For the completist: All of my books with @OpenRoadMedia - The 'Geisters, Rasputin's Bastards, Eutopia and Volk, Monstrous Affections and Knife Fight - are available for $1.99 for the ebook in the U.S., until October 17. davidnickle.ca/writing/

So @procreate.com released a new update with a completely different brush set not long ago. Confusing at first, but it got me thinking outside the norm, and tried my hand at a Turner pastiche. Didn't quite hit it... but I'm not unhappy with it either. #art

Flirt. #art

Quitting Time. #art

Out of the Woods. #art

Yueh Tung. #art

Bald Mountain

Up Up and Away. #art

The Girl in the Window. #art

The Black Run. #art

I'm not at the Seattle Worldcon in person, but I will be there online, reading a story alongside fellow Canuck authors Derek Kunsken and Geoff Ryman to support the 2030 Edmonton bid. The readings are at 3 p.m. PST, 6 p.m. EST, on Aug. 16. www.edmontonin2030.org/bidparty?fbc...

Invasion. #art

Smoker. #art

Waiting for the Roman. #art

Breath. #art I made this instead of exercising while Toronto is under another damn wildfire smoke warning.

Make Up. #art

Eye Contact. #art

Yearn. #art

Date Night #art

The Veteran. #art

Sand Storm. #art

Oscar Night #art

Buy this! Masked Mosaic includes my story "Knife Fight" - later to become the title story of my second collection KNIFE FIGHT AND OTHER STRUGGLES. It's on sale for .99 now.

Storm Clouds #art

Love, American Style. #art

Covering. A Giallo homage. #art

Dinner Party #art

I have watched me some Eurovision before. But never as a co-owner of Canada with an eye to joining the EU, and I'll say this: The common market does look like a lot of fun.

Aristotle at Lesbos. #art

And just like that, I have finished a draft of a new novel! It is 40,000 words too long... I don't think the ending quite works... and there is probably, certainly, too much cursing. But The Wasp Hill Correspondent has a draft, and it's about fucking time...

The Empress Calls It Off. #art

Lasering the Boogeyman

Craven Road. #art

A Light. #art

Smaug. #art

Icarus. #art

Hot Night at the Owl & Rat #art

Adolescent. #art

Date Night. #art

Opening Day at the Skull Island Health and Wellness Spa. #art

The Best Horror of the Year Volume Seventeen (coming out later this year) has a cover -- and also my story from last year's Northern Nights anthology, "Fancy Dad." At least one of these two things is sublime.

The Asset. #art

Dials #art

The Mockingbird. (Fan art for Le Roi Et L'Oiseau, a sublime mid-20th-century French animated film that also inspired Miyazaki and got me wondering about what l'Oiseau got up to when he was in Paris) #art

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away." #art

Still Life with Monster #art

I am very happy to report that my story "Fancy Dad," published last year in NORTHERN NIGHTS, will be included in The Best Horror of the Year Vo. 17. Congratulations to all the other BHOTY17 writers, and also @premeemohamed.com , whose NORTHERN NIGHTS story "The Night Birds," is in there too!

We Meet Again. #art

The Conversation. #art

A Long Night on the Longship. #art