your Queerness Bloom, selected by Rainbow Crate and edited by Rachel Skelton! Celebrate spring with queer short stories!

Blossom by blossom spring begins. Spring brings a season of rebirth as the plants bloom to life again. The Rainbow Crate team is pleased to reveal that our June 2026 theme is… 🌼 REBIRTH 🌸 Read on to learn more 🧵